This show opens Feb 7 th and runs thru March 4 2008.
Embedded amidst the many layers in Shawn Serfas's paintings is an interest in Environmental Sciences, the landscape and issues bordering abstraction and representation. His paintings are an ongoing investigation of the connections between self-similarity in material structures, the geomorphology of painting and the relationship of humanity’s mark upon the land. His paintings also explore ancient ideograms and iconography which evoke the ancestry and immaterial structures within environmental spaces. Through Serfas’ eyes, environmental flux is constantly fueled by the systematic dissection and rebuilding of natural environments seen in the vivid physicality of our local landscape and geology. Shawn’s distinctive mark making, visual integrity, colour sensibilities, and compositional poise are creative qualities directed by his connection to the landscape.
Serfas’ work embodies the evolution from a contemplative state towards that which shapes his process. This is essentially the creative act or creative practice.
Shawn Serfas is an Okanagan based artist and lecturer with UBC Okanagan’s Creative Studies Faculty. In 2000 Shawn Serfas graduated with a B.F.A and BA, majoring in Art History from the University of Saskatchewan, and was awarded the Judy Poole Fine Arts Award for the most distinguished Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate, the Lorie Lee-Knight Memorial Award, the Dr. Walter & Mrs. Ruth (Mortenson) Leverton Award as well as several other distinction awards. In 2003 he received his MFA from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, where he received the University of Alberta Master of Fine Arts, Master of Design Scholarship . This will be Serfas's second solo show at Sopa Fine Arts.
Opening night is Feb 7th from 7-9 pm.
For more information please contact the gallery or online at www.sopafinearts.com
