| 2010 - 2011 Gallery Exhibitions | |
| 2011 Main Gallery Exhibitions | |
| Leah Dorion: Country Wives September 1 – October 16 |
Leah Dorion’s paintings are as delightful and insightful as folk-art and as tactile as textiles. They tell stories that are universally familiar, but they are drawn from her life as Métis artist. This exhibition honors the role of Métis women in building their families, communities, and nations in the past. The paintings include women raising children, preparing food, collecting fire wood and the many other duties that were women’s responsibilities. The land and the special relationship Métis women cultivated through their work and spirituality is an overarching theme in Dorion’s art. |
| Meditations: Jean Sonmor June 20 – August 30 |
“ I believe the very essence of what we call life is a constantly evolving, intelligent, creative force. The earth with it’s amazing diversity has the will, strength and creative genius to survive for a time beyond my imagining. Sometimes I wonder if there is a plan. Or is it like the act of painting where I begin with an idea and that idea seems to have a mind beyond my own which takes the work someplace else completely? Is the journey of all life like that? I wonder?” – Jean Sonmor |
| A Wide Horizon: Terry Fenton May 5 - June 20
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These works by Saskatchewan artist Terry Fenton portray the Saskatchewan prairie landscape in an evocative way; a way in which anyone who has experienced Saskatchewan’s “living skies” can reminisce with at any given moment in time. Although they evoke a timeless quality, Terry has documented his time travel throughout Saskatchewan with these paintings, capturing exact moments of uninterrupted views of land and sky. The works presented here have been painted with oil paint on paper and are intimate in scale. Terry points out, “Because of their apparent lack of scenery, the open prairies haven’t been much painted by anyone. . . . I’m drawn south and west to the grasslands . . . because the color and light there is so luminous. Because the solutions found by painters from the past don’t work well in the wide-open spaces, I look for new ones.” |
| Motion Captured, Motion Denied: Jody Greenman-Barber and Zane Wilcox
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The exhibition Motion Captured, Motion Denied presents the work of young, Saskatchewan contemporary ceramic artists Jody Greenman-Barber and Zane Wilcox. Although both artists work in very distinct and different approaches from each other, a commonality between their works is how each artist addresses the concept of motion. Jody’s work focuses on the representation of motion, while Zane’s work reflects a sense of stability or the denial of motion. Pushing the boundaries of wheel-thrown traditions and approaches while revolving her practice around the spinning motion of the pottery wheel, Jody’s work concentrates on the gestural qualities of clay and exaggerated wheel-thrown lines and forms. Zane’s work embodies a sense of immovability and stability, thus serving as an opposition to direct force or motion. This sense of stability, of permanence, then allows the work to serve as a reference point for the motion or physical movements of the viewer within the gallery space, as he or she moves around the works to take in the different angles and perspectives that they offer. |
Joy of the Land: Dorothy Schmidt and Rigmor Clarke March 20 – April 30 |
Joy of the Land brings together the works of Rigmor Clarke and Dorothy Schmidt: two artists who portray the beauty and harshness of the northern Saskatchewan landscape with passion and dedication. While both extend the Group of Seven tradition of rendering the Canadian landscape as pristine and unmarked by human intervention, they each employ different methods, references and approaches. |
| Flash: Terry Billings February 1 – March 13 |
An immersive installation using video images, auditory recordings and other media, Flash constructs a space for the active contemplation of nature, beauty and the social sphere. What are the relations between nature and beauty or human and non-human? How do they mark the production and reception of art? |
| Dorothy Knowles: Land Marks November 1, 2010 – January 31, 2011 |
The latest exhibition of Dorothy Knowles's work, Land Marks, consisting of 27 paintings, is a retrospective glance of the work of this well-established and respected Canadian artist. This is her 81st solo exhibition of her work, a fact which speaks volumes about the social importance of her reputation. Curated by Terry Fenton. Touring through the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery. |
2011 Window Gallery Exhibitions |
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| The Beat Goes On: Teresa Gagne October |
Art and music are universal languages. Making pottery and music are primal, therapeutic ways of expressing ourselves. By using clay to make musical instruments, two forms of ancient expression are combined in a contemporary fashion. The first percussion instruments probably were two rocks or sticks banged together. Ceramic instruments were made and used in ceremonies and rituals for millennium. It is an honour to fashion instruments with clay (decomposed rock), and carry on the traditions of our ancestors. |
| Member Show of Current Works August / September |
This annual event provides the opportunity for all gallery artist members to show some of their current works of art produced since last summer. The show keeps getting better every year and it gives me great gratification to showcase these works.. Most works are for sale to provide our audience with the opportunity to own an original local work of art. |
| Transmitting Light July |
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from the Artist In Residence Mentorship Program featuring; Oriol Dancer,
Karen Kowalski, Terry Billings, Joel Carignan, Chris Hodge, Dana Standinghorn,
Karlie King, Holly Hildebrand, and Audrey Fineday. This exhibition works
with the large outstanding windows in the window salon that illuminate the
salon year round with various qualities of light pending the attitude of
the day. Artist using various materials work with the theme ‘transmitting
light’ and the vista and domination of a large row of cathedral pebbled
glass windows Transmitting Light invites artists to use light as a medium by working with translucent and transparent materials that allow the light of the ambulatory windows at the Chapel Gallery to shine through their work, or by shaping this light in some way. This exhibition is an open-ended experiment in light |
Honouring Individual Creation: Daphie Pooyak June |
“I go by feeling; the feeling is in the colour. My source of inspiration has been my mother and grandmothers who taught me to sew and design work that followed the traditional values of my people, the land, the ceremonies, and life. I want all children to be proud of who they are and where they come from” says Daphie Pooyak. |
Grounded: Dawan Dey Harrish May |
The fibre art creations of Dawna Dey Harrish express the artists’ humour, and visions in a vibrant display of tree scapes. Dawna loves the look, colour and feel of textiles and immerses herself in the creative process. Fibre and repurposed clothings, dressmaking fabrics and vintage gloves are the mainstay as the artist manipulates this medium in her own way the fabrics, using threadplay to enhance the surface, or exploring tactile embellishments. |
Structured Inspirations March / April |
Works from Chris Hodge, Rosemarie Stadnyk, and Heather Hochbaum; students in the University of Saskatchewan Certificate in Art and Design program (USCAD) This preparatory program is a hands-on approach to incremental skill development with the ultimate goal of building a portfolio of work in one of sculpture, painting, watercolour painting, drawing or photography/digital imagery. The overarching goal is to prepare the student for degree credit studies |
My Gift wrapped with Love February |
What is a gift and what is love? How do we take something that has such significance and then position it into a gift? The visual challenge in this exhibition is to take something that has to be defined and then have it wrapped by something that can contain it. Just to focus on the exhibition premise the words alone can engender a visual landscape of marvel. |
| Blind Contour January |
This exhibition features a series of drawings by two artists – Sarah Jane Holtom’s drawings of her dog and Brandan Doty’s hockey drawings. Both artists use a drawing technique called blind contour – where the artist does not look at the drawing they are making, or only with quick glances, and instead they keep their eye on what they are drawing. In Sarah’s case her pencil crayon drawings of her aging dog nestled amongst pillows and carpets is handled in a delicate, beautiful light touch. Brandan drew the hockey drawings by watching a hockey game on television and keeping his eye on the puck and following its movement with a pencil or oil stick on a piece of paper on his lap. Both of these artists use the simplest of materials and the blind contour technique to make drawings that are conceptual |