Wanda Lock graduated in 1992 from Emily Carr College of Art and
Design in Vancouver with a studio major in painting.
Lock returned to the Okanagan in 1992, and since then, she has
been exhibiting throughout the Okanagan and the Lower Mainland.
In her practice, Lock is a multimedia artist who employs a variety
of mediums such as graphite, oil, pastel and acrylic on paper,
board and canvas.
Once Lock returned from Vancouver to the Okanagan, drawing became
an immediate response to her artistic vision. The series of drawings
she creates tends to be unresolved, continuous and evolving. These
documents of unresolved reality become the templates for Lock's
future explorations in painting. The painting themselves result
in an abstract compilation displaying figurative and landscape
elements.
Lock's recent exhibitions include: 'You told me once, but I forgot'
Vertigo Gallery, Vernon 2005, 'Crush' Art Gallery of the South
Okanagan, Penticton 2004, 'Artropolis', Vancouver 2001, 'New Work'
Alternator Gallery, Kelowna 1997 and 'Strange Patterns' Richmond
Art Gallery, Richmond 1997.
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How
to be invisible VII
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 30 inches |
How
to be invisible VIII
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 30 inches |
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How
to be invisible V
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 30 inches |
How
to be invisible VI
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 30 inches |
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Walk
I
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 36 inches |
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Walk
II
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 36 inches |
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How
to be invisible I
Acrylic on Canvas
28 x 22 inches |
How
to be invisible II
Acrylic on Canvas
28 x 22 inches |
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How
to be invisible III
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 24 inches |
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imissyou;
together again
Acrylic on Canvas
48 x 60 inches |
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Whether
SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 30 inches |
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imissyou; the beginning
Acrylic on Canvas
20 x 24 inches
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untitled
Acrylic on Canvas
20 x 24 inches
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imissyou
SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
92 x 48 inches
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Grounded
VI
Acrylic on Panel
30 x 24 inches |
The 'Moonpond' series began on a late night drive home. Driving
along a road and past two small ponds that I have known since
the age of three - I was stricken, for the first time, how full
of mood and mystery these bodies of water are.
Although this series of paintings can be taken for a romantic
cliché, they are more about isolation, solitude and memory.
I have struggled greatly with these paintings, feeling that they
are somehow incomplete. I have come to realize that this series
is the ground work for my current work entitled 'imissyou'.
The drawings in the 'imissyou' series are of lone figures sent
in a landscape, often referencing the landscape out my studio
window. These works talk about being in solitude or in some instances
extreme loneliness. This new body of work will consist of a series
of works on paper and 8, 4x8' acrylic paintings on canvas.
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Beached SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 36 inches
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Found SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 36 inches
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Lost SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 36 inches
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Search SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 36 inches
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