Breathing Resonance
Bernd Hildebrandt and Liz Ingram frequently work together on projects involving a variety of media. Source material is most often generated from a particular place/lake/stream in the boreal forest of Alberta. Recent works attempt to heighten awareness of our inextricable and fundamental oneness with the natural environment, and of the precious and elemental aspect of water to all life forms. In this piece Liz’s MRI brain scans, her body, her breathing, and a flowing creek unite to humanize a technological and somewhat alienating event recently experienced by her when undergoing amazing gamma knife brain surgery.
Liz Ingram
Liz Ingram was born in Argentina and grew up in New Delhi, Mumbai and Toronto. For over forty years she taught at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and is currently Distinguished University Professor Emerita. Her artworks have been exhibited in over 300 group exhibitions around the world. She has received awards for her prints at juried exhibitions in Canada, Slovenia, Poland, Korea, Brazil, Estonia, India and Finland. Recent exhibitions include: Rebellious: Alberta Women Artists from the 80’s, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2019; Touching Gravity, Ace AIR Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (solo) 2018; Water/Bodies, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (solo), 2017; Liz Ingram: Site Collaborations, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, (solo) 2017; Liz Ingram: Print Encounters 1984 - 2014, Prince Takamado Gallery, Embassy of Canada, Tokyo (solo). In 2017 she received the Order of Canada.
Bernd Hildebrandt
With a background in sculpture and two and three-dimensional design, Bernd Hildebrandt has always worked at combining images and words with the three-dimensional. As an independent exhibit designer he has designed numerous extensive object based exhibits. A few examples include: Edgar Degas: the Figure in Motion, Art Gallery of Alberta, and three exhibits showcasing Chinese robes and scroll paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection at the University of Alberta. An interest in writing poetry sparked an increasing number of collaborations with Liz Ingram in which his poems are integrated into the fabric of her often large-scale works. Working together has been very productive and has resulted in installations exhibited at the ‘ace AIR Gallery in Buenos Aires, 2018, Schwabenakademie, Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany (2013 and 2017); the Glenbow Museum (2011), the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2011; the Jesuits Gallery of Contemporary Art, Poznan, Poland (2009).