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Up front in the visual arts

Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre Senior Alberta artists create contemporary art space outside Calgary

Due west of Calgary, on the furthest

outskirts of the city, artists Katie

Ohe and Harry Kiyooka have lived and

worked together for 31 years on an acre-

age in Springbank. This spring, they an-

nounced that they would be establishing

a new place for artists on their property,

developing the acreage and two art

studios into the Kiyooka Ohe Art Centre

(KOAC), which they plan as a home

base for a full schedule of contemporary

art exhibitions, talks, workshops, and

residencies.

Already sitting on 20 acres, the

KOAC board has undertaken a plan of

improvements to the property — includ-

ing rehabilitating an on-site wetland, and

beginning development on a sculpture

and botanical garden, with pavilion. The

Centre has embarked on a three-year

fundraising and development program,

for completing work on the grounds.

Kiyooka and Ohe, both members

of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art,

will build the Centre’s endowment with

the donation of their own work, as well

as their joint art collection. Kiyooka is a

respected painter and teacher, profes-

sor emeritus at the University of Calgary

and founding member of the Calgary

Contemporary Arts Society and the

Triangle Gallery. Ohe is one of western

Canada’s most respected sculptors,

working in large-scale metal construc-

tions. An instructor at the Alberta

College of Art and Design, she’s also

known for her public commissions,

including The Garden of Learning at the Uni-

versity of Calgary.

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dynamic, retreat-like setting to showcase

outdoor sculpture in particular — they

cite sculpture gardens like the Isamu

Noguchi Garden Museum, and Hakone

Open-Air Museum in Japan as inspira-

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Province of Alberta awards Jane Ash-PoitrasGiven only every two years to senior artists in all disciplines, painter and mixed media artist Jane Ash Poitras was given one of two (with writer Robert Kroetsch) 2011 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards. The $30,000 award was presented in April in St. Albert, as part of that city’s 150th anniversary celebration. Poitras is the fi rst visual artist to be given the award, which was fi rst presented in 2005.

Born in a Cree community in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta and raised in Edmonton, Poitras graduated with a degree in printmaking from the University of Alberta. She has created a masterful practice in prints and mixed media, bringing elements of history, politics, and Aboriginal culture to all her large-scale, collage-like paintings. She’s had solo shows at galleries including the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, and the Cana-dian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec. Poitras is also known for her lectures on art and culture, and is a long-standing sessional instructor at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Native Studies.

Organizers of the Lieuten-ant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards also recognize emerg-ing Alberta artists in all disci-plines, with a $10,000 biannual prize. In 2010, the award was given to visual artists including

the Bee Kingdom Collective glass designers, and painters David Foy and Jennifer Saleik.

Mayberry Gallery launches with three dozen CassonsThe Winnipeg-based Mayberry Fine Art Gallery, known for its collection of historical Cana-dian paintings, packed up 38 canvases by A.J. Casson and set off for Toronto this past spring. Opening the doors of a Toronto branch of the gallery, they launched with the Casson show, one of the widest-rang-ing collections of paintings by the Group of Seven master offered in one exhibition.

Most of the works were painted within a fi ve-decade span, from the 1920s to the 1960s (Casson was the longest-lived of the Group of Seven), but the show also includes a few pieces created into the 1970s and 80s. Most are plein-air watercolours and oils. The gallery bought the paintings over the course of two years, from a variety of private collections in Canada and internationally, and most were for sale with prices of $20,000 to $125,000.

Born in 1898, Casson had his fi rst exhibition in 1921 (fi rst showing in 1922 with the Group of Seven). He was known for his landscapes of

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Fine Art's new Toronto location.


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National Arts Centre hosts Prairie Scene Crowd of Saskatchewan and Manitoba artists bring the party to Ottawa

Following on successful festivals that brought art and culture

from Canada’s regions to the nation’s capital, this spring

Ottawa’s National Arts Centre will host a city-wide celebration

of the fi ne and performing arts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Prairie Scene (which follows previous years’ festivals including

Atlantic Scene, Alberta Scene, Quebec Scene, and BC Scene) will

bring more than 100 musicians, performers, literary, visual, and

new media artists from the heartland to eastern Ontario.

When the “Scenes” were conceived in 2003, the NAC had

just compiled a strategic plan that laid out a new mandate. “We

decided we defi nitely had to focus more on our national role,” says

Heather Moore, director of Prairie Scene. “Funding had become

much tighter in the 80s and 90s, and we got defi antly local.”

Expanding the mandate led to a program of outreach that sent

the National Arts Centre Orchestra on tour across Canada, and

established partnerships with regional companies for performing

arts. “Then we thought, why don’t we invite people to come here,”

Moore adds. The idea had multiple benefi ts — giving regional art-

ists a grand showcase in Ottawa, and creating a lively, festive event

for the city.

Since Atlantic Scene in 2003, the idea has grown to include a

much richer showcase in particular for visual artists, and the Prai-

rie Scene is set to break out even further. It’s a huge undertaking,

and one that requires multiple forces to collide in order to create

the roster of exhibitions. Moore says that partner galleries in Otta-

wa, including the SAW Gallery and the Ottawa Art Gallery, which

have had good results with previous scenes, come on-board

almost automatically to host shows. This year, the Firestone Col-

lection at the Ottawa Art Gallery will show works from its historic

collection by prairie artists, including Lionel Lemoyne Fitzgerald,

Charles Comfort, Otto Rogers, and Walter J. Phillips.

The OAG will also bring Mind the Gap to Ottawa, the fantastic

survey of contemporary Saskatchewan artists created by Regina’s

Dunlop Art Gallery, and featuring work by artists including Wally

Dion, Nancy Lowry, Stacia Verigin, and Amalie Atkins. In con-

junction with Winnipeg-based Free Associates artists and curators

collective, the SAW Gallery will host Take Me to Your Leader /

Lead Me to Your Taker, with work by artists including Ming Hon,

Divya Mehra, and Hope Peterson. Ottawa’s Gallery 101 partnered

with Winnipeg’s Urban Shaman for Pimaskweyaw, curated by

Leanne L’Hirondelle and Amber Dawn Bear-Robe, about the

experience of Aboriginal women in Saskatchewan, and including

work by Joi Arcand, Robin Brass, and Jackie Traverse.

“We rely on the connections and curatorial skills of local gal-

leries in Ottawa,” Moore says. As projects are proposed, the NAC

also looks for interesting spaces to house them, reaching out to

creative partners along the way. Anthony Kiendl of Winnipeg’s

Plug-In Institute for Contemporary Art and curator Noam Gonick

will install Winter Kept Us Warm in a space that was a former

courthouse-turned-dance studio. The show is an extravaganza of

Winnipeg psycho-social identity, exploring the reasons that Win-

nipeg is such a strangely fertile creative hothouse, and including

work by artists like Marcel Dzama, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline,

Diana Thorneycroft, Cliff Eyland, and Andrew Valko.

For the fi rst time in Scene lore, the NAC’s lobby will also

become exhibition space, home to a large-scale print by Edward

Poitras called 1885, and an installation by Saskatchewan artist

Adrian Stimson called Re-Herd.

For Moore and her fellow organizers, the Scene is expected to

open a few eyes to the variety of prairie culture — the same thing

happened with Alberta Scene, in which eastern Canadians discov-

ered that there’s more to Alberta than Ian Tyson and cowboy art

(thought that was represented at Alberta Scene too). “We don’t set

out to break down stereotypes,” she says. “But it happens.”

Top left: L.L. Fitzgerald, Prairie Homestead, oil on canvas, 1925. Above:

Adrian Stimson, Re-Herd, installation detail. Left: Edward Poitras, 1885,

installation, 1993.


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more populous regions of southern Ontario, and his crisp, stylized landscapes and depic-tions of the wilderness of the province’s central lake region.

Theft closes Vancouver Biennale installationTwice the target of thieves, In-dian artist Sudarshan Shetty’s sculpture History of Loss was permanently de-installed from the Vancouver Biennale. Originally installed at the King Edward Canada Line station on Cambie Street, the work was Shetty’s Canadian debut, and was originally expected to remain installed until the Bien-nale fi nished in June.

It was an enticing work from the beginning — a fi ve-tiered stack of model Volkswagen Beetles encased in Plexiglas, like an oversized Matchbox carrying case. Cast in aluminum and steel from a sin-gle mold, and then dropped or damaged to make each model unique, the work is about nos-talgia and desire, and the relics created by our engine-driven consumer society.

The work was fi rst targeted last spring, when one of the models was stolen. It was subsequently recovered after an anonymous tip was called in. A second car was stolen in November, and hasn’t been

recovered. It was after that second theft that Biennale orga-nizers decided to take the work down — though Shetty hadn’t requested it — to protect it from further potential damage.

Emily Carr to recognize emerging Aboriginal artistsEmily Carr University of Art and Design will double efforts to assist and recognize young Aboriginal artists. With a donation of $20,000 over two years, ECUAD will create a new scholarship program for Ab-original students, and establish the RBC Emerging Aboriginal Artist Award, an annual cash prize that will recognize one student. Enrolment by Aborigi-nal students has been rising over the years, and school administrators have been look-ing for ways to enhance the student experience for them, and make it more secure.

Vancouver Art Gallery gets conditional siteThe Vancouver City Council has given tacit approval for development of a site at Geor-gia and Cambie Streets for the new, purpose-built Vancouver Art Gallery. Responding to a proposal from the gallery to build there on city-owned land (it’s currently a parking lot ad-jacent to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and was formerly the site of the Greyhound Bus Depot), the city told gallery trustees the request would be granted conditionally.

TRADITIONS ILLUMINATED: CELEBRATING THE HALLS

OPENING FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 20117-10pm

For the first time together, The Art Gallery of Calgary presents

John Hall, Joice M. Hall, Janine Hall and Jarvis Hall.

One of Alberta’s most established family of artists, this exhibition celebrates the talents

of the Halls, including Jarvis Hall’s highly regarded, frame-making practice.

Artist Talk and Sneak Preview: Thursday, April 28, 2011 6-8pmGuest Curator: Anne Ewen

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Janine Hall, Rain Song, 2005, John Hall, Rattle, 2011, Joice M. Hall, Celestial Rays, 2010, Jarvis Hall, replica French compo giltwood Louis XV (18th cent.) sweep frame, 2008

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VAG trustees will have two years to prove that a capital campaign can raise $300 million in order for the project to go ahead. The project, still in conceptual stages, could potentially also house a concert hall and an offi ce tower. Coun-cillors were interested in the idea of creating a new cultural district in the city’s centre.

Development at the new location, and a new gallery, has been a long, drawn-out process. With the VAG's collection and ambitions far exceeding the gallery’s current building on Hornby Street, trustees turned down a recent proposal from the city to set aside land on False Creek for

the project, citing a high water table and potential damage to the building and the collec-tion. The original master plan, established in 2004, called for a building of approximately 320,000 square feet, which would more than double the current space. Though no capital campaign has been offi cially launched, the gallery has already been pledged $50 million from the province, with another $40 million in pledges from donors and suppliers.

Kingston Prize doubles in sizeWith a generous new pledge from the W. Garfi eld Weston Foundation, Canada’s national portrait competition will be

able to offer a larger award, beginning this year. A project of the Kingston Arts Council, the biannual Kingston Prize will now be worth $20,000, awarded for the top contem-porary portrait by a Canadian artist. Two honourable men-tions will receive $2,000 each. The 2011 Kingston Prize will be announced in November, following a preview exhibition of 30 fi nalists from across the country at the Firehall Theatre in Gananoque, Ontario, and coinciding with an exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. In February, the ex-hibition will travel to La Galerie d’art Desjardins in Drummond-ville, Quebec.

B.C. mine museum wins design prizeAfter a remarkably quick turn-around, the redevelopment of the Brittania Mine Museum, just south of Squamish, B.C., has taken home a top design award from the Canadian Museum Association. Redevel-oped in 2010 with a $15-mil-lion investment, the Museum was voted Best in Facility De-velopment and Design at the CMA’s recent national confer-ence. The Museum celebrates the heritage and culture of a mining industry that employed 60,000 people in the area between 1904 and 1974.

The project preserved the Museum’s heritage sites,

Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts Prizes honour Vancouver artists, Calgary-based critic

Vancouver artists Michael Morris and

David Rimmer join six other recipients of

the 2011 Governor General’s Awards in Visual

and Media Arts, including Calgary-based

critic and writer Nancy Tousley, who was

honoured with the Outstanding Contribution

Award. Given to established artists for distin-

guished achievement, the GG is one of the

most recognized awards in fi ne art in Canada.

Co-founder of the Western Front Society,

Vancouver’s fi rst artist-run centre, Michael Morris also founded the Morris/Trasov Archive

at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery at the University of British Columbia. He co-creat-

ed the Image Bank in 1969, a national, and soon-international vehicle for the exchange of

creative ideas, and a facilitator of mail art. His own art practice has spanned media from

photography and fi lm to paintings and prints, and his work is in the collections of galler-

ies including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in

New York, and the National Gallery of Canada.

An experimental fi lmmaker, David Rimmer has been at the forefront of Canada’s avant-

garde fi lm movement, exploring the technical and creative aspects of fi lm as a medium,

originally from Vancouver’s artist-run Intermedia Co-op. He’s taught at Emily Carr Univer-

sity of Art and Design, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University,

and has screened his 40-plus fi lms at galleries including the Centre Georges Pompidou in

Paris and Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute.

Along with Tousley, critic at the Calgary Herald for 30 years, fi rst critic-in-residence at

the Alberta College of Art and Design, and long-time contributor to Canadian Art maga-

zine, other recipients of the 2011 GGs included media artist Genevieve Cadieux, Toronto-

based mixed-media artist Robert Fones, fi lmmaker Barbara Sternberg, and painter Shirley

Wiitasalo. Halifax-based metal sculptor Kye-Yeon Son won the Saidye Bronfman Award

for fi ne craft.

Above: Michael Morris, Untitled, greyscale,

gouache on paper, 2009.

Above right: Vancouver fi lmmaker David

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Woodland-inspired style Odjig has developed over the years (she was born in 1919).

Originally from the Wikwe-mikong Reserve on Manitoulin Island, she’s descended from Potawatomi people who trav-eled north and settled on the Island. Odjig’s work began to be recognized in 1964, with a series of sketches of Cree people in Manitoba. In 2007, the Art Gallery of Sudbury and the National Art Gallery of Canada organized a grand, touring retrospective of her drawings and paintings, travel-ing to the galleries including the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The show marked the fi rst time a female Aboriginal artist had a solo show at the National Gallery. Odjig lives and works in Penticton, B.C.

Art & CultureCelebrating ASA Immigrants of DistinctionMarch 30 to May 29, 2011Opening Reception:Sunday, April 3, 20111:30 to 3:30 pm

Ballroom of Lougheed House, 707 - 13 Ave SW, Free admission to the Gallery and Gift ShopOpen: Wednesday to Friday, 11am - 4pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm, 403-244-6333

Vahe Tokmajyan “Immigrant” 17” x 14” x 13” local sandstone

Deborah Lougheed Sinclair “Heejee, Nom & Yamnee” 36” x 36” acrylic on canvas

building a mystery presented by the Alberta Society of Artists

Open juried show by Alberta artists inspired by the music of Sarah McLachlan in the North & South Jubliee Auditoriafrom April 15 to May 30, 2011; 403-297-8000 & 780-427-2760Opening Calgary: May 4; Opening Edmonton: May 12, 20111415 - 14 Ave NW, Calgary & 11455 - 87 Ave, Edmonton��

ALBERTA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS GALLERYAT LO U G H E E D H O U S E

The Alberta Society of Artists in partnership withThe Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts presents

PulseThe contemporary Pulse of the Alberta Society of Artists is highlighted in this curated major exhibition of current ASA members working in non-traditional and unconventional modes. Rounding out this 80th anniver-sary celebration is a small selection of early members who fostered the Alberta art scene. A multi-faceted picture has been provided by curator Mary-Beth Laviolette. The exhibition will be presented at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts.

Exhibition dates: July 7 to August 25, 2011Opening reception: July 7, 2011 @ 7:30pmTriangle Gallery of Visual Arts #104, 800 - Macleod Trail SE 403-262-1737 Adjacent to the Calgary Municipal BuildingGallery hours: Tuesday - Friday 11am to 5pm; Saturday 12pm to 4pm

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Bev Tosh - “Tender Steel” (detail), 2011; steel; 50” x 120”. Photo: Norman Dupuis

Peaks of the Canadian RockiesJune 1 to August 28, 2011Opening Reception:Thursday, June 9, 20116:30 to 8:30 pm

salvaging many of the existing buildings and reusing materials. A new Visitors’ Centre refl ects the West Coast environment, with Douglas fi r and copper cladding, re-purposing materi-als to preserve the heritage site while updating the design. This latest project follows on the 2007 full restoration of the Museum’s Mill Building, a Na-tional Historic Site and one of the last gravity-fed concentra-tor mills left in North America — the spectacular building, lined with more than 14,000 panes of glass, has been the symbol of Brittania for most of its existence.

Daphne Odjig stamped by Canada PostIn February, Hambleton Galleries in Kelowna hosted the unveiling of three new stamps featuring the work of painter Daphne Odjig. Part of the Art Canada series (which also honoured artists including Yousuf Karsh, Homer Watson and Mary Pratt), the three stamps depict acrylic works including Spiritual Re-newal (1984), Pow-wow Dancer (1978), and Pow-wow (1969). Each refl ects the personal,

Daphne Odjig (right) at the

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In my opinion:

Interest in the history of abstract art abounds. We marked the

centenary of the birth of fauvism and cubism, as well as Kan-

dinsky’s seminal expressionist inventions. A recent Museum of

Modern Art exhibition celebrated the glories of abstract expres-

sionism. In Canada, a resurgence of critical attention upon the

topic, anchored magnifi cently by Roald Nasgaard’s monograph,

Abstract Painting in Canada, generated a fl urry of books, ar-

ticles and exhibitions. Many re-examined this history, and most

focused attention on Quebec’s Automatistes and Toronto’s Paint-

ers Eleven (P11).

But lost amidst all the celebrations is a fact less well-recalled.

In 1950, four years prior to the formation of P11, the leading edge

of adventurous experimentation in abstract art hailed from neither

Montreal nor Toronto (nor for that matter Regina). Rather, the ac-

tion was in Winnipeg.

In fall 1950, The Winnipeg School of Art merged to become

the School of Art, University of Manitoba (UM). Formerly

solely a diploma program, the new UM department inaugu-

rated the fi rst BFA degree program in western Canada (Mount

Allison was the only other Canadian university offering a BFA).

To found the program, they enticed four recent MFA gradu-

ates from the University of Iowa to form the faculty — William

McCloy, Richard Bowman, John Kacere and Robert Gadbois.

Their principal instructor, legendary printmaker Mauricio

Lasansky, imparted a humanist imprint upon generations of

students such as David Hockney as well as western Canadian

notable John Will. Roloff Beny received his MFA 1947 at Iowa,

while Kacere was fi nishing his BFA there. Beny’s abstract art

bears the unmistakable stamp of Lasansky and Stanley Hayter’s

surrealist abstraction.

They were joined by British modernist sculptor Cecil Richards.

Roland Wise was added to the staff, along with Robert Nelson

and another Iowa grad, Richard Williams. The faculty established

impressive careers as professional artists, exhibiting frequently

at distinguished national and international institutions. They

all shared a commitment to surrealist-inspired abstraction and

explored experimental media — enamel, fl uorescent and new

space-age paints. They conducted public workshops, offering in-

struction in the use of modern media, published technical papers,

and offered numerous lectures and forums advocating the value

of abstraction to the general public. Their brash, large-scale work

often was banded together as a group for exhibitions and cri-

tique. Abstract modernism, as well as surrealism is an entrenched

legacy of Winnipeg art.

Takao Tanabe was granted use of a UM studio from fall

1950 and into 1951. He apprenticed in etching with Kacere and

Bowman, printing the editions of some Bowman prints. Tanabe

acquired a 1951 Bowman painting as well as the print K12 (sub-

sequently gifted to the University of Lethbridge). His own art was

included in important exhibitions alongside the UM faculty.

Bowman’s fascinating life experiences are emblematic of the

intriguing web of international connections accrued by members

of the “Winnipeg Group”. He spent 1943 in Erongaricuaro, Mexi-

co, an ancient village with a reputation for attracting international

notables such as surrealists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Roberto

Matta, André Breton, and exiled Russian communist theoreti-

cian Leon Trotsky. There, Bowman met British surrealist painter

Gordon Onslow-Ford, a renowned lecturer, curator and chief

spokesman for surrealism in North America. He welcomed many

surrealist artists as guests to his

home, and he and Austrian paint-

er Wolfgang Paalen published

the infl uential surrealist magazine

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Wild and Sacred PlacesMountain Galleries at The Banff SpringsSaturday, August 6, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.Free An Exhibition of paintings and sculptures that celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Parks Canada.Main Hotel Ground Floor Beside Fairmont Wine BoutiqueOpen [email protected]

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS

In New York in 1944, Onslow-Ford introduced Bowman to Fer-

nand Leger, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning. Bowman returned

to visit Onslow-Ford at Erongaricuaro in the summer of 1946.

In 1948, Bowman became friends with Paul Brach and Miriam

Schapiro, fellow MFA students at University of Iowa (subsequently

recognized as contributors to second-generation abstract expres-

sionism). Back in California in 1949 with Onslow-Ford, he was

introduced to Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and Matta. Bowman

brought his wealth of interconnections with international modern

art to the Winnipeg art community.

The UM artists exhibited to great acclaim at the Montreal Mu-

seum of Fine Arts in 1951. Pre-eminent critic Robert Ayre dubbed

Bowman, Gadbois, Kacere and Tanabe “…a group of daring

young men on the fl ying trapeze of surrealist abstraction” in the

Montreal Daily Star. Ayre made special mention of Bowman’s

audacious fl uorescent and lacquer paintings:

"One of the most striking, is Richard Bowman's 'Flight', a sort

of black sunburst in a fi eld of pink and yellow, which may

have been suggested by the explosion of a seed pod. It hasn't

the sinister implications of Robert Gadbois' 'Substance of

Terror,' whose color and shapes may remind you of Graham

Sutherland, or his 'Escaping Shadow,' like a crumpled, en-

tangled moth. Between these and John Kacere, whose ‘Image

No: 5’ is solid and geometrical, comes Takao Tanabe, who

seems to visualize a character as some unknown myth...

They all add up to quite an adventure and a revelation of a

burst of vitality in Winnipeg…”

The following year, Bowman won the prize in the

Modern section of the MMFA spring exhibition amidst the

heyday of automatiste abstraction in Montreal.

Winnipeg abstractionists including Fitzgerald, Kacere,

McCloy, Wise and Tanabe were selected for the Annual

Exhibition of Canadian Painting in 1953 at the National Gal-

lery of Canada. Tanabe and Bowman were chosen by the gallery

for inclusion in the Canadian section of the Second Biennial of

Modern Art in São Paulo in 1953, and as evidence of the ascend-

ing attention paid to their art, the Vancouver Art Gallery displayed

Bowman, McCloy, Kacere, Wise and Richards under the banner

"Winnipeg Group" in 1953, and Bowman, McCloy and Richards

were grouped with Oscar Cahén for a show at the Art Gallery of

Ontario in 1954.

Despite inclusion in national and international exhibitions,

where their work was greeted by acclaim and laudatory criti-

cal reception, relationships were not always smooth at home. In

1951, The Winnipeg Tribune reported that their “….43 modern

pictures had caused anger, disgust and confusion among 85 per-

cent of Winnipeg Art Gallery visitors.” McCloy and Bowman were

forced to defend against the charge that their art was meaningless

and their show “was nothing but a hoax.”

Kacere left for Florida 1953, while Bowman and McCloy

toughed it out, remaining on faculty until the convocation of the

fi rst BFA graduating class (which included Harry Kiyooka) in

spring of 1954. That year, a Winnipeg Free Press headline told it

all: “It’s Too Cold, Too Isolated, So Art Teachers Quit City.” Mc-

Cloy left for Connecticut, Bowman to California, and Nelson to

North Dakota.

Stanford University Art Gallery mounted a Bowman retrospec-

tive in 1956 and subsequently, so did the San Francisco Museum

of Modern Art in 1961 and 1970. Meanwhile, in Canada, the

Winnipeg Group was disappearing from memory. Tanabe is the

only Winnipeg artist included in the June 1956 National Gallery

of Canada exhibition Canadian Abstract Painting. Jean-Rene

Ostiguy wrote in his catalogue foreword:

“Painters in western Canada also in recent years have

begun to show an interest in abstraction. However, there has

been no group movement. …Takao Tanabe and Gordon

Smith are the only truly non-representational painters from

western Canada to be represented in this exhibition.”

The art of Winnipeg’s distinguished American ‘visiting’ faculty

are nowhere to be found in the larger Canadian art museum

collections. Published histories of the art of the period blissfully

overlook the entire episode. It's a challenge today to even fi nd

any images of art from Bowman, McCloy, Kacere, Wise, Richards

and Gadbois. Awareness of their impact upon Canada has passed

out of mind. We need a fresh trail, direction to lead us back

through time to re-discover clues to their forgotten whereabouts,

because in this chapter of abstraction of the early 1950s, the dar-

ing young men in Winnipeg ruled the roost.

Jeffrey Spalding is an artist, curator, former museum director, past President of the Royal Cana-

dian Academy of Art and member of the Order of Canada.

For more archival photos of the Winnipeg Group, visit www.gallerieswest.ca/Features/Articles

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PREVIEWS AND PROFILES

BRITISH COLUMBIA: Unseen Silkscreens, May 20 to May 24, 2011, Pegasus Art Gallery and ArtSpring, Salt Spring IslandUnseen Silkscreens is a unique historical collection of prints initiated by the Sampson-Matthews graphic arts company in the midst of war. An important contribution to the Canadian art scene from 1941 to 1963, the prints have been gathering dust in attics and institution storage rooms for many decades since. But with this upcoming exhibit, a West Coast curator hopes to bring them back into the light.

“These prints were a complete cross-section of our most prestigious artists,” says Ian Sigvaldason, owner and curator of Pegasus art gallery on Salt Spring Island. “At the time, the art was considered modern, even avant-garde.” He says collectors are just starting to realize the works’ signifi cance. As the value of the original paintings rise, so does the value of the prints, he says.

Sigvaldason’s show will consist of about 50 silkscreen prints, several by Group of Seven artists as well as West Coast painters including Emily Carr and B.C. Binning.

A total of 89 silkscreen prints were produced over a 22-year period under the direction of Ernest Sampson, a pioneer of silk-screen printing in Canada, and his partner Charles Matthews. Artists hired by Sampson-Matthews, like Franklin Carmichael and A.J. Casson, made a ‘translation’ of the original onto silkscreen. It was an exacting process, and eventually became obsolete as inexpensive photographic reproduction emerged, Sigvaldason says. By 1963 the unique print-making project had run its course.

“Making a translation of the painting, cutting the silks and running them through the oil pigments was labour-intensive,” Sigvaldason says. “The staff averaged a print run of three paintings a year.”

The struggles of the Depression era inspired the make work initiative, and it was supported by the federal government and the National Gallery of Canada. “Artists had a hard time making money, and people didn’t have the money to buy art,” Sigvaldason explains. Compelled to focus on their day jobs, he says many artists worked as etchers, engravers and printmakers. Emily Carr ran a boarding house and E.J. Hughes became a postal worker.

“This project was a way for them to gain exposure and earn royalties on the prints,” Sigvaldason adds. Prints were sold through the gallery to banks, railway stations, libraries, schools and other public spaces across Canada. “Baby boomers will remember these prints from their school days.”

Prints also covered the walls in military posts overseas during the war years. Images depicting landscape and people from every region of the nation boosted Canadian soldiers’ morale. “It was the fi rst real exposure to mass popular national identity,” Sigvaldason says. “It gave the message to soldiers, ‘this is what you’re fi ghting for.’ There was a propaganda feature to the project.”

The prints made art more accessible to the public, and more affordable. “Eighty per cent of Canadians lived in rural communities during those years. People had never seen this art or had only seen it in black and white. This was an exciting national project.”

Some prints, such as Isabelle McLaughlin’s Blossom Time didn’t sell well at the time, so print runs were limited, Sigval-dason says. Others, such as A.Y. Jackson’s landscapes were in high demand, leading to several print runs and fi nancially well-compensated artists. But even if the rewards were modest, artists were eager to have their work reproduced, and hundreds applied.

Many of the original paintings, dating from 1906 to the early 1960s, now hang in the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and Sigvaldason is now creating a database to share information about the reproductions. “We’ve overlooked these prints for so long,” he says. “This was public-sponsored public art. The collec-tion is a major part of Canadian history.” — Janet Nicol

THE SAMPSON-MATTHEWS COLLECTION

TOP LEFT: Walter J. Phillips, Valley of the Ten

Peaks, silkscreen, c. 1953, 20" X 27".

TOP RIGHT: Lawren Harris, Algoma Lake,

silkscreen, c. 1945, 30" X 40".

ABOVE: Bertram Charles (B.C.) Binning, Ships in

a Classical Calm, silkscreen, 1948, 30" X 30".


Ernest Hemingway, Audrey Hepburn, Andy Warhol, Winston Churchill © Estate of Yousuf Karsh. This exhibition is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and is toured by

Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena, CA.

Blake Sculpture Exhibitions SaskatoonVENUE: Rouge Gallery 208 3rd Ave S, Saskatoon CANADADATES: May 26 – June 11, 2011 www.rougegallery.ca

For Those Who Love Sculpture

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BRITISH COLUMBIA: Dancing with Che: Enter Through the Gift Shop, May 7 to July 31, 2011, Kelowna Art GalleryToronto-based artist Barbara Astman explores the commodifi cation of iconic revolutionary Che Guevara in a new exhibition in one of Canada’s most politically conservative cities. At the Kelowna Art Gallery, Astman creates a faux gift shop stocked with key chains, coffee mugs and other souvenirs featuring an image of Che, the enduring poster-boy of the radically chic. However, nothing is actually for sale. Nor are the black-and-white images emblazoned on Astman’s tourist paraphernalia copies of the famous Korda portrait of the charismatic counterculture hero in a beret. Instead, they show Astman dancing to Latin music while wearing a white Che T-shirt.

