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redevelopment project, SFU is also planning to relocate its School for Contemporary Arts to Vancouver’s historic Woodward’s site at the corner of Hastings and Abbott. The university is mounting a fundraising campaign for the $45-million facility, and hopes to move into the new space by 2008.
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FIVE ARTISTS AWARDED Five applied artists and designers have received the first annual BC Creative Achievement Awards. Erin Dolman of Roberts Creek, Vance Everitt of Nelson, Jay Grandin of Vancouver, Hajnalka Mandula of Vancouver and Mark Roth of Victoria each received $5,000 and were granted the use of the British Columbia Creative Achievement Award seal to signify their creative excellence.
PAINTING COMPETITION Entries to the 2005 RBC Canadian Painting Competition must be submitted by May 13. Now in its seventh year, the competition prize has increased to a total of $55,000, with $25,000 awarded to the national winner and $15,000 each to two
honourable mentions. Regional jury panels will select five semi-finalists from each of three regions (eastern, central and western) by July 11. A national jury will determine one national winner and two honourable mentions in September. Visit www.rbc.com/paintingcompetition.
Skywalk by Derek Besant is a 14-panel frieze on the pedestri-
Deadline for nominations for the 2006 Sobey Art Award is June 1. Regional shortlists will be announced in the fall of 2005. The Sobey Art Award is awarded every two years to an artist 39 years old or younger who has exhibited work in a public or commercial art gallery in Canada in the past 18 months. The winner receives $50,000. More info at www.sobeyartaward.ca.
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Regina’s Ian Toews will be among six Canadian film/video makers representing Canada at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan. Toews is the only Saskatchewan artist to be featured at this international event. His award-winning films, Japan Kesei Line Single Take and Four Corners are being screened continuously for six months until September 25. More than 120 countries and international organizations are taking part in the expo, which is expected to attract 15 million visitors.
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Calgary’s current road-building spree is proving to be a boon for local artists — five public art installations worth $160,000 were completed in 2004, and the city’s budget for public art has almost doubled this year to $300,000. Under the city’s new public art policy one per cent of capital projects over $1 million is designated for public art. The budget for art typically includes design, fabrication, materials, equipment, installation and artist fees. The competitions are open to any artist who lives
A proposed new art centre to be developed by Simon Fraser University and the Bill Reid Foundation is intended to promote understanding of the history and principles of Northwest Coast indigenous art. A teaching and research facility that will emphasize digital libraries and archives, the Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies will be located in SFU’s downtown Harbour Centre campus. As part of a major urban
KAG UPGRADE Thanks to a mechanical systems upgrade and an emergency preparedness plan, Kelowna Art Gallery may
ACHIEVEMENTS: REBECCA BELMORE Canada’s representative to the Venice Biennale of Visual Art,
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Thrilled to learn last May about being chosen to represent Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Visual Art, Rebecca Belmore is no longer overwhelmed at the news. When asked recently how she felt about the honour of going to one of the world’s most prestigious contemporary art events, Belmore deadpanned, “it has its moments.” Disregarding the flurry of attention she will be getting at the biennale, Belmore quickly turned to what she Rebecca Belmore most wants to do — produce art. www.gallerieswest.ca
soon be showing category A exhibits. The gallery’s exhibit schedule is set two years in advance, but executive director Dona Moore says the upgrades that are now in the works will eventually allow the gallery to bring in top-tier exhibits. There are only 39 category A galleries in Canada, she says.
STATUE VANDALIZED Vandals attacked the Baggage Handler, a statue by artist Michael Hermesh, several times after it was installed late last fall in Penticton, BC. The statue depicting a nude man, known locally as “Frank,” has since been removed due to security concerns. Media stories about the conThe vandalized Baggage Handler by Michael Hermesh made international news.
troversial artwork and its removal have been circulating worldwide.
