 STONY PLAIN MULTICULTAL HERITAGE CENTRE AT 5411 - 51 St. Stony Plain
PUBLIC ART GALLERY featuring artwork by JENNIE DELANEY
November 6 - December 2, 2009
OPENING Sunday, November 8, 2009 1 - 3:30 pm with artist in attendance
Hours of Operation: 10 am-4pm, Mon-Sat; 10am-6:30pm Sun
"I find pleasure in seeking the beauty of God's hand in nature and creativity."
I was born and raised an hour's drive north of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I am a first generation Canadian. My mother, a Ukrainian immigrant, was always creating something: cross-stitched pictures, embroidered pillow cases, knitted sweaters. As she taught me these utilitarian crafts, my love for the creative process was kindled.
I first received public affirmation for my art at the age of eight when I was awarded top place in the Edmonton Journal Christmas coloring contest.
At the age of twelve I received a Kodak Instamatic 126 as a gift and my infatuation with the photographic process was kindled.
In highschool, on the yearbook committee, I discovered the magic of the darkroom: a world of light, photographic paper and chemical process.
After four years of fine art training and through twenty plus years of independent exploration and exhibiting, my use of the photographic process evolved to where the process had become an artistic medium in and of itself, like a painter's paint or a sculptor's clay. The process in its literal sense, light drawing, fascinated me.
An uneasiness with the environmental impact of the photographic process, plus working for a fine art publisher during the mid nineteen nineties, lead me to an infatuation with the digital imaging process, as well as a working knowledge of the 7.5" x 10" printmaking process I use today.
Images are initially captured digitally, with either a camera or a scanner, manipulated with graphics software, output to a transfer matrix and then heat pressed to torn cotton rag museum quality paper.
Also offered are 16" x 20" conventional digital prints output to silver-halide based photographic media.
I have been happily married to Lyle Delaney since 1989 (nee Janie Wojcicki). We are Christian and attend Bethesda Christian Fellowhip in Edmonton, Alberta.
CURRICULUM VITAE
COMMISSIONS:
1990 Lethbridge Regional Hospital, Cafeteria Wall
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Stony Plain Multicultural Heritage Centre
1987 Wine Line Ltd./Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton
1986 Fine Line Photography Gallery, Edmonton
1986 Prairie Galley, Grande Prairie
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1992 Nancy Day, Jennie Delaney, Audrey Watson - Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton
1990 Four Part Harmony - Opperthauser House, Stony Plain
1989 Alternate Views: Eight Approaches to Photography - Glenbow Museum, Calgary
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Grant MacEwan Community College, City Centre, Edmonton
Slamko Visser Chartered Accountants, Edmonton
Richard J. Brooks, M.D., Edmonton
Michell D. Brooks, M.D., Texas
Northern Albert Institute of Technology
Ministry of State for External Affairs, Gov't of Canda
W.C. MacKenzie Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton
Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Grande Prairie
ESSO Resources Ltd., Edmonton
Numerous private collections
GRANTS:
1988 Alberta Culture Travel Grant
1987/86 Alberta Culture Project Grants
1983/84 Alberta Culture Project Grant
AWARDS:
1985 Gold Medal, Fine Arts, Alberta Summer Games
1980 University of Alberta Award in Art & Design
EDUCATION:
1980 - 81 University of Calgary, Dept. of Art
1977 - 80 University of Alberta, Dept. of Fine Arts |
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