GERALD FOLKERTS was born in Vancouver and graduated from Dordt College (Iowa) in 1980 with an education degree in Fine Arts and moved to Winnipeg to begin a teaching career that would span eighteen years. Since then he has left the classroom to devote more time to painting works that continually invite viewers to reflect, and sometimes wrestle, with allusive, suggestion-rich and deeply relevant images. Calvin Seerveld (Senior Member Emeritus in Philosophical Aesthetics Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, ON) says, "Folkerts has the wisdom to let his Christian faith subtly percolate in the spirit of his painterly art by showing compassion for the problematic figures he treats."

Gerald has participated in both solo and group exhibitions in North America and was an award-winner in IMAGO’s 30th Anniversary National Juried Competition and Exhibition as well as being the recipient of the First Award in several Manitoba Society of Artists Annual Juried Exhibitions. He has served as juror for various exhibitions, led workshops, and has been a featured presenter at art conferences and schools in Canada and the USA. Gerald is a past-president of the Manitoba Society of Artists and works out of his renovated attic studio in his Winnipeg home.


Check out this weekend's exhibit of Gerald's works:

Where: Outworks Gallery 290 McDermott Ave.
Host: Jared Folkerts
Start Time: Thursday, January 29 at 7:00pm
End Time: Sunday, February 1 at 5:00pm

See you there!

http://folkerts.ca/

http://www.kingsu.org/current-students/IS-conference/2008/is2008_gerald-folkerts.html

http://www.imago-arts.on.ca/showcase/featured/folkerts.html

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