“I was thinking about consumer desire, and how I don’t allow you to fulfi ll that in this installation,” says Astman, who has drawn attention for her photo-based media explorations since the 1970s. “There is an evident frustration that happens. Is this a critique on commodifi cation of the art world? Not really. It’s more a riff on it. I am a work-ing artist who exists in the commercial gallery world, and I am somewhat dependant upon earning a living through my art, so I am a part of the whole commodifi cation discourse.”

For Astman, a longtime instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design, the work represents a return to her own body as a subject for her art. Her interest in Che grew from spending time in Cuba, where his image is everywhere, from billboards to hotel lobbies. “I was interested in how Che had been turned into a popular commodity for the tourist mar-ket,” she says. “I began a small Che souvenir collection on subsequent trips there. Che as a revolutionary iconic image is very curious when turned into a placemat.”

Liz Wylie, curator of the Kelowna Art Gallery, notes the objects have no price tags, and any value is socially conferred. “As art objects, these items take their meaning and value from their context: they have been arranged for display in an art gallery and are therefore precious originals,” she says. “But these items are actually mass-produced by souvenir makers, and have very little intrinsic value in and of themselves.”

Wylie, who curated Astman’s 1995 mid-career retrospective for the Art Gallery of Hamilton, likens the effect of having simulacra stand in for souvenirs to Alice’s experience of passing through the looking glass. “We are in a place where nothing has a straight reading, nor can be counted on to actually be what it seems to present itself as.”

The sub-title of the exhibition, Enter Through the Gift Shop, plays with the title of the 2010 movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop, an art world mockumentary by the British graffi ti artist known as Banksy. Astman, who has been working on her instal-lation for years, says her working title always included the term ‘gift shop.’ But after seeing Banksy’s fi lm, she thought it would be fun to play with his title. “By using the term ‘enter,’ it puts the consumerism front and centre,” she says. “No matter who uses the term ‘gift shop’ now with their work, there will always be comparisons to Banksy. So why not be bold about it?”

Astman, who was born in Rochester, New York, has exhibited her work at leading galleries, notably the National Gallery of Canada, and has produced numerous public commissions, including one for the Canadian Embassy in Berlin. Her explorations include photography, new media, sculpture and light projections and she is known for staged and sequential work that consid-ers issues of identity and history, as well as gender perspectives and systems of representation. — Portia Priegert

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Ballet by Szuper GalleryApril 30 to August 28, 2011Produced by Szuper Gallery / Curtain Razors and presented by the MacKenzie Art Gallery and Curtain Razors with support from theBritish Council and Reading University.

Natalka Husar: Burden of InnocenceApril 30 to September 5, 2011Co-produced by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Guelph), McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton), and the MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina).

The MacKenzie Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the City of Regina Arts Advisory Committee. Image: video still from Ballet, 2009. Courtesy of Szuper Gallery.

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YUKON: The Magic Show, May 19 to June 10, 2011, The ODD Gallery, Dawson CityIn an art world where anything is possible, the artist must create his own context. Joseph Tisiga imagines all of his artwork as the product of his fi ctional Indian Brand Corporation, also known as IBC. This spring, the Corporation will produce a show of watercolour and oil paintings exploring magic shows and persuasive illusions in Dawson City, Yukon.

Tisiga’s paintings are illustrative, narrative and dream-like. They often incorporate hand-written text and then watercolour washes using greys and browns, reminiscent of the fanciful work of Marcel Dzama. Tisiga adds Shary Boyle and Howie Tsui’s names to the list of young artists who work in this mode, creating narrative, illustrative, and psychologically driven paintings.

Tisiga signs his paintings J. Ciga, the traditional spelling of his last name. J. Ciga is a character, “the prop builder and janitor” for IBC, and a kind of avatar. Tisiga explains that the characters in IBC allow him to access different parts of himself. He sees Joseph Tisiga as a thinker who spends a lot of time reading and analyzing images, society and identity. The use of the J. Ciga persona frees the artist from the pressure to get all those thoughts into every piece. “This way I’m allowed to just make artifacts,” he says.

In The Magic Show, Tisiga will explore two other members of IBC: the Red Chief, and the White Shaman, in paintings that develop each of them as characters, and exploring their interdependence. In the watercolour The White Shaman and his Stupefying Flying Red Chief, the White Shaman saws into a box with ladies’ feet out both ends, while the Red Chief fl ies from visible lines above him, loose-limbed and puppet-like. Words are worked into the elaborately patterned red wallpaper: “Behold an incredible sight,” and totem poles sporting the words AMAZING and SUPERB fl ank the stage.

The Red Chief often wears a top hat with a feather in it, and the White Shaman has recognizably solid-looking hair from painting to painting, but they metamorphose. In one watercolour, the White Shaman stands in a 1960s-style living room. He suspends a glowing light bulb in midair, smoking a cigarette with the other hand. The Red Chief is represented by Tisiga’s mother as a child, sitting in that living room with her adoptive white family.

Magic and illusion fascinate Tisiga, including the illusion that corporations are willed into existence and given many of the rights of people. Tisiga shakes his head at this insane act of imagination, then borrows it and spoofs it. Many of the other realities of society, including the transactional illusion of the economy, seem to him similar magic tricks.

He’s come to see identity politics as a kind of trick as well. “It’s something we believe in,” he says. “We can’t really see the strings.” In previous paintings, Tisiga has appropriated cultural icons such as Curious George and Jughead to explore issues of colonialism. He walks very lightly over dangerous ground. His sense of play breathes an imaginative life into issues that often freeze into paralyzed seriousness.

Tisiga carries his ‘Indian license’ — he’s a member of the Kaska Dene First Nation — but he doesn’t identify specifi cally with his Kaska heritage as an artist. Based in Whitehorse, he feels he belongs to a global indigenous community. — Nicole Bauberger

TOP: Joseph Tisiga, untitled, watercolour

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ABOVE: Joseph Tisiga, The White Shaman and

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JOSEPH TISIGA


Bearclaw Gallery10403-124 St.Edmonton, Alberta Canada T5N 3Z5

TEL: 1+(780) 482-1204FAX: 1+(780) 488-0928

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A Retrospective including Works from Daphne Odjig’s Private Collection

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REVIEWS

Eleanor Bond and Stephen Andrews, Revealing the Subject, February 3 to March 12, 2011, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, CalgaryTwo exquisitely paired exhibitions recently at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Al-berta College of Art & Design (ACAD) in Calgary — Toronto artist Stephen Andrews’ subject and Winnipeg/Montreal-based artist Eleanor Bond’s Mountain of Shame — explore the materiality of painting. The titles of both exhibitions reveal the artists’ shared interest in subjectivity — a process of becoming through the materiality and techniques of painting.

Andrews’ subject, organized by Wayne Baerwaldt, director/curator of exhibi-tions at ACAD, includes a dozen recent paintings and a series of lithographs that translate media images of mass social events and violent struggles, such as the war in Iraq, into seductively luminous, abstract, painterly surfaces. In subject, the seemingly disparate categories of politics and abstraction bleed into one another to reveal the reality of spectacle that is no more than an abstract matrix of coloured dots fl oating on a surface. Andrews uses painting’s materials and processes to ren-der this abstraction visible. He relates his subjective experience to the larger societal context represented in these images and, like Eleanor Bond, creates an embodied space within our imagistic world.

Curated by Vancouver-based Helga Pakasaar, Bond’s Mountain of Shame was the opening exhibition for Plug-in Institute of Contemporary Art’s new space last fall in Winnipeg, signalling a new direction for her work. Mountain of Shame is a singular work — a painting installation comprising 19 individual artworks with equally evocative, subjective titles.

The large, rectangular gallery opens up in front of the viewer like a fi eld receding into the distance. A long white table occupied by a sculpture and several lumpy, unframed paintings on paper marks the horizon, and behind that stands a blue Styrofoam obelisk. Where the viewer stands, unstretched abstract canvases share the space with small framed works on paper and, on white plinths, several sculptural copper/wire/steel armatures coated with lumpy polystyrene and muddy, earth-toned pigments slathered and squeezed directly from the tubes.

The works, including Grievous Object, Big Fear, and my personal favorite, Dark Cloud of Indecision, manifest the most unknowable of states. A world away from formal purity, Bond’s recent works seem to be extruded from an abject muck of

matter. Suspended in a state of transition, these visceral abstract works refer to processes of making, and represent models or intermediate stages between idea and form, between perception and reality.

Like Andrews’ subject, Mountain of Shame is concerned with representation from a particular, subjective point of view. Bond’s earlier landscapes of utopic/dystopic communities employed a speculative aerial view. More recently, her large abstract paintings read like excerpts or details of a microscopic or interior view of a much larger world. Mountain of Shame includes two such works, Brain and Happy Town, which makes direct reference to the history of colour-fi eld painting in its

What we saw at exhibitions in the West

Bruce Montcombroux, Kyle Beal and Jason Sheppard, Les Choses Sont Contre Nous, January 14 to March 4, 2011, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon. Review by Lissa Robinson.

Collaboration among artists can yield surprising results, particularly if the artists have different aesthet-ics or work in different media, or in the case of Les Choses Sont Con-tre, if the work was initiated mostly through “virtual” activity. Using a combination of sculpture, interac-tive kinetic elements, performance, photography and architectural intervention, the exhibition is a humorous and poetic commen-tary on the way everyday objects

confound us in subtle and provocative ways. Artists Bruce Montcombroux (Saskatoon), Kyle Beal (Montreal) and Jason Sheppard (Denver, Colorado) met at the Vermont Studio Centre in 2009. Continuing their new connec-tion virtually, the three reunited to collaborate over a span of four days, with only a conceptual framework for the end result.

Find the complete review online at www.gallerieswest.ca

Left: Eleanor Bond, Mountain of Shame.

Right: Stephen Andrews, subject, installation views,

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Absentee bids can be left up to 4pm Thursday, July 7th to 250.493.2928, in person at the PAG or by email to [email protected]

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We are encouraged to admire Phillips, but only within certain proscribed limits. The texts observe that he was not an enthusiast of ‘modern art.’ For this and more he is

described as “a key but unrecognized fi gure...out of step with Canadian patriotism ...out of touch with the Canadian Art Scene.”

Patriots from western Canada may respectfully differ with this assessment. Showcased in important national and international exhibitions, purchased for public collections, rather unique for the times, Phillips earned a living from the sale of his art. For decades revered as an infl uential teacher, Phillips was a prominent, leading fi gure in the Canadian west. His art is a perceptive, genuine refl ection of the lived reality of western Canada in the 1920s to 1940s, fully cognizant of the confl ation within his world of nature, culture, agriculture as well as First Nations. With due apologies to the oft-recounted opinions of central authority and our dismissive, parental National Gallery of Canada, Phillips’ personifi cation of life in western Canada is in fact pertinent. Phillips’ art is a poignant exemplar of the Canadian experience. His vision and world view is no more time-bound, local or contested than the art that celebrates Toronto’s hinterland.

With exquisite delicacy and remarkable understated refi nement, Phillips’ art calls our attention to life’s little glories. It captures the unmistakable, inimitable, even clarity of the light of the prairies and the mystic atmospheric allure of the mountains. His work is moderated by an introspective gentle temperament, nature and culture delicately intertwined, a place where deer roam Banff Avenue. We grant license to celebrate Milne, Carr and Fitzgerald as Canadian independent spirits — why not Phillips?

This exhibition is the fi rst in the AGA’s new Alberta Early Masters Series — a series they are to be heartily congratulated for. Through this important initiative, we can confront, discuss and debate the merits of the principal founders of our artistic heritage. — Jeffery Spalding

Natalie Purschwitz & Kelly Lycan, i can see your underwear, January 15 to February 26, 2011, Centre A, VancouverPretty Uglies, the name of one of 16 installations in Natalie Purschwitz and Kelly Lycan’s exhibition at Centre A, could just have easily served as the name for the whole show. This is because the assemblages, made from different types of plastic and other materials, are both disarmingly pretty and pretty ugly, seducing and repelling in equal measure.

At the entrance, we are funneled through an arched corridor of heavy clear plastic. The arched shape echoes the architecture of the gallery while also resembling an arbour leading to a garden party. Yet instead of being decorated with fl owers and vines, this Vestibule is adorned with coloured and clear shopping bags scattered on top, the lights above them casting an alluring translucent glow. In this fi rst installation, the artists introduce us to the themes of their show: the ubiquity of plastic in our lives, its permanence

method of production. Here the space is shallow, the picture plane fl atter, and the viewer is drawn closer to the surface by a carefully handcrafted biomorphic surface of interwoven colours.

Mountain of Shame extends the spatial logic by fl ipping the fi eld or ground of the painting into the gallery space itself so as to create an embodied topography that surrounds the viewer. As we navigate our way through the gallery, or through the fi eld of the painting, we encounter each installation element visually, materially and spatially relative to our own bodies. The visual impulse on which painting, and particularly abstract painting, relies so completely is exchanged here for a much more immersive experience that engages both body and mind. Ephemeral, unknowable experiences, such as the media speculations of Andrews’ works or the emotions that they evoke, are made material, concrete and real, if not fully under-standable. — Diana Sherlock

Walter J. Phillips, Water & Woods, February 12 to June 5, 2011, Art Gallery of Alberta, EdmontonWalter J. Phillips may be the ultimate chronicler of early 20th century western Canada. While other Canadian artists during that time expended their affection upon the back-country forests and ‘savage wilderness’ of central Canada, Phillips paid loving, tender homage to his homeland in Canada’s west from Winnipeg to Victoria. For this exhibition, the Art Gallery of Alberta has gathered 79 watercolours and woodcut prints from public and private collections. Although there is no catalogue, the exhibition provides a most welcome, rare opportunity to experience a range of work spanning his 50-year career.

Phillips’ art is a sensitive response to the distinctive physical and social char-acter of his homes and travels, and the time he lived in. As the show’s curators have written, he was “an avid naturalist for whom the pursuit of beauty was the ultimate aim of art. His subject matter ranged from the cottage country of Lake of the Woods, to the vernacular architecture of small Prairie towns. He captured vistas from popular hiking trails surrounding Banff, and scenes of Aboriginal, European and Japanese fi shing villages in British Columbia.”

Enthusiasts of Phillips’ art may be dismayed that the AGA wall texts apologeti-cally rehearse all the customary verities, so unhappily familiar to western Canadians. They steer our thoughts about Phillips’ art, tethering it to a conservative, colonial past. Peppered throughout are comments that allude to Phillips’ Englishness, Eu-ropean training, and alignment with the ‘19th century Picturesque.’ Apparently, to his detriment, Phillips was “disinterested in representing Canada as a “wild” place, his landscapes of rural areas typically integrate fi gures and buildings, depicting the intersection between the natural and built environment, ...a vision that put him at odds with a growing sense of nationalism in early 20th century Canada.” Presum-ably, axiomatically, this is a bad thing.

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culture, including Andy Warhol, Diego Rivera and Vincent Van Gogh. It’s interest-ing that, although most of Knight’s chosen artists are cultural icons, they’ve also been widely accepted by the greater art community. Whether this is deliberate or accidental, it again raises the question of artistic technique, and adds another dimension to the discussion. With Knight’s new images, which borrow heavily from the chosen artists, she places herself, as the artist, in the pop culture versus fi ne art conversation.

The exhibition creates an interesting dynamic in the gallery — on one hand is the validity of digitized photography itself, a world that anyone with a camera and computer can enter. On the other hand is the question of pop art versus fi ne art, which really is a discussion of fads versus staying power. Under the Infl uence brings these two questions together and asks the viewer to decide whether digitized photography will be able to move beyond a fad, into the pop culture world, with the most talented being accepted in the fi ne art world.

The exhibition suggests that Knight has a good understanding of her subjects’ aesthetic. Digitally processing self-portraits to the degree required leaves the artist open to the possibility of cheapening the work. One mis-step and a fi ne work can become a cliché. It is a very diffi cult balance to strike, and is one that Knight has managed well.

Aesthetically, the self-portraits (seemingly, a nod to Van Gogh in itself) are recognizable as imitations without appearing forced. In fact, Knight’s confi dent, well-informed touch has led to achieving a certain level of ease that makes the work accessible to everyone on a basic level, while prompting conversation and standing up under tough artistic scrutiny. But what perhaps is even more interest-ing is Knight’s ability to capture the emotion communicated in the imitated work. As with “In The Style of Diego Rivera,” there is an unmistakable sense of anticipa-tion and sensuality between the artist and subject. It is a particularly interesting image given that both roles were played by Knight herself.

Whether digital photography can make a home on art gallery walls is an on-going discussion. Under the Infl uence contributes more questions than answers. But what Knight has managed to do is provide an arena where such a discussion can take place. And through her tasteful re-creations of artistic masters, she makes a strong case for the inclusion of digital techniques in fi ne art conversa-tions. — Quentin Randall

in and invasion of our environment, how it’s used to simulate nature, and how we may be momentarily distracted from its negative properties by the appeal of its many colours, forms, and luminosity.

This exhibition is the fi rst collaboration between Vancouver artists Purschwitz and Lycan, and originates from an invitation from Centre A’s curator Makiko Hara to create new work for the gallery. During a three-month residency there, the artists collected and purchased material from found and new sources, and then draped, wrapped, hung, knit, crocheted, cut, assembled, adhered, and mounted plastic into individual but related installations that address issues of collecting, recycling, functionality, decoration, excess, artifi ciality and commodifi cation.

The works range from those displaying a Rococo overload of ornamentation to more simply presented sculptural objects. In the title piece, i can see your under-wear, long, colourful, crocheted plastic ropes and strands hang from the ceiling, supporting a low swing (that can be used by visitors) covered in a decorative bro-cade fabric. Embedded in the ropes of plastic are three synthetic wigs, perhaps sub-stitutes for the absent swinger. Echoing the playful tension depicted in Fragonard’s famous painting The Swing of 1766, where a young woman swings high as a male admirer looks up her skirt, the artists have created a fanciful, participatory sculpture that, at least momentarily, diverts our attention from more serious concerns.

In Mobile Molecular Mass, four irregular shapes of Styrofoam wrapped in black plastic sit on a platform with wheels. Resembling icebergs, the shapes are black and shiny, as if slick with oil from a spill. In another cautionary sculpture, On Golden Swamp, a fl uorescent fi xture placed on the fl oor shines through a piece of gold plastic, creating an eerie, ominous yellow glow suggestive of polluted waters.

In this ambitious series of installations ranging from the ornate to the stream-lined, Purschwitz and Lycan tease and scold us, enticing us with color, tactility, and frivolity while warning us that one day, our only knowledge of fl owers, mountains, and water may be through their plastic surrogates. — Rachel Rosenfi eld Lafo

Susan Knight, Under the Infl uence, December 10, 2010 to January 19, 2011, Hive Artists’ Hub, Medicine HatPhotoshop, and its relationship to fi ne art, has been contentious for some time. The general sentiment around Photoshop art is that it is either gimmicky, niche or confi ned to the more commercial-friendly graphic design realm. It struggles to be taken seriously. In Under the Infl uence, Medicine Hat artist Susan Knight puts the question front and centre: can highly processed, digital photography hold its own on the walls of an art gallery?

The exhibition showcases Knight’s most recent body of work, In the style of ... which is infl uenced heavily by artists who have contributed a great deal to pop

Al Henderson: Light Horse Tales of an Afghan War, March 19 to April 2, 2011, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton. Review by Ross Bradley.As Canada begins its withdrawal from active duty in Afghanistan, it is an appropriate time to look back at our involvement and impact over the past ten years. Al Henderson’s exhibition Light Horse Tales of an Afghan War is a very personal vision of the interaction between the South Alberta Light Horse Regiment and the Afghan people during this mission. Henderson, an army reservist until he retired from the forces in 2000, has drawn on

his previous active service experience and his contacts in the current forces, to create a collection of tales told through original draw-ings and sculptures, a personal look at the struggles of the Af-

ghan people to carry on with life in the middle of a battle fi eld.

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Fueled by her own unstoppable imagination, Shary Boyle’s work shatters life into visually stunning narrative shards, breaking down hierarchies between humans and animals, men and women, and transforming the fi gurative genre into a form that eerily looks back at its viewers.

For 20 years, Boyle’s work has eluded being categorized into any one medium or genre. Long heralded as an outsider in terms of her non-referential, anti-institutional methods, Boyle is now coming off a landmark year — and she shows no signs of slowing down. She took home the 2009 Gershon Iskowitz Prize, which came with a $25,000 award and a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The highly lauded Flesh and Blood was curated by Louise Dery of the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montreal, where the show ran earlier this year. This summer, Flesh and Blood travels to Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.

While future projects include a 2012 live presentation for children in To-ronto, Boyle’s work has long been aptly described as “intense”. Little has been said about the root of that intensity, an energy that is dark, yet highly imagi-native, if not joyfully absurd. Her work boils down to a highly attuned and perceptive sensitivity to the state of being alive, and inherent in each piece is an innate curiosity that emerges from a sense of being different.

As an artist, she doesn’t hold back in expressing a sensuality and honesty rarely visible on the surface of contemporary art. From wistful drawings of strange and vulnerable young women to haunting porcelain sculptures sprung

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directly from a wild imagination, Boyle intervenes into the arc of art history with a potentially polarizing feminist narrative.

In January, Boyle was invited to present her work as part of Sculp-tural Vocabularies, Canada’s fi rst conference focusing on women working in three-dimensional forms. Held in Winnipeg as a partnership between The Winnipeg Art Gallery and Mentoring Art for Women Artists, Sculptural Vocabularies brought Boyle together with artists including Jennifer Stillwell, Catherine Widgery, Yolanda Paulsen, and many more. Boyle shared a panel with Aganetha Dyck, whose work, from its co-opting of the classic porcelain fi gurine, to its startling manipulation of organic forms, runs an uneven paral-lel with her own.

Dyck is the well-loved Winnipeg-based sculptor and multi-media artist who for years has been collaborating with honey bees in her apiary-infl u-enced art practice, which plays with issues of domesticity and heritage. Dyck was enthusiastic about Boyle’s work throughout the presentation, and spoke afterward of her appreciation for Boyle’s labour-intensive methods.

While the two artists are formally quite distinct and represent different generations, they share a common sense of humble rebellion, and Dyck cer-tainly recognized this thread. “I think Shary Boyle’s work is incredibly strong, full of vibrancy, integrity and fascination,” she says. “I think her imagination

varies from the rest of us, since it appears to fl ow from her very being — as if there is not an ounce of separation between her thinking and her work.”

Boyle is unnervingly connected to the emotional soul of her work, un-fl inchingly in a manner that does not drown in the detail of joys and misery. “I honestly do my work for very personal reasons,” she says. “I do it to try and process often very diffi cult feelings that I have about being alive, and so this work gives me an outlet to make a story about it and make an image about it. It’s about basic expression, but also through the expression I am making something hopefully transformative, exquisite even, so it lends more value and worth to an experience that sometimes you resent.”

As an artist who has long worked with the fi gure, Boyle has largely been operating outside of the self-referential system of art history. From visual art to live collaborative performances with musician Christine Fellows, Boyle produces images and characters that seem to emanate directly out of her frontal lobes. Flesh and Blood includes the work Virus (White Wedding), which positions a life-size alabaster fi gure ignited by a timer-sequenced overhead projector, throwing onto the fi gure a startling, dissonant, almost nightmarish cast.

Channeling the rawness of her feelings, dreams, and experiences, and her innate sense of isolation, which she’s carried in some form since childhood,


Opposite: Shary Boyle, Flesh and Blood, installation view, Art Gallery

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Boyle has been creating a mythology of society’s outcasts, splaying open the confl icts and conundrums in all of life’s desires and disappointments.

She cites Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as one of her favourite novels, and a highly infl uential text. “I think I have this essential sympathy for the outsider, or that feeling of isolation or rejection or imperfection. So many of my fi gures are in the position of being an outsider, and there is this misun-derstanding of the essential injustice in that position. I want to make people look at the painful things inside themselves, and recognize the humanity in any kind of position, and the mirroring of their own fl aws and faults.”

Boyle feels empathy for both Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. “That story means so much to me because of the monster and because of his essential and endless disenfranchised position,” she says with an emphasis that is more observant than protective. “He will never be loved. He will never be a real person, and that breaks my heart so much. His whole life he is reviled even though he is constantly trying to reach out. He gets rejected, and then that pushes him into anger and frustration. It’s such an essential and cruel part of life. In the end, when they’re just chasing each other through the Arctic, it’s the most heart-wrenching. It’s just so huge and human, the emptiness, the isolation, chasing your creator and your creation, and never connecting. There are just so many great metaphors there.”

Boyle has had the greatest commercial success so far with her original porcelain works. As a medium, they perfectly embody her duality of vulner-ability and intensity. She learned the art of porcelain fi gurine-making from hobbyists and enthusiasts, and respectfully engages with the form’s myriad social histories (as collectibles, decorative art, representations of commercial status) and ultimately twisting them. Though she left art school after less than a year, and has never located herself with a recognizable art lineage, she seems to be making her own sense of history.

In Flesh and Blood, each original fi gurine sits in vitrine-enclosed dis-play as one in a series of islands, each alone to be contemplated. For her, it’s similar to the way that people create their own myths around them-selves, building individual islands of self-regard and fantasy.

“Self-mythology implies a grander story than one that actually exists, but I think we need it, because life can be just so banal and a bummer

and there are just so many things that are so mediocre,” she says lighting up. “I want to feel that life is more fantastical, but we’re living in an age when imagination is in the service of consumerism and commodity.”

She loves stories like Jean Cocteau’s fi lm Beauty and the Beast, with its surrealism and enchantment, all created in the limited technical capac-ity of the 1940s fi lm world. “The innovation of the technique is so delight-ful, because it comes from human minds with very few material means at hand,” she says. “They’re so ingenious. It’s so heartening to know people are capable of these wonderful leaps of imagination. It makes life so exciting and magical and makes me think humans aren’t so bad after all if they can do this. It’s redemptive.”

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Griffi th Aaron Baker, director / curator, Estevan Art Gallery & Museum, SaskatchewanDriving Highway 39 through Southeastern Saskatchewan on the way to the Estevan Art Gallery & Museum (EAGM), it’s tempting to link the wide sky and grid of farmland with the abstraction made famous by the Regina Five. Nearing Estevan, the sweeping ranchlands are dotted with industrial installations, oil derricks and pumping stations. Industry gives this small city of 11,000 big-city pressures, like the two-month waiting-list for a hotel room. What role does a public gallery play for these practical people, a hard-working mix of farm families and immigrants, who ranch and mine?

The gallery opened in 1978, one of 35 publicly funded national exhibi-tion centres initiated by the federal government. Residents remember diverse touring exhibitions, from science and nature displays to works by Picasso.

Recently, the EAGM has been adopted by the City of Estevan. Volunteers maintain the park surrounding the gallery, and two permanent staff do the rest. The collection includes works by high-ranking Canadian artists, includ-ing David Thauberger, Ernest Lindner, Michael Lonechild, and Vic Cicansky, and wood block prints and circus posters by historic local printer Andrew King. North West Mounted Police artifacts include an adjunct historic site — the two-storey wooden Post is the oldest building in Saskatchewan’s colonial history, built for the 1874 mounted police’s march West to secure the 49th parallel against whiskey traders.

Griffi th Aaron Baker, the gallery’s energetic Director/Curator, also works as an artist, exhibiting nationally. He received his MFA in sculpture at Concor-dia in 2009, and has been working in Estevan since then.

Galleries West: What do you think an art gallery like yours should be to your community?Baker: We have a dual mandate, to show contemporary art and heritage displays. We bring in new exhibitions bi-monthly, and I try to fi nd a balance between traditional art-making and new techniques and ideas that challenge our viewers to expand their social and cultural horizons. It’s absolutely vital to create an inviting experience, so I use a variety of strategies to make our community feel welcome — the atmosphere is informal and friendly. When-ever possible, we bring artists in to speak about their work, and the dialogue that follows is a fantastic way to engage the community.

GW: What have been the highlights for you of your work at the gallery?Baker: The people in Estevan are very open to new ideas, and very sup-portive of the work we do. We’ve been able to share a number of exhibitions with our local community that challenge the stereotype that contemporary art is only for certain people. In 2010 we exhibited Art at Home by Rob Bos — paintings that trace the artist’s heritage through the elms in Regina (where he grew up) to his ancestral trees in Holland. We didn’t show the paintings in the gallery. Instead, we placed them in homes throughout Estevan. Bos’s photographs, and interviews with each host became the gallery display. It was a great way to exhibit traditional subject matter, in a new way. The meaning of art is found in the relationship between the viewer and the work. Culture is a living practice — the artifact is only an object.

GW: What are the greatest challenges of working in a smaller community?Baker: There’s so much work that can be done, I’d love to hire more staff, but I don’t want to cut down on our programming. Our previous director, Cheryl Andrist, worked hard to secure funding for the gallery, so I’ve been able to upgrade many of our facilities. Renovations increased our education area by 50 per cent, and created space for a community gallery to showcase local work. We’ve been able to fully document our historical collection and we’re redesigning the fi rst fl oor of the museum.

