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The visual arts season in Western Canada
ASHEVAK, METCALFE, JANVIER AMONG GG WINNERS Cape Dorset artist Kenojuak Ashevak, Alberta painter Alex Janvier and Vancouver-based conceptual artist, curator and teacher Eric Metcalfe are among this year‘s recipients of the Governor General‘s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Created to honour career achievement by Canadian artists and presented by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, each of the AwardPHOTO: MARTIN LIPMAN, CANADA COUNCIL
ABOVE: Kenojuak Ashevak, The Enchanted Owl, stonecut, 2006, 61 x 66 cm, Edition of: 25 (red), 25 (green). Printer: Eegyvudluk Pootoogook / Iyola Kingwatsiak. Reproduced with the permission of: Dorset Fine Arts. LEFT: Artist Kenoguak Ashevak. 16 Galleries West Summer 2008
winners receives $25,000, making it one of the most valuable prizes in visual and media arts in Canada. Born in 1927 at the Ikerrasak camp on southern Baffin Island, Ashevak has created some of the most iconic images in Inuit art. A Companion of the Order of Canada with honourary degrees from the University of Toronto and Queens University, Ashevak’s bold, imaginative prints have appeared on multitudes of Canadiana — stamps, coins, and Via Rail cars. Founder of the Western Front artist-run centre in Vancouver, Eric Metcalfe has long been on the leading edge of conceptual art in Canada. His work mixes painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, video and film, and printmaking, often intersecting with avant garde movements
like Fluxus. He has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design and at the University of British Columbia, and maintains a prolific art-making and exhibition practice. Best-known for a curvilinear style of painting that is uniquely his own, the Cold Lake, Alberta-based painter Alex Janvier combines a contemporary sensibility with traditional symbolism culled from his background with the northern-based Dene people. Instrumental in bringing Canadian Aboriginal art into the spotlight by curating the Indians of Canada Pavilion show at Expo ‘67 in Montreal, Janvier‘s abstract visual language makes his work instantly recognizable. These three artists join the other five 2008 Governor General‘s Award winners — Serge Giguère, Michel Goulet, Tanya Mars, Chantal Gilbert, and Shirley Thomson. www.gallerieswest.ca
first impressions FOUND OBJECT TED STILSON’S “MOODY” It started as a simple doodle, but within seven months, Lethbridge, Albertabased artist Ted Stilson was the creator of the first Canadian do-it-yourself vinyl platform art toy. Moody, named for its vaguely cow-like appearance, is an eight-inch-tall three-dimensional articulated sculpture constructed of rotocast vinyl — providing an unlimited ‘canvas’ for artists. “I’m inspired by the incredible diversity of what's happening in the designer vinyl art movement,” says Stilson. “Artists and toy companies are definitely pushing the boundaries.” While earning his BA in Fine Art at the University of Lethbridge, Stilson was introduced to the art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein through the University’s Art Collection, one of the largest and most diverse in Canada. “From that moment on, Pop Art has had a huge influence on my art, and designer vinyl art is definitely an extension of that movement,” he says. “I believe if Andy Warhol was alive today, he would be producing designer vinyl art toys. The same could probably be said about Picasso, Miró, Calder, and others. In fact, the estate of the late Keith Haring, a contemporary and friend of Warhol’s, is producing toys based on his two-dimensional pop art from the 1980s.” To date, Moodys have made their way into the subculture, customized by artists in Russia, China, England, Singapore, Australia, Japan, The Netherlands, France, the United States and Canada. The first exhibition, Moody Idols – the Urban Vinyl Toy Movement, featured more than 50 Moodys in the Helen Christou Gallery at the University of Lethbridge last November. In December, Moodys appeared at the Say Whaaat exhibition in Washington D.C. and in May were featured in Don’t Cry Over Spilt Vinyl at the Pravus Gallery in Phoenix. “Although my little art toy project has been extremely gratifying, the process is not for the faint of heart,” Stilson says. “However, it has been one of the most rewarding things I have accomplished as an artist. Now if I could only find a home for the growing Moody army in my basement.”
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Winnipeg-based fine art photographer Don Reichert is among this year’s recipients of the Manitoba Arts Grants, worth $25,000. Awarded by the Manitoba Arts Council to artists in all disciplines, the grant will allow Reichert to produce a new series of digital images on canvas and paper. A major contributor to the visual arts in Manitoba, Reichert had his first solo show at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg in 1960, before teaching for 14 years at the ABOVE: Eric Metcalfe, On the
Custom-painted Moodys by six international artists.
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Road Sax, 1972-1973, mixed media. Collection: Vancouver Art Gallery. (Photo: VAG / Holly Hames) LEFT: Artist Eric Metcalfe.
STONE ANCESTOR RETURNS HOME Facilitated by the Museum of Anthropology at the University of
British Columbia, and the Sto:lo Tribal Council and Sto:lo Nation, a stone sculpture that had been in the collection of the Burke Museum of Natural History in Seattle returned back north across the border after 100 years away from home. Spirited away in the early 20th century, the sculpture is a stone representaGalleries West Summer 2008 17
first impressions GREAT SPACE BILL REID GALLERY FOR NORTHWEST COAST ART Ten years after Haida artist Bill Reid died, his memory will come alive with the
Arts on Atlantic Gallery represents regional fine craft professionals in a variety of media including: • Book Arts • Ceramics • Fibre Arts • Glass • Jewellery • Sculpture • Wood Turning
opening of the new Bill Reid Gallery for Northwest Coast Art in downtown Vancouver in early summer. Many of the Gallery’s 150 rarely-seen works were bequeathed to the Bill Reid Foundation by private donors, including Reid’s wife Martine, who wanted to create a lasting legacy for the sculptor and master carver. Finding a home for the collection — everything from a monumental bronze of a killer whale to miniature works in gold and silver — was a five-year quest, but Foundation president and former director of the Canadian Museum of Civilization George MacDonald says the space at 639 Hornby (formerly the Canadian Craft Museum) is a near-perfect fit. From the high gallery, now known as the Audain Great Hall after philanthropist Michael Audain, who donated $1 million to the project, to the dramatically-lit Treasure Box jewellery gallery, MacDonald says a custom designed space could not have served the collection better. The first exhibition, a film about the Loo Taa, Reid’s Haida canoe carved for Expo ’86, showcases the land/sea connection of the
Darren Peterson - Char Pair
artist to his ancestors’ culture. The Loo Taa was the first cedar canoe carved on Haida Gwaii chronicles the three-week journey Reid and his wife participated in to bring the vessel home. Along with visual art, the gal-
Mindy Andrews - Carved Teapot
lery animates the artist himself.
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in living memory, and the film
More than 300 hours of Reid’s voice — whether in discussion with art historian Bill Holm about form, on-air on the CBC, or in readings of his own prose — provide visitors a unique opportunity to listen to the artist’s own words. Other interactive innovations flow throughout the space, including holograms
Robby Robinson - Closed Segmented Vessel
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tion of Sto:lo ancestor T‘xwelátse, following the legend that T‘xwelátse was turned to stone as a punishment for mistreating his wife. The Sto:lo people, who live in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver, had been working on repatriating the sculpture for almost 15 years.
ALBERTA ARTISTS HEAD TO LIVERPOOL Five Alberta artists, with curator Donna Chyz of Artfirm Gallery in Calgary, head across the pond this
summer to open a show in the city of Liverpool, which celebrates its status this year as European Capital of Culture. Hosted by the artist-run gallery Wolstenholme Projects, the show Studio Alberta will run from June 29 to July 13. Artists Carl White, Keith Diamond, Mark Holliday, Michael Jones and Laurie Steen have all been chosen to participate — most have a close family connection to England, and in some cases, to Liverpool. Chyz says that part of the motivation for putting the show www.gallerieswest.ca
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April 24 - May 18, Opening Thursday April 24, 6-9 pm Neil Pinkett, Amongst the Trees
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ABOVE: The new Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver. OPPOSITE: James Hart, carving the interior of the new Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver. BELOW: Bill Reid, Nanasimget Bracelet, 22K gold, 1971.
of famous Reid sculptures, like the 16-tonne Spirit of Haida Gwaii, (also known as the Black Canoe at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC), can be turned and touched with the help of a computer screen.
May 22 - June 15 Opening Thursday May 22, 6-9 pm Maria Curcic, In Transit Stormy Day, Mixed Media, 24” x 48”
One of Reid’s obsessions, a 19th-century bentwood box with such complicated patterns that he dubbed it “the final exam” on Haida design, now plays a useful role in transforming the space to suit the collection. MacDonald says the four panels now decorate the front windows, helping diffuse the natural light during the day and
June 19 - July 13 Opening Thursday June 19, 6-9 pm Jan Corcoran, Horizontal
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Roy Leadbeater Untitled, mixed media 36” x 36”
Lori McCrae On The Beach 1 oil on canvas 24 x 24” 2007
Doris Charest Thoughts, mlxed media 20” x 24”
DIANE COLWELL Digital photography has its fans and its uses, and it is revolutionizing
Nancy Corrigan Birds in the Garden acrylic on canvas 36” x 12” 2007
photography, but the other side of the evolution of digital is the end of filmbased processes. The prediction that the digital era would kill film is proving true — Polaroid announced in February it would no longer manufacture its instant film. For photographers like Calgary-based landscape artist Diane Colwell, the news means the end of Polaroid SX-70 emulsion manipulation. For more than 20 years, Colwell has been manipulating the emulsion of SX-70 film with its
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WHYTE OPENS BIGGEST-EVER SHOW Banff’s Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies has outdone itself with a summer exhibition two years in the making. The exhibition, called The Stuff of Legend: The Luxton Family in Banff and the Bow Valley, centres around the family of the remarkable adventurer and entrepreneur Norman Luxton, who was one of the earliest settlers in Banff. The show brings toGeorge McLean (Walking Buffalo), Norman Luxton and Jonas Rider on the day Luxton was made honourary chief, 1935.
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gether documentation, photographs and artifacts of Luxton’s eventful life — he set out from the West Coast of
PHOTO: BYRON HARMON.
Saeed Hojjati The Beauty of Blossoms in Kira Panagia oil on canvas 24” x 30”
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Richard Tetrault familiar white border, as a first step in her work. Using both blunt tools and pastels, she draws on the emulsion as the image develops, creating a photographic drawing.
Smoke, Steel, Sky
“As it’s starting to come up I do this really aggressive mark-making and then go into it with the colour and the painterly approach when it starts getting saturated,” says Colwell. Later, she photographs the altered image, turning it back into a photograph. It’s a process she has perfected, reached its limitations and even put aside. “I’ve sometimes just abandoned it because it didn’t seem to fire me any more,” she says. “I did pick it up again a few years ago and found it still worked, it’s still valid. The test of time held true and I was able to do another run.” Though the process is still valid, the reality of Polaroid ending its film production means Colwell is down to her last 15 packs, or 150 pieces of instant film, some of which she says
Red Arc #2, 34” x 70”, acrylic/oil and sand on canvas
will be duds. With this rare last batch of film, Colwell plans on creating an installation piece that explores mountaineering and climbing in a fictionalized documentary approach. Polaroid, meanwhile, has also announced that it is open to giving a third party permission to make its film, but if no one does, Colwell says she has no regrets. “Maybe that’s the undercurrent with the digital world as well, in terms that I’ve got to keep up with the times and I’ve got to move on,” she says, laughing. Working in a dying process, however, at least has one advantage. According to
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Emily Barnett, who carries Colwell’s work in her Banff-based Summit Gallery of Fine Art, collectors tend put a higher value on photographs produced in an increasingly rare process. — Rob Alexander
George Littlechild Transfer — to change from one form to another
OPPOSITE: Diane Colwell, Steamboat Mountain: View Over Slough, photograph, 2007. 30" x 30". LEFT: Diane Colwell, Bugaboo Spire with Glacier and Tarns, photograph, 2007, 30" X 30".
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GALLERY ARRIVALS Winnipeg’s Urban Shaman Gallery has hired Melissa Wastasecoot as Interim Director, now that former director Steve Loft has taken up the newly created position of Aboriginal curator-in-residence at the National Gallery of Canada. Most recently president of Urban Shaman’s Board of Directors, Wastasecoot was asked www.gallerieswest.ca
to step in to see the gallery through the transitional phase before the Board chooses a new director in Fall 2008. At the Nanaimo Art Gallery on Vancouver Island, Ed Poli has been appointed Gallery Manager. He comes into the position after a career in business, civic involvement, and community activity, including involvement with the Downtown Nanaimo Arts, Culture and Entertainment Committee, and the Downtown Business Development Committee. After a management career in the civil service, Poli was instrumental in the development
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first impressions SAVE THE DATE FIRED UP 2008 Almost 25 years in existence, the popular ceramics show and sale that hits the town of Metchosin on Vancouver Island runs May 30 to June 1 this year. Originally held in the lush garden of artists Judi Dyelle and Robin Hopper, who founded the event in 1984, the show has moved to the Metchosin Hall, where 11 member artists will exhibit with three invited guest artists and one special guest artist — University of Victoria sessional instructor and raku specialist Walter Dexter. With a membership of accomplished ceramic artists, each with their own lists of group and solo shows they’ve participated in, Fired
RIGHT: Ceramic works by Lynne
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of ceramic art in the region.
BELOW: Ceramic work by Glenys
Member artists include Marlene
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I Miss You: Here I am 48’’ x 72’’ acrylic on canvas
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In June, Dr. Stephen Borys will take over as the director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. He arrives in the city from Florida, where he was curator of collections at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. Closely associated with Florida State University, it’s the largest universityStephen Borys, director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
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Cathi Jefferson, Susan Delatour LePoidevin, Glenys Marshall-Inman Meira Methison, Gary Merkel, Kinichi Shigeno, Pat Webber, Meg Burgess and Alan Burgess. This year, they’ve invited artists including Courtenay, B.C.-based stoneware potter Lynne Johnson, Alison Tang, whose delicate vessels interact with light and shadow, and Galiano Island-based artist and gallerist Sandra Dolph, who highlights her work with a unique and organic-looking “lichen glaze.� For more summer art walks, tours, community shows, and special exhibitions,
The Painted Landscape Mike Svob and Cameron Bird June 5 - 14, 2008
see the Galleries West Directory on page 94.
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ARTIST EXCHANGES GUNS FOR TREES One of the artists included in the Vancouver Art Gallery‘s spring show The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, will take his work a step further, planting a tree in the city‘s Strathcona Park using a spade fashioned from guns collected in a firearms amnesty. After soliciting guns as part of an exchange program for food stamps in CuliacĂĄn, Mexico, artist Pedro Reyes fabricated more than 1,500 spades as part of his art work Palas por pistolas. Each of the spades was distributed to residents of CuliacĂĄn, with 27 reserved for sale
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JOINT EXHIBITION Paul Toews and Lily Lim
Virginia Boulay, Ravenscrag Road, acrylic on canvas, 4' X 5'. Available at For ArtSake Gallery, Eastend, SK.
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SOUTHWEST QUEST Just east of the Cypress Hills and west of Grasslands National Park, in a part of Saskatchewan chronicled by two remarkable writers — Wallace Stegner and Sharon Butala — the rolling hills and endless skies have attracted a growing number of artists to the region. To capitalize on that evolving concentration, gallerists and artists have created a driving tour for art and landscape enthusiasts to discover the work being created there. The annual Southwest Quest, on this year July 26 and 27, is centred on the southwestern Saskatchewan towns of Eastend and Consul (on Highway 13), with a few locations scattered along the country roads in between. Home to the Cypress Hills Grasslands Art Centre and the Farm House Gallery, the area is also a centre for potters and ceramic artists, drawn to the region for its whitemud clay banks. The weekend will include opportunities to visit artists’ studios, special exhibitions of work by local Lily Lim, Stoney BrookB IF¬ JF¬B wy y yw w
and visiting artists, and demonstrations of techniques — all in the spectacular and inspiring setting in and around the Frenchman River Valley. Look for the
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Southwest Quest signs throughout the Valley.
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to support the project. Each buyer had to agree to plant a tree with the spade, and the Vancouver Art Gallery is the first to fulfill Reyes‘ wish. A snake maple will be planted in the park, with the artist in attendance. Trained as an architect, much of Reyes‘ work centres on the social and physical environments of Mexico City. He has had solo shows at the Seattle Art Museum and the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York, and participated in the 2003 Venice Biennale.
CORRECTION Galleries West regrets that the image of Sarah Beck‘s Öde installation in the Spring 2008 issue was misidentified. The image is from the artist‘s 2005 exhibition at the White Water Gallery in North Bay, Ontario.
Collected guns make raw material for Pedro Reyes’ artwork.
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Daniel Lindley presents
printmaking Prior to opening Keystone Art Gallery in April 2007, I ran another gallery known for exhibiting works by printmakers. I have always liked how prints appeal to a broad range of clients — from young people buying their first work to serious collectors and large corporations. I wanted to do something special to celebrate my first year of business and chose to do a large exhibition of prints. The works came both from artists I represent and from secondary market prints that have come into the gallery. The show had works by approximately 50 artists at different stages of their careers, in all print media. Here are a few highlights:
Gerd Winner
John Snow
Gerd Winner is a significant German artist who is represented in public collections around the world — including the Tate. He is known for producing hyper-realist, photo-based serigraphs which relate to architecture. In 1982 he was invited to conduct a workshop at the University of Lethbridge and at that workshop he worked with John Will, an Alberta-based printmaker, to produce this etching.
John Snow was very important to the Calgary printmaking community after WWII and into the 1980s. Over his lifetime he created a significant body of prints, a medium he excelled at. In particular he was known for introducing fine art lithography to the city in the mid 1950s. Early in his career he created a small but significant body of mostly black and white woodcuts. This handsome woodcut from 1959 is probably one of the last pieces that he did from this early series. In this print we see parallels with the influential French artist Georges Rouault who had a profound effect on the German Expressionists, a group of artists Snow was known to look at.
Deli Sacilotto
Saskatchewan Elevators
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Clown
Deli Sacilotto is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design and later was first head of its printmaking program. He subsequently moved to New York where he co-wrote an important textbook on printmaking and set up a studio to pull prints by a virtual ‘Who’s Who’ of artists. This work from the late 1960s combines the more European Tachisme or Action Painting with the American formalist concerns promoted by Clement Greenberg and the Abstract Expressionists in New York.
H. Eric Bergman Eric Bergman is a German-born artist who worked as a commercial artist for Brigden’s in Winnipeg. In 1930 he turned his attention from painting to producing wood engravings, a medium he excelled at and for which he was recognized by both his critics and colleagues. This charming view of the working class area along East Kildonan Road in Winnipeg is somewhat reminiscent of Lawren Harris’ paintings of The Ward in Toronto. East Kildonan Road
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GREG GIRARD BRITISH COLUMBIA: New Works, May 22 – June 21, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
By Ann Rosenberg Since moving to Asia in 1983, Vancouver-born artist Greg Girard has been building a successful career as a commercial photographer, documenting many well-known sites and personalities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and in other locations in mainland China. His photojournalism has apRIGHT: Greg Girard, Six Hundred peared in magazines including Time, Things,#24 Pinghu Lu, photograph, Newsweek, Forbes, Paris Match, Stern, and The New York Times Mag- 2005. azine. In addition to freelance and contract work, Girard has built an im- BELOW: Greg Girard, Former pressive body of fine art photographs Cinema, New York New York Disco, photograph, 2005. that he’s shot on his own time.
Published in 1993, the book The City of Darkness contained the first group of Girard’s art photos, tracing the back streets of the walled precinct of Kowloon in Hong Kong, home to 30,000 people and razed to make way for new commercially viable structures. Images from the second project, Phantom Shanghai, were exhibited first in Monte Clark’s Toronto Gallery in 2005 before becoming part of a book by that name that was printed by Magenta Press in 2007. Selected images from the Thames & Hudson new edition of Phantom Shanghai will be the subject of a third exhibition at Clark’s Vancouver gallery in May. www.gallerieswest.ca
Girard’s two art projects document old structures that have stood or are standing, in spite of all odds, in the face of China’s voracious, all-consuming hunger for urban land. It’s similar to the work Vancouver photographer Roy Arden has produced over the past 20 years, but the majority of Arden’s site photos are about construction rather than demolition, and they don’t have Girard’s truly felt empathy for the architecture or the lifestyles of the past eras. The small selection of works that Girard has designated as photo-based art is singular in purpose, meaning, mood and technique artist index “What Girard has found a way of making personal is not the archaeology of a particular site but its Greg Girard .................27 anthropology and lyricism,” Clark says. “There are Face the Nation ...........29 not many people in his works, but a more positive Dana Claxton...............30 view of human activities are implied by the amber Ken Dalgarno ..............32 light that spills from night windows, the clean launKen Steacy ...................34 dry pegged on strings high over the dingiest alley, M.-Josée Laframboise ..34 the spotlessly clean wooden floors of a tenement Adrian Fish ..................34 where there is a shared kitchen and bathroom. The Paul Lapointe...............35 bicycles set, unlocked, and with care against an Wally Dion. ..................35 ancient brick wall.” Blaine Campbell ..........35 Girard’s images are typically recorded in dim, Jordan Broadworth .....36 mixed-light conditions, and his long exposures proPhil Darrah ..................36 duce eerie but always poetic effects. The artificial Brenda Joy Lem ...........36 illumination tints the humid night air of Shanghai Duncan Regehr............36 with colours that Rubens would envy. The hope is Brian Flynn ..................38 that Girard will continue to work in this sensitive Terry Isaac....................38 way in Shanghai and other sites where the old will Dieter Schlatter ...........38 soon be buried in the new. Represented by: Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Toronto
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FACE THE NATION ALBERTA: June 20 to September 23, The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
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ABOVE: Terrance Houle, Urban Indian #7, digital print, 2007. LEFT: Maria Hupfield, Scout, Chromagenic photograph, 2006, 30" X 40".
– some of these artists are exploring an inversion of colonial relationships.” Highlighting the body’s transformative identity, themes of imitation, mimicry and reference emerge through performative enactment of masquerade. Challenging the authority of history in both its documentary and artistic representations, new works and collaborative works by Lori Blondeau and Adrian Stimson assume the alter egos of Belle Sauvage and The Buffalo Boy. New media work by Dana Claxton, and new pieces by Calgary-based artist Terrance Houle play off gender roles. Houle’s work presents Native men in loin cloths setting up a tipi, with obvious erections directed away from the audience. The humour and subtlety of usurped identity echoes KC Adam’s 2005 Cyborg Hybrid series, which will also be included, along with sculptural works from Maria Hupfield. “The way the show is shaping up, there will be a lot of performance and masquerade,” Crowston says. “A big part of what the show is looking at is the question of identity COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
On one side of the Art Gallery of Alberta are some of the national treasures of Canadian art history. Painted by the Russian-born Nicholas deGrandmaison, early 20th century scenes of Southern Alberta ranchers and cowboys along with intimate portraits of Blackfoot and Peigan people are primary documents of Alberta’s visual cultural history. Grandmaison’s oeuvre leaves a cherished legacy of raw romanticism that at once aggrandizes and encapsulates Aboriginal identity politics that persist into contemporary times. In direct dialogue with their summer deGrandmaison show, and exhibiting on the other side of the Art Gallery of Alberta, Face the Nation gathers eight contemporary Aboriginal artists from across Canada for their take on the history and (mis)representation of myths, stereotypes, and culture. Featuring works by K.C. Adams, Lori Blondeau, Dana Claxton, Terrance Houle, Maria Hupfield, Kent Monkman, Adrian Stimson and Jeff Thomas, Face the Nation explores the ways that young, urban Aboriginal people are representing themselves in visual art. “The artists are rooting the formations of their identities in a common past history — and in a common art history,” says Catherine Crowston, the AGA’s deputy director and chief curator. “They’re not just addressing present-day identities, but commenting on historical representations.” While Toronto-based painter Kent Monkman has been known for his historical revisioning of classic painting styles —referencing the work of artists ike Paul Kane and George Catlin — Ottawa-based artist Jeff Thomas is working directly with the AGA’s collection of Edward Curtis historical photographs, and incorporating them into the institution’s modern photographic portraits as a method to archive, engage, and recover lost histories. Many of the artists in Face the Nation use themes of sexuality and performance to confront the past and evaluate the present. “Many of the artists are rewriting the history of what has been left out, and often with many subjugated people, the issue of sexuality comes up,” Crowston says. “The animalistic man and the Indian princess
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DANA CLAXTON BRITISH COLUMBIA: The Mustang Suite, June 9 to July 31, Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kelowna
By Portia Priegert The horse has long held a revered place in the plains culture of the Lakota people, who see it as an honored friend or relative, a four-legged nation unto itself, not simply as a mode of traditional transportation. In the early 1880s, Lakota spiritual leader Black Elk paid tribute to the horse by creating a ceremonial dance in which four horses, representing the cardinal directions, joined human dancers. The dance has inspired Dana Claxton’s new video- and photo-based installation The Mustang Suite. Claxton traces her maternal ancestry to the Lakota people who fled to Canada with Sitting Bull after the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. In The Mustang Suite, she evokes imaginative impressions of horses dancing in a projected one-channel video, accompanied by a suite of five photographs on the theme of evolving Aboriginal identities using various metaphors for the horse. The color red, important in Lakota culture, runs as a motif through images that borrow from notions of family portraiture. In Daddy’s Gotta New Ride, an Aboriginal man with a painted face stands in a business suit beside a red Mustang car. In Baby Girlz Gotta Mustang, twin girls in red dresses and mukluks trimmed with rabbit fur sit on red Mustang bicycles. Baby Boy Gotta Indian Horse shows a youth on horseback wearing red track pants instead of traditional leggings. The quirkiest image, Momma Has A Pony (girl named History and sets her free), features an almost-burlesque medicine woman with a chorus line of four identical blonde ‘pony girls’ of the sadomasochistic subculture. The final photo is a group shot, but unlike historic images of Indians sitting on blankets, the man sits in a chair. “It’s like this classic family portrait,” Claxton says. “But it’s completely weird.” The project, commissioned by the Alternator with funding from the 2010 Cultural Olympiad, is so fresh that Claxton is still struggling to put words to the complexities of her intuitive exploration. But one theme that clearly emerges is about how cultural practices shift over time. “It’s about adaptability and how,
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despite that cliché of indigenous cultures being static, they have always evolved and have had to utilize whatever technology was there,” she says. The Mustang Suite blends traditional cultural practices with contemporary realities in unexpected ways, evoking what Aboriginal curator Tania Willard has characterized as Claxton’s interest in surreal homages that blend “images, sounds and ideas together with a sense of balance, subversion and hope.” Claxton, who grew up in Saskatchewan, has maintained her commitment to a Lakota worldview for two decades as an artist. A 1997 performance saw her smash dishes with a mallet to lament the slaughter of the buffalo, whose skeletons were used to manufacture bone china. Her 1996 installation, The Red Paper, featured a video of Aboriginal actors mimicking Elizabethan dialogue to comment on the devastating consequences of colonialism. Claxton’s work is in numerous public collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Mustang Suite runs in conjunction with a national media arts festival, On Common Ground, the largest-ever gathering of media artists in the B.C. Interior. Organized by the Alternator and the Ullus Collective, a regional group of Aboriginal filmmakers, the June 10 to June 14 festival is part of the biennial conference of the Independent Media Arts Alliance, which represents independent organizations that produce, distribute and disseminate film, video and new media. The Alternator’s involvement follows the City of Kelowna’s decision to decommission a 2005 public art project that included a video about the legacies of colonialism on local indigenous residents by Jayce Salloum, a well-known artist who grew up in Kelowna. The festival, which celebrates Aboriginal media production, also aims to encourage cross-cultural dialogue about racism, censorship and indigenous issues. ABOVE AND BELOW: Production stills from Dana Claxton’s Mustang Suite.
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KEN DALGARNO SASKATCHEWAN: Sculpted Landscapes, June 1 to 23, Allie Griffin Art Gallery, Weyburn
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sculptor Joe Fafard. “I want to walk the same line between public galleries and commercial galleries as Joe Fafard does,” Dalgarno says. “I appreciate his grassroots reaction to Modernism and I want to continue to work on subject matter I can relate to and am passionate about. I choose down-to-earth subject matter and I want to stay grounded in that philosophy.” The painter’s earthy work is full of depth, beauty and social commentary. It’s layered and sculpted like icing on a gourmet cake, yet it also packs a deceptively clever political punch. Dalgarno’s evocative depictions of the family farm make a statement about the end of a traditional way of life that’s quite personal for the artist. Both sides of Dalgarno’s extended family have agricultural roots in the Moose Jaw region, and he has elected to raise his own family in the area. To support his painting career, he works full-time at the Moose Jaw Public Library. In fact, Dalgarno was out driving around on a library bookmobile tour of southern Saskatchewan when he spotted the sideways silo that was the subject for the dramatic painting, Will of the Wind. Books and libraries have played a significant role in the painter’s life — he studied English at the University of Saskatchewan before taking up painting. The literary connection continues to meld into
ABOVE: Ken Dalgarno, Crippled, acrylic on canvas, 35.8" X 48". RIGHT: Artist Ken Dalgarno.
We’ve all heard the stereotypical descriptions of the Prairie landscape as flat, uninteresting and banal. When driving through southern Saskatchewan on the Trans-Canada highway, many bored travellers have been known to put the car on cruise control and keep going until the monotony ends. Not so, says Moose Jaw-based painter Ken Dalgarno. He says the Prairies are far from “featureless” and he backs up his assertions with rich, varied and textured landscape paintings to demonstrate his case. Dalgarno’s current subject matter, vanishing family farm buildings, is truly representative of the rural culture that defines the region. There’s more substance to Dalgarno’s work than mere broken-down barns — these symbols of faded glory also represent our own mortality. Sculpted Landscapes, a collection of ten lush paintings by Dalgarno, is currently circulating around his home province, thanks to the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Council, which chose his work as part of an adjudicated call last year. The touring exhibition, which began in April, runs through May 2010. The citizens of Tisdale, Hudson Bay, Rosthern, Kipling, Weyburn, Lloydminster, Prince Albert and La Ronge, to name just a few, will now get the opportunity to view the work. Dalgarno, who is self-taught and a self-described “outsider artist,” is thrilled to have his work recognized. When asked about his aesthetic influences, Dalgarno cites Degas, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Riopelle, and closer to home, Saskatchewan 32 Galleries West Summer 2008
the artist’s life as two of Dalgarno’s works, Broken and Submersion are now in the private collection of author Yann Martel. “You really need to see Ken’s work in person in order to appreciate it,” says Dalgarno’s Regina dealer, Mary Weimer of Assiniboia Gallery. “I’m so glad that his work is getting more exposure. His paintings are so tactile. Most people don’t normally touch art in the gallery, but when we show his work here they almost always reach for it and then resist the urge.” Weimer believes that Dalgarno is a unique talent. “We carry Dorothy Knowles and all of these really excellent landscape artists so that’s a league you have to belong to. There are some great painters here in Saskatchewan and Ken is one of them.” Sponsored by the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils, Sculpted Landscapes will tour throughout Saskatchewan until May 2010. Represented by: Assiniboia Gallery, Regina. www.gallerieswest.ca
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previews and profiles ADRIAN FISH MANITOBA: Staged, July 11 to August 27, Platform: Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg
The new Place Gallery in Victoria will open a collaborative exhibition of work by Douglas Coupland and Ken Steacy, August 14 to September 23. Longtime collaborators, both artists worked together on Coupland’s book Souvenir of Canada 2. A series of drawings from the book are central to this show…At the Winnipeg Art Gallery, a summer show called The Land: Inuit Perspectives, on May 10 to September 1, explores the rare depictions of landscape in Inuit art. Comprising prints, drawings, sculpture and textiles, the show is drawn from the existing collection of the Gallery. PICTURED ABOVE: Ken Steacy’s “Toronto 2504 AD” from Douglas Coupland’s book Souvenir of Canada 2.
MARIE-JOSÉE LAFRAMBOISE ALBERTA: Points d’inflexion et de rebroussement 2 (Points of Inflection and Reflection 2), June 26 to September 14, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
As with many large-scale installation pieces, Marie- Josée Laframboise’s mixed-media sculptures must change somewhat to fit diverse gallery spaces. But rather than seeing the varied spaces as a limitation, Laframboise thrives on the opportunity to improvise a little. “Emerging out of a variety of themes and specific material qualities, these artworks enable me to outline, configure and capture Marie-Josee Laframboise, Points d’inflexion et de rebroussement 2. a given territory, whether concrete or conceptual,” she says. When the Southern Alberta Art Gallery hosts Points d’inflexion et de rebroussement 2 this summer, Laframboise will draw inspiration from a very concrete territory by incorporating the topography of Lethbridge into the installation. Using her trademark iridescent netting, Laframboise will offer her interpretation of the southern Alberta landscape based largely on the study of topographical maps. Constructed using everyday materials like paper, plastic containers, string, wire and, of course, netting, Laframboise’s works demand active participation from viewers, who are challenged to determine where the works begin and end and how to navigate through the room-dominating puzzles. “My last project used a net to create an abstraction containing elements that relate to physical and mathematical concepts,” says Laframboise. “The use of the net, which is associated with many different forms of space, is an approach of paramount importance to me at the moment.” — Amber Bowerman
Performative spaces have a grandiosity and presence unlike any other. Toronto- and Halifax-based artist Adrian Fish explores these rooms and their psychological complexities in his series Staged at Winnipeg’s Platform: Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts. Theatres around Toronto — the city where Fish received his Masters of Fine Arts from York University — are the focus of this series. His images present a host of architectural styles, and create distinct experiences that blend into a voyeuristic experience for the viewer. The camera is turned to the audience, putting the viewer in the position of performer. Void of an audience, the spaces that are captured in his largeformat photographs illustrate the giant internal gasp that performance creates. Adding to the dramatics of the photographs, Brian Joseph David’s audio piece Voice Over will be played in the space. David’s compilation of over 5,000 film tag lines — read by an actual voice over artist — gives the space an additional element of presence. Fish is interested in the environment that both silence and architecture can create together. The sprawling silent rows and corridors of the audience sections are centre stage in each image. He invites the viewer to look into the vacant chairs and balconies to experience the presence that the emptiness creates. — Stacey Abramson Represented by: Loop Gallery, Toronto; Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa. Adrian Fish, Staged (detail), CPrint, 2007.
