Now Showing at Triwood: Alone, Together by Kelly Isaak

We are excited to welcome our next Travelling Art Exhibit to the halls of Triwood Community Association, Alone Together! Once you enter through the main entrance and go up the stairs, look left to admire these art pieces here until June 17, 2025.

About Alone, Together

Alone, Together is a solo exhibition of hyper-realistic pencil crayon portraits by Calgary artist Kelly Isaak.

These are not just generic portraits, however. During one of the more severe COVID 19 lockdowns in Alberta, Isaak put a call out on Instagram asking if anyone would be interested in submitting photographs of themselves while in isolation that she would later draw. Isaak received an overwhelming response of interested participants. Most of the faces were strangers to her, but she endeavoured to capture a communal familiarity in the experiences we were all facing at the time. She developed this portrait series to shine a light on times where we may have felt quite alone, but we were able to navigate these moments together as a community.

Kelly Isaak has been teaching art in a well-respected art program in Calgary for over a decade. During that time, Isaak has been refining her technical and observational skills through drawing. She uses coloured pencils, graphite, and charcoal as her main materials to draw detailed representations of her subjects. Through the variety of features and facial expressions, Isaak is inspired to capture her subject’s distinct personality through her drawings.

This exhibition was curated by Ash Slemming and is being circulated by SW through the Alberta Society of Artists.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

ASH SLEMMING, MANAGER/CURATOR • TREX SOUTHWEST • THE ALBERTA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS SUITE 222, 1235 26 AVENUE SE, CALGARY AB T2G 1R7 • Email: trex@albertasocietyofartists.com • Ph: 403.262.4669