Millennium Library's Blankstein Gallery features Robert J. Sweeney's "Portraits of Winnipeg" Exhibit and photography by Mike Grandmaison throughout January 2012
Portraits of Winnipeg
Exhibit by Robert J. Sweeney
and photography by Mike Grandmaison
January 2012
Blankstein Gallery, Millennium Library, 2nd Floor
251 Donald Street
Winnipeg, MB
Winnipeg artist, author and designer, Robert J. Sweeney, captures Winnipeg’s urban landscape in “Portraits of Winnipeg,” a remarkable collection of prints.
“These are not architectural drawings," says Sweeney. “They are more dreamlike than an exact likeness.” According to the Winnipeg Free Press, “Robert Sweeney’s meticulous sketches of Winnipeg’s streets and buildings reveal the city’s charms.”
The sixteen prints that make up the exhibit were selected from the over forty full-colour drawings which appear in his book, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink (Turnstone Press).
Robert J. Sweeney has won awards for his building and industrial design. His sketches have previously appeared in two volumes of Winnipeg Landmarks (Watson & Dwyer).
Mike Grandmaison’s photography has been published worldwide in magazines, calendars and books. With a background in biology, he worked for the Canadian Forest Service in Edmonton and Winnipeg for 20 years. Since he turned to photography full time in 1996, he has published four collections of his natural landscape photography, and he recently opened The Canadian Gallery in Winnipeg. Grandmaison has taught and lectured on photography and conducted nature-focused workshops for many years. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators (CAPIC), the Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC), the Society of Graphic Designers (SGD), and has received accreditation in “stock” and “nature” from the PPOC. In 2007 he was awarded second prize in the Northern Lights Awards Canada competition for Excellence in Travel Journalism.
Mike Grandmaison's Prairie and Beyond is forthcoming with Turnstone Press (Spring 2011).
Still and stunning, wild and challenging, the Canadian Prairie is breathtaking to behold. In lush full colour, award-winning photographer Mike Grandmaison’s expert lens captures the vastness of sky and land with scenes of the elusive Northern Lights, misty fields at dawn, endless horizons, and the immense skies that define the prairie landscape. A place notorious for hardship and subsistence survival, the Prairie yields its beauty to the patient watcher. From birds soaring over wetlands, to wildlife grazing across rolling grasslands, Grandmaison’s trained eye misses nothing to bring the prairie to life in this remarkable volume.
For more information or to purchase framed prints, visit http://www.turnstonepress.com/portraits-of-winnipeg.html