{"id":7630,"date":"2012-02-18T17:53:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=7630"},"modified":"2012-03-05T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:53:11","slug":"ian-sheldon-storm-chaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=7630","title":{"rendered":"Ian Sheldon: Storm Chaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/02658-001-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7665\" title=\"02658-001 (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/02658-001-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 22 &#8211; March 4, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday, February 23, 7:00-10:00 p.m.<br \/>\nby invitation &#8211; please contact the gallery<br \/>\n<strong>GALLERT 1313 MAIN GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n1313 Queen Street West<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M6K 1K8<br \/>\nT: 416.536.6778<br \/>\nE: director@g1313.org<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery13131.org\">www.gallery13131.org<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Wed\u2013Sun 1:00\u20136:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acclaimed Edmonton Artist captures power and beauty of turbulent Prairie skies in his new book, <em>Storm Chaser: Canadian Prairie Skyscrapes, <\/em>which presents\u00a083 of Ian Sheldon\u2019s vibrant, highly dramatic storm paintings. His work provides a direct experience of the vast space of both land and sky on the Canadian prairies. Sheldon\u2019s stylized representation of the energetic turbulence of the storms that often sweep the prairies adds a new dimension to the artistic dialogue about the raw nature of our nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheldon is a storm junkie, obsessively monitoring Environment Canada\u2019s online radar, which he crosschecks with satellite information to figure out when and where major storm fronts might form. When a big front develops, Sheldon grabs his camera and races to the scene in his car. The photographs he takes form the inspiration for his paintings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheldon\u2019s storm paintings, in their complexity of colour, texture, light and shadow, serve as the centrepiece to <em>Storm Chaser<\/em>, but by combining them with his own captivating writing and selected excerpts from other exceptional writers and poets, Ian offers us a layered book that is a paean to the joy and beauty of living on the prairie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opening the book will lead you to enter a portal to a land and a journey \u2014 Ian Sheldon\u2019s world of wind, grass, sky and spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>About Ian Sheldon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Ian Sheldon was born on the Canadian prairies and raised in other lands, including South Africa, Singapore and England. In returning to his birthplace, he applies that global influence to his landscapes and defines a new dimension in prairie art. Ian\u2019s diverse works have been shown in San Francisco, New York, across Canada and in England. He is best known for his bold and iconic prairie skyscapes, works that have earned him the moniker &#8220;Storm Chaser&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 22 \u2013 March 4, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday, February 23, 7:00-10:00 p.m<\/p>\n<p><strong>GALLERY 1313<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sheldon\u2019s stylized representation of the energetic turbulence of the storms that often sweep the prairies adds a new dimension to the artistic dialogue about the raw nature of our nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=7630\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7630"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}