GW: Who are the artists or concepts on your exhibition wish list?Baker: Collaboration is a tool we’d like to use more in the future — to work with institutions like the local Souris Valley Pioneer Museum and jointly fund a series of artist residencies. As far as exhibiting is concerned, it doesn’t matter who you are, as long as your work is good. I’d like to continue studio

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visits, CARFAC mentorships and Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils tours, working with local artists like Corinne Trebick-Gibson. She also works as a lab tech, which infl uences her subject matter — viruses and bacteria. Wade Kotelo has recently documented the lonely hotel life of a transient worker in the oil fi eld, through his large-scale oil paintings. Lindsay Arnold, our previous gallery educator, mentored with Saskatchewan artist Martha Cole. Her new drawings, exploring mental and physical borders, were inspired by her childhood experiences living close to the US/Canada border. It’s great to see this local work touring Canada. Lindsay Arnold’s work is in a Prairie Scene show in Ottawa this spring. — Margaret Bessai

Paul Crawford, director / curator, Penticton Art Gallery, British ColumbiaThe Penticton Art Gallery has one of the most beautiful locations of any public gallery in Canada. Perched on the edge of Okanagan Lake, it has a panoramic view of orchards and vineyards, backed by craggy mountains dot-ted with sagebrush. Under Paul Crawford’s leadership over the last fi ve years, the gallery has seen an eclectic range of exhibitions and activities — from Tibetan monks creating an elaborate sand mandala to skateboarders trying out a quarter pipe built inside the gallery by artist Keith Langergraber. Crawford himself is an avid collector of Canadian art, with a personal collection of some 1,500 works, many acquired at garage sales and second-hand shops.

Galleries West: What do you think an art gallery like yours should be to your community?Paul Crawford: We constantly re-evaluate how the community perceives us, and make every effort to ensure the public sees the gallery as inclusive, inviting and fully accessible to all, regardless of social or economic standing. That’s not to say programming should be dumbed down to appeal to the lowest common de-nominator but, rather, that we need to develop a balanced exhibition schedule and engaging outreach programs to inspire, educate and challenge the public, while giving the community a sense of ownership in the organization.

In these economically challenged times, and with a move to the right po-litically, the arts are increasingly under attack and are seen by some in power as being elitist, and a frill. If cultural organizations are to survive, they need to work harder and smarter, providing meaningful engagements that illustrate the importance of the arts to the well-being of their communities. Conversely, public galleries that continue to be seen as elitist, and provide little opportu-nity for community engagement and education, provide fodder for those who support funding cuts.

GW: What are the highlights for you of your work there?Crawford: One gratifying aspect of working in a smaller community is the imme-diacy of the impact of programming on the public. I love the freedom to get out and connect with the community in a way I couldn’t in a larger organization. It’s exciting, but also nerve-wracking, to bring in exhibitions that challenge my views about art and then have to articulate artists’ ideas to the public.

The opportunity to see fi rst-hand the incredible power the arts have to challenge and transform people is enlightening — it inspires and educates me. Every time I think I have it fi gured out, the unlikeliest of people will give

me greater insight, showing again that one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. It’s always amazing to see and hear how an exhibition has impacted someone’s life. Ultimately, this is the biggest reward for what I have the great fortune to do for a living.

GW: What are the greatest challenges of working in a smaller community?Crawford: The greatest challenge is the constant pressure to go out to the community time after time to raise funds. This is further compounded by continuing cuts to public funding. Penticton has a limited economic base, so there are few opportunities for corporate sponsorships. The pressure, then, is to fi nd new and creative ways to raise money and to look outside the

community for potential sources of new revenue. It’s also hard to constantly rely on the generosity of artists for fundraisers — who, by percentage of donations compared to income, must be the largest single group of benefac-tors — and then see their works sell for a bargain price. The endless pursuit of money takes us away from focusing our time and limited human resources on programming.

This does, however, present one benefi t in that it forces us to be creative in our endless pursuit to fi nd new ways to maximize what funds we are able to raise. With this in mind, this year we are launching a new fundraiser called A Brush With Greatness, which will see an auction in September of used paintbrushes from some of Canada’s best-known artists. The brushes will be displayed in the gallery over the summer along with videos about participat-ing artists. Proceeds will support our Creative Kids art program.

GW: Who are the artists or concepts on your exhibition wish list?Crawford: This is a hard question to answer, as I’ve enjoyed working with all the amazing artists whose work I have had the good fortune of exhibit-ing. My only regret is that, inevitably, I have had to say no to a substantially higher number of artists.

Blockbuster exhibitions are rewarding in the sense that they allow you to handle and live with, if only for a short time, works of cultural signifi cance whose value is already established. Conversely, it’s much more rewarding being the fi rst to bring an emerging artist’s work to light or to rediscover an artist whose legacy has somehow fallen through the cracks. I am lucky to have the freedom and the opportunity to share the creativity of so many, and to work collaboratively with artists and cultural organizations from across the province. — Portia Priegert

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In 2009, Brendan Tang was in a show called Nothing to Declare at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. His work was exhibited alongside artists like Liz Magor, Luanne Martineau, and Kerri Reid — the gallery described the show’s artworks as pieces that “revel in humble materials and everyday processes.” Tang recalls going to the gallery during installation, and seeing some of the signage outside the gallery. “All the artists were listed as coming from Montreal, New York, you know, Toronto / Berlin. Then there’s me — Kamloops,” he says with a laugh. “I’m defi nitely the guy who’s representing small town western Canada at every show.”

Not for long. Tang had his fi rst post-grad-school solo show in the Kamloops Art Gallery’s Cube space — often reserved for contemporary, local, experimental stuff, and a space to watch for great emerging artists. That was in 2006, and in the fi ve years since, he’s landed group shows at galleries including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Mendel, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Last year he was on the short-list for the Sobey Art Award, and won the Winifred Shantz Award from the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (other than the Saidye Bronfman Award, probably Canada’s most prestigious prize for fi ne craft).

He’s spent late winter and early spring holed up at Medalta in Medicine Hat as artist in residence, oc-cupying a light-fi lled studio lined with sketches and toy models. He’s preparing for upcoming group shows at the Denver Art Museum and Museum London (in Ontario), and he’ll spend part of the summer in a residency at York University in Toronto, interacting with art students and doing what he calls an “artist in a fi shbowl type thing.”

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“This is my year of the gypsy,” he says, thinking about having an extended period of rootlessness and creativity. “It’s turning out to be quite adventurous. It’s not uncommon for artists of my generation — there are very few of us carrying a mortgage.”

There’s no question that he’s not in Kamloops any more, but Tang is very conscious of how he got from there to here. And the evolution in his work is clear, over those fi ve short years, even as his practice has hit this swift, steep rise. He’s been working on a series of ceramic works that have advanced in detail and sophistication, while giving him endless outlets for a unique strand of creativity.

Despite his association with western Canadian locations outside the main-stream, Tang has a widely international background. He was born in Dublin and his parents are Trinidadian, of Chinese and Indian descent. The family emigrated to Canada in 1982, and he grew up in Nanaimo — fortuitously, as it would turn out, from a ceramic art perspective. The southern half of Vancouver Island is home to multitudes of ceramic artists, many of them occupying idyllic home-studio hybrids, and sharing their work in seemingly weekly artisan shows, studio tours, and juried exhibitions.

As a teenager, Tang got to know some of the local artists, beginning to learn techniques. So when he left for art school at the local Malaspina Col-lege, and later at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, ceramics were already on his radar. Through college and grad school, at Southern Illinois University, Tang was already starting to play around with the forms that he’s now known for — the mix of traditional and hyper-modern shape and de-sign, what he calls the “technology-human interface”. But he also says he had to get over a tendency to take himself too seriously.

It was around that time that he discovered the work of Howard Kottler, an artist whose later work was known for its humour — using elements of kitsch and mass-production to make an impact. “Humour is a big part of my life,” Tang says. “That was when I stopped doing all that serious research.” That humour and casualness is obvious on meeting Tang — in the way he interacts with artists and visitors at Medalta, and with his friends and fans on Facebook and his studio blog. But the rigours of his evolving practice, and the precision of his technique, have been a constant in his work, even if the individual pieces provoke a smile at fi rst glance.

After grad school, Tang found himself in Kamloops after moving with his partner, who had secured a job there. He began infi ltrating the art studios of Thompson Rivers University, a place that had what he calls a “serendipitous” effect on his practice.

TRU is one of Canada’s newer places of higher learning, but even in its short life-span it’s managed to attract more than a few key players in visual art — including conceptual artist David Diviney, writer and new media artist Ashok Mathur, and curator Jennifer Budney (former curator at the Kamloops Art Gallery, and currently at the Mendel in Saskatoon). “One of the benefi ts of a small community is that if artists are there, you’ll run into them at some point,” Tang says.

Though he had landed quite a few group shows during school, the 2006 Kamloops Art Gallery show in The Cube was his fi rst signifi cant advance, post-school, and it gave him access to a growing circuit of opportunity. Called Cultural Refl ections, the show followed on a solo exhibition at a gal-lery in Edwardsville, Illinois, called Through the Gilded Looking Glass. The early versions of Tang’s current forms and techniques were all there.

Tang’s most recognized body of work is the Manga Ormolu series, which mixes thrown vessels modeled on traditional Chinese porcelains with hand-built futuristic sculpture. When he was researching Qing Dynasty porcelains, he found a long tradition of European decorative artists reproducing the patterns and forms for commercial markets. He’s interested in that hybridiza-tion, and the idea that cultural forms can be remade for newer generations. “I wanted to refl ect the fl uidity of culture and archetypes,” he says.

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his work, and to make it relevant to the 21st century. It also refl ects a long-standing personal interest in pop culture, sci fi , manga, and game design. “I come from a family of three boys, and we’re all varying degrees of nerd,” is how he puts it, recalling plenty of afternoons in front of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In grad school, he even thought about wiring up his work, so it would interact digitally with viewers, but then realized all the technical skills required to pull it off were boring to him.

Together, the series is highly accessible, which has given his practice a boost. “There are a lot of access points for people of all ages,” he says. “At-tracting people to the work becomes like a special effect, and I enjoy seeing that kind of visceral response. I lay out a bunch of little traps to get people to look longer.” He read a stat somewhere that said the average person will spend only seven seconds looking at any one piece of art — an idea that has its drawbacks and its benefi ts.

His work has inevitably taken him to the source of his inspiration, on pilgrimages to see traditional porcelains wherever he can, in Japan, and in the collection of the Gardiner Museum. “I’ll think that my work is emulating some exquisite Chinese art, and then I’ll see the real thing and I’ll think mine is so bad. Thankfully, people are only looking at mine for seven seconds.”

As playful as it is, there’s a clear and exhilarating advancement in Tang’s work over the past fi ve years. The fi rst Manga Ormolu pieces were grafts — the mechanical, future-tense sculpture attached precariously to the painted vessels. More recent versions, including the 4.0 series (Tang early on started titling the work like versions of software) became more organic, and strange. Vessels sag and wrinkle, pulled apart and stretched by the modern device struggling to break through. Mechanical forms cinch tightly around the deli-cate vessels, collaring them in. “This is a more violent relationship,” he says of the newer work. “The robotic parts are pinching and pulling up on the skin of the vessel.” It plays with the concept of the made object — in reality, if you pressed too tightly on a ceramic vase, it would shatter.

At Medalta, Tang created the latest advancements in Manga Ormolu, which take the idea of organic interaction even further. In one piece, the vessel appears to be “birthing” a chunk of hard-edged technology. In another, the porcelain jar is emitting a viscous goo (Tang refers to it as “ec-toplasm”) from a torn skin. He was preparing for his upcoming participation in the Barroco Nova show at Museum London this fall. He’s particularly grati-fi ed to be invited into a high-profi le show that’s not medium-specifi c. “I’m excited to be part of a show with all these massive Canadian badasses,” is

how he puts it — David Altmejd, Kent Monkman, Jin-Me Yoon, Shary Boyle.It’s all moving in a direction launched by the banner year he had in 2010

— sharing billing at the Gardiner Museum with Boyle, and Marc Courteman-che and Carmela Laganse, and exhibiting with other Sobey fi nalists at the Musée contemporain de Montréal. In addition to Barroco Nova, he’ll travel to Europe for a three-month residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre in Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands (while he’s there, he plans to make a pilgrimage to Delft, ground zero for the ceramic factories that fi lled the world with reproduction Willow-patterned porcelains). The residency is part of the prize package for the Winifred Shantz Award, and Tang may use it as a jumping-off point for a wide-ranging exploration of the continent.

In the meantime, he’s considering what comes next. Judging by the growing intricacies of the Manga Ormolu series, and their favourable recep-tion at every show so far, Tang still has a great deal of creativity to explore within that theme. But he’s thinking about a second act, experimenting with digital illustration that still has its roots in traditional Chinese scrollwork and painting techniques — the results are quite haunting. Whether or not that translates into new ceramic forms, he’s still working that out.

Tang has in no way exhausted his interest in ceramics, and can easily get lost in the beauty of making something with his hands. He was thrilled to share exhibition space with Shary Boyle, and hear her talk about the joy of being a “maker.” Tang also gets a kick out of playing with forms that have traditionally been grounded in pure com-mercialism.

“My work can’t be pried away from consumerism,” he says. “Ceramics in a gift shop, people understand. I feel like my work has snuck out of the gift shop and into the gallery.”

Opposite left to right: Brendan Tang in his studio at

Medalta. Gookie Jar, ceramics, mixed media, 2005.

Manga Ormolu Ver. 2.0-k, ceramics, mixed media.

2008.This page: Manga Ormolu Ver. 5.0-g,

ceramics, mixed media, 2010.


In 1977, Carl Beam made a decision. After attending the Kootenay School of Art in British Columbia, and fi nishing a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Victoria, his Masters thesis proposal to the University of Alberta — on the southwest American artist, Fritz Scholder — had been rejected. At a turning point in his career, he travelled to New Mexico to experience fi rst-hand the area’s indigenous imagery and contemporary infl uences, which were helping Scholder transcend categorization and walk the gap between what were then two distinct genres,

“Aboriginal” and “Contemporary” art. After that, Beam’s journey headed in a different direction, and his work evolved — he began inventing and inte-grating images and texts to create new vocabulary, and inviting viewers to identify with, and refl ect on history, culture, heritage, and the natural world.

Beam’s world-view began to take shape early. The fi rst son of Barbara Migwans of West Bay Reserve (M’Chigeeng) on Manitoulin Island and an American soldier, Edward Cooper, who later died in World War II, Carl was raised mostly by his Anishinaabe grandparents. As elders, they recognized his gifts, giving him a special name, Aakideh, associated with bravery. But it was his stepfather’s name that Beam assumed as his artistic journey began. His work had caught the attention of private and public galleries, and he landed

BY MARLENE MILNE

SURVEYING THE WORK OF AN ARTIST WHO BROKE DOWN THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY AND ABORIGINAL ART

CARL BEAM: RE-VISIONING HISTORY

shows in Victoria, Toronto, Sault Ste. Marie, Brantford, and Albuquerque. After marriage to Toronto-based artist Ann Weatherby, and a move in

1980 to New Mexico with their daughter, Anong, he was attracted to the traditional technique of hand-building ceramics, fi ring, glazing, and pigment-ing, and he and Ann both began experimenting with the form. Rather than adorning his ceramics with local or traditional designs, he incorporated his own personal imagery — stylized shamanic fi gures that seemed to rise from deep in the vessels.

A signifi cant early work, The Elders (1978), commissioned by the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, has been posted near the entrance to the exhibition Carl Beam (organized by the National Gallery of Canada and traveling this year to Vancouver’s Museum of Anthropology and the Winnipeg Art Gallery). In this work, Beam has painted using photographs for reference. Later, he would incorporate photographic work into collage, and reinterpret historic imagery in different contexts and media. But here, sacred colors begin to meld with those of the colour-key of photo-lithography, heralding Beam’s fusion of the traditional, the historical, and the technical. The vista in The Elders appears clearly, but later Beam’s landscape references became more polluted, more personal, and more political. The fl ying eagle, both a mes-senger and an endangered species, and the inserted eagle feather (symbol-

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izing respect), are what Carl Beam curator Greg Hill calls “codes”, whose meanings shift by juxtaposition.

The Beam family traveled a lot, returning frequently to West Bay and its environs. Beam’s approach to his own work was signifi cantly different from the prevailing aesthetic at the time among indigenous artists in both the U.S. and Canada, which emphasized marketing trends in “revival ware” in ceram-ics, and allegiance to the Woodland school. Beam continued to question the linear thinking of anthropological, ethnological, and art-historical categoriza-tion of indigenous peoples, transcending boundaries.

He found a common voice in Elizabeth McLuhan, at the time curator of collections at the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art, who curated his exhibition there, Altered Egos (1984). McLuhan’s eloquent, insightful, and prescient curatorial essay turned the heads of many people, who began to understand Beam’s vision.

The gallery commissioned a piece, Exorcism, for the opening. Real barbed wire is embedded in the centre of the canvas, and imagery includes an Egyptian fi gure, balancing serenely and watching over a ghostly photo-transfer of three mourners. There are handprints, fi gures holding up their hands, a sort of target, and birds on a wire. During the show’s opening, people stepped out of the crowd of viewers and shot arrows into Exorcism, and both the curator and the artist plunged hatchets into it.

“My work is not made for Indian people but for thinking people,” Beam is quoted as saying. “In the global and evolutionary scheme, the difference between humans is negligible.” Beam’s work is mutable enough that it’s open to many different levels of perception, which evolve and change with

the advance of time and common knowl-edge. But as open-ended as Exorcism

appears, its form has been clearly considered by the artist. It’s on plywood, built to withstand arrows and hatchets, it has unity, rhythm, and continuity, and it contains the four basic

Beam constructs — self-repre-sentation, confl ation, measure-

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In an essay on Beam’s work on Plexiglas The North American Iceberg (1985), artist and curator Gerald McMaster suggests that the three self-por-traits in it merge with the viewer to form a fourth wall. Three vintage fi gures from Exorcism are juxtaposed with images of the Anwar Sadat assassination, Edweard Muybridge freeze-frames, sepia images of Aboriginal women in traditional dress, and a portrait of Geronimo. They may or may not refer to a photography “shoot” or the way huge forces evolve slowly but inexorably, like icebergs.

Shortly after, Beam became interested in marking the historical and cul-tural signifi cance of the Christopher Columbus quincentennial in 1992, bring-ing a fresh eye to the event, and working on it off and on from 1988 to 1992. Columbus Chronicles (1992), with Hiroshima obliterated above an icono-graphic Columbus portrait, adjacent to “symbols of patterned behaviour” like bees and traffi c lights, lend the work a suitably ironic tone.

In the early 1990s, Beam and his family started to construct a sturdy home and studio in West Bay from adobe bricks they fashioned out of earth from his grandfather’s land. Settled, he produced a growing body of work, including New World Koan (1996 - 97), Work (1998), Summa (2002) and, fi nally the multi-stage piece The Whale of our Being (2001).

Carl Beam’s legacy can be seen in the work of Jane Ash Poitras, Robert Houle, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Linus Woods, K.C. Adams and others. It can also be found in the idea that Aboriginal art and contemporary art are fi nally no longer perceived as mutually exclusive. Beam was the fi rst Aboriginal artist whose work was added to the permanent contemporary collection of the National Gallery of Canada (they bought The North American Iceberg in 1986). Though it was just 25 years ago, it broke down a barrier that artists have been faithfully crossing since. When he died in 2005, Beam left behind a world of creative interpretation that continues to engage the intellects of artists, curators, and viewers.

Carl Beam is on at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver through May 29, and at the Winnipeg Art Gallery July 2 to September 11.

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GALLERY SOURCESYour guide to more than 450 fi ne art galleries in Western Canada For our comprehensive guide go to www.gallerieswest.ca/galleries_cat.html

BRITISH COLUMBIAGALLERIES

100 MILE HOUSE

Commercial GallerySTONE BEAR GALLERYPO Box 421, 380 1 St, 100 Mile House, BC V0K 2E0T. 250-395-5295 [email protected]

ABBOTSFORD

Public GalleryTHE REACH GALLERY MUSEUM ABBOTSFORD32388 Veterans Way, Abbotsford, BC V2T 0B3T. 604-864-8087 F. [email protected]

ARMSTRONG

Public GalleryARMSTRONG SPALLUMCHEEN ART GALLERY3415 Pleasant Valley Rd, Box 308, Armstrong, BC V0E 1B0T. 250-546-8318 [email protected]

BOWEN ISLAND

Public GalleryCOASTAL PATTERNS GALLERY582 Artisan Lane, Box V60, RR2, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0T. 778-997-9408 www.coastalpatternsgallery.comCoastal Patterns Gallery features the work of Gregg Simpson, a west coast artist active in the contem-porary visual art scene. His vibrant and colorful work refl ects modernist traditions in abstraction and surrealism. Gregg’s work has been exhibited in North America, Europe, Malaysia, and South America. Exhibitions change monthly. Wed to Sun noon - 5 pm.

CAMPBELL RIVER

Public GalleryCAMPBELL RIVER ART GALLERY1235 Shopper’s Row, Campbell River, BC V9W 2C7T. 250-287-2261 [email protected]

CASTLEGAR

Commercial GalleryTHE CREATIVE EDGE GALLERY1249 3 St, Castlegar, BC V1N 1Z6T. 250-365-2032

BRITISH COLUMBIA INDEX100 Mile House...................................................... 54Abbotsford ............................................................ 54Armstrong ............................................................. 54Bowen Island ......................................................... 54Campbell River ....................................................... 54Castlegar ................................................................ 54Chilliwack .............................................................. 54Courtenay .............................................................. 54Cranbrook .............................................................. 54Duncan .................................................................. 54Golden ................................................................... 54Grand Forks ........................................................... 55Invermere............................................................... 55Kamloops ............................................................... 55Kelowna ................................................................. 55Kimberley ............................................................... 56Nanaimo ................................................................ 56Nelson ................................................................... 56Parksville ................................................................ 56Penticton ............................................................... 56Qualicum Bay/Beach ............................................... 56

Salmon Arm ........................................................... 57Salt Spring Island ................................................... 57Sidney .................................................................... 57Silver Star Mountain ............................................... 57Skidegate ............................................................... 57Summerland .......................................................... 57Vancouver .............................................................. 57Vernon ................................................................... 62Victoria .................................................................. 63Whistler ................................................................. 65

ALBERTA INDEXBanff...................................................................... 65Black Diamond ....................................................... 66Bragg Creek ........................................................... 66Calgary .................................................................. 66Camrose ................................................................ 70Canmore ................................................................ 70Cochrane ............................................................... 70Drumheller ............................................................. 70Edmonton.............................................................. 70Fort McMurray ....................................................... 72

Grande Prairie ........................................................ 72High River ............................................................. 72Jasper .................................................................... 72Lacombe ................................................................ 73Lethbridge ............................................................. 73Medicine Hat ......................................................... 73Okotoks ................................................................. 73Red Deer ................................................................ 73Waterton ............................................................... 74Wetaskiwin ............................................................ 74

SASKATCHEWAN INDEXAssiniboia .............................................................. 74Estevan .................................................................. 74Meacham............................................................... 74Melfort .................................................................. 74Melville .................................................................. 74Moose Jaw ............................................................. 74North Battleford ..................................................... 75Prince Albert .......................................................... 75Regina ................................................................... 75Robsart .................................................................. 75

Saskatoon .............................................................. 76Swift Current.......................................................... 76Val Marie ............................................................... 76Weyburn ................................................................ 76Yorkton .................................................................. 76

MANITOBA INDEXBrandon ................................................................. 77Churchill ................................................................ 77Gimli ...................................................................... 77Morden ................................................................. 77Portage La Prairie ................................................... 77Winnipeg ............................................................... 77Winnipeg Beach ..................................................... 79

NORTHERN TERRITORIES INDEXDawson City ........................................................... 79Whitehorse ............................................................ 79Yellowknife ............................................................ 79

The Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam teams up this summer with the Simon Fraser University Gallery in Burnaby for a retrospective of paintings by British Columbia artist Robert Young, the fi rst survey exhibition of his work in 20 years. On June 18 to September 4, the selection of original works spans decades, showing the artist’s mastery of intricate detail, and his intellectual approach to classical themes and the modern world. ABOVE: Robert Young, Tart, oil on canvas, 1994, 104" X 82".

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Public GalleryKOOTENAY GALLERY OF ART, HISTORY AND SCIENCE120 Heritage Way, Castlegar, BC V1N 4M5T. 250-365-3337 [email protected] public art gallery serves the West Kootenay Region where hundreds of individual artists and craftspeople make a living creating and selling their work. The gallery is a non-profi t institution which shows great works of art, sourced regionally, na-tionally and internationally — as well as providing a professional venue for regional artists to show and sell their work. Jul - Aug daily 10 am - 5 pm; Sep - Dec and Mar - May, Wed to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm; closed Jan - Feb.

CHILLIWACK

Commercial GalleryGREY AREA GALLERY101-7408 Vedder Rd, Chilliwack, BC V2R 4E6T. 604-846-0088 [email protected] spacious contemporary gallery has an NYC feel with its eclectic collection featuring both es-tablished and emerging Canadian artists. The 1700 square foot space is also available for special events. Owners, Louisa and Jacquie believe that what is in-teresting in life can be found within its grey area. Minutes off Hwy 1 in Chilliwack, south on Vedder Road. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.

COURTENAY

Public GalleriesCOMOX VALLEY ART GALLERY580 Duncan Ave, Courtenay, BC V9N 2M7T. 250-338-6211 F. 250-338-6287curator@comoxvalleyartgallery.comwww.comoxvalleyartgallery.com

CRANBROOK

Public GalleryCRANBROOK & DISTRICT ARTS COUNCILPO Box 861, 32A 11 Ave S, Cranbrook, BC V1C 4J6T. 250-426-4223 F. [email protected]

DUNCAN, BC

Commercial GalleriesE.J. HUGHES GALLERY28 Station St, Duncan, BC V9L 1M4T. 250-746-7112 pacifi [email protected] art of E. J. Hughes is now available at his hometown gallery on Vancouver Island. Hughes is a master. His use of color, moody coastal skies and

timeless places keeps connoisseurs coming back for more. Shop the Hughes Gallery online or, in person Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm. Sun by appt.

GOLDEN

Artist’s StudioENID PETHERICK STUDIO2888 Enid Petherick Lane,

Golden, BC V0A [email protected] Petherick lives and paints at “Primitive Home” in the Blaeberry Valley outside Golden, BC. She in-vites visitors to view her art and her home during her 10th Open Studio from August 1 thru Labour Day. Be prepared for rough roads, be prepared to walk, and it’s suggested to bring a snack and some water as most people choose to remain longer than

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Public GalleryART GALLERY OF GOLDEN516 9 Ave N, Box 228, Golden, BC V0A 1H0T. 250-344-6186 [email protected]/agog/index.html

GRAND FORKS

Public GalleryGRAND FORKS ART GALLERY7340 - 5th St, PO Box 2140, Grand Forks, BC V0H 1H0T. 250-442-2211 F. [email protected]/grandforks

INVERMERE - WINDERMERE

Commercial GalleriesEFFUSION ART GALLERY1033 7 Ave, Invermere, BC V0A 1K0T. 250-341-6877 [email protected] itself as ‘an unrestrained expression of emotion’, the gallery is created on the energy of contemporary art with a collaboration between established and emerging artisans from coast to coast. Friendly staff happily provide advice on in-stallation and design specifi cs to clients, whether homeowners, interior designers or from the cor-porate world. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm.

THE ARTYM GALLERY934 7 Ave, Box 235, Invermere, BC V0A 1K0T. 250-342-7566 F. [email protected] in 2002, the Artym represents over 65 contemporary Canadian artists including sculptors, jewellers and painters. The gallery presents solo, group and themed exhibitions throughout the year. The welcoming staff can help fi nd the right piece for both established collectors and fi rst-time buyers. International shipping. Personal delivery to Calgary. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm.

Public GalleryCOLUMBIA VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL - PYNELOGS GALLERY1720 4 Ave (at Kinsmen Beach), PO Box 2345, Invermere, BC V0A 1K0T. 250-342-4423 [email protected]

KAMLOOPS

Commercial GalleryHAMPTON GALLERY KAMLOOPS167 4 Ave, Kamloops, BC V2C 3N3T. 250-374-2400 F. [email protected]

Public GalleriesKAMLOOPS ART GALLERY101-465 Victoria St, Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9T. 250-377-2400 F. [email protected]

THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY VISUAL ART GALLERYStudent St, Old Main Building, Box 3010, Kamloops, BC V2C 5N3T. 250-828-5480 F. [email protected]/ae/vpa/vpa.htm

KELOWNA

Artist-run GalleryALTERNATOR CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTPO Box 5090 Stn A103-421 Cawston Ave, Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6Z1T. 250-868-2298 F. [email protected]

Commercial GalleriesA WOODSIDE DESIGN GALLERY 1561 Pandosy St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 1P5T. 250-862-3817 [email protected]

Opened in 2007, the gallery/studio highlights the original creations of local Okanagan Valley artisans, plus outstanding work by select artists from other areas of BC. The works are in a variety of media: contemporary paintings with monthly exhibitions, ceramics, stone sculpture, wood-turnings, copper, felted bags, fused glass and jewellery — with a price range for every customer. Mon - Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.

GEERT MAAS SCULPTURE GARDENS AND GALLERY250 Reynolds Road, Kelowna, BC V1V 2G7T. 250-860-7012 F. [email protected]

HAMBLETON GALLERIES1290 Ellis St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 1Z4T. 250-860-2498 [email protected]/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, own-ers Stewart and Tracy Turcotte offer investment art opportunities to their clientele and have added ce-ramics, and bronze sculpture to complement the paintings. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.

JULIA TROPS ARTIST STUDIOStudio 113, Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6Z1T. 250-215-0079 [email protected] artist Julia Trops works from her studio/gallery in the heart of Kelowna’s Cultural District, in the Rotary Centre for the Arts. Dramatic and bold fi gurative 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.

