Preston Pavlis

when the jig is up,
when the act is finished,
when the curtain descends, 2020

Oil, fabric and pressed flowers on canvas. Courtesy of the artist Commissioned response to archival exhibition, It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970.

  • Oil, fabric and pressed flowers on canvas

Conversations with Preston Pavlis and Braxton Garneau

Seika Boye, curator of It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now, speaks with local painters Braxton Garneau and Preston Pavlis, who both were commissioned to create works in response to archival objects in the collection that are on display at the gallery. This conversation took place October 21, 2020.

 
 

Artist: Preston Pavlis

Preston Pavlis is an artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. Pavlis completed his Diploma of Fine Arts at MacEwan University in 2019. Pavlis was selected as the winner of the BMO 1st Art! prize for the province of Alberta in 2019, for his painting, your skin behind the lattice. Currently, he is interested in the fusion of painting and textiles as a means to explore narrative, form and colour. His work is an attempt at traversing liminal bridges by way of poetic association and metaphor. The resulting works become charts for time, memory and feeling.

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