VIDEO: In Plain View - Allan Geske

Allan Geske has been making prints for about thirty years. His studio is located in the Artspace Building in the Exchange District.

His prints are represented in collections throughout the USA, Japan, Korea, Britain & the Netherlands. Allan is best known for his copperplate engravings...intricate, complex & provocative images that at times evoke the landscape, but also stand as breathtaking abstractions. His etched work often incorporates prairie images paired with replications of charts, maps and iconic symbols.

Allan Geske has been a printmaker since the mid-1970s and he employs various techniques in his art such as etching, engraving, relief and mixed media. His images often include the prairie landscape: maps, charts and blueprints that locate our place in the world and language that integrates the letters, words, symbols and markings of the draughtsman, poet and educator.

Geske has traveled extensively and his prints are metaphors that create disparate associations relating to his sense of home and place of origin.

From the catalogue of a recent show at the University of Winnipeg:

"Master printmaker Allan Geske uses techniques such as etching and engraving to call up the sepia-toned maps and charts of 19th century travel and exploration. These rational ways of representing the world -- carefully laid-out and geometric -- combined with poetic approaches, to unexpected effect. Works such as Atlas Vignette and Prairie Orbs seem to picture a world both familiar and far away." -- Alison Gillmor, 2007

William Pura, professor of printmaking and painting at the School of Art, University of Manitoba, has said:

"Allan Geske is a master printmaker, co-founder and current coordinator of North Nassau Printmakers located in Winnipeg's Artspace building. Geske has explored many aspects of printmaking but is best known for his engravings on copper -- intricate, complex and provocative images that at times evoke the landscape, but also stand as breathtaking abstractions formed by the unique line that only the engraving technique can make. His work often incorporates prairie images paired with replications of global charts or maps as well as letters, words and iconic symbols."

In Plain View - Bev Morton and the Wayne Arthur Gallery

Strongly committed to the arts, Wayne Arthur and his wife Bev Morton were determined to display and sell the work of other Manitoba artists. On December 1, 1995, they opened the Wayne Arthur Sculpture & Craft Gallery at their home in St. Andrews, near Oak Hammock Marsh.

After Wayne passed away, Bev moved the gallery to Winnipeg. Together with her new husband, Robert MacLellan, Bev has run the Wayne Arthur Gallery at 186 Provencher Boulevard since November 30, 2002.

Some of Wayne's drawings are available for purchase at the gallery as well as the creations of over 130 Manitoba artists, working in the fields of painting, print-making, mixed media, sculpture, pottery, jewellery, glass and photography.