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previews and profiles PAUL LAPOINTE SASKATCHEWAN: Return to Earth, July 4 to August 15, Hand Wave Gallery, Meacham
To hear Paul Lapointe describe it, he lives on the doorstep of the world’s best art supply store. His home in Batoche, Saskatchewan — where Louis Riel was defeated in 1885 — backs onto rolling parkland and provides him easy access to the banks of the South Saskatchewan River. It’s here the artist finds many of his supplies, from coarse bison hair to delicate hornet’s nests and ancient wood. Though his repertoire has grown over four decades to include wood etchings and sculpture, Lapointe’s roots are in painting. When he married in 1969 he told his bride he’d give up painting in five years if he wasn’t making money. “I’m not making money, but I’m still painting,” he says. Return to Earth focuses on sculptures made from natural materials gathered on daily walks. “Since I walk the Earth a lot I
The MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina will feature the work of Saskatoon painter Wally Dion June 7 to September 21. A member of the Yellow Quill First Nation, Dion’s work will encompass the portraiture of his Red Worker series, along with his Starblanket series of sculptural paintings incorporating computer hardware. PICTURED ABOVE: Wally Dion, Pipe Carrier, acrylic on canvas, 2006, 94" X 120".
BLAINE CAMPBELL BRITISH COLUMBIA: A Repurposed Architecture, April 18 to May 31, Republic Gallery, Vancouver
Paul Lapointe, Circle of Earth, cast paper pulp, quill, dyed wood, 2008.
wanted to play with those materials,” he says. Sounding every bit the reverent outdoorsman, Lapointe tells of Aboriginal pictograms painted onto rock using natural pigments in northern Saskatchewan. Christian missionaries who considered the images pagan once covered them with paint. The paint faded but the ancient art below was indelible, and that, says Lapointe — a self-described Luddite — is proof that everything we can do, nature can do better. — Amber Bowerman
A decision to drop out of the corporate world and enroll in Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design was the right one for Blaine Campbell, judging by the awards he’s won since graduating in 2007 — national award winner of the BMO 1st Art! Competition and Contemporary Arts Society of Vancouver emerging artist award). Campbell’s Republic Gallery exhibition focuses on his photo-based practice, though he also works in the inter-media and sculpture fields. Sometimes Campbell combines genres, as he did with his winning piece for the BMO 1st Art! competition, which fuses photographic and sculptural elements. A Repurposed Architecture consists of photographic work inspired by the contours of a building complex in Istanbul that Campbell visited in 2006. “The structure had gone through many different uses,” he says. “It started as a monastery, then became a prison, then it was used as a school and now it’s been donated to a local fine arts school.” Campbell says his art practice investigates the inherent properties of the photograph and its relation to the viewer, as well as landscape as a component of societal identity. “I’m taking these images and re-purposing them for the context of an exhibition and my own artistic intent. There’s also the appropriation of (these images of Islamic architecture) in Vancouver. And within the context of Vancouver itself, I’m juxtaposing images of an old space that is currently in a state of disrepair versus Vancouver, where many structures are new, modern and clean.” — Beverly Cramp Represented by: Republic Gallery, Vancouver
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The Vancouver Island-based painter and sculptor Ice Bear will open a show July 17 to 30 at the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria. Originally from the Georgian Bay area of Ontario, Ice Bear (aka Chris Johnson) is known on the West Coast for his large-scale public sculptures and murals…Toronto-based abstract painter Jordan Broadworth will be featured at Calgary’s Newzones Gallery May 10 to June 28. A finalist in the RBC Painting Competition in 2002, Broadworth’s canvases, awash in large gestural strokes and squeegee drips, are described by the gallery as “as much about the physicality of painting as the act of painting itself.” PICTURED ABOVE: Jordan Broadworth, Echo, oil on canvas, 2007, 21" X 22".
PHIL DARRAH ALBERTA: Representation, May 8 to 27, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton
Tragedy and travel in the late 1990s had a profound impact on the work of painter Phil Darrah. Following the death of his mother and a move south of Edmonton to an acreage at Mulhurst Bay, and in the midst of Phil Darrah, Trafalgar, acrylic on making preparations for a workingcanvas, 100.5" X 68.75". trip to Greece, Darrah sat back and took stock of his role as an abstract painter. The shifts in his work since — most notably from highly symbolic stripes, blocks and orbs to more literal landscapes — marked one leg of his artistic journey. In Representation, viewers will see where Darrah has journeyed next, though there’s little fear that he’ll have strayed too far from his abstract roots. “Ultimately I want my paintings to have poetic rather than literal references,” Darrah told the Edmonton Journal in 2005. “While it’s not important that viewers always get the references, it’s important for me that they are there.” Retired from teaching at the University of Alberta since 2003, Darrah has much more time to explore the shifts in his own work and surroundings. “For the first time I’m in the studio every day without too much distraction,” he told the Journal. “As one gets older you start to notice change, while before you were too busy fretting at the university with the arcane ideas of education.” — Amber Bowerman Represented by: Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton; Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna 36 Galleries West Summer 2008
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ALBERTA: Continuous and Unbroken, April 5 – May 25, Esplanade, Medicine Hat
BRITISH COLUMBIA: Magic, May 8 to 22, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
Like a twice-exposed photograph, Toronto artist Brenda Joy Lem’s silkscreen prints often feature many distinct images blended together in a haunting collage. Lem deftly overlays eastern villages with western landscapes, and historical clippings with contemporary images in an attempt to understand her identity as a third-generation Chinese-Canadian. “Imposing an Asian landscape onto an image of Moose Jaw is kind of like saying, ‘we were here,’” she says. The granddaughter of Yip Foo, one of the first Chinese immigrants in Moose Jaw, Lem bears witness to the world her grandparents and parents lived in. “I feel as though, on a spiritual dimension…I can be present for my mother’s childhood, carrying water in the fields,” Lem told Min Sook Lee, a Toronto filmmaker. The prints are accompanied by a video installation addressing the sexualization and stereotypes of Asian women. Viewers enter a small temple to watch images of Lem’s female ancestors, but must first remove their shoes and bow to fit through the narrow door. “It creates a respect and awareness,” says Lem. The exhibition features pieces from the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery collection and is curated by MJMAG’s Heather Smith. The Organization of Saskatchewan Art Councils will next tour the exhibition across Saskatchewan from June 2008 through 2010. — Amber Bowerman
Many different words have been used to describe the paintings and drawings of Duncan Regehr — figurative, representational, theatrical, and work that bends perspectives and stretches space. These are words that the artist himself isn’t necessarily comfortable with. “Certainly figurative,” he agrees but adds that he has worked in a variety of styles since he was a child, when he worked alongside his father, Peter Regehr, who was also an artist. “The focus on myth and transforma-
Represented by: Open Studio, Toronto Brenda Joy Lem, It Furthers One to Cross the Great Water, silkscreen on Stonehenge paper, 2006.
Duncan Regehr, Jinx, oil on canvas on panel, 30" X 24".
tion is really the key to this show,” says Regehr of his exhibition of 18 oils at Petley Jones Gallery. These new canvases are part of a larger body of work that Regehr has been creating since 2000 that concerns transformation. More precisely, this extended body of work is concerned with “illusion, the unknown, myth, the psyche and prestidigitation” to quote Regehr’s exact words. An actor as well as an artist, Regehr has played Zorro and a variety of heroes and arch villains. It should be no surprise his visual art deals with allusions and mythology too. “Notions of transformation have always been bleeding over the boundaries from theatre, film and painting.” — Beverly Cramp Represented by: Winchester Galleries, Victoria; Petley Jones, Vancouver; Sylvia White Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Bella Perla, Portland, OR www.gallerieswest.ca
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TERRY ISAAC
Terry Isaac, Wolf Song,
BRITISH COLUMBIA: New Works, Gallery 421, Kelowna
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Recently relocated from Oregon to Penticton, popular wildlife artist Terry Isaac has been inspired by the wild things he’s found in his new backyard. Featured at Gallery 421 in Kelowna, Isaac is a student of Robert Bateman and has tracked and studied wildlife all over the world. His intricate portraits of animals in their natural habitat have led to a thriving practice in prints, originals, and illustration, and as a teacher — he has published a series of popular books and DVDs on painting technique. Isaac is a particularly skilled painter of birds, capturing their difficult and delicate feather patterns in an almost photo-realistic detail. His new subjects, now that he’s made the move to the Okanagan, include birds and waterfowl indigenous to the region’s lakes, and he’s well-known in the area for his popular painting workshops. — By Jill Sawyer
this show as part of their Lab 7.5 series. PICTURED ABOVE: Brian Flynn,
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Nairac, carpet underlay, 2007.
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Through May 18, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria features Irish artist Brian Flynn, who uses a unique sculpting process to transform utilitarian carpet underlay into art. The work in this show is based on a specific event in the history of the Irish Republican Army — the assas-
LORNE BEUG DIETER SCHLATTER ALBERTA: May 10 to 26, Canada House Gallery, Banff
Like many young boys steeped in the mythology of the West, Swiss-born Dieter Schlatter wanted to be a cowboy. While he may not be riding the range, the self-taught painter instead developed the ethos of a cowboy poet, recording the juxtaposition of past and present and how it affects this western landscape. “I’m interested in history and how the landscape works into that and technology and nature, how we experience nature through technology,” says Schlatter. It would be easy to look at Schlatter’s many-layered, mixed-media paintings and say he is recording a lost world, given his use of historic maps and documents alongside black-and-white photographs of bison, the railway and cowboys, but B.C.-based Schlatter — also a filmmaker, chef and writer — does not see it that way. Instead, using his photographs and a striking palette of black, what he refers to as “violent” red and a rust coloured sienna, he is documenting the western landscape, without judgement or nostalgia. “I’m Dieter Schlatter, Chipman just saying how it is,” he says. “When I make Alberta #8 Showpiece, paintings of bison grazing around oil pump acrylic, canvas, photo jacks, that’s just how it is.” — Rob Alexander Represented by: Canada House Gallery, Banff
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The latest work by Regina-based artist Lorne Beug is a dreamy glimpse into a modern take on 18th and 19th century decorative wallpaper and panels. In the exhibition Unfolding Worlds: Night Gardens & Wonder Cabinets, Beug brings viewers into a fantastical garden setting through panels and papers. After becoming interested in the panoramic wallpapers made during these centuries, Beug created his own wallpaper, invoking Shakespearian descriptors and the buzzing beauty of a ripe garden in the moonlight. He starts with the idea of the paneled vistas and deconstructs them into paper, scroll and canvas panel works, producing a disjointed and contemporary take on the idea. Lorne Beug, Dragon Moon, Through his use of midnight shades archival inks on canvas, 46" X 45" juxtaposed with vivid greenery and (triptych), 2008. wildlife, Beug brings viewers into a world unlike any other. He has also created a series of poetic dioramas or “wonder cabinets.” Gilded trinkets are placed beside natural specimens such as minerals and apothecary jars of earthly elements. The cabinets also examine the categorical nature of humans to organize and display objects of curiosity in an anthropological manner. The combination of the two bodies of work in the exhibition creates a fanciful experience of escape and wonder. — Stacey Abramson Represented by: Nouveau Gallery, Regina
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What we saw at exhibitions in the West ALBERTA CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 2008 When: January 4 to 26, 2008 Where: Triangle Gallery, Calgary Reviewed by: Jennifer McVeigh
The title of this exhibition is a demanding one — imposing nearly impossible expectations. At a time when the definition of photography is being stretched to near disintegration by the use of digital technology, how can one show possibly address the wide spectrum of practices happening in the province today? How can the work selected represent a whole generation of artists? Fortunately, curators Arthur Nishimura and Hutch Hutchinson have taken the title as a jumpingoff point rather than a mandate. They have not attempted to squeeze a survey exhibition into the confines of the Triangle Gallery. Instead, each of the six artists has been given sufficient space for a series of images — a decision that helps illuminate each individual practice. Storytelling is a component in all the work on display, along with a sense of place. Whether urban or rural, landscape is a subject shared by five of the six artists. It’s as if most of the photographers have distilled narrative into its individual elements and chosen setting as the one to explore. Sarah Fuller’s images have the look of deserted film sets, ripe with potential stories. Open prairie crossed by power lines and a gravel road, a vintage jukebox in the corner of a bar, a hallway with chipped, yellowing paint and a pair of antlers fixed unceremoniously to the wall next to the bathrooms, an expansive diner booth upholstered in gold vinyl.
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Carol Sawyer, Borscht Belt, 2008, colour photograph
Devoid of people, these open rural spaces seem to be preserved from another era in the dry, clear light of the prairie. Like Fuller’s, Stacey Watson’s photographs are also vacant of human activity. Taken at a Swiss ski resort, it seems as if the season hasn’t quite started yet. The most poignant image is Zermatt Pool (2005). The dark interior of a vast building is lit only by shafts of sun from a skylight, gleaming on the white tiles of an empty swimming pool. Just visible on the surrounding walls, a colourful mural depicts the history of the resort, brimming with visitors. Tara Nicholson also captures a place where human activity and the natural landscape collide. Taken in an environmentally at-risk region of James Bay, the pictures document aspects of the landscape that are often cropped out of magazine images. Michael Coolidge’s black and white prints have the atmospheric look of early photographs made by the first tourists to the Rockies, but there is a strange, digital texture to the images, shots of his television screen, seen through a pinhole camera. This post-modern approach throws into question the traditional idea of our relationship to landscape, as well as the artist’s role in documenting it. Linh Ly’s photo-tapestry Schelling Points (2005) is the most formally experimental work in the show. Distinctly urban, it effectively captures the constant movement of New York City. Ly takes multiple images in quick succession, then arranges the 4" x 6" prints into long rows, stitching them onto a canvas backing. Each print is rolled and layered with hundreds of others so that slightly different aspects of each image are visible simultaneously. The effect mimics film or animation, bringing the photographs and the city to life. Mitch Kern has taken a completely different tack, choosing the element of character to tell his stories. His series Dreamers (2007) are head and shoulders portraits with plain white backgrounds. Each of the subjects has his or her eyes closed. Who are these people? What is their relationship to each other? These are some of the most challenging images of the show, asking viewers to complete a narrative based only on the assumptions they make about each person. www.gallerieswest.ca
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Vacant Lot January 1 to February 7, 2008 Republic Gallery, Vancouver Trace Ingredients, January 4 to September 15, 2008 Vancouver Public Library Main Branch Ann Rosenberg
Carol Sawyer’s photographs, videos, slide projections and sound installations linger in the mind long after they have been experienced. Although she is not currently as well known as Jeff Wall and his peers, in time her work will be judged to be among the best produced by Vancouver artists during the last two decades — it is always exquisitely wrought, strong in concept, poetic and leavened with a subtle sense of humour. Through mid September, several exhibitions of Sawyer’s current work have opened in Vancouver, her first since she installed a 2004 permanent installation called Tribute to the Cambie Works Yard. The recent Republic Gallery show Vacant Lot, a series of unpretentious photographs and a 15-minute accompanying DVD, drew spectators into the place that Sawyer makes so haunting in her work. The video, which was shot on a tripod in various locations around the site, appears to have been filmed by someone as patient, alert and expectant as a heron awaiting the flicker of a minnow. Several almost-square photographs and a single panorama document views into and out of a vacant lot surrounded by bramble-covered chain-link fence. Vancouverites will quickly recognize the subject — a large plot awaiting development near the old Canadian Pacific Railway Station. Sawyer’s sensitive archive pays tribute to transitional space. The Untitled photos in Vacant Lot invite unrestricted interpretation, yet in every image, the word “untitled” is followed by a single word that identifies one thing of significance in each piece — a puddle on a section of unused, broken sidewalk or the impromptu bench so artfully constructed out of bricks, wooden planks and concrete blocks. In an interview, Sawyer said “Vacant Lot could be thought of as a ‘free zone’, which is a rare luxury in downtown areas.” In this place where nothing is supposed to happen, “there are creatures’ foot prints, thickets where the homeless camp at night and evidence that a group of young teens are constantly arranging the available pieces of wood and concrete bricks to make ever-morechallenging skateboard circuits and ramps.” On the video, rotating advertising billboards turn, birds fly, and heavy rain falls into a huge puddle where the individual drops created ever-expanding overlapping circles in the surface of the pond. Among other works on view this year, three 20-foot-long banners were unfurled in Vancouver’s Main Public Library on January 4 as one component of her Trace Ingredients contribution to curator Karen Love’s Memory Palace: Three Artists in the Library. The banners depict stacks of books where the words on the spines read as concrete poems. And Borscht Belt is a book poem that will be part of the multimedia and performance show of the same name at the VPL. The “traces” in these works are not of tire tracks or birds’ footprints as they were in Vacant Lot but rather the constant stacking and unstacking, and the pursued and accidental learning that takes place in libraries.
PATRICK LANDSLEY Exhibition: When: Where: Reviewed by:
Time Lapse February 2 to 27, 2008 Winchester Galleries, Victoria Brian Grison
Born in Winnipeg in 1926, Patrick Landsley’s aesthetic developed within the formal concerns of late Cubism represented by the work of artists like Juan Gris and Ben Nicholson, but his paintings are more spontaneous than the modulations of space in Gris’ work, and his compositions are less cerebral than Nicholson’s. This solo exhibition of about 30 works is divided into two groups. Along with www.gallerieswest.ca
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19 plein-air drawings, mostly produced while Landsley was traveling, there are nine larger oil and acrylic paintings on Masonite panels, some with bas-relief collages, produced in his studio in Woodstock, Ontario between 1996 and 2006. While focusing on landscapes and architecture, the works meditate on the artist’s knowledge of art history, art practice and perception. The subject of the landscape Early Snow is a row of four snowfilled elm trees in front of a low wall, with a post to the left, drifts of snow stretching away to the left and right, a line of trees on the horizon and the moon in the upper right. This simple Patrick Landsley, Tree in Full Bloom, content, reduced to flat shapes, is 1959, ink and gouache, 17 3/8" X 14" set in a loosely drawn rectangle that floats against the 12" X 18" canvas, which itself doesn’t quite fit its backing panel. This subtle structure, somewhere between a window and bas-relief, is comprised of built-up and conceptual planes that also suggest perspective but little depth of field. Like the work of the early Cubists, the canvas’s pale blue grey, beige, grey-green, white and near-black both suggest and deny the third dimension. The paint is applied in a single flat layer with natural edges, and arbitrary tonal modulations are the result of the thin colour over the white ground. Landsley’s small drawings, many of them created on location, show the roots of his aesthetic and philosophic grounding in modernism. The drawings were created between 1960 and today in Greece, Tunisia, Turkey and Ontario. They suggest the spontaneity of travel sketches, but were created as potential source material for studio paintings, and are representative of his studio practice while traveling. The 2007 drawing Road to Methoni depicts a shift between two and three dimensions. Drawn in a fine pen and black ink line with brushed-in blue watercolour, it’s a view of four severely sculpted olive trees and a one-story building, with a horizontal foreshore, blue water, a distant shore and mountains beyond. As with Landsley’s paintings, each element in the drawing is clearly indicated and independent of the others, with no ambiguity. But unlike most of his paintings, the drawing depicts a greater exploration of the means of representation. While the olive trees are depicted as severely pruned, sculpted to encourage the growth of olives, Landsley’s careful pen line sculpts the trees to produce a heightened sense of the drawing itself as a kind of graphic sculpture. Patrick Landsley’s paintings and drawings are simultaneously for the eye and the mind — as the final centre of sensual experience — rather than the body and emotions. His work easily resides within a long history of painters-as-thinkers, all the way from Johannes Vermeer to Juan Gris to Ben Nicholson and Jacques de Tonnancour.
GEOFFREY FARMER When: February 8 to April 20, 2008 Where: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Reviewed by: Lorne Roberts
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In this mid-career survey show at the Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal, Vancouver-based artist Geoffrey Farmer welcomes viewers into the gallery with a yellow Post-it note stuck to the wall, and a simple message scrawled in pencil: “It’s not the work, it’s the worker.” It’s a quote from the influential 1970s site-specific artist Gordon Matta-Clark, one of many artists who has influenced Farmer, written on a piece of paper manufactured from a square cut out of the gallery’s floor. It introduces viewers to www.gallerieswest.ca
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Reviews the paradox that makes Farmer’s work so compelling. If it’s not the work, as we’re told, but the worker, then who were the anonymous millwrights who turned the gallery floor into pulp, and then into paper? How does their contribution compare to that of the artist himself? In the same way that the spirits of these anonymous workers populate the exhibition, so does Farmer endlessly hint at his own phantasmal presence. Take the works that sit outside the gallery space itself. Two of seven ghostly, faceless human figures that appear throughout the exhibit, the works are collectively titled I am by nature one and also many, dividing the single subject into many, and even opposing them as great and small, light and dark, and in ten thousand other ways. Using readymade objects including bed sheets, fright wigs, cardboard boxes, and a flourescent light bulb tube, Farmer creates figures that suggest the human form, while making little pretense of true resemblance, even as the title suggests they stand in for the artist, haunting the gallery in his absence. In a work like The Last Two Million Years, which Farmer first exhibited in a smaller form at The Drawing Room in London, England, in 2007, the artist has taken an entire copy of Reader’s Digest’s book of the same name, which rather ambitiously summed up all of human history in a single volume. Cutting out every single image that appeared in the book, Farmer then arranged them around the room on a series of plinths of varying heights and sizes, from dangerously underfoot to bumping up against the gallery’s ceiling. There is no Geoffrey Farmer, The Last Two Million evident order to the images, Years (detail), 2007, foamcore, Plexiglas, despite the numbering sysbook cutouts, adhesive tape, ink, watertem he applies to them. colour, pencil, dimensions variable As with many of the works in the exhibition, there’s a sense of the artist having taken a certain pleasure in skewering the aspirations of an ordered history, or of an ordered gallery. As curator Pierre Landry points out, had Farmer not had to leave MontrÊal to return home, it’s no stretch to imagine him back in the gallery daily, re-arranging The Last Two Million Years as the whim might strike him. The sense of the artist lurking around every corner is also suggested in a work like Ghost Face, in which he has replicated one of the giant white columns that runs through the entrance to the gallery. Cut into the hollow column are two eye holes, at exactly the height where Farmer’s eyes would be if he were standing there. At the bottom of the column is a small wooden platform, built to exactly the height that would allow Landry to also look out through the eye holes. Throughout this show, with vestiges of himself lingering in so many forms, Farmer brings us back repeatedly to Matta-Clark’s idea of the worker. And despite what might seem to be an overly conceptual framework, the raw and exuberant physicality of Farmer’s art provides us with a beautiful and imposing mystery, and a series of elusive ghosts. The result is a fascinating exhibition, one that solidifies his place among our country’s most important contemporary artists.
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KRISJANIS KAKTINS-GORSLINE Exhibition: When: Where:
Brandon Oh! March 6 to April 19, 2008 Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon Reviewed by: Stacey Abramson
Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline has been making a name for himself since heading to Columbia University two years ago to complete his graduate studies. His mix www.gallerieswest.ca
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Reviews of nightmarish figures in dreamy dripping hues garnered him plenty of attention while he was still in Winnipeg. Now he is snapping up solo and group exhibitions all over North America. His hometown of Brandon, Manitoba is fortunate enough to host his first solo exhibition in Canada. Each work in the show represents some facet or memory that Kaktins-Gorsline has of his hometown. While still in the style of his icy and swollen figures, the works in Brandon Oh! are a shift in aesthetic for him. The works read as an honest ode to this scenic prairie city, and it’s obvious that Kaktins-Gorsline has a deep love for Brandon. There is no sense of mockery or ego in the works. “Rather than seeing painting and memory as a means of preserving information, I was interested in the way that they change and distort information,” Kaktins-Gorsline says in his artist’s statement. He is not creating paintings from photographs of his past but rather from his personal spin on places and spaces that spoke to him in some way during his time in Brandon. He captures the compartmentalized moments and places from his past, which he plays with in his own way. It opens up a new world of memory where reality mixes with individuality to create exciting and new places of exploration. The works take viewers out of their comfort zones through his choppy painting techniques. Basement dens, dreary living spaces and yards are given a treatment which may at first appear to be dismal. But after looking at the whole body of work, it gives the viewer the impression that Kaktins-Gorsline is bringing a sense of familiarity to the images. Curator Amber Anderson refers to it as the “human experience”. While all viewers may not know of the locations and intimate spaces that are featured in the works, it is all very relatable on some level. Kaktins-Gorsline has a brilliant control over his medium, allowing stains to become beautiful and smears to become an organic part of the works. Drips of watery paint trickle down almost every canvas in the exhibition. The paint seeps over landscapes and buildings, oozing down to the lower edge of the frame. It creates a rich layered effect that summons the haziness of memory. The images are jagged and stuttered with panels of colour and texture. Trees in First looking north are suddenly cut off by thoughtful blocked smears of taupe. He uses blocks of grey, brown and green to differentiate between living and human-made materials in 212 Douglas. Brandon Oh! brings Kaktins-Gorsline’s now signature style of painting to a more personal level. The prairie connections he creates between his paintings will be familiar to many viewers regardless of his personal interpretation. The identifiers of colour, landscape and location clearly illustrate both his authentic and deep love of his medium and his subject matter. 44 Galleries West Summer 2008
ATTILA RICHARD LUKACS Exhibition:
Lily of the Valley, Still Life Paintings / Helen Lukacs, Garden When: February 16 to May 11, 2008 Where: Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Reviewed by: Douglas Maclean
Attila Richard Lukacs, Untitled (Hibiscus with Lizard), oil on canvas, 2007. Private collection
Krisjanis Kaktanis-Gorsline, This new era, 2007, oil on canvas
Eva Brandl, VALSE suite (another parcel of time), installation (detail), 2008, at the Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse
A couple of things to refresh the collective memory of Attila Richard Lukacs. He is a brilliant painter, as revealed in his work of the late 1980s into the early 1990s, in major exhibitions mounted by the Musée d’ art contemporain in Montréal, and Calgary’s Illingworth Kerr Gallery. At the time, his art dealer Diane Farris produced two important catalogues and many exhibitions of his challenging work. In all his paintings, the subjects were tough, but they had a strange beauty, subjects included. He painted skinheads, monkeys, fauna and flora. His brush interpreted each topic with aggression, energy and experimentation. When he left his home base in Canada in the late 1980s, he headed for Berlin. Arriving in New York in the late 90s, he began a project called Pony Boi, a conceptual mix of music and performance art, partially to exit the past and gain entry to the future. Thankfully, as the new millennium got underway, a re-evaluated Lukacs arrived back in Canada and started working again. I see the works in Lily of the Valley, a series of paintings based on the flowers in his mother, Helen’s garden, as part of a process of recovery. There is nothing like a mother’s garden to rebuild connections to family. The exhibition will puzzle many, but look at the works — Lukacs’s handling of paint, his subjects, the quiet notations of familiar Lukacs language. I see all these subtle things in the rich layering of deep umbers, the delicate touch in the lilies, the abstract control of paint that reveals realism. The clarity of a glass vase floating in space represents perfect form, and he uses words in the art, an element common to his painting, then and now. References to history abound in the paintings. Some of the works are more successful, some fall short and are mere images. The success is in the fluttering butterflies and crawling caterpillars that capture light and the organization of subject. My favourites are the lily paintings, not just in technique, but because of the story of how he got to them. After receiving a bouquet of lilies from his mother, he manipulated the title of his first painting into the word L.O.V.E. (Lily Of the VallEy). For viewers who miss the “old” Attila and are looking for reminders of the angst, check the painting Tondo with Fauna and Silver Helmet. It references Lukacs’s known history, examination of subjects and edginess. In the romantic Untitled (monkey with golden landscape), the gold surface attracts the eye, but a closer look reveals tears in the monkey’s eyes, www.gallerieswest.ca
Reviews and a magnifying glass reflecting the figure and small dog. Monkeys have been popular subjects for Lukacs since the late 80s. The tears of this monkey bring to mind a comment Lukacs made in 2001 when he was starting to move away from the subject: “ I killed the monkey”. Its still hanging around — look high on the walls for the two sconces. There’s no doubt the depth of the artist makes these paintings work. Stay tuned Attila Richard Lukacs has not left the studio yet.
EVA BRANDL Exhibition: When: Where: Reviewed by:
The Valse Suite (another parcel of time) March 20 to May 12, 2008 Yukon Arts Centre Gallery, Whitehorse Nicole Bauberger
In Eva Brandl’s Valse Suite, the viewer walks into space. Most of the installation’s pieces have gaps, holes, or pieces cut away, and conceptually it leaves space to wonder in. Brandl, born in Germany in 1951, lives and works in Montréal within an installation-based, European, minimalist aesthetic. For this Whitehorse show, she combines the work with Still points (of the turning world) from 2005. The Valse Suite, created in 2000, has three parts. Valse (les trous du ciel) sits in the middle of the floor like a gallery bench. A constellation of perfect circles perforates the oval aluminum. The viewer looks up at adjacent aluminum circles on the wall, pierced with snowflake shapes. Are the holes stars or snowflakes? Did the stars fall out of the sky? In English the title reads Waltz (holes in the sky). The table wears a skirt of floral printed fabric, seemingly old and delicate. It overlaps and joins with material that appears to be two-sided tape. Is this shoddy workmanship or a vulnerable gesture, contrasting with the cold metal surface and the perfect circles? The object falls between furniture and sculpture, and the viewer wonders whether or not to sit on it, or set something down on it. No no, we’re in an art gallery… In Ice Flowers, Fleurs de Glace, another part of the Suite, 18 snowflake-shapes laser cut from plate-sized aluminum disks scatter across the wall. The snowflakes reveal shadowed wall space. They might have been installed close enough to the wall to create a partly white, almost dimensional shape, or farther out to create interesting shadows. Instead, the artist has chosen a slightly frustrating middle ground. Is this frustration part of the intent? The third component of the Suite, La Cérémonie is a digital print, depicting a wrinkled hand proffering an antique off-white bowl seemingly filled with water. From a distance, the red pattern on the bowl seems random. Does its colour correspond to the skirt on Valse? On closer inspection, the red pattern is floral, but it’s a darker, bluer red than the skirt. The grey cement wall in the background matches the metal in the snowflakes and table. In Still points (of the turning world) the circle motif continues. Fifteen doubled layers of 2' X 3' paper occupy the place where two walls meet in a grid. A sheet of one-inch-grid flip chart paper with sharp-edged circles in gray periwinkle casein paint makes up each under layer. The three sizes of circles differ in diameter by millimeters. With a few larger graphite outlines of circles they are arranged without overlap within a larger pencil circle. Over this float sheets of vellum of the same size, with other, larger circles traced in red pencil. Long dressmakers’ pins with round white heads secure the top two corners, and cast shadows on the paper. These might be brainstorming drawings for the constellations in the top of the Valse table, but were created five years later, so does their reminiscence of pattern drafting along with the pins correspond to Valse’s skirt? This is a show of visual ensembles, but the correspondences may not mean anything. The periwinkle blue seems at odds with the grey aluminum — too close to contrast, but not matching. The artist’s statement consists of a series of communications so abstract as to mean nothing at all. It crescendos with a list of abstract nouns and noun phrases, lacking even a verb. Eyes skim over the text like oil trying to stick to water. The only substance I can find in the statement is the idea of “leaving room.” There is room in this exhibition, for a kind of wondering — something like looking up at the stars, or at snow falling on a winter night. www.gallerieswest.ca
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NEW PAINTING CHRIS FLODBERG, LISA WOOD AND DOUGAL GRAHAM ARE LOOKING AT CLASSIC SUBJECTS WITH A FRESH EYE
CHRIS FLODBERG For the past three years, Chris Flodberg has been juxtaposing still life and landscape to comment on the coexistence of guilt and pleasure, excess and ruin, in an oddly appealing way. Flodberg approaches his work from a strong interest in the history of painting — he sees himself as a traditionalist in a lot of ways. Without question, there is a strong connection to Northern European painting of the 16th and 17th centuries in Flodberg’s work, in particular the symbolic still life techniques of vanitas and memento mori. There is a seductive quality to Flodberg’s paint surface — the lush quality of the paint itself, the brushstrokes, the expressive gesture to the paint handling. “I love beautiful paintings,” he says. “I want to make my own versions of historical.” And yet, the content of these beautiful objects is in stark contrast to notions of beauty, which belies an underlying stench. Tables are laden with extravagant cakes, lobster, meat, fish, and other food items that seem far more repulsive than enticing. Sushi and Chris Flodberg dead fish cohabitate on a table surface, somewhere else a pig’s head, along with 46 Galleries West Summer 2008
assorted fruit and sickly sweet desserts, all served on fine china, crystal, and table linens. These things scream of decadence and excess, while the lavish tables themselves inhabit landscapes of ruined buildings and dismal industrial residue. Occasionally, grossly humorous additions emerge such as a giant squid or flying fish — essentially nature run amok. There is an implication that while we may wish to just enjoy the banquet, other irritating issues are always present. Symbolism is important to Flodberg. He began this series with a painting called Breakfast in America, depicting a distinctly western spread of food placed in front of downtown Baghdad. Flodberg became excited about the narrative potential of the multiple ways to set up tables against other backgrounds, as a vehicle to juxtapose different ideas. This body of work has been successful for him, leading to sales and exhibitions. Paradoxically, the works are a commodity for the very people the paintings’ content seeks to confront. Flodberg says that the Banquet Series has become “large, beautiful, old-looking paintings for rich people. The work has done well commercially, not the reason why I make it but a happy side effect. I find it tremendously ironic and humorous, that the paintings themselves represent elitism and consumption on the highest level — these beautifully framed big paintings go into big homes, and I think it’s so funny that the content is packaged in this way and is then being consumed. The ultimate destination for the work is the consumption processes that it critiques, disguised as a desirable object. In some ways, I’m surprised that they’ve sold www.gallerieswest.ca
OPPOSITE TOP: Chris Flodberg, Masters of Sea and Sky, oil on canvas, 2008, 4' X 4'. OPPOSITE LOWER: Chris Flodberg, Giant Squid, oil on canvas, 2007, 72" X 72". ABOVE: Chris Flodberg, Bathtub, oil on canvas, 2008, 36" X 38".
because it really does criticize a lifestyle.” Flodberg says that the Banquet Series is finished now. He included a triptych from the series in the 2007 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, at Edmonton’s Art Gallery of Alberta and the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff. Recollections of a Trip to Paris is a work that he thinks of as the final statement for this series. In fact, he asserts that the work “says everything that all of the other paintings say, but in the most eloquent way, and then that’s the end.” While Recollections of a Trip to Paris was the final statement in the Banquet Series, he considers a recent painting of a slaughtered tiger, Matter Laid to Rest, as a transitional piece enabling him to exit the body of work. He’s also made a physical change, moving away from Calgary to live in Ottawa. Matter Laid to Rest cries out for what he calls the “romantic” in art. “It’s a generational portrait of a mentor instructing a child to put down this clichéed symbol of romanticism. The physical world they live in is falling apart and dying, but it also symbolizes the destruction of our ideals — the death of beauty, romanticism, higher ideals.” The painting is not a new direction, but a terminating www.gallerieswest.ca
declaration. It is a personal work, but it’s also sociological and political. Though he’s ready to move on, Flodberg says there is a “temptation to parody myself” because the work has been so successful. He wants to return to some of the quieter, more introspective techniques he explored prior to the Banquet Series, a series whose works were “grand fabrications, tremendously artificial things pieced together.” Flodberg is seeking simplicity, and a return to the mundane and everyday. “A lot of my concerns right now are about painting,” he says. “I’m thinking less about subject matter and more about painting. I want to play with flatter paint applications, more about light and colour, returning to more autobiographical zen-like images of very simple things — my apartment, my cat. The current body of work is somehow dissatisfyingly unreal, I’m craving to create the luminosity of the real.” — Kay Burns Recently concluding a solo show at the Art Gallery of Calgary, Chris Flodberg’s work is represented by Master’s Gallery, Calgary.
