Gallery Newsletter                                                                February 2010

 

 

 

Now showing at the Chapel Gallery                                                                              January 1 – February 23

 

David Garneau: Road Kill

 

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 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

 

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.”

 

Both of these exhibitions are sponsored by the Battlefords Allied Arts Council and touring through the Organization of Saskatchewan Allied Arts Councils.

 

Bonaventure Lions Art Auction and Dinner                                                          

 Friday, March 12

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

Art Auction and Dinner tickets are $25/person

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

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

 

       Olga Maybuck                           Jake Miller                          Millicent Bardwell

 

 

Proceeds will go toward a scholarship fund to be called the Hazel Asmussen Endowment Fund to assist visual artists administered by the Battlefords and District Community Foundation

 

 

 

 

 

Window Gallery

 

Abstractionism through the Lens ……. February 3 – 28th

 

 Works from the North Battleford Photography Club

Abstraction is a departure from accurate representation which can be only slight, or it can be partial, or it can be complete. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect representation is likely to be exceedingly elusive. Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract.  Total

abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable.

 

 

 

Al Love – One Fall Rain           Ric Harris – Jelly Fish

 

 

 

 

 

March 3 – 28

In the Gap

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”.

Artist Winter Retreat    February 19, 20, and 21

 

Enjoy three days of art at the Chapel Gallery.  Come for a day, two or the complete three days.  Enjoy a workshop or work on your own.  The gallery space will be an open artist area for anyone to work on their current works with company.  Workshop will be held in the craft room of the Don Ross Centre.  Enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and take advantage of the following workshops. 

Min. 10 Max 15 for all workshops.              

                                                                                                                                            Register Now 445-1757

 

Workshop based on William Kentridges’ Animations with Terry Billings                      Friday February 19

Make your drawings come alive through animation using digital cameras. 

Animation workshop runs from 10 a.m. – 12 noon                Workshop fee $10.00

 

Meditative Tangling with Ivy Moore                                                                                    Friday, February 19

Learn how to doodle with a purpose.  Create beautiful images quickly and effectively by enhancing any shape or line with specific patterns of your choice. This session will be great for those who like to create with spontaneity.

Drawing class runs from 1 – 4 p.m.                                             Workshop fee $40.00

 

Making Watercolour Work for You with Bonny Macnab                                              Saturday, February 20

Learn to set up a still life, do thumb nail sketch, value study, composition, underpainting and then work to paint a still life composition.  Individual attention will be given over the workshop period to address problems as they arise.  This session will bring everyone from looking at the still life to rendering a complete water colour.

Watercolour class runs from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.                             Workshop fee $60.00

 

Digital Photography with Jay Kimball                                                                     Sunday, February 21

This workshop is a beginner and intermediate level where participants will learn to use all the features of their camera, use developing techniques and discuss taking fine-art photographs.  Please bring your digital camera to class.  Enjoy this informative session to have your camera come alive in your hands.

Digital photography class runs from 1 – 4 p.m.                     Workshop fee $40.00

 

 

 

Introductory Acrylic Painting with Terry Billings                          Tuesdays,   February 2-23    7 – 9  p.m.   

Terry, our artist in residence for the artist mentorship program, brings with her many years of experience teaching in various mediums.  Learn some basics about colour mixing and paint application including washes, glazes and impasto, all in fun, practical, hands-on lessons. This class is an excellent, highly structured introduction for adults who have little or no experience painting with acrylic paints.                                                                                                                                   Registration fee: $60.00

These open studio sessions allow everyone to come and use gallery supplies to paint, draw, collage, or whatever your creative side dreams up.  Individuals will be inspired by art materials, people in the class, and the art in the gallery.  This is a great time for families to enjoy and create art together.  Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.                                                                                                                 Registration fee: $5/family$2/individual