RITCHCRAFT GALLERY & FRAMING103-3957 Lakeshore Rd, Kelowna, BC V1W 1V3T. 250-764-6447 F. 250-764-8455ritchcraft@hotmail.comwww.ritchcraftgalleryframing.com

SOPA FINE ARTS2934 South Pandosy St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 1V9T. 250-763-5088 info@sopafi nearts.comwww.sopafi nearts.comOkanagan’s major contemporary art gallery, Sopa Fine Arts prides itself on providing an ever-changing selection of contemporary art from leading interna-tional artists, with new exhibitions opening the fi rst Thursday each month. Sopa features high calibre, original and innovative artworks; in the media of painting, sculpture, and assemblage. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm or by appointment.

THE BARN GALLERY4450 Towgood Rd, Oyama, BC V4V 2B6T. 250-548-3823 F. [email protected] an emerging artist a good gallery is the door to realization, evolution and the community. To an art lover, it is the beginning of a beautiful relation-ship. Jody LaFontaine, owner of the Barn Gallery, nurtures both artist and collector in a relaxed coun-try setting featuring Okanagan original art. Open Victoria Day (May) to Thanksgiving (October), Fri to Sun 10 am - 5 pm or by appt.

TURTLE ISLAND GALLERY115-1295 Cannery Lane, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9V8T. 250-717-8235 [email protected] gallery has a stunning selection of Northwest Coast wood carvings including ceremonial masks, totem poles, talking sticks, plaques and bentwood-style 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 STREET GALLERY9-3045 Tutt St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 2H4T. 250-861-4992 F. 250-861-4992info@tuttartgalleries.comwww.tuttartgalleries.comEstablished in 1984, Tutt Street Gallery is a recog-nized dealer of original fi ne art — representing regional, national and international artists whose works can be found in private, corporate, and gov-ernment collections, in Canada and abroad. The gallery extends a warm welcome to art enthusiasts

effusionartgallery.com

art gallery + glass studio

exhibition“an unrestrained expression of emotion”Artists reception Saturday, May 21, 4 - 7 pm

JO LUDWIG

SANDRA CHAPMAN

CARMEL CLARE

MURRAY PHILLIPS

Enid Petherick 10th Open StudioAugust 1 thru Labour Day

at “Primitive Home” in the Blaeberry Valley, Golden BCMap & Info: www.EnidPetherick.vcn.bc.ca

David Thompson Ponders The Mark Of Zorrro (4' x 2' x 4)

NATIVE ART

250-717-8235 115-1295 Cannery Lane Kelowna, BC V1Y 9V8

www.turtleislandgallery.com


and experienced collectors. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm or by appt.

Public GalleriesGALLERIA AT ROTARY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6Z1T. 250-717-5304 F. 250-717-5314info@RotaryCentreForTheArts.comwww.RotaryCentreForTheArts.comThe Galleria is an important venue for local art-ists 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 GALLERY1315 Water St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9R3T. 250-762-2226 F. 250-762-9875info@kelownaartgallery.comwww.kelownaartgallery.comLocated in the heart of Kelowna’s Cultural District, the gallery serves the Central Okanagan Valley with

regular exhibitions by contemporary Canadian art-ists, while the permanent collection has a focus on Okanagan and other BC-based artists. The gallery is a unique venue for special events and offers a variety of classes, workshops, etc for people of all ages. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Thur till 9 pm, Sun 1 pm - 4 pm.

KIMBERLEY

Public GalleryKIMBERLEY ARTS COUNCIL - THE GALLERY AT CENTRE 6464 Deer Park Ave, Kimberley, BC V1A [email protected]

NANAIMO

Commercial GalleriesARTFITTERZ PICTURE FRAMING AND ART GALLERY15-1925 Bowen Rd, Nanaimo, BC V9S 1S9T. 250-585-5506 artfi [email protected] tterz.com

BARTON LEIER GALLERY DOWNTOWN99 Chapel St, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5H3T. 250-591-1111 [email protected]

GALLERY 223223 Commercial St, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G8T. 250-741-1188 F. [email protected]

Public GalleryNANAIMO ART GALLERY150 Commercial, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G6T. 250-754-1750 [email protected]

NELSON

Cooperative GalleryCRAFT CONNECTION / GALLERY 378378 Baker St, Nelson, BC V1L 4H5T. 250-352-3006 [email protected] two fl oors of display area the Craft Connec-tion and Gallery 378 provide a rich and diverse collection of craft and art from over 100 local artists working in wood, metal, clay, glass, fi bre, and wax. Visitors will be challenged to not fi nd a piece they like. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm.

Public GalleriesOXYGEN ART CENTRE3-320 Vernon St (enter from alley), Nelson, BC V1L 4B7T. 250-352-6322 offi [email protected]

TOUCHSTONES NELSON: MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY502 Vernon St, Nelson, BC V1L 4E8T. 250-352-9813 F. [email protected]

PARKSVILLE

ENGLISHMAN RIVER GALLERY711 Mariner Way, Parksville, BC V9P 1S4T. 250-248-7372 [email protected]

PENTICTON

Commercial GalleriesTHE LLOYD GALLERY18 Front St, Penticton, BC V2A 1H1T. 250-492-4484

[email protected] location on colourful Front St. Experience the beauty of the Okanagan through artist’s eyes. Browse through a large viewing gallery hung French salon-style. Original oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, mixed media and sculptures depict the many faces of the Okanagan, Canada and Asia. Mon to Sat (Summer) Tues to Sat (Winter) 9:30 am - 5:30 pm.

Public GalleryPENTICTON ART GALLERY199 Marina Way, Penticton, BC V2A 1H3T. 250-493-2928 F. [email protected]/agsoThe Penticton Art Gallery (formerly AGSO) presents contemporary art and historical exhibitions of both established and emerging artists in four exhibition spaces. A place of inquiry, interest and enjoyment, the gallery 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.

Public GalleryTWO RIVERS GALLERY OF PRINCE GEORGE & REGION725 Civic Plaza, Prince George, BC V2A 1H3T. 250-614-7800 F. 250-563-3211Toll Free: 1-888-221-1155 [email protected]

QUALICUM BEACH

Commercial GalleriesQUALICUM FRAMEWORKS GALLERY673 Fir St, Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1T2T. 250-752-7350 [email protected]

THE GALLERY AT QUALICUM ART SUPPLY206 West First Ave, Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 2P7T. 250-752-3471 F. [email protected]

Public GalleryTHE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE ARTS CENTRE122 Fern Road West, Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1T2T. 250-752-6133 [email protected] arts centre provides rewarding opportunities to enjoy, learn and experience art with three galleries offering a pleasant venue for appreciating and pur-chasing distinctive works. Artist studios are open to visitors. Creations by artisans are available in the gift shop. Gallery concerts on Sundays. Mon noon - 4:30 pm; Tues - Sat 10 am - 4:30 pm; (Summer only: Sun noon - 4 pm).

For western cities without much history to draw on, there’s been a trend to celebrate more recent histories, in art, architecture, design, and culture. Opening July 22 at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, The Modern Eye spotlights cultural and quotidian touchstones between 1940 and 1980 — household goods, furniture and craft objects that embody a uniquely Cana-dian modernist aesthetic. ABOVE: Furniture designed and made in Victoria by Morrison-Bush in the window of Standard Furniture, 1953.

Megan Dulcie Dill, Salmon Cycles, August 23 to September 16, Campbell River Art GalleryMegan Dulcie Dill’s mixed media paintings celebrate the life cycles of salmon, each work taking up to two years to complete. Her process involves “corrupting” the original layer of a drawing. “I let the paint spill, speckle, resist and flow over the surface so that the initial image is quite obliterated,” she explains. “After this process I erase out areas by vigorously rubbing and carving into the paint and wood surface, trying to find a balance between controlled actions and random spontaneous acts of nature.” Dill grew up on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, where salmon plays a large part in the local culture. “The images I paint come from a place of respect and awe for this wildlife,” she says. “They are so valuable in the food chain, and also represent for me a spiritual connection to the natural world. Salmon swimming through reflective water provides a great subject for the way I paint. Their shifting lines, emerging forms and luminous transparent colours are always evolving, reflecting and changing. I believe paintings should hit you in the gut — or rest somewhere deep — that painters create this visual language to communicate something beyond words. I like to think of my paintings as a visual narrative.” — Janet NicolRIGHT: Megan Dulcie Dill, The Journey, oil on wood, 2011. TO

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SALMON ARM

Public GallerySAGA PUBLIC ART GALLERY70 Hudson Ave NE, PO Box 1543, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4P6T. 250-832-1170 F. 250-832-6807sagapublicartgallery@telus.netwww.sagapublicartgallery.ca/

SALT SPRING ISLAND

Artist-run GalleriesPOINT GALLERYSouth Ridge Dr, Salt Spring Island, BC T. 250-653-0089 [email protected] ten years of exhibiting challenging work from Salt Spring and Western Canada, the Point Gallery is a uniquely rural alternate space, minutes from Fulford Harbour. Curated by artist/owner Margaret Day, contemporary art is chosen to refl ect the diversity of current art practice and to engage, provoke and involve the audience in the world of visual ideas. Exhibits March to October. Fri, Sun to Tues 11 am - 5 pm or by appointment.

Commercial GalleriesGALLERY 8 (FORMERLY J. MITCHELL GALLERY)3104-115 Fulford Ganges Rd, Grace Point Square, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2T9T. 250-537-8822 [email protected] 30 of the fi nest Gulf Island artists. The gallery’s extraordinary collection of art in a broad range of media, showcases the dynamic and in-novative work of these accomplished local artists. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun & Hol Mon 11 am - 4 pm.

NEW OWNERChris Boulton Is the new owner of Buckland Southerst Gallery in West Vancouver

JILL LOUISE CAMPBELL ART GALLERY3-110 Purvis Lane, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2S5T. 250-537-1589 F. 250-537-9766Toll Free: 1-800-474-6705 [email protected]

MORLEY MYERS STUDIO & GALLERY7-315 Upper Ganges Rd, Salt Spring Island, BC T. 250-537-4898 F. [email protected] gallery shows the progression of earlier works of stone to Morley Myers’ 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 in-fl uenced by cross-cultural indigenous art forms. Sat and Sun 11 am - 5 pm or by appt.

PEGASUS GALLERY OF CANADIAN ARTMouat’s Mall, 1-104 Fulford-Ganges Rd, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2S3T. 250-537-2421 F. 250-537-5590pegasus@saltspring.comwww.pegasusgallery.caEstablished in 1972, Pegasus offers investment-quality historical Canadian art including The Group of Seven, Robert Pilot, WJ Phillips, Sybil Andrews, The Beaver Hall Group and Cornelius Krieghoff. They also represent fi ne contemporary painters and sculptors as well as rare Northwest Coast Na-tive art and baskets. Summer: Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm; Winter: Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm,Sun, Mon by appt.

STARFISH GALLERY & STUDIO1108-115 Fulford Ganges Rd, Grace Point Square, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 1T9T. 250-537-4425 andrea@starfi shgalleryandstudio.comwww.starfi shgalleryandstudio.comYear-round exhibitions of fi ne art, photography and sculpture by West Coast artists: Nicola Wheston, Briony Penn, Andrea Collins, Birgit Bateman, Susan Haigh, Eric Onasick, Ken Ketchum, Tina Louise Spal-ding, Paul Harder and Anais la Rue. Tues to Sat 11 am - 4 pm or by appointment.

STEFFICH FINE ART GALLERY3105-115 Fulford-Ganges Rd,

Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2S3T. 250-537-8448 F. 250-537-9233Toll Free: 1-877-537-8448 info@steffi chfi neart.comwww.steffi chfi neart.com

SIDNEY, BC

Commercial GalleriesPENINSULA GALLERY100-2506 Beacon Ave, Landmark Bldg., Sidney, BC V8L 1Y2T. 250-655-1282 Toll Free: 1-877-787-1896 [email protected] 1986 the gallery has offered original paint-ings and sculptures as well as a wide range of lim-ited edition prints for sale onsite and through com-prehensive website. Mon to Sat 9 am - 5:30 pm.

SILVER STAR MOUNTAIN

Commercial GalleryGALLERY ODIN215 Odin Road, PO Box 3109, Silver Star Mountain, BC V1B 3M1T. 250-503-0822 F. [email protected] gallery proudly represents a talented group of Okanagan, British Columbian and Canadian artists, some of them well-established and highly accom-plished, others just emerging, but all of them work in a distinctive and original style — oils, acrylics, watercolours, scrimshaw, sculpture, pottery. (Sum-mer) Thur and Sat 2 pm - 6 pm; (Winter) Wed and Sat 1 pm - 6 pm or by appt.

SKIDEGATE, BC

Public GalleryHAIDA GWAII MUSEUMPO Box 1373, #2 Second Beach Rd, Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, BC V0T 1S1T. 250-559-4643 F. 250-559-4643info@haidaheritagecentre.comwww.haidaheritagecentre.com

SUMMERLAND, BC

Public GallerySUMMERLAND ART GALLERY9533 Main St, Box 1217, Summerland, BC V0H 1Z0T. 250-494-4494 F. [email protected]/

GREATER VANCOUVER

Artist-run Galleries221A ARTIST RUN GALLERY100-221 East Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1Z6T. 604-568-0812 [email protected]

ACCESS ARTIST RUN CENTRE437 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1L4T. 604-689-2907 [email protected]

ARTSPEAK GALLERY233 Carrall Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2J2T. 604-688-0051 F. [email protected]

CENTRE A, VANCOUVER CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART2 West Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G6T. 604-683-8326 F. [email protected]

GALLERY GACHET88 E Cordova St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1K2T. 604-687-2468 F. [email protected]

GRUNT GALLERY116-350 E 2 Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 4R8T. 604-875-9516 F. [email protected]

HELEN PITT GALLERY221A East Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1Z6T. 604-681-6740 F. [email protected]

Morley MyersStudio & Gallerymorleymyersgallery.com#7, 315 Upper Ganges Rd Salt Spring Island BC250-537-4898

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OR GALLERY555 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2R1T. 604-683-7395 F. [email protected]

WESTERN FRONT GALLERY303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1S1T. 604-876-9343 F. [email protected]

Commercial GalleriesART BEATUS108-808 Nelson St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H2T. 604-688-2633 F. [email protected]

ART EMPORIUM2928 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3J7T. 604-738-3510 F. [email protected] Art Emporium offers a large inventory of paint-ings by all members of the Group of Seven and sev-eral of their contemporaries, as well as other major Canadian, French and American artists of the 20th Century, for serious collectors and investors. The Es-tate of Donald Flather. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm.

ART WORKS GALLERY225 Smithe St, Vancouver, BC V6B 4X7T. 604-688-3301 F. 604-683-4552Toll Free: 1-800-663-0341 [email protected] more than 20 years of representing

dynamic contemporary Canadian and International artists in a wide variety of mediums and styles in-cluding 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 Fri 9 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.

BARON GALLERY293 Columbia St, Vancouver, BC V6A 2R5 T. 604-682-1114 [email protected]/

BAU-XI GALLERY3045 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3J9T. 604-733-7011 F. [email protected]

BECKER GALLERIESPier 32, Granville Island, 210-1333 Johnston St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9T. 604-681-7677 [email protected] gallery’s aim is to contribute directly to Can-ada’s artistic and cultural development by repre-senting both established and emerging artists and hosting exhibitions of international signifi cance. Their current roster includes more than 30 artists working in painting, sculpture and photography. Located second fl oor, Pier 32. Wed to Fri 10 am - 5 pm or by appointment.

BELLEVUE GALLERY2475 Bellevue Ave, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1E1T. 604-922-2304 F. 604-922-2305

[email protected] to representing contemporary fi ne art, Bel-levue Gallery features artists of local and interna-tional 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.

BLANKET CONTEMPORARY ART INC560 Seymour St - 2nd Floor, Vancouver, BC V6B 3J5T. 604-709-6100 [email protected]

BUCKLAND SOUTHERST GALLERY2460 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC V7C 1L1T. 604-922-1915 [email protected] eclectic gallery owned by Chris Boulton. His aim is to hang quality art without too high a price tag. The gallery represents 18 artists, many with inter-national roots. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5.30 pm, Sun noon to 4 pm.

CATRIONA JEFFRIES GALLERY274 East 1 Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1A6T. 604-736-1554 F. 604-736-1054cat_jeffries_gallery@telus.netwww.catrionajeffries.com

CHALI-ROSSO GALLERY2250 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 4H7T. 604-733-3594 [email protected]

COASTAL PEOPLES FINE ARTS GALLERY YALETOWN & GASTOWN1024 Mainland St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2T4T. 604-685-9298 F. [email protected]

DOCTOR VIGARI GALLERY1816 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5N 4A5T. 604-255-9513 [email protected]

DORIAN RAE COLLECTION410 Howe St, Vancouver, BC V6C 1A5T. 604-874-6100 [email protected]

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY15586West 6th Ave 2nd fl oor, Vancouver, BC V6J 1R2T. 604-736-8900 F. 604-736-8931Vancouver@douglasudellgallery.comwww.douglasudellgallery.comIn the art business in Edmonton since 1967 and Vancouver since 1986, Douglas Udell Gallery rep-resents many of Canada’s leading contemporary

artists as well as some of the leading young artists gaining momentum in the international playing fi eld. The gallery also buys and sells in the second-ary market in Canadian historical as well as interna-tional. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Mon by appt.

EASTWOOD ONLEY GALLERY2075 Alberta St, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1C4T. 604-739-0429 [email protected]

EDZERZA GALLERY1536 W 2 Ave (Waterfall Building), Vancouver, BC V6J 1H2T. 604-731-4874 [email protected]

ELISSA CRISTALL GALLERIES2243 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G1T. 604-730-9611 [email protected]

ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY258 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1A6T. 604-736-3282 F. [email protected] gallery features Canadian fi ne art representing contemporary artists and historical masters. Art dealer Ted Lederer prides himself on the standard and diversity of work the gallery carries, their in-novative programs and excellent service, providing “in-house” art consultations and an art rental pro-gram available to private and corporate clients and the entertainment industry. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm or by appointment.

EQUINOX GALLERY2321 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4T. 604-736-2405 F. [email protected]

FEDERATION GALLERY1241 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC V6H 4B7T. 604-681-8534 [email protected] Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery on Gran-ville 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).

GALLERY JONES1725 West 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1K7T. 604-714-2216 [email protected] gallery represents established and emerging Canadian and international artists in the mediums of painting, sculpture and photography. Exhibitions change monthly. Second location in West Vancou-ver at 1531 Marine Dr. Tues - Fri 11 am - 6 pm, Sat noon - 5 pm.

Sarah Anne Johnson and Lorraine Gilbert, Global Nature, Kamloops Art Gallery, June 11 to September 3Sarah Anne Johnson and Lorraine Gilbert began exploring art and photog-raphy in different decades, but the environmental undercurrents in both their practices are now merging in a timely exhibition called Global Nature, on this summer at the Kamloops Art Gallery. Johnson, who won the Grange Prize in 2008, chronicles the lives of Manitoba tree planters, and a group attempting to rejuvenate the island of San Cristobal in the Galapagos. Gilbert’s work also examines fragile ecosystems in Canada and other parts of the world. “Collaborating with Sarah Anne is a natural fi t, as she looks at the same issues using very different images,” Gilbert says. “Landscape art has been typically beautiful and sublime, but it can be troubling as well.” She originally studied environmental biology and forestry before moving into the art world, and says a main theme of her photography is our incompatibility with nature. Using a digital camera, she has traveled to sensitive ecological sites, often working alongside local artists. “An artifi cial feeling is created by using a digital camera,” Gilbert says of her work, “and the people in my photos clash with the landscape. The fi gures are wearing bright hiking clothes and carry plastic dishes. We don’t really integrate into certain environments.” — Janet NicolABOVE: Lorraine Gilbert, Shaping the New Forest (detail), dye coupler print, 1990, National Gallery of Canada.

Brenda Joy Lem pulls together the fragmentary nature of the immigrant experience in Canada in her new exhibition at the Rich-mond Art Gallery through June 12. Drawing on vintage family and archival images, she traces her own history as a descendant of Chinese immigrants who arrived in Canada, through Victoria and Vancouver, in the 1930s to open a hand-laundry business. She tells a personal and a universal story in silkscreen prints, digital video projections, and sound installa-tion. RIGHT: Brenda Joy Lem, A Car in the New World, silkscreen on paper, 2008.


GRANVILLE FINE ART2447 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5T. 604-266-6010 info@granvillefi neart.comwww.granvillefi neart.comCanadian artworld veterans Linda Lando and Ken Macdonald have reputations of building collections for collectors. They are merging their talents into Granville Fine Art, representing fi ne contemporary artists and showcasing works by Canadian and international master painters. Northwest corner Broadway and Granville. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm.

NEW LOCATIONJenkins Showler Gallery recently moved from White Rock to the nearby Shops at Morgan Crossing in Surrey.

HARRISON GALLERIES901 Homer St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2W6T. 604-732-5217 F. [email protected]

HAVANA GALLERY1212 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3X4T. 604-253-9119 F. 604-253-9181www.havanarestaurant.ca/ArtGallery/tabid/2829/Default.aspx

HEFFEL GALLERY LTD2247 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G1T. 604-732-6505 F. [email protected]

HOWE STREET GALLERY OF FINE ART555 Howe St, Vancouver, BC V5C 2C2T. 604-681-5777 F. [email protected]

IAN TAN GALLERY2202 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 4H7T. 604-738-1077 F. [email protected]

INUIT GALLERY OF VANCOUVER206 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2M9T. 604-688-7323 Toll Free: 1-888-615-8399 [email protected]

JACANA GALLERY2435 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5T. 604-879-9306 [email protected] Gallery opened in Vancouver in 2000. The Gallery proudly represents more than 20 Canadian and international artists working in various media and styles. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.

JANE APPLEBY ART GALLERY957 Brunette Ave, Coquitlam, BC V3K 1E1T. 604-521-4569 F. [email protected] member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, Jane Appleby is a self-taught intuitive painter who works in a variety of styles with the vigour of her love of life. Jane is also an award-winning photog-rapher. She welcomes visitors to enjoy the work on display and sells originals, prints, and other mer-chandise. Mon to Fri 9 am - 4 pm, Sat 10 am - 3 pm.

JENKINS SHOWLER GALLERY101-15735 Croydon DrThe Shops at Morgan CrossingSurrey, BC V3S 2L5T. 604-535-7445 Toll Free: 1-888-872-3107 [email protected] LOCATION Established in 1990, and rep-resenting the work of over 40 Canadian artists ó- from emerging local talent to internationally re-spected painters including Toni Onley, Toller Cran-ston, and Robert Genn ó- Jenkins Showler Gallery offers a diverse selection of original art. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.

JENNIFER KOSTUIK GALLERY1070 Homer St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2W9T. 604-737-3969 F. [email protected]

KURBATOFF ART GALLERY2427 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5T. 604-736-5444 F. [email protected]

LATTIMER GALLERY1590 W 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1H2T. 604-732-4556 F. [email protected] 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 na-tive artists — as well as fi nely-crafted gold and silver jewellery, argillite carvings, soapstone sculp-tures, steam bent boxes, masks, totem poles and more. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun & Hol noon - 5 pm.

LIONS BAY ART GALLERYLions Bay Centre, Unit E, 350 Centre Rd, Box 396, Lions Bay, BC V0N 2E0T. 604-921-7865 F. [email protected]

MARILYN S. MYLREA STUDIO ART GALLERY2341 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4T. 604-736-2450 F. [email protected]

MARION SCOTT GALLERY2423 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5T. 604-685-1934 F. 604-685-1890art@marionscottgallery.comwww.marionscottgallery.comVancouver’s oldest Inuit art gallery (opened in 1975) and one of Canada’s most respected has re-turned to South Granville. The gallery is committed to presenting the fi nest in Canadian Inuit art, with a wide range of Inuit sculpture, prints and wall-hangings from many different regions of Canada’s North, with special emphasis on rare pieces from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun 11 am - 5 pm.

MONNY’S GALLERY2675 W 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6K 1P8T. 604-733-2082 [email protected]/monnysenvisiongallery/index.htmlThis 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 GALLERY2339 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4T. 604-730-5000 F. [email protected]

NUMEN GALLERY120-1058 Mainland St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2T4T. 604-630-6927 [email protected]

OMEGA GALLERY4290 Dunbar St (at 27 Ave), Vancouver, BC V6S 2E9T. 604-732-6778 F. [email protected]

PERA GALLERY413 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1L4T. 604-689-7370 [email protected] Gallery aspires to create an atmosphere of both free play and creative expression. Following Vancouver’s example of a cultural economy found-ed on the principles of diversity, multiculturalism and reciprocity, the gallery draws from both local and international talent working in painting, draw-ing, sculpture, ceramic and mosaic. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm.

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PETLEY JONES GALLERY1554 W 6 Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1R2T. 604-732-5353 F. [email protected] in 1986 by Matt Petley-Jones, nephew of the late Canadian and British artist Llewellyn Pet-ley-Jones, the gallery specializes in 19th - 20th cen-tury Canadian, European and American paintings, sculpture and original prints. It also offers a range of fi ne art services, including framing, restoration and appraisals. Around the corner from former Granville location. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm.

RENDEZVOUS ART GALLERY323 Howe St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3N2T. 604-687-7466 F. 604-687-7466Toll Free: 1-877-787-7466 [email protected]

SPIRIT GALLERY6408 Bay St, (Horseshoe Bay), West Vancouver, BC V7W 2H1T. 604-921-8974 F. [email protected]

SPIRIT WRESTLER GALLERY47 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1A1T. 604-669-8813 F. [email protected]

SUN SPIRIT GALLERY2444 Marine Dr (Dundarave), West Vancouver, BC V7V 1L1T. 778-279-5052 [email protected] Spirit Gallery is proud to offer a superior collec-tion of West Coast Native Art from renowned artists and emerging artists alike. The blend of contempo-rary and traditional work includes fi ne gold and silver jewellery, unique furniture and home accents, fi ne art prints, glass work and hand-carved masks and bentwood boxes. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm.

TRENCH CONTEMPORARY ART102-148 Alexander St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1B5T. 604-681-2577 Toll Free: 1-877-681-2577 [email protected] gallery exhibits international and local emerg-

ing, mid- and late-career artists working in all media. The gallery’s curatorial interest lies in both conceptual and formal art production but with an emphasis on relationship with the chosen material, rigorous discipline in the resolution of formal art problems and clarity of conceptual approach. In Gastown. Tues to Sat 11 am - 6 pm, or by appt.

TRIBAL SPIRIT GALLERY20435 Fraser Highway, Langley, BC V3A 4G3T. 604-514-2377 F. 604-514-9281Toll Free: 1-888-834-8757 [email protected] Spirit Gallery represents fi ne First Nations art of the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. In addi-tion 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.

UNO LANGMANN GALLERY2117 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3E9T. 604-736-8825 F. 604-736-8826Toll Free: 1-800-730-8825

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WHITE ROCK GALLERY1247 Johnston Rd, White Rock, BC V3B 3Y9T. 604-538-4452 F. 604-538-4453Toll Free: 1-877-974-4278 [email protected] destination for art lovers throughout the Lower Mainland since 1989. They feature an extraordinary selection of original fi ne art, ceramics and sculp-ture. Their custom framing is a blend of creativity, expert design, and skilled workmanship. Tue to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. Closed holiday long weekends.

WINSOR GALLERY3025 Granville, Vancouver, BC V6H 3J9T. 604-681-4870 F. [email protected]

Cooperative GalleriesARTS OFF MAIN GALLERY216 East 28 Ave, Vancouver, BC V5V 2M4T. 604-876-2785

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NOTE: Some numbers on the Map may refer to more than one gallery in close proximity, or in the same direction by arrow.

1 221A Artist Run Gallery1 Helen Pitt Gallery2 Access Artist Run Centre2 Pera Art Gallery3 Arts Off Main3 Little Mountain Gallery4 Artspeak Gallery5 Amelia Douglas Art Gallery5 Art Gallery at Evergreen Centre5 Burnaby Art Gallery5 Blackberry Gallery at Port Moody Arts Centre5 Japanese Canadian National Museum5 Leigh Square Community Arts Village5 Maple Ridge Art Gallery

5 Surrey Art Gallery5 Tribal Spirit Gallery5 Van Dop Gallery6 Art Beatus7 Art Emporium8 Art Works Gallery9 Asian Centre9 Belkin Art Gallery9 Jenkins Showler Gallery9 Museum of Anthropology9 Omega Gallery9 Peter Ohler Fine Art9 Richmond Art Gallery9 Sidney & Gertrude Zach Gallery9 White Rock Gallery10 Autumn Brook Gallery11 Aurora Gallery 11 Ayden Gallery11 Lumen Gallery12 Back Gallery Project13 Bau-Xi Gallery13 Winsor Gallery

14 Becker Galleries14 Charles H. Scott Gallery14 Crafthouse Gallery14 Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery14 Eagle Spirit Gallery14 Federation Gallery14 Granville Island Gallery14 Malaspina Printmakers Gallery14 New-Small & Sterling Glass15 Bellevue Gallery15 Buckland Southerst Gallery15 Caroun Art Gallery15 CityScape Community Art Space15 Ferry Building Gallery15 Gallery Jones West Vancouver15 Lions Bay Art Gallery15 North Vancouver Museum Gallery15 Presentation House Gallery

15 Seymour Art Gallery15 Silk Purse Gallery15 Spirit Gallery15 Sun Spirit Gallery15 West Vancouver Museum16 Blanket Gallery16 Satellite Gallery17 Casa18 Catriona Jeffries Gallery18 Elliott Louis Gallery19 Centre A20 Chali-Rosso Gallery20 Ian Tan Gallery21 Chinese Cultural Centre22 Coastal Peoples Gastown23 Coastal Peoples Yaletown23 Modpod Gallery23 Numen Gallery24 Contemporary Art Gallery25 Doctor Vigari Gallery26 Dorian Rae Collection27 Douglas Udell Gallery27 Elissa Cristall Galleries

27 Heffel Gallery27 La Galerie du Centre27 Petley Jones Gallery28 Douglas Reynolds Gallery28 Equinox Gallery28 Marilyn S. Mylrea Gallery28 Monte Clark Gallery29 Edzerza Gallery29 Lattimer Gallery30 Gallery Jones31 Gallery Gachet32 Granville Fine Art32 Jacana Gallery32 Kurbatoff Art Gallery32 Marion Scott Gallery33 Grace Gallery34 Grunt Gallery35 Harrison Galleries36 Havana Gallery37 Hillís Native Art38 Hodnett Fine Art38 Robinson Studio Gallery39 Howe Street Gallery

40 Inuit Gallery of Vancouver41 Jennifer Kostuik Gallery42 Joyce Williams Gallery43 Monnyís Gallery44 Nyree Hazelton Arts45 On Main46 Or Gallery47 Pendulum Gallery48 Rendezvous Art Gallery49 Republic Gallery50 Robert Held Gallery51 Spirit Wrestler Gallery52 The Cultch (VECC) Gallery53 The IronWorks54 Trench Gallery55 Trunk Gallery56 Uno Langmann Gallery57 Vancouver Art Gallery58 Westbridge Fine Art59 Western Front Gallery


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CIRCLE CRAFT GALLERY1-1666 Johnston St (Granville Island), Vancouver, BC V6H 3S2T. 604-669-8021 F. [email protected] in design and craftsmanship is the hallmark of Circle Craft, a co-operative of both emerging and established BC craftspeople whose work covers the spectrum from cottage industry to one-of-a-kind artist/craftspeople including both traditional and contemporary design. Juried exhibi-tions change monthly. Daily 10 am - 7 pm.