LISA WOOD In her well-lit studio in a Point Douglas warehouse in Winnipeg, Lisa Wood has arranged the ten works of her new video and painting project in two horizontal rows, one above the other. The top row comprises five paintings of her mother, asleep. The row underneath is a series of sleeping selfportraits. The physiognomy is similar but the blankets are different, and the Galleries West Summer 2008 47
LEFT: Lisa Wood, Lisa Sleeping #3, oil on canvas, 2006, 14" X 18". MIDDLE: Lisa Wood, Mother’s Bed, oil on canvas, 2007, 30" X 40". RIGHT: Lisa Wood, Mother Sleeping #5, oil on canvas, 2006,14" X 18".
shadowed faces change direction and shape — squished in one, obscured by bed sheets in another. Two larger oils of empty beds complete the current project, with four of five rejected paintings on the floor. The physicality of sleep is still in evidence, but the green cast of the ten oil paintings, set against the black ground of the Lisa Wood supporting wall, is eerie and surprising. The subtle beauty of hushed pinks and glowing shadows are teased out of a limited palette, but they come with an undertone of menace. Portraiture has been a favoured approach in Wood’s figurative painting for the last few years, and she has distinguished herself as a painter of the body. She focused on the frontal view, and on the mother and daughter relationship, in Supernovas at The Winnipeg Art Gallery, curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan in 2006. More recently, she has turned her attention to small studies of the head in states of lassitude and reverie in Absorbed at Gallery 803, curated by Colin Zipp. These small works were done in oil, a preferred medium, on Mylar in an attempt to capture her love of luminosity. Wood is a graduate of the School of Art at the University of Manitoba. She spent a year in the Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art program with Calgarybased artist Aurora Landin. Since returning from Yale University, where she completed an MFA in painting, she has been showing her work locally and teaching part time at U of M while participating in group and solo shows. A new artist / new media grant from Winnipeg’s artist-run Video Pool allowed Wood to work with Dempsey to explore an interest in video. As a figurative painter, Wood is invested in researching the long-standing relationship between painting and photography. Using the night vision setting on her camera, Wood shot eight hours of continuous video of her 48 Galleries West Summer 2008
mother sleeping in her own bed. Then she set the video camera on herself. Night vision technology has been in use since the 1950s — the increased energy of electrons hitting a phosphor screen makes the phosphor glow. Green phosphor is used because the human eye can differentiate many shades of green, allowing for greater differentiation within the image. The technology and its images, associated with security surveillance and military operations, carry an undercurrent of violence and secrecy. Seeing in the dark, for Wood, was an exercise in stretching her limits and propelling her painting practice in new directions. Wood wanted to explore the relationships between video, video stills and painting. “Video is about time and capturing the moving image,” she says. “Painting pauses the action and distills it.” The selection of material for the paintings was based on a self-imposed rule. She originally planned on making 32 paintings, 16 of each subject. Every half hour of each eight-hour video, she froze an image and produced a video still that became the basis for a painting. Ten paintings into the process, with some rejected along the way, Wood decided she didn’t have to be so formulaic. Her plan is to show the paintings with the eight-hour video projections. The technical requirements for the sleeping series are like a master class in colour mixing. While night vision imagery is often broadcast on television in the context of war, for me the work is more reminiscent of ultrasound, and the warmth and emotion that usually accompanies in-utero imaging. Wood has tamed the aggressive edges of night vision’s results, and her skill with the paintbrush is much in evidence here. Unlike many amateur photographers, photography serves Wood as source material, while painting continues to assert its emotional connection to her. In Absorbed, Wood used digital technology to prepare compositions, freeing up her time and tightening up the edges and diagonals to pack in more tonal and dimensional shifts in shallower depths. Like any good rule breaker, Wood plays with scale and size. The night visions are 14" by 18", her favourite size. “It’s a presence small enough that it still has a preciouswww.gallerieswest.ca
ness to it,” she explains, but still leaves enough space to challenge her skills. With research that includes charcoal sketches of each sleeper’s empty bed, Wood has worked these up into two 30" by 40" canvases. They serve as pivot points, or chapter ends to the sleepers’ narrative. After photography’s invention in 1839, painters used the technology to assist in developing compositions, recording marvels of natural geography and characteristics of individual sitters. With photography’s easy ability to capture, document, and serve as an indexed trace of the world, painting set off on a course of modernist re-invention. Decades later, Wood is producing work animated by the new technology. A painter at heart, with forays into video, she is an unabashed fan of looking at painting locally and elsewhere. She took in the recent John Hartmann Cities exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and Eleanor Bond, Lucien Freud, and Jenny Saville are among her favourite painters. In the studio, her own work hovers, a spectacle of latent drama in repose. — Amy Karlinsky DOUGAL GRAHAM Meeting Dougal Graham for the first time recently in Vancouver’s Third Avenue Gallery, I realized he was the painter that dealer Michael Bjornson had told me about several years ago, the painter whose work had taken off in the late 90s in an unusual way. Graham was one half of a collaborative painting venture he founded with artist Sawan Yawnghwe. The collaboration, which migrated from Vancouver to Toronto to Tuscany, ended amicably, but its influence can still be seen in Graham’s new solo work. On large canvases bursting with teasing references, Graham’s paintings look like the work of a person with attention deficit disorder. More dense than the work he was doing with Yawnghwe, the paintings are familiar in the figures chosen, the non-stories they narrate, and the way the canvases are rendered. “The big distinction is that it was Sawan who painted the figures not me,” he says of the earlier work. “I’ve set a goal for myself now to paint the actors in the dramas I imagine. The co-production segment of my career www.gallerieswest.ca
ended amicably and with mutual agreement some months ago. As the saying goes, I’m moving on.” Graham and Yawnghwe met in Capilano College’s Studio Art Program in the early 1990s, and then attended the Emily Carr College of Art at the same time, graduating in 1993 and 1994. After finishing art school, Yawnghwe moved to Montreal, but when he came back to Vancouver for a few months in 1997 he shared space with Graham and they began to do collaborative drawings and paintings for fun. The arrangement came to an end when Yawnghwe left for Tuscany to work with artist and entrepreneur Heinrich Nicolaus. During the same period, Graham met Fabrice Marcolini of Art Core gallery in Toronto. The association went so well that Graham invited Yawnghwe to join him in Toronto, producing eight or nine canvases in 1998. Marcolini became their principal dealer. From there, both painters were invited to Tuscany by Heinrich Nicolaus to create an ambitious art-centred project called Dormicelab, which would ultimately produce its own post-industrial-age manifesto, have its own logo and create music and multi-media events. Graham describes the work they created in Italy. “Generally speaking, Sawan worked on the first layer, which often included paintings based on photographs I selected from fashion magazines and other sources. I supplied much of the in-fill background of interiors and art-references, then Heinrich worked on the top layer. Other touches were added by any or all until the piece was declared finished or ready to show.” Forward to 2008, and Graham’s solo work is intentionally designed to appear impulsive in composition, and Dougal Graham filled with visual and verbal fragments that touch on subjects from the weighty Galleries West Summer 2008 49
to the trivial. I enquired first about the meaning of the snake-like creatures that appeared to be important symbols in the piece. The title it must be warm referred to instructions for pet snake enthusiasts, but it was also an allusion to the Earth’s climate change. According to the painter, the snake references also come from a fable that blames the woes of the universe on mythical Lizard Men. The women that often occupy the foregrounds of Grahams paintings are taking part in imaginary scenarios. They look like familiar icons from the pages of North American entertainment or fashion magazines, but he’s actually taken their faces from European sources. For Graham, Russian models are best “because they have great cheekbones and nobody here knows (or cares) who they are.” In this scene, the babes from wherever loll about doing whatever. It’s up to us to full in the blanks, but the latent familiarity of their faces, bodies, and poses is always there. Like Graham, I am also a pursuer of pop culture, and a TV bottom feeder who gets a bang out of the narcissism and shallowness of Top Model and the ridiculousness of shows like Big Brother. Although a generation apart, we are plugged into the same information networks via internet and other media. I had no difficulty getting the serio-comic message of Graham’s art. It roughly translates as, we’re all going down together, so why not enjoy the small stuff that surrounds us. In the 1999 catalogue for a Graham / Yawnghwe show, the artists summed up a few of their influences: “Our paintings come from the pages of magazines, advertising, television and film. This mode of expression is very familiar to us, we soak it in. Then something so familiar becomes new strange and beautiful.” — Ann Rosenberg Represented by Third Avenue Gallery (formerly Bjornson Kajiwara), Dougal Graham will have a solo show there in June.
TOP: Dougal Graham, Dear the RCMP, watercolour and pen and ink on rag paper, 30" X 22". ABOVE: Dougal Graham, It must be warm, oil on canvas, 60" X 80". RIGHT: Dougal Graham, the watershed, watercolour and pen and ink on rag paper, 30" X 22".
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Daphne Odjig, From Mother Earth Flows the River of Life, 1973, Canadian Museum of Civilization Collection, Gatineau, Quebec.
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Behind the auditorium of Laurentian University in Sudbury, a gravel road cuts through the rocks and foliage of the Canadian Shield. Sealed bags dot the natural canvas of the outdoors at random intervals. Huddled for warmth and shelter from the rain and night chill a committed crowd waits expectantly for Rebecca Belmore’s performance tribute to Daphne Odjig. A car speeds through, stopping on a grassy pitch, the car’s brights go on and the story begins. Breathing, at first soft, escalates to panting as Belmore reenacts the journey in the painting From Mother Earth Flows the River of Life (1973). She rips open a sack, kneels, and in broad circular swipes, merges the red sand with the wet ground. It becomes a struggle, a labour, a ritual, and a metaphor... the layers of crimson mirroring Odjig’s own ripples through the history of Canadian art. At the finish, an exhausted but triumphant Belmore, soaked in red, reaches the car and embraces Odjig, the grandmother of the Woodland School.
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The previous night had been a quite different scene. At the Art Gallery Gevik, Toronto Gallery of Sudbury (AGS), after ceremonies and speeches under a tent outside, Odjig was seated inside the Gallery’s Tudor-style mansion, greeting people and signing books. Gracious, considerate, attentive, and regal, she acknowledged tributes and gifts of all kinds, while guests took in the show, a remarkable retrospective of Odjig’s drawings and paintings, curated by Bonnie Devine and hosted by the AGS, in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada that opened last September. It was the first time that the artist had reconnected with the full span of more than 40 years of work. In the catalogue copy for Norval Morrisseau and the Emergence of the Image Makers (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1984), Elizabeth McLuhan and Tom Hill perceptively wrote about the petroglyphs and pictographs that were the basis of the X-ray style that seeped into the Canadian art market through the 1960s. Triggered by Morrisseau’s 1962 sell-out show at the Pollock Gallery in Toronto, a new awareness of the imagery, myths, legends, and iconography of Woodland art began to be appreciated by collectors. Although rooted and working in this direction, Odjig was not drawn into the vortex of commercialism. In Winnipeg, she worked on developing her own style (The River of Life is a good example of work she was doing in that period) and created a group called The Professional Indian Artists Inc. to market images. Reasonably priced, they were sometimes original, sometimes numbered, sometimes unlimited edition expressions of Native life, tradition, and belief. The collaboration provided Aboriginal artists with a sounding board for ideas, strategies, possibilities, and styles that richly watered the seeds of creativity. Odjig had reconnected with her 1919 birthplace, community, and culture in 1964 on Manitoulin Island in Ontario while attending a pow wow. She returned in the early 1970s to mentor emerging artists while her own practice continued to grow, bringing her important commissions and participation in group and solo shows. The triptych Roots (1979) traces Odjig’s youth and early years, reflecting on the stories she soaked up from her grandfather while she adapted to life in Toronto, away from home. It is a more personal echo of The Indian in Transition, (1978) commissioned two years earlier and now in the collection of the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec. The point is that this artist was always working on her own development as Daphne Odjig, Harmony and the Universe, 1986, Phillip Gevik,
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she nurtured a new way of creating art — assimilating, incorporating, and internalizing legends and oral histories, attending carefully to personal growth and feeding her own spirit. Organized by Devine to accompany Odjig’s retrospective in Sudbury, an in-depth symposium on Woodland art called Witness justly honoured and defined her contributions to our collective cultural community. Among other topics, the presenters addressed the roots of collaborations between artists that took place in the late 1960s and 70s in Winnipeg, comparative history — a talk by curator Greg Hill on the Morrisseau show at the National Gallery, and a look ahead at work by emerging artists. In everything, the lingering brush of Odjig’s work and influence is apparent. At the retrospective show, each of the works evokes a visceral response — it may be from the fluidity of her line, so organic it invites the viewer into the picture. It may be the graphic intensity she uses to address any subject, or it may be the colour. For the viewer, it is likely all these elements in combination. The art speaks with passion and honesty about history, legends, eroticism, ritual, and Odjig’s own life. At the Kamloops Art Gallery this summer, The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig will showcase works that are in public and private collections, mostly in Ontario, Manitoba and Quebec. Among the unusual works exhibited are the sexual but legend-based original paintings from Odjig’s illustration of the 1974 book Tales from the Smokehouse, and L’Amour Fou (1986), which references Picasso’s influence on her work. In it, ironic references are made to the famous cubist sense of space, and influences from African art, while exemplifying the artist’s fluid re-appropriation of line and imagery. Odjig holds the brush, and the cycle continues. The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig will be at The Kamloops Art Gallery June 8 to August 31, 2008. The show is organized by the Art Gallery of Sudbury and toured by the National Gallery of Canada. Daphne Odjig is represented by Hampton Gallery, Kamloops; Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna; the Bearclaw Gallery, Edmonton; The Wah-sa Gallery, Winnipeg; Gallery Gevik, Toronto; Gallery Phillip, Don Mills; and Whetung Ojibwa Centre, Curve Lake. Marlene Milne works freelance in the arts, and is currently updating credentials at the University of Winnipeg. She writes for publications including Galleries West and conunDrum. www.gallerieswest.ca
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WITH KRAZY! THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY DRAWS A LINE BETWEEN COMICS, CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY ART BY JILL SAWYER
When the Vancouver Art Gallery opens Krazy! on May 17, the gallery will take a giant leap over the line that still sits between contemporary art and visual culture. Conventional wisdom puts painting, fine art photography, even installation on one side, and on the other the colour-saturated, Will Wright, Spore [creature render]. fast-moving pop wallpaper that surrounds all of us — comic books, animation, and Developed by Maxis and published by Electronic video games. The show is a fantasy catalogue of one hundred years of pop culture Arts, 2008. Microsoft Windows computer touchstones, from the endearing early animated films of illustrator Winsor McCay game. SPORE™ © 2006 Electronic Arts Inc. to the social relevancy of Chris Ware’s meticulous strips. Co-curated by the VAG’s senior curator Bruce Grenville, with artists Seth and Art Spiegelman, animator Tim Johnson, cultural critics Kiyoshi Kusumi and Toshiya Ueno, and game designer Will Wright, Krazy! combines a multitude of media and historical documentation, combined into a dynamic survey of past, present and future. Galleries West asked Grenville for his take on some of the show’s top talent.
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Harvey Kurtzman >> In one cinematic panel after another, the mid-20th-century mad-genius comic artist and editor Kurtzman managed to recreate a medium that had gone primarily to pulp. In the midst of the heated comic book competition of post-WW Harvey Kurtzman, Corpse on the Imjin [1st page, final II, Kurtzman landed on the life raft of William drawing], 1952, pen and Gaines’ EC Comics, where he master-minded ink with coloured pencil and series of horror, sci-fi and war titles before opaque white on paper. going on to create and edit Gaines’ Mad magazine in his own image. These Korean War- Collection of Glenn Bray. Corpse on the Imjin material themed panels typically pare a complex story into an accessible, immediate visual style. reproduced with the permission of William M. Gaines, Agent, Inc
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BRUCE GRENVILLE: Reading Corpse on the Imjin, you realize how your point of view shifts, from the U.S. soldier to the Korean soldier, how the composition heats up and then dissipates. It’s a powerful anti-war statement, beautifully composed. Kurtzman really brought comics into their mature phase. As an editor, he taught other artists about narrative, even in his satirical themes.
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The familiar, mid-century masculine world of the Guelph-dwelling artist and author Seth has permeated illustration, graphic novels, and book design, starting with his Seth, George Sprott (1894 – first serial comic, Palookaville. Often 1975) – Chapter 13. Published highlighted in a single colour, his panels in The New York Times reflect whole universes of imaginary / Magazine, January 7, 2007. ordinary life, bringing back an idealized past that may have never really existed. George Sprott (1894 – 1975), originally created for The New York Times Magazine, perfectly distills Seth’s interest in elaborately detailing the lives of seemingly regular, if old-fashioned, people.
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BG: Seth has an international reputation as one of the great comic artists, but at the same time, he’s an incredible historian, and has done a huge amount of research into forgotten Canadian comics. His stories are often located in southwestern Ontario, but I never feel their meaning is limited to that place. His work has an indeterminate temporal feel to it. It’s an everyman quality, but surprisingly specific to a time and place if you happen to know Guelph. Galleries West Summer 2008 57
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One of multitudes of artist/authors toiling 24/7 in the manga studios of Japan, Okazaki got a taste OKAZAKI, GONZO. of worldwide fame when his obscure serial, Afro Samurai, was picked up by producer GONZO and made into a TV series, with title character voice work by Samuel L. Jackson, and a soundtrack by the Wu Tang Clan’s RZA. Afforded Takashi Okazaki, Afro Samurai [manga], 2008. © TAKASHI
instant cred and a growing international audience, this classic modern quest tale lives on in anime, manga, and video game format. BG: Afro Samurai is something very strange. It has a samurai theme, with robots and rocket launchers, and is incredibly violent. It was originally published in a tiny, avant-garde, underground magazine, and (co-curator) Toshiya Ueno was interested in the fact that it established its mature form in a niche market in the U.S., and then returned to Japan as a hit.
<< Art Spiegelman
PHOTO: TREVOR MILS, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY.
Revolutionizing the concept of the “graphic novel”, and in turn, the concept of comics themselves, Spiegelman’s groundbreaking Maus series remains one of the greatest tellings of the Art Spiegelman, Maus [page personal experience of the Holocaust. A memoir 1, final drawing], 1972, ink and intimate family story set against a brutal true and Zipatone on Bristol board. history, Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. A Collection of the artist. giant in the world of underground comics in the 1970s and 80s — he co-founded the serial anthology Raw - Spiegelman chronicled another dark moment in recent history with his 2004 personal / political graphic take on September 11, In the Shadow of No Towers. BG: In the 1970s, Art was interested in experimenting with the form and content of comics, thinking about appropriate ways to represent content, and reconfiguring them so they weren’t just seen as a pulp medium with absurd narratives. Maus was a bit of a surprise even to him, and he wondered about the viability of it, but Maus, as an autobiographical narrative, is a very articulate, powerful story. Maus seems to be told in exactly the right way — and this is when comics are at their best. 58 Galleries West Summer 2008
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Chris Ware>> Author and illustrator of a mass of new-nostalgic ephemera, including the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan and the Acme Library of Novelty, Chris Ware, Building Stories – September 23, 2000, Page 3. Ware’s work can often Published in The New be found in the pages York Times Magazine, of highbrow magazines October 10, 2002. like The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. In fact, the Ware pieces chosen for the show are from these very magazines. They include a Thanksgiving-themed panel from The New Yorker that Art Spiegelman calls “maybe the richest and most complex single page of comics ever made.”
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BG: Building Stories doesn’t have a clean narrative thread, it’s more a study of what happens when a building itself becomes a character. Chris is interested in finding ways to reconfigure comics. He’s restless in the medium. He’s like a Duchamp let loose in the world of comics – he wants to reconceptualize them without the conventional narrative arc.
<< Winsor McCay Best-known for his lush, early-20th-century serialized newspaper strip Little Nemo, McCay also made groundbreaking contributions to the earliest days Winsor McCay, Gertie the of animated filmmaking. For KraDinosaur [no. 310, production zy!, co-curator Tim Johnson chose drawing], 1914, ink on rice a 1914 animated film of McCay’s paper. Woody Gelman popular character, Gertie the DiCollection, The Ohio State nosaur, who began her career as Cartoon Research Library. part of the artist’s vaudeville act, interacting with him onstage in a remarkably prescient mix of live action and animation.
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BG: We have drawings in the show that are dated from as early as 1909, and the film that came out in 1914 — around the same time McCay was drawing Nemo, and you can tell it’s the same guy, who just wants to tell a magical story. The film is incredibly inventive, with a melding of the real world and the animated world. It’s a remarkable, sweet, elegant film, and you have to conceive of the fact that he created more than 10,000 drawings for it – this was in the days before cel animation. It’s stunning just to see what a computational tour de force it is. Galleries West Summer 2008 59
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PHOTO: EDUARDO CALDERON. © ESTATE OF ROY LICHTENSTEIN / SODRAC (2008).
The best-known of the Pop artists of the 1960s, Lichtenstein’s work provides the boldest line between comics and contemporary art. Roy Lichtenstein, Vicki! I-I Obviously influenced by the Thought I Heard Your Voice!, worlds of comic books and 1964, enamel on steel, 106.7" advertising, one of Lichtenstein’s X 106.7". Private Collection. aims was to present pop culture images filtered through the opinionated eye of the media, rather than as straight reproduction. There’s a whimsical quality to his mimicking the dot-pattern technique of press production in his painting, and Lichtenstein’s judicious choice of subject matter keeps the works relevant almost 50 years after they were created. BG: I really struggled with putting this work in the show. The comic community is still very critical of its appropriation, but Lichtenstein clearly had an incredible respect for the dynamic compositional elements of comic art, and the sheer beauty of the design. To me, this work is all about the exchange of glances between the viewer, the artist, and the subject. It’s about culture reflecting back at itself.
Raymond Pettibon>> A Los Angeles native steeped in the underground glamour of that city’s punk scene, Pettibon’s artwork touches on comic style as it ranges between painting, graphic design, Raymond Pettibon, No Title music and video. He started in the late (True Crime comics), 1982, ink 1970s with an experiment in linear comic and coloured pencil on paper. art in a ‘zine he published called Captive Courtesy Regen Projects, Chains. The ‘zine quickly devolved into Los Angeles, CA. an explosion of mixed styles, obscure references, sex, violence and sports. Since then, he’s gone on to critically acclaimed solo and group shows in prestigious galleries, and has had his work absorbed into the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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BG: Pettibon drew on his personal links to punk culture (his brother was a member of Black Flag) and the underground comic scene to explore and redefine the medium. The result was a hybrid drawing style that easily moved from the page to the wall and back again. In the early works that we’re showing, you can see his interest in pushing beyond the conventions of both the comic and of visual art. Krazy! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art is on at the Vancouver Art Gallery from May 17 to September 17, 2008. 60 Galleries West Summer 2008
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Artist Champagne Reception: June 18 5 – 7pm The Sidney Pier Hotel & Spa Atrium
Artist Reception: July 6 1 – 4pm | Main Street Gallery Artist Dinner: July 17 6:30 – 9pm $65* | Sallas Room
Chris Paul’s bold, contemporary images are intuitively executed and reflect the profoundly rich culture and heritage of the Coast Salish people. His newest collection of work showcases a variety of mediums and techniques, including glass, metal, wood, and prints.
Using his loose, trademark style and an eclectic sense of humour to create some of the most iconic imagery, Jimmy Wright’s first solo exhibit in 6 years promises to be a showcase of new and striking mixed media paintings, continuing his celebrated creations of daring simplicity.
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TWISTING NATURAL PROCESS INTO FINE ART, THIS WINNIPEG-BASED MASTER ARTIST ELEVATES EVERYDAY OBJECTS
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The newspaper headlines, predictably playful, talk about her “cooking up a honey of a show” or “minding her own beeswax.” With help from swarms of honeybees, veteran Winnipeg artist Aganetha Dyck makes provocative sculpture and mixed-media installations that explore how knowledge is transmitted between humans and other species. “I have millions of collaborators,” she says with a laugh. “I look after them well.” Dyck has been sculpting and drawing collaboratively with honeybees for about 18 years. The process, which can take years to complete, involves placing a foreign object such as a shoe, skate or football helmet inside a beehive and waiting to see what the bees will make of it. The wax-covered forms that emerge from this unorthodox technique are always surprising. “They remind us that we and our constructions are temporary in relation to the lifespan of earth and the processes of nature,” writes Victoria curator Cathi Charles Wherry. “This raises ideas about our shared vulnerability, while at the same time elevating the ordinariness of our humanity.” Before starting her bee-assisted artwork in 1991, Dyck used other unconventional approaches to making art — shrinking laundry and frying buttons to turn the routines of housework into metaphors for creative process and a woman’s interior life. A late starter as an artist, she experimented with several different forms before finding her voice. Dyck doesn’t recall having much interest in making art as a child, growing up in a Mennonite family in Marquette, a hamlet 50 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. She did, however, have a passion for interior decorating. “We had to clean the house every Friday, and I would redecorate the two-room log house where we lived,” she said in an interview with Border Crossings magazine. “But how much interior decorating can you do in a log cabin? I was pretty limited.” Raised to believe that the ultimate destiny for a young woman was to marry well, she worked after high school as a business machine operator until she met a department store employee named Peter Dyck. They married when they were both 20, and raised three children. In 1972, when Aganetha was 35, she moved with her family to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where Peter had been appointed manager of the local Eaton’s department store. A couple of years later, she became a volunteer at the Art Gallery of Prince Albert. As what she calls a “corporate wife,” she was expected to do some volunteer work, and she chose to spend her volunteer time cooking meals and providing car rides for visiting artists. “From the beginning I knew I belonged,” she says. In 1975, Dyck began to break out of the social mold that shaped the lives of middleclass women of her generation. She enrolled in the local community college, took weaving courses from fabric artist Margaret Van Walshem, and studied drawing with George Glenn, a painter with a master’s degree in fine arts. He told her she should forget about drawing mountain scenes and create art from where she came from, and what she thought about. “But I’m a homemaker. All I know is housework,” she said. “Then make art from that,” he replied. Initially, Dyck thought Glenn’s Left: Aganetha Dyck in her Winnipeg studio. advice was worthless. But she did start using Top: Shrunken sweaters from Aganetha Dyck’s housework techniques to make sculpture. Sizes 8 - 46 series. She crocheted with bits of copper wire and Galleries West Summer 2008 63
see then that the bees were natural sculptors,” she says. “I knew I wanted to collaborate with them.” Lower left: Hockey mask with beeswax, Working with beekeeper Phil from the series Sports Night in Canada. Veldhuis, Dyck produced installations such as The Library: Inner/ Outer, which featured a collection of beeswax-coated handbags that she transformed into book-like objects by slicing into them with a sharp knife. “Her ‘books’ record history in a way that bridges traditional notions of written and oral history,” wrote Joan Borsa in the catalogue essay for a 1991 Canadian touring exhibition featuring the installation. “She embellishes the historical records with memories, associations and emphases that carry a particular voice, a particular location.” Dyck has learned many things from bees since she started working with them: “Patience, respect, play and, of course work.” The bees have also turned her into an amateur biologist and environmentalist. “They say that 30 to 50 percent of the world’s edible crops are pollinated by bees,” she says. “If they are endangered, so are we.” Her research work has included residencies with beekeepers and entomologists in England, France and the Netherlands, and she has been featured on David Suzuki’s CBC television show, The Nature of Things. Her concern for the disappearance of honeybees in the wild has led to her handing out flower seeds to her studio visitors, hoping this will result in new nectar sources. “The bees will be around a long time after we’re gone,” she says. Dyck’s installations have been featured in indoor and outdoor exhibitions in Europe and the United States as well as across Canada. In February 2007, she was given Manitoba’s $30,000 Arts Award of Distinction both for her arts community involvement as a gallery board member and mentor to emerging artists, as well as for her achievements as an artist. In March 2007, she won a $25,000 Governor General’s Visual and Media Arts Award. “It’s an affirmation of my career,” she said. “I’m honoured.” Now 70, Dyck remains busy with her bee work and other installations, frequently assisted by members of her family. Husband Peter, who she refers to affectionately as “my full-time assistant — whenever I need assistance,” is spending his retirement years documenting her creative efforts through photography, accompanying her to exhibitions, and helping with installations. Eldest son Richard, an artist in his own right, collaborates with Aganetha by making soundscapes and digital scans of beehive interiors. Daughter Deborah looks after her website. Younger son Michael, also a computer whiz, keeps her up-to-date on bee-related activity in Europe and elsewhere. “We’re a very close-knit family,” she says. “They always come and help out when I need assistance at the apiary.” Current and upcoming Dyck projects include a residency at the Prince Albert Art Gallery where it all started for her in 1974. She has exhibitions planned at Waterloo, Ontario’s Canadian Clay and Glass Museum (June 15 to September 14, 2008) and the University of Saskatchewan’s Kenderdine Art Gallery (October 2008), plus a five-year virtual exhibition presented on-line by Calgary’s Glenbow Museum. Left: Aganetha Dyck, Hive Scan, photo
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rope, and took the finished sculptures to Glenn to see what worked and what didn’t. “I knew I had a voice but I didn’t know what it was,” she says. She found it when a friend accidentally shrank a sheep fleece that Dyck planned to use for a weaving project. “She phoned me and said she was very sorry, but the fleece was stuck in her washing machine and she couldn’t get it out,” Dyck told Border Crossings. “I jumped in the car, took my knife and scissors, and cut it out. It was really gorgeous; it was shaped like the agitator. And it was just as hard as a rock. I was very excited.” Encouraged by the result, Dyck tried the same technique on some castoff woollen sweaters. She collected more than 600 of them from friends and the Salvation Army, turned them into felt by shrinking them in her washing machine, and arranged the shrunken objects so they looked like clusters of people. This marked the start of her ensuing artistic journey, transforming everyday objects into otherworldly creations by using techniques derived from housework. A visiting curator from Regina’s MacKenzie Art Gallery, Carol Phillips, saw Dyck’s work and organized a solo show for her in 1976. The same year, Dyck’s husband was transferred back to Winnipeg, where she rented a studio in an old warehouse formerly occupied by a button manufacturer. Dyck bought the leftover stock for $500 and began to experiment, alternatively deep-frying, boiling, baking and finally canning the plastic and fabric buttons. Floating in the mason jars like rotting relics, the transformed buttons, rendered useless by her creative act, suggested a tension between preservation and decay. A chance 1990 discovery at a Winnipeg apiary led to Dyck’s use of beeswax in her art. The apiary had a sign on the wall — “Bee-Made Honey” — that seemed to be carved in honeycomb but was, in fact, made from a mold the beekeeper had inserted in the hive. “I could 64 Galleries West Summer 2008
Dyck is represented regularly by Michael Gibson Gallery in London, Ontario. Brian Brennan is a Calgary author and journalist whose profiles of Western Canada’s distinguished senior artists appear regularly in Galleries West. His latest book is How the West was Written: The Life & Times of James H. Gray. www.gallerieswest.ca
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GALLERY SOURCES Your guide to more than 450 fine art galleries in Western Canada For more information, send your request by email to freelistings@gallerieswest.ca ALBERTA INDEX Banff.................................................................66 Black Diamond ..................................................66 Blairmore ..........................................................66 Bragg Creek ......................................................66 Calgary .............................................................66 Camrose ...........................................................72 Canmore ...........................................................72 Cochrane ..........................................................74 Crowsnest Pass..................................................74 Didsbury ...........................................................74 Donalda ............................................................74 Drumheller ........................................................74 Edmonton.........................................................74 Fort MacLeod ....................................................76 Fort McMurray ..................................................76 Grande Prairie ...................................................76 High River ........................................................ 78 Jasper ...............................................................78 Kananaskis Country ...........................................78 Lacombe ...........................................................78 Lethbridge ........................................................78 Medicine Hat ....................................................78 Okotoks ............................................................78 Red Deer ...........................................................79 Rosebud ...........................................................79 Waterton ..........................................................79 Wetaskiwin .......................................................79 Wildwood .........................................................79 BRITISH COLUMBIA INDEX Abbotsford .......................................................79 Bowen Island ....................................................79 Cherryville .........................................................79 Comox ..............................................................79 Coombs ............................................................79 Courtenay .........................................................79 Duncan .............................................................80 Galiano Island....................................................80 Golden..............................................................80 Grand Forks ......................................................80 Invermere..........................................................80 Kamloops..........................................................80 Kelowna............................................................80 Kimberley ..........................................................81 Nanaimo ...........................................................81 Nelson ..............................................................81 Oliver ................................................................81 Parksville ...........................................................81 Penticton ..........................................................81 Prince George ...................................................82 Qualicum Bay/Beach..........................................82 Salmon Arm......................................................82 Salt Spring Island ..............................................82 Sechelt ..............................................................82 Sidney...............................................................82 Silver Star Mountain ..........................................83 Tofino ...............................................................83 Vancouver.........................................................83 Vernon..............................................................88 Victoria .............................................................88 Whistler ............................................................90 MANITOBA INDEX Brandon............................................................90 Churchill ...........................................................90 Gimli.................................................................91 Portage La Prairie ..............................................91 Winnipeg ..........................................................91 Winnipeg Beach ................................................92 SASKATCHEWAN INDEX Assiniboia .........................................................92 Estevan .............................................................92 Lumsden ...........................................................92 Meacham .........................................................92 Melville .............................................................92 Moose Jaw........................................................92 North Battleford ................................................92 Prince Albert .....................................................92 Regina ..............................................................92 Saskatoon .........................................................93 Swift Current ....................................................93 Yorkton .............................................................93 NORTHERN TERRITORIES INDEX Dawson City......................................................93 Inuvik................................................................93 Whitehorse .......................................................93 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ALBERTA GALLERIES BANFF Commercial Galleries ABOUT CANADA GALLERY 105 Banff Ave (PO Box 1507), Banff, AB T1L 1B4 T. 403-760-2996 F. 403-760-3075
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Toll Free: 800-760-9872 info@aboutcanada.ca www.aboutcanada.ca About Canada recently extended its fine art gallery area. Specializing in authentic Canadian art, sculpture, jewellery and giftware the extended gallery provides the opportunity to offer the stunning original works of local photographers Bruno Engler and Doug Leighton, the bold modern oil paintings of Mark Sharp and the captivating watercolours of Thep Thavonsouk. Daily 10 am - 9 pm. CANADA HOUSE GALLERY PO Box 1570, 201 Bear St, Banff, AB T1L 1B5 T. 403-762-3757 F. 403-762-8052 Toll Free: 800-419-1298 info@canadahouse.com www.canadahouse.com A Banff destination since 1974, just a short drive from Calgary. This friendly and fresh gallery represents a large collection of current Canadian art — paintings and sculpture from Canada’s best landscape, contemporary and Native artists. Check website for daily updates. Member of Art Dealers Association of Canada. Open daily.
www.whyte.org Located on a spectacular site beside the Bow River in downtown Banff. Discover the rich natural and cultural heritage of the Canadian Rockies. The Museum offers guided tours of Banff’s heritage log homes and cabins; historic walking tours of the Banff townsite; and exhibition tours of the galleries. Open daily, 10 am - 5 pm. BLACK DIAMOND Commercial Gallery TERRA COTTA GALLERY 110 Centre Ave, Box 689 Black Diamond, AB T0L 0H0 T. 403-933-5047 thestore@terracottagallery.ca www.terracottagallery.ca Begun as an outlet for their own ongoing work as potters, the ‘dudes’, Evonne and Robert Smulders have created a formidable gallery showing art in diverse media created primarily by artists living in southern Alberta. Wed to Sat 11 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm or by appt.
audio production and post-production facilities. The gallery promotes exploration and expression of personal, artistic, social, formal or technical issues and ideas with active programming and both theoretical and technical workshops and scholarship programs. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm. STRIDE GALLERY 1004 Macleod Tr SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2M7 T. 403-262-8507 F. 403-269-5220 stride2@telusplanet.net www.stride.ab.ca THE NEW GALLERY Unit B27, 200 Barclay Parade SW, PO Box 22451, Bankers Hall RPO, Calgary, AB T2P 5G7 T. 403-233-2399 F. 403-290-1714 info@thenewgallery.org www.thenewgallery.org From its new location on the second level of Eau Claire Market, Calgary’s oldest artist-run centre is committed to providing a forum for a wide spectrum of critical discourse and multi-disciplinary practices within the contemporary visual arts. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm.
