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DANCING UNDER THE LIGHTS

MIKE HOOVES
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Mural:  Dancing Under the Lights 
Sponsorship: Calgary Arts Development / Crabapple Clothing
Address: 3526 Garrison Gate SW

IA playful celebration of the enduring warmth that is created through relationships, even in cold weather. The work uses colour and shape to create a graphic sensibility, while utilizing gesture to bring the image to life.

MIKE HOOVES is a prairie queer and multi-disciplinary artist working in illustration, animation, and film in Calgary, Alberta. Having received their BDes from AUArts in 2016, Mike’s work depicts human experience and narrative, creating a normalization of the queer body. Using inexpensive materials, Mike disassembles expectations of polished art while navigating and negotiating the permanence of mark-making. Mike playfully explores expression through shape, colour, and gesture.
Instagram: @mikehooves
Twitter: @mikehooves
Facebook: mikehooves.art
Web: www.mikehooves.com

Photographer: Katy Whitt

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
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    • Northern Reflections 2019
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    • PAINTED WINDOWS
    • DOUBLE-GLAZED
    • AUGLE
  • ARTISTS
    • NORTHERN REFLECTIONS 2019 >
      • ALYSSA KOSKI & SHAWNA KOSKI
      • McKENNA PRATHER & MICHAEL KOHLWEG
      • NASARIMBA & SAJE DAMEN
      • VANJA KRAGULIJ & MATEUSZ NAPIERALSKI
      • MARY HAASDYK & JARETT SITTER
      • MIKE HOOVES
    • NORTHERN REFLECTIONS 2018 >
      • BARBARA AMOS & MIKE HOOVES
      • CHRISTINA STEIN & SAJE DAMEN
      • CLAUDIA WEIGELSBERGER & MICHELLE KU
      • JACQUELINE HUSKISSON & AMANDA CHAN
      • MATEUSZ NAPIERALSKI
      • MICHELLE HOOGVELD & BRANDON HEARTY
      • MICHELLE WIEBE & MICHAEL KOHLWEG
      • MONICA ILA & JARETT SITTER
      • NICOLE WOLF & KYLE SIMMERS
      • PAULA TIMM & BRIAN BUNNY BATISTA
      • STEPHANIE FOWLER & ALYSSA KOSKI
      • STEPHANIE HOOGVELD & KAYLEE RAE
    • NORTHERN REFLECTIONS 2017 >
      • BRIAN BUNNY BATISTA
      • CHRISTINA STEIN
      • JARETT SITTER
      • Jennifer Jacoby
      • JOHN GERRARD
      • KRISTEN CARLETON
      • MATEUSZ NAPIERALSKI
      • MICHELLE KU
      • MICHELLE WEIBE
      • MIKE HOOVES
    • CHANGING SEASONS >
      • ALYSSA KOSKI
  • CONTACT