KARIN MCGINN: Virgo’s Garden Of Earthly Delights

CKG is thrilled to be kicking off our fall line-up with  Calgary’s Karin McGinn, the artist’s premier solo show at CKG - “Virgo’s Garden of Earthly Delights” 

In Virgo’s garden, the feminine and her myriad manifestations are presented center stage.  Each painting celebrates and reimagines a modern female archetype ~ she is playful, magical and in her power. 

Humour is used throughout her narrative tableaux as a way to subvert the challenging ideas she presents concerning feminism and sexuality. And with that in mind, McGinn creates a happy celebratory feminine energy. It is also worth remarking that we don’t ever fully see “her”, but rather we get small glimpses; via shadows and objects that work to form an idea of who she is.

And although McGinn is fairly new to the medium she has fully embraced the dreamy effects of airbrushing as the ideal tool to illuminate those moments of magic realism/fantasy found in the spaces and objects she creates. At times erotic and always surreal, her imagery is simultaneously beautiful and monstrous.

Karin McGinn is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. McGinn holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University and a BFA (with distinction) in Fibre from AUArts (formerly ACAD. Her art practice explores the poetics and politics of the body as a site to understand and express her own ethnographic experiences living in this bodily container.