Think in – Kylie Rupert

Think in – Kylie Rupert

Opening Reception: Saturday November 7, 6pm – 9pm (part of a 5-stop downtown gallery crawl)

Think in – Kylie Rupert

My art attempts to show complication through simplicity. It is simple in form yet complex in its use of lines and negative space, as well as the ideas it presents in through its forms. I use the literary term multiperspectivity to describe my pieces. It’s a technique writer’s use to view an idea or event from multiple perspectives in a narrative or representation to form different points of view. Each piece is meant to be observed from all sides. Wood is like a poor man’s stone with its beautiful patterns and grains. I create my pieces from firewood or cut offs that I have found, or that people have donated to me. I try not to change the original shape of the piece of wood. Each sculpture holds the overall shape it was before it was carved. The grain of the wood adds flow and definition to each piece with its natural rings and layers. It creates additional contours apart from the lines that have been carved through the wood.

I have always been inspired by Indigenous art and its use of simple bold forms throughout history, such as Inuit Soap Stone Sculptures, and Haida Gwaii Totems, masks and wood cuts, and the Easter Island Megaliths. I have also been inspired by artists such as Salvador Dali, MC Escher, Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, and sculptors Henry Moore and Alexander Calder among some of the many great artists I have admired over the years. Throughout my life art and design of all types have been sources of inspiration. I have also found inspiration in nature with its stunning displays of form, shape, and color. I have no formal art training; other than the art classes I took in High School.

This body of work has been created over many years and represents most of the pieces I have ever made in my life. They each are a story that is meant to make you Think In.

Kylie is a single parent that cares for her 3 beautiful children and her cat Whopper in Lethbridge, Alberta where she lives and works as a registered nurse. Originally from Ontario, she came to High River, Alberta in 1997 in search of a fresh start, eventually coming to Lethbridge in 2001. Ponder (1997) was created that year, and the rest of her pieces were created in the years since then, including Happyface (2024) and Within (2024), and her most recent piece Paradox of Self (2025). Some of these pieces have been displayed in a Library showcase at Lethbridge College in 2006 because the library staff had seen her carving outside during her first years of nursing school. Then the University of Lethbridge library discovered this and displayed them in 2008. Other than that, she has never put her art forward formally.

Date:November 7th, 2026  -  January 8th, 2027

Location:Casa - Concourse Showcases

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