OPEN STUDIO - WEEK 2
Reception: open house: Saturday, July 2, 2-4PM
June 27 - July 2
The second week of OPEN STUDIO welcomes Jonathan Forrest, Jordan Danchilla, Karen Polowick, Lex Edmunds, and Steph Krawchuk into the space to make work.

Jonathan Forrest is an abstract painter based in Canada. He divides his studio time between Vancouver Island and small town Saskatchewan. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan and has participated in numerous artists' workshops. His work has been shown in galleries across Canada and collected by numerous individuals, institutions, and corporations.

Jordan Danchilla is a Saskatoon-based artist who works in a variety of two-dimensional media including printmaking, drawing, and painting. His works spring from a diverse well of influences. His reduced, minimal aesthetic revolves around an exploration of texture, colour, and shape. Striking and graphic, idiosyncratic and increasingly referential, the resulting works are surprising and delightful.

Karen Polowick is an emerging artist working in drawing, analogue photography, and alternative darkroom printing and hand-processing techniques for film. She has recently begun exploring light sensitive emulsion and collage.

Lex Edmunds is an emerging artist based in Saskatoon. They are a multi-disciplinary artist reconnecting with their Coast Salish ancestry through art, with a particular focus on beadwork, revitalizing and showcasing the traditional medium from their contemporary perspective.

Steph Krawchuk is a Canadian artist with a primary focus on abstract painting. Defying any strict stylistic lineage, her paintings are consistently fresh and unexpected. Lively, whimsical, colourful, and developed according to their own visual logic, Krawchuk's abstract paintings give a clear focus to the interplay of line, shape, colour and texture that have always been at the core of her artistic explorations.

OPEN STUDIO is one part of The Communtiy Project. The Community Project is a series of events, worshops, and activities to build connections among the artists of Saskatoon. The Community Project has been co-developed by Biofeedback Collective and art placement. We gratefully acknowledge funding from SK Arts through their Artists in Communities Grant Program.