SPRING HOURS: TUE - FRI 12-4 SAT,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
NO PARTICULAR TOPIC
Feb 25 - March 26, 2023
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!
EMERGENCE
local high school show
April 1 - April 30, 2023
PLAINS TO PEAKS - Steve Burger
May 6 - June 4, 2023
CHROMATOPIA
Fibre Arts Network
June 10 - July 9, 2023
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
June 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
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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