Doug Brinkman

Intuitive, Abstracts of

Light & Shadows

Abstracts of Light & Shadows

by Doug Brinkman and a Community of Participants.

2013, 9 Afghan boys gathering firewood

2014, 1924-2014 Lawren Harris & A.Y. Jackson

2015 LISTEN, We First Nations, Métis and Inuit, TRC

2016 Fire and Rain art project - Alberta Wildfires & Floods

2017 Not A Bystander art project - Anger, Violence, and Bullying

2018 Status versus Motion art project - Alberta Politics and News Media

2019 More Circles than Squares art project - Environment, Social, Political Extremes

2020 Freedom to Express and LISTEN - The Speakers Banned Speech and Wear

2021 Misty HeART project - Humanity and Legacy

Abstracts of Light & Shadows - Art is Freedom

(Red) Community Participated Art Projects

2020, Hineni, here I am

2019, Extinction Rebellion by the Reflection Pool

"Freedom is important, especially today"-B.K., "True North Strong and FREE, a line straight from our anthem"- E.K., "Escape is freedom from judgmental civilians who should mind their own business - and help those /encourage them who try to get a happy lifestyle..." -A.C.R.L.W.-B, "Freedom is Honesty, Being Honest is Love"-C, "Free The Art"-W.C., "Freedom is our right. In any form express it with art. If art was a crime Leonardo would have been doing the time"-E.B., "Sovereignty is Freedom"- Dene Warrior, "Edmonton Ward 7 candidate"-S.P., "Lets make Edmonton the City of Art and Imagination"-D, Art is Expression, Freedom is Art"-V, "Keep Fighting to Speak your Piece"-N.R., "Freedom is my right as a human being..." - C.A., "Freedom, Art and Honesty"-M.M., "If freedom is the child, then understanding is the mother and determination is the father"- R.K.A., "Art is a way to express ourselves as an artist, and its not something that others can simply take it away from us"- Kevan Lyons “Poet of Churchill Square”. "Art is Freedom"- Love A.L., "自由" S.L., "Fight the power, art is freedom" - K.C., "Art is freedom"- A.A., "Freedom, art and honesty"- M.M., "Freedom is a Right" - M.O.S., "Freedom for All Canadians"- G.W. Edmonton Ward 10 candidate, "The choice is ours", "To be who we want to be"-J.U., "Freedom seems almost unachievable", "Live your life how you want to, with love in your heart" -J, "We stand together" - V, "Art is Freedom" - Doug Brinkman back page

2020, Worship Jesus Christ, Hare Krishna & Edmonton Oilers

2015, The Judge and Poet, We First Nations, Métis and Inuit

2020, River of life, good times, bad times always changing

"When we love ourselves it is in convent upon us to love everyone around us and to do good. I pray for Canada, I pray for peace, I pray for unity and I pray for leaders with compassion with the drive to bring unity today and forever." 2019, Woman prays for our leaders to be blessed and paints flowers to The Alberta Legislature has no dome, Unity.

2019-2021 The Legislature has no dome, Unity

Art is made for people to react. Having a position means what you are doing is needed and it is creating change. In the long term, a lot of people are going to appreciate it.-Venezuelan woman, 2017, Alberta Legislature art show and Tell.

2020, Wear RED as we go marching, Rome is burning

2016, Fort McMurray, the Beast

2020, Abstracts of Freedom, The Falcon and the Dome

2017, She Smiles after all that...

2020, Wear Red when we go marching, Rome is burning. "When I first looked at it, it reminded me of Notre Dame Cathedral burning. It also reminds me also of some of Van Gogh’s paintings. If we are burning now, like Notre Dame, we will rise better and stronger." - Marg McCuaig-Boyd, 2020, former NDP Alberta Energy Minister.

2019, Last of the Alberta Caribou