Lylian Klimek

Lylian Evelyn Klimek (born January 1, 1942 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian visual artist .

Life

In 1968 Lylian Klimek graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton with a master's degree in social sciences , where she received a bachelor's degree in sculpture in 1973 and a master of arts (MA) in visual arts in 1975 . From 1978 to 2005 she taught art and sculpture at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary .

Lylian Klimek experiments with a variety of materials such as fiberglass, concrete, cellulose, and wood and integrates its properties into her installations and sculptures. She uses computer programs to develop her works of art.

From 1972 she participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the 1975 exhibition Women as Viewer , a project for the International Year of Women , at the Winnipeg Art Gallery . Her sculptures have been shown regularly in solo exhibitions since the late 1980s, such as in 1991 at the Glenbow Museum . She exhibited some sculptures and sculptures in Coquitlam , Kelowna , Calgary and Nelson .

Works by Lylian Klimek are part of the permanent art collection of the Alberta Art Foundation of Arts and Government House in Edmonton .

Sculptures (selection)

• Bar (wood with pastel color)
• Black Moon Tracking (wood and rubber parts)
• Alchemist (nylon rope and fiberglass)
• Thistle (resin and fiberglass)
• Hybrid (resin and fiberglass)
• Grounded (painted wood and fishing net)
• Idol (fiberglass with sand)
• Cold Flower (vinyl white)
• Rescue - My Landscape (tree stump with green color)

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1975: Woman as Viewer, Winnipeg Art Gallery , Winnipeg
• 1975: Hole-in-the-Wall Gallery , Edmonton
• 1978: Latitude 53 Gallery in Edmonton
• 2004: Art Gallery at Evergreen in Coquitlam
• 2006: Kelowna Art Gallery in Kelowna
• 2006: Art Gallery of Calgary
• 2009: Kelowna Art Gallery in Kelowna
• 2012/13: Oxygen Art Center in Nelson

Exhibition catalogs

• Ancient memories. An exhibition of evocative sculpture , Beaver House Gallery, Edmonton 1985
• Lylian Klimek: sculpture . Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1987
• Lylian Klimek, recent sculpture . Stride Gallery, 1988, ISBN 978-0-921132-08-0
• Robert Milthorp: Out-side-in. Iain Baxter, Lylian Klimek, William MacDonnel , Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary 1988, ISBN 978-0-88953-107-9
• Meadow: an installation by Lylian Klimek , Neutral Ground (Gallery), 1990
• Lylian Klimek, clean up , Glenbow Museum , Calgary 1991
• What if all the color leaked out of nature: Lylian Klimek / Sculpture . Evergreen Cultural Center, 2004
• Liz Wylie: Modules. Eliza Au + Ian Johnston + Lylian Klimek , Kelowna Art Gallery, 2009, ISBN 9781896749365

literature

• Suzanne Devonshire Baker: Lylian Klimek , in: Artists of Alberta . The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton / Alberta 1980, ISBN 0-88864-067-6 , pp. 89f. (Digitized version)

Web links

• Literature by and about Lylian Klimek in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Lylian Klimek in Artists in Canada record number
• Lylian Klimek in Clara database of women artists (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lylian Evelyn Klimek: Role orientations of social welfare workers. An exploratory study (MA), University of Alberta, 1968
2. ^ Lylian Klimek - Artist's Profile. CCCA Canadian Art Database, 1997, accessed August 6, 2014 . 
3. ^ Suzanne Devonshire Baker: Lylian Klimek , in: Artists of Alberta . The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton / Alberta 1980, ISBN 0-88864-067-6 , p. 89. (digitized version)
4. ↑ Lylian Klimek: What if all the color leaked of thew nature? (No longer available online.) Art Gallery at Evergreen, 2004, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 6, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ↑ Module:… + Lylian Klimek. (No longer available online.) Kelowna Art Gallery, 2009, archived from the original on October 14, 2013 ; accessed on August 6, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Rescue - My Landscape from Lylian Klimek. Oxygen Art Center, Nelson, December 10, 2012, accessed August 6, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Lylian Klimek, Alberta Art Foundation of Arts ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.