BLAIRMORE MOUNTAIN GALLERIES AT THE FAIRMONT Banff Springs Hotel, 403 Spray Ave, Banff, AB T. 403-760-2382 Toll Free: 800-310-9726 banff@mountaingalleries.com www.mountaingalleries.com New to Banff — Mountain Galleries was founded in 1992, a favourite stop for collectors of Canadian Art. Now with three locations and 5,000 square feet of exhibition space. The mission of the gallery is to support Western Canadian artists, both well-established and mid-career. This commercial gallery features a museum quality collection of painting, sculpture and other treasures. Daily 10 am - 10 pm. SUMMIT GALLERY OF FINE ART 120 Banff Ave, Banff, AB T1L 1E1 T. 403-762-4455 Toll Free: 888-358-4455 info@summitfineart.com www.summitfineart.com This welcoming, spacious gallery features the Canadian landscape through painting, photography and sculpture and offers a large selection of art jewellery, ceramics and hand-blown glass — all informed by nature. Large selection always available even during solo exhibitions. Private viewing room provided. Centrally located at 120 Banff Ave up the stairs. Daily 10 am - 9 pm. THE QUEST GALLERY 105 Banff Ave, Box 1046, Banff, AB T1L 1B1 T. 403-762-2722 F. 403-760-2782 info@thequestgallery.com WILLOCK & SAX GALLERY Box 2469, 110 Bison Courtyard, 211 Bear St Banff, AB T1L 1C2 T. 403-762-2214 Toll Free: 866-859-2220 fineart@willockandsaxgallery.com www.willockandsaxgallery.com Recently relocated from Waterton Park, the Willock and Sax Gallery carries a diverse selection of Western Canadian historical and contemporary art, with a focus on fine Alberta artists — including original paintings, photography, prints and drawings, functional and fine art ceramics, sculpted/stained/handblown art glass, sculpture, jewellery and woodturning. Daily from 10 am. Public Galleries WALTER PHILLIPS GALLERY 107 Tunnel Mountain Road, Box 1020 Stn 40 Banff, AB T1L 1H5 T. 403-762-6281 F. 403-762-6659 walter_phillipsgallery@banffcentre.ca www.banffcentre.ca/wpg/ WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES PO Box 160, 111 Bear St Banff, AB T1L 1A3 T. 403-762-2291 F. 403-762-8919 info@whyte.org
Public Gallery CROWSNEST PASS PUBLIC ART GALLERY 14733 20 Ave, Crowsnest Pass, AB T0K 0E0 T. 403-562-2218 F. 403-562-2218 www.telusplanet.net/public/cnpaaa/ BRAGG CREEK Commercial Galleries SUNCATCHER’S DESIGN STUDIO 4-Old West Mall, PO Box 840 Bragg Creek, AB T0L 0K0 T. 403-949-4332 F. 403-278-6299 info@suncatchersdesigns.com www.suncatchersdesigns.com Now in Bragg Creek, SunCatcher’s has provided custom stained glass and sandcarved glass to the Calgary area since 1979. They offer in-home consultation for custom work. The gallery features a variety of leaded windows, vintage paintings, art glass, new and vintage jewellery, and various artist’s works. Featured artist E. Allan Garrett A.S.A. Wed to Sat 11 am - 6 pm, Sun and Mon noon - 5 pm. THE ALICAT GALLERY PO Box 463, Bragg Creek, AB T0L 0K0 T. 403-949-3777 F. 403-949-3777 gallery@alicatgallery.com www.alicatgallery.com Located about 30 minutes west of Calgary, the gallery opened in 1987. It represents more than 100 local and Western Canadian artists and artisans working in oils, acrylics and watercolours. Native art, ceramics, carvings, sculpture and ironwork of the finest quality are also shown. Daily 11 am - 5:30 pm.
TRUCK 815 1 St SW, lower level, Calgary, AB T2P 1N3 T. 403-261-7702 F. 403-264-7737 info@truck.ca www.truck.ca/ A non-profit artist-run centre dedicated to promoting hybrid and emerging forms of contemporary art through the public presentation of work by regional, national and international artists. TRUCK contributes to the development and understanding of contemporary art within the Calgary community. Free admission. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. Commercial Galleries ART CENTRAL 100 7 Ave SW, Art Central, Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-543-9900 sandra@artcentral.ca www.artcentral.ca This landmark building on the NW corner of 7th Ave and Centre St SW in downtown Calgary has been renovated to house artist studios, galleries, and ancillary retail businesses. Centrally located opposite Hyatt Regency Hotel, only one block from Stephen Avenue Walk. For more information or leasing inquiries visit website or call for Sandra Neil. ART MODE GALLERY 399 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2S 0A5 T. 403-508-1511 F. 403-508-1510 Calgary@artmode.com www.artmode.com Located just minutes from the downtown core, this 3,000 square foot gallery is home to more than 50 Canadian artists and several internationallyrenowned artists. Many styles and media are represented including eastern and western Canadian landscapes. Also located in Ottawa. Open every day.
CALGARY Artist-run Galleries ARTIST PROOF GALLERY 2010F 11 St SE, PO Box 6821 Station D Calgary, AB T2P 2E7 T. 403-287-1056 alberta.printmakers@yahoo.ca www.albertaprintmakers.ca The gallery is part of the Alberta Printmakers’ Society, a non-profit, artist-run organization founded in 1989 to increase public awareness of printmaking as a contemporary fine arts medium, and to provide a resource for printmaking artists. It exhibits the work of local, national and international artists. Facilities include a studio equipped for relief, etching, silkscreen and lithography. Thurs to Sun 11 am - 3 pm, or by appt. EMMEDIA GALLERY & PRODUCTION SOCIETY 203-351 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0C7 T. 403-263-2833 F. 403-232-8372 emmedia@emmedia.ca www.emmedia.ca EMMEDIA encourages and supports independent video, audio and digital media production and provides access to broadcast quality video and
ARTFIRM GALLERY 617 11 AVE SW, Lower Level, Calgary, AB T2R 0E1 T. 403-206-1344 F. 403-206-1399 info@artfirm.ca www.artfirm.ca Artfirm presents an expanding group of artists working in a full range of media including painting, sculpture, and innovative media. Artfirm is committed to the sale of exceptional, contemporary artwork by local, Canadian and international artists. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. ARTFUL LIVING 1221 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0S9 T. 403-265-8338 greg@artfulliving.ca www.artfulliving.ca Long-known for their collector quality framing, the gallery has extended its ‘artful living’ theme at its location in Inglewood with paintings by Lisa, exclusive leather furniture by Selene, glass by Starfish Glassworks, pottery accessories by Jonathan Adler, leather rugs by Saas and resin works by Martha Sturdy. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. ARTISTS OF THE WORLD 514 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0C8
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T. 403-244-8123 F. 403-229-9687 info@artistsoftheworld.com www.artistsoftheworld.com Calgary’s largest and most eclectic art destination, this beautifully-renovated 20,000 sq. ft. heritage building features a vast fine art display, memorabilia and rare custom and vintage motorcycles. The facility boasts a dance floor, theatre room and multiple plasma screens as well as being fully equipped to host events for up to 800 people. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. ARTS ON ATLANTIC GALLERY 1331 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0T2 T. 403-264-6627 F. 403-264-6628 info@artsonatlantic.com www.artsonatlantic.com The gallery showcases an eclectic mix of fine Canadian art and craft. Five minutes from downtown, it is a warm, intimate space in historic Inglewood. Mediums include painting, copper, glass, jewelry, wood, specialty cards, photography and native leather and beading. The book arts and classes are a specialty. Wed to Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm and by appt. AXIS CONTEMPORARY ART 107-100 7 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-262-3356 info@axisart.ca www.axisart.ca Represents professional Canadian and International artists working in diverse media including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and photography.
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Artful Living Bracken Studio The Military Museums Gallery BRiC Gallery Centennial Gallery Cottage Craft Leighton Art Centre The Croft Devo Art Gallery Diana Paul Galleries Douglas Udell Gallery EMMEDIA Gallery
The artists represent distinctive artistic practices in terms of their approach, technique and themes. The result: work that is compelling, fresh and engaging. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, First Thurs till 8 pm, Sat noon - 6 pm. BRACKEN STUDIO 2028 34 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2T 2C3 T. 403-554-1523 mbracken@brackenstudio.com www.brackenstudio.com Discover Marilynn Bracken’s large and colourful abstract and impressionist work at her studio and gallery in Marda Loop — along with a collection of varied works by established Western Canadian artists such as Shona Rae, Audrey Mabee, Jim Etzkorn, Cherry Deacon and Chester Lees. Tues to Fri 11 am - 6 pm, Sat noon - 4 pm, Sun by chance. COLLAGE 206-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-265-3330 www.artcentral.ca COTTAGE CRAFT 8330 Macleod Trail S, Calgary, AB T2H 2V2 T. 403-252-3797 F. 403-252-6002 ccgfa@telus.net www.cottage-craft.com THE CROFT 2105 4 St SW, Calgary, AB T2S 1W8 T. 403-245-1212 F. 403-214-1409
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NEW SPACE Effective June 4, Stephen Murphy takes his Arts On Atlantic Gallery across the street to new, larger premises at 1312A 9 Ave SE. DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY CALGARY 725 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E3 T. 403-264-4414 F. 403-264-4418 calgary@douglasudellgallery.com www.douglasudellgallery.com In the art business in Edmonton since 1967, and
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Vancouver since 1986, and now in Calgary, Douglas Udell Gallery represents many of Canada’s leading contemporary artists as well as some of the leading young artists gaining momentum in the international playing field. The gallery also buys and sells in the secondary market in Canadian historical as well as international. Tues to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Mon by appt. FORTUNE FINE ART 3-215 39 Ave NE, Calgary, AB T2E 7E3 T. 403-277-7252 F. 403-277-7364 info@fortunefineart.com For sale or lease, long-time Calgary collector and philanthropist Lou MacEachern, offers works from his collection of 1,500 pieces of original Canadian art. The more-than-225 artists include well-known names such as Norman Brown, ‘Duncan’ MacKinnon Crockford, WR deGarth, N de Grandmaison, Roland Gissing, George Horvath, Georgia Jarvis, Glenn Olson, Torquil Reed, Colin Williams and Marguerite Zwicker. Browsers welcome. By appointment. FOURBYFIVE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY 14-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-263-1515 steve@fourbyfive.com www.fourbyfive.com Dedicated to the establishment of photography as a collectible art form, the gallery displays a collection of contemporary photography from several established local photographers. All photographs are processed to archival standards. The gallery’s
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mission is to participate in the education and understanding of the collection of photography as art. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5 pm, Sat 11 am - 4 pm. GAINSBOROUGH GALLERIES 441 5 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 2V1 T. 403-262-3715 F. 403-262-3743 Toll Free: 866-425-5373 art@gainsboroughgalleries.com www.gainsboroughgalleries.com Extensive collection of fine artists including Tinyan, Raftery, Wood, Desrosiers, Lyon, Hedrick, Min Ma, Simard, Brandel, Schlademan, Bond, Cameron, Crump and Degenhart. Calgary’s largest collection of bronze — by Stewart, Cheek, Lansing, Taylor, Danyluk and Arthur. Gemstone carvings by Lyle Sopel. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat till 5 pm. GALLERY OF CANADIAN FOLK ART 2206A 4 St SW, Calgary, AB T2S 1W9 T. 403-229-1300 www.galleryofcanadianfolkart.com A surprising and unique gallery that exhibits and sells Canadian folk art: furniture, paintings, carvings, textiles, antiques and artifacts gathered from across the country. Presents “uncommon art of the common people.” Wed to Fri 11 am - 6 pm, Sat, Sun 11 am - 5 pm. GERRY THOMAS GALLERY 100-602 11 Ave SW - lower level Calgary, AB T2R 1J8 T. 403-265-1630 F. 403-265-1634 calgary@gerrythomas.com www.gerrythomas.com This contemporary, New York-style gallery boasts an impressive 4600 sq ft of original art work ranging from glass sculpture to abstract oil paintings and photography. The gallery, which can accommodate events of up to 300 people, is anchored by a central art deco bar, three plasma screens and a sophisticated sound system. Wed to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. GIBSON FINE ART LTD 850 16 Ave SW, 2nd floor, Calgary, AB T2R 0S9 T. 403-244-2000 info@gibsonfineart.ca www.gibsonfineart.ca Now showing the artists of Fosbrooke Fine Arts. The gallery showcases contemporary art in a wide variety of styles and media and of significant regional and national scope from emerging and established artists of the highest quality. Thurs 11 am - 8 pm, Fri 11 am to 6 pm, Sat 11 am to 5 pm and by appointment. HARRISON GALLERIES 709 A 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E3 T. 403-229-4088 F. 403-920-0494 arlene@harrisongalleries.com www.harrisongalleries.com/ HERRINGER KISS GALLERY 101, 1111 - 11 Avenue S.W., Calgary, AB T2R 0G5 1111 11 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2R 0G5 T. 403-228-4889 F. 403-228-4809 deborah@herringerkissgallery.com www.herringerkissgallery.com The Herringer Kiss Gallery represents provocative and innovative artwork by emerging and mid-career Canadian artists. Artists include Harry Kiyooka, Bill Laing, Marjan Eggermont, Ken Webb, Reinhard Skoracki, David Burdeny, Charles Malinsky, Jeremy Herndl and Elizabeth Barnes. Tues to Fri 11 am 5:30 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm. INFLUX JEWELLERY GALLERY 201-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-266-7527 F. 403-266-7524 info@influxgallery.com www.influxgallery.com Specializing in Canadian contemporary art jewellery, INFLUX carries the work of over 40 artists. Find simple and understated objects to wear everyday — or extravagant, sculptural art pieces. Materials range from silver and gold to rubber and felt. Rotating exhibitions. Openings and demonstrations from 5 pm -8 pm on First Thursdays. Mon - Fri 11 am - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm. JOHN SCOTT GALLERY 111-908 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2T 0A3 T. 403-244-9993 F. 403-244-9943 johnscottgallery@shaw.ca www.johnscottgallery.ca Located in the historic Devenish Building on trendy 17th Ave SW, John Scott Gallery showcases a variety Canadian and international artists. They specialize in contemporary style art including landscapes, still life’s, abstract, and figurative. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5:30 am, Sat 11 am - 5 pm, and by appointment.
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KENSINGTON FINE ART GALLERY 102-628 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E2 T. 403-228-2111 F. 403-228-0640 kensington@nucleus.com www.kensingtonfineart.com In Calgary since 1968, Kensington Fine Art Gallery features original 21st century Canadian art, including bronze and raku pieces, presented in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. In the Design District on 11th Ave SW between 5th St and 6th St. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.
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KEYSTONE ART GALLERY 202-100 7 Ave SW (Art Central) Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-237-6637 mail@keystoneartgallery.com www.keystoneartgallery.com The Keystone Gallery promotes art created by Canadian emerging to established artists with art in all media and a focus on regional artists. There are regularly scheduled solo, group and themed exhibitions. Custom framing and installation services, design and art consultation. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm and by appt. LOCH GALLERY 1516 4 St SW, Calgary, AB T2R 1H5 Toll Free: 866-202-0888 calgary@lochgallery.com www.lochgallery.com Established in 1972 and recently opened in Calgary, the Loch Gallery specializes in building collections of quality Canadian, American, British and European paintings and sculpture. It represents original 19th and 20th century artwork of collectable and historic interest, as well as a select group of gifted professional artists from across Canada including Ivan Eyre, Leo Mol, Ron Bolt, Peter Sawatzky, Anna Wiechec, Philip Craig and Carol Stewart. Also located in Winnipeg and Toronto. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. MASTERS GALLERY 2115 4 St SW, Calgary, AB T2S 1W8 T. 403-245-2064 F. 403-244-1636 mastersgallery@shawcable.com www.mastersgalleryltd.com Celebrating more than 30 years of quality Canadian historical and contemporary art. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.
NEW TO CALGARY Located in Toronto’s Distillery District since 2006, Joanne Thompson and Sylvain Landry are opening a second Thompson Landry Gallery on First Street SW in August.
Autumn Colour IV, 30” x 44”, Oil on Canvas
Kensington Fine Art Gallery LOCATED IN THE DESIGN DISTRICT
102, 628 - 11 Avenue SW Calgary Alberta T2R 0E2 403-228-2111 kensington@nucleus.com www.kensingtonfineart.com REPRESENTING HISTORICAL, CONTEMPORARY AND 3-DIMENSIONAL ARTISTS FROM COAST TO COAST.
SONJA OLSON June 28 - July 12, 2008
MICAH GALLERY 110 8 Ave SW, Stephen Ave Walk Calgary, AB T2P 1B3 T. 403-245-1340 F. 403-245-1575 sales@micahgallery.com www.micahgallery.com The gallery specializes in unique First Nations art and jewellery from across North America. Featured artists include Ernie Whitford, local wood carver; Nancy Dawson, West Coast jeweller; Ernie Scoles, Cree painter; as well as a large selection of Navajo sandpaintings, Inuit soapstones and traditional and contemporary turquoise jewellery. Mon to Wed 10 am - 6 pm, Thur - Fri 9 am - 7 pm, Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun 11 am - 5 pm. Seasonal hours may be in effect, please call. NEWZONES 730 - 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E4 T. 403-266-1972 F. 403-266-1987 info@newzones.com www.newzones.com/ Opened in 1992, Newzones represents leading names in contemporary Canadian art. The gallery has developed strong regional, national, and international followings for its artists. The focus has been a program of curated exhibitions, international art fairs and publishing projects. Services include consulting, collection building, installation and appraisals. Tues to Sat 10:30 am - 5:30 pm and by appointment. NOVA SCOTIAN CRYSTAL 112-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-237-8003 F. 403-237-8069
Upon Further Reflection, Multi-panel: Finished size of 72” x 72”, Acrylic on Canvas
Kensington Fine Art Gallery LOCATED IN THE DESIGN DISTRICT
102, 628 - 11 Avenue SW Calgary Alberta T2R 0E2 403-228-2111 kensington@nucleus.com www.kensingtonfineart.com REPRESENTING HISTORICAL, CONTEMPORARY AND 3-DIMENSIONAL ARTISTS FROM COAST TO COAST.
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Toll Free: 888-977-2797 christine@novascotiancrystal.com www.novascotiancrystal.com At NovaScotian Crystal, traditional mouth-blown, hand-cut glassware is not so much a craft as a way of life. Running counter to a world-wide trend to mechanization, a small band of craftsmen took matters into their own skilled hands and in 1996 NovaScotian Crystal was born on the Halifax Waterfront — the only maker of handcrafted crystal in Canada. Drop by the new Calgary showroom to experience the beauty of handmade masterpieces. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. Brent Laycock, Paradise Ranch, acrylic on canvas, 24" x 48"
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RUBAIYAT GALLERY 722 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2S 0B7 T. 403-228-7192 rubaiyatholdings@shaw.ca From its inception in 1973, Rubaiyat has been a purveyor of the finest quality handcrafts. Whether it be the sumptious color of an off-hand blown glass piece, the grain of exotic wood, or the brilliant combinations of precious metals and stones in its jewellery collection, their aim is to inspire the visitor and craftsman alike. Mon to Sat 10 am 5:30 pm.
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CLIFFORD JEAN-FELIX Colors Within, Acrylic on Canvas 24” x 24” Let us decorate your home and office. Leasing plans available.
PAUL KUHN GALLERY 724 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E4 T. 403-263-1162 F. 403-262-9426 paul@paulkuhngallery.com www.paulkuhngallery.com Focuses on national and regional contemporary Canadian paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture; also shows contemporary American prints. Exhibitions change monthly featuring established and emerging artists along with themed group shows. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.
Suite 111, 908 - 17th Ave SW (Devenish Building)
Calgary, AB T2T 0A3 (403) 244-9993 www.johnscottgallery.ca info@johnscottgallery.ca
RUBERTO OSTBERG GALLERY 2108 18 St NW, Calgary, AB T2M 3T3 T. 403-289-3388 anna@ruberto-ostberg.com www.ruberto-ostberg.com This bright exhibition space in the residential community of Capitol Hill shows a variety of contemporary art styles and media in an inner city location for artists and art lovers to meet and interact. Some of the work is produced on-site by artists working in the adjoining Purple Door Art Studio space. Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm. SKEW GALLERY 1615 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0J7 T. 403-244-4445 ebvisualarts@shaw.ca www.skewgallery.com A recently-opened contemporary art gallery, offering an opportunity for both the uninitiated and the seasoned collector to view or acquire a dynamic range of painting, sculpture and photography from across Canada. Specializing in theme group exhibitions, with a focus on presenting topical art in an informed context. Monthly rotation of shows. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm and by appt. STEPHEN LOWE ART GALLERY 2nd level, Bow Valley Square III, 251, 255 - 5 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 3G6 T. 403-261-1602 F. 403-261-2981 stephenloweartgallery@shaw.ca www.stephenloweartgallery.ca Specializing in fine art orginals by distinguished Canadian artists of national and international acclaim for over 25 years. Offers an excellent selection of outstanding paintings and sculptures in landscapes, florals, still life, and figurative in contemporary and traditional styles. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. SWIRL FINE ART & DESIGN 104-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-266-5337 tracy@swirlfineart.com www.swirlfineart.com Tracy Proctor launched Swirl in June 2006, in order to promote other independent artists. The vibrant and diverse artwork draws art lovers from Calgary and further afield. Currently representing ten established and aspiring artists, all from Western Canada, the gallery showcases an abundance of talent with a broad range of styles. Consultations and commissions are available. Mon to Fri 10 am 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 4 pm. THE COLLECTORS’ GALLERY OF ART 1332 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0T3 T. 403-245-8300 F. 403-245-8315 mail@collectorsgalleryofart.com www.collectorsgalleryofart.com Specializing in important Canadian art from the 19th to the 21st century including early topographical paintings, Canadian impressionists and Group of Seven. The Collectors’ Gallery represents over 30
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prominent Canadian contemporary artists. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm. THE PETERS GALLERY 1904 20 Ave NW, Calgary, AB T2M 1H5 T. 403-210-0078 F. 403-269-3475 thepetersgallery@shaw.ca www.thepetersgallery.com Established in 1993, this eclectic gallery and framing studio represents important traditional and contemporary Canadian artists featuring quality original works of art — paintings, sculpture, glass and works on paper. They assist both first-time buyers and the seasoned collector to make informed choices for their personal or corporate collections. Mon - Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Thur till 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 4 pm. THE WEISS GALLERY 1021 6 St SW (corner 11 Ave) Calgary, AB T2R 1R2 T. 403-262-1880 info@theweissgallery.com www.theweissgallery.com Juxtaposing contemporary work with fine 19th century European artworks, the gallery is a showcase for craft-intensive, descriptive art. It represents artists whose approaches to painting, drawing, photography and sculpture pay respect to timehonoured methods of artmaking and have found a beautiful expression within a contemporary vision and context. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm or by appointment. THOMPSON LANDRY GALLERY 200-1213 1 St SW Calgary, AB T2R 0V3 info@thompsonlandry.com www.thompsonlandry.com Opening Summer 2008. The gallery showcases both the new generation of contemporary artists and the great masters of Quebec. It is the only gallery in Calgary specializing in Quebec artists and sculptors. An impressive collection of great masters (A Y Jackson, J-P Riopelle, R Pilot, et al) is housed in a separate room. Tues to Sat 11 am – 6 pm, Sun noon – 6:00. TRÉPANIERBAER 105, 999 8 St SW, Calgary, AB T2R 1J5 T. 403-244-2066 F. 403-244-2094 info@tbg1.com www.trepanierbaer.com A progressive and friendly commercial gallery specializing in the exhibition and sale of Canadian and international art. In addition to representing wellknown senior and mid-career artists, the gallery also maintains an active and successful program for the presentation of younger emerging Canadian artists’ work. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm and by appointment. TYRRELL CLARKE GALLERY 213-100 - 7 Ave, Art Central Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-245-4281 tyrrell@tyrrellclarke.com www.tyrrellclarke.com VENTURION GALLERY 104-214 11 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0X8 T. 403-264-6234 F. 403-264-6001 steve@venturion.ca www.venturion.ca VIRGINIA CHRISTOPHER FINE ART 816 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E5 T. 403-263-4346 info@virginiachristopherfineart.com www.virginiachristopherfineart.com Established in 1980, the gallery has earned a national reputation among discerning collectors of contemporary Canadian art. Exhibitions change monthly, showcasing museum-calibre, original paintings, sculpture and ceramics by artists with well-established reputations. Representing the Estate of Luke O Lindoe (1913-1999). Gallery open Tues to Sat 11 am - 5:30 pm. The Vue CafÉ serves lunch 11 am - 4 pm. Inquiries invited for private functions. WALLACE GALLERIES LTD 500 5 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 3L5 T. 403-262-8050 F. 403-264-7112 colette@wallacegalleries.com www.wallacegalleries.com In the heart of downtown Calgary, Wallace Galleries Ltd. has been a part of the art community since 1986. With regular group and solo shows the gallery is proud to represent some of Canada’s most accomplished and upcoming contemporary artists working in oils, acrylics, mixed media and watercolor as well sculpture and pottery. There is always something visually stimulating to see at Wallace Galleries Ltd. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.
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WEBSTER GALLERIES 812 - 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E5 T. 403-263-6500 F. 403-263-6501 info@webstergalleries.com www.webstergalleries.com Since 1980, Webster Galleries Inc. has been a leading specialist in stone sculpture and offers a large collection of Inuit sculpture, oils, watercolours, bronzes, pencil works, ceramics and hand-pulled prints within 10,000 square feet of gallery space. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm; Sun 1 pm - 4 pm. Cooperative Galleries ARTPOINT GALLERY AND STUDIOS 1139 - 11 St SE, Calgary, AB T2G 3G1 T. 403-265-6867 F. 403-265-6867 info@artpoint.ca www.artpoint.ca Housed just behind the CPR tracks in Ramsay, the gallery is home to over 40 artists and members of the artpoint society. In the Upstairs and Downstairs Galleries, members and invited art groups show their work in monthly changing exhibitions — from painting to sculpture; photography to textiles. Turn E from 8 St onto 11 Ave SE and follow gravel road. Thurs & Fri 1 pm - 5 pm, Sat 11 am to 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm, or by appointment. BRIC GALLERY 227 35 Ave NE, Calgary, AB T2E 2K5 T. 403-520-0707 CENTENNIAL GALLERY 133-125 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0P6 T. 403-266-6783 lnemanz@telusplanet.net Public Galleries ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE GALLERY 1221 2 St SW, 2nd floor, Calgary, AB T2R 0W5 T. 403-245-5662 F. 403-244-3911 director@afcalgary.ca www.afcalgary.ca/ ART GALLERY OF CALGARY 117 - 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 1B4 T. 403-770-1350 F. 403-264-8077 info@artgallerycalgary.org www.artgallerycalgary.org The Art Gallery of Calgary is an interactive and dynamic forum for contemporary art exhibitions and
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activities that foster appreciation and understanding of visual culture. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. To 10 pm every first Thursday of the month. CALGARY MILITARY MUSEUMS GALLERIES 4520 Crowchild Tr SW, Calgary, AB T3E 1T8 T. 403-240-9723 F. 403-686-1280 www.themilitarymuseums.ca DEVO ART GALLERY 317 7 Ave SW, 4th Flr TD Square, Calgary, AB T. 403-221-4274 GLENBOW MUSEUM 130 - 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0P3 T. 403-268-4100 F. 403-262-4045 glenbow@glenbow.org www.glenbow.org/ The colourful history of Canada’s West comes alive at Western Canada’s largest museum. Discover the diverse people, stories and events that shaped this region. Glimpse the world beyond Western Canada through special exhibitions and their own eclectic, international collections. Daily 9 am - 5 pm, Thur till 9 pm. Adult $12; Sen $9; Stu $8; under 6 free; family $37.50. Glenbow Shop open daily 10 am 5:30 pm, Thur till 9 pm. ILLINGWORTH KERR GALLERY Alberta College of Art & Design, 1407 14 Ave NW Calgary, AB T2N 4R3 T. 403-284-7633 F. 403-289-6682 www.acad.ab.ca/ikg.html LEIGHTON ART CENTRE Box 9, Site 31, R.R. 8, By Millarville, 16 km south of Calgary off Hwy 22 west Calgary, Alberta T2J 2T9 T. 403-931-3633 F. 403-931-3673 info@leightoncentre.org www.leightoncentre.org Situated on 80 acres of rolling foothills 15 minutes southwest of Calgary, the former home of landscape painter A.C. Leighton represents 50 years in Canadian landscape painting. Changing exhibitions and sales — workshops on painting techniques for various skill levels from beginners to accomplished artists. Located south on Macleod Tr to Spruce Meadows Tr west to 37 St (Hwy 773) and south (then west and south) to 266 Ave W (bottom of big hill, west and south on winding road) to Leighton
Centre. Museum entrance 50 yds south of Centre. Tues to Sat 10 am - 4 pm. MARION NICOLL GALLERY Alberta College of Art & Design, 1407 14 Ave NW Calgary, AB T2N 4R3 T. 403-284-7625 F. 403-289-6682 mng@acadsa.ca www.acad.ab.ca/galleries/mng/gate.cfm MEZZANINE GALLERY 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1T1 T. 403-220-4913 mezzanine.ffa.ucalgary.ca
Toll Free: 888-672-8401 candler@syban.net www.candlerartgallery.com Fresh, vibrant and alive describe both the artwork and the experience when you visit this recently restored gallery. You will discover a diverse group of both emerging and established artists including J. Brager, B. Cheng, R. Chow, H. deJager, K. Duke, J. Kamikura, E. Lower Pidgeon, J. Peters, A. Pfannmuller, K. Ritcher, D. Zasadny — all well priced. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 9:30 am - 5 pm. Or by appt. CANMORE
THE NICKLE ARTS MUSEUM University of Calgary, 434 Collegiate Bd NW Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 T. 403-220-7234 F. 403-282-4742 nickle@ucalgary.ca www.ucalgary.ca/~nickle A broadly focused public gallery that is an integral part of the University of Calgary. 18 to 24 exhibitions per year focus on contemporary western Canadian art and on numismatics, reflecting the museum’s two major collections. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Thur to 9 pm, Sat 1 pm - 5 pm (May through Aug, Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm only). TRIANGLE GALLERY OF VISUAL ART 104-800 Macleod Tr SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2M3 T. 403-262-1737 F. 403-262-1764 jacek@trianglegallery.com www.trianglegallery.com Dedicated to the presentation of contemporary Canadian visual arts, architecture and design within a context of international art, the gallery is engaged in the advancement of knowledge and understanding of contemporary art practices through a balanced program of visual art exhibitions to the public of Calgary and visitors. Admission fee: Adults - $2.00; Senior/Students - $1.00; Family - $5.00; Members of the Triangle Gallery - Free. Annual Membership - $25.00. Free admission on Thursdays. Tues to Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Sat noon - 4 pm.
Commercial Galleries ELEVATION GALLERY 100-729 Main St, Canmore, AB T1W 2B2 T. 403-609-3324 baxterc@telus.net www.elevationgallery.ca THE AVENS GALLERY 104-709 Main St, Canmore, AB T1W 2B2 T. 403-678-4471 theavensgallery@telusplanet.net www.theavensgallery.com Established in 1980, the Avens Gallery features original work by local and regional senior artists: Alice Saltiel, Zelda Nelson, Elizabeth Wiltzen, Tony Bloom, Thep Thavonsouk. Changing displays highlight a variety of paintings and photographs as well as fine craft and sculpture in glass, clay, wood, metal and bronze. Website updated daily. Open daily 10:30 - 5:30, extended hours in summer. THE CORNER GALLERY 705 Main St, Box 8110, Canmore, AB T1W 2T8 T. 403-678-6090 Toll Free: 800-649-7948 www.cornergallery.com Original works by Canadian artists — Elaine Fleming, Mike Svob, Tinyan, Min Ma and Vilem Zach. Paintings, pottery, bronze, soapstone, jade, photography and raku. Phone for hours.
