SUMMER HOURS: TUE - SAT 10-4 SUN 1-4 MON - CLOSED
Exhibition Statement - Habituate, Acclimate features the artworks of two emerging Alberta photographers, Nahanni McKay and Liam Kavanagh-Bradette. Both artists have created a series that explore emerging survival dependencies necessitated by the effects that humans have had upon the environment. In the summer of 2016, McKay was working as a campground attendant at Two Jack Lake in Banff National Park when a wolf was euthanized after becoming habituated to human food. The incident had a lasting impression on the artist. She began to question the role of national parks as tourist destinations and the location of the campground within an active wildlife corridor. The title of her series, Loop 14, is a reference to the location where the wolf was shot. Her photographs pay homage to the spirit of that wolf and the five additional wolves that died of unnatural causes in Banff that summer.
Kavanagh-Bradette’s work is also related to a food supply dependency but concerning the people of Nunavut who rely on freight shipments from southern Canada to deliver essential cargo (food, goods and fuel). Since the beginning of the twentieth century, climate change has opened up the seaways and drastically changed Inuit economy and culture. Kavanagh-Bradette brings attention to this new reality through his photographs of the people working at the forefront of the change.
Habituate, Acclimate is presented by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program in partnership with Exposure: Alberta’s Photography Festival.—Shannon Bingeman, Curator
Kavanagh-Bradette’s work is also related to a food supply dependency but concerning the people of Nunavut who rely on freight shipments from southern Canada to deliver essential cargo (food, goods and fuel). Since the beginning of the twentieth century, climate change has opened up the seaways and drastically changed Inuit economy and culture. Kavanagh-Bradette brings attention to this new reality through his photographs of the people working at the forefront of the change.
Habituate, Acclimate is presented by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program in partnership with Exposure: Alberta’s Photography Festival.—Shannon Bingeman, Curator
Annual, non-juried, open exhibition courtesy of local and area artists!
Come and visit us this March to see new works form our local artists,
and also some, from artists new to the gallery.
Note: reception will be held on the 2nd Saturday on March 4th!
Come and visit us this March to see new works form our local artists,
and also some, from artists new to the gallery.
Note: reception will be held on the 2nd Saturday on March 4th!
As an artist I find myself on a continual pilgrimage of exploration and discovery. Themes, media and stylistic variations arise within my artistic practice each exploring different facets of my landscape experience. The art I work on is a melding of experiences with the external world and observations of my inner self. Lawren Harris of the Group of Seven says "A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling." The art works provide the artist and viewer with an opportunity to reflect on their own experiences of the plains to peaks landscape.
The beautifully divergent landscapes of south western Alberta inspire the human experience. Emily Carr said, "It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of." In preparing the images for this exhibition I had the opportunity to walk far and see much of the beauty we are blessed with from the Plains to the Peaks.
This final quote by Lawren Harris sums up this exhibition: "If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience." I hope you enjoy and are enriched by the works in this exhibition. Steve Burger
The beautifully divergent landscapes of south western Alberta inspire the human experience. Emily Carr said, "It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of." In preparing the images for this exhibition I had the opportunity to walk far and see much of the beauty we are blessed with from the Plains to the Peaks.
This final quote by Lawren Harris sums up this exhibition: "If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience." I hope you enjoy and are enriched by the works in this exhibition. Steve Burger
Inspired by Picasso's monochromatic works in his blue period, we instructed our membership to create two monochromatic pieces in a common theme of their choice. Each artist will be given two colour swatches to control the number and colour comprised in the exhibition. Each pair will be displayed one over the other with colour arranged to flow around the gallery in opposite directions.
This exhibition will explore colour and the moods that change as you move through the spectrum and around the room. The details of each piece and the themes presented will be visible as the viewer approaches for a closer look.
This exhibition will explore colour and the moods that change as you move through the spectrum and around the room. The details of each piece and the themes presented will be visible as the viewer approaches for a closer look.
INTERIORS - ASA
July 15 - August 13, 2023
HERE COMES THE SUN
Aug 16 - Sept 13
reception: Aug 19
annual, juried summer show - details to come
ONE ARTIST'S FOOTPRINT
Angelique Gillespie
Sept 16 - Oct 15, 2023
reception: Sept 16
SACRED
Lesley Schatz
Oct 19 - Nov 16, 2023
reception: Oct 21
"sandhills feeding" oil, 2023, Lesley Schatz
Sacred Ground means many things to many beings; means different things in different languages but the unspoken quiet in the world beyond the hum and buzz of the cities and towns tells us what Sacred Ground means by its silence:
Paintings are quiet ways to tell stories. In this collection of works I respectfully bring my passion for our beautiful and diverse world to you, my audience, who also is a part of the sacred ground, that we all might hear something in the silence. ~Lesley Schatz
Paintings are quiet ways to tell stories. In this collection of works I respectfully bring my passion for our beautiful and diverse world to you, my audience, who also is a part of the sacred ground, that we all might hear something in the silence. ~Lesley Schatz
HOME: BONDS THAT BIND
M. Eileen Murray
Nov 21 - Dec 19, 2023
reception: Nov 25
My work is an inquiry into domestic space using the language of painting and ceramics. What makes a house a home? How does one evoke a sense of history, memory, legacy, and narrative? My paintings and ceramics flirt with the line between fine art and decoration, using both trending and vintage colours, patterns, and objects that evoke the quotidian, the nostalgic, and the rituals held within domes c space. I am interested in contemporary depictions of the home found in advertising, television, and social media. Consumer culture sells the image of a home as a place of perfect harmony and family life where happy memories and boundless imagination are promised through the designer goods and curated spaces that evoke feelings of nostalgia, vintage simplicity and nostalgic elegance. My paintings play with the unattainability of these states by moving between representation and abstraction, expressing oppositions such as Beauty and ugliness; disruption and continuity; and finally through the research of both contemporary and historical paintings.
My most recent body of work is a series of large paintings depicting still-life oral arrangements. Drawing on the long history of still-life, these works continue to explore notions of excess, while also reflecting on the transience of life. Working through post COVID pandemic, these works have moved from reflections of personal loss to a pervasive experience of collective grief, anxiety, and transformation.
Throughout my work there is a fascination with representations of domesticity, and how these representations dovetail with notions of gender and femininity. I amplify these connections using a visual language that evokes the ethos of the baroque when theatricality, bravado, and material excess conveyed the emotion and movement of the domestic and the palatial. - M. Eileen Murray
My most recent body of work is a series of large paintings depicting still-life oral arrangements. Drawing on the long history of still-life, these works continue to explore notions of excess, while also reflecting on the transience of life. Working through post COVID pandemic, these works have moved from reflections of personal loss to a pervasive experience of collective grief, anxiety, and transformation.
Throughout my work there is a fascination with representations of domesticity, and how these representations dovetail with notions of gender and femininity. I amplify these connections using a visual language that evokes the ethos of the baroque when theatricality, bravado, and material excess conveyed the emotion and movement of the domestic and the palatial. - M. Eileen Murray
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