CRAFTHOUSE GALLERY1386 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R8T. 604-687-7270 F. [email protected]

DUNDARAVE PRINT WORKSHOP AND GALLERY1640 Johnston St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S2T. 604-689-1650 [email protected]

GALLERY OF BC CERAMICS1359 Cartwright St, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R7T. 604-669-3606 [email protected]/Gallery/index.html

NEW LOCATIONMarion Scott Gallery recently moved from Gastown to South Granville’s Gallery Row.

MALASPINA PRINTMAKERS GALLERY1555 Duranleau St (Granville Island), Vancouver, BC V6H 3S3T. 604-688-1724 [email protected]

Public GalleriesAMELIA DOUGLAS ART GALLERY700 Royal Ave, PO Box 2503, New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2T. 604-527-5723 www.douglas.bc.ca/community/art-gallery.html

ART GALLERY AT EVERGREEN CULTURAL CENTRE1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, BC V3B 7Y3T. 604-927-6550 F. 604-927-6559ellenv@evergreenculturalcentre.cawww.evergreenculturalcentre.ca/Art+Gallery/default.htm

BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART639 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6C 2G3T. 604-682-3455 F. [email protected]

BLACKBERRY GALLERY AT PORT MOODY ARTS CENTRE2425 St Johns St, Port Moody, BC V3H 2B2T. 604-931-2008 F. [email protected]/pages/gallery.html

BURNABY ART GALLERY6344 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby, BC V5G 2J3T. 604-297-4422 F. [email protected]

CHARLES H. SCOTT GALLERY1399 Johnston St, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9T. 604-844-3809 F. [email protected]

CHINESE CULTURAL CENTRE MUSEUM & ARCHIVES555 Columbia St, Vancouver, BC V6A 4H5T. 604-658-8883 [email protected]

CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE355 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2G3T. 604-988-6844 [email protected]

CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY555 Nelson St, Vancouver, BC V6B 6R5T. 604-681-2700 F. 604-683-2710www.contemporaryartgallery.ca

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY1414 Argyle Ave, Ambleside Landing, West Vancouver, BC V7T 1C2T. 604-925-7290 F. [email protected]/article.asp?c=630

JAPANESE CANADIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM 6688 Southoaks Cr, Burnaby, BC V5E 4M7T. 604-777-7000 [email protected]

LEIGH SQUARE COMMUNITY ARTS VILLAGE2253 Leigh Square Place, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 3B8T. 604-927-8400 F. [email protected]/arts

MAPLE RIDGE ART GALLERY11944 Haney Place - in The ACT, Maple Ridge, BC V2X 6G1T. 604-467-5855 [email protected]/qs/page/2166/0/-1

MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY1825 Main Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2T. 604-822-2759 F. [email protected]

MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA6393 NW Marine Dr,, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2T. 604-822-5087 F. [email protected] is a place of architectural beauty, provoca-tive programming, and exciting exhibitions — in-cluding Bill Reid’s iconic ‘The Raven and the First Men,’and the new Multiversity Galleries, showcas-ing 10,000 objects from around the world. Café MOA, an elegant shop, and free tours. Spring/Summer: daily 10 am - 5 pm Tues to 9; Fall/Winter: closed Mon, open Tues 10 am - 9 pm and Wed to Sun 10 am - 5 pm. Closed Dec 25 & 26.

NORTH VANCOUVER MUSEUM IN PRESENTATION HOUSE ARTS CENTRE209 West 4 St, North Vancouver, BC V7M 1H8T. 604-990-3700 Extn: 8016 [email protected]

PLACE DES ARTS1120 Brunette Ave, Coquitlam, BC V3K 1G2T. 604-664-1636 F. [email protected]

PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY333 Chesterfi eld Ave, North Vancouver, BC V7M 3G9T. 604-986-1351 F. 604-986-5380education@presentationhousegall.comwww.presentationhousegall.com

RICHMOND ART GALLERY180-7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC V6Y 1R9T. 604-247-8300 F. [email protected] 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 ed-ucation, the RAG strives to enhance an understand-ing and enjoyment of contemporary art. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat and Sun 10 am - 5 pm.

SATELLITE GALLERY560 Seymour St - 2nd Floor, Vancouver, BC V6B 3J5T. 604-681-8425 [email protected]

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8 APR - 29 MAY 2011UBC Museum of Anthropology6393 NW Marine Drive Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2604.822.5087 www.moa.ubc.ca

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SEYMOUR ART GALLERY4360 Gallant Ave, North Vancouver, BC V7G 1L2T. 604-924-1378 F. [email protected]

SIDNEY AND GERTRUDE ZACK GALLERY950 West 41 Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2N7T. 604-257-5111 F. [email protected]/home/cultural_art.htm

SILK PURSE GALLERY1570 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1A1T. 604-975-7292 F. [email protected]/gallery.html

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY GALLERY8888 University Dr, AQ 3004, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6T. 778-782-4266 F. [email protected]/gallery

SURREY ART GALLERY13750 88 Ave, Surrey, BC V3W 3L1T. 604-501-5566 F. [email protected]

TECK GALLERY (SFU VANCOUVER CAMPUS)515 West Hastings St, Vancouver, BC T. 778-782-4266 F. [email protected]/gallery

THE CULTCH GALLERY AT VECC 1895 Venables St, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6T. 604-251-1363 F. [email protected]/content/view/78/148/

VANCOUVER ART GALLERY750 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7T. 604-662-4700 F. 604-682-1086

[email protected] largest art gallery in Western Canada is a fo-cal point of downtown Vancouver. Presenting a full range of contemporary artists and major historical masters, it is recognized internationally for its supe-rior 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.

VERNON

Commercial GalleriesASHPA NAIRA ART GALLERY & STUDIO9492 Houghton Rd., Vernon, BC V1H 2C9T. 250-549-4249 F. [email protected] 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 estab-lished Okanagan and Canadian artists in painting, textiles, sculpture and ceramics. Open May 1 to Oc-tober 15. Fri to Sun 10 am - 6 pm or by appt.

NADINE’S FINE ART & FRAMES3101 31 Ave, Vernon, BC V1T 2G9T. 250-542-8544 nadinesfi [email protected] neart.comArtist/owner Nadine Wilson opened her gallery in 2005. She represents several local artists, presents regular classes in watercolour, oil and acrylic paint-ing and drawing as well as offering professional framing services. In summer the gallery hosts guest artist workshops. Mon to Fri 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 9:30 am - 4 pm (winter: Sat 10 am - 2 pm).

Public GalleryVERNON PUBLIC ART GALLERY3228 31 Ave, Vernon, BC V1T 2H3T. 250-545-3173 F. 250-545-9096info@vernonpublicartgallery.comwww.vernonpublicartgallery.com

Kristin Bjornerud, May 1 to 31, Gallery Jones, VancouverKristin Bjornerud’s aim is “to create paintings that are short stories, personal narratives told through the lens of folktales, dreams, and magical realism.” One such work is The Father’s House, an ethereal painting of a rambling wooden house on the precipice of a cliff, its fate in the hands of a group of young women. “I often use images from dreams as springboards for ideas, and with the house I fi nd I’m attracted to the darker, hidden aspects of it,” Bjornerud says. “For me, the house is a wonderfully rich sym-bol full of contradictions and narrative possibilities. It can be read at once as a domestic space, a shelter, a sanctuary or a prison.” As for the female fi gures, the artist says they’re “taking control of the symbol” as well as an act of solidarity and a small rebellion. “It’s destructive, but it’s also a joyful act, at least for some of the characters.” Bjornerud’s watercolours evoke a variety of reactions. “Some stories can have very little in the way of action,” she points out, “but are powerful nonetheless because they stir up an emo-tion or memory. That’s what I’am striving toward.” She talks about leaving certain ambiguity in the work to invite conversation with the viewer. “It would be quite boring if we all read images the same way.”— Janet NicolABOVE: Kristin Bjornerud, Sanctuary, watercolour and gouache on paper, 38" X 64", 2010

circlecrafthandmade by local artists

(604) 669-8021 circlecraft.net

open every day 10am - 7pm . net loft - granville island


The Vernon Public Art Gallery presents exhibitions of emerging and established artists working in a va-riety of media, including paintings sculpture, video, and installation art. The Vernon Public Art Gallery is the largest public gallery in the North Okanagan, and provides exhibition opportunities to local art-ists and artisans. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 11 am - 4 pm.

GREATER VICTORIA

Artist-run GalleriesOPEN SPACE510 Fort Street, 2nd fl oor, Victoria, BC V8W 1E6T. 250-383-8833 F. [email protected] in September 1972 as a non-profi t artist-run centre, Open Space supports professional artists — notably young and emerging — who utilize hybrid and experimental approaches to media, art, music and performance. It refl ects the wide diver-sity of contemporary art practices in Victoria, across Canada and beyond. Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm.

NEW GALLERYArtist Marion Evamy has opened her own Red Gallery on Oak Bay Avenue in Victoria.

Commercial GalleriesALCHERINGA GALLERY665 Fort St, Victoria, BC V8W 1G6T. 250-383-8224 F. 250-383-9399alcheringa@islandnet.comwww.alcheringa-gallery.comFor 30 years, the gallery has exhibited contempo-

rary 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 Pacifi c, 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 GALLERY2184 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1G3T. 250-598-2184 F. 250-598-2185info@theavenuegallery.comwww.theavenuegallery.comEspecially noted for fi nding and establishing new talent, the gallery considers itself a showcase for contemporary British Columbia, Canadian and in-ternational art, serving both corporate and private collectors — those new to the contemporary art scene as well as knowledgeable collectors. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm.

CHOSIN POTTERY4283 Metchosin Rd, Victoria, BC V9C 3Z4T. 250-474-2676 F. [email protected] their studio set in a beautiful, award-winning garden of a renovated house from the turn of the century, Robin Hopper and Judi Dyelle produce a wide range of work, mainly in high temperature, reduction-fi red porcelain — from one-of-a-kind pieces for decoration or contemplation to an ex-cellent selection of functional pottery for everyday use. One half hour north of Victoria via Hwy 1, Exit 10 to Hwy 14 (Sooke Rd) and Metchosin Rd. Daily 10 am - 5 pm.

DALES GALLERY537 Fisgard St, Victoria, BC V8W 1R3T. 250-383-1552 [email protected]

Rande Cook, August 6 to 26, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria Rande Cook’s summer exhibition, eight carved panels, is inspired by a pre-vious exhibition of his paintings called Innovative Visions of the Formline. “No matter how we look at things around us, there is a string of energy fl owing through it all,” Cook says about his striking and detailed designs. “As each design developed, I started to add more colour, a refl ection of life unfolding and all its many gifts starting to appear in front of you. Each design represents a string of elements, each holding its own identity. It’s like us as humans — many races throughout the world but all the same energy. Cook was born in the northern Vancouver Island town of Alert Bay and now lives in Victoria. He has a mixture of N’amgis, Ma’amtagila and Mamalilikala tribal lineage, and is also infl uenced by his grandfather’s mastery of Kwakwaka’wakw design. “When I fi rst thought about doing the Lines of Time design (representing strands of energy that run through everything in the world), I was coming from a place of tranquility,” he says. “Our Kwakwaka’wakw culture speaks of a higher power, with all of us on earth as equals, whether you’re human, animal, insect, the rivers that fl ow, or the trees that give.” — Janet NicolABOVE: Rande Cook, One’s Vision, red cedar, acrylic paint, 2011.

www.artists.cafor prospectus and details

Painting on the Edge is a juried competition open to all living artists worldwide featuring original paintings, printmaking and drawing media. Abstract, expressive, impressionist or realist styles are welcome.

August 16 - September 4, 2011Reception: August 18, 2011

Entry Deadline: June 3, 2011

OPEN INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION


DOMINGUEZ ART GALLERY2075 Otter Point Rd, Box 344 , Sooke, BC V9Z 1G1T. 250-664-7045 [email protected]

EAGLE FEATHER GALLERY904 Gordon St, Victoria, BC V8W 1Z8T. 250-388-4330 F. 250-388-4328info@eaglefeathergallery.comwww.eaglefeathergallery.com

ECLECTIC GALLERY2170 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1E9T. 250-590-8095 [email protected] in original contemporary fi ne art paintings, sculpture, photography and jewellery, this welcoming light-fi lled gallery is known for its vibrant selection of local and regional art. It offers rotating art exhibitions of excellent quality at its easily-accessible location in the heart of Oak Bay Village. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.

LUZ GALLERY + WORKSHOPS1844 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1C5 T. 250-590-7557 F. [email protected]

MADRONA GALLERY606 View St, Victoria, BC V8W 1J4T. 250-380-4660 F. [email protected] Gallery represents emerging, mid-career and established Canadian artists. The gallery offers a welcoming environment to all visitors and Michael

Warren’s expertise in Canadian art history and the contemporary art market facilitates the discovery of new artists and rare pieces from Canadian masters. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun 11 - 6 pm.

MARTIN BATCHELOR GALLERY712 Cormorant St, Victoria, BC V8W 1P8T. 250-385-7919 [email protected]

MERCURIO GALLERY602 Courtney St, Victoria, BC V8W 1B6T. 250-388-5158 www.mercurio.ca

MORRIS GALLERY428 Burnside Rd E (on Alpha), Victoria, BC V8T 2X1T. 250-388-6652 F. [email protected]

ONE MOON GALLERY1192 Kosapsum Cres (Esquimalt), Victoria, BC V9A 7K7T. 250-294-6388 www.onemoon.caThe gallery celebrates the art of Darlene Gait, an internationally-recognized, contemporary Coast Salish First Nation’s artist born on Vancouver Island. Her paintings are inspiring and spiritual as she fo-cuses on, and shares, the beauty of the North West Coast landscape, its wild life and indigenous art. Sat, Sun 10 am - 5 pm.

OUT OF THE MIST GALLERY740 Douglas St, Victoria, BC V8W 3M6T. 250-480-4930 [email protected]

Dealers in classic and contemporary Northwest coast native art — including traditional potlatch masks, basketry, shamanic devices, button blan-kets, totem poles, artefacts and more. There is also a selection of plains beadwork and artefacts and other North American, Oceanic, and African tribal art. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 3 pm.

POLYCHROME FINE ARTS1113 Fort St, Victoria, BC V8V 3K9T. 250-382-2787 shawn@polychromefi nearts.comwww.polychromefi nearts.com

RED ART GALLERY2033 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1E5T. 250-881-0462 [email protected] small gem in the heart of Oak Bay Village, the gallery is dynamic, welcoming and above all, dedi-cated to the love of art. Along with regular new paintings by award-winning painter Marion Evamy, other artists also showcase artwork that is con-temporary, confi dent and affordable. Relax on the red couch and enjoy art described (by critic Robert Amos) as ‘a blast of joyî. Tues to Sat noon - 4 pm.

SOOKE FINE ART GALLERY2016 Shields Rd, PO Box 507, Sooke, BC V9Z 1H5T. 250-642-6411 [email protected]

SOOKE HARBOUR HOUSE GALLERY1528 Whiffen Spit Rd, Sooke, BC V9Z 0T4T. 250-642-3421 F. 250-642-6988gallery@sookeharbourhouse.comwww.sookeharbourhouse.com/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 Vancou-ver Island. The art, in a variety of media, generally refl ects 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.

TED HARRISON GALLERY2004 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1E4T. 250-592-0561 F. [email protected]

THE GALLERY AT MATTICK’S FARM109-5325 Cordova Bay Rd, Victoria, BC V8Y 2L3T. 250-658-8333 F. [email protected]

THE GALLERY IN OAK BAY VILLAGE2223A Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1G4T. 250-598-9890 F. [email protected] a short distance from downtown in the pictur-esque Oak Bay Village, the gallery shows a variety of works by mostly local artists including Kathryn Amisson, Sid and Jesi Baron, Andres Bohaker, Bry-ony 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.

VIEW ART GALLERY104-860 View St, Victoria, BC V8W 3Z8T. 250-213-1162 [email protected]


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4 Boucherat Gallery5 Chosin Pottery5 Dominguez Gallery5 Morris Gallery5 Sooke Harbour House 6 Collective Works Gallery7 Community Arts Council8 Dales Gallery

9 Deluge Gallery10 Eagle Feather Gallery10 Mercurio Gallery11 Eclectic Gallery12 Fifty Fifty Arts Collective13 Gallery at Mattickís Farm14 Gallery in Oak Bay Village15 Goward House

15 Maltwood Gallery16 Hillís Native Art17 Legacy Gallery and Café 18 Luz Gallery19 Madrona Gallery20 Martin Batchelor Gallery21 May Ip-Lam Gallery22 Ministry of Casual Living

23 One Moon Gallery24 Open Space25 Out of the Mist Gallery26 Polychrome Gallery27 Red Gallery28 Royal BC Museum29 Slide Room Gallery30 Ted Harrison Gallery

31 View Art Gallery32 West End Gallery33 Winchester (2) - Humboldt St34 Winchester - Oak Bay Ave


Located in the Harris Green/New Town neighbour-hood of downtown Victoria, this new gallery is a short stroll from the major hotels and downtown shops. The focus of the gallery is contemporary modern abstract paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and new media by distinguished Canadian artists. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm or by appointment.

WEST END GALLERY1203 Broad Street, Victoria, BC V8W 2A4T. 250-388-0009 [email protected] 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 es-tablished artists and to purchase with confi dence. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun/Holidays noon - 4 pm.

WINCHESTER GALLERIES2260 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC V8R 1G7T. 250-595-2777 F. 250-595-2310art@winchestergalleriesltd.comwww.winchestergalleriesltd.comExclusive fi ne art dealers handling Canadian histori-cal and contemporary art. Opened in 1974, the gal-lery 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 Vil-lage. They regularly run major exhibitions of two to three weeks both here and in two other downtown galleries. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.

Cooperative GalleriesCOLLECTIVE WORKS GALLERY1311 Gladstone Ave, Box 5079, Victoria, BC V8R 6N3T. 250-590-1345 [email protected]

GOWARD HOUSE2495 Arbutus Rd, Victoria, BC V8N 1V9T. 250-477-4401 [email protected]

Public GalleriesART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA1040 Moss Street, Victoria, BC V8V 4P1T. 250-384-4171 F. [email protected]

COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER VICTORIAG6-1001 Douglas St, Victoria, BC V8W 2C5T. 250-381-2787 F. [email protected]

LEGACY ART GALLERY630 Yates St, Victoria, BC V8W 1K9T. 250-381-7670 [email protected] Legacy Art Gallery features works from the Uni-versity of Victoria Art Collections, including paint-ings, drawings and sculptures by some of the best-known artists in the Pacifi c Northwest, bequeathed to the University of Victoria by Dr. Michael C. Williams. Two gallery spaces feature a variety of

rotating exhibits. Phone, or visit website for hours. CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS. Reopening early June.

MALTWOOD PRINTS AND DRAWINGS GALLERY AT THE MCPHERSON LIBRARYBox 3025 Stn CSC, McPherson Library,Room 027 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC V8W 3P2T. 250-721-6673 F. 250-721-8997maltpub@fi nearts.uvic.cawww.uvac.uvic.caThe Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gallery, located on the lower level of the McPherson Library, exhibits prints, drawings, paintings and photographs from the University of Victoria’s permanent art collec-tion, including a large contemporary First Nations print collection. Hours of operation coincide with McPherson Library. Call for current hours.

WHISTLER

Commercial GalleriesADELE CAMPBELL FINE ART GALLERY110-4090 Whistler Way (Westin Hotel), Whistler, BC V0N 1B4T. 604-938-0887 F. 604-938-1887Toll Free: 1-888-938-0887 [email protected]

ART JUNCTION GALLERY1050 Millar Creek Road, Whistler, BC V0N 1B1T. 604-938-9000 F. [email protected]

BLACK TUSK GALLERY108-4293 Mountain Square, Whistler, BC V0N [email protected] Black Tusk Gallery creates unique acquisition opportunities for collectors with a variety of works by both established and up-and-coming First Na-tions artists whose work refl ects the ancient histo-ries and traditions of the coastal people. Located on the lobby level of the Hilton Hotel, next to Skiers Plaza. Open daily.

HAYDEN BECK GALLERY122-4293 Mountain Square, Whistler, BC V0N 1B4T. 604-962-7711 F. [email protected]

MOUNTAIN GALLERIES AT THE FAIRMONTFairmont Chateau Whistler, 4599 Chateau Blvd, Whistler, BC V0N 1B4T. 604-935-1862 Toll Free: 1-888-310-9726 [email protected] in The Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Moun-tain Galleries is a favourite stop for collectors of Canadian art, featuring museum-quality paintings, sculpture and unique Inuit carvings. With three galleries, a combined total of 6080 square feet of exhibition space, and a state of the art warehouse/studio in Jasper, they frequently host exhibitions, artist demonstrations and workshops. Daily 10 am - 10 pm.

THE PATH GALLERY122-4338 Main St, Whistler, BC V0N 1B4T. 604-932-7570

[email protected]

THE PLAZA GALLERIES22-4314 Main St, Whistler, BC V0N 1B4T. 604-938-6233 F. [email protected]

WHISTLER VILLAGE ART GALLERY4050 Whistler Way, Whistler, BC V0N 1B4T. 604-938-3001 F. [email protected]

Public GalleriesSCOTIA CREEK GALLERY, MILLENNIUM PLACE4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC V0N 1B4T. 604-935-8410 F. [email protected]/scotia-creek-gallery

SQUAMISH LIL’WAT CULTURAL CENTRE4584 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC V0N 1B0T. 866-441-7522 [email protected]

ALBERTAGALLERIES

BANFF

Commercial GalleriesCANADA HOUSE GALLERYPO Box 1570201 Bear St, Banff, AB T1L 1B5T. 403-762-3757 F. 403-762-8052Toll Free: 1-800-419-1298 [email protected] Banff destination since 1974, just a short drive from Calgary. This friendly and fresh gallery rep-resents 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.

MOUNTAIN GALLERIES AT THE FAIRMONTFairmont Banff Springs, 405 Spray Ave, Banff, AB T. 403-760-2382 Toll Free: 1-800-310-9726 [email protected] in The Fairmont Banff Springs, Mountain Galleries is a favourite stop for collectors of Canadi-an art, featuring museum-quality paintings, sculp-ture and unique Inuit carvings. With three galleries, a combined total of 6080 square feet of exhibition space, and a state of the art warehouse/studio in Jasper, they frequently host exhibitions, artist dem-onstrations and workshops. Daily 10 am - 10 pm.

WILLOCK & SAX GALLERYBox 2469, 110 Bison Courtyard, 211 Bear St, Banff, AB T1L 1C2T. 403-762-2214 Toll Free: 1-866-859-2220 fi [email protected] refl ects the spiritual and physical reliance of humanity on the natural world. The Willock & Sax Gallery is innovative and eclectic, rooted in the idea that art is about people, place, and commu-nity. They carry work by mainly Western Canadian contemporary and historic artists, who enjoy inter-national, national, and regional reputations. Daily 10 am - 6 pm.

Jeremy Drummond, 65-Point Plan for Sustainable Living, May 5 to June 11, The New Gallery, CalgaryAs a harsh yet sublime portrait of North American suburbia, 65-Point Plan for Sustainable Living is a col-lection of 65 aerial images depicting every Canadian province and US state.As a Canadian artist currently living in Pennsylvania, Drummond has been exploring the suburbs through video and photographic works that manipu-late what’s natural and what has been devised. Echoing the urban planning maps of residential construction in this series, each photo captures a single housing subdivision, digitally reconstructed. While they appear like most subdivisions at fi rst glance, no roads lead either in or out. Each neighbour-hood is wholly self-contained, as if an island of homogenous housing. As a critique of the notion of gated communities and suburban privacy, the photographs focus on the uniformity of each community. As an installa-tion, the photographs are displayed to refl ect their actual geographic and spatial relationship, suggesting a re-mapping of how enclosed most of North America truly is. As a multiple, the images are printed as an edition of standard postcards, further pushing the notion of residential planned communities as desirable locations. — Amy FungABOVE: Jeremy Drummond, 65-Point Plan for Sustainable Living, installation detail, 2007 - 2008.

Opening just as the rodeo season is gearing up in Alberta, Chris Riley’s paintings bring a spirit of celebration of the West to Swirl Fine Art in Calgary’s Art Central. A self-taught painter from rural Alberta, her portraits of people and animals are saturated with colour and bold, forceful strokes. On through June, the show will open June 2 (fi rst Thursday) with kinetic live performance and a sampling of Western culture. RIGHT: Chris Riley, Showoff, oil on canvas, 2010.

66 Galleries West Summer 2011 www.gallerieswest.cawww.gallerieswest.ca

Public GalleriesWALTER PHILLIPS GALLERY107 Tunnel Mountain Road, Box 1020 Stn 40, Banff, AB T1L 1H5T. 403-762-6281 F. 403-762-6659walter_phillipsgallery@banffcentre.cawww.banffcentre.ca/wpg/The gallery is exclusively committed to the pro-duction, presentation, collection and analysis of contemporary art and is dedicated to developing a thoughtful and stimulating forum for visual art and curatorial practice. The WPG develops exhibitions, commissions new works and engages in dialogues about curatorial practice through symposia and workshops. Wed to Sun 12:30 pm - 5 pm, Thurs till 9 pm. Free gallery tours Thurs 7 pm.

NEW LOCATIONSuncatchers Design Studio has moved to the Trading Post Mall in Bragg Creek.

WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIESPO Box 160111 Bear St, Banff, AB T1L 1A3T. 403-762-2291 F. [email protected] on a spectacular site beside the Bow River in downtown Banff. Discover the rich natural and cultural heritage of the Canadian Rockies. The Mu-seum offers guided tours of Banff’s heritage log homes and cabins; historic walking tours of the Banff townsite; and exhibition tours of the galler-ies. Open daily, 10 am - 5 pm.

BLACK DIAMOND

Commercial GalleriesBLUEROCK GALLERY (FORMERLY TERRA COTTA)110 Centre Ave, Box 1290, Black Diamond, AB T0L 0H0T. 403-933-5047 F. [email protected] new owners, Karen Gimbel and Chris Wein-garth, Bluerock Gallery is a go-to place for one-of-a-kind art and fi ne craft plus jewellery and inspiring books. New art arrives regularly and the impressive group of more than 50 artists is being expanded. Wed to Mon 11 am - 5 pm; Dec 1 - 24 daily 11 am - 7 pm or by appt.

MARYANNE’S EDEN — THE ART AND GARDEN GALLERY109 Centre Ave East, Box 964, Black Diamond, AB T0L 0H0T. 403-933-5524 [email protected] primarily with oil paints, Maryanne Jes-

persen’s works are an outlet of strength, light and emotion. From a unique imagination, her paintings exhibit a warm closeness to nature that is constant-ly evolving. She also creates hand-crafted concrete garden art. Maryanne’s artwork is represented at Gust Gallery in Waterton, AB. Daily 11 am - 5 pm or by appointment.

BRAGG CREEK

Commercial GalleriesSUNCATCHER’S DESIGN STUDIO1 White Ave, Trading Post Mall, PO Box 840, Bragg Creek,, AB T0L 0K0T. 403-949-4332 F. 403-278-6299info@suncatchersdesigns.comwww.suncatchersdesigns.comProviding Calgary with custom stained glass since 1979, SunCatcher’s is also an eclectic mix of origi-nal art, antiques, and jewellery. Now featuring the art of Roland Gissing (1895 - 1967) and Alberta artists Lisse Legge, Karin Taylor, Chris Zincan, Can-dice Meyer, Sandy Angle, Allen Weibe, Linda Sirr, Frank Calon and Robert Held, plus a private collec-tion of original art deco and art nouveau glass and metal works. Wed to Sat 11 am - 6 pm, Sun, Mon noon - 5 pm.

THE ALICAT GALLERY1 Bragg Creek Village Centre, Box 463, Bragg Creek, AB T0L 0K0T. 403-949-3777 F. 403-949-3777gallery@alicatgallery.comwww.alicatgallery.comLocated about 30 minutes west of Calgary, the gal-lery opened in 1987. It represents more than 100 local and Western Canadian artists and artisans working in oils, acrylics and watercolours. Ceram-ics, carvings, sculpture and ironwork of the fi nest quality are also shown. Daily 11 am - 5 pm.

