About:
Chelsea Klukas is a painter, photographer, and drawing based-artist. Her work frequently uses images relating to archetypes, internalization, memory, identity, and iconography. She has worked in a variety of mediums including drawing, collage, low-tech photography, watercolour painting and textile design. Her recent work is digital or created with film photography.
Contact:
chelscore@gmail.comCklukas.com: Blog
Past/Recent Events:
Charmed Life Group Show at ArtSpot Group art show at the new artspot gallery.
Group Art Show at Cantos Music Fountation for Michael Peterson's "Curse of the Piano" film launch
Vanilla Gallery Group Show Group show with the Mecha Studios artists' collective
Yes Men' Action Activism work with the Yes Men during their visit to Calgary
Kitschykoo! Magazine Launch Contribution to Calgary's Lowbrow Arts Magazine
Bloody Chocolates" Horror Film Acting for Spencer Estabrook's 48-hour film
ArtaWearness ACAD's annual wearable art and performance show. Dresses and Art Direction by Kyle Nylund
Stellar Femme Fest Feminist arts festival at Emmedia
'SEVEN' Opening Group photography show at the ArtHouse
'Protean' Opening Solo show at Looks Could Kill Art Boutique
Inspiration:
Artists: frida kahlo, georgia o'keefe, hannah hoch, andy goldsworthy, jenny holzer, judy chicago, cindy sherman, eva hesse, barbra kruger, louise bourgeois, andy warhol, alberto burri, john heartfield, barbara hepworth, christo, marcel duchamp, robert mapplethorpe, tina modotti, gina pane, robert rauschenburg, claes oldenburg, max ernst, rachel ruysch, joseph beuys, dan flavin, katharina fritsch, alberto giacometti, meret oppenheim, marc quinn, donald judd, anselm kiefer, nan goldin, chris burden, paul klee, laurie anderson, carolee schneemann, hannah wilke, jana sterbak, tamara de lempicka, man ray, durer, raoul hausmann, gustav klimt, kiki smith, jean-michel basquiat, tim rollins, claude cahun, gerhard richter
Writers: lucy lippard, hugh prather, berhnard schlink, robert frost, john berger, tom wolfe, paulo coelho, herman hesse, marshal mcluhan, andy goldsworthy, plato, germaine greer, chuck palahanuick, michael oondatje, sylvia plath, dave eggers, carl jung, chuck klosterman