At the 2026 Dallas Art Fair, Booth D4, Philip Martin Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new works by Ontario-based artist Sky Glabush. Sky Glabush’s solo stand will include two monumentally-scaled paintings, a selection of smaller works, and a series of framed paintings-on-paper, several of which pull from Glabush’s recent trip to Arles and the hospital at St. Rémy-de-Provence, where Van Gogh lived from 1889-1890.
“I employ the landscape as a structure,” Sky Glabush writes, “and when I say the landscape, I mean water, stars, trees, wind, clouds, grass, flowers, a river, the ocean. Not so much the landscape per se, but the natural world. I use this as a structuring principle, as an ordering principle.” In these pictures, forests, oceans, mountains and fields shimmer in the warm glow of the sun. They gleam in the midnight light of the night moon. Sky Glabush comments that he wants his pictures, “to come at you like a breath, an opening.” There is a kind of crystalline sensation in Glabush’s work, a point of balance between the known and the unknown, a viewing experience formed by mystery and memory, being and becoming.
Sky Glabush’s pictures require that we look again and again in our efforts to perceive more information than can be seen at any one time. In order to find our position - to find ourselves amongst the pictorial terms of his painting - we must center ourselves in relation to the picture itself, proprioceptively, allowing our eyes to deeply wander into painterly space determined by perspective, shape, color and edge. Glabush’s paintings figure internal landscapes by means of depicting exterior ones; they remind us of the ways in which our interiority is figured by what we experience around us; they reflect on the passing of time, where we have been, what we have done, and what the future might hold.
Sky Glabush’s works-on-paper are the result of an open process in which experimentation, intuition and pictorial skill come together to figure the motif. Glabush notes that, “I will sit down with a piece of paper and start moving colors around, or drawing, and, as soon as the idea emerges, I toss the paper aside. Even if I only worked on it for ten seconds. I will do this over and over again for a couple of hours until I have a stack of papers. Then I come back the next day and sort through it all and I try to find one that I want to work on. But I will only work on it insofar as trying to figure out what it is, but as soon as I have a direction I toss it aside and I move to the next one. I keep re-ranking them. Ones that do not do anything for me stay at the bottom of the pile. The interesting ones I go back into, but I only go back into them to get a direction, and then as soon as I get a direction I leave it. Then I keep repeating that day-by-day until at one point I reach a place of knowing what the painting needs to be. Once I know what the painting needs to be, I devote the entire day to figuring it out and bringing it into focus.”
In these works, Sky Glabush balances dense layers of information against a feeling of immediate presence, pushing an investigation of motif and pictorial space as a place in which to locate being. “Space equals consciousness,” Alan Watts says, going on to point out the complexities of figuring artistic expression in words and pictures. “While we shape clay into a pot, it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want; we hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable; we work with being, but non-being is what we use,” Lao Tze writes. Glabush comments, “The last four or five years I have become more entranced with dealing with the landscape as a kind of platform for experimentation and abstraction...What I’m trying to do when I am [in nature] is kind of absorb a feeling...And I am always trying to push the paintings to a place where I lose the connection to my own source material or my own experience. I get lost in the process and then when I find it again - when it kind of comes to life again - then it comes to life for the viewer, too.”
Sky GLABUSH (b. 1970 Alert Bay, BC) received his BFA from the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, SK) and his MA from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB). Sky Glabush’s work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); and Stephen Friedman Gallery (New York, NY; London, UK). Glabush’s paintings are in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada and other major museums. Recent group shows include, “Friends in Both Places” (Nichelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY, 2025); “The Moth & The Thunderclap,” Modern Art (London, UK, 2023); “BodyLand,” Galerie Max Hetzler (Berlin, Germany, 2022); “Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes,” Acquavella (New York, NY, 2022); and “Sky Glabush and Johannes Nagel,” Cordonhaus Städtische Galerie Museum (Cham, Germany). Glabush’s work has been included in exhibitions at Arsenal Contemporary (Montreal, QC); Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery (Hong Kong); Saatchi Gallery (London, UK); University of Western Ontario (London, ON); Galerie de l’UQAM (Montréal, QC); and Rideau Hall (Ottawa, ON). His work is included in such collections as Harvard Museums (Cambridge, MA); Arsenal Contemporary (Montreal, QC); National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON); Alberta Foundation for the Arts (Calgary, AB); Bank of Montreal (Toronto, ON); Burnaby Art Gallery (Burnaby, BC); Colart Collection (Montreal, QC); Ivey Collection (Toronto and London, ON); MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina, SK); McIntosh Gallery, (London, ON); McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Vaughan, Ontario); Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon, SK); Museum London (London, ON); University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, SK); JP Morgan Chase (New York, NY). His work has been featured in publications such as Tate Magazine, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, Toronto Star, and Globe and Mail. Glabush lives and works in London, ON.
Dallas Art Fair
PUBLIC HOURS & VIP PREVIEW
Thursday, April 16, 5:00 - 9:00 PM VIP preview to benefit Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, and Dallas Contemporary.
Friday, April 17, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 18, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Sunday, April 19, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION
Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.)
1807 Ross Ave
Dallas, TX 75201
Philip Martin Gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday from 11-5. For additional images, or information please email info@philipmartingallery.com, or call 323-507-2037. Philip Martin Gallery is located at 3342 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065.
