| 2012 Gallery Exhibitions | |
| 2012 Main Gallery Exhibitions | |
Artless Fabrications: Carol Schmold March 1 - 25 |
On January 1st, 2007, Carol Schmold embarked on a personal creative journey, creating a work of art each week for a year, which resulted in a collection of 52 small fibre works that she describes as “sincere textile compositions”. Seeing the fibre works as intimate extensions of the pages of her journal, Schmold’s works explore various fibre art techniques and approaches to image-making. The project began as a self-directed challenge, motivated by the desire to get back in touch with her artistic creativity, to explore new techniques in fibre art and discipline herself to work within an imposed deadline. The result is a visual journal of her exploration into her creative process, reflecting a personal design aesthetic and sensibility to materials. Through exhibiting these works, she offers viewers the opportunity to share in her journey, to witness her artistic growth and development through her dedicated practice, and hopes, that in viewing the work, others may be inspired to follow their own creative paths. |
Campbell
Tinning’s January
4 - February 26 |
Campbell
Tinning was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1910 and studied art at
Regina College and at the Art Students’ League in New York. This
exhibition of work was created during a trip to Newfoundland in the summer
of 1949. Newfoundland joined confederation earlier that year and Tinning,
a young artist fresh from his success as an Official War Artist, was fascinated
by Canada’s newest province. Thirteen large watercolours in this
exhibition were exhibited in Montreal in 1950 and have remained together
as a group – passed on to his niece and nephew after his death in
1996.
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| 2012 Window Gallery Exhibitions | |
Watercolour Works by Mary Matilla and Margaret Hassan April 2012 |
Mary and Margaret are members of the North Battleford art club. This is their first exhibition showcasing their love and appreciation of the art of watercolour. |
Ou sont passes nos reves d'antan? Whither our dreams of yesteryear? March 2012 |
Featuring
the current Photographic Works of Claude Desnoyers. This exhibition is Claude’s
contribution to this year’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of
the first provincial francophone organization, the ACFC. |
Love is But ............ February 1 - 26 |
Gallery Member Show |
North Battleford Photography Club January 1 - 29 |
Recent Work by the North Battleford Photography Club |
| 2011 Gallery Exhibitions | |
| 2011 Main Gallery Exhibitions | |
| Momentum: Terry Billings, Chris Hodge, Holly Hildebrand, Dana Standinghorn, Audrey Fine Day, Joel Carignan, Karen Kowalski, Oriol Dancer and Karlie King group show with artists in the “Creative Partnership Program” December 1 – 31 |
For the past two years the Chapel Gallery has played host to a pilot artist-in-residence project. A group of eight artists from the Battlefords region have worked collectively, developed their individual practices and shared studio space. This exhibition showcases some of the results and provides insights into the possibilities of artistic communities. |
Only Human - Iris Hauser October 19 - November 27 |
Iris Hauser is one of Saskatchewan’s most prolific artists and exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions across the country. This exhibition explores timeless aspects of the human condition through the aegis of symbolic and metaphoric imagery. Critical to Houser’s development as an artist came after she graduated from art school in the 1970s and traveled through Europe honing the skills of figuration and hyper-realism that she has become known for. Hauser’s subjects often display complex psychological states that are set within intensely-lit spaces. Her work is dramatic; it often catches the viewer off guard and provokes reflections on presence, myth and self. |
| Leah Dorion: Country Wives August 29– 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 28 |
“ 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 19
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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 May 5 - June 19 |
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 23 – May 1 |
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 2 – March 20 |
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 3, 2010 – January 30, 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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| Personal Map: My Journey Joyful Sounds of Winter November 30 - December 31 |
Postcard Themed Member Exhibition Gallery Members Thematic Winter Exhibition |
‘Canadian Content Art Quilt Exhibition November 2 - 27 |
This impressive exhibition features a wide variety of materials and artistic styles. Each artist has visually interpreted their own experience as a western Canadian … portraying familiar sights, events, experiences, symbols or landscapes. Stylistically, each artwork reflects the artist’s current explorations or themes, as well as the unique motifs, palettes or techniques that characterize their work.Judy Weiss, the FAN organizer for ‘Canadian Content’ says, “This exhibition is very exciting for our group. We know that New Zealand has many skilled and talented fibre artists, and this exhibition establishes a new connection between our members and our southern contemporaries. We have many cultural and geographic differences, but we share a love of fibre as an interpretive medium for self-expression. We also share a common goal of promoting fibre as a contemporary art medium.”Title cards appearing with the artworks pinpoint the location of the artist within western Canada. In addition, an exhibition binder includes a biography, contact information and photos of other works by each of the artists.Viewers are encouraged to stop by the exhibition, and to give feedback to the artists in a guest book that will be on display with the artworks. To view previous FAN exhibitions, visit http://www.fibreartnetwork.com |
| The Beat Goes On: Teresa Gagne September 7 - October 30 |
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 1 - September 4 |
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 1- 31 |
Works
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 6 - 30 |
“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 1 - June 5 |
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 2- April 30 |
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 2 - 27 |
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 5 - 30 |
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 |