CAMROSE Commercial Galleries CANDLER ART GALLERY 5002 50 St, Camrose, AB T4V 1R2 T. 780-672-8401 F. 780-679-4121
Public Gallery CANMORE LIBRARY GALLERY 950 8 Ave, Canmore, AB T1W 2T1 webmaster@caag.ca www.caag.ca
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DEAN FRANCIS at Sagebrush Studios For Collectors of Original Art
T H E A L I C AT G A L L E R Y Representing Western Canadian artists since 1987
21st Annual Spring Exhibition and Sale
Sandy Point Reflections, 24”x36”, oil on canvas
Dancing Sky, 16”x24”, oil on canvas
Everchanging, 60”x40”, oil on canvas
1-877-565-2039 • www.deanfrancis.ca At the Calgary Stampede Western Showcase July 4 - 14
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Jean Pederson, Wrapped in Silk, 20” x 16”, watercolour
Featuring: Jean Pederson together with Phil Buytendorp, Marilyn Lambert-Gerwing, David Langevin and Michael O’Toole. Preview: May 21-23. Opening Gala and sale May 23rd.
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the VAAA Gallery presents . . .
True Colours
featuring the work of
Ann Haessel & Wilfred Chiu Time Square, Watercolour, Wilfred Chiu
april 17 to may 24, 2008 VAAA Gallery 3rd flr, 10215 - 112 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 1M7 1.780.421.1731 toll free 1.866.421.1731 info@visualartsalberta.com Located in Harcourt House Arts Centre
Featuring Parkland Prairie Artists
5002 - 50 Street Camrose, AB T4V 1R2 1-888-672-8401 www.candlerartgallery.com candler@syban.net Jean Peters Going for Gold acrylic on canvas, 18" x 24"
Celebrating Visual Culture Tammy Salzl CONTINGENCIES June 5 to 28, 2008
Profiles Public Art Gallery
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STUDIO WEST BRONZE FOUNDRY & ART GALLERY PO Box 550, 205 - 2 Ave SE, Industrial Park Cochrane, AB T4C 1A7 T. 403-932-2611 F. 403-932-2705 Original bronze works both finished and in progress at Canada’s largest sculpture foundry. Free tours of the lost-wax methods of bronze casting. Also paintings, western prints, Pioneer Women’s Museum, artifacts and more. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5 pm, evenings by appointment and call (403) 932-2611 for weekend hours. In Cochrane, 15 min from Calgary on Hwy 1A. WESTLANDS ART GALLERY 214 First St W, Box 1166 Cochrane, AB T4C 1B2 T. 403-932-3030 F. 403-932-7810 look@westlandsart.com www.westlandsart.com Canadian First Nations rare and original works, Inuit and aboriginal soapstone sculpture, plus Alberta landscape photographs, raku and functional pottery, metal work and coppersmithing and stained glass from local artisans. Mon to Fri 10:30 am 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm. In Cochrane, 15 min from Calgary on Hwy 1A. CROWSNEST PASS Public Gallery CROWSNEST PASS PUBLIC ART GALLERY 14733 20 Ave, Crowsnest Pass, AB T0K 0E0 T. 403-562-2218 F. 403-562-2218 www.telusplanet.net/public/cnpaaa/ DIDSBURY Commercial Gallery GILDED GALLERY 106-2034 19 Ave (Box 2004) Didsbury, AB T0M 0W0 T. 403-335-8735 F. 403-335-8736 alison@gildedgallery.com www.gildedgallery.com Specializing in original works by emerging artists of Central Alberta, the gallery shows more than 120 works by 25 central Alberta artists. The approachable and welcoming atmosphere is ideal for browsing and buying. Full custom framing services available. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm.
www.harcourthouse.ab.ca The Arts Centre delivers a variety of services to both artists and the community, and acts as an essential alternative site for the presentation, distribution and promotion of contemporary art. The gallery presents 10 five-week exhibitions, from local, provincial and national artists, collectives and arts organizations as well as an annual members’ show. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat noon - 4 pm. LATITUDE 53 10248 106 St, Edmonton, AB T5J 1H5 T. 780-423-5353 F. 780-424-9117 info@latitude53.org www.latitude53.org SNAP GALLERY 10309 97 St, Edmonton, AB T5J 0M7 T. 780-423-1492 F. 780-424-9117 snap@snapartists.com www.snapartists.com Established in 1982 as an independent, cooperatively-run fine art printshop, the SNAP (Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists) mandate is to promote, facilitate and communicate print and printrelated contemporary production. A complete print shop and related equipment are available to members. Ten exhibitions are scheduled each year. Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm. Commercial Galleries AGNES BUGERA GALLERY 12310 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5 T. 780-482-2854 F. 780-482-2591 info@agnesbugeragallery.com www.agnesbugeragallery.com Agnes Bugera has been in the art gallery business since 1975, and is pleased to continue representing an excellent group of established and emerging Canadian artists. Spring and Fall exhibitions offer a rich variety of quality fine art including landscape, still life, and abstract paintings as well as sculpture and photography. New works by gallery artists are featured throughout the year. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm and by appointment. ART BEAT GALLERY 26 St Anne St, St Albert, AB T8N 1E9 T. 780-459-3679 F. 780-459-3677 artbeat@telusplanet.net www.artbeat.ab.ca Located in the Arts and Heritage District of St. Albert, this family-owned business specializes in original artwork by Western Canadian artists. Paintings in all media, sculpture, pottery, and art glass. Home and corporate consulting. Certified picture framer. Part of St. Albert Artwalk - May through August. Tues to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Thur to 8 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm. BEARCLAW GALLERY 10403 124 St, Edmonton, AB T5N 3Z5 T. 780-482-1204 F. 780-488-0928 info@bearclawgallery.com www.bearclawgallery.com Specializing in Canadian First Nations and Inuit art since 1975 from artists including Daphne Odjig, Norval Morrisseau, Roy Thomas, Maxine Noel, Jim Logan, George Littlechild, Jane Ash Poitras, Alex Janvier and Aaron Paquette. A wide variety of paintings, jade and Inuit soapstone carvings, and Navajo and Northwest coast jewellery. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.
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Commercial Galleries RUSTICA ART GALLERY #4-123 2 Ave West, PO Box 1267, Rustic Market Square, Cochrane, AB T4C 1B3 T. 403-851-5181 Toll Free: 866-915-5181 info@rusticagallery.com www.rusticagallery.com Housed in a rustic log building in downtown Cochrane, this warm and inviting gallery specializes in fine art original paintings and sculpture by local and Western Canadian artists notably the Western Lights Group (Murray Phillips, Roger D. Arndt, Jonn Einerssen, Brent Heighton and Vance Theoret). Local artists include Rick Berg, Lisa Wirth, Ann Perodeau, Shannon Luyendyk and Lorri PullmanMacDonald. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.
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Public Gallery DONALDA GALLERY FOR THE ARTS 5002 Main St, Donalda, AB T0B 1H0 T. 403-883-2255 www.donaldagallery.com DRUMHELLER Commercial Gallery MELTING POT GALLERY 196 1 St W, Drumheller, AB T0J 0Y4 T. 403-823-2483 F. 403-272-0222 info@meltingpotgallery.ca www.meltingpotgallery.ca Cooperative Gallery BADLANDS GALLERY Box 836, 50C 3 Ave West, Drumheller, AB T0J 0Y0 T. 403-823-8680 badlands_art@yahoo.ca www.badlandsgallery.com EDMONTON Artist-run Galleries HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY 10215 112 St - 3rd Flr, Edmonton, AB T5K 1M7 T. 780-426-4180 F. 780-425-5523 harcourt@telusplanet.net
CHRISTL BERGSTROM’S RED GALLERY 9621 Whyte (82) Ave , Edmonton, AB T6C 0Z9 T. 780-439-8210 F. 780-435-0429 christl@christlbergstrom.com www.christlbergstrom.com This storefront gallery and studio, in the Mill Creek area of Old Strathcona, features the work of Edmonton artist Christl Bergstrom, both recent and past work including still lifes, portraits, nudes and landscapes. Mon to Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Sat by appt. DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY 10332 124 St, Edmonton, AB T5N 1R2 T. 780-488-4445 F. 780-488-8335 dug@douglasudellgallery.com www.douglasudellgallery.com In the art business in Edmonton since 1967, and Vancouver since 1986, and now in Calgary, Douglas Udell Gallery represents many of Canada’s leading contemporary artists as well as some of the leading young artists gaining momentum in the international playing field. The gallery also buys and sells in the secondary market in Canadian historical as well as international. Tues to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Mon by appt. FRINGE GALLERY 10516 Whyte Ave - lower Edmonton, AB T6E 2A4 T. 780-432-0240 F. 780-439-5447
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FRONT GALLERY 12312 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5 T. 780-488-2952 F. 780-488-2952 frontgal@telusplanet.net Located in Edmonton’s gallery walk district. Since opening in 1979 the gallery has specialized in exhibiting fine art and craft by Alberta artists, with exhibitions changing every three weeks. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm.
centre of Edmonton was established as Lando Fine Art in 1990 by private art dealer Brent Luebke. It continues to provide superior quality Canadian and international fine art, fine crafts, custom framing, art leasing, appraisals and collection management. The gallery also buys and sells Canadian and international secondary market fine art. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 4:30 pm, or by appt.
JOHNSON GALLERY 7711 85 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6C 3B4 and at 11817 80 St Edmonton, AB T5B 2N6T. 780-465-6171 info@johnsongallery.ca www.johnsongallery.ca
LILIANA’S BOUTIQUE & ART GALLERY 12302 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5 T. 780-448-0714 F. 780-454-4558 Over the past ten years, Ljiljana has been quietly assembling a roster of artists working in a variety of media including painting, blown glass, bronze and soapstone sculpture and jewellery. Moving her boutique to new second floor space, she has developed the main floor gallery to accommodate more, and larger pieces — notably sculptures and paintings by Roy Leadbeater. Mon 11 am - 4 pm; Tues, Wed, Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm; Thurs 11 am - 7 pm; Sat 10 am - 5 pm.
KOHON DESIGNS INC 143-10309 107 St, Edmonton, AB T5J 1K3 T. 780-428-6230 F. 780-428-6249 designers@kohon.ca www.kohon.ca Kohon Designs, situated in the heart of downtown Edmonton, offers signature style and quality in custom furniture design, original artwork, photography, glassware and sculpture. The European look and complementary cappuccino bar create a pleasant environment. Their professional consultation services include leasing options for corporate and business collections. Mon to Fri 9:30 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm. LANDO GALLERY 11130 - 105 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5H 0L5 T. 780-990-1161 mail@landogallery.com www.landogallery.com Edmonton’s largest commercial art gallery in the
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OUT OF THE FIRE STUDIO 12214 Jasper Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K3 T. 780-378-0240 F. 780-378-0241 Toll Free: 866-378-0240 outofthefire@telus.net www.outofthefirestudio.com This pottery studio and art gallery features paintings by Alberta artists; Romanian, Phoenician and Canadian glass art; and African stone sculpture from Zimbabwe. Stoneware pottery made in the studio by Cindy Clarke is highlighted along with works by BC potters Lilach Lotan and Junichi Tanaka. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Thurs till 8 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm.
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PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY 10183 112 St, Edmonton, AB T5K 1M1 and 12304 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5 T. 780-452-0286 F. 780-451-1615 info@probertsongallery.com www.probertsongallery.com The former Vanderleelie Gallery boasts one of Edmonton’s most elegant contemporary art spaces. Established in 1992, the gallery represents artists at various stages of their professional development and working in a variety of media. Under the ownership and direction of Peter Robertson, the gallery mounts 15 exhibitions each year. Now with second location. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. PICTURE THIS! 959 Ordze Road, Sherwood Park, AB T8A 4L7 T. 780-467-3038 F. 780-464-1493 Toll Free: 800-528-4278 info@picturethisgallery.com www.picturethisgallery.com Picture This! framing & gallery have been helping clients proudly display their life treasures and assisting them to discover the beauty of the world through fine art since 1981. Now representing the Western Lights Artists Group and offering a diverse selection of originals by national and international artists. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Thurs till 9 pm, Sat till 5 pm. PRO’S ART GALLERY & FRAMING 101-10604 178 St, Edmonton, AB T5E 2S3 T. 780-486-6661 gene@prosartschool.com www.prosartschool.com Pro’s Art specializes in original oils and giclÉes from both established & emerging artists. Landscapes, still lifes, figurative works and florals are all well
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represented. They also offer professional art instruction and fine art framing. Tues and Wed 10 am - 7 pm, Thurs to Sat 10 am - 4 pm. ROWLES & COMPANY LTD 108 LeMarchand Mansion, 11523 100 Ave Edmonton, AB T5K 0J8 T. 780-426-4035 F. 780-429-2787 rowles@rowles.ca www.rowles.ca Recently relocated to LeMarchand Mansion. Features over 100 western Canadian artists in original paintings, bronze, blown glass, metal, scrimshaw on moose antler, marble and soapstone. Specializing in corporate collections and gifts, the gallery offers consultation for special commissions, packaging and complete fulfillment for a wide variety of corporate projects. (Calgary 403-290-1612) Mon to Fri 9 am - 5 pm, Sat noon - 5 pm. SCOTT GALLERY 10411 124 St, Edmonton, AB T5N 3Z5 T. 780-488-3619 F. 780-488-4826 info@scottgallery.com www.scottgallery.com Established in 1986, the Scott Gallery features Canadian contemporary art representing over thirty established and emerging Canadian artists. Exhibits include paintings, works on paper including handpulled prints and photography, ceramics and sculpture. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. THE PORTAL GALLERY 9414 91 St, Edmonton, AB T6E 1N4 T. 780-702-7522 giselledenis@yahoo.com www.theportalgallery.com
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Alberta Craft Council Gallery & Shop Alberta’s only public gallery dedicated to fine craft and the place to shop for unique handcrafted gifts
TU GALLERY 10718-124 St., Edmonton, AB T5M 0H1 T. 780-452-9664 apaterson@tugallery.ca www.tugallery.ca WEST END GALLERY 12308 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5 T. 780-488-4892 F. 780-488-4893 info@westendgalleryltd.com www.westendgalleryltd.com Established in 1975, this fine art gallery is known for representing leading artists from across Canada — paintings, sculpture and glass art in traditional and contemporary styles. Exhibitions via e-mail available by request. Second location in Victoria. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. Cooperative Galleries SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY Melcor Cultural Centre, 420 King St, PO Box 3511 Spruce Grove, AB T7X 3A8 T. 780-962-0664 F. 780-962-0664 alliedac@shaw.ca www.alliedartscouncil.ca Administered by the Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove, the gallery is located in a new building along with the Spruce Grove Library. It shows original works by members of the AAC with a new featured artist every 3 weeks. They host several members’ shows each year, as well as an Alberta-wide Seniors & Open Art Competition. They sponsor ongoing classes for adults and children. Mon to Sat 10 am - 8 pm. THE STUDIO GALLERY 11 Perron St, St Albert, AB T8N 1E3 T. 780-460-5993 F. 780-458-7871 the-studio-gallery@telusplanet.net
780.488.6611 www.albertacraft.ab.ca 10186-106 St. Edmonton Image: Jeff Holmwood, Edmonton
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Public Galleries ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY 10186-106 St, Edmonton, AB T5J 1H4 T. 780-488-5900 F. 780-488-8855 acc@albertacraft.ab.ca www.albertacraft.ab.ca Alberta’s only public gallery dedicated to fine craft presents four exhibitions in the main gallery each year. The Discovery Gallery features new works by ACC members. The gallery shop offers contemporary and traditional fine crafts including pottery, blown glass, jewelry, woven and quilted fabrics, home accessories, furniture and much more. All are hand-made by Alberta and Canadian craft artists. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm; closed Sun.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 28, 2008
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA 100-10230 Jasper Ave, Entreprise Sq (former Hudson’s Bay building), Edmonton, AB T5J 4P6 T. 780-422-6223 F. 780-426-3105 info@artgalleryalberta.com www.artgalleryalberta.com Founded in 1924, the gallery is the only museum in Alberta strictly devoted to the exhibition and preservation of art and visual culture. In conjunction with a full and varied exhibition schedule, the gallery provides lectures, talks and seminars on art and art-related issues. Temporary location during expansion and renovation. Mon to Fri 10:30 am - 5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm (free admission 4 pm - 8 pm), Sat & Sun 11 am - 5 pm.
Exhibition in Spring 2009 hosted by the Leighton Arts Centre, Calgary, with catalogue and province-wide tour to follow.
CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS D’ALBERTA 9103 95 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6C 1Z4 T. 780-461-3427 F. 780-461-4053 info@savacava.com www.savacava.com
Open Juried Competition for Alberta artists honouring 2008, Year of Planet Earth in their chosen medium presented by
The Alberta Society of Artists
Application forms may be downloaded from www.artists-society.ab.ca THE ALBERTA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS IS A PROUD SUPPORTER OF THE ARTS IN THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA THROUGH EXHIBITIONS AND EDUCATION.
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EXTENSION CENTRE GALLERY 8303 112 St, 2nd Flr, University Extension Centre Edmonton, AB T6G 2T4 T. 780-492-0166 val.smyth@ualberta.ca www.extension.ualberta.ca/liberalstudies/ finearts_gallery.aspx FAB GALLERY 3-98 Fine Arts Building, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2C9 T. 780-492-2081 bbrennan@ualberta.ca www.ualberta.ca/ARTDESIGN/html/fab/ index.html MCMULLEN GALLERY University of Alberta Hospital, 8440 112 St Edmonton, AB T6G 2B7 T. 780-407-7152 F. 780-407-7472 mcasavan@cha.ab.ca www.capitalhealth.ca/mcmullen MULTICULTURAL PUBLIC ART GALLERY 5411 51 St, Stony Plain, AB T7Z 1X7 T. 780-963-2777 F. 780-963-0233
PROFILES PUBLIC ART GALLERY, ARTS & HERITAGE FOUNDATION 19 Perron St, St Albert, AB T8N 1E5 T. 780-460-4310 F. 780-460-9537 ahfgallery@artsheritage.ca Located in the historic Banque d’Hochelaga in St. Albert, the gallery features contemporary art, usually by Alberta artists, who show their painting, sulpture, video, quilts, glass and ceramics at both the provincial and national level. Monthly exhibitions, adult lectures and workshops, “Looking at Art” school tours, art rental and sales plus a gallery gift shop. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Thurs till 8 pm. ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM 12845 102 Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 0M6 T. 780-453-9100 F. 780-454-6629 www.royalalbertamuseum.ca THE WORKS GALLERY 200-10225 100 Ave, Edmonton, AB T5J 0A1 T. 780-426-2122 F. 780-426-4673 theworks@telusplanet.net www.theworks.ab.ca The Works Gallery operates as part of The Works International Visual Arts Society’s year-round educational and community outreach programs. The gallery offers the public, barrier-free opportunities to view art and design by emerging artists, students and professional artists as well as arts organizations. Mon to Fri noon - 5 pm.
MORE SPACE Ljiljana Kujundzic has enlarged and formalized her dedicated gallery space and has moved her specialty boutique to the second floor at Liliana’s Boutique & Art Gallery. VAAA GALLERY 10215 112 St, 3rd Flr, Edmonton, AB T5N 1M7 T. 780-421-1731 F. 780-421-1857 Toll Free: 866-421-1731 visartaa@telusplanet.net www.visualartsalberta.ab.ca Visual Arts Alberta Association is a non-profit Provincial Arts Service Organization (PASO) for the visual arts which celebrates, supports and develops Alberta’s visual culture. The gallery hosts an ongoing exhibition schedule. Mon to Fri 10 am - 4 pm. FORT MACLEOD Commercial Gallery PRAIRIE WINDS GALLERY 210 Col Macleod Blvd, PO Box 1539 Fort Macleod, AB T0L 0Z0 T. 403-553-3020 prairiewindsgallery@shaw.ca www.lindastewart.ca Located at 210 Col Macleod Blvd (Main Street) in historic Fort Macleod, the gallery features paintings, photography, giclÉes, ceramics and handcrafted leather products by Western Canadian artists. Also featured are bronze sculptures by wellknown Alberta sculptor Linda Stewart. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. FORT MCMURRAY Commercial Gallery ARTWORKS GALLERY 9917 Biggs Ave, Fort McMurray, AB T9H 1S2 T. 780-743-2887 F. 780-743-2330 info@artworksgallery.ca www.artworksgallery.ca Public Gallery KEYANO ART GALLERY 8115 Franklin Ave, Fort McMurray, AB T9H 2H7 T. 780-791-8979 GRANDE PRAIRIE Public Gallery PRAIRIE ART GALLERY 103-9856 97 Ave, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 7K2 T. 780-532-8111 F. 780-539-9522 info@prairiegallery.com www.prairiegallery.com The largest public gallery serving NW Alberta and NE British Columbia. In March 2007, gallery services were interrupted by the collapse of its facility, a provincial historic resource. Innovative exhibitions and programs will transcend the gallery’s current limitations at its interim location until a new facility opens in 2009. Mon to Fri 10 am - 4 pm.
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Featuring Gallery Artists
Daphne Odjig, In Tune with the Infinite, serigraph
Daphne Odjig - Alex Janvier - Jane Ash Poitras Norval Morisseau - George Littlechild
Bearclaw Gallery 10403-124 St. Edmonton, Alberta T5N 3Z5
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NICHOLAS DE GRANDMAISON Enterprise Square, 100 -10230 Jasper Ave | Edmonton, AB | T5J 4P6 | 780.422.6223 | www.artgalleryalberta.com Curated by Gordon Snyder, and circulated by the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
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July 1 - August 31, 2008 Grand Coteau Heritage & Cultural Centre Shaunavon, Saskatchewan 306.297.3882/403.242.4628
July 26 & 27, 2008 SouthWest Quest Art & History Tour For ArtSake Gallery/Studio Eastend, Saskatchewan 403.990.2504/403.242.4628
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OCT. 18 - NOV. 16 Crowsnest Pass Allied Arts Association, FRANK, AB
MAY 3 - 19 Leighton Arts Centre, CALGARY, AB (403) 931-3633 info@leightoncentre.org
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(403) 562-2218 cnpaaa@shaw.ca Barbara Pankratz, Attainment, MM Collage
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Commercial Galleries ART AND SOUL STUDIO/GALLERY 124 6 Ave SW, High River, AB T1V 1A1 T. 403-601-3713 art@artandsoul.ab.ca www.artandsoul.ab.ca This studio/gallery is the creative space of artist/ owner Annie Froese. The gallery features original work in a variety of mediums created by Alberta artists, most of whom live within an hour of High River. Oils, acrylics, watercolours, mixed media, glass, ceramics and more are displayed in this 1917 arts and crafts home. An opportunity to indulge the senses. About 1/2 hr south of Calgary. Fri, Sat 11 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm. PIKE STUDIOS AND GALLERY 70 9 Ave SE, High River, AB T1V 1L4 T. 403-652-5255 info@pikestudios.com www.pikestudios.com From their studios Bob and Connie Pike produce a wide range of art and fine craft. Bob works in metal, making gates, art boxes, tables and assorted architectural accents. Connie makes high temperature, reduction-fired porcelain — from one-of-akind pieces to an extensive selection of functional pottery for everyday use. Studio tours available by appointment. TWO FEATHERS GALLERY 153 Macleod Tr, PO Box 5457 High River, AB T1V 1M6 T. 403-652-1024 F. 403-652-1026 rbarstad@rbarstad.com www.rbarstad.com
Cooperative Galleries POTEMKIN TOO 317 6 St S, Lethbridge, AB T1J 2C7 T. 403-308-9704 rjkollee@telusplanet.net THE POTEMKIN - THE BURNING GROUND 402 2 Ave S, B Level, Lethbridge, AB T1J 0C3 T. 403-328-3604 gallerypotemkin@hotmail.com Public Galleries BOWMAN ARTS CENTRE 811 5 Ave S, Lethbridge, AB T1J 0V2 T. 403-327-2813 F. 403-327-6118 aacbac@shaw.ca members.shaw.ca/aacbac GALT MUSEUM 502 1 St S (5 Ave S & Scenic Dr), Lethbridge, AB T. 403-320-3898 F. 403-329-4958 info@galtmuseum.com www.galtmuseum.com SOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERY 601 3 Ave S, Lethbridge, AB T1J 0H4 T. 403-327-8770 F. 403-328-3913 info@saag.ca www.saag.ca One of Canada’s foremost public galleries, SAAG fosters the work of contemporary visual artists who push the boundaries of their medium. Regularly changing exhibitions are featured in three distinct gallery spaces. Learning programs, film screenings and special events further contribute to local culture. Gift Shop and a Resource Library. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm.
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Commercial Gallery MOUNTAIN GALLERIES AT THE FAIRMONT The Gallery at Jasper Park Lodge, #1 Old Lodge Rd Jasper, AB T0E 1E0 T. 780-852-5378 F. 780-852-7292 Toll Free: 888-310-9726 jasper@mountaingalleries.com www.mountaingalleries.com Mountain Galleries was founded in 1992, a favourite stop for collectors of Canadian art. Now with three locations and 5,000 square feet of exhibition space. The mission of the gallery is to support Western Canadian artists, both well-established and mid-career. This commercial gallery features a museum quality collection of painting, sculpture and other treasures. Daily 8 am - 10 pm.
Anita Bhadresa recently opened Bilton Contemporary Art gallery in Red Deer.
KANANASKIS COUNTRY Commercial Gallery THE MOUNTAIN GALLERY PO Box 148, Delta Lodge, Kananaskis, AB T0L 2H0 T. 403-591-7610 kanmount@telus.net Under the direction of Sharon Conklin, the gallery highlights a Canadian collection of original artwork including paintings and giclees by local artists Bill Brownridge, David Daase, Patti Dyment, Brenda Harper, Wayne Milburn; and photography by Wieslaw Pohorak, along with a variety of unique jewellery items. Open daily. LACOMBE
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Commercial Gallery THE GALLERY ON MAIN 4910 50 Ave, 2nd Flr, Lacombe, AB T4L 1Y1 T. 403-782-3402 F. 403-782-3405 thegalleryonmain@telus.net www.thegalleryonmain.com Located just off Hwy. 2 in the heart of Historic Downtown Lacombe, this gallery boasts the largest selection of original art in central Alberta. Representing over 60 Alberta artists, the gallery’s selection covers a wide variety of media. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. Winter Hours: Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm. LETHBRIDGE Commercial Galleries JERRY ARNOLD GALLERY 604 3 Ave S, Lethbridge, AB T1J 0H4 T. 403-320-2341 www.jerryarnoldgallery.com TRIANON GALLERY 104 5 St S - Upstairs, Lethbridge, AB T1J 2B2 T. 403-380-2787 F. 403-329-1654 Toll Free: 866-380-2787 trianon@savillarchitecture.com www.savillarchitecture.com
UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE ART GALLERY W600, Centre for the Arts, 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4 T. 403-329-2666 F. 403-382-7115 galleryinfo@uleth.ca www.uleth.ca/artgallery MEDICINE HAT Commercial Gallery FRAMING AND ART CENTRE 628 2 St SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 0C9 T. 403-527-2600 F. 403-529-9109 facmedhat@shaw.ca Public Galleries CULTURAL CENTRE GALLERY 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 3Y6 T. 403-529-3880 F. 403-504-3554 sushel@medicinehat.ca ESPLANADE ART GALLERY 401 First St SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 8W2 T. 403-502-8580 F. 403-502-8589 mhmag@city.medicine-hat.ab.ca www.esplanade.ca This is a new home for the Medicine Hat Museum, Art Gallery and Archives, as well as a 700-seat theatre. The gallery accommodates a wide range of art exhibitions, including contemporary and historical, regional, national and international art. Exhibitions are often accompanied by receptions, talks and tours. Adults - $4, Youth and Student - $3, 6 & Under - Free, Family - $12, Thur Free for all ages. Mon to Fri 10 am 5 pm; Thur till 9 pm; Sat, Sun and Hol noon - 5 pm. OKOTOKS Public Gallery THE STATION CULTURAL CENTRE PO Bag 20, 53 North Railway St Okotoks, AB T1S 1K1 T. 403-938-3204 F. 403-938-8963 cmasterson@okotoks.ca RED DEER Commercial Galleries BILTON CONTEMPORARY ART 4B-5909 51 Ave, Red Deer, Ab T4N 4H8 T. 403-343-3933 info@biltoncontemporaryart.com www.biltoncontemporaryart.com Bilton Contemporary Art presents a wide range of
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GALLERY IS 4930 Ross St, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X7 T. 403-341-4641 redblockgallery@yahoo.ca isgallery.blogspot.com Cooperative Gallery HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY 4924 Ross St, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X7 T. 403-346-8937 harriswarke@canoemail.com Public Galleries FOUR CORNERS AND PORTHOLE GALLERIES Red Deer College Library, 100 College Blvd, PO Box 5005, Red Deer, AB T4N 5H5 T. 403-342-3152 Paul.Boultbee@rdc.ab.ca library.rdc.ab.ca/news_events/ RED DEER AND DISTRICT ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY 4B-4929 50 (Ross) St, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X9 T. 403-358-3505 F. 403-358-3552 rdarts@alliedarts.ca RED DEER MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY 4525 47A Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 6Z6 T. 403-309-8405 F. 403-342-6644 museum@reddeer.ca www.museum.red-deer.ab.ca Three galleries featuring local, national and international artists. Exhibits change every six to eight weeks. The permanent gallery honours the history of the Red Deer region, with a special emphasis on First Nations People, immigrant settlers, rural life and the birth of a city. Mon to Sun noon - 5 pm, Wed noon - 9 pm. Closed Statutory Holidays. VIEWPOINT GALLERY 3827 39 St, City of Red Deer Culture Services Red Deer, AB T4N 0Y6 T. 403-309-4091 pierre.oberg@reddeer.ca www.reddeer.ca ROSEBUD Commercial Gallery AKOKINISKWAY GALLERY Box 654, Rosebud, Alberta T0J 2T0 T. 403-677-2350 Toll Free: 800-267-7553 info@rosebudtheatre.com www.experiencerosebud.com WATERTON Commercial Galleries GUST GALLERY 112A Waterton Ave Waterton Lakes, AB T0K 2M0 T. 403-859-2535 gustgal@telusplanet.net www.gustgallery.com The Gust Gallery embraces the art and landscapes of Southern Alberta reflected by the extraordinary talents of artists working in 2 and 3 dimensional mediums. Open daily mid-May to end-September. GERRY THOMAS GALLERY 101 Clematis Ave, Waterton Lakes Resort Waterton Lakes, AB T. 403-859-2150 waterton@gerrythomas.com www.gerrythomas.com This seasonal gallery complements Gerry’s galleries in Edmonton and Calgary, celebrating the natural beauty of Southern Alberta with original art work by Alberta artists. May to Sept. WETASKIWIN Commercial Gallery CAELIN ARTWORKS 4728 50 Ave, Wetaskiwin, AB T9A 0R7 T. 780-352-3519 F. 780-352-6806 Toll Free: 888-352-3519 mail@caelinartworks.com www.caelinartworks.com
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WILDWOOD Commercial Gallery WILDWOOD GALLERY AND STUDIO Box 623, 5410 50 St, Wildwood, AB T0E 2M0 T. 780-325-3904 F. 780-325-3907 patdimarcello@msn.com Your hostess, Pat Di Marcello, BFA, invites you to visit this laid-back, home-based gallery and working studio, representing rural artists for over 5 years, on Hwy 16 W in the hamlet of Wildwood, located north over the tracks on Main. Wheelchair accessible. Also enjoy a coffee, bathroom break, and a leisurely walk through the treed 5 acres to explore the local flora, birds and mushrooms. Pet friendly too.
BRITISH COLUMBIA GALLERIES ABBOTSFORD Commercial Gallery CHARISMA GALLERY 33339 S Fraser Way, Abbotsford, BC V2S 2B2 T. 604-852-3999 F. 604-852-3315 Toll Free: 866-852-3999 info@charismagallery.com www.charismagallery.com Founded in 1983, the gallery shows a wide selection of original artworks and limited edition prints by Canadian and international artists. Owner Rod Bishop is pleased at the development of a West Coast style of art and notes its emergence in the collector community. He has an ongoing commitment to connect the artist with the collector in a relaxed atmosphere. Mon to Sat 9 am - 5:30 pm. BOWEN ISLAND Public Gallery GALLERY AT ARTISAN SQUARE Box 211, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0 T. 604-947-2454 F. 604-947-2460 admin@biac.ca www.biac.ca/gallery.php
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WAM is an exciting evening of Wine, Art & Music! Tour artist studios and galleries. Sip wine paired with chocolate, decadent desserts, artisan breads, locally produced cheeses and enjoy live entertainment! Each ticket is $50 and includes 50 WAM dollars towards the purchase of art from participating venues.
Rotary Centre for the Arts Tickets: (250) 717-5304 421 Cawston Avenue Kelowna, BC V1Y 6Z1 www.RotaryCentreForTheArts.com
art galleries • studios • concerts theatre • courses/workshops • bistro Building hours: 8am - 8pm
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June 8 to August 31, 2008 465 Victoria St 377-2400 www.kag.bc.ca Hours: Mo Tu We Fr Sa - 10am to 5pm; Th - 10am to 9pm; Su - noon to 4pm Sponsors: British Columbia Lottery Corporation, and Simmons, Black and Emsland Insurance Services Media Sponsors: Radio NL
Credit: Daphne Odjig, Spiritual Renewal 1984 Collection of Laurentian University Museum and Art Centre Laurentian University. Purchase, B.A. McDonald Memorial Fund and the Canada Council Art Bank, 1984
international, national and local artists while promoting a dialogue among the artist, gallery and community. Programming supports the growth and experimentation of the artist or external curator, by including a wide range of artistic practices and encouraging challenging and important exhibitions. Tues to Sat 11 am - 6 pm.
