BLAKE SENINI

Blake Senini's newest series of work explores how sculptural shape can inform a space. Each sculpture, whether floor or wall mounted, hovers and drifts within a space, much like an island on the horizon, or a pale painted shape found in a Lawren Harris painting. Senini furthers his investigation of creating sculpture that depicts the shape of light, combined with an appearance that reinforces a state of lightness.

Each of the works that comprise After Lawren is fabricated from laminated wood with various surface treatments. Silver, aluminum, and brass leaf reflect light, enamel stains capture light, while the hand-carved contours and curves generate shadows.

The mediate forms of historical artworks with which Senini begins are thus re-mediated, abstracted, and derived, yet still retain the quality of appealing to the sense of solitude inherent in the original works. Through this process, Senini continues an exploration of place and desolation, as it is manifest through the essential, yet delicate balance that exists between light and shadow.

Blake Senini is a longstanding contributor to the regional and national art community. His work has received recognition from the Canada Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts on a number of occasions and has been extensively collected by private, public, and institutional sectors. He works and resides in Calgary, Canada.

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