2010   Chapel Gallery   Show Schedule

 

January 1 – February 23

David Garneau: Road Kill

David Garneau, Entrancing Bird, oil & acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60", 2007. Featuring the work of Saskatchewan Metis artist David Garneau, Road Kill is an exhibition of acrylic and oil paintings and drawings of birds and deer killed on prairie highways by automobiles along the old Carlton Trail. These are not gory pictures meant to disgust; nor are they images of cute dead animals designed to elicit only pathos. They are realistic representations of fauna composed to create a tension between beauty and the grotesque, pleasure and pain, resemblance and abstraction. They are attractive images that discover beauty in an unconventional source. They have us wonder about the ethics of our pleasure and progress and encourage us to contemplate our short time in the world. Our current standard of living relies on the proliferation of highways. Unfortunately, this artificial network has been laid over a pre-existing, natural network of migratory and other animal routes. When the two systems collide, animals are usually the greater victims of our advancement. Road kills are the inevitable result of modern travel. Considering the fate of these birds and deer reminds us that we have made an implicit ethical calculation that the loss of these lives is an acceptable consequence of our lifestyle. These paintings encourage the viewer to reflect on mortality, including their own. They are in the memento mori (remembrance of death) still life art tradition, often symbols for the fragility of life. Road Kill plays with and goes against this tradition – these paintings are both stilled lives and landscape. These animals were once wild and beautiful, and then they were destroyed and abject. Now, as art, they are revived as something new, an aesthetic experience that encourages us to contemplate the effect of our colonization of nature.
Carri J. McKinnon: Illuminated Spaces
Juried from the 2008 Call to Adjudicated Artists, Organized and toured by the Organization of Sask. Arts Councils (OSAC) and hosted by the Battlefords Allied Arts Council
Carri J. McKinnon, Light: Hallway Mirror, digitally reproduced photo, prismacolour, acrylic on masonite, 28 x 20", 2007. Carri McKinnon is inspired by the emotional pull and visual poetry of forgotten places. High contrast imagery and the patterns created by prairie sunlight and shadows create stark spaces which draw her in. McKinnon says, “When bright sunlight steals into an abandoned structure, that ‘dark corner’ is illuminated; the transformation fascinates me. The sunlight, impartial to the ‘quality’ of what is in its path, bathes the space, causing it to become something new. My work is meant to invite the viewer in. Silvery light draws the viewer in to the spaces I have discovered/ created.” When the inhabitants of a home move on, the structure stays behind. The house itself seems to have absorbed the personalities of those who have lived there. It becomes a connection – from the earth to the people. As the home continues its “life cycle” into deterioration, it seems to be a living, breathing entity… curtains blowing, an old chair rocking, blinds flapping, roof sagging, gusts soughing from the rafters and dust motes floating in shafts of brilliant sunlight. The light in these forgotten spaces enchants Carri McKinnon and encourages her to investigate further. The light and deep shadows inspire her to create works that will capture the quality of a moment in the space and suspend it.

 

 

 

Sunday, February 7

Just for You Because I Care

 

Original Valentines Day Cards and Gifts of Art for that someone special.

This is the first gallery artist member’s one day exhibition to celebrate the gift of giving original and limited edition art to that someone who will appreciate.  This event will be open to the public from noon – 4 p.m.

 

 

February 24 – March 12

Bonaventure Lions Art Show and Auction

 Auction and Dinner Friday, March 12

Photographs of art on display will be posted on the gallery web site

Olga Maybuck

Jake Miller

Millicent Bardwell

 

Art Auction and Dinner tickets are $25/person

445-1056, 445-1966, 445-3026,and 445-9063

Viewing at 5:30, dinner at 6:30, auction at 7:30

 

April 1 – May 16

Sculptured Landscapes by Ken Delgarno

His exhibit Sculpted Landscapes focuses on and chronicles the now decaying and vanishing farm buildings and grain elevators that once dotted the flat Saskatchewan prairies. These monuments stand - barely- not only as a fading symbol of the toil and bond pioneers once had with the land but also as a strong symbol of our own fleeting and fragile place in the world. Like the rugged land and swirling skies these canvases are painted with an ultra thick paint application, creating a seductive tactile texture of swirling furrows and ridges - in essence a landscape within a landscape.  This exhibition is being toured by the Organization of Allied Arts Councils and sponsored by the Battlefords Allied Arts Council.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                              

