Fiona Ackerman at the Surrey Art Gallery this September!


Fiona Ackerman was recently featured in an article posted by the city of Surrey, sharing details of her new work that will be shown this fall, at the Surrey Art Gallery, and will run from September 17th to December 4th.

See what they had to say below!


"There’s something about an artist’s studio that incites our curiosity—the opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes, to encounter the free play and struggle of the creative act, and to gain insights about the art and the artist. There’s something about an artist’s studio that incites our curiosity—the opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes, to encounter the free play and struggle of the creative act, and to gain insights about the art and the artist.Yet looking around, one might say that we live in a “post-studio” era of artmaking. A growing number of artists choose to work from their portable computer at a cafĂ©, an office space, a kitchen table, or a string of temporary international artist residencies. 



While the where of artmaking is changing, the space and material life of the modern artist’s studio has increasingly become the subject of art in the twenty-first century. Vancouver-based artists Fiona Ackerman and Kelly Lycan both investigate this romanticized/de-romanticized space of the nineteenth and twentieth century. They do so by creating still life-like compositions of the fleeting images, icons, and materials of artmaking within their own studios and in relation to the studio environments of other artists."

Click here, to read the rest of the article online.

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