KEN WEBB, "New Work," March 3 to 31, 2012, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary

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Ken Webb, "Half Measures," 2011, acrylic on canvas, 18” X 72”.

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Ken Webb, "Urban Renewal," 2010, acrylic on canvas, 18” X 72”.

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Ken Webb, "Half Measures," 2011, acrylic on canvas, 18” X 72”.

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KEN WEBB, New Work

Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary

March 3 to 31, 2012

By Jill Sawyer

The industrial cast of Ken Webb’s current works is depicted through a mix of representational and abstract imagery — factories, refineries, and workers clustered around built structures, their images diminished into the faded, much-multiplied remnant of old photographs. The representational photography is surrounded and marked over by repetitive, perfectly reproduced depictions of perforations, like fencing. Divided into triptychs and multiple images, it’s as if the labour of the past, that industrial world, is being paved and bolted over, erased by a more precise, machine-made present. Webb’s painting and printmaking have often had the veneer of collage, taking the eye from one meticulous image and idea to the next. He’s the head of print media at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, and has exhibited widely across Canada.