FUND CREATED A new arts and culture endowment fund in British Columbia is starting off with $25 million to help encourage arts organizations throughout the province to create their own endowment funds. There will be a primary focus on matching new funds from private-sector donors to leverage grants. Michael Audain, a well-known supporter of the arts, will be the founding chair of the new BC Arts Renaissance Fund. The Province of British Columbia has approved the $25-million grant to the Vancouver Foundation, which will use the grant to establish an endowment and development fund to support the arts in all regions of the province. Application forms will likely be available during the summer, with a submission deadline in early fall and decisions announced in December. Also in BC, the Olympics-related 2010 LegaciesNow society has announced $12 million in ArtsNow funding to be made available to communities and organizations across the province. More information at www.2010legaciesnow.com, or by calling 604-659-1400.
FLORENCE BIENNALE Calgary artist and sculptor Brian Pawlak’s work will be on display in December 2005 at the Florence Biennale, an international exhibition of contemporary art in Italy. The biennale is an official partner in the United Nations Dialogue Among Civiliza-
The First Nations artist has been busy since last summer on the video art installation she will be taking to Venice. “Video is new for me,” says Belmore who is known for her multidisciplinary practices including art performances, installations and objects. “I have done bits and pieces with video but usually in the context of my performance pieces.” She has hired Winnipeg filmmaker Noam Gonick to assist with the technical details of her production. Not wanting to give too much away, Belmore will only say that her biennale installation is about water. “Venice has an international audience and I want to speak to them. Water is an issue that affects all of us and the need for fresh water — fresh, fresh water.” Belmore is known for political work: “I address First Nations’ political and historical situations,” she says. But this time she says she is taking a different approach. www.gallerieswest.ca
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Bronze sculptor Don Begg and wife Shirley in their studio;
(inset) Maquette of Colonel It is a noteworthy feat to be prolific when Macleod statue. you work on a monumental scale, but bronze sculptor Don Begg is just that: 9 of his larger-than-life sculptures were unveiled in 2004, and eight the year before. Since 1970, Don and his wife Shirley Begg have operated Studio West Bronze Foundry & Gallery in Cochrane, Alberta. To date, Begg has 22 outdoor public sculptures on view in Calgary alone. On September 1, he adds to that number with the unveiling of a 13-foot tribute to Colonel Macleod, founder of Fort Macleod and patriarch of Canada’s mounted police force. Sitting atop a six-foot plinthe, the larger-than-lifesize statue — a gift of the RCMP Veterans Association, Calgary chapter, to the people of Alberta in celebration of the province’s centennial — will stand in a newly created plaza at Fort Calgary surrounded by storyboards telling the colonel’s impressive story. Also in September, another 13-foot Begg sculpture depicting a military officer on horseback will be unveiled in Edmonton. In the summer, Begg has four unveilings in Calgary and Ontario, including one of a series of sculptures commissioned for Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School in Okotoks, Alberta, to commemorate students lost in an avalanche in 2003.
“The piece is much more poetic, not as overtly political. It’s an artistic statement.” A 1984 graduate of the Ontario College of Art, Belmore moved to Thunder Bay where she had grown up. “I have been lucky to practice as a full-time artist since 1987,” she says, adding that she was helped by several Ontario Arts Council grants. Belmore’s work soon began to receive international notice and has appeared in places as diverse as Tiajuana, Mexico; St. Louis, Missouri; Quebec City; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Tokyo. She moved to Vancouver in 2001. “I wanted a change,” Belmore says. Her work continues to build upon itself. “One work leads to another. The work is very much connected although the medium might change.” Her broad themes include man’s relationship with nature and the environment, and life and death. Summing up her art, Belmore says: “This is me trying to understand my life and the world I inhabit.” — Beverly Cramp Summer 2005 Galleries West 11
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tions effort to open new doors for learning, understanding, and peace among people and nations. Pawlak works in stone, bronze, watercolours and drawings. More info at www.brianpawlakmfa.com.
ASA TRAVELLING SHOW The Alberta Society of Artists 75th Anniversary Show, Memory & Identity, shows at the Crowsnest Pass Allied Arts Association gallery in Blairmore April 30 to May 28. It will also be at the Leighton Centre in Calgary October 28 to December 17 before heading to Grande Prairie February 24 to April 9, 2006.
