Victoria Fenninger and Kyle Clements

Posted March 15, 2006 by KyleClements

Victoria Fenninger looks at one of my encaustic paintings.

Encaustic on canvas. When working with texture, it is hard to avoid encaustic, it is a wonderful medium.

The Texture Series I had been working on let me towards appreciating the value of unique supports for a painting. For a while, I would head down to a wood shop and raid the scrap bin, looking for random chunks of wood to assemble into interesting shapes to coat with globs of paint.

By the end of this series, I was struggling to keep pure textures interesting, leading me to really work the surfaces. Sometimes, I would scrape the wax down o a flat surface. Other times, I would brush paint over the same area hundreds of time, building up interesting textures.

This painting doesn’t fit with the rest of the show, to be perfectly honest, it was thrown in as a space filler. Y.O. Media Gallery had a very large front window, and we liked to put something big close to that window, to draw people into the gallery. I was also still fairly young at the time, and the importance of having a strong focus and cohesive body of work in a show hadn’t sunk in yet. I was still throwing together whatever I had been working on at the time. I could see that there was something special in this piece, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I had several big ones to chose from, but something had me sort through the stack and pick this one. Little did I know that this painting would mark a turning point in my artistic development.

Event Documentation

The Kyle and Brad Show II: with Mark

Posted June 22, 2005 by KyleClements

Geometric Abstraction, 12″ X 12″ X 3″, Oil and Encaustic on Canvas, 2005.

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Geometric Abstraction, 12″ X 12″ X 3″, Oil and Encaustic on Canvas, 2005.

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Geometric Abstraction, 12″ X 12″ X 3″, Oil and Encaustic on Canvas, 2005.

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Geometric Abstraction, 12″ X 12″ X 3″, Acrylic on Canvas, 2005.

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Geometric Abstraction, 12″ X 12″ X 3″, Acrylic on Canvas, 2005.

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Geometric Abstraction, 12″ X 12″ X 3″, Acrylic on Canvas, 2005.

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Texture Series, 8″ X 10″, Acrylic on Canvas, 2005.

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Texture Series, 24″ X 24″, Acrylic on Canvas, 2005.

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Texture Series, Acrylic on Oak Pannel, 2005.

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Texture Series, 16″ X 16″, Oil and Encaustic on Canvas, 2005. SOLD

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Texture Series, Oil and Encaustic on Board, 2005.

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Texture Series, 16″ X 16″, Oil and Encaustic on Board, 2005.

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Event Photos

Collin spent quite a while in that corner, looking at every detail of my paintings.

This art show occurred while I was in the midst of my Texture Series. which explored surface quality and unconventional paint application techniques. Warm/cool, transparency/opacity and gloss/matte were the primary focus, rather than form or composition. Unfortunately, several of these traits, especially the gloss/matte contrast, cannot be accurately recreated in a photograph. The series is more successful in-person.

John Blaise and Brad Blucher, with Victoria Fenninger’s paintings in the background.

Heather Phillips, Kyle Clements, Victoria Fenninger, and Brad Blucher

Heather Phillips, Kyle Clements, Brad Blucher’s back, and John Blaise

Get Bent Days of Yore

Posted April 22, 2005 by KyleClements

We didn’t pick the title for this show. The owner of Y.O. Media Gallery thought that our art had an edgy, contemporary look, and he wanted to really play it up. He wanted our art to be a big kick-in-the-pants to the traditional art that was so common in our town. He insisted on a dramatic show title. We couldn’t really think of anything, and Tim started firing off suggestions at us. Since we all had a good sense of humour, we didn’t shoot this one down.

Biomorphic Forms, 54″ X 108″ Acrylic on canvas, 2005.

Cubist Deconstruction of a face (version 3), 46″ X 46″ acrylic on canvas, 2005.

Texture Series, 16″ X 16″ acrylic and encaustic on canvas, 2005.

Scrape Painting, 9″ X 12″ acrylic on masonite, 2005.

Texture Series, 16″ X 16″ acrylic and encaustic on canvas, 2005.

Kyle Clements, standing in front of the second largest painting he’s made to date.

Untitled Show

Posted July 5, 2004 by KyleClements

Artists Kyle Clements, Heather Phillips, Victoria Fenninger, Brad Blucher, and gallery owner Tim.

The four of us had many shows together at Y.O. Media gallery in Sutton over a number of years. The experience gained from these early shows turned out to be very helpful years later. Very few young artists stick with it, but the four of us are still very much involved in the art world.

Biomorphic forms, 46″ X 46″, acrylic on canvas, 2004

Biomorphic forms, 42″ X 52″, acrylic on canvas, 2004

Georgin Bay, 12″ x 12″, acrylic on plywood, 2004.

Lego 46″ X 56″, acrylic on canvas, 2004.

Selections from the Texture Series Acrylic and mixed media on burlap and canvas, 2002-2004

Kyle raids the snack table while Joe checks out the art.

Brad Blucher and a very silly looking Kyle Clements

Kyle Clements explains how the “texture series” was created to several guests

The 3rd Annual Y.O. Media Environmental Exhibition

Posted May 5, 2004 by KyleClements

APC Live, 22″ x 30″, acrylic on canvas, 2004.

Clock, 16″ x 16″, acrylic, ink, and fabric transfer paper on canvas, 2004.

Lava Lamp, 8.5″ x 11″, acrylic on canvas, 2004.

Light 2, 8.5″ X 11″, acrylic, ink, and fabric transfer paper on canvas, 2004. SOLD

Light 3, 8.5″ x 11″, acrylic, ink, and fabric transfer paper on canvas, 2004.

Light 3, 8.5″ x 11″, acrylic, ink, and fabric transfer paper on canvas, 2004. SOLD

Trees, 52″ x 46″, acrylic on canvas, 2004.

The Kyle and Brad Show: A Premature Retrospective

Posted February 4, 2004 by KyleClements

For our very first commercial art show, Brad Blucher and I settled on the title “A Premature Retrospective for a number of reasons. We were not presenting a focused body of work, it was an eclectic collection of art that we had been working on for the last few years. It was sort of a retrospective of our work from high school and early University. Of course, having our very first show a “retrospective” is a little premature.

But the biggest reason for choosing this title was because… well, we found it kind of funny.

Kyle Clements and Brad Blucher soaking in the experience and schmoozing with the patrons at Y.O. Media gallery.

Bridge over Black River, Acrylic on canvas. 18″ X 24″, 2002 Dusk, Oil on canvas. 12″ X 16″, 2002

Diptych, Acrylic on canvas. 16″ X 48″, 2003

I was pretty obsessed with Gerhard Richter and Hans Hoffman in late high school and early university. In 2003, I think this obsession spilled over into just about everything I was painting. I was interested in the contrast between illusionistic space (perspective, shading, etc) and optical space (overlap, colour, texture). I was also interested in the integration of abstraction with representation.

Untitled, Acrylic on masonite, 2003.

This was an assignment where the class was required to make a collage, then make a painting based off of that image, and present the two side by side. I was never very good with collage materials and images, so I chose to make a digital collage. I found the experience very satisfying, and it came very easily to me. Little did I know that this kind of digital collage-making would become an integral part of my working process three years later.

Cubist Deconstruction of a Face, Acrylic on canvas, 36″ X 36″, 2004. SOLD