 

May 19 – June 28

 

Rivers Edge Quilters 

 This craft exhibition of quilts brings together some 30 quilters from the Rivers Edge Quilters with invited guest quilters featuring quilt fabrications from the traditional to the contemporary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                          June 1 – July 20

 

                                    Dimensions2009: Elemental Connections

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every spring the Saskatchewan Craft Council invites all Saskatchewan Craftspeople to submit up to two handcrafted items for Dimensions, the only open, juried, touring exhibition of Fine Craft in the province.

 

 

 

 

 

Printemps   Chantel Gilbert

 

 

July 1st to August 23rd A.F.L. Kenderdine: Field day

The Kenderdine Art Gallery at the University of Saskatchewan, is pleased to present A.F.L. Kenderdine: Field Day. The paintings and drawings, selected for this touring exhibition from the University of Saskatchewan Permanent Art Collection, illustrate dominant themes within Kenderdine’s oeuvre. Many of the pieces selected demonstrate Kenderdine’s engagement with the Saskatchewan landscape, including northern, central and southern locales within the province. This exhibition is being toured by the Organization of Allied Arts Councils and sponsored by the Battlefords Allied Arts Council.

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 24 – October 31

 

Miners at Mosaic Potash Mine in Esterhazy Saskatchewan

 

by Crystal Howie

 

Her work is a response to social conditions present in working class jobs.  She is stimulated by utilitarian objects which have meaning to, or represent daily life by their presence in work. Her principal mediums are drawing and painting.

 

 

 

November 1, 2010 – January 31, 2011

 

Dorothy Knowles: Land Marks

Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery

 

The latest exhibition of Dorothy Knowles's work, Land Marks, constituted by 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.

 

2010 Window Gallery Schedule

 

 

January 1 - 30

Olympic Fire 2010

The top entry maquettes for the City of North Battleford “legacy award”

and

Winter Shadow

Gallery Members Themed Exhibition

 

 

 

February

Abstractionism through the Lens

Photography by the North Battleford Photography Club

 

 

 

March

 

In The GAP

 

 

 

 

                     Wheat Field                                                    Plowed

 

 

Kelly Taylor of Cut Knife with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Alberta College of Art and Design brings to the gallery

a collection of her current works on the exhibition theme “in the gap”.

 

 

 

 

April

 

Ljubica Fa Hardi

 

Current Portrait work from Battleford's artist Ljubica Fa Hardi

 

 

 

May 19 – June 28

Fantastic Fabrications 3

Rivers Edge Quilters

 

This craft exhibition of quilts brings together some 30 quilters from the Rivers Edge Quilters with invited guest quilters featuring quilt fabrications from the traditional to the contemporary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July

 

Four Seasons

 

      

 

                        The Afterlife                                                    The Moppet

 

 

 

This vibrant use of colour and solid structures are brushed onto the canvas by North Battleford First Nation artist, Dana Standinghorn, currently in the Artist Mentorship program which is funded by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and incorporates into the program elements from the CARFAC mentorship program.  The gallery is privileged to host this first time exhibition introducing Dana as an emerging artist to the community.

 

 August

 

Gallery Members Exhibition of Current Works

August is the summer month when the gallery has artist members showcase their current works to the summer visitors of the gallery.  This is always an exciting and diverse exhibition featuring some 30 artists..

 

 

September

 

Between

Gallery Members Themed Exhibition

 

The chapel gallery is proud to provide this opportunity to gallery artist members to present to an audience a new venture using proven techniques or new applications to provide viewers with a new viewing opportunity

 

October

 

North Battleford Photo Club Exhibition of Current Works

 

November/December

 

Layers of the Soul

Postcard Theme Exhibition

 and

The Light of the Winter Night

This is the gallery member’s themed exhibition for the winter months and brings with it the rewards to gallery patrons to purchase a work of art as a gift to a friend or family member.