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Landscape as Muse, season two, will begin production across Western Canada and two northern territories in June. Season one was broadcast on the Bravo channel over the winter and begins airing on SCN in Saskatchewan in May. The series’ sec-
ond season will also feature Saskatchewan artists working in the province’s unique and remote geographical areas. Visit www.291filmcompany.ca.
EMMA LAKE TRIBUTE Kenderdine Art Gallery in Saskatoon is showing Lake Front: The Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops April 29 to June 26. The exhibition examines the successes and shortcomings of the workshops over the past five decades. Each year about 30 artists, many of whom are represented in the University of Saskatchewan Art Collection as well as in collections across the country, register for the workshops.
CHANGES TO GRANTS Following a series of public meetings in 13 locations across Canada last fall, the Visual Arts Section of the Canada Council is proposing to overhaul its granting criteria, levels of support and the process of peer
ACHIEVEMENTS: PAUL WONG Winner, 2005 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
Paul Wong’s love affair with video art is as strong today as it was in the early 1970s when, as a teenager, he was one of the first people to use a portable video camera. “It was a Sony Rover 3400 model,” Wong recalls of the black and white 'portapak' that captivated him and became his partner in seeing and reflecting the world. “It recorded sight and sound and the instantaneous quality of the medium was magic. I could record something, view it immediately and, if I didn’t like it, re-record.” Video artist Paul Wong.
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assessment. Many artists fear that the council is shifting the focus of granting criteria away from the creative process toward market-certified product. Opponents of the proposed
changes say the new criteria will undermine principles of support for autonomous artistic practice. There was no change to the criteria for the April 1 application deadline. The Canada Council will announce the new program this spring, and states it is confident in finding a solution that addresses the concerns of the artists as well as the values and constraints of the council.
Wong explored sound, music, fashion, narrative, spoken word, written word, choreography, theatricality and much more. “I have a large vocabulary,” he says. He uses video art to, “be poetic and experimental — to go outside the box and critique television and pop culture. I’m anti-TV,” he says. “(Video art) has taken me from my youth to more sophisticated, mature reflections. I’ve covered angst, sexuality, identity, drugs, rock & roll, ethnicity, health and death.” In 1973, Wong co-founded the artist-run centre Video-In with the intent to wrest control of video images away from commercial television broadcasters. “We made it possible to have affordable video production outside the confines of the TV industry. We were way ahead of our time.” As a self-taught artist, Wong went on to become a leading pioneer of video art. He was at the center of a controversy in 1984 when the Vancouver Art Gallery refused to exhibit Confused: Sexual Views, a work they had commissioned to open the gallery’s new video exhibition space. Wong sued, lost the court case, but won the war years later when the VAG eventually showed Confused and put the sexually explicit artwork into its permanent collection. Wong’s work is also included in major collections around the world including the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The rest of the world has finally caught up with Paul Wong and his ideas. Thirty years on from his Video-In days, he says we are in the midst of a camcorder revolution. For two years he taught 13- to 18-year-olds about video art in Vancouver. And for the past year he has been teaching an advanced video projects course in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Toronto. “I’m seeing a generation that was born with the remote control in their hand. They have no second thoughts about digital technology. Camcorders are cheap and better than anything we ever had.” Over the next year, Wong will be working on shows in Beijing, China and London, England. — Beverly Cramp www.gallerieswest.ca
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ART WALKS AND FESTIVALS •The Okanagan Potters Association will present the third biennial Kelowna Clay Festival August 19 to 23 at the Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna’s Cultural District. Visiting artists include Phil Rogers (UK), Trudy Golley (Alberta), Hank Murrow (US), Linda Doherty (BC), and Susy Siegele and Mike Haley (US). For information visit www.members.shaw.ca/okpanews/ clayfest05.html. •From May 5 to August 31 visitors to Kelowna can watch 12 sculptors at work at a venue in the city’s Cultural District. The Connecting Links project will see five of the sculptures created over the summer chosen by the public and given a permanent place in a sculpture garden being developed downtown. Members of the