CALGARY

Artist-run GalleriesSTRIDE GALLERY1004 Macleod Tr SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2M7T. 403-262-8507 F. [email protected]

THE NEW GALLERY212-100 7 Ave SW (Art Central), Calgary, AB T2P 0W4T. 403-233-2399 F. [email protected] its new location on the second level of Art Central, Calgary’s oldest artist-run centre is com-mitted 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.

TRUCK CONTEMPORARY ART IN CALGARY815 1 St SW, lower level, Calgary, AB T2P 1N3T. 403-261-7702 F. [email protected]/

Through June 19, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary fl ips the idea of portraiture on its head. The exhibition Portraits, the latest curated show from works in the Mu-seum’s collection, features a selection of recognizable portraits — images of people — as well as some unusual interpretations. Portraits of ideas, moments in time, and objects representing abstract concepts can all redefi ne the intent of portraiture. RIGHT: Napoleon Brousseau, Gary Michael Dault, 2002. Collection of the Glenbow Museum.

Represented by

Virginia Boulay, Waterton Morning, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 36”

Sales, Rentals and CommissionsGiclée Reproductions available for purchase on-line

www.vboulayart. comlandscapes

Member CARFAC and Visual Arts Alberta Association

VIRGINIA BOULAY

Waterton Lakes National Park, AB. 403.859.2535 Opening Reception, Sunday May 22nd. 2 - 4pm

Arts on Atlantic Art Gallery, Calgary, AB. 403.264.6627Effusion Art Gallery, Invermere, B.C. 250.341.6877Grey Area Gallery, Chilliwack, B.C. 604.846.0088


TRUCK is a non-profi t, artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art. Their goal is to incite dialogue locally, which contributes to the global critical discourse on contemporary art. TRUCK presents dynamic programming, fosters in-novative artistic practices, encourages experimenta-tion, and promotes a dialogue between artists and the public. Free admission. Tues to Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Sat noon - 5 pm.

Commercial GalleriesART CENTRAL100 7 Ave SW, Art Central, Calgary, AB T2P 0W4T. 403-543-9900 [email protected] 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 an-cillary retail businesses. Centrally located opposite Hyatt Regency Hotel, only one block from Stephen Avenue Walk. For more information or leasing in-quiries visit website or call for Sandra Neil.

ARTEVO.COM6999 11 St SE, Calgary, AB T2H 2S1T. 403-265-7723 [email protected] the music of distinguished piano manufac-turers such as Fazioli, Bechstein and Knabe with over 200 artists represented including global paint-ers such as Jane Seymour, Fabian Perez and “The Art of Dr Seuss” along with Alberta and Canadian artists, notably Toller Cranston, Dean McLeod and Lois Bauman. Also offer framing and fi ne giclée re-production. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm.

ARTS ON ATLANTIC GALLERY1312A 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0T3T. 403-264-6627 F. [email protected] gallery showcases an eclectic mix of fi ne Cana-dian art and craft. Five minutes from downtown, it is a warm, intimate space in historic Inglewood. Mediums include painting, copper, glass, jewellery, 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 ART107-100 7 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 0W4T. 403-262-3356 [email protected] professional Canadian and International artists working in diverse media including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and photography. The artists represent distinctive artistic practices in terms of their approach, technique and themes. The result: work that is compelling, fresh and en-gaging. Mon to Fri 10:30 am - 5:30 pm, First Thurs till 9 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm.

NEW OWNERSKeith Levoir is the new owner of Arts on Atlantic while Amanda Clark has purchased the Infl ux Jewellery Gallery in Calgary.

CIRCA1226A 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0T1T. 403-290-0145 Toll Free: 1-877-290-0145 [email protected] is a one-of-a-kind gallery specializing in mid-century modern art glass from around the world. All items are hand blown works of art from the 1940-1960s. The focus is on European art glass from the best known studios and furnaces. Circa brings world-class vintage art glass to Calgary from centres across Europe. A visual spectacle of color, form and modernism. Daily 10 am - 5 pm.

DADE ART AND DESIGN LAB1327 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0T2T. 403-454-0243 F. [email protected] a distinctive product mix and presentation philosophy DaDe Art & Design Lab favours the ‘eco-friendly’ in offering a complete product range for modern living — including original art and sculpture by local artists, and exclusive furniture from around the world. Tues, Wed, Fri 11 am - 7

pm; Thurs till 9 pm; Sat till 6 pm; Sun noon - 5 pm and by appointment. (Winter: Tues, Wed, Fri 11 am - 6 pm; Thurs till 8 pm; Sat till 6 pm; Sun noon - 5 pm.)

DIANA PAUL GALLERIES737 2 ST SW, Calgary, AB T2P 3J1T. 403-262-9947 F. 403-262-9911dpg@dianapaulgalleries.comwww.dianapaulgalleries.comRecently relocated to the heritage Lancaster Build-ing just off Stephen Avenue Walk. Specializing in high quality fi ne art — small and large format works — in styles from super-realism to impres-sionism to semi-abstract. Featuring the work of emerging and well-established artists. Tues to Sat 10:30 am - 5:30 pm.

FORTUNE FINE ART3-215 39 Ave NE, Calgary, AB T2E 7E3T. 403-277-7252 F. 403-277-7364info@fortunefi neart.comwww.fortunefi neart.comFor 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’ MacKin-non Crockford, WR deGarth, N de Grandmaison, Roland Gissing, George Horvath, Georgia Jarvis, Glenn Olson, Torquil Reed, Colin Williams and Marguerite Zwicker. Browsers welcome. By ap-pointment.

NEW GALLERYPartners Irene Besse and Rick Anderson have opened the Artevo.com gallery adjacent to Irene’s long-established piano studio on 11 St SE.

GAINSBOROUGH GALLERIES441 5 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 2V1T. 403-262-3715 F. 403-262-3743Toll Free: 1-866-425-5373 art@gainsboroughgalleries.comwww.gainsboroughgalleries.comExtensive collection of fi ne artists including Tinyan, Raftery, Wood, Desrosiers, Lyon, Hedrick, Min Ma, Simard, Brandel, Schlademan, Bond, Cameron, Crump and Charlesworth. Calgary’s largest collec-tion of bronze — by Stewart, Cheek, Lansing, Tay-lor, Danyluk and Arthur. Gemstone carvings by Lyle Sopel. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat till 5 pm.

GERRY THOMAS GALLERY100-602 11 Ave SW - lower level, Calgary, AB T2R 1J8T. 403-265-1630 F. [email protected] 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 sophisti-cated sound system. Wed to Sat 10 am - 6 pm.

GIBSON FINE ART LTD628 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E2T. 403-244-2000 info@gibsonfi neart.cawww.gibsonfi neart.caNow located in the Design District, the gallery showcases contemporary art in a wide variety of styles and media and of signifi cant regional and national scope — from emerging and established artists of the highest quality. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm.

HERRINGER KISS GALLERY709 A 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E3T. 403-228-4889 F. 403-228-4809info@herringerkissgallery.comwww.herringerkissgallery.comA member of the Art Dealers Association of Can-ada, the gallery represents over 25 artists working in a range of mediums including painting, photog-raphy, printmaking, sculpture and mixed media works. Gallery artists include Angela Leach, Toni Hafkenscheid, Akiko Taniguchi, Bill Laing, Marjan Eggermont, Tivadar Boté, Ken Webb, Harry Ki-yooka, Reinhard Skoracki, Glen Semple, Elizabeth Barnes, David Burdeny, Dennis Ekstedt, Renée Duval, Ben Van Netten, Siobhan Humston, Bratsa Bonifacho, Eve Leader, Jude Griebel, Stefanja Du-

612 Spring Creek Drive Canmore, Alberta T1W 0C7403-675-8300 www.edgegallery.ca

SUMMER’S EDGE IIIGallery artists group show

July 2011

PATTI DYMENT & MELANIE AIKENHEADSpring Creek Muse

August 2011

BARBARA BALLACHEY Recent Work

September 2011

Jeffrey Spalding, First Snow – White Hope, Oil on oak panels, diptych each 18” x 80”

JEFFREY SPALDINGartsPeak

June 2011

on the scene

Leighton

July 16 - August 27, 2011 Opening Reception: July 16, 2011, 2-4pm

In this exhibition, The Society of Canadian Artists interprets the Canadian landscape. Featuring some of the Country’s top artists, this exhibition presents as much diversity in artistic intrepretation as it does the landscape across Canada.

A C e l e b r a t i o n o f T h e C a n a d i a n L a n d s c a p e

Art Centre

“Grasping the Wind”, acrylic, Brent Laycock, SCA

(403) 931-3633 www.leightoncentre.org


manowski, Marianne Lovink and Eszter Burghardt. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm.

INFLUX JEWELLERY GALLERY201-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central, Calgary, AB T2P 0W4T. 403-266-7527info@infl uxgallery.comwww.infl uxgallery.comSpecializing in Canadian contemporary art jewel-lery, the gallery represents over 40 of Canada’s most talented jewellery artists with work ranging from subtle objects for everyday wear to extrava-gant and sculptural artworks — rings, pendants, necklaces, brooches, bracelets and earrings. Also offer custom design services. Tues to Fri 10:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm.

INGLEWOOD FINE ARTS1223B 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0S9T. 403-262-5011 info@inglewoodfi nearts.comwww.inglewoodfi nearts.comRecently relocated from Montreal, owner/director Michel Arseneau is featuring the works of inter-nationally-recognized artist Charles Carson in per-manent exhibition at his new Inglewood Fine Arts gallery. He also represents several emerging artists from South America who will be introduced over the next several months. Tues to Sat 10:30 am - 5 pm, Thurs till 9 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm.

JARVIS HALL FINE ART617 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E1

T. 403-206-9942 F. 403-206-1399info@jarvishallfi neart.comwww.jarvishallfi neart.comExhibiting contemporary Canadian art in painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Currently rep-resenting Mark Dicey, Elena Evanoff, Dean Turner and Carl White. Works of art on consignment are also available throughout the year by historical and contemporary Canadian and international artists. Submissions for representation or questions relat-ing to consigning works of art for sale can be made via email.

LATITUDE ART GALLERY150-625 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E1T. 403-262-9598 [email protected] in the Design District on 11 Ave SW, Lati-tude Art Gallery showcases a variety of Canadian and international artists. They specialize in contem-porary style art including landscapes, still life’s, ab-stract, and fi gurative. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5:30 am, Sat 11 am - 5 pm, and by appointment.

LOCH GALLERY1516 4 St SW, Calgary, AB T2R 1H5T. 403-209-8542 Toll Free: 1-866-202-0888 [email protected] in 1972 in Winnipeg, the Loch Gallery specializes in building collections of quality Cana-

dian, American, British and European paintings and sculpture. It represents original 19th and 20th cen-tury 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 GALLERY2115 4 St SW, Calgary, AB T2S 1W8T. 403-245-2064 F. 403-244-1636mastersgallery@shawcable.comwww.mastersgalleryltd.comCelebrating more than 30 years of quality Canadian historical and contemporary art. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.

MICAH GALLERY100 7 Ave SW, Art Central, Calgary, AB T2P 0W4T. 403-245-1340 F. [email protected] located in Art Central, the gallery special-izes in unique First Nations art and jewellery from North America. Featured artists include Nancy Dawson a West Coast jeweller. They also offer Inuit soapstone carvings, traditional and contem-porary turquoise jewellery, as well as Canadian ammolite gold and silver 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.

MOONSTONE CREATION NATIVE GALLERY1416 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0T5T. 403-261-2650 F. 403-261-2654yvonne@moonstonecreation.cawww.moonstonecreation.caThe Moonstone Creation Gallery shows traditional Native art, jewellery and clothing from local artists. Owner Yvonne Jobin, of Cree heritage from noth-ern Alberta, prides herself on ‘creating tradition, one bead at a time’ with her intricate beadwork on full-size and miniature garments, footwear, medi-cine bags and pouches. Tues to Sat 10:30 am - 6 pm, Sun 11 am - 4 pm.

NEWZONES730 - 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E4T. 403-266-1972 F. [email protected]/Opened in 1992, Newzones represents leading names in contemporary Canadian art. The gallery has developed strong regional, national, and in-ternational followings for its artists. The focus has been a program of curated exhibitions, interna-tional 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.

PAUL KUHN GALLERY724 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E4T. 403-263-1162 F. [email protected]


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1 Alberta Society of Artists Gallery2 Art Central2 Axis Contemporary Art2 Collage2 INFLUX Jewellery Gallery2 Micah Gallery

2 Swirl Fine Art & Design2 The New Gallery3 Art Gallery of Calgary4 Artist Proof Gallery5 Artpoint Gallery6 Arts on Atlantic Gallery6 The Collectorsí Gallery7 BRiC Gallery8 Centennial Gallery9 Circa Gallery10 DaDe Art & Design Lab11 Diana Paul Galleries

12 EMMEDIA Gallery13 Endeavor Arts14 Gainsborough Galleries15 Galleria16 Glenbow Museum17 Gerry Thomas Gallery18 Gibson Fine Art19 Herringer Kiss Gallery20 Illingworth Kerr Gallery20 Marion Nicoll Gallery20 Mezzanine Gallery20 Ruberto Ostberg Gallery

20 The Nickle Arts Museum20 The Peters Gallery & Framing21 Inglewood Fine Arts22 Jarvis Hall Fine Art23 Newzones Gallery23 Paul Kuhn Gallery24 Latitude Gallery25 Leighton Art Centre25 Artevo.com26 Loch Gallery27 Masters Gallery28 Perspective Gallery

29 Planet Art Gallery30 Resolution Gallery31 Rubaiyat Gallery32 Skew Gallery33 Stephen Lowe Art Gallery34 Stephen Lowe Art Gallery (West Market)34 The Military Museums Gallery35 Stride Gallery36 The Ledge Gallery37 The Weiss Gallery

38 TrépanierBaer39 Triangle Gallery40 Truck Gallery41 Venturion Gallery42 Virginia Christopher Fine Art43 Wallace Galleries44 Webster Galleries


www.paulkuhngallery.comFocuses on national and regional contemporary Ca-nadian paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture; also shows contemporary American prints. Exhibi-tions change monthly featuring established and emerging artists along with themed group shows. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.

PERSPECTIVE GALLERY118-1111 6 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 5M5T. 403-454-9377 [email protected]

RUBERTO OSTBERG GALLERY2108 18 St NW, Calgary, AB T2M 3T3T. 403-289-3388 [email protected] bright exhibition space in the residential com-munity of Capitol Hill shows a variety of contempo-rary 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 GALLERY1615 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0J7T. 403-244-4445 [email protected] contemporary art gallery, offering an opportunity for both the uninitiated and the seasoned collec-tor 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 con-text. Monthly rotation of shows. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm and by appt.

STEPHEN LOWE ART GALLERY2nd level, Bow Valley Square III, 251, 255 - 5 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 3G6T. 403-261-1602 F. 403-261-2981stephenloweartgallery@shaw.cawww.stephenloweartgallery.caEstablished since 1979, the gallery features an ex-tensive portfolio of distinguished Canadian artists offering fi ne original paintings, glass, ceramics and sculptures in traditional and contemporary genres. Ongoing solo and group exhibitions welcome ev-eryone from browsers to experienced collectors. Personalized corporate and residential consulting. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. (Free Sat parking) NEW Second location at West Market Square.

NEW GALLERIESMichel Arseneau recently opened his Inglewood Fine Arts on 9 Ave SE while Jarvis Hall has opened his eponymous fi ne art gallery adjacent to his framing shop on 11 Ave SW.

SWIRL FINE ART & DESIGN104-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central, Calgary, AB T2P 0W4T. 403-266-5337 tracy@swirlfi neart.comwww.swirlfi neart.comSwirl Fine Art and Design showcases fi ne art origi-nals from local and regional artists. The gallery focuses on art to beautify the home with a wide selection of paintings and sculptures from aspiring and well-established artists. New shows on the fi rst Thursday of every month, coincide with Art Cen-tral’s First Thursday festivities. Encaustic workshops twice monthly. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 11 am - 4 pm.

THE COLLECTORS’ GALLERY OF ART1332 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0T3T. 403-245-8300 F. [email protected] in important Canadian art from the 19th to the 21st century including early topograph-ical paintings, Canadian impressionists and Group of Seven. The Collectors’ Gallery represents over 30 prominent Canadian contemporary artists. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm.

THE WEISS GALLERY1021 6 St SW (corner 11 Ave), Calgary, AB T2R 1R2T. 403-262-1880 [email protected]

www.theweissgallery.comA showcase for craft-intensive, descriptive art, The Weiss Gallery represents a dynamic group of artists whose approaches to painting, drawing, photography and sculpture, pay respect to time-honoured methods of artmaking. With an eye on history and old world aesthetics, these artists have found beautiful expression within a contemporary vision and context. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm or by appointment.

TRÉPANIERBAER105, 999 8 St SW, Calgary, AB T2R 1J5T. 403-244-2066 F. [email protected] progressive and friendly commercial gallery spe-cializing in the exhibition and sale of Canadian and international art. In addition to representing well-known senior and mid-career artists, the gallery also maintains an active and successful program for the presentation of younger emerging Cana-dian artists’ work. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm and by appointment.

EXPANDED GALLERYNow in its seventh year, Skew Gallery has expanded its original gallery space on 10 Ave SW to 3000 sq ft, creating the opportunity to present more ambitious scaled artworks in painting, sculpture, photography and installation.

VIRGINIA CHRISTOPHER FINE ART816 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E5T. 403-263-4346 info@virginiachristopherfi neart.comwww.virginiachristopherfi neart.comEstablished in 1980, the gallery has earned a na-tional 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 Es-tate 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 LTD500 5 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 3L5T. 403-262-8050 F. 403-264-7112colette@wallacegalleries.comwww.wallacegalleries.comIn the heart of downtown Calgary, Wallace Galler-ies Ltd. has been a part of the art community since 1986. With regular group and solo shows the gal-lery is proud to represent some of Canada’s most accomplished and upcoming contemporary artists working in oils, acrylics, mixed media and water-color 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.

WEBSTER GALLERIES812 - 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E5T. 403-263-6500 F. 403-263-6501info@webstergalleries.comwww.webstergalleries.comEstablished in 1979, the gallery exhibits an exten-sive collection of original oil and acrylic paintings, bronze, ceramic, stone sculptures and Inuit art in a 10,000 square foot space. Webster Galler-ies Inc also houses a complete frame design and workshop facility. Free parking at the rear of the gallery for customer convenience. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm.

Cooperative GalleriesALBERTA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS GALLERY AT LOUGHEED HOUSE703 13 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0K8T. 403-244-6333 [email protected] members of the society’s juried pro-fessional contemporary Alberta artists, the gallery strives to increase public awareness and appre-ciation of the visual arts through exhibition and education. Located in the lower level ballroom of historic Lougheed House. Wed to Fri 11 am - 4 pm, Sat and Sun 10 am - 4 pm.

#3, 215 – 39th Avenue N.E., Calgary, Alberta T2E 7E3For hours, please call 403-277-7252

www.fortunefineart.com

Glenn Olson

Glenn Olson, The Jeering Section - Gorillas, Acrylic, 15” x 28”

Fortune Fine ArtArt Sales and Rentals

Featuring Historical and Contemporary Canadian ArtWith over 1,500 original works available


Public GalleryCANMORE LIBRARY GALLERY950 8 Ave, Canmore, AB T1W [email protected]

COCHRANE

Commercial GalleriesJUST IMAJAN ART GALLERY/STUDIO3-320 1 St West,, Cochrane, AB T4C 1X8T. 403-932-7040 [email protected] gallery features the work of Alberta artist Janet B. Armstrong and other local artisans. Visi-tors also enjoy the ambience of a cherrywood bar, fi replace and vintage memorabilia. Commissions and special events welcome. Tues 1:30 pm - 5 pm; Wed to Fri 11 am - 5 pm; Sat 10 am - 5 pm; Sun noon - 4 pm.

RUSTICA ART GALLERY#4-123 2 Ave West, PO Box 1267, Rustic Market Square, Cochrane, AB T4C 1B3T. 403-851-5181 Toll Free: 1-866-915-5181 [email protected] in a rustic log building in downtown Co-chrane this inviting gallery specializes in original artwork, sculpture and jewelry by local and West-ern Canadian artists including the Western Lights Group. Appraisal, framing, cleaning and restora-tion services available. Wed to Fri 10:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10:30 am - 5 pm.

STUDIO WEST BRONZE FOUNDRY & ART GALLERYPO Box 550205 - 2 Ave SE, Industrial Park, Cochrane, AB T4C 1A7T. 403-932-2611 F. 403-932-2705

DRUMHELLER

Commercial GalleriesATELIERO VERDABox 1708, 40 3 Ave W, Drumheller, AB T0J 0Y0T. 403-823-2455 [email protected] resident artist, Jacqueline Sveda is originally from Magog, Quebec, but has lived in Western Canada for the last 30 years. Her work is inspired by her surroundings, in which imagination plays a big role. She works in acrylic and mixed media fl at art, as well as stone and wood carving. Guest art-ists participate in periodic exhibitions. Thurs to Sun 1:30 pm - 5 pm.

FINE PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERYBox 338, 20 3 Ave West, Drumheller, AB T0J 0Y0T. 403-823-3686 Toll Free: 1-866-823-3686 [email protected] and operated by Michael Todor, the gallery features pottery, watercolours, pen and ink sketch-es, pencil sketches and ammolite fi ne jewellery by Alberta artists — along with a permanent rotat-ing display of Todor photographs. New shows with guest artists open on the second Saturday of each month. 10 am - 5:30 pm (May to Sep: Daily) (Sep to May: Mon to Sat).

Cooperative GalleryBADLANDS GALLERYBox 836, 50C 3 Ave West, Drumheller, AB T0J 0Y0T. 403-823-8680 [email protected]

GREATER EDMONTON

Artist-run GalleriesHARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY10215 112 St - 3rd Flr, Edmonton, AB T5K 1M7T. 780-426-4180 F. [email protected]

ARTPOINT GALLERY AND STUDIOS1139 - 11 St SE, Calgary, AB T2G 3G1T. 403-265-6867 F. [email protected] 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.

Public GalleriesART GALLERY OF CALGARY117 - 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 1B4T. 403-770-1350 F. 403-264-8077info@artgallerycalgary.orgwww.artgallerycalgary.orgThe Art Gallery of Calgary is an interactive and dy-namic forum for contemporary art exhibitions and activities that foster appreciation and understand-ing of visual culture. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. To 10 pm every fi rst Thursday of the month.

GLENBOW MUSEUM130 - 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0P3T. 403-268-4100 F. [email protected]/Located in the heart of downtown Calgary - visitors experience Glenbow Museum’s diverse exhibits, special programs and vast collections including Asian, Contemporary, Modernist and Historical Art. Daily 9 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. Adult $14, Sen $10, Stu $9, Family $28.00; Members and under 6 free. Glenbow Shop open daily 10 am - 5:30 pm.

ILLINGWORTH KERR GALLERYAlberta College of Art & Design, 1407 14 Ave NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4R3T. 403-284-7633 F. 403-289-6682www.acad.ab.ca/ikg.html

LEIGHTON ART CENTREBox 9, Site 31, R.R. 8Site 31, Comp. #9., RR 8 By Millarville, 16 km south of Calgary off Hwy 22 west, Calgary, AB T2J 2T9T. 403-931-3633 F. [email protected] Leighton Art Centre is situated on 80 acres of spectacular landscape in the Alberta foothills, 15 minutes southwest of Calgary. This Alberta Historic Resource houses the former home of landscape painter A.C. Leighton. They offer changing exhibi-tions, art sales, art workshops and children’s pro-gramming. Check website for full visitor’s informa-tion. Tues to Sat 10 am - 4 pm.

THE LEDGE GALLERY205 8 Ave SE, EPCOR CENTRE, Calgary, AB T2P 0K9T. 403-294-7455 [email protected] unique exhibition space in the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts +15 pedway system over-looks Centre Court from the second fl oor of the Centre. The glass-walled space is most conducive to sculpture and installation. Exhibitions are selected through calls for submissions and curatorial prac-tice and run for three month intervals.

THE MILITARY MUSEUMS AND GALLERY4520 Crowchild Tr SW, Calgary, AB T2T 5J4T. 403-974-2850 F. [email protected]

TRIANGLE GALLERY OF VISUAL ART104-800 Macleod Tr SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2M3T. 403-262-1737 F. 403-262-1764jacek@trianglegallery.comwww.trianglegallery.comDedicated to the presentation of contemporary Ca-nadian visual arts, architecture and design within a context of international art, the gallery is engaged in the advancement of knowledge and understand-ing of contemporary art practices through a bal-anced program of visual art exhibitions to the pub-lic of Calgary and visitors. Admission: adults - $4; senior/students - $2; family - $8; members - free; free general admission on Thurs. Tues to Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Sat noon - 4 pm.

CAMROSE

Commercial GalleryCANDLER ART GALLERY5002 50 St, Camrose, AB T4V 1R2T. 780-672-8401 F. 780-679-4121Toll Free: 1-888-672-8401 [email protected], vibrant and alive describe both the artwork and the experience when you visit this recently re-stored 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. Pfan-nmuller, 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

Commercial GalleriesELEVATION GALLERY100-729 Main St, Canmore, AB T1W 2B2T. 403-609-3324 [email protected]

THE AVENS GALLERY104-709 Main St, Canmore, AB T1W 2B2T. 403-678-4471 theavensgallery@telusplanet.netwww.theavensgallery.comEstablished in 1980, the Avens Gallery features original works by both established and up-and-comming artists from the local area and accross the West. The gallery prides itself on highlighting outstanding, and frequently changing displays of paintings, glass sculpture, clay, wood, metal, and bronze. Open daily 11 am - 5 pm with extended summer hours.

THE EDGE GALLERY612 Spring Creek Drive, Canmore, AB T1W 0C7T. 403-675-8300 [email protected] the gallery: ongoing exhibitions of historical paintings and prints to contemporary, abstract works. In the frame shop: experienced staff with 25 years experience offers a wide selection of frames for mirrors, objects, needlework, paintings and prints, specializing in the handling and care of original artwork. Tues to Sat 10 am -5:30 pm or by appointment.

Mixing the trappings of contem-porary car culture with the theme of wilderness exploration, artist Elinor Whidden’s Ford EXPLORER series comes to Calgary’s Stride Gallery June 10 to July 22. In crisp photography, Whidden chronicles a journey into traditional fur-trading territory, ranging across the Cana-dian Shield with a few artifacts of the modern age — the remnants of our “Fordian Empire.” RIGHT: Elinor Whidden, Ford EXPLORER series, digital image, 2009.

Susan Rankin, A Valid Beauty, July 2 to August 21, Esplanade Gallery, Medicine HatKnown for her intricate glass work depicting fl owers and fi gurative vases, a retrospective of Saskatchewan/Ontario glass artist Susan Rankin at Medicine Hat’s Esplanade Gallery surveys her work over the past 20 years. Cognizant of the history of glass craft, Rankin also pushes its evolution with fl amboy-ant techniques, creating epergnes and foliage. From lilies to tulip heads, Rankin’s craftsmanship combines decorative glass fl owers with vessels to create delicate and spectacular glass objects. As elaborately designed epergnes and fl ower stands were signs of wealth and status in the 19th century, today, transformed into solid worked glass, Rankin plays on the evolving history of the vessel through voluptuous contemporary shapes and styles. The exhibition’s title, A Valid Beauty responds to the idea of intricate glass work as home adornment. This exhibition takes glass beyond home decor, into representations of environment and landscape, inviting viewers to look at glass in a new light. Rankin has also included selections from her Wired Forms series, where the simple glass form is shrouded in detailed wire work, enclosing and casting shadows on the glass, and manipulating the perspective on enclosed forms. — Amy FungABOVE: Susan Rankin, Boat Dream Wired Form, blown glass, steel, steel wire, 2004.


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 gal-lery presents 10 fi ve-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.

SNAP GALLERY10123 121 St, Edmonton, AB T5N 3W9T. 780-423-1492 F. [email protected] in 1982 as an independent, coopera-tively-run fi ne art printshop, the SNAP (Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists) mandate is to pro-mote, facilitate and communicate print and print-related contemporary production. A complete print shop and related equipment are available to mem-bers. Ten exhibitions are scheduled each year. Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm.

Commercial GalleriesAGNES BUGERA GALLERY12310 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5T. 780-482-2854 F. 780-482-2591info@agnesbugeragallery.comwww.agnesbugeragallery.comAgnes Bugera has been in the art gallery business since 1975, and is pleased to continue represent-ing an excellent group of established and emerging Canadian artists. Spring and Fall exhibitions offer a rich variety of quality fi ne 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 GALLERY26 St Anne St, St Albert, AB T8N 1E9T. 780-459-3679 F. [email protected] in the Arts and Heritage District of St. Albert, this family-owned business specializes in original artwork by Western Canadian artists. Paint-ings in all media, sculpture, pottery, and art glass. Home and corporate consulting. Certifi ed 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 GALLERY10403 124 St, Edmonton, AB T5N 3Z5T. 780-482-1204 F. 780-488-0928info@bearclawgallery.comwww.bearclawgallery.comSpecializing 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.

CHRISTL BERGSTROM’S RED GALLERY9621 Whyte (82) Ave , Edmonton, AB T6C 0Z9T. 780-439-8210 F. 780-435-0429christl@christlbergstrom.comwww.christlbergstrom.comThis storefront gallery and studio, in the Mill Creek area of Old Strathcona, features the work of Ed-monton 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 GALLERY10332 124 St, Edmonton, AB T5N 1R2T. 780-488-4445 F. 780-488-8335dug@douglasudellgallery.comwww.douglasudellgallery.comIn the art business in Edmonton since 1967 and Vancouver since 1986, Douglas Udell Gallery rep-resents many of Canada’s leading contemporary artists as well as some of the leading young art-ists gaining momentum in the international play-ing fi eld. 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.