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JUDY HILL GALLERY 22 Station St, Duncan, BC V9L 1M4 T. 250-746-6663 F. 250-746-8113 judyhill@judyhillgallery.com www.judyhillgallery.com GALIANO ISLAND Commercial Galleries GALIANO ART GALLERY 33 Manzanita Rd at Sturdies Bay Galiano Island, BC V0N 1P0 T. 250-539-3539 F. 250-539-3505 galianoartgallery@gulfislands.com www.galianoartgallery.com INSIGHT ART GALLERY 157 Georgeson Bay Road Galiano Island, BC V0N 1P0 T. 250-539-5080 insightgallery@telus.net GOLDEN Commercial Gallery LEGACY OF LIGHT GALLERY 917 N 10 Ave, PO Box 682, Golden, BC V0A 1H0 T. 250-344-5989 Toll Free: 866-344-5955 info@llg.ca www.llg.ca The landscapes, wildlife, and wildflowers of the Canadian Rockies are highlighted in this fine art photography gallery. Also featured is WR Pitcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;When the Gods Returnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, a reworking of Greek myths based on the paintings of master artists and presented with a modern Western Canadian twist. These pigmented ink, varnished canvas prints, measure 36 by 54â&#x20AC;?. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 2 pm. GRAND FORKS Public Gallery GRAND FORKS ART GALLERY 7340 - 5th St, PO Box 2140 Grand Forks, BC V0H 1H0 T. 250-442-2211 F. 250-442-0099 gfagchin@direct.ca www.galleries.bc.ca/grandforks INVERMERE Commercial Galleries BAVIN GLASSWORKS 4884A Athalmer Road RR 3 Invermere, BC V0A 1K3 T. 250-342-6816 glass@rockies.net
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THE ARTYM GALLERY 934 7 Ave, Box 235, Invermere, BC V0A 1K0 T. 250-342-7566 F. 250-342-7565 info@artymgallery.com www.artymgallery.com Public Gallery COLUMBIA VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL - PYNELOGS GALLERY 1720 4 Ave (at Kinsmen Beach), PO Box 2345 Invermere, BC V0A 1K0 T. 250-342-4423 jami@columbiavalleyarts.com www.columbiavalleyarts.com KAMLOOPS Commercial Gallery HAMPTON GALLERY KAMLOOPS 167 4 Ave, Kamloops, BC V2C 3N3 T. 250-374-2400 F. 250-374-2400 hamptongallery@telus.net www.hamptongalleries.com Since its opening in 1994, Hampton Gallery has earned a reputation for excellence in the local community, and it has become a destination spot for art lovers travelling through the interior of British Co-
lumbia. Hampton Gallery represents approximately 40 regionally and nationally acclaimed Canadian artists. Mon 11 am - 3 pm, Tues to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm. Public Galleries KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY 101-465 Victoria St, Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9 T. 250-377-2400 F. 250-828-0662 kamloopsartgallery@kag.bc.ca www.kag.bc.ca Experience changing exhibitions of regional, national, and international contemporary art within four distinct gallery spaces at one of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strongest regional public art museums. Even the building is a contemporary â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;masterpieceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; designed by awardwinning architect Peter Cardew. Also home to The Gallery Store, a quality gift shop. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Thur till 9 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm. THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY VISUAL ART GALLERY Student St, Old Main Building, Box 3010 Kamloops, BC V2C 5N3 T. 250-828-5480 F. 250-371-5950 tatkins@tru.ca www.tru.ca/ae/vpa/vpa.htm KELOWNA Artist-run Gallery ALTERNATOR GALLERY FOR CONTEMPORARY ART PO Box 5090 Stn A, 103-421 Cawston Ave, Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6Z1 T. 250-868-2298 F. 250-868-2896 info@alternatorgallery.com www.alternatorgallery.com Commercial Galleries ART ARK GALLERY 135-1295 Cannery Lane, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9V8 T. 250-862-5080 Toll Free: 888-813-5080 info@theartark.com www.theartarkcom Since 1999 the largest commercial art gallery in BCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior has offered a diverse range of quality paintings and sculpture in various mediums by established and emerging Western Canadian artists. The gallery adjoins a fine crafts gift shop selling exquisite clay, glass, woodwork and jewellery from BC artisans. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm. GALLERY 421 100-421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6Z1 T. 250-448-8888 Toll Free: 800-946-5565 info@gallery421.ca www.gallery421.ca Offers an eclectic mix of national and internationally acclaimed artists. Enjoy the works of several talented artists in a relaxed and informed environment. Other highlights include stone carvings, Raku pottery, and beautiful glassworks. In the Rotary Centre for the Arts, opposite Prospera Place. Tues to Fri noon - 5 pm, Sat 11 am - 4 pm, or by appt. GEERT MAAS SCULPTURE GARDENS AND GALLERY 250 Reynolds Road, Kelowna, BC V1V 2G7 T. 250-860-7012 F. 250-860-0494 maas@geertmaas.org www.geertmaas.org HAMBLETON GALLERIES 1290 Ellis St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 1Z4 T. 250-860-2498 info@hambletongalleries.com www.hambletongalleries.com/ Established in 1964, the Hambleton has provided a showcase for leading Canadian artists whose works grace many national and international private and corporate collections. At their new location, owners Stewart and Tracy Turcotte offer investment art opportunities to their clientele and have added ceramics, and bronze sculpture to complement the paintings. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. JULIA TROPS ARTIST STUDIO Studio 113, Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6Z1 T. 250-215-0079 Julia@juliatrops.com www.juliatrops.com Canadian artist Julia Trops works from her studio/ gallery in the heart of Kelownaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cultural District, in the Rotary Centre for the Arts. Dramatic and bold figurative artworks in charcoal and oils. Artwork available for purchase from her studio and on her website. Mon to Fri 10 am - 2:30 pm or by appt.
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SOPA FINE ARTS 2934 South Pandosy St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 1V9 T. 250-763-5088 info@sopafinearts.com www.sopafinearts.com Okanaganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest contemporary art gallery, Sopa prides itself on providing an ever-changing selection of contemporary art with new exhibitions opening the first Thursday each month. With a special interest in abstraction, Sopa features thoughtful, innovative, and compelling works; in the media of painting, sculpture, and assemblage. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm or by appointment. THE EVANS GALLERY AND FRAMING 571 Lawrence Ave, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6L8 T. 250-861-4422 F. 250-868-3377 Toll Free: 800-661-2236 info@evansgallerycan.com www.evansgallerycan.com TURTLE ISLAND GALLERY 115-1295 Cannery Lane, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9V8 T. 250-717-8235 info@turtleislandgallery.com www.turtleislandgallery.com The gallery has a stunning selection of Northwest Coast wood carvings including ceremonial masks, totem poles, talking sticks, plaques and bentwoodstyle boxes. Also stone carvings, hand-carved gold and silver jewellery, original paintings and limited edition prints both contemporary and traditional. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm (Summer only: also Sun 11 am - 4 pm). TUTT ART GALLERIES Suites 7, 8, and 9 Tutt Street Square, Mail to 9-3045 Tutt St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 2H4 T. 250-861-4992 F. 250-861-4992 info@tuttartgalleries.com www.tuttartgalleries.com Tutt Art Galleries (TAG) is a recognized dealer of original contemporary fine art â&#x20AC;&#x201D; representing regional, national and international artists whose works have built or enhanced private, corporate, and government collections, in Canada and abroad. TAG welcomes the opportunity to assist both budding art enthusiasts and experienced collectors. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm or by appt. Public Galleries GALLERIA AT ROTARY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6Z1 T. 250-717-5304 F. 250-717-5314 info@RotaryCentreForTheArts.com www.RotaryCentreForTheArts.com The Galleria is an important venue for local artists to display their work and organize their own shows. Located in the heart of the cultural district, the Rotary Centre for the Arts is a multi-disciplinary facility with working studios for artists and artisans, galleries, a theatre, pottery studio, bistro, dance studio and meeting spaces. Daily 8 am - 8 pm. KELOWNA ART GALLERY 1315 Water St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9R3 T. 250-762-2226 F. 250-762-9875 kelowna.artgallery@shaw.ca www.kelownaartgallery.com Founded in 1976, the gallery serves the central Okanagan Valley with a variety of exhibitions and education programs for all ages. The new 15,000 square foot facility, opened in 1996, offers three gallery spaces. The Treadgold/ Bullock Gallery, The Reynolds Gallery and the Rotary Courtyard. Admission: members free, individual $4, senior $3, student $3, family $8, children under 12 free, Thur 3 pm - 9 pm by donation. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm Thur till 9 pm, Sun 1 pm - 4 pm. KELOWNA MUSEUM 470 Queensway Ave, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6S7 T. 250-763-2417 F. 250-763-5722 info@kelownamuseum.ca www.kelownamuseum.ca KIMBERLEY Public Gallery KIMBERLEY ARTS COUNCIL - THE GALLERY AT CENTRE 64 64 Deer Park Ave, Kimberley, BC V1A 2J2 kimberleyarts@cyberlink.bc.ca www.kimberleyarts.com NANAIMO Commercial Galleries GALLERY 223 223 Commercial St, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G8 T. 250-741-1188 F. 250-741-0868 gallery@gallery223.ca
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www.gallery223.ca Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a classic coastal landscape or something funky by innovative and engaging new artists, Gallery 223 offers a fresh approach to enjoying fine art â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an extraordinary selection of original paintings, ceramics, glass, wood carvings and stone sculptures in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studios, art education facilities, an art supplies store and custom framing. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. (Also Sun from Apr - Sep.) Cooperative Gallery ART 10 GALLERY 94 - 650 South Terminal Ave, Port Place Shopping Centre, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5E2 T. 250-753-4009 tomrid@telus.net Public Gallery NANAIMO ART GALLERY 150 Commercial, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G6 T. 250-754-1750 info@nanaimogallery.ca www.nanaimogallery.ca The Nanaimo Art Galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Rental and Sales Gallery is filled with art from over 100 local artists. The works are available for rental or purchase, with 60% of the rental or sale price going directly to the artists. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. Second gallery on Malaspina campus at 900 Fifth St.
NEW NAME The former Art Gallery of the South Okanagan has adjusted its mission and is now known as the Penticton Art Gallery.
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Public Gallery OXYGEN ART CENTRE 707-622 Front St, (enter from alley at 302 Vernon St), Nelson, BC V1L 4B7 T. 250-352-6322 office@oxygenartcentre.org www.oxygenartcentre.org TOUCHSTONES NELSON: MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY 502 Vernon St, Nelson, BC V1L 4E8 T. 250-352-9813 F. 250-352-9810 info@touchstonesnelson.ca www.touchstonesnelson.ca OLIVER, BC Commercial Gallery HANDWORKS GALLERY 35648 97 ST, Box 271, Oliver, BC V0H 1T0 T. 250-498-6388 F. 250-498-6388 craftpot@telus.net www.handworksgallery.ca
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PARKSVILLE Commercial Gallery GALLERY 10 80 101A-1080 Resort Dr, Parksville, BC V9P 2E5 T. 250-951-2332 info@gallery1080.net www.gallery1080.net Always vibrant, dynamic and contemporary, Gallery 10 80 proudly represents established and emerging Canadian artists. Enjoy a friendly, professional and relaxing cultural experience. Situated near Rathtrevor Beach. See website for artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; current works and upcoming events. Daily from 11 am. (WINTER: Tues to Sat 11 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.) PENTICTON Commercial Galleries THE LLOYD GALLERY 18 Front St, Penticton, BC V2A 1H1 T. 250-492-4484 art@lloydgallery.com www.lloydgallery.com New location on colourful Front St. Experience the beauty of the Okanagan through artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes. Browse through a large viewing gallery hung French salon-style. Original oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel,
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TUMBLEWEED GALLERY 101-207 Main St, Penticton, BC V2A 5B1 T. 250-492-7701 F. 250-492-7701 tumbleweedgallery@shawcable.com www.tumbleweedgallery.ca Public Galleries PENTICTON ART GALLERY 199 Marina Way, Penticton, BC V2A 1H3 T. 250-493-2928 F. 250-493-3992 agso@shawbiz.ca www.galleries.bc.ca/agso The Penticton Art Gallery presents contemporary art and historical exhibitions of both established and emerging artists in four exhibition spaces. A place of inquiry, interest and enjoyment, the former AGSO proudly promotes Okanagan as well as provincial and national artists. Admission: Adults $2, students and children free, weekends free. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat and Sun noon - 5 pm. PRINCE GEORGE Public Gallery TWO RIVERS GALLERY OF PRINCE GEORGE & REGION 725 Civic Plaza, Prince George, BC V2A 1H3 T. 250-614-7800 F. 250-563-3211 Toll Free: 888-221-1155 info@tworiversartgallery.com www.tworiversartgallery.com QUALICUM BAY / QUALICUM BEACH Commercial Galleries QUALICUM BAY SEASIDE GALLERY 6161 West Island Highway Qualicum Bay, BC V9K 2E3 T. 250-757-9180 eife@shaw.ca www.qualicumgallery.com
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Public Gallery SAGA PUBLIC ART GALLERY 70 Hudson Ave NE, PO Box 1543 Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4P6 T. 250-832-1170 F. 250-832-6807 sagapublicartgallery@telus.net www.sagapublicartgallery.ca/ SALT SPRING ISLAND Commercial Gallery GALLEONS LAP 103 Park Dr, Ganges Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2R7 T. 250-538-0182 info@glphoto.com www.glphoto.com Representing artists from both the local and wider photographic communities, Galleons Lap exhibits and sells contemporary and historic photographic
fine art. Located corner of Park Dr, and Lower Ganges Rd, 200 metres north of the Tourist Infomation Centre in Ganges. Thurs to Sat 11 am to 5pm or by appointment. J. MITCHELL GALLERY 3104 Grace Point Square, Ganges Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2T9 T. 250-537-8822 art@jmitchellgallery.com www.jmitchellgallery.com The J. Mitchell Gallery represents many of the finest Gulf Island artists, exclusively. The galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extraordinary collection of art in a broad range of media, showcases the dynamic and innovative work of these accomplished local artists. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun 11 am - 3 pm. JILL LOUISE CAMPBELL ART GALLERY 3-110 Purvis Lane, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2S5 T. 250-537-1589 F. 250-537-9766 Toll Free: 800-474-6705 saltspring@jlcgallery.com www.jlcgallery.com MORLEY MYERS STUDIO & GALLERY 7-315 Upper Ganges Rd, Salt Spring Island, BC T. 250-537-4898 F. 250-537-4828 mgallery@telus.net www.morleymyersgallery.com The gallery shows the progression of earlier works of stone to Morley Myersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; latest bronze creation. In the lower level studio you can see and visit with the artist at work on his next piece. His work is influenced by cross-cultural indigenous art forms. Sat and Sun 11 am - 5 pm or by appt. PEGASUS GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART Mouatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mall, 1-104 Fulford-Ganges Rd Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2S3 T. 250-537-2421 F. 250-537-5590 pegasus@saltspring.com www.pegasusgallery.ca Established in 1972, the gallery presents contemporary jewellery, paintings, sculptures and glassware (including originals and prints by Salt Springâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Carol Evans). Pegasus specializes in museum quality antique basketry and work by Northwest Coast native carvers. Open year round. STEFFICH FINE ART GALLERY 3105-115 Fulford-Ganges Rd Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2S3 T. 250-537-8448 F. 250-537-9233 Toll Free: 877-537-8448 info@steffichfineart.com www.steffichfineart.com SECHELT Public Gallery SUNSHINE COAST ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY 5714 Medusa, Box 1565, Sechelt, BC V0N 3A0 T. 604-885-5412 F. 604-885-6192 SIDNEY, BC Commercial Galleries LAROCHE GALLERY 1A-9851 Seaport Place, Sidney, BC V8L 4X3 T. 250-655-8278 larochefineartgallery@shaw.ca www.larochefineartgallery.com MAIN STREET GALLERY 2536 Beacon Ave, Sidney Pier Hotel Sidney, BC V8L 1Y2 T. 250-656-6246 F. 250-652-6249 info@mstreetgallery.com www.mstreetgallery.com Recently relocated to the new Sidney Pier Hotel, this exciting new space offers a broad selection of original art, ceramics, glass and jewellery. Representing an outstanding selection of contemporary Canadian artists, the elegant, warm and comfortable setting encourages browsing, questions and conversation whether a first time art buyer or collector. Open daily. PENINSULA GALLERY 100-2506 Beacon Ave, Landmark Bldg. Sidney, BC V8L 1Y2 T. 250-655-1282 Toll Free: 877-787-1896 pengal@pengal.com www.pengal.com Since 1986 the gallery has offered original paintings and sculptures as well as a wide range of limited edition prints for sale onsite and through comprehensive website. Mon to Sat 9 am - 5:30 pm. VILLAGE GALLERY 2459 Beacon Ave, Sidney, BC V8L 1X7
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T. 250-656-3633 F. 250-656-3601 vilgal@telus.net SILVER STAR MOUNTAIN Commercial Gallery GALLERY ODIN 215 Odin Road, PO Box 3109 Silver Star Mountain, BC V1B 3M1 T. 250-503-0822 F. 250-503-0822 info@galleryodin.com www.galleryodin.com The gallery proudly represents a talented group of Okanagan, British Columbian and Canadian artists, some of them well-established and highly accomplished, others just emerging, but all of them work in a distinctive and original style — oils, acrylics, watercolours, scrimshaw, sculpture, pottery. (Summer) Thur and Sat 2 pm - 6 pm; (Winter) Wed and Sat 1 pm - 6 pm or by appt.
The Art Emporium offers a large inventory of paintings by all members of the Group of Seven and several of their contemporaries, as well as other major Canadian, French and American artists of the 20th Century, for serious collectors and investors. The Estate of Donald Flather. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. ART WORKS GALLERY 225 Smithe St, Vancouver, BC V6B 4X7 T. 604-688-3301 F. 604-683-4552 Toll Free: 800-663-0341 info@artworksbc.com www.artworksbc.com Celebrating 20 years of representing dynamic contemporary Canadian and International artists in a wide variety of mediums and styles including original canvases, sculptures, monoprints and limited editions. Feature exhibitions change monthly. Conveniently located in the entertainment district on the edge of Yaletown. Deliver locally and ship worldwide. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm.
TOFINO Commercial Gallery EAGLE AERIE GALLERY 350 Campbell St, Box 10, Tofino, BC V0R 2Z0 T. 250-725-3235 F. 250-725-4466 Toll Free: 800-663-0669 jennifer@royhenryvickers.com www.royhenryvickers.com VANCOUVER Artist-run Galleries ACCESS ARTIST RUN CENTRE 206 Carrall Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2J1 T. 604-689-2907 access@vaarc.ca www.vaarc.ca ARTSPEAK GALLERY 233 Carrall Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2J2 T. 604-688-0051 F. 604-685-1912 artspeak@artspeak.ca www.artspeak.ca GALLERY GACHET 88 E Cordova St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1K2 T. 604-687-2468 F. 604-687-1196 gallery@gachet.org www.gachet.org GRUNT GALLERY 116-350 E 2 Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 4R8 T. 604-875-9516 F. 604-877-0073 grunt@telus.net www.grunt.bc.ca HELEN PITT GALLERY 102-148 Alexander St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1B5 T. 604-681-6740 F. 604-688-2826 pittg@telus.net www.helenpittgallery.org OR GALLERY 101-480 Smithe St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5E4 T. 604-683-7395 F. 604-683-7302 or@orgallery.org www.orgallery.org WESTERN FRONT GALLERY 303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1S1 T. 604-876-9343 F. 604-876-4099 exhibitions@front.bc.ca www.front.bc.ca Commercial Galleries APPLETON GALLERIES 1451 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1W8 T. 604-685-1715 F. 604-685-1721 info@appletongalleries.com www.appletongalleries.com Specialists in original Inuit and First Nations art, Appleton Galleries features Canadian Inuit stone sculptures, tapestries and Northwest Coast wood carvings, including masks, plaques, paddles and talking sticks. More than 4,000 original carvings with works by Abraham Anghik Ruben, Clifford Pettman and Jonas Faber Quarqortoq. Quality art for the collector in downtown Vancouver for over 35 years. Worldwide shipping. Mon to Fri 8 am - 1 pm, Sat 11 am - 1 pm, or by appt. ART BEATUS 108-808 Nelson St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H2 T. 604-688-2633 F. 604-688-2685 info@artbeatus.com www.artbeatus.com ART EMPORIUM 2928 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3J7 T. 604-738-3510 F. 604-733-5427 tvk@theartemporium.ca www.theartemporium.ca
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ARTZCO GALLERY 1025 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5L7 T. 604-683-8225 F. 604-683-9626 artzco@telus.net ATELIER GALLERY 2421 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5 T. 604-732-3021 info@ateliergallery.ca www.ateliergallery.ca Established in 1974, the Atelier Gallery represents, exhibits, and promotes Canadian artists. Director John Ramsay strives to present work by artists of commitment and talent, providing a venue for their work; encouraging public awareness and the support of new trends and fresh voices. The gallery’s focus is on painting and drawing from emerging and mid-career artists in a variety of media. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. AUTUMN BROOK GALLERY 1545 W 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1L6 T. 604-737-2363 info@autumnbrook.ca www.autumnbrook.ca AYDEN GALLERY 49 Powell St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1E9 T. 778-891-4310 info@aydengallery.com www.aydengallery.com BACK GALLERY PROJECT 109 W Cordova St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1E1 T. 604-833-6401 info@backgalleryproject.com www.backgalleryproject.com BAU-XI GALLERY 3045 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3J9 T. 604-733-7011 F. 604-733-3211 info@bau-xi.com www.bau-xi.com
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BEL ART GALLERY Canada Export Centre, 100-602 West Hastings St Vancouver, BC V6B 1P2 T. 604-924-3719 F. 604-924-3719 belart@axion.net www.belartgallery.com BELLEVUE GALLERY 2475 Bellevue Ave, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1E1 T. 604-922-2304 F. 604-922-2305 info@bellevuegallery.ca www.bellevuegallery.ca Devoted to representing contemporary fine art, Bellevue Gallery features artists of local and international appeal. Giving voice to the experimentation of new technologies in printmaking, divergent and individual approaches to drawing, photography and painting, and distinctive sculpture, the gallery serves both private and corporate collectors. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm and by appointment. BENT BOX FIRST NATIONS ART 1536 W 2 Ave (Waterfall Building) Vancouver, BC V6J 1H2 T. 604-731-4874 thebentbox@telus.net www.thebentbox.com BLANKET CONTEMPORARY ART INC 758 Alexander St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1E3 T. 604-709-6100 info@blanketgallery.com www.blanketgallery.com BUCKLAND SOUTHERST GALLERY 2460 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC V7C 1L1
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T. 604-922-1915 mary@bucklandsoutherst.com www.bucklandsoutherst.com An eclectic gallery owned by Mary Southerst and Richard Buckland. Mary opened her first gallery in Vancouver in 1972 and since then has been managing galleries both in Spain and Vancouver. Their aim is to hang quality art without too high a price tag. The gallery represents 12 artists, many with international roots. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5.30 pm, Sun noon to 5 pm. BUSCHLEN MOWATT GALLERY 1445 West Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6G 2T3 T. 604-682-1234 F. 604-682-6004 bmg@buschlenmowatt.com www.buschlenmowatt.com A leading gallery of contemporary Canadian and international art, opened in 1979, Buschlen Mowatt has earned a global reputation for showcasing some of the world’s most esteemed artists, for producing museum calibre exhibitions and for distinguishing emerging talent. A second location opened in Palm Desert, Ca in 2001. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.
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CANVAS GALLERY 91 Powell St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1E9 T. 604-609-9939 F. 888-202-7805 info@canvasartgallery.ca www.canvasartgallery.ca CATRIONA JEFFRIES GALLERY 274 East 1 Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1A6 T. 604-736-1554 F. 604-736-1054 cat_jeffries_gallery@telus.net www.catrionajeffries.com CENTRE A, VANCOUVER CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART 2 West Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G6 T. 604-683-8326 F. 604-683-8632 centrea@centrea.org www.centrea.org CHALI-ROSSO GALLERY 2250 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 4H7 T. 604-733-3594 gallery@chalirosso.com www.chalirosso.com
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Monte Clark Gallery Dorian Rae Collection Doctor Vigari Gallery Douglas Udell Gallery Elissa Cristall Galleries Heffel Gallery La Galerie du Centre Petley Jones Gallery Eclektica Gallery Exposure Gallery Gallery Jones Third Avenue Gallery Gallery Gachet Jeffrey Boone Gallery grunt Gallery Harrison Galleries Or Gallery Hasty Hawk Gallery Havana Gallery Helen Pitt Gallery Hill’s Native Art Howe Street Gallery Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
COASTAL PEOPLES FINE ARTS GALLERY - YALETOWN & GASTOWN 1024 Mainland St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2T4 and 312 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1B6 T. 604-685-9298 F. 604-684-9248 coastalpeoples@telus.net www.coastalpeoples.com Specializing in contemporary museum-quality Northwest Coast Native and Inuit artwork, the gallery showcases works by master carvers and is known for discovering emerging talent. An important collection of jewellery, ceremonial masks, totem poles, bentwood chests, original paintings and serigraphs, miniatures and reading materials. Mon to Sat 10 am - 7 pm, Sun and hol 11 am - 5 pm. DIANE FARRIS GALLERY 1590 W 7th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1S1 T. 604-737-2629 F. 604-737-2675 art@dianefarrisgallery.com www.dianefarrisgallery.com Founded in 1984, the gallery has developed into an internationally recognized showcase for contemporary Canadian and international art, and is especially noted for finding and establishing new talent. They endeavour to draw in and include those who
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are new to the contemporary art scene as well as knowledgeable collectors. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm. DISKIN GALLERIES 88 W Pender St, Tinseltown Mall Vancouver, BC V6B 6N9 T. 604-724-4667 karengreen1111@yahoo.ca www.diskingalleries.com DOCTOR VIGARI GALLERY 1312 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3X6 T. 604-255-9513 doctorvigari@shaw.ca www.doctorvigarigallery.com DORIAN RAE COLLECTION 410 Howe St, Vancouver, BC V6C 1A5 T. 604-874-6100 info@dorianraecollection.com www.dorianraecollection.com DOUGLAS REYNOLDS GALLERY 2335 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-731-9292 F. 604-731-9293
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drg@axionet.com www.douglasreynoldsgallery.com DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY 1558 West 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1R2 T. 604-736-8900 F. 604-736-8931 Vancouver@douglasudellgallery.com www.douglasudellgallery.com In the art business in Edmonton since 1967, and Vancouver since 1986, and now in Calgary, Douglas Udell Gallery represents many of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading Contemporary artists as well as some of the leading young artists gaining momentum in the International playing field. The gallery also buys and sells in the secondary market in Canadian historical as well as international. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Mon by appt. EAGLE SPIRIT GALLERY 1803 Maritime Mews (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC T. 604-801-5205 Toll Free: 888-801-5277 eaglespiritgallery@telus.net www.eaglespiritgallery.com ECLEKTICA ART SPACE 568 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC V6B 3J5 T. 778-330-6610 info@eclektica.ca www.eclektica.ca ELISSA CRISTALL GALLERIES 2243 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G1 T. 604-730-9611 info@cristallgallery.com www.cristallgallery.com ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY 1-258 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1A6 T. 604-736-3282 F. 604-736-3282 gallery@elliottlouis.com www.elliottlouis.com Recently moved, the gallery features Canadian fine art representing contemporary artists and historical masters. Art dealer Ted Lederer prides himself on the standard and diversity of work the gallery carries, their innovative programs and excellent service, providing â&#x20AC;&#x153;in-houseâ&#x20AC;? art consultations and an art rental program available to private and corporate clients and the entertainment industry. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun 11 am - 5 pm. EQUINOX GALLERY 2321 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-736-2405 F. 604-736-0464 equinoxgallery@telus.net www.equinoxgallery.com EXPOSURE GALLERY 754 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC V5T 1X9 T. 604-688-9501 exposuregallery@shaw.ca www.exposure-gallery.com FEDERATION GALLERY 1241 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC V6H 4B7 T. 604-681-8534 fcagallery@artists.ca www.artists.ca The Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery on Granville Island offers sale, exhibition and gallery rental opportunities to members. New exhibitions are usually scheduled every two weeks throughout the year. Tues to Sun 10 am - 5 pm (mid-May - Aug), 10 am - 4 pm (Sep - mid May). GALA GALLERY 2432 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1L2 T. 604-913-1059 galagallery@telus.net www.galagallery.ca The gallery features original contemporary Canadian and international art: paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and glass. It focuses on works with established market values â&#x20AC;&#x201D; often through recorded auction results â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a potential for further appreciation. Tue to Sat 10 am to 5:30 pm, Sunday noon to 5 pm, and by appt. GALLERY FOURTEEN 614 Columbia St, New Westminster, BC V3M 1A5 T. 604-519-1815 melissa@galleryfourteen.com www.galleryfourteen.com GALLERY JONES 1725 West 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1K7 T. 604-714-2216 info@galleryjones.com www.galleryjones.com The gallery represents established and emerging Canadian and international artists in the mediums of painting, sculpture and photography. The gallery directors have 40 years experience in international
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art dealing and they love the art they show. Exhibitions change monthly. Tues - Fri 11 am - 6 pm, Sat noon - 5 pm. GALLERY OF BC CERAMICS 1359 Cartwright St, Granville Island Vancouver, BC V6H 3R7 T. 604-669-3606 galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com www.bcpotters.com/Gallery_Home.htm HARRISON GALLERIES 901 Homer St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2W6 T. 604-732-5217 F. 604-732-0911 info@harrisongalleries.com www.harrisongalleries.com HASTY HAWK GALLERY 802 East Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1R6 T. 778-371-3189 maddogdallmann@yahoo.ca www.gerrydallman.com HAVANA GALLERY 1212 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3X4 T. 604-253-9119 F. 604-253-9181 www.havana-art.com HEFFEL GALLERY LTD 2247 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G1 T. 604-732-6505 F. 604-732-4245 mail@heffel.com www.heffel.com HILLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NATIVE ART 165 Water St (Gastown), Vancouver, BC V6B 1A7 T. 604-685-4249 F. 604-637-0098 info@hillsnativeart.com www.hillsnativeart.com HOUSE OF THE SPIRIT BEAR GALLERY 3957 Main St, Vancouver, BC V5V 3P3 T. 604-708-4114 info@houseofthespiritbear.com www.houseofthespiritbear.com Like the Main street at their door, the gallery is about exploring and experiencing the vibrant pulse of the new Canada. It offers a new vista in First Nations art â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from a glimpse into the spirit journey of Norval Morrisseau to a vista of horizons painted by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. Tues to Fri noon - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.
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HOWE STREET GALLERY OF FINE ART 555 Howe St, Vancouver, BC V5C 2C2 T. 604-681-5777 F. 604-605-8577 info@howestreetgallery.com www.howestreetgallery.com IAN TAN GALLERY 2202 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 4H7 T. 604-738-1077 F. 604-738-1078 info@iantangallery.com www.iantangallery.com INUIT GALLERY OF VANCOUVER 206 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2M9 T. 604-688-7323 Toll Free: 888-615-8399 gallery@inuit.com www.inuit.com Presenting Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foremost collection of masterwork Inuit art and exceptional Northwest Coast Native art since 1979. A tradition of presenting important exhibitions of Canadian aboriginal art, featuring new works by senior artists and exploring the work of the talented next generation of artists. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun 11 am - 5 pm. ISABELLA EGAN GALLERY 212 Abbott St, Vancouver, BC V6K 3B8 T. 604-669-7557 contact@isabellaegangallery.com www.isabellaegangallery.com Bringing Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban chic image to Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gastown, the gallery introduces new artists from the province and around the world to local collectors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both those wishing to develop an existing collection and those taking first steps to becoming an art collector. A consultancy service advises clients on optimizing collections to taste and investment preferences. Wed noon - 5 pm; Thur, Fri till 7 pm; Sat, Sun 10 am - 5 pm. JACANA GALLERY 2435 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5 T. 604-879-9306 jacana@jacanagallery.com www.jacanagallery.com Jacana Gallery opened in Vancouver in 2000. The Gallery proudly represents more than 20 Canadian and international artists working in various media
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and styles. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. JEFFREY BOONE GALLERY 140 - 1 East Cordova St., Vancouver, BC V6A 4H3 T. 604-838-6816 Jeffrey@JeffreyBooneGallery.com www.JeffreyBooneGallery.com JEM GALLERY 225 Broadway St East, Vancouver, BC V5T 1W4 T. 604-879-5366 info@jemgallery.com www.jemgallery.com JENKINS SHOWLER GALLERY 1539 Johnston Rd, White Rock, BC V4B 3Z6 T. 604-535-7445 mail@jenkinsshowlergallery.com www.jenkinsshowlergallery.com Established in 1990, representing important traditional and significant contemporary Canadian artists, this eclectic gallery features quality original works of art - paintings, sculptures and works on paper. They assist both first-time buyers and seasoned collectors in making informed choices for their personal or corporate collections. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm. JENNIFER KOSTUIK GALLERY 1070 Homer St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2W9 T. 604-737-3969 F. 604-737-3964 info@kostuikgallery.com www.kostuikgallery.com JOYCE WILLIAMS GALLERY 114-1118 Homer St, Vancouver, BC V6B 6L5 T. 604-688-7434 williamsclark@shaw.ca www.jwprintsandmaps.com This antique print and map gallery was established in 1979. A past president of the BC Map Society, and a member of I.M.C.O.S., Joyce Williams has been selling books and etchings by Charles Van Sandwyk for 22 years. She also has a good selection of botanicals, architecturals, views, and natural history. Partner Don Clark has specialized in Japanese Woodblock Prints for over 30 years. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm.
NEW GALLERIES In Gastown, Monica Reyes has created a new, permanent location for her Back Gallery Project, and Isabella Egan has recently opened her own gallery of the same name, while Celine Rumalean chose Yaletown for her Numen Gallery.
Lions Bay Centre, 350 Centre Rd Lions Bay, BC V0N 2E0 T. 604-921-7865 F. 604-921-7865 mtick@telus.net www.LionsBayArtGallery.com At the former Studio Art Gallery, clients are encouraged to regard art as an emotional as well as financial investment. Artists’ work can be viewed on the website and brought for approval to locations on the Lower Mainland, or the gallery ships all over the world. Located only 10 minutes past Horseshoe Bay on the Squamish Highway. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat till 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm or by appointment. MARILYN S. MYLREA STUDIO ART GALLERY 2341 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-736-2450 F. 604-736-2458 mmylrea@telus.net www.marilynmylrea.com MARION SCOTT GALLERY 308 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1B6 T. 604-685-1934 F. 604-685-1890 art@marionscottgallery.com www.marionscottgallery.com Vancouver’s oldest Inuit art gallery (opened in 1975) and one of Canada’s most respected has relocated to Water St in Gastown. The gallery is committed to presenting the finest in Canadian Inuit art, with a wide range of Inuit sculpture, prints and wallhangings from many different regions of Canada’s North, with special emphasis on rare pieces from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sun 10 am - 5 pm. MARSHALL CLARK DALL GALLERY 1373 Johnston Rd, White Rock, BC V4B 3Z7 T. 604-536-5821 F. 604-536-5861 info@marshallclarkdall.com www.marshallclarkdall.com MODPOD ART GALLERY 119-1058 Mainland St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2T4 T. 604-961-8659 sales@modpodart.ca www.modpodart.ca MONNY’S GALLERY 2675 W 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6K 1P8 T. 604-733-2082 monny@shaw.ca www.geocities.com/monnysenvisiongallery/ index.html This gallery of longtime collector Monny, has a permanent collection as well as a rotating schedule of exhibitions by local artists Kerensa Haynes, Ted Hesketh, Sonja Kobrehel, Shu Okamoto, Ruth Lowe and others working in a variety of media. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. MONTE CLARK GALLERY 2339 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-730-5000 F. 604-730-5050 info@monteclarkgallery.com www.monteclarkgallery.com
KURBATOFF ART GALLERY 2427 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5 T. 604-736-5444 F. 604-736-5444 art@kurbatoffgallery.com www.kurbatoffgallery.com
MOONCRUISE* GALLERY 235 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1E5 T. 604-685-9575 mooncruisegallery@gmail.com www.mooncruisegallery.com
LATTIMER GALLERY 1590 W 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1H2 T. 604-732-4556 F. 604-732-0873 info@lattimergallery.com www.lattimergallery.com Since 1986, clients have enjoyed the unique, warm atmosphere of a Northwest Longhouse while browsing the large selection of original paintings and limited edition prints by many well-known native artists — as well as finely-crafted gold and silver jewellery, argillite carvings, soapstone sculptures, steam bent boxes, masks, totem poles and more. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun & Hol noon - 5 pm.
