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Edmonton Oilers’ dressing-room art? Heavy oil on canvas, naturally!
Local artist uses bitumen for Hoisting the Cup painting at Rogers Place
It’s the lifeblood of the Alberta economy.
It’s the inspiration behind the energy-fueled nickname of the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers, who began life in 1972 as the Alberta Oilers of the renegade World Hockey Association.
And now, it’s the artistic medium for Hoisting the Cup, which hangs in the Oilers’ dressing room at the team’s new digs, Rogers Place.
The painting, entitled Hoisting the Cup and featuring the Stanley Cup and the Oilers logo, was crafted using bitumen from the Alberta oilsands, home of the third-largest oil reserves in the world.
“Bitumen, in laymen’s terms, is heavy oil,” Edmonton artist and Oilers fan Lucas Seaward tells Rogers Place’s PCL Ice Level broadcast. “It’s very viscous, and it comes from northern Alberta and the oilsands.”
So, yes—oil on canvas, 12 feet by five feet.
“I take the raw bitumen and mix it with a binding agent, which dilutes it,” says Seaward, who took two months to create Hoisting the Cup. “To have . . . the players see it on a semi-daily basis means the world to me.”
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