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Nov 26, 2026 – Jan 16, 2027
Newzones is pleased to present "Signs and Symptoms", the first solo exhibition with the gallery from Calgary-based painter, Chris Flodberg. "The paintings in this body of work are the signs and symptoms of a life lived. These isolated archetypes and symbols each have something to say about love, death, loss, growth, and the zeitgeist as I see it unfolding. Isolated against pure, coloured grounds, the images function in a way not dissimilar to Tarot cards, or perhaps the playing cards of some mysterious game. Does life deliver a clown holding a gun, ready to shoot you in the back, or does it offer a match in the darkness to illuminate the way? I think of these paintings as individual statements, but I have also come to appreciate the ways in which they communicate with one another. A briefcase full of bones sitting beside a pink ice cream cone speaks to both the inevitability of death and the fleeting pleasures that life offers. Their relationships create new meanings, unexpected associations, and possibilities. There is no narrative beginning or end here. Each image is a marker in a continually unfolding cycle of narrative possibility. They are signs and symptoms, markers along the road of life." - Chris Flodberg on "Signs and Symptoms"
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