NEW-SMALL & STERLING GLASS STUDIO 1440 Old Bridge Rd (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC V6H 3S6 T. 604-681-6730 F. 604-681-6747 glass@paralynx.com www.hotstudioglass.com
LINDALANDO FINE ART 2001 W 41 Ave, Vancouver, BC V6M 1Y7 T. 604-266-6010 F. 604-266-6010 info@lindalandofineart.com www.lindalandofineart.com Specializing in Canadian historical paintings as well as representing many fine artists, both local and national. Quality historical works by the Group of Seven, Canadian Group of Painters and many of Canada’s early impressionists can often be found there. Clients are invited to peruse Canadian art books and paintings and to enjoy the visual, cultural education offered. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. LIONS BAY ART GALLERY PO Box 396, West Vancouver, BC, V0N 2E0
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NUMEN GALLERY 120-1058 Mainland St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2T4 T. 604-630-6927 info@numengallery.com www.numengallery.com A unique selection of ceramics, glass, jewellery, fibre and sculptural art by BC artists in the heart of Yaletown. Tues to Sat 11 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm, Mon by appt. ODI GALLERY 883 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2R7 T. 604-683-6220 info@odigallery.com www.odigallery.com OMEGA GALLERY 4290 Dunbar St (at 27 Ave) Vancouver, BC V6S 2E9 T. 604-732-6778 F. 604-732-6898 mail@omegagallery.ca www.omegagallery.ca The gallery is known for its diverse selection of qual-
ity original art, exhibiting the works of both rising and well-established artists — with contemporary as well as historical Canadian works. The custom framing department offers only conservation material with an exceptional selection of mouldings. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. PETER OHLER FINE ART 2095 W 44 Ave, Vancouver, BC V6M 2G1 T. 604-263-9051 PETLEY JONES GALLERY 2235 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G1 T. 604-732-5353 F. 604-732-5669 info@petleyjones.com www.petleyjones.com Established in 1986 by Matt Petley-Jones, nephew of the late Canadian and British artist Llewellyn Petley-Jones, the gallery specializes in 19th and 20th century Canadian, European and American paintings, sculpture, and original prints. It also offers a range of fine art services, including framing, restoration and appraisals. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. RED GALLERIA 2152 Main St. (at 6th), Vancouver, BC V5T 3C5 T. 604-872-8873 F. 604-872-8846 info@redgalleria.net www.redgalleria.net Red Galleria owners Jason To and Linh Diep have travelled through Asia in search of fine quality art pieces — unique paintings, hand-painted lamps, vases and more. Each is carefully hand chosen with excellent craftsmanship. Their aim is to create inviting, natural and calm spaces with modern zen accents. Painting commissions welcomed. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun 11 am - 4 pm. RENDEZVOUS ART GALLERY 323 Howe St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3N2 T. 604-687-7466 F. 604-687-7466 Toll Free: 877-787-7466 info@rendezvousartgallery.com www.rendezvousartgallery.com Recently relocated north on Howe to Cordova, this vibrant gallery represents more than 40 talented Canadian artists, some of whom are exclusive to Rendezvous. Contemporary and traditional paintings and sculptures are displayed in an atmosphere conducive to viewing fine works of art. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun 11 am - 5 pm. REPUBLIC GALLERY 732 Richards St, Third Floor Vancouver, BC V6B 3A1 T. 604-632-1590 F. 604-632-1580 blaine@republicgallery.com www.republicgallery.com ROBERT HELD ART GLASS 2130 Pine St, Vancouver, BC V6J 5B1 T. 604-737-0020 F. 604-737-0052 info@robertheld.com www.robertheld.com Robert Held Art Glass is Canada’s largest hot glass studio and gallery. Every piece that leaves the studio receives the same care and attention from the artisans, whether a one-of-a-kind vase or a beautiful paperweight. Visit and watch the glassblowers at work. Mon to Sat 9 am - 5 pm, Sun noon till 5 pm.
NEW (OLD) NAME The Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery has returned to its original Third Avenue Gallery name under the direction of Michael Bjornson. SHARING THE SPIRIT NATIVE ART GALLERY 232-757 W Hastings St, Sinclair Centre Vancouver, BC V6C 1A1 T. 604-438-1111 F. 604-437-4511 SPIRIT WRESTLER GALLERY 47 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1A1 T. 604-669-8813 F. 604-669-8116 info@spiritwrestler.com www.spiritwrestler.com THE IRONWORKS 235 Alexander St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1C2 T. 604-681-5033 F. 604-681-5033 theironworks@theironworks.ca www.theironworks.ca THIRD AVENUE GALLERY 1727 W 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1K7
T. 604-738-3500 F. 604-738-0204 info@tag.bc.ca www.tag.bc.ca The Third Avenue Gallery returns under the direction of Michael Bjornson representing emerging and established, contemporary Canadian artists. It exhibits visually stimulating art, emanating from leading edge, creative thinking and expression. Exhibition emphasis is on artists who express visual and intellectual poignancy, creatively and aesthetically. Wed to Fri noon - 6 pm, Sat noon - 5 pm. TRACEY LAWRENCE GALLERY 1531 W 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 16 T. 604-730-2875 F. 604-730-2870 info@traceylawrencegallery.com www.traceylawrencegallery.com TRIBAL SPIRIT GALLERY 20435 Fraser Highway, Langley, BC V3A 4G3 T. 604-514-2377 F. 604-514-9281 Toll Free: 888-834-8757 jaye@tribalspiritgallery.com www.tribalspiritgallery.com Tribal Spirit Gallery represents fine First Nations art of the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. In addition to viewing cultural artifacts, visitors are invited to stroll through the 2000 sq. ft. commercial gallery celebrating the achievements of contemporary Northwest Coast First Nations artists. Located near the Cascades Casino and Hotel. Open Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm. TRUNK GALLERY 1755 West Third Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1K7 T. 604-739-0800 F. 604-669-0829 info@trunkgallery.ca www.trunkgallery.ca Established in 2007 within the auto/ONE showroom, TRUNK gallery features original, two-dimensional artworks in a variety of media including painting, photography, mixed media and works on paper. TRUNK’s aim is to engage and educate those who are new to the contemporary art scene. Mon to Fri noon - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm or by appointment. UNO LANGMANN GALLERY 2117 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3E9 T. 604-736-8825 F. 604-736-8826 Toll Free: 800-730-8825 jeanette@langmann.com www.langmann.com This internationally recognized gallery is Canada’s foremost specialist in the finest quality European and North American paintings from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The elegant, neo-classical surroundings of the gallery also showcase a careful selection of antique furniture, silver and objets d’art. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm or by appt. VAN DOP GALLERY 421 Richmond St, New Westminster, BC V3L 4C4 T. 604-521-7887 F. 604-293-6625 Toll Free: 888-981-9886 info@vandopgallery.com www.vandopgallery.com WESTBRIDGE FINE ART 1737 Fir St, Vancouver, BC V6J 5J9 T. 604-736-1014 F. 604-734-4944 info@westbridge-fineart.com www.westbridge-fineart.com WESTWIND ART GALLERY 20460 Fraser Highway, Langley, BC V3A 4G2 T. 604-530-4833 info@westwindartgallery.ca www.westwindartgallery.ca With over 30 years experience, this 6000 sq ft gallery offers original paintings and limited edition prints as well as carvings and bronzes — all by artists based in BC or Alberta — along with contemporary western art from award winning and internationally recognized BC artists. Custom and conservation framing, worldwide shipping. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm. WHITE ROCK GALLERY 1247 Johnston Rd, White Rock, BC V3B 3Y9 T. 604-538-4452 F. 604-538-4453 Toll Free: 877-974-4278 info@whiterockgallery.com www.whiterockgallery.com Offering an extraordinary selection of original paintings, serigraphs, etchings, ceramics, bronzes and stone sculpture by artists from across Canada since 1989. Custom framing service includes a large selection of Italian hand-finished mouldings. Personal attention. Home-like atmosphere. Tue - Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.
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WINSOR GALLERY 3025 Granville, Vancouver, BC V6H 3J9 T. 604-681-4870 F. 604-681-4878 info@winsorgallery.com www.winsorgallery.com Cooperative Galleries CIRCLE CRAFT GALLERY 1-1666 Johnston St (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC V6H 3S2 T. 604-669-8021 F. 604-669-8585 shop@circlecraft.net www.circlecraft.net
ASIAN CENTRE 1871 West Mall, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 T. 604-822-3114 F. 604-822-5597 ubcilo@interchange.ubc.ca www.ubcinternational.ubc.ca/asian_centre. htm BELKIN ART GALLERY 1825 Main Mall, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 T. 604-822-2759 F. 604-822-6689 belkin@interchange.ubc.ca www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca
CRAFTHOUSE GALLERY 1386 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R8 T. 604-687-7270 F. 604-687-6711 cabc@telus.net www.cabc.net
BELKIN SATELLITE 555 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2R1 T. 604-687-3174 F. 604-822-6689 www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca
DUNDARAVE PRINT WORKSHOP AND GALLERY 1640 Johnston St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S2 T. 604-689-1650 info@dundaraveprintworkshop.ca www.dundaraveprintworkshop.ca The DPW Gallery is a 230 square foot space devoted to the exhibition of contemporary fine art original prints. The gallery hosts members’ exhibitions throughout the year and also stocks an extensive and varied selection of affordable prints, representing a wide range of subject matter and print techniques. Fri to Sun 11 am - 5 pm (also Thurs in Apr/ May plus Wed in Jun to Sep).
BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART 639 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6C 2G3 T. 604-682-3455 F. 604-682-3310 billreidfoundation@gmail.com www.billreidgallery.ca The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art is Vancouver’s newest public art gallery and the downtown home for Aboriginal art, culture, and learning. The gallery houses permanent collections of Bill Reid and offers rotating exhibitions of Northwest Coast artists in two of the three galleries. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat, Sun 11 am - 5 pm. (Winter: Thur to Sun noon - 5 pm; students and tours by appt.)
EILEEN FONG GALLERY 2035-88 W Pender St, Tinsel Town Mall Vancouver, BC V6B 6N9 T. 778-889-4057 info@coopgallery.com www.coopgallery.com
BURNABY ART GALLERY 6344 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby, BC V5G 2J3 T. 604-297-4414 F. 604-205-7339 gallery@city.burnaby.bc.ca www.burnabyartgallery.ca
FIBREESSENCE GALLERY 3210 Dunbar St, Vancouver, BC V6S 2B7 T. 604-738-1282 fibreessence@fibreessence.ca www.fibreessence.ca GRANVILLE ISLAND GALLERY 1494-4 Old Bridge St (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC V6H 3S6 T. 604-725-7515 info@GranvilleIslandGallery.com www.GranvilleIslandGallery.com LITTLE MOUNTAIN STUDIOS 195 E 26 Ave, Vancouver, BC V5V 2K4 T. 604-551-2284 littlemountainstudios@gmail.com MALASPINA PRINTMAKERS GALLERY 1555 Duranleau St (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC V6H 3S3 T. 604-688-1724 mpsprint@telus.net www.malaspinaprintmakers.com This intimate gallery, with an adjacent studio, features outstanding original hand-pulled prints. Exhibitions change monthly and feature contemporary printmaking from artists across Canada and internationally. Knowledgable staff can also help choose from over 1000 original prints made by its members in the Malaspina studio. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat and Sun 11 am - 5 pm. PEMBERTON STUDIOS 6-1583 Pemberton Ave North Vancouver, BC V7P 2S4 T. 604-454-1475 u.salemink-roos@shaw.ca WOOD CO-OP 1592 Johnston St (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC V6H 3S2 T. 604-408-2553 F. 604-408-2553 Toll Free: 877-966-3500 promo@woodco-op.com www.woodco-op.com Public Galleries AMELIA DOUGLAS ART GALLERY 700 Royal Ave, PO Box 2503 New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 T. 604-527-5723 www.douglas.bc.ca/community/art-gallery. html ART GALLERY AT EVERGREEN CULTURAL CENTRE 1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, BC V3B 7Y3 T. 604-927-6550 F. 604-927-6559 ellenv@evergreenculturalcentre.ca www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca/ Art+Gallery/default.htm
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www.richmondartgallery.org The Richmond Art Gallery plays a dynamic role in the growth of visual art in Richmond, and is a vital part of the contemporary art network in BC and Canada. Through excellence in exhibitions and education, the RAG strives to enhance an understanding and enjoyment of contemporary art. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat and Sun 10 am - 5 pm. SIDNEY AND GERTRUDE ZACK GALLERY 950 West 41 Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2N7 T. 604-257-5111 F. 604-257-5119 reisa@jccgv.bc.ca www.jccgv.com/home/cultural_art.htm SILK PURSE GALLERY 1570 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1A1 T. 604-975-7292 F. 604-922-8294 westvanartscouncil@shaw.ca www.silkpurse.ca/gallery.html
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VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7 T. 604-662-4700 F. 604-682-1086 info@vanartgallery.bc.ca www.vanartgallery.bc.ca The largest art gallery in Western Canada is a focal point of downtown Vancouver. Presenting a full range of contemporary artists and major historical masters, it is recognized internationally for its superior exhibitions and excellent interactive education programs and houses a permanent collection of almost 7,000 works of art. Tues to Sun & Hols 10 am - 5:30 pm, Thur 10 am - 9 pm. VECC GALLERY 1895 Venables St, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6 T. 604-251-1363 F. 604-251-1730 info@vecc.bc.ca www.vecc.bc.ca
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY GALLERY 8888 University Dr, AQ 3004 Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 T. 778-782-4266 F. 778-782-3029 gallery@sfu.ca www.sfu.ca/gallery
WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17 St, West Vancouver, BC V7V 3T2 T. 604-925-7295 www.wvma.net
SURREY ART GALLERY 13750 88 Ave, Surrey, BC V3W 3L1 T. 604-501-5566 F. 604-501-5581 artgallery@surrey.ca www.arts.surrey.ca
Artist-run Gallery GALLERY VERTIGO #1 (upstairs) 3001 31 St, Vernon, BC V1T 5H8 T. 250-503-2297 info@galleryvertigo.com www.galleryvertigo.com
TECK GALLERY (SFU VANCOUVER CAMPUS) 515 West Hastings St, Vancouver, BC T. 778-782-4266 F. 778-782-3029 gallery@sfu.ca www.sfu.ca/gallery
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www.ashpanairagallery.com Located in Killiney on the west side of Okanagan Lake, this contemporary art gallery and studio, owned by artist Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante, features original art in a home and garden setting. Discover a diverse group of emerging and established Okanagan and Canadian artists in painting, textiles, sculpture and ceramics. Open May 1 to October 15. Fri to Sun 10 am - 6 pm or by appt.
NEW GALLERY Maureen Flanagan (former owner of the Caswell-Lawrence Gallery) has opened the contemporary View Art Gallery in downtown Victoria. Public Gallery VERNON ART GALLERY 3228 31 Ave, Vernon, BC V1T 2H3 T. 250-545-3173 F. 250-545-9096 vernonartgallery@shawbiz.ca www.galleries.bc.ca/vernon/ VICTORIA Artist-run Galleries MINISTRY OF CASUAL LIVING 1442 Haultain St., Victoria, BC V8R 2J9 lacroixthomas@hotmail.com www.ministryofcasualliving.ca OPEN SPACE 510 Fort Street, 2nd floor, Victoria, BC V8W 1E6 T. 250-383-8833 F. 250-383-8841
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openspace@openspace.ca www.openspace.ca For over thirty years, Open Space has been a substantive entity for professional artists who utilize hybrid and experimental approaches to art-making, as well as a touchstone for young and emerging artists. It reflects the wide diversity of contemporary art practices in Victoria, across Canada and beyond. Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm. THE FIFTY FIFTY ARTS COLLECTIVE 2516 Douglas St, Victoria, BC V8T 4M1 thefiftyfifty@gmail.com thefiftyfifty.net/ Commercial Galleries ALCHERINGA GALLERY 665 Fort St, Victoria, BC V8W 1G6 T. 250-383-8224 F. 250-383-9399 alcheringa@islandnet.com www.alcheringa-gallery.com For 30 years, the gallery has exhibited contemporary tribal art from Papua New Guinea and later, graphic works by Aboriginal Australian artists and premium-quality work by established and emerging First Nation’s artists of Canada’s Northwest Coast. In the South Pacific, the work of master carvers still living a village lifestyle is selected on-site by gallery staff. Mon to Sat 9:30 am 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. AVENUE GALLERY 2184 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1G3 T. 250-598-2184 F. 250-598-2185 info@theavenuegallery.com www.theavenuegallery.com Especially noted for finding and establishing new talent, the gallery considers itself a showcase for contemporary British Columbia, Canadian and in-
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NEW OWNER Alison Trembath bought Dales Gallery last fall, endured a serious flood and is now pleased to share the extensive renovations — in keeping with new gallery directions. DALES GALLERY 537 Fisgard St, Victoria, BC V8W 1R3 T. 250-383-1552 F. 250-383-1552 dalesgallery@shaw.ca www.dalesgallery.ca EAGLE FEATHER GALLERY 904 Gordon St, Victoria, BC V8W 1Z8 T. 250-388-4330 F. 250-388-4328 info@eaglefeathergallery.com www.eaglefeathergallery.com HILL’S NATIVE ART 1008 Government Street, Victoria, BC V8W 1X7 T. 250-385-3911 F. 250-385-5371 Toll Free: 866-685-5422 info@hillsnativeart.com www.hillsnativeart.com MARTIN BATCHELOR GALLERY 712 Cormorant St, Victoria, BC V8W 1P8 T. 250-385-7919 mbatch@telus.net MAY IP-LAM GALLERY 655A Herald St, Victoria, BC V8W 3L6 T. 250-384-1629 mayiplam@telus.net Chinese brush paintings by May Ip-Lam, Anna Au and Alice Mac; Chinese drybrush paintings by PC Lam; wood and lino cuts by Eleanor Kobley; oil pastels by Robert Chouinard. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. MORRIS GALLERY 428 Burnside Rd E (on Alpha) Victoria, BC V8T 2X1 T. 250-388-6652 F. 250-386-6612 lance@morrisgallery.ca www.morrisgallery.ca Early drawings and watercolors by Myfanwy Spencer-Pavelic; innovative “suspended acrylics” by Terrance Finnie; boldly coloured acrylics by Linda Molloy; colorful west coast watercolors by Joanne Thomson; west coast images in soft pastels by D.F. Gray; diverse paintings by Jan Brouwer; handpulled serigraphs by Roy Henry Vickers. Openings on last Friday. Custom framing. Tues to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm. ON CANVAS 538-B Yates St, Victoria, BC V8W 1K8 T. 250-385-8090 F. 250-385-8090 oncanvas@telus.net www.oncanvasartgallery.com Over the last five years On Canvas has attracted a wide range of artists and art lovers up the stairs to where its brick walls, wooden floors and skylit ceiling resonate with the soul of old Victoria while offering an exciting venue for quality art. The gallery features artworks by local artists in a range of media and styles from modern to contemporary. Tues to Sun 11 am - 5 pm. P.S. GALLERY AT PLACE 3-3690 Shelbourne St, Victoria, BC V8P 4H2 T. 250-381-3488 F. 250-381-3466 info@placemodernliving.com www.placemodernliving.com
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SOOKE HARBOUR HOUSE GALLERY 1528 Whiffen Spit Rd, Sooke, BC V9Z 0T4 T. 250-642-3421 F. 250-642-6988 gallery@sookeharbourhouse.com www.artgallery.sookeharbourhouse.com/ index.htm Displayed throughout this award-winning inn, with its internationally-renowned dining room, the unconventional gallery was created in 1998 with carefully selected works by local artists on Vancouver Island. The art, in a variety of media, generally reflects themes of edible gardens, the ocean and the surrounding forest. Daily guided Garden Tours with art display in the Edible Gardens. Gallery open daily for self-guided tour.
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THE GALLERY AT MATTICK’S FARM 109-5325 Cordova Bay Rd, Victoria, BC V8Y 2L3 T. 250-658-8333 F. 250-658-8373 dawnmscott@shaw.ca THE GALLERY IN OAK BAY VILLAGE 2223A Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1G4 T. 250-598-9890 F. 250-592-5528 thegallery@shaw.ca Just a short distance from downtown in the picturesque Oak Bay Village, the gallery shows a variety of works by mostly local artists including Kathryn Amisson, Sid and Jesi Baron, Andres Bohaker, Bryony Wynne Boutillier, Tom Dickson, Robert Genn, Caren Heine, Harry Heine, Shawn A. Jackson, Brian R. Johnson, David Ladmore, Jack Livesey, Dorothy McKay, Bill McKibben, Ernst Marza, Hal Moldstad, Ron Parker, Natasha Perks. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 3 pm. THE LIGHTHOUSE GALLERY 45 Bastion Square, Victoria, BC V8W 1J1 T. 250-381-2781 Toll Free: 800-381-2981 lighthouse_gallery@telus.net VIEW ART GALLERY 104-860 View St, Victoria, BC V8W 3Z8 T. 250-213-1162 viewartgallery.victoria@gmail.com www.viewartgallery.com View Art is a new gallery in the Harris Green neighbourhood of downtown Victoria, a short stroll from the major hotels and downtown shops. The focus of the gallery is contemporary modern paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and new media. Tues to Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm or by appointment. WEST END GALLERY 1203 Broad Street, Victoria, BC V8W 2A4 T. 250-388-0009 info@westendgalleryltd.com www.westendgalleryltd.com First established in Edmonton in 1975, Dan and Lana Hudon opened a second Gallery located in the heart of downtown Victoria in 1994. Visitors are encouraged to explore and select from a wide range of styles and prices, from emerging to established artists and to purchase with confidence. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun/Holidays noon - 4 pm.
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WINCHESTER GALLERIES 2260 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1G7 T. 250-595-2777 F. 250-595-2310 art@winchestergalleriesltd.com www.winchestergalleriesltd.com Exclusive fine art dealers handling Canadian historical and contemporary art. Opened in 1974, the gallery has been under the ownership of Gunter H.J. Heinrich and Anthony R.H. Sam since 1994 and in 2003 has moved to its own building in Oak Bay Village. They regularly run major exhibitions of two to three weeks both here and in a second downtown gallery. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. Cooperative Galleries GALLERY OF ARTISANS 811 Fort St, Victoria, BC V8W 1H6 T. 250-380-9505 dalnor@shaw.ca GOWARD HOUSE 2495 Arbutus Rd, Victoria, BC V8N 1V9 T. 250-477-4401 gowardhouse@shaw.ca www.gowardhouse.com Public Galleries ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA 1040 Moss Street, Victoria, BC V8V 4P1 T. 250-384-4101 F. 250-361-3995 communications@aggv.bc.ca www.aggv.bc.ca Engaging, challenging and inspiring! Victoria’s public art museum presents a variety of visual art
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experiences, media and cultures through historical to contemporary art from Asia, Europe and Canada — including the work of BC’s premiere landscape artist, Emily Carr, portrayed through paintings, writings and photographs. Mon to Sun 10 am - 5 pm, Thurs until 9 pm. COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER VICTORIA G6-1001 Douglas St, Victoria, BC V8W 2C5 T. 250-381-2787 F. 250-383-9155 info@cacgv.ca www.cacgv.ca DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ART 636 Yates St, Victoria, BC V8W 1L3 T. 250-385-3327 delugeart@shaw.ca www.antimatter.ws LEGACY GALLERY AND CAFÉ 630 Yates St, Victoria, BC V8W 1K9 T. 250-381-7670 maltpub@finearts.uvic.ca www.legacygallery.ca Recently opened, the gallery features works from the collection of the University of Victoria, including paintings, drawings and sculptures by some of the best-known artists of the Pacific Northwest, bequeathed by Dr. Michael C. Williams. CafÉ and gift shop. Wed to Sun 10 am - 5:30 pm. MALTWOOD ART MUSEUM AND GALLERY Box 3025 Stn CSC, University Centre, B155-380 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC V8W 3P2
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New to Whistler — Mountain Galleries was founded in 1992, a favourite stop for collectors of Canadian art. Now with three locations and 5,000 square feet of exhibition space. The mission of the gallery is to support Western Canadian artists, both well-established and mid-career. This commercial gallery features a museum quality collection of painting, sculpture and other treasures. Daily 10 am - 10 pm. THE PATH GALLERY 122-4338 Main St, Whistler, BC V0N 1B4 T. 604-932-7570 info@pathgallery.com www.pathgallery.com THE PLAZA GALLERIES 22-4314 Main St, Whistler, BC V0N 1B4 T. 604-938-6233 F. 604-938-6235 info@plazagalleries.com www.plazagalleries.com WHISTLER VILLAGE ART GALLERY 4050 Whistler Way, Whistler, BC V0N 1B4 T. 604-938-3001 F. 604-938-3113 info@whistlerart.com www.whistlerart.com
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MANITOBA GALLERIES BRANDON Public Galleries ART GALLERY OF SOUTHWESTERN MANITOBA 710 Rosser Ave, Suite 2, Brandon, MB R7A 0K9 T. 204-727-1036 F. 204-726-8139 director.agsm@mts.net www.agsm.ca Tracing its roots back to 1890, the gallery’s mission is to lead in visual art production, presentation, promotion and education in western Manitoba. Its focus is on contemporary art while respecting local heritage and culture. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Thurs till 9 pm. GLEN P SUTHERLAND GALLERY 2021 Victoria Ave, Brandon University Brandon, MB T. 204-727-9750 cutschallc@brandonu.ca www.brandonu.ca/Academic/Arts/ Departments/Aboriginal/places/artworks.asp CHURCHILL
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Commercial Gallery MERMAID’S KISS GALLERY PO Box 509, 85 Fourth Ave, Gimli, MB R0C 1B0 T. 204-642-7453 lakemail@mts.net www.mermaidskissgallery.com Just an hour’s scenic drive north from Winnipeg the gallery presents an eclectic mix of original art in painting, pottery, photography, raku, fibre and jewellery. Established and emerging artists take their inspiration from the lake and surrounding areas. Also offering archival giclÉe printing, photo restoration, certified custom conservation framing. Mon, Thur to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm. PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE Public Gallery PORTAGE & DISTRICT ARTS CENTRE GALLERY & GIFT SHOP 11 2 St NE, Portage la Prairie, MB R1N 1R8 T. 204-239-6029 pdac@mts.net www.portageartscentre.ca The gallery features a new exhibition or installation each month, showcasing works from Manitoba and across the country. The gift shop offers art supplies as well as a mix of original art including pottery, photography, stained glass, wildfowl carvings and paintings by local and regional artists. Located within the William Glesby Centre. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. WINNIPEG Artist-run Galleries ACEARTINC. 290 McDermot Ave - 2nd Flr Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T2 T. 204-944-9763 F. 204-944-9101 gallery@aceart.org www.aceart.org GRAFFITI GALLERY 109 Higgins Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0B5 T. 204-667-9960 F. 204-949-0696 info@graffitigallery.ca www.graffitigallery.ca PLATFORM: CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC & DIGITAL ARTS 121-100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3 T. 204-942-8183 F. 204-942-1555 info@platformgallery.org www.platformgallery.org THE LABEL GALLERY 510 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3C 3X1 T. 204-772-5165 alabelforartists@hotmail.com URBAN SHAMAN 203 - 290 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T2 T. 204-942-2674 F. 204-944-9577 ushaman@escape.ca www.urbanshaman.org/ VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS CENTRE 300-100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3 T. 204-949-9134 F. 204-942-1555 vpadmin@videopool.org www.videopool.org Commercial Galleries BAYAT INUIT GALLERY 163 Stafford St, Winnipeg, MB R3M 2W9 T. 204-475-5873 F. 204-284-1481 Toll Free: 888-884-6948 bayat@inuitgallery.com www.inuitgallery.com BIRCHWOOD ART GALLERY 6-1170 Taylor Ave, Grant Park Festival Winnipeg, MB R3M 3Z4 T. 204-888-5840 F. 204-888-5604 Toll Free: 800-822-5840 info@birchwoodartgallery.com www.birchwoodartgallery.com Specializing in originals, prints, sculptures and bronzes, featuring a large selection of Manitoba and international artists. Art restoration and cleaning service, custom conservation framing. Insured international shipping, fine art leasing and rentals, commissions available upon request. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Wed till 8 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm. GALLERY 803 803 Erin St, Winnipeg, MB R3G 2W2 T. 204-489-0872 Toll Free: 866-352-6763 gallery@gallery-803.com www.gallery-803.com
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GALLERY LACOSSE 169 Lilac St, Winnipeg, MB R3M 2S1 T. 204-284-0726 www.tlacosse.com Located in a historic area known for its restaurants and indie boutiques, Gallery Lacosse celebrates Manitoba Art and its place in the Canadian creative landscape. Always unique and original the art represented may be traditional, contemporary, decorative, abstract, representational, or functional. Up-to-date website highlights artists, events and promotions. Tues to Fri 11 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm. GARRY STREET GALLERY 57-81 Garry St, Winnipeg, MB R3C 4J9 T. 204-221-3795 vromanow@hotmail.com www.garrystreetgallery.com Garry Street Gallery carries original art from both established and less well-known artists working in an eclectic mix of oils, acrylic, watercolour, photography and mixed media. Director Val Romanow believes that nothing brings more inspiration, happiness and peace than a treasured image seen every day. In Fort Garry Place mall near Fort Garry Hotel, Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, and by appt. KEN SEGAL GALLERY 4-433 River Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3L 2V1 T. 204-477-4527 ksegal@kensegalgallery.com www.kensegalgallery.com The gallery has evolved into a showcase for contemporary art and is especially noted for finding and establishing new talent, although some of their artists are already represented in personal and corporate art collections. The gallery serves corporate and private collectors as well as offering friendly access to those who are new to the contemporary art scene. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm; Sat 10 am - 5 pm. LOCH GALLERY 306 St. Mary’s Road, Winnipeg, MB R2H 1J8 T. 204-235-1033 F. 204-235-1036 info@lochgallery.com www.lochgallery.com Established in 1972, the Loch Gallery specializes in building collections of quality Canadian, American, British and European paintings and sculpture. It represents original 19th and 20th century artwork of collectable and historic interest, as well as a select group of gifted professional artists from across Canada including Ivan Eyre, Leo Mol, Peter Sawatzky, Anna Wiechec, Philip Craig and Carol Stewart. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 9 am - 5 pm.
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The first of the MacKenzie Art Gallery’s new Saskatchewan Series featuring recent work by emerging and established Saskatchewan artists. Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the City of Regina Arts Commission. MacKenzie Art Gallery 3475 Albert Street, Regina, SK S4S 6X6 Ph: (306) 584-4250 Email: mackenzie@uregina.ca www.mackenzieartgallery.ca
MAYBERRY FINE ART 212 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0S3 T. 204-255-5690 bill@mayberryfineart.com www.mayberryfineart.com Located in Winnipeg’s historic Exchange District, the gallery represents a select group of gifted Canadian artists including Joe Fafard, Wanda Koop, John MacDonald and Robert Genn. With over 30 years experience, they also specialize in historic Canadian and European works of collectible interest. Regular exhibitions feature important early Canadian art as well as gallery artists. Tues to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm. NORTHERN IMAGES GALLERY 393 Portage Ave, Portage Place, 2nd Floor Winnipeg, MB R3B 3H6 T. 204-942-5501 F. 204-942-5502 NI.Winnipeg@ArcticCo-op.com www.northern-images.com. NUNAVUT GALLERY INC 603 Corydon, Winnipeg, MB R3L 0P3 T. 204-478-7233 F. 204-475-7539 richard@nunavutgallery.com www.nunavutgallery.com VAULT GALLERY 2181 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3J 0L7 T. 204-888-7414 ntcharles320@aol.com This bright and airy former bank functions as a studio for owners Charles and Sarah Johnston as well as a showcase for rotating exhibitions of contemporary Canadian artists. A sculpture garden and a mural gallery add visual interest on the outside of the building — only fitting for the gallery of an artist renowned for his public artworks both in Winnipeg and abroad. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. WAH-SA GALLERY 130-25 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg, MB R3C 4S8 T. 204-942-5121 F. 204-888-3140 wahsa@mts.net www.wahsa.mb.ca Specializing in Canadian aboriginal art, primarily of the Woodlands and Prairie styles, with limited edition prints, originals and art cards, carvings, handi-
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Founded in 2005, the Gallery features an extensive collection of paintings, sculptures and artifacts by Canadian and international artists. Located one hour south of Moose Jaw at the junction of Highways 2 and 13.
