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A downtown art gallery is a finalist for a provincial business award honouring outstanding achievement and community contribution.
Grant Berg Gallery, located on the main floor of 214 Place, is a finalist in the Alberta Business Awards of Distinction 2021 in the Indigenous Business category.
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âI grew up very close to my grandma,â said Grant Berg, the galleryâs owner and namesake. âShe was Cree. She married my grandpa, and he was Scottish, and he had Trapping Licence #2 here in Alberta. My mom was the baby of eight, so you know they have been long gone.
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Now You See Me (Blue and Gold Kimono), 2019, 180x140cm, oil on canvas
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
The pandemic has, to varying degrees, transformed us into undercover agents. On Zoom we exist blurrily from the shoulders up; on the street our smiles and faces are hidden by masks. All of this has diminished the social aspect of fashion and hampered its expressiveness. Or has it? The figures in the Swedish painter Markus à kessonâs series âNow You See Me,â currently on view at Berg Gallery in Stockholm, are shrouded by exquisite textiles, and yet they are in a way portraits of presence. Though hidden, the subject animates the canvas, and seems to inhabit a middle realm between person and object.