VIVIANEART
CALGARY, CANADA

VIVIANEART

VivianeArt is more than a gallery. It’s a gathering place, where artists and art lovers can come together to share their passion for great work. VivianeArt champions the careers of artists who challenge the boundaries of art, the way it’s made and the way it’s shown. Representing a diverse roster of emerging and established Canadian and international artists, founder Viviane Mehr and her team believe in the power of art and its ability to inspire, invigorate and transform.

In addition to presentations within the Calgary gallery, VivianeArt is committed to bringing their artists to international art fairs in order to broaden their market. The last two years have also seen the gallery dramatically increase their digital presence including a YouTube channel, virtual exhibition tours on their website, an online store and a stronger presence on social media platforms.

Winnie Truong challenges the ideals of beauty in relation to the female form. Her practice consists of a labour intensive process that integrates colored pencil crayon and cut paper collage in the rendering of surreal imagery and fictional narrative. Truong's process has evolved to include more play and dimensionality, pushing her two dimension forms toward the third dimension with constructed dioramas.

Teetering on the fine edge of the real and imaginary, her paper works abstractly take up ideas of nature and femininity, care and support, independence and interdependence. She calls her created beings, "Wimmin Creatures", they defiantly look away from the viewer rejecting a gendered gaze through their own agency of concealment. Their bodies are imperfect and decidedly unapologetic.