KSA’s office includes a “collaborative studies” space that has been donated to local artists as free studio space since KSA opened in this location in 2012. The idea is to promote the visual arts in Saskatoon by providing free studio space and to create a studio atmosphere allowing for collaboration between the artists and the staff at KSA.
The studio space is located in the large corner space of the office – at street level [the intersection of Pacific Avenue and 24th Street in Saskatoon’s warehouse district]
Artwork: Poker Painting
“I set out to make a painting that could win a competition through purely physical means. A series of gears and levers are concealed within this painting’s stretcher. When a viewer’s motion activates this system, pokers protrude from the sides of the painting. These pokers reach out with the intention of knocking neighbouring paintings from their hanging hardware and onto the floor.”
“Looped”
2004
Acrylic on plywood
16” x 11 ¼”
from the collection of “Candace Hawryluk”
Kent purchases an artwork from each of the artists so it can be permanently displayed at KSA [for example David Dyck’s “Poker Painting” is permanently displayed in the main entry].
“Peak”
2011
Egg tempura on MDF panel
11 ½” x 15 ½”
from the collection of “Candace Hawryluk”
Poem:
“When love is a second base and there is no one to carry me upstairs to fall asleep”
The first words displayed on the building were from Kent Sutherland’s favourite childhood book ~ If I Had Duck Feet ~ by Dr. Suess
KSA has displayed phrases from literature or poems from local poets in the street level windows of their offices since the office opened in 2011
“In Position”
2002
Acrylic & gesso on canvas
52 ¼” x 72 ¼”
from the collection of KSA
Includes paintings purchased from commercial gallery “The Gallery / Art Placement Inc.” and from gallery / workspace “VOID”