FRONT GALLERY12312 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5T. 780-488-2952 F. [email protected]

KAMENA GALLERY & FRAMES5718 Calgary Trail, Edmonton, AB T6H 2K2T. 780-944-9497 F. [email protected]

Natives of Malaysian Borneo, the four Wong broth-ers opened their gallery and framing business in 1993. Over the years it has been expanded to represent a wide variety of visual artists. The gal-lery also provides complete custom picture framing and recently began to offer art leasing. Art classes available. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Thurs till 7 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm.

LANDO GALLERY11130 - 105 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5H 0L5T. 780-990-1161 [email protected]’s largest commercial art gallery in the 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 fi ne art, fi ne crafts, custom framing, art leasing, appraisals and collection management. The gallery also buys and sells Canadian and inter-national secondary market fi ne art. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 4:30 pm, or by appt.

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY12304 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5T. 780-455-7479 [email protected] a roster of over 40 emerging, mid-ca-reer, and senior Canadian artists, this contemporary gallery space features a wide range of media and subject matter. Whether working with established collectors, or with those looking to purchase their fi rst piece, Peter Robertson Gallery strives to inform, challenge, and retain relevance within the broader art community. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm.

PICTURE THIS!959 Ordze Road, Sherwood Park, AB T8A 4L7T. 780-467-3038 F. 780-464-1493Toll Free: 1-800-528-4278 [email protected] This! framing & gallery have been helping clients proudly display their life treasures and as-sisting them to discover the beauty of the world through fi ne 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.

NEW NAMEThe former Profi les Gallery has been rebranded as the Art Gallery of St. Albert.

ROWLES & COMPANY LTD108 LeMarchand Mansion, 11523 100 Ave, Edmonton, AB T5K 0J8T. 780-426-4035 F. [email protected] to LeMarchand Mansion. Features over 100 western Canadian artists in original paintings, bronze, blown glass, metal, moose antler, marble and soapstone. Specializing in supplying the corpo-rate marketplace, the gallery offers consultation for Service Award Programs, and complete fulfi llment for a wide variety of corporate projects. Open to the public. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5 pm, Sat - by appt.

SCOTT GALLERY10411 124 St, Edmonton, AB T5N 3Z5T. 780-488-3619 F. [email protected] in 1986, the Scott Gallery features Ca-nadian contemporary art representing over thirty established and emerging Canadian artists. Exhibits include paintings, works on paper including hand-pulled prints and photography, ceramics and sculp-ture. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm.

WEST END GALLERY12308 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5T. 780-488-4892 F. 780-488-4893info@westendgalleryltd.comwww.westendgalleryltd.comEstablished in 1975, this fi ne 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.

Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery4525 - 47A AvenueRed Deer, AB T4N 6Z6403.309.8405www.reddeermuseum.com

Farm Show April 30 - November 13A three-part visual art exploration of contemporary farming issues

SeedingApril 23 - June 26Artists: John Freeman, Cindy Jones, Alex Moon,Lyndal Osborne, Sally Smith

Opening Reception & Meet the ArtistsSunday, May 1, 2 - 4 pm

Endless Forms Most Beautiful | Artist: Lyndal Osborne

Group exhibition featuring bronze, pottery and fine art that honor the beauty of horses

Moonstone Creation Native Gallery and Gift Shop

1416 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB 403-261-2650Opening Reception June 17 6-10 pm

Artists present

Spirit of the Sacred DogJune 17 - July 31, 2011


Public GalleriesALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY10186-106 St, Edmonton, AB T5J 1H4T. 780-488-5900 F. [email protected]’s only public gallery dedicated to fi ne craft presents four exhibitions in the main gallery each year. The Discovery Gallery features new works by ACC members. The gallery shop offers contempo-rary and traditional fi ne 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.

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA2 Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB T5J 2C1T. 780-422-6223 F. [email protected] in 1924, the Art Gallery of Alberta is an 85,000 square foot premier presentation venue for international and Canadian art, education and scholarship. The AGA is a centre of excellence for the visual arts in Western Canada, expressing the creative spirit of Alberta and connecting people, art and ideas. Tues to Fri 11 am - 7 pm, Sat & Sun 10 am - 5 pm.

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT19 Perron St, St Albert, AB T8N 1E5T. 780-460-4310 F. [email protected]/gallery

Located in the historic Banque d’Hochelaga in St. Albert, the gallery features contemporary art, usu-ally by Alberta artists, who show their painting, sulpture, video, quilts, glass and ceramics at both the provincial and national level. Monthly exhibi-tions, adult lectures and workshops, “Looking at Art” school tours, art rental and sales plus a gal-lery gift shop. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Thurs till 8 pm.

NEW GALLERYStrathcona County has opened its 501 Gallery in the arts centre in Sherwood Park.

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM12845 102 Ave, Edmonton, AB T5N 0M6T. 780-453-9100 F. 780-454-6629www.royalalbertamuseum.ca

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY @ 501120-501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, AB T8A 4X3T. 780-410-8585 F. [email protected]/artgallery

THE WORKS GALLERY10635 95 St, Edmonton, AB T5J 2C3T. 780-426-2122 F. 780-426-4673

[email protected]

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMSRing House 1, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1T. 780-492-5834 [email protected]

VAAA GALLERY10215 112 St, 3rd Flr, Edmonton, AB T5K 1M7T. 780-421-1731 F. 780-421-1857Toll Free: 1-866-421-1731 [email protected] Arts Alberta Association is a non-profi t Pro-vincial Arts Service Organization (PASO) for the vi-sual arts which celebrates, supports and develops Alberta’s visual culture. The gallery hosts an ongo-ing exhibition schedule. Wed to Fri 10 am - 4 pm, Sat noon - 4 pm.

FORT MCMURRAY

Public GalleryKEYANO ART GALLERY8115 Franklin Ave, Fort McMurray, AB T9H 2H7T. 780-791-8979

GRANDE PRAIRIE

PRAIRIE ART GALLERY103-9839 103 Ave, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 6M7T. 780-532-8111 [email protected]

Now partially open in the new, award-winning, Montrose Cultural Centre, the Prairie Art Gallery currently offers innovative programming in lim-ited space. Construction is now underway that will complete the Gallery’s facility in late 2011. Mon to Sat 11 am - 6 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm.

HIGH RIVER

Commercial GalleriesART AND SOUL STUDIO/GALLERY124 6 Ave SW, High River, AB T1V 1A1T. 403-601-3713 [email protected]/artandsoulstudio/http___web.me.com_artandsoulstudio/Welcome.html

EVANESCENCE GALLERY AND ART STUDIO61 Veterans Way, 8 Ave SE, High River, AB T1V 1E8T. 403-796-4873 [email protected]

TWO FEATHERS GALLERY153 Macleod Tr, PO Box 5457, High River, AB T1V 1M6T. 403-652-1024 F. [email protected]

JASPER

Commercial GalleryMOUNTAIN GALLERIES AT THE FAIRMONTFairmont Jasper Park Lodge, #1 Old Lodge Rd,

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1 Agnes Bugera Gallery1 Front Gallery

1 Lilianaís1 Peter Robertson Gallery1 West End Gallery2 Alberta Craft Council Gallery3 Art Beat Gallery3 Art Gallery of St Albert3 Studio Gallery

4 Art Gallery of Alberta 5 Bearclaw Gallery5 Scott Gallery6 Centre díArts Visuels díAlberta6 Johnson Gallery South6 Picture This Gallery

7 Christl Bergstromís Red Gallery8 Douglas Udell Gallery9 Extension Centre Gallery9 Fab Gallery10 Harcourt House Gallery10 VAAA Gallery

11 Johnson Gallery North12 Kamena Gallery13 Lando Gallery14 Latitude 5315 Little Church Gallery15 Multicultural Gallery15 Proís Art Gallery

16 Naess Gallery17 Rowles & Company Ltd18 Royal Alberta Museum19 SNAP Gallery20 The Works Gallery


Jasper, AB T0E 1E0T. 780-852-5378 F. 780-852-7292Toll Free: 1-888-310-9726 [email protected] in The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Moun-tain Galleries is a favourite stop for collectors of Canadian art, featuring museum-quality paintings, sculpture and unique Inuit carvings. With three galleries, a combined total of 6080 square feet of exhibition space, and a state of the art warehouse/studio in Jasper, they frequently host exhibitions, artist demonstrations and workshops. Daily 8 am - 10 pm.

Cooperative GalleryBRUSHFIRE GALLERY - JASPER ARTISTS GUILDBox 867, 414 Patricia (at Elm), Jasper, AB T0E 1E0T. 780-852-1994 [email protected] opening in 2003 as a collective of more than 30 artists, Brushfi re Gallery ignites the senses with a compelling presentation of local and regional art — an ‘incendiary’ collection of oils, acrylics, wa-tercolours, drawings, photo-based works, clay and metal sculptures. Located in the historic Old Fire-hall. May long wknd to Oct long wknd: daily noon - 8 pm; Jan to Apr: wknds only, noon - 5 pm.

LACOMBE

Commercial GalleryTHE GALLERY ON MAIN4910 50 Ave, 2nd Flr, Lacombe, AB T4L 1Y1T. 403-782-3402 F. [email protected] just off Hwy. 2 in the heart of Historic Downtown Lacombe, this gallery boasts the largest selection of original art in central Alberta. Repre-senting over 60 Alberta artists, the gallery’s selec-tion covers a wide variety of media. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm.

Public GalleriesLACOMBE MEMORIAL CENTRE ART GALLERY5214 50 Ave, Lacombe, AB T. 403-782-1266 [email protected]

NEW GALLERYCo-owners Stephen and Arlene Evans have opened Evanescence Gallery and Studio in High River.

LETHBRIDGE

Commercial GalleriesJERRY ARNOLD GALLERY604 3 Ave S, Lethbridge, AB T1J 0H4T. 403-320-2341 www.jerryarnoldgallery.com

MUELLER ART GALLERY105 8 St S, Lethbridge, AB T1J 2J4T. 403-328-8170 [email protected]

Cooperative GalleriesTHE POTEMKIN - THE BURNING GROUND402 2 Ave S, B Level, Lethbridge, AB T1J 0C3T. 403-328-3604 [email protected]

Public GalleriesBOWMAN ARTS CENTRE811 5 Ave S, Lethbridge, AB T1J 0V2T. 403-327-2813 F. [email protected]/aacbac

GALT MUSEUM & ARCHIVES502 1 St S ( 5 Ave S & Scenic Dr), Lethbridge, AB T1J 0P6T. 403-320-3898 F. 403-329-4958Toll Free: 1-866-320-3898 [email protected] vibrant gathering place meeting historical, cul-tural and educational needs, the Galt engages and educates its communities in the human history of southwestern Alberta by preserving and sharing collections, stories and memories that defi ne collec-tive identity and guide the future. Award-winning

exhibits, events, programs. (May 15 - Aug 31) Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm; (Sep 1 - May 14) Mon to Sat 10 am - 4:30 pm; (year-round) Sun 1 - 4:30 pm. Admission charge.

SOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERY601 3 Ave S, Lethbridge, AB T1J 0H4T. 403-327-8770 F. [email protected] 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, fi lm screenings and special events further contribute to local cul-ture. Gift Shop and a Resource Library. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm.

UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE ART GALLERYW600, Centre for the Arts, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4T. 403-329-2666 F. [email protected]/artgalleryThe gallery serves the campus community and gen-eral public with a permanent collection of more than 13,000 works; by presenting local and touring exhibitions; and by supporting research at all lev-els through publications and an on-line database. Main Gallery Mon to Fri 10 am - 4:30 pm, Thur till 8:30 pm. Helen Christou Gallery - Level 9 LINC, Daily 8 am - 9 pm. Special activities on website.

MEDICINE HAT

Public GalleriesESPLANADE ART GALLERY401 First St SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 8W2T. 403-502-8580 F. [email protected] is 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 ex-hibitions, 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.

MEDICINE HAT CLAY INDUSTRIES NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT713 Medalta Ave SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 3K9T. 403-529-1070 F. [email protected] Medalta International Artists in Residence Pro-gram serves ceramic artists at all stages of their ca-reers, encouraging cooperation and creativity with open, spacious, semi-private studios. Artists from all over the world bring different experiences, tech-niques, ideas and a vibrant energy to this working museum, education centre and studio complex.

OKOTOKS

Public GalleriesOKOTOKS ART GALLERY | AT THE STATIONPO Bag 20, 53 North Railway St, Okotoks, AB T1S 1K1T. 403-938-3204 F. [email protected]

RED DEER

Commercial GalleryGALLERY IS5123 48 St, Red Deer, AB T4N 1T1T. 403-341-4641 [email protected] IS represents local modern and contempo-rary fi ne art, in the heart of downtown Red Deer, with a unique variety of media and styles. The gal-lery features Live Studios with working artists, as well as monthly group and solo exhibits. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. (Extended fall/winter hours.)

Cooperative GalleryHARRIS-WARKE GALLERY4924 Ross St, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X7T. 403-346-8937 [email protected]

Public GalleriesFOUR CORNERS AND PORTHOLE GALLERIESRed Deer College Library, 100 College Blvd, PO Box

Art Supplies, Picture Framing, Prints, Posters, Rocks & Crystals

Featuring Parkland

Prairie Artists

www.candlerartgallery.com

26 St. Anne StreetSt. Albert, AB

(780) 459-3679www.artbeat.ab.ca

Songs of Autumn, by Frances Alty-Arscott36 X 48"

Blue Ice, by Roy HInz12 X 18 X 12"

Fine Art & Professional Custom Framing

www.jasperartistsguild.com

Celebrating 10 Years


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.

ESTEVAN

Public GalleryESTEVAN ART GALLERY & MUSEUM118 4 St, Estevan, SK S4A 0T4T. 306-634-7644 F. [email protected] public gallery offers a free exchange of ideas and perspectives to refl ect the rapidly expanding social and cultural diversity. With the collaboration of provincial and national institutions, the gallery seeks to make contemporary art accessible, mean-ingful, and vital to diverse audiences of all ages. Tues to Fri 8:30 am - 6 pm, Sat 1 pm - 4 pm.

MEACHAM

Commercial GalleryTHE HAND WAVE GALLERYBox 145, 409 3 Ave N, Meacham, SK S0K 2V0T. 306-376-2221 [email protected] the works of 70 Saskatchewan artists and artisans for 28 years — with changing gallery exhibitions during May through December. Works in fi bre, glass, metal, wood and a large selection of clay including Anita Rocamora, Mel Bolen, Charley Farrero and Zane Wilcox. Thur to Mon 11 am - 6 pm; 1-6 pm Oct through Dec; by appt Jan to May; 55 km east of Saskatoon.

MELFORT

Public GallerySHERVEN-SMITH ART GALLERY206 Bemister Ave East, Box 310, Melfort, SK S0E 1A0T. 306-752-4177 F. 306-752-5556l.terry@cityofmelfort.cawww.kerryvickarcentre.caLocated in the recently-opened Kerry Vickar Arts Centre.

MELVILLE

Public GalleryGALLERY WORKS AND THE 3RD DIMENSION800 Prince Edward St PO Box 309, Melville, SK S0A 2P0T. 306-728-4494 [email protected]

MOOSE JAW

Commercial GalleryYVETTE MOORE FINE ART GALLERY76 Fairford St W,

Dan Donaldson’s fanciful large-scale portraits have their basis in real Life — Life Magazine, that 20th-century compendium of everything that ever happened in the world. At the Art Gallery of Regina, April 13 to May 14, the portraits are displayed like a timeline of imaginary history in Donaldson’s show, aptly called Art Imitating Life Imitating Art. ABOVE: Dan Donaldson, Bordello Fantasy, oil, mixed media on canvas, 2007.

5005, Red Deer, AB T4N 5H5T. 403-342-3152 [email protected]/news_events/

RED DEER MUSEUM + ART GALLERY4525 47A Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 6Z6T. 403-309-8405 F. [email protected] After a year-long renovation project, the trans-formed Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery has re-opened with spacious galleries, inspiring history and art exhibitions, innovative programs and en-gaging social events for families and adults. The renovated galleries have a contemporary, open look, providing new opportunities for exhibitions and programs. Mon to Sat 9 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm, First Fri till 9 pm.

VIEWPOINT GALLERY3827 39 St, City of Red Deer Culture Services, Red Deer, AB T4N 0Y6T. 403-309-4091 [email protected]

WATERTON

Commercial GalleryGUST GALLERY112A Waterton Ave, Waterton Lakes, AB T0K 2M0T. 403-859-2535 [email protected] Gust Gallery embraces the art and landscapes of Southern Alberta refl ected by the extraordinary talents of artists working in 2 and 3 dimensional mediums. Open daily mid-May to end-September.

WETASKIWIN

CAELIN ARTWORKS4728 50 Ave, Wetaskiwin, AB T9A 0R7T. 780-352-3519 F. 780-352-6806Toll Free: 1-888-352-3519 [email protected]

SASKATCHEWANGALLERIES

ASSINIBOIA

Public GallerySHURNIAK ART GALLERY122 3 Ave W, PO Box 1178, Assiniboia, SK S0H 0B0T. 306-642-5292 F. [email protected] 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,

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May 6 – Jun 26 Nature Morte -Stilled Lives, sculptural ceramics Anita Rocamora, Meacham, SK

Jul 1 – Aug 11 Domestic Sculpture, wood sculptureJamie Russell, Vanscoy, SK

Aug 12 – Sep 29 For The Love of Critters, pastel paintings & sculptures Karen Holden, Humboldt, SK

HAND WAVE GALLERY409 - 3rd Avenue, MEACHAM, SK

Only 55 km east of SaskatoonPhone: 306-376-2221

[email protected]

Spectramatic Geometry

University of Lethbridge Art Gallery

April 28 – June 16, 2011 Works from the University of Lethbridge Art Collection

Curated by Jane Edmundson

www.ulag.ca


Moose Jaw, SK S6H 1V1T. 306-693-7600 F. [email protected] the award-winning works of Yvette Moore, her gallery features her original artwork, limited edition prints, framed art-cards and art plaques along with the works of over 70 other artisans, shown amid the copper grandeur of the former 1910 Land Titles Offi ce. Food service. Corner Fairford and 1 Ave. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun (Late May - Dec) noon - 4 pm.

Public GalleryMOOSE JAW MUSEUM & ART GALLERYCrescent Park, 461 Langdon Crescent, Moose Jaw, SK S6H 0X6T. 306-692-4471 F. [email protected]

NORTH BATTLEFORD

ALLEN SAPP GALLERY1-Railway Ave, PO Box 460, North Battleford, SK S9A 2Y6T. 306-445-1760 F. [email protected]

CHAPEL GALLERY1-891 99 St, North Battleford, SK S9A 2Y6T. 306-445-1757 F. [email protected] Chapel Gallery is a public gallery with special emphases on contemporary, regional and Aborigi-nal art in all media. It facilitates workshops, men-torship programs and supports the thoughtful re-ception of art. Proposals from artists, curators and collectives are accepted on an ongoing basis. Jun to Aug: daily noon - 4 pm; Sep to May: Wed to Sun noon - 4 pm.

PRINCE ALBERT

Public GalleriesART GALLERY OF PRINCE ALBERT142 12 St W, Prince Albert, SK S6V 3B8T. 306-763-7080 F. [email protected]

THE GRACE CAMPBELL GALLERY125 12 St E, Prince Albert, SK S6V 1B7T. 306-763-8496 F. [email protected]/grace.htm

REGINA

Artist-run GalleryNEUTRAL GROUND203-1856 Scarth St, Regina, SK S4P 2G3T. 306-522-7166 F. 306-522-5075neutralground@accesscomm.cawww.neutralground.sk.caNeutral Ground supports contemporary art prac-tices through both presentation and production activities. Its curatorial vision is responsive to its regional milieu in a translocal context. Program-ming 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.

Commercial GalleriesASSINIBOIA GALLERY2266 Smith St, Regina, SK S4P 2P4T. 306-522-0997 F. [email protected] in the late 1970s with the goal of estab-lishing a gallery with a strong representation of re-gionally and nationally recognized artists refl ecting a variety of style, subject and medium. The main focus is professional Canadian artists including Al-len Sapp, Ted Godwin, W. H. Webb, Brent Laycock, Louise Cook and many more. Tues to Sat 9:30 am 5:30 pm.

MCINTYRE GALLERY2347 McIntyre St, Regina, SK S4P 2S3T. 306-757-4323 [email protected] 25 years in business, the McIntyre Gallery showcases the work of contemporary Sas-katchewan artists and in particular has a strong representation of women artists. Regular exhibi-tions in diverse media: oil and acrylic, watercolours, collages, drawings, original prints, fabric art and

furniture. Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm, (Sat till 4:30 pm) or by appointment.

MYSTERIA GALLERY2706 13 Ave, Regina, SK S4T 1N3T. 306-522-0080 F. [email protected] Gallery is an artist-owned venue for estab-lished and emerging local artists. Explore diverse media in a modern context. Experience fi ne art and fi ne jewelry in a fresh atmosphere. Mon to Sat noon - 5:30 pm or by appt.

NOUVEAU GALLERY2146 Albert St, Regina, SK S4P 2T9T. 306-569-9279 [email protected] Nouveau Gallery, formerly the Susan Whitney Gallery, look forward to works by many of Sas-katchewan’s most recognized artists, the continu-ation 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.

SECOND LOCATIONYvette Moore has recently opened ‘THE HOUSE GALLERY by Yvette Moore’ in Government House, Regina.

TRADITIONS HANDCRAFT GALLERY2714 13 Ave, Regina, SK S4T 1N3T. 306-569-0199 traditions@sasktel.netwww.traditionshandcraftgallery.caTraditions exhibits the work of professional craft ar-tisans who have successfully completed the exact-ing jury process of the Saskatchewan Craft Council. The gallery carries a full range of fi ne craft media, including ceramics, wood, fi bre, metal, glass, and jewellery. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.

Public GalleriesART GALLERY OF REGINANeil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, 2420 Elphinstone St, Regina, SK S4T 3N9T. 306-522-5940 F. 306-522-5944info@artgalleryofregina.cawww.artgalleryofregina.caFeatures contemporary art with an emphasis on Saskatchewan artists. Exhibitions change frequent-ly. 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.

DUNLOP ART GALLERY2311 12 Ave, PO Box 2311, Regina, SK S4P 3Z5T. 306-777-6040 F. [email protected]

MACKENZIE ART GALLERYT C Douglas Building, 3475 Albert St, Regina, SK S4S 6X6T. 306-584-4250 F. 306-569-8191mackenzie@uregina.cawww.mackenzieartgallery.sk.caExcellent collection of art from historical to contem-porary works by Canadian, American and interna-tional artists. Major touring exhibits. Gallery Shop, 175-seat Theatre, Learning Centre and Resource Centre. Corner of Albert St and 23rd Ave, SW cor-ner of Wascana Centre. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Thur and Fri until 9 pm; Sun and hol 11 am - 5:30 pm.

ROBSART

Commercial GalleryROBSART ART WORKSSE corner of town, Robsart, SK T. 306-299-4445 [email protected]“dare to be seen in the RAW” during the second annual Old Town Art Show and Sale. Photography, drawings and paintings. Wood, wool and pottery. Create your own art at “Drop by and Draw Classes” ($10). July and August: Wed to Sat 1 pm - 4 pm or by appointment.

Founded in 2005

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ADMISSION FREE: Tues to Sat: 10 – 4:30 pm; Sun (Apr – Dec) 1 – 5 pm

Call for holiday hours

Located one hour south of Moose Jaw.

122 – 3RD Ave West, ASSINIBOIA, SK • (306) [email protected] • www.shurniakartgallery.com

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SASKATOON

Artist-run GalleriesA.K.A. GALLERY424 20 St W, Saskatoon, SK S7M 0X4T. 306-652-0044 F. [email protected]

PAVED ART & NEW MEDIA GALLERY424 20 St W, Saskatoon, SK S7M 0X4T. 306-652-5502 F. [email protected]

Commercial GalleriesART PLACEMENT INC228 3 Ave S, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1L9T. 306-664-3385 F. 306-933-2521gallery@artplacement.comwww.artplacement.comEstablished in 1978, the gallery’s primary empha-sis is on senior and mid-career Saskatchewan artists while also representing several established western Canadian painters and overseeing a number of art-ist estates. Presents a year round exhibition sched-ule alternating solo and group exhibitions. Centrally located downtown in the Traveller’s Block Annex. Tues to Sat 10 am - 4 pm.

COLLECTOR’S CHOICE ART GALLERY625D 1 Ave N, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1X7T. 306-665-8300 F. [email protected] primarily Saskatchewan artists such as Ches Anderson, Lou Chrones, Alamgir Huque, Car-oline James, Cecilia Jurgens, Ken Lonechild, Mary Masters, Duane Panko, Linda Jane Schmid and Re-gina 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 GALLERY317-220 3 Ave S, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1M1T. 306-955-5701 darrellbellgallery@sasktel.netwww.darrellbellgallery.comExhibiting contemporary Canadian art with an em-phasis on professional Saskatchewan artists, includ-ing 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, tex-tiles, jewellery, glass and ceramics. Rotating solo and group shows year-round. Tues to Sat noon - 4 pm or by appointment.

PACIF’IC GALLERY702 14 St E, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0P7T. 306-373-0755 F. 306-373-2461

art@pacifi cgallery.cawww.pacifi cgallery.ca

ROUGE GALLERY208 3 Ave S, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1L9T. 306-955-8882 [email protected]

THE STALL GALLERY105-120 Sonnenschein Way, Saskatoon, SK S7M 1M8T. 306-653-0800 [email protected]

WILLOW STUDIO SASKATOON148 2 Ave N, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2B2T. 306-979-9226 F. [email protected] Studio includes local artists as well as es-tablished artists from across Canada in their gal-lery and design locations in Saskatoon and Calgary. Art changes every three months with regular mid-month Friday openings. They also show custom-made furniture, unique accessories, and specialty carpets and offer in-home consultations. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.

Public GalleriesMENDEL ART GALLERY950 Spadina Cres E, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8T. 306-975-7610 F. [email protected] gallery is charged with collecting, exhibiting, and maintaining works of art and the develop-ment 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 curato-rial consortium members, as well as major touring exhibitions from other Canadian galleries. Daily 9 am - 9 pm. Admission free.

SASKATCHEWAN CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY813 Broadway Ave, Saskatoon, SK S7N 1B5T. 306-653-3616 Extn: 25 F. [email protected]

THE GALLERY AT FRANCES MORRISON LIBRARY311 23rd Street East, Saskatoon Public Library, Saskatoon, SK S7K 0J6T. 306-975-7566 F. 306-975-7766www.publib.saskatoon.sk.ca/html/morrison_ga.html

SWIFT CURRENT

Public GalleryART GALLERY OF SWIFT CURRENT411 Herbert St E, Swift Current, SK S9H 1M5T. 306-778-2736 F. [email protected]

www.artgalleryofswiftcurrent.orgAGSC is a public art gallery featuring exhibitions of regional, provincial, and national works of visual art. Contact the gallery to arrange guided tours. See something to think about — visit your public art gallery. Mon to Wed 1 - 5 pm and 7 - 9 pm, Thurs to Sun 1 - 5 pm. Closed between exhibitions, statutory holidays, and Sundays in Jul and Aug. Admission free.

VAL MARIE

Commercial GalleryGRASSLANDS GALLERYCentre St and 1 Ave N, PO Box 145, Val Marie, SK S0N 2T0T. 306-298-7782 [email protected] at the gateway to Grasslands National Park in a land of rolling hills, rugged coulees and steep ravines centred on the Frenchman River Val-ley, Grasslands Gallery shows original artwork by Saskatchewan artists and craftspersons, focusing on the Grasslands experience. From May to Sept: Tue to Thur 11 am - 5 pm, Fri - Sat noon - 5 pm; see website or call for seasonal hours.

WEYBURN

Public GalleryALLIE GRIFFIN ART GALLERY45 Bison Ave NE (mail to: 424 10 Ave S), Weyburn, SK S4H 2A1T. 306-848-3922 F. [email protected]

YORKTON

Public GalleryGODFREY DEAN ART GALLERY49 Smith St E, Yorkton, SK S3N 0H4T. 306-786-2992 F. [email protected]

Karine Giboulo and Olia Mishchenko, Habitaptation, April 15 to June 12, Mendel Art Gallery, SaskatoonCurated by the Mendel Art Gallery’s Sandra Fraser, Habitaptation is a playful critique on our modern world, and how we live together. Pairing Montreal’s Karine Giboulo and Ukrainian-born, Toronto-based artist Olia Mischenko, the exhibition looks at the structures that organize our society, touching on issues of displacement, urbanization, migration, and archi-tecture. Through chaotically improvised structures and illogical blueprints, the works in Habitaptation defy not just the order of architecture, but of city planning and zoning that govern much of society’s interactions. The hyperbolic works in the show speak to the utopic, ingenious, and transient aspects of humanity. Personal space emerges to be the underlying issue — how we defi ne it and how we attain it, as most visibly through Giboulo the clash of economic classes collide. In her work, shantytowns sit up against golf courses as cities fold up onto themselves. Adding tension to the exhi-bition is the context of Saskatoon’s current economic upswing. Currently of Canada’s fastest growing cities, Saskatoon faces a shortage of affordable housing, as a dramatic ascension in the housing market continues. — Amy FungABOVE: Karine Giboulo, Democracy Village (Phase 1), detail, polymer clay, acrylic, Plexiglas, mixed materials, 2010.