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craft and giftware. Appraisal services. Recently relocated to Johnston Terminal at The Forks. Mon to Sun 10 am - 6 pm. WAREHOUSE ARTWORKS 222 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0S3 T. 204-943-1681 F. 204-942-2847 sasaki@mts.net www.warehouseart.mb.ca A Winnipeg fixture for more than 25 years, the gallery presents original art, in a variety of media, mainly from Manitoba artists. They also offer limited edition prints and reproductions along with a major framing facility. Mon to Thur 9 am - 5:30 pm, Sat to 5 pm. WAYNE ARTHUR GALLERY 186 Provencher Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R2H 0G3 T. 204-477-5249 www.waynearthurgallery.com Artist Wayne Arthur and wife Bev Morton opened the Wayne Arthur Sculpture & Craft Gallery in 1995. After Wayne passed away, Bev moved the gallery to Winnipeg and together with new husband, Robert MacLellan, has run the Wayne Arthur Gallery since 2002. Some of Wayne’s drawings are available for purchase as well as the creations of more than 60 Manitoba artists, working in painting, print-making, mixed media, sculpture, pottery, jewellery, glass and photography. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. WOODLANDS GALLERY 535 Academy Road, Winnipeg, MB R3N 0E2 T. 204-947-0700 F. 204-488-3306 woodlands@mts.net www.woodlandsgallery.com Cooperative Galleries MEDEA GALLERY 132 Osborne St in The Village Winnipeg, MB R3L 1Y3 T. 204-453-1115 medea@mts.net www.medeagallery.ca This artist-run cooperative was established in 1976, and features traditional and contemporary original fine art by Manitoba artists, including oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, intaglio and serigraph prints, ceramics, sculpture and photography. Rental plan and gift certificates available. Open Mon to Sat 10:30 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 4pm. OUTWORKS ART GALLERY 290 McDermot Ave, 3rd flr Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T2 T. 204-949-0274 info@outworksgallery.com www.outworksgallery.com STONEWARE GALLERY 778 Corydon Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3M 0Y1 T. 204-475-8088 Public Galleries EDGE ARTIST VILLAGE AND GALLERY 611 Main St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1E1 T. 204-480-7576 edgevillage@mts.net GALLERY 1C03 University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9 T. 204-786-9253 F. 204-774-4134 j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca gallery1c03.uwinnipeg.ca GALLERY ONE ONE ONE Main Floor, Fitzgerald Building, School of Art, UofM Fort Garry Campus Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 T. 204-474-9322 F. 204-474-7605 eppr@ms.umanitoba.ca www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/content/ galleryoneoneone/info111.html LA GALERIE Centre culturel franco-manitobain, 340 boul. Provencher, St Boniface, MB R2H 0G7 T. 204-233-8972 artsvisuels@ccfm.mb.ca www.ccfm.mb.ca LA MAISON DES ARTISTES VISUELS FRANCOPHONES INC. 219, boul. Provencher, Winnipeg, MB R2H 0G4 T. 204-237-5964 F. 204-233-5074 maison@mts.net www.maisondesartistes.mb.ca MARTHA STREET STUDIO 11 Martha St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1A2 T. 204-779-6253 F. 204-944-1804 printmakers@mts.net www.printmakers.mb.ca
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The Martha Street Studio of the Manitoba Print Makers’ Association is a community-based print production space, public gallery and retail area dedicated to the development, presentation, and sale of limited edition graphics, artists’ multiples, and bookworks by local, national and international artists. Mon to Fri 11 am - 4 pm. MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTRE GALLERY 600 Shaftsbury Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3P 0M4 T. 204-888-6781 F. 204-831-5675 rdirks@mennonitechurch.ca www.mennonitechurch.ca/programs/gallery PIANO NOBILE GALLERY 555 Main St, Winnipeg, MB T. 204-489-2850 sross1@shaw.ca PLUG IN INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART 286 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T2 T. 204-942-1043 F. 204-944-8663 info@plugin.org www.plugin.org THE MANITOBA MUSEUM 190 Rupert Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0N2 T. 204-956-2830 F. 204-942-3679 info@manitobamuseum.ca www.manitobamuseum.ca THE PAVILION GALLERY MUSEUM 55 Pavilion Cres, Winnipeg, MB R3P 2N6 T. 204-888-5466 F. 204-889-8136 partnersinthepark.org With a focus on Manitoba artists, the Pavilion Gallery showcases the work of Ivan Eyre, Clarence Tillenius and Walter J. Philips. New temporary gallery highlights the artistic accomplishments of other Manitoba artists. Shows change every few weeks. In Assiniboine Park, near the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden. Open daily 10 am - 5 pm. THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 300 Memorial Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3C 1V1 T. 204-786-6641 communications@wag.mb.ca www.wag.mb.ca Manitoba’s premiere public gallery founded in 1912, has nine galleries of contemporary and historical art with an emphasis on work by Manitoba artists. Rooftop restaurant, gift shop. Tues to Sun 11 am - 5 pm, Thurs til 9 pm. UKRAINIAN CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL CENTRE - OSEREDOK 184 Alexander Ave East, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0L6 T. 204-942-0218 F. 204-943-2857 ucec@mts.net www.oseredok.org Winnipeg Beach Commercial Gallery FISHFLY GALLERY 18 Main St, Winnipeg Beach, MB R0C 3G0 T. 204-389-5661 hhook@mts.net
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as well from local, provincial and national artists. Mon to Fri 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Sat and Sun 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm. Lumsden, SK Commercial Gallery LETTERBOX GALLERY 220 James Street N, Lumsden, SK S0G 3C0 T. 306-731-3300 brenner.attic@sasktel.net Meacham Commercial Gallery THE HAND WAVE GALLERY Box 145, 409 3 Ave N, Meacham, SK S0K 2V0 T. 306-376-2221 june.jacobs@handwave.ca www.handwave.ca Melville Public Gallery GALLERY WORKS AND THE 3RD DIMENSION 800 Prince Edward St PO Box 309 Melville, SK S0A 2P0 T. 306-728-4494 mcworks@accesscomm.ca www.melvillecommunityworks.ca Moose Jaw Commercial Galleries CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHICS 134 Main Street N Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan S6H 3J7 T. 306-692-4449 photographics@sasktel.net creativephotographics.ca . YVETTE MOORE FINE ART GALLERY 76 Fairford St W, Moose Jaw, SK S6H 1V1 T. 306-693-7600 F. 306-693-7602 info@yvettemoore.com www.yvettemoore.com Showcasing the award-winning works of Yvette Moore, her gallery features her original artwork, limited edition prints, framed artcards and art plaques along with the works of over 70 other artisans, shown amid the copper grandeur of the former 1910 Land Titles Office. Food service. Corner Fairford and 1 Ave. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun (Late May - Dec) noon - 4 pm. Public Gallery MOOSE JAW MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Crescent Park, 461 Langdon Crescent Moose Jaw, SK S6H 0X6 T. 306-692-4471 F. 306-694-8016 mjamchin@sk.sympatico.ca www.mjmag.ca North Battleford Public Gallery ALLEN SAPP GALLERY 1-Railway Ave, PO Box 460 North Battleford, SK S9A 2Y6 T. 306-445-1760 F. 306-445-1694 sapp@accesscomm.ca www.allensapp.com
Commercial Galleries ASSINIBOIA GALLERY 2266 Smith St, Regina, SK S4P 2P4 T. 306-522-0997 F. 306-522-5624 mail@assiniboia.com www.assiniboia.com NEW LOCATION. Opened in the late 1970s with the goal of establishing a gallery with a strong representation of regionally and nationally recognized artists reflecting a variety of style, subject and medium. The main focus is professional Canadian artists including Allen Sapp, Ted Godwin, W. H. Webb, Brent Laycock, Louise Cook and many more. Tues to Sat 9:30 am 5:30 pm. MCINTYRE GALLERY 2347 McIntyre St, Regina, SK S4P 2S3 T. 306-757-4323 mcintyre.gallery@sasktel.net www.mcintyregallery.com Established in 1985 to promote the work of contemporary Saskatchewan artists. A particularly strong representation by women artists and regularly features emerging artists. Regular exhibitions in diverse media: oil and acrylic, watercolours, collages, drawings, original prints, fabric art and furniture. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. MYSTERIA GALLERY 2706 13 Ave, Regina, SK S4T 1N3 T. 306-522-0080 F. 306-522-5410 info@www.mysteria.ca www.mysteria.ca Mysteria Gallery is an artist-owned venue for established and emerging local artists. Explore diverse media in a modern context. Experience fine art and fine jewelry in a fresh atmosphere. Mon to Sat noon - 5:30 pm or by appt. NOUVEAU GALLERY 2146 Albert St, Regina, SK S4P 2T9 T. 306-569-9279 info@nouveaugallery.com www.nouveaugallery.com At Nouveau Gallery, formerly the Susan Whitney Gallery, look forward to works by many of Saskatchewan’s most recognized artists, the continuation of the Whitney Gallery’s vision plus a few surprises as Meagan Perreault puts her personal stamp on the new gallery. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, and by appt. TRADITIONS HANDCRAFT GALLERY 2714 13 Ave, Regina, SK S4S 1N3 T. 306-569-0199 cheryl.wolf@sasktel.net www.traditionshandcraftgallery.ca The gallery shows the work of Saskatchewan artisans dedicated to the ‘Art of the Craft’ with art work made in time-honoured ways that reflect the artist’s skill and vision. Monthly exhibitions feature pottery, wood, fibre, metal and stained glass works. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. Cooperative Gallery ART X 9 GALLERY 410 Victoria Ave, Regina, SK S4N 0P6 T. 306-347-0481 roya@mts.net www.artx9.ca
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Public Gallery SHURNIAK ART GALLERY 122 3 Ave W, PO Box 1178 Assiniboia, SK S0H 0B0 T. 306-642-5292 F. 306-642-4541 shurniakgallery@sasktel.net Established in 2005, and located one hour south of Moose Jaw, the gallery houses the founder’s diverse private collection of Canadian and international paintings, sculptures and artifacts including several Group of Seven pieces. Periodic recitals, readings, lectures and touring exhibits. Tea room facilities. Tues to Sat 10 am - 4:30 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm, closed public holidays and holiday weekends unless otherwise posted.
Public Galleries ART GALLERY OF PRINCE ALBERT 142 12 St W, Prince Albert, SK S6V 3B8 T. 306-763-7080 F. 306-953-4814 agpa@sasktel.net
Public Galleries ART GALLERY OF REGINA Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, 2420 Elphinstone St Regina, SK S4T 3N9 T. 306-522-5940 F. 306-522-5944 info@artgalleryofregina.ca www.artgalleryofregina.ca Features contemporary art with an emphasis on Saskatchewan artists. Exhibitions change frequently. Access via 15 Ave and McTavish St. Mon to Thur 1 pm - 5 pm and 6:30 pm - 9 pm. Fri to Sun 1 pm - 5 pm.
THE GRACE CAMPBELL GALLERY 125 12 St E, Prince Albert, SK S6V 1B7 T. 306-763-8496 F. 306-763-3816 bev@jmcpl.ca www.jmcpl.ca/grace.htm
ATHOL MURRAY ARCHIVES & MUSEUM Box 100, Wilcox, SK S0G 5E0 T. 306-732-2080 Extn: 121 F. 306-732-2075 nd.archives@notredame.sk.ca www.notredame.sk.ca/tour/archives.jsp
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DUNLOP ART GALLERY 2311 12 Ave, PO Box 2311, Regina, SK S4P 3Z5 T. 306-777-6040 F. 306-949-7264 dunlop@rpl.regina.sk.ca www.dunlopartgallery.org
Estevan Public Gallery ESTEVAN ART GALLERY & MUSEUM 118 4 St, Estevan, SK S4A 0T4 T. 306-634-7644 F. 306-634-2940 eagm@sasktel.net www.eagm.ca hasizes the contribution to new and experimental There are two galleries which feature monthly varied exhibitions from contemporary to historical art. Each year there are exhibits from aboriginal artists,
Artist-run Gallery NEUTRAL GROUND 203-1856 Scarth St, Regina, SK S4P 2G3 T. 306-522-7166 F. 306-522-5075 neutralground@accesscomm.ca www.neutralground.sk.ca Neutral Ground supports contemporary art practices through both presentation and production activities. Its curatorial vision is responsive to its regional milieu in a translocal context. Programming emphasizes the contribution to new and experimental processes and supports inclusion and diversity. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm and designated evening performances, openings, screenings.
MACKENZIE ART GALLERY T C Douglas Building, 3475 Albert St Regina, SK S4S 6X6 T. 306-584-4250 F. 306-569-8191 mackenzie@uregina.ca www.mackenzieartgallery.sk.ca Excellent collection of art from historical to contemporary works by Canadian, American and international artists. Major touring exhibits. Gallery Shop, 175-seat Theatre, Learning Centre and Resource Centre. Cor-
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SASKATOON Artist-run Galleries A.K.A. GALLERY 424 20 St W, Saskatoon, SK S7M 0X4 T. 306-652-0044 F. 306-652-9924 aka@sasktel.net www.akagallery.org PAVED ART & NEW MEDIA GALLERY 424 20 St W, Saskatoon, SK S7M 0X4 T. 306-652-5502 F. 306-652-9924 laura@pavedarts.ca www.pavedarts.ca Commercial Galleries ART PLACEMENT INC 228 3 Ave S, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1L9 T. 306-664-3385 F. 306-933-2521 gallery@artplacement.com www.artplacement.com Established in 1978, the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary emphasis is on senior and mid-career Saskatchewan artists while also representing several established western Canadian painters and overseeing a number of artist estates. Presents a year round exhibition schedule alternating solo and group exhibitions. Centrally located downtown in the Travellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Block Annex. Tues to Sat 10 am - 4 pm. COLLECTORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHOICE ART GALLERY 625D 1 Ave N, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1X7 T. 306-665-8300 F. 306-664-4094 sales@collectorschoice.ca Represent primarily Saskatchewan artists such as Ches Anderson, Lou Chrones, Alamgir Huque, Caroline James, Cecilia Jurgens, Ken Lonechild, Mary Masters, Duane Panko, Linda Jane Schmid and Regina Seib who create abstract and representational art. Maintain a small collection of Inuit sculpture and estate art. Regular exhibitions. Tues to Fri 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 9:30 am - 5 pm. DARRELL BELL GALLERY 317-220 3 Ave S, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1M1 T. 306-955-5701 darrellbellgallery@sasktel.net www.darrellbellgallery.com Exhibiting contemporary Canadian art with an emphasis on professional Saskatchewan artists, including David Alexander, Darrell Bell, Lee Brady, Megan Courtney Broner, Inger deCoursey, Kaija Sanelma Harris, Hans Herold, Ian Rawlinson and various Inuit artists. Media include painting, sculpture, textiles, jewellery, glass and ceramics. Rotating solo and group shows year-round. Tues to Sat noon - 4 pm or by appointment. PACIFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;IC GALLERY 702 14 St E, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0P7 T. 306-373-0755 F. 306-373-2461 art@pacificgallery.ca www.pacificgallery.ca Outstanding painted works by regionally and nationally acclaimed artists in a variety of media including oil, acrylic, watercolour, coloured pencil, felted wool and hand-pulled prints plus an extensive selection of handmade pottery and raku, blown and fused glass, jewellery, wrought iron furniture and handpainted art cards. Corner of Temperance, Lansdowne and 14 St E. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Thur till 9 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. ROUGE GALLERY 208 3 Ave S, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1L9 T. 306-955-8882 wandau@rougegallery.ca www.rougegallery.ca Located in the historic Avenue Building, the recentlyopened Rouge Gallery is dedicated to the presentation and promotion of emerging as well as established Canadian artists. Media include painting, textile, metal sculpture, photography, glass, wood and clay sculpture. Many of the works are offered on a lease-to-own basis. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. Public Galleries DIEFENBAKER CANADA CENTRE University of Saskatchewan, 101 Diefenbaker Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B8 T. 306-966-8384 teresa.carlson@usask.ca www.usask.ca/diefenbaker GORDON SNELGROVE GALLERY University of Saskatchewan, Murray Building, 3 Campus Dr, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A4 T. 306-966-4208 gary.young@usask.ca www.usask.ca/snelgrove
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KENDERDINE ART GALLERY University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Dr - 2nd level, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8 T. 306-966-4571 F. 306-978-8340 kenderdine.artgallery@usask.ca www.usask.ca/kenderdine MENDEL ART GALLERY 950 Spadina Cres E, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8 T. 306-975-7610 F. 306-975-7670 mendel@mendel.ca www.mendel.ca The gallery is charged with collecting, exhibiting, and maintaining works of art and the development of public understanding and appreciation of art. Exhibitions of contemporary and historical art by local, national and international artists include those organised by Mendel curators and curatorial consortium members, as well as major touring exhibitions from other Canadian galleries. Daily 9 am - 9 pm. Admission free. SASKATCHEWAN CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY 813 Broadway Ave, Saskatoon, SK S7N 1B5 T. 306-653-3616 Extn: 25 F. 306-244-2711 saskcraftcouncil@sasktel.net www.saskcraftcouncil.org THE GALLERY AT FRANCES MORRISON LIBRARY 311 23rd Street East, Saskatoon Public Library Saskatoon, SK S7K 0J6 T. 306-975-7566 F. 306-975-7766 www.publib.saskatoon.sk.ca/html/morrison_ ga.html SWIFT CURRENT Public Gallery ART GALLERY OF SWIFT CURRENT 411 Herbert St E, Swift Current, SK S9H 1M5 T. 306-778-2736 F. 306-773-8769 k.houghtaling@swiftcurrent.ca www.artgalleryofswiftcurrent.org Features exhibitions of regional, provincial and national works of art. Discovery Tours and activities for groups, special events, receptions, conferences, music, films, readings, studio workshops and courses. Mon to Thur 2 - 5 pm and 7 - 9 pm, Fri to Sun 1 - 5 pm, Closed Sun in Jul and Aug.
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WHITEHORSE Cooperative Gallery YUKON ARTISTS @ WORK COOPERATIVE 33 Glacier Rd, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S7 T. 867-393-4848 yaaw05@internorth.com www.yaaw.com Spectacular gallery overlooking the Yukon River ten minutes south of Whitehorse. Recent Local Secret/Big Find and Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pick for North America by Travelocity. Thirty-eight Yukon artists include potters, photographers, printmakers, beadmakers, jewellers, sculptors and woodturners; watercolour, acrylic, textile, encaustic and oil painters; ceramic, warm and stained glass artists; plus furniture makers. Fri to Sun Oct to Apr; Daily May to Sept noon - 5 pm.
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YELLOWKNIFE Commercial Galleries ARCTIC ART GALLERY 26-4910 50 Ave, Yellowknife, NT X1A 3S5 T. 867-873-4050 F. 867-873-4375 info@arcticartgallery.com www.arcticartgallery.com The locally owned and operated Arctic Art Gallery shows high quality fine art from the region and the Arctic in general. Most pieces can be viewed and purchased on their comprehensive web site. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 6 pm. BIRCHWOOD GALLERY 26-4910 50 Ave, Yellowknife, NT X1A 3S5 T. 867-873-4050 F. 867-873-4375 info@birchwoodgallery.com www.birchwoodgallery.com Locally owned and operated, Birchwood Gallery presents contemporary works from well-known and respected artists from across Canada in an enticingly visual yet calming atmosphere. Committed to supporting and contributing to the arts and culture of Yellowknife, Birchwood frequently schedules work presentations by their artists throughout the year. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 6 pm. NORTHERN IMAGES YELLOWKNIFE Box 935, 4801 Franklin Avenue Yellowknife, NT X1A 2N7 T. 867-873-5944 F. 867-973-9224 NI.Yellowknife@ArcticCo-op.com www.northern-images.com Public Gallery PRINCE OF WALES NORTHERN HERITAGE CENTRE 4750 48 St, PO Box 1320 Yellowknife, NT X1A L29 T. 867-873-7551 F. 867-873-0205 pwnhcweb@ece.learnnet.nt.ca www.pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca
ARTIST STUDIOS/ EVENTS STUDIOS / EVENTS ARTIST DEBBIE BRUINSMA Box 714, Charlie Lake, BC V0C 1H0 info@artistdebbiebruinsma.com www.artistdebbiebruinsma.com To Debbie, art is everything. She says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we as artists get people excited or happy or even angry, then we have accomplished something.â&#x20AC;? She wants people to look at her artwork and feel connected to it. Located in northern British Columbia, her work can be reviewed on her website and seen at galleries in Fort St John, Dawson Creek and Grande Prairie, Alberta. DEAN FRANCIS AT SAGEBRUSH STUDIOS Box 296, Empress, AB T0J 1E0 T. 403-565-2039 Toll Free: 877-565-2039 www.deanfrancis.ca Original Dean Francis paintings and Fran Hartsook pottery. Experience the art, the galleries, the gardens, the prairies. Annual Artist Reception/Open House first weekend in June; Booth in Roundup Centre at Calgary Stampede; Booth in Equiplex at Spruce Meadows â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mastersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tournament. Open by appointment May (long weekend) to Sep (long weekend). JAN CRAWFORD Vancouver, BC crawfordart@telus.net
www.jancrawford.com Jan Crawford is a Vancouver-based painter but her themes of landscape and issues about environmental preservation and conservation originated with her Okanagan childhood. Janâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s large colourful monotypes (printed at Malaspina printmakers) reflect and explore identity defined by the environment and specific landscape. Her latest exhibitions speak to an essential vision to sustain the natural environment. KAMILA & NEL ART GALLERY 768 Menawood Pl, Victoria, BC V8Y 2Z6 T. 250-294-5711 NelKwiatkowska@Picture2Portrait.net www.Picture2Portrait.net Interested in commissioning an experienced and internationally-recognized artist to create an ageless fine art gift? Portraits, architecture, animals, landscapes and any other subject of interest to you could be captured and transformed in a creative way. Paintings can be done from photos or a session arranged at the studio. KIM PENNER ART PO Box 5509, Lacombe, AB T4L 1X2 T. 403-786-8691 glenp@platinum.ca www.kimpenner.com Kim Penner finds continual inspiration for her beautiful acrylic paintings from all types of horses. From a portrait of a team of Belgians, to her â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kentucky Quintetâ&#x20AC;?, inspired from the paddocks of a Kentucky Thoroughbred farm, Pennerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work offers a surprising diversity within her chosen genre. Originals, limited-edition prints and canvas transfers. Best of Show award at 2006 Calgary Stampede.
PUPART STUDIO Victoria, BC T. 250-294-6864 bmmorrison@shaw.ca www.pupartist.com PupArt was founded by artist Marion Morrison in response to numerous requests for her large, vibrant canine portraits. With studios in Canmore, AB and Victoria, BC, this â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;artist to the dogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offers colorful, modern paintings of her clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;best friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Her commissioned paintings capture the dogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; essence and personality for proud owners all over North America by combining realism with artistic vision and freedom. SPINA ART AND DESIGN 96 Cheyanne Meadows Way, Calgary, AB T3R 1B7 T. 403-256-7115 F. 403-256-7115 fredspina@shaw.ca www.spinaart.blogspot.com An artist for 30 years and represented in collections around the world, Ferdinando (Fred) Spina has shown in galleries in New York and San Francisco and across Canada. He paints and sculpts in various materials such as watercolour, oils, acrylic, stone, wood, metal and bronze. In addition to offering a large body of completed work, Ferdinando welcomes commissions for special projects. URBANART STUDIO 102-732 Cormorant St, Victoria, BC V8W 4A5 T. 250-812-2705 irmasoltonovich@hotmail.com www.soltonovich.com Victoria artist, Irma Soltonovich, has moved her studio-gallery to art/live/work space presenting urban art in urban space. As well as Irmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paintings there are works by Lisa Rose, Glenn Romasanta and Lyle Schultz. By appointment.
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ART SHOWS FIRED UP! CONTEMPORARY WORKS IN CLAY Metchosin Community Hall 4401 Williams Head Road, Metchosin, BC T. 250-383-3893 www.firedup.ca Representing the best in ceramics in BC since 1984, excellence is a given at this annual exhibition and sale held during the last weekend of May (May 30 - Jun 1) in Metchosin just outside Victoria. The theme display area will provide collectors and customers with a joint interpretation by both potter and artist collaborator and there will be a special tribute to Bronfman Award winner Walter Dexter. Free admission.
T. 250-474-2676 artists@stinkingfishstudiotour.com www.stinkingfishstudiotour.com Twenty-five artists in Metchosin and East Sooke open their studios in the coastal area of Vancouver Island, just west of Victoria, BC and offer a rich artistic diversity featuring painting, fine porcelain, printmaking and mosaic; the sculptural beauty expressed in wood, metal and jewellery, as well as floral, textile and photographic works. All artists are juried by peer professionals to assure the highest quality. Map and details on website. VISIONS ART STUDIO TOUR Duncan, BC T. 250-709-9927 visionstour@gmail.com www.visionsarttour.ca Twenty-four studios, 35 artists celebrate summer with their annual show and sale July 4 - 13, 2008. This free, self-guided tour winds through the Cowichan Valley and includes paintings, sculpture, ceramics, photography, jewellery, textiles, natural body care and more. Explore the countryside, meet the artists, watch demonstrations and find unique gifts. Check website for map and details.
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ARTIST CALL CANVAS GALLERY 950 Dupont St Toronto, ON M6H 1Z2 T. 416-532-5275 f. 416-532-5278 canvasgallery@bellnet.ca www.canvasgallery.ca Canvas Gallery, a thriving visual arts venue in Toronto, is calling for artists with original painting, drawing, photography and mixed media works to submit images or URL by email, along with details (sizes and retail pricing). Visit website or call for more information.
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GALLERY WALK OF EDMONTON October 18 and 19, 2008 Edmonton, AB apaterson@tugallery.ca www.gallery-walk.com The first gallery walk of its kind in Canada was formed in 1981 to promote both art and artists of merit within the community, focusing especially on work by Canadian artists. The seven member galleries are easily accessible within a nine block walking distance. There are two self-guided events presented per year. Unique exhibitions are planned for gallery walks. Details on website.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN STUDIO TOUR - JULY 18, 19, 20, 2008 Rocky Mountain House, T. 403-844-4284 www.rockystudiotour.com The rugged beauty of Rocky Mountain House is the setting for this self-guided ‘Open Studio’ tour. Artists are welcoming the public to get an insight into their creative dens. Several media are represented including painting, sculpture, metalwork, glass and fiber arts. Visitors are also welcome at most studios at other times by appointment. See website for details of participating studios plus a map.
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EMMA LAKE KENDERDINE CAMPUS University of Saskatchewan, c/o Paul Trottier, Director, Room 133, Kirk Hall, 117 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C8 T. 306-966-2463 emma.lake@usask.ca www.emmalake.usask.ca Drenched in the history of Canadian art, the campus offers a unique setting for meetings, retreats, workshops or mini-conferences. Competent staff will assist in planning your event with customized programs. The Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus also delivers summer arts residencies and workshops for professionals and learners. Make your next summer vacation an educational event with a painting, drawing, photography, fibre art or sculpture workshop at this lakeside retreat in the boreal forest on the southeast edge of the Prince Albert National Park.
ART LESSONS ARTRA ART SCHOOL 15607 100A Ave, Edmonton, AB T5P 0L5 T. 780-443-2462 fhaddock@interbaun.com www.visualartmoves.com Frank Haddock and Susanne Lamoureux are professional award-winning artists/instructors who offer courses in all mediums. Focusing on Realism, they provide a high standard of instruction â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with frequent demonstrations and personalized attention in small classes and private lessons. Students have won numerous awards throughout Canada and USA. Mon to Fri Noon - 4 pm. LEADING EDGE ART WORKSHOPS 28-1911 Spiller Rd SE, Calgary, AB T2G 4G5 T. 403-233-7389 louise.hall@shaw.ca www.greatartworkshops.com Learn and develop your creative talents through instruction by renowned professional artists from Canada and USA. Workshops for all levels, in all mediums, watercolour, acrylic, oil, mixed media, creativity, drawing. Workshops are two to five days; February to November; good studio space with great light; in Calgary and Winnipeg. Original art available online.
ART SCHOOLS ALBERTA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN 1407 14 Ave NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4R3 T. 403-284-7678 F. 403-284-7644 Toll Free: 800-251-8290 admissions@acad.ab.ca www.acad.ab.ca Founded in 1926, the ACAD is one of only four degree-granting institutions in Canada dedicated exclusively to professional visual art and design education. ACAD provides accredited degree-standard education and learning opportunities to more than 1000 full time and 1130 continuing education students. The rigorous studio program produces innovative thinkers, creative problem solvers, and visually talented students. ACAD creates a learning environment rich in character and extensive in quantity, quality and professional capability for its student body of artistic thinkers. SERIES 2008 SUMMER ART WORKSHOPS Red Deer College, 100 College Blvd, PO Box 5005 Red Deer, AB T4N 5H5 T. 403-342-3130 linda.cullen-saik@rdc.ab.ca www.rdc.ab.ca/continuingeducation This summer, experience a week exploring creativity and learning with outstanding studio facilities, world-renowned instructors and friendly, knowledgeable staff. Something for all skill levels. Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Fibre Arts, Ceramics, Jewellery, Sculpture, Woodworking/Woodcarving, Glass Arts and much more. May - August 2008. Catalogues available on-line in January.
ART STORAGE/APPRAISALS LEVIS FINE ART AUCTIONS, APPRAISALS & ART STORAGE 1739 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0K1 T. 403-541-9099 mail@levisauctions.com www.levisauctions.com From a single item to a complete collection, Levis can safely store artwork. The company offers professional and knowledgeable staff, a safe and confidential environment, a thorough security system, controlled temperature and constant on-site presence. Costs are based on a rate of $10.00 per cubic foot per month. For larger collections volume rates are available.
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INGLEWOOD ART SUPPLIES 1006 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0S7 T. 403-265-8961 inglart@telusplanet.net www.inglewoodart.com Store claims best selection and prices in Calgary on pre-stretched canvas and canvas on the roll. Golden Acrylics and Mediums with everyday prices below retail. Volume discounts on the complete selection of Stevenson Oils, Acrylics and Mediums. Other name-brand materials, brushes, drawing supplies, easels, an extensive selection of paper and more. Mon to Fri 9 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. KENSINGTON ART SUPPLY 132 10 St NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1V3 T. 403-283-2288 info@kensingtonartsupply.com www.kensingtonartsupply.com Fine art supplies featuring Winsor & Newton, Golden, Liquitex, Maimeri and other quality products, as well as friendly, knowledgeable advice. Books, magazines, and art class information. Custom canvas service — all sizes and types of canvas, including linen. Senior, student and professional discounts. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Thur till 8 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.
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ART PRESERVATION CANADIAN CONSERVATION INSTITUTE Department of Canadian Heritage, 1030 Innes Rd Ottawa, ON K1A 0M5 T. 613-998-3721 F. 613-998-3721 cci-icc_services@pch.gc.ca www.preservation.gc.ca “Preserving my Heritage” web site provides free information about how to care for works of art on paper, photographic material, sound recordings (including CD’s) and silver objects, among other topics. Includes online bookstore, information about appraisals, careers in art and artifact conservation, even an interactive game.
ART RESTORATION MUSEUM QUALITY RESTORATIONS 421 Victoria Ave , Winnipeg, MB T. 204-222-8327 With professional museum experience across North America and abroad, owner Ron Solkoski, also a practising artist, offers a wide range of services to make valuables and collectibles worth keeping. From large museum-size dinosaurs to personal curios, Ron applies his creative know-how to the many facets of restoration including mold-making replacement parts, cleaning and re-finishing. Call for appointment.
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ALBERTA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: ART ACQUISITION BY APPLICATION The AFA invites eligible artists resident in Alberta to submit applications by October 1, 2008 for the collection art purchase program. Download guidelines and forms from http://culture.alberta.ca/afa/default.aspx or call (780) 427-9968 • (310-0000 toll-free)
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T. 306-664-3931 supplies@artplacement.com www.artplacement.com Professional artists, University art students, art educators and weekend artists rely on The Gallery/Art Placement’s art supply store for fine quality materials and equipment at reasonable prices. A constantly expanding range of materials from acrylics, oils and watercolours, to canvas, brushes, specialty paper, soapstone and accessories. Mon to Sat 9 am - 5:30 pm.
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MARGARET SHELTON (1915-1984)
Margaret Shelton, My Tent, watercolour on paper, 1965, 9.75" x 15"
Picture an image of a young Margaret Shelton pedaling down the uneven highway from Calgary to Banff, her paint box, sketchbook and camping gear affixed to her bicycle. Eventually she’d pull over to paint something — a grain elevator, a tractor, a mountain, a mine — whatever struck her. “She painted everything,” says Jill Clark, director of The Collector’s Gallery of Art in Calgary, which represents Shelton’s estate. Shelton was born in Bruce, Alberta near Edmonton in 1915, and was raised in the Drumheller Valley in Rosedale. She showed an early aptitude for art and a wandering spirit that would later earn her the label “Alberta’s Emily Carr.” While studying to become a teacher at the Calgary Normal School in the early 1930s, Shelton enrolled in night classes at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art. Using scholarship money, she also honed her skills at the Banff School of Fine Arts (now The Banff Centre), under the tutelage of painters like Walter Phillips, A.C. Leighton, H.G. Glyde, and Charles Comfort. Phillips introduced Shelton to woodcut printmaking, a medium that would gain her much wider recognition. Shelton was a prolific artist who ranged widely through different styles and techniques, working in watercolour, oils, and woodcut and linocut block prints. Her images of Southern Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon are straightforward, sometimes austere and without romantic flourishes. Like a documentary photographer, she often captured just what she saw with her own eyes. She was equally interested in the world of working people, painting images of social realism not typically considered beautiful — oil refineries, mines, farm equipment, apartment buildings and garages. Through the late 1950s and 60s, when she and her husband had their only child, daughter Pat, Shelton stopped travelling to sketch and paint, and turned her attention to home and family. From 1958 to 1970 she stopped printmaking entirely, but continued painting. 98 Galleries West Summer 2008
Today, Shelton is best known for her woodcut and lino prints, and having made hundreds of prints in her lifetime, she is considered one of the region’s most important printmakers. It was a medium she loved, in part for its practicality and accessibility — she could create many prints from one cut and sell them at prices the average person could afford. In the 1980s, Shelton was diagnosed with throat cancer, an illness, she hypothesized was due to holding oily paintbrushes in her mouth — though she’d been a heavy smoker. As her illness progressed and she was less able to get out to paint, Shelton turned to pastels that showed a darker, moodier side. Her later pastels are charged with emotion and seem to speak to her yearning to be outside again. They contrast sharply with the paintings Shelton composed while travelling the highways in search of everyday inspiration. In 1965, on one of her characteristic field trips, Shelton completed this watercolour painting of her tent set up amongst the trees. A practical woman, she later painted something else on the back of the canvas. The blunt title, My Tent, offers no clue as to the location of the campsite, and though it was found tucked in a stack of other watercolours — some similarly simple, others much more complex and nuanced — for Clark this particular piece speaks to the artist’s character. Those early painting trips provided Shelton with a huge body of work and hint at her wanderlust and unconventional spirit. “The story goes that once in a while you would see Margaret painting in the nude,” Clark says. “She was a trailblazer.” Shelton spent the latter part of her life in Forest Lawn in Calgary, where she died in 1984. –Amber Bowerman Margaret Shelton’s work, including My Tent, is represented by The Collector’s Gallery of Art, Calgary, and Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff. www.gallerieswest.ca
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CALGARY STAMPEDE EXHIBITION Look for our booth at the Western Art Sales Salon in the Round-Up Centre, Calgary Exhibition and Stampede July 4-13, 2008
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Breathing Stone: Contemporary Haida Argillite Sculpture
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