About the Exhibition

Glass is a generative tool when I use it. It is a hand tool, a substrate, a filter, and a set of parameters. The prints presented in Distillation are the direct result of the material used in those contexts. They are drawings of ground and polished glass objects, abstracted using rules derived from the glass’s material qualities, and hand printed with glass plates. In this way, the images have become my distillation of the quiet, yet commanding presence of the material.

Artist Bio: Graeme Dearden is a Calgarian fine artist, working primarily in printmaking and cold glass sculpting. He has received instruction through The Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD), The Corning Museum of Glass, and TheAlberta Printmaker’s Society and exhibits in local galleries throughout Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta presently. Although working in a variety of different media, Graeme is consistently exploring vitreography: a process involving pulling prints from glass plates. He has assisted in demonstrating vitreography for glass artists and printmakers alike. Graeme is currently earning his BFA as a full time ACAD student, majoring in Glass.