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Conrad Ouchi
Bio
Conrad Ouchi’s work creates a fascinating bridge between the art and philosophy of East and West, and examines the ebb and flows between imagination and reality that is creativity. By delving into the metaphysical aspects of ancient Japanese lacquer techniques; Ouchi discovered methods that compelled his art towards the new post modernism that crosses cultures and time. The result is a brilliant, innovative architectural process orchestrated in a varied color palette. It embraces the paradox of artist’s elements of the distant past reappearing in the plastic imaging and pixalization of electronic art pervading our everyday lives.
What is imagined becomes reality; what is real becomes the imagined. What is ancient pushes forward past the contemporary, to become a fresh and thoroughly personal statement of modernist minimalism.
Curriculum Vitae
1975 – Kootenay School of Art
Nelson, British Columbia
Fine Arts Major – Painting
1975 – Vancouver Art Foundation
1975 – City of Nelson Painting Award
1974 – Vancouver Art Foundation
1974 – City of Nelson Sculpture Award
1972 – Vancouver Art Foundation
2015 Apostrophe, Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna, BC
2013 Off the hook, Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna, BC
2012 fluid Zones, Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna, BC
2011 – Sled Island Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2011 – Triangle Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2010 – Stride Gallery, Silver Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2010 – Triangle Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2010 – Dog Fish 2 – Altered States /State of the Unions /Release
2010 – ArtFirm, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2009 – Triangle Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2009 – By Degrees Sopa Fine Art, Group Exhibition, Kelowna, BC
2009 – Triangle Art Gallery – Studio Tour, Calgary, AB
2009 – Triangle Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2009 – Altered States /State of the Union
2009 – ArtFirm, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2008 – Spatial Circumstance Sopa Fine Arts, Joint Exhibition, Kelowna, BC
2008 – Twenty20 Harcourt House, Group Exhibition, Edmonton, AB
2008 – Winter Show – What May Be Douglas Udell, Group Show, Vancouver, BC
2007 – Harmony Contrasts Paul Kuhn Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2006 – Black and White – Summer Show Paul Kuhn Gallery, Group Show, Calgary, AB
2006 – About Time Nickle Arts Museum, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2005 – Summer Show Paul Kuhn Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2005 – Transposition Paul Kuhn Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2003 – New Modernism Combine Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2002 – Freehand II Triannon Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Lethbridge, AB
2002 – Spheres, Circles and Discs Paul Kuhn Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2001 – Freehand Kalef Halpin Consulting, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2000 – Gallery Members Show The Alternator, Group Exhibition, Kelowna, BC
2000 – Appropriations The New Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
1996 – Handpainted Our House Cafe Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Calgary, AB
1996 – Alternative Cubism Loading Bay Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Calgary, AB
1883 – Five Emerging Artists Muttart Gallery, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
1979 – One Man Show Topham Brown Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Vernon, BC
1978 – Small Sculptures University of Calgary, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
1977- Three New Artists from Calgary Dandelion Gallery, Group Show, Calgary, AB
Rembrandt, Jeremiah mourning over Jerusalem,
Artichoke – Summer 2000
Round pegs in round holes; people with lives that fit,
Synchronicity – Oct/Nov 2000
FFWD – Arts and Entertainment, April 2003, August 2006
Okanagan Arts Magazine, Summer 2010
House Hunting Magazine, May 2009
Preview Magazine, Winter 2008
Galleries West – Previews and Profiles, Spring 2005
Alberta Art Foundation – Spring 1985
A Channel – Wired, December 2001
The New Gallery (Calgary)
Harcourt House (Edmonton)