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“My work has often explored the field of architecture and social space. In 2000 I moved to Amsterdam and began a series of paintings that examined the consequences of modernity as it related both the the aesthetic field of painting but also to social design.  My goal was to examine the disparity between the promises of modernity and the current difficulties facing large-scale housing projects . In 2003 I moved backed to Canada and embarked on a series of works which traced the ideals and aspirations of “high modernism" as translated and played out in vernacular architecture such as low rise apartments in Edmonton. In 2006, as the result of a move to southern Ontario, I continued my investigation of vernacular architecture but turned to the specific legacy of “landscape” with all of its romantic echoes of the Group of Seven, and others, in an attempt to locate the “regional" and to chart it’s relevance or lack thereof.

“More recently I have moved away from the idea of architecture as an external space and have sought to locate certain internal structures (myth, narrative, religion, language) upon which are built notions of “the self.” In this recent work architecture provides a kind of armature to arrange objects and surfaces. Some objects relate to interiority (tables, chairs, showers, window, door frames, curtains) and others make reference to exteriority (outer walls, shingles, concrete, stairs, doors). Shuttling between references both to the problematic idea of the self—inwardness, interiority, consciousness, a ‘moral inventory’—and to ideas around the literal and analogous position of architecture, my work explores the way one might think of “construction" both literally as in the process of building, but also metaphorically in the structuring of a sense of meaning and purpose from the scraps of experience and belief.”

Born in 1970 in Alert Bay, British Columbia Sky Glabush lives and works in London, Ontario , where he teaches at Western University. He holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA from the University of Alberta. Recent exhibitions include "The Painting Project" at Galerie de l'UQUAM, "The Kingdom of Names" at Thames Art Gallery, "The Visible and the Invisible" at the Art Gallery of Windsor, and "Background" at MKG127. Glabush's work is in many public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, McIntosh Gallery, Museum London, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, and the Bank of Montreal. He is represented by MKG127 in Toronto.