Sheila Kernan, July 1 to July 30, 2011, Mayberry Fine Art, WinnipegAt fi rst glance, Sheila Kernan’s works appear bright and viscous, almost abstract views of a familiar place. Upon closer inspection, or rather, stepping back, Kernan in fact has transformed her travel portraits into a medium wholly her own. Traveling from pristine mountain peaks to the streets of Las Vegas and San Francisco, the Calgary artist marks her impressions of a place by emphasizing the energy and excitement of each moment. Intensifying colours and pushing the boundaries between the imagined and the real, Kernan transforms the energy she feels in each space by infusing her visuals beyond representation and into an optic play on experiences she’s felt. Focusing on the spontaneous, the found, and the unassuming moments, Kernan adds her own range of media to transform each scene into a fantasy. Highlighting architectural lines, directions in traffi c, the wind, and drawing her viewers’ attention to both loud and quiet spaces with otherworldly colours, Kernan turns our at-tention to the extraordinary moments we have away from home. Finding inspiration throughout North America and Japan, there is a constant play between the big bright lights of the cities and the serenity of nature. Her work suggests there is an opulent fl ow of energy inherent in both worlds, as the modern traveler moves seamlessly back and forth from the urban to the natural. — Amy Fung

Sheila Kernan, City That Never

Sleeps, mixed media, 2011,

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MANITOBAGALLERIES

BRANDON

Commercial GalleryPASIG DESIGNS & ART GALLERY1009 Princess St, Brandon, MB R7A 0P7T. 204-740-0792 [email protected]/gallery

Public GalleriesART GALLERY OF SOUTHWESTERN MANITOBA710 Rosser Ave, Suite 2, Brandon, MB R7A 0K9T. 204-727-1036 F. [email protected] its roots back to 1890, the gallery’s mis-sion 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 GALLERY2021 Victoria Ave, Brandon University, Brandon, MB T. 204-727-9750 [email protected]/Academic/Arts/Departments/Aboriginal/places/artworks.asp

CHURCHILL

Commercial GalleryNORTHERN IMAGESBox 336, 174 Kelsey Blvd, Churchill, MB R0B 0E0T. 204-675-2681 F. [email protected]

GIMLI

MERMAID’S KISS GALLERYPO Box 509, 85 Fourth Ave, Gimli, MB R0C 1B0T. 204-642-7453 [email protected] an hour’s scenic drive north from Winnipeg the gallery presents an eclectic mix of original art in painting, pottery, photography, raku, fi bre and jew-ellery. Established and emerging artists take their inspiration from the lake and surrounding areas. Also offering archival giclée printing, photo restora-tion, certifi ed custom conservation framing. Mon, Thur to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm.

MORDEN

POSERS GALLERY275 Stephen St, Morden, MB R6M 1V2T. 204-822-8111 [email protected] in 2009, in a renovated, century-old build-ing, this contemporary art gallery exhibits local, Canadian, and international artwork. They also sell glass art designed in their studio and sell stained glass and fusible glass supplies. Tues to Thurs 10 am - 5:30 pm, Fri 10 am - 7 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm.

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE

Public GalleriesPORTAGE & DISTRICT ARTS CENTRE GALLERY & GIFT SHOP11 2 St NE, Portage la Prairie, MB R1N 1R8T. 204-239-6029 [email protected] gallery features a schedule of diverse exhibi-tions showcasing the works of local, regional and national artists. The gift shop offers art supplies as well as a mix of original art including pottery, stained glass, photography, wood turning, books and paintings by local and regional artists. Located within the William Glesby Centre. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm.

WINNIPEG

Artist-run GalleriesACEARTINC.290 McDermot Ave - 2nd Flr, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T2T. 204-944-9763 F. [email protected]

GRAFFITI GALLERY109 Higgins Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0B5T. 204-667-9960 F. 204-949-0696info@graffi tigallery.cawww.graffi tigallery.ca

PLATFORM: CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC & DIGITAL ARTS121-100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3T. 204-942-8183 F. [email protected]

URBAN SHAMAN203 - 290 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T2T. 204-942-2674 F. [email protected]/

VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS CENTRE300-100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3T. 204-949-9134 F. [email protected]

Commercial GalleryBIRCHWOOD ART GALLERY6-1170 Taylor Ave, Grant Park Festival, Winnipeg, MB R3M 3Z4T. 204-888-5840 F. 204-888-5604Toll Free: 1-800-822-5840 info@birchwoodartgallery.comwww.birchwoodartgallery.comSpecializing in originals, prints, sculptures and bronzes, featuring a large selection of Manitoba and international artists. They also provide conser-vation custom framing, art restoration and clean-ing, and home and offi ce art consultation. Original commissions available on request. Mon to Thurs 10 am - 6 pm, Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm or by appointment.

CRE8ERY GALLERY2-125 Adelaide St (cor William), Winnipeg, MB R3A 0W4T. 204-510-1623 [email protected]

GALLERY LACOSSE169 Lilac St, Winnipeg, MB R3M 2S1T. 204-284-0726 www.tlacosse.com

LOCH GALLERY306 St. Mary’s Road, Winnipeg, MB R2H 1J8T. 204-235-1033 F. [email protected] 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 se-lect group of gifted professional artists from across Canada including Ivan Eyre, Leo Mol, Peter Sawatz-ky, Anna Wiechec, Philip Craig and Carol Stewart. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 9 am - 5 pm.

MARTHA STREET STUDIO11 Martha St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1A2T. 204-779-6253 F. [email protected] Street Studio is a community-based print-making facility offering equipment, facilities and support to produce, exhibit, and disseminate cutting-edge, print-based works. There are classes in both traditional and digital printing processes, and ongoing outreach programs. The gallery facil-ity offers visual artwork from emerging and master artists. Mon to Fri 11 am - 4 pm.

MAYBERRY FINE ART212 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0S3T. 204-255-5690 bill@mayberryfi neart.comwww.mayberryfi neart.comLocated in Winnipeg’s historic Exchange District, the gallery represents a select group of gifted Cana-dian 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.

NUNAVUT GALLERY INC603 Corydon, Winnipeg, MB R3L 0P3T. 204-478-7233 F. [email protected]


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1 aceartinc.1 Outworks Gallery1 Urban Shaman

2 Bear Creek Gallery3 Birchwood Art Gallery4 Buhler Gallery5 Cre8ery Gallery6 Gallery 1C037 Gallery Lacosse8 Gallery One One One9 Graffi ti Gallery

10 Keepsakes Gallery11 La Maison des artistes12 Le Centre Culturel F-M13 Loch Gallery14 Mayberry Fine Art14 Warehouse Artworks15 Martha Street Studio16 Medea Gallery

17 Mennonite Heritage Gallery18 Nunavut Gallery Inc19 Piano Nobile Gallery20 Platform: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts20 Video Pool Media Arts Centre

21 Plug In Institute22 Pulse Gallery22 Wah-Sa Gallery23 Stoneware Gallery24 The Edge25 The Manitoba Museum26 The Pavilion Gallery Museum26 Woodlands Gallery

27 Winnipeg Art Gallery28 Oseredok - Ukrainian Centre29 Wayne Arthur Gallery

PULSE GALLERY25 Forks Market Rd (Johnston Terminal), Winnipeg, MB T. 204-957-7140 [email protected]

WAH-SA GALLERY130-25 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg, MB R3C 4S8T. 204-942-5121 F. [email protected]

WAREHOUSE ARTWORKS222 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0S3T. 204-943-1681 F. [email protected] Winnipeg fi xture for more than 25 years, the gallery presents original art, in a variety of media, mainly from Manitoba artists. They also offer lim-ited edition prints and reproductions along with a major framing facility. Mon to Thur 9 am - 5:30 pm, Sat to 5 pm.

WAYNE ARTHUR GALLERY186 Provencher Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R2H 0G3T. 204-477-5249 www.waynearthurgallery.comArtist 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 hus-band, 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 paint-

ing, print-making, mixed media, sculpture, pottery, jewellery, glass and photography. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm.

WOODLANDS GALLERY535 Academy Road, Winnipeg, MB R3N 0E2T. 204-947-0700 F. [email protected]

Cooperative GalleriesMEDEA GALLERY132 Osborne St in The Village, Winnipeg, MB R3L 1Y3T. 204-453-1115 [email protected] artist-run cooperative was established in 1976, and features traditional and contemporary original fi ne art by Manitoba artists, including oils, water-colors, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, intaglio and serigraph prints, ceramics, sculpture and photog-raphy. Rental plan and gift certifi cates available. Open Mon to Sat 10:30 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 4pm.

Public GalleriesBUHLER GALLERYSt Boniface General Hospital, 409 Tache Ave, Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6T. 204-237-2309 [email protected]

CENTRE CULTUREL FRANCO-MANITOBAIN340 boul. Provencher, St Boniface, MB R2H 0G7T. 204-233-8972

[email protected]

EDGE ARTIST VILLAGE AND GALLERY611 Main St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1E1T. 204-479-4551 [email protected]

GALLERY 1C03University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9T. 204-786-9253 F. [email protected]

GALLERY ONE ONE ONEMain Floor, Fitzgerald Building, School of Art, UofM Fort Garry Campus, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2T. 204-474-9322 F. [email protected]/schools/art/content/galleryoneoneone/info111.html

LA MAISON DES ARTISTES VISUELS FRANCOPHONES INC.219, boul. Provencher, Winnipeg, MB R2H 0G4T. 204-237-5964 F. [email protected]

MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTRE GALLERY600 Shaftsbury Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3P 0M4T. 204-888-6781 F. [email protected]/programs/gallery

PIANO NOBILE GALLERY555 Main St, Winnipeg, MB T. 204-489-2850 [email protected]

PLUG IN INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0E8T. 204-942-1043 F. [email protected]

THE PAVILION GALLERY MUSEUM55 Pavilion Cres, Winnipeg, MB R3P 2N6T. 204-927-6002 Toll Free: 1-877-927-6006 www.assiniboinepark.ca/mnuattractions/pavilion-gallery-museum

UKRAINIAN CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL CENTRE - OSEREDOK184 Alexander Ave East, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0L6T. 204-942-0218 F. [email protected]

WINNIPEG ART GALLERY300 Memorial Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3C 1V1T. 204-786-6641 [email protected]’s premiere public gallery founded in 1912, has nine galleries of contemporary and his-torical art with an emphasis on work by Manitoba artists. Rooftop restaurant, gift shop. Tues to Sun 11 am - 5 pm, Thurs til 9 pm.


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Cooperative GalleryNORTHERN IMAGES YELLOWKNIFEBox 935, 4801 Franklin Avenue , Yellowknife, NT X1A 2N7T. 867-873-5944 F. [email protected]

Public GalleryPRINCE OF WALES NORTHERN HERITAGE CENTRE4750 48 St, PO Box 1320, Yellowknife, NT X1A L29T. 867-873-7551 F. [email protected]

Brendan Fernandes, On Becoming, May 5 to July 2, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, BrandonLooking through the lens of diaspora and difference, Brendan Fernandes has been complicating the notion of identity through his own Indian-Kenyan-Canadian heritage. Searching for an authentic way of being — or becoming — Fernandes questions authenticity. He begins by question-ing his own identity, and the ideological tropes of what constitutes an authentic African or Indian experience, and immerses his viewers into the same questions through a variety of media from painting, drawing, new media, performance, and installation. In On Becoming, Fernandes continues a theme of the safari, but radicalizes the historical and social conditioning that safaris stand in for the Western model of an authentic African experi-ence. Playing on the spectatorship of the safari, Fernandes puts the animals in whitewashed tribal masks. He inverts accepted social constructions, and questions how cultural identities form. He’s exhibited widely across Canada and the U.S., and continues his multimedia explorations of cultural authen-ticity as a code that brings together specifi c groups and communities.

— Amy FungABOVE: Brendan Fernandes, Aya Mama, video still, 2008.

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Artists’ StudiosIRMA SOLTONOVICH URBANART STUDIOVictoria, BC T. 250-812-2705 [email protected] Victoria artist specializes in abstract landscapes and seascapes. Her acrylic works may be seen at Grey Area Gallery, Chilliwack; Greater Victoria Art Gallery and Gallery at Mattick’s Farm, Victoria. She welcomes commissions and also offers art classes for both teens and adults at Art School Victoria (website of same name). For more information contact her directly and arrange to visit her home studio.

KAMILA & NEL ART GALLERY768 Menawood Pl, Victoria, BC V8Y 2Z6T. 250-294-5711 NelKwiatkowska@Picture2Portrait.netwww.Picture2Portrait.netInterested in commissioning an experienced and internationally-recognized artist to create an age-less fi ne 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 ses-sion arranged at the studio.

LORRAINE THORARINSON BETTSVictoria, BC T. 250-391-9590 [email protected] works as an abstract artist in mixed media, painting and monotype on paper and canvas from her Saladpatch Studio, on the west shore of Victo-ria, BC. Whether fi gurative or abstract, her unique images carry a sense of story through texture, line and a celebration of colour. Visit her Saladpatch Studio online.

MARIANNA [email protected] Mikhaylyan is a Canadian artist of Rus-sian-Armenian origin. In 1995, she graduated as an artist in applied arts at the Moscow Academy. Since then, she has participated in various art shows in Russia, Europe, USA and Canada. She is now rep-resented in galleries across Canada including Van Dop Gallery in New Westminster; Lions Bay Art Gal-lery, in Lions Bay, BC; Tutt Art Gallery in Kelowna and About Canada Gallery in Banff.

VIRGINIA BOULAY - STUDIOCalgary, AB T. 403-242-4628 [email protected] for her spirited desire to connect with the land and the resulting strong and vibrant land-scapes, Boulay says the start of every painting fi nds her deeply engaged with nature. Detailed graph-ite sketches are developed which later evolve into fi nished works (primarily acrylic on canvas), in her Calgary home/studio. Originals and giclée repro-ductions are available and commissions welcome.

Art Shows30TH ANNUAL CALGARY STAMPEDE WESTERN ART SHOW JULY 8 - 17, 2011Halls D and E, BMO Centre at Stampede Park, Calgary, AB T. 403-261-0101 [email protected] 1977, the Western Art Show has presented well-known western artists whose work is indicative of the heritage and grandeur of the west, depict-ing themes of western prairie/mountain culture, lifestyle, heritage, and characters; art that is diverse

of Canadian artists and architects whose innovative and creative imaginations make a difference – and make us think.

ART CRATINGVEVEX CORPORATION955 East Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1R9T. 604-254-1002 F. [email protected] produces made-to-order crates for shipping and storing fi ne art. Computer-generated estimates and engineered manufacturing ensure fast quotes and prompt delivery. A range of designs offers choice for commercial, collector and institutional needs. Certifi ed for worldwide export. Supplier of museum-quality crates to the Vancouver Art Gal-lery.

ART FRAMINGFRAME BY FRAME1060 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2R9T. 604-568-6596 [email protected] it - Frame it. As a full-service shop, Frame by Frame offers framing that combines quality, style and craftsmanship. As a custom framer, it is their mission to provide expert and individual service one customer at a time, frame by frame. Browsers wel-come. Tues to Thurs 11 am - 7 pm, Fri and Sat 10 am - 5 pm, or by appointment or by chance.

JARVIS HALL FINE FRAMES617 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E1T. 403-206-9942 [email protected] Hall Fine Frames is a full service frame shop offering all levels of custom framing from conserva-tion to museum grade. Frames can be chosen from a wide variety of manufacturers or can be designed, carved and gilded by hand. They also offer a variety of gallery frames for artists. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm and by appointment.

ARTIST RETREATSART WORKSHOP IN ALBERTA BADLANDS — AUG 22 - 26, 2011T. 780-455-6039 [email protected] 5-day watercolour and oil painting workshop ‘en plein-air’ with Jim Davies will set up at sites in Drumheller and vicinity plus Dry Island Buffalo Jump. Featuring lectures on Canadian landscape painting and on geology of Badlands. Includes introductory reception and dinner; and campfi re cookout plus entertainment with Alberta folk-singer/songwriter Karla Anderson. Price $475 not including accommodation. Email for further infor-mation and to reserve.

WHISTLER ART WORKSHOPS ON THE LAKE — JUNE - AUGUSTWhistler, BC T. 604-935-8410 [email protected] ten, two to four day workshops from be-ginner to advanced level instruction in oil, acrylic, watercolour painting, sketching and life drawing. The program is inspired by the majestic scenery of Whistler, and the historic Alta Lake House, a heri-tage home located on the waterfront area of Alta Lake with snow-covered peak views of Whistler, Blackcomb and Wedge Mountains.

ART GALLERY SOFTWAREGALLERYSOFT INC10 Oak Ridge Drive, Georgetown, ON L7G 5G6T. 905-877-8713 F. [email protected] is a complete fi ne art gallery manage-ment system that provides galleries with a quick

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MANITOBA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS, OPEN COMPETITION & EXHIBITIONThe Bay, Portage and Memorial, Winnipeg, MB www.mbsa.caThis 79th Annual Open Competition and Exhibition of original artwork runs May 14 to June 12, 2011, at ‘THE BAY’- Portage & Memorial (6th fl r), Win-nipeg, Manitoba. Opening on Saturday, May 14 at 2:30 pm, the exhibition features some of Manito-ba’s fi nest creative visual art. A variety of media and styles are on display and most works are for sale.

SOOKE FINE ARTS SHOW - JULY 23 - AUGUST 1, 2011SEAPARC Leisure Complex, 2168 Phillips Rd, Sooke, BC www.sookefi nearts.comThe Sooke Fine Arts Show, Vancouver Island’s lead-ing art show and sale for the last 20 years, has a whole new look. From July 23 - August 1, 2011, join 7500 annual visitors in admiring over 300 pieces of fi ne art by local Vancouver Island artists. More details on website.

SOUTH WEST QUEST FOR SASKATCHEWAN ART AND HISTORYT. 306-299-4445 [email protected] of EXPRESSION: a self-guided tour of galleries, museums, historical venues and work-shops. Sign-up now for an art workshop only $80 (extra for supplies). Details online. Cypress Park (Jul 2, 15, 27 and Aug 6, 20); Consul (Jul 8); Fort Walsh (Jul 18); Eastend (Aug 27). Subscribe online to the SW Quest e-newsletter for more workshops and venue events. Cypress Hills Destination Area — Yellow Driving Loop including Fort Walsh, Consul, Robsart, OMB, Eastend. July and August.

THE WORKS ART & DESIGN FESTIVAL — JUNE 23- JULY 5, 2011Downtown Edmonton, AB T. 780-426-2122 www.theworks.ab.ca/Celebrating its 26th anniversary in 2011, The Works is the largest FREE outdoor Art & Design Festival in North America, showcasing over 500 artists at more than 30 sites taking over one square mile of Edmonton’s downtown core. There are workshops, demonstrations, lectures and exhibits about urban-ization, war and sustainability.

ART TOURSCALGARY ARTWALKMultiple public and Commercial Galleries, Calgary, ABwww.calgaryartwalk.comThe juried art studio tour in Metchosin and East THIRD WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER Visit Calgary gal-leries and artist studios to discover the quality and variety of artists’ work available in Calgary in a friendly and casual atmosphere. The event is free. Many venues provide refreshments and host special events. Great for art students, collectors and for the novice to meet artists and watch creativity happen before their eyes. Maps and participating galleries on website.

GALLERY WALK OF EDMONTONOCTOBER 15 AND 16, 2011; APRIL 14 AND 15, 2012Edmonton, ABwww.gallery-walk.comThe fi rst 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 six member galleries are easily accessible within a nine block walking dis-tance. There are two self-guided events presented per year. Unique exhibitions are planned for gallery walks. Details on website.

STINKING FISH STUDIO TOUR - JUL 23 - AUG 1, 2011(Metchosin and East Sooke), Victoria, BC T. 250-474-2676 artists@stinkingfi shstudiotour.comwww.stinkingfi shstudiotour.comThe juried art studio tour in Metchosin and East Sooke, just west of Victoria, features painting, printmaking, woodworking, sculpture, ceramics, mosaics, weaving, fi ber art, and jewellery. Twenty-two artists open their studios for 10 days. 10 am - 5 pm. Maps and details on website.

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APPRAISALS/ART STORAGELEVIS FINE ART AUCTIONS, APPRAISALS & ART STORAGE1739 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0K1T. 403-541-9099 [email protected] a single item to a complete collection, Le-vis can safely store artwork. The company offers professional and knowledgeable staff, a safe and confi dential environment, a thorough security sys-tem, 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.

PETER S BLUNDELL - APPRAISALSPO Box 6, Vernon, BC V1T 6M1T. 250-542-4540 info@blundellartandantiques.comwww.blundellartandantiques.comTrained by the International Society of Appraisers, Mr. Blundell is an independent appraiser, consul-tant, lecturer and security advisor, specializing in antiques, art and estate household treasures. He makes house calls and is prepared to travel throughout British Columbia and Alberta. Inquiries about fund-raising ideas are welcomed.

ART AUCTIONSHODGINS ART AUCTIONS LTD5240 1A St SE, Calgary, AB T2H 1J1T. 403-252-4362 F. 403-259-3682kevin.king@hodginsauction.comwww.hodginsauction.comHodgins is one of western Canada’s largest and longest running auction companies dedicated to quality fi ne art. They hold catalogued auctions of Canadian and international fi ne art every May and November. In addition, appraisal services are of-fered for estate settlement, insurance, matrimonial division and other purposes. Individual and corpo-rate consignments of artworks for sale are always welcome.

LANDO ART AUCTIONS11130 105 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5H 0L5T. 780-990-1161 F. 780-990-1153mail@landoartauctions.comwww.landoartauctions.comThey hold a minimum of three catalogued auctions a year of Canadian and international fi ne art. Indi-vidual and corporate consignments welcome. Ap-praisals for insurance, donation, estate settlement, family division and other purposes. Call or email for a confi dential appointment. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 4:30 pm, or by appt.

ART BOOKSUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY PRESS2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4T. [email protected] University of Calgary Press publishes peer-reviewed books that explore a sense of place in western Canada and its impact on the world. Their “Art in Profi le” series showcases the contributions



and easy way to manage clients, mailing labels, artists, artist payments, invoicing, inventory details and much more. GallerySoft runs on either a Mac or PC. Adding a GallerySoft Supported Website al-lows all gallery art to be added to the gallery web-site directly from GallerySoft.

ART INSTALLATIONON THE LEVEL ART INSTALLATIONST. 403-263-7226 [email protected] fully insured, full service fi ne arts handling com-pany with 24 years experience providing consult-ing, design and installation service throughout western Canada.

ART GALLERY WEBSITESARTFIRM GALLERYCalgary, AB T. 403-206-1344 info@artfi rm.cawww.artfi rm.caArtfi rm presents an expanding group of artists working in a full range of media including paint-ing, sculpture, printmaking and innovative media. Artfi rm is committed to the sale of exceptional, contemporary artwork by Canadian and interna-tional artists. Online only at this time and by ap-pointment.

ART IN CANADAT. 403-336-1313 [email protected] artists who know they need a website, but don’t know where to start, Art In Canada — a professional web consulting and design company — has been marketing artists and art galleries online since 1999. Websites are designed for easy self-administration by artists themselves. Call Lynda Baxter to learn more and get started.

ART RENTALTRIANGLE GALLERY ART RENTAL SERVICEST. 403-874-9685 [email protected] and/or purchase artwork by more than 35 emerging and established professional artists from Calgary and region. Art ranges from realist to ab-stract style with a wide selection of sizes and media. View and choose directly on the Art Rental Services website. Artists are encouraged to apply. Organized by Friends of Triangle Gallery in support of the gal-lery’s exhibition and education programs.

ART REPRODUCTIONART-MASTERS.NET1608 29 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2T 1M5T. 403-229-2953 [email protected] in professional, archival, custom giclée printing for more than 14 years with complete in-house service, they cater to over 300 discriminat-ing artists, galleries, and art publishers locally and around the world. Expertise in colour correction creates the rich colours, textures and high defi ni-tion of original artwork, and printing is done with special UV inhibiting inks and varnishes.

ART SUPPLIESARTISTS EMPORIUM1610 St James St, Winnipeg, MB R3H 0L2T. 204-772-2421 [email protected] Canadian based company supplying highest quality products since 1977 with over 100,000 items offered in a 12,000 square feet retail space. The fun-friendly atmosphere extends from the free Saturday morning art classes, through the extensive art library and spinning the roulette wheel at their annual Artists Open House. They are committed to maintaining a high level of inventory at competitive prices while continually expanding product lines. Mon to Thur 9 am - 6 pm, Fri til 9 pm, Sat 9 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm.

CLASSIC GALLERY FRAMING INC3376 Sexsmith Road, Kelowna, BC V1X 7S5T. 250-765-6116 F. 250-765-6117Toll Free: 1-800-892-8855 [email protected] quality mouldings, liners and liner profi les are produced by utilizing the most effi cient manufac-turing processes combined with the care and detail that comes with creating handcrafted products. All

steps of production are done inside their factory. The full range of products may be previewed on-line and are available through most fi ne art dealers and framers.

INGLEWOOD ART SUPPLIES1006 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0S7T. 403-265-8961 [email protected] 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 SUPPLY130 10 St NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1V3T. 403-283-2288 [email protected] in a new, bigger space featuring an expanded selection of quality fi ne art supplies including more paints, brushes, easels, paper and canvas. Also carry over 500 titles of art instruction books, en-caustic paints, and an enhanced airbrush section. Friendly, knowledgeable staff. Art classes next door. Discounts available. Mon to Thurs 10 am - 8 pm, Fri, Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun & Hol 11 am - 5 pm.

MONA LISA ARTISTS’ MATERIALS1518 7 St SW, Calgary, AB T2R 1A7T. 403-228-3618 [email protected] to one of Western Canada’s largest fi ne art supply retailers. Established in 1959, Mona Lisa provides excellent customer service combined with a broad spectrum of products and technical knowl-edge. Clients from beginner to professional, fi nd everything they need to achieve their artistic goals. Volume discounts and full-time student and senior discounts available. Mon - Fri 8 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 9 am - 5 pm.

OPUS FRAMING & ART SUPPLIEST. 604-435-9991 F. 604-435-9941Toll Free: 1-800-663-6953 [email protected] has stores in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, North Vancouver, and Langley, plus online shop-ping and mail order service. They offer an extensive selection of fi ne art materials and quality framing supplies. Check them out online, or drop by for some inspiration. They also produce an e-newslet-ter full of sales, art news and articles, and provide ëhow to’ handouts and artist demos. Western Canada’s favourite artists’ resource.

SKETCH ARTIST SUPPLIES(FORMERLY STUDIO TODOROVIC)1713 - 2 St NW, Calgary, AB T2M 2W4T. 403-450-1917 [email protected] offers framing and carries Copic sketch markers (full selection), sketchbooks, J. Herbin cal-ligraphy inks, Brause nibs, Faber-Castell products, Moleskine, Rhodia, Golden acrylics & mediums, M. Graham oils & watercolours, Gotrick canvas and more. Student and senior discounts. Just off TransCanada in Crescent Heights opposite Balmoral School. Free parking. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 6 pm.

THE GALLERY/ART PLACEMENT INC.228 3 Ave S (back lane entrance), Saskatoon, SK S7K 1L9T. 306-664-3931 [email protected] artists, University art students, art edu-cators and weekend artists rely on The Gallery/Art Placement’s art supply store for fi ne quality mate-rials and equipment at reasonable prices. A con-stantly 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.

ARTISTS REPRESENTATIVEEMOTESARTWinnipeg, MB T. 204-294-6324 [email protected] select contemporary Canadian artists including Shirley Elias and Victoria Block.

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Ron Stonier, Couples,

1975, Acrylic on Canvas.

61" x 81".

RON STONIER (1933 - 2001)

BACK ROOM

It’s not hard to fi nd people today who still have fond memories of Ron Stonier as a teacher. Between 1962 and 1978, when he taught painting at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University), he was a dedicated and inspired instructor who could talk eloquently about his

personal thoughts on paint techniques and colour. That reputation is a good match for his legacy as an artist — a painter who followed his own path, despite trends, while touching on many of the abstract styles popular in the latter half of the 20th century.

Originally from Victoria, and a 1957 graduate of the Vancouver School of Art, he got a strong start as a painter, studying with artists including Jack Shadbolt and Gordon Smith, and securing a teaching job at the West Vancouver Sketch Club while still in school. After graduation, he spent a year travelling on a Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation scholarship, and by 1962 he was tapped by VSA to teach full time. With Geoff Rees and Dave Mayrs he started the Tem-pus Gallery in Vancouver to show work by faculty and students.

For the 15 years he taught, Stonier was creating a body of work that eas-ily touched on the shared intelligence of abstract painting, while still going down his own path. Early in his practice, he was working within the general boundaries of abstraction, including visceral Tachist works, and a movement, in the 1960s, toward post-painterly abstraction. That led to experiments, through the 1970s, with harder edges and a series of colour bar paintings.

While Stonier continued to explore and experiment, and inspire new generations of young British Columbia painters, the art scene in Vancouver was quickly turning toward conceptualism, new media, and photography. Painting, particularly of the large-scale, abstract style Stonier favoured, wasn’t part of the mainstream. After working through the creation of the newly named Emily Carr School of Art, he left teaching to devote himself full-time to painting.

After his 1976 show at the Vancouver Art Gallery (his seventh), Stonier didn’t show again until a 1995 exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery. This 1975 painting, one of his Couples series, was kept in a storage locker from his death in 2001 until late last year, when Craig Sibley of Vancouver’s new Trench Gal-lery showed it at an exhibition called Ouroboros. The collection, surveying 25 years of Stonier’s work, was stored by his partner, Sheila Cano, waiting for the right moment to add to the history of British Columbia painting.

“The stripe paintings are ambitious, post modern abstract paintings, com-pleted at a time in Vancouver when very few artists were painting,” he says. “Rigorous attention to detail, sprayed instead of rolled, these works are mysti-cal in how the color shifts between the form lines. As far as anyone knows Ron was the only painter in Vancouver and likely the West exploring stripe and target paintings. Of course at the same time Guido Molanari and Claude Tousignant were still mining the form in Quebec.” — Jill Sawyer

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