Kelowna Sculptors Network Society are hosting the event to celebrate the city’s centennial. Contact the sculptors’ network at lynbee@shaw.ca or 250-491-4942. •Kelowna-based visual artist Don Makela is working on a series of large murals for the City of Kelowna’s Centennial Art Project. Makela paints on 10-foot-high, 32and 40-square-foot sound-suppressant panels to create his murals from photographs depicting local aquatic activity from 1905 to the present day. •The third annual Quadra Island Studio Tour will take place June 4 and 5, with participation by more than 30 local artists. Quadra Island, a 12-minute ferry trip from Campbell River, is known as the jewel of the Discovery Islands. Visit www.quadraislandarts.com.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS The Centennial Mural Mosaic entitled Buffalo Twins was unveiled on April 2 at West Edmonton Mall. Incorporating the work of more than 250 artists, the mosaic includes nearly 350 paintings and was a joint effort of Alberta and Saskatchewan, two provinces that were almost one named Buffalo back in 1905. View the mural as well as its summer tour schedule at http://www.muralmosaic.com
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Saskatchewan The Province of Saskatchewan has earmarked up to $75,000 each for the creation and installation of four permanent artworks to celebrate the Saskatchewan Centennial 2005. The artworks will be installed in La Ronge, Estevan, Yorkton and Lloydminster, which are considered regional points of entry into the province. Visit www.artsboard.sk.ca/news/pdf/commission_terms.pdf. From Simple Truth Publications is a book of poetry, Happy Centennial Saskatchewan, celebrating Saskatchewan’s 100th birthday. Poet David Bouchard chronicles the history and heritage of the province in words, and artist Hans Herold contributes 14 Saskatchewan scenes reproduced in colour. The book sells for $23.49. Call 306-352-3737. At the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, 100 Years of Saskatchewan Art explores the province’s art history through the eyes of its artists until May 23. Works from the Mendel’s permanent collection are organized around three themes: Saskatchewan as Folk, Urban Prairie, and Contested Horizons. Interspersed throughout the exhibition are quotes from some of Saskatchewan’s most acclaimed authors. Saskatchewan has more artists per capita than anywhere else in Canada, according to the Mendel. Visit www.mendel.ca. www.gallerieswest.ca
•BAZAART, Regina’s annual outdoor sale of arts and crafts, takes place at the MacKenzie Art Gallery June 18. Call 306-584-4295. •Edmontonians can see art in action during the 10th annual Whyte Avenue Art Walk July 15 to 17. Sponsored by The Paint Spot art supply store, the event features more than 250 artists displaying and making art on the streets of Old Strathcona, transforming the popular gathering area into an outdoor studio and marketplace. Call 780-432-0240 or 1800-363-0546, or email info@paintspot.ca. •The annual Gallery Calorie Tour of Uptown 17th Avenue in Calgary, a self-guided walking tour of restaurants and galleries, takes place June 11. Sponsored by the Artemis Foundation (formerly Women in Motion Society), all proceeds go to the Safe
Haven Foundation of Canada. Visit www.artemiscalgary.com or www.gallerycalorie.com. •The Works Art & Design Festival in Edmonton is celebrating its 20th anniversary June 24 to July 6. This year the festival returns to the newly designed Sir Winston Churchill Square. The Works is the largest art and design festival in North America. Over the years artists and designers from every continent have been featured in more than 630 exhibits in 450 venues throughout one square mile of Edmonton’s downtown, and 4.5 million visitors have attended the festival. More info at www.theworks.ab.ca. •The Salt Spring Island Studio Tour, a self-guided tour of 42 artisans’ studios on the eclectic British Columbia island, includes everything from fine art to folk art, from wood
Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus in Saskatchewan will host a reunion and anniversary open house August 6 and 7 to celebrate the provincial centennial, the 70th anniversary of the Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus, and the 50th anniversary of the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop. Visit www.emmalake.usask.ca/1events.html. Alberta Until January 2006 the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is showing The Lives and Legacy of Peter and Catharine Whyte. As the founders and namesakes of the museum, Peter and Catharine Whyte played a central role in shaping the art history of Alberta and Western Canada. Visit www.whyte.org/program/exhibits.html. The Calgary chapter of the Federation of Canadian Artists is hosting a national juried show celebrating Alberta’s 100th birthday. Art Premiers Lorne Calvert and Ralph Fusion: A Collaboration of CanadiKlein painting images for the an Artists is on display at GainsborCentennial Mural Mosaic, a joint ough Galleries in Calgary May 7 to Saskatchewan / Alberta project. 13. The show then travels to the FCA Gallery in Vancouver May 24 to June 5. Visit www.fcacalgary.ca. A new art book published in March, A is Alberta: A Centennial Alphabet, features paintings by artist Robert McInnis and text by Ken Tingley, an Edmonton historian. The book is published by Simple Truth Publications and retails for $24.95. A centennial art book called Alberta Remembers: Recalling Our Rural Roots will be published by Red Deer Press in August. Illustrated by Lethbridge artist Karen Brownlee, the 144-page book contains 124 colour reproductions of her watercolours. Brownlee has also mounted a traveling centennial exhibit, Back Home 2005. Visit people.uleth.ca/~karen.brownlee. www.gallerieswest.ca
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bowls to baskets, from jam, bread and cheese to jewellery and more. The tour season runs May 20 to September 30. More info at www.saltspringstudiotour.com. •The inaugural Richmond Outdoor
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NEW AND NOTABLE •Arts on Atlantic Gallery has opened in Calgary’s Inglewood arts district. The gallery specializes in the book arts and also showcases hand-blown glass, origami, oil, watercolour and acrylic paintings and photography. •Urban Shaman Gallery in Winnipeg has moved on McDermot Avenue, next door to aceartinc. •Woodlands Gallery in Winnipeg has moved from the Convention Centre to Academy Road. The gallery will be showing more contemporary original artwork by Manitoba and Canadian artists. •Kensington Fine Art in Calgary has relocated to Gallery Row on 11 Avenue SW. In Calgary since 1968, Kensington Fine Art Gallery features original 21st century Canadian art, including bronze and raku pieces. •Masters Gallery in Calgary has moved from the Uptown 17 district to the 4 Street SW Mission district. The gallery specializes in high-quality Canadian historical and contemporary art. •Heather Konschuh, a fourth-year glass major at the Alberta College of Art & Design, received a first-place award from NICHE magazine for her entry entitled Ewer in the category of Glass: Functional. •Nunavut Gallery in Winnipeg is moving in May to a larger location on Corydon Avenue. The gallery is also releasing two rare works by Sheojuk Etidlooie. See Previews & Profiles, page 29. •The Banff Centre has appointed Vincent Varga to the newly created position of Executive Artistic Director, Fine Arts, overseeing programming, events and exhibitions in visual arts and new media, among other duties. Varga was most recently the executive director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, but got his start at the Glenbow Museum and was a coordinator of the 1988 Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary. •Birchwood Gallery in Winnipeg is moving to a new location on Taylor Heather Konschuh: Ewer, Avenue. Birchwood specializes in originals, blown, lathe cut and hand prints, sculptures and bronzes, featuring a polished glass, 31 cm x 12 cm 16 Galleries West Summer 2005
crafts is planned as a free annual event. •The 10th annual Royal Roads University Mother’s Day Paint-In is held May 8 with more than 100 artists and craftspeople selling their work on the lawns and in the Italian and Japanese gardens on the campus near Victoria. More than 5,000 people are expected to enjoy the exhibits, food, gardens and entertainment. More at www.royalroads.ca/paintin. •The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria hosts the 18th Annual Moss Street Paint-In July 16 from noon to 4 pm. The not-for-profit event features invited professional and emerging artists from Victoria and region who demonstrate their art to 30,000 visitors walking Moss Street from Fort to Dallas Road. Call 250-384-4171
ext. 248 or visit www.aggv.bc.ca/programs-mspi.asp. •The New Gallery in Calgary is celebrating its 30th anniversary as one of Western Canada's oldest artist-run centres. First known as the Clouds & Water Gallery and Visual Production Society, over the years the gallery has presented the work of more than 1,000 artists, and it continues to provide a forum for experimental and performative contemporary art.
TALL SHIPS The Island Illustrators Society and the Victoria Tall Ships Society have invited a group of artists to record the Victoria Tall Ships Festival June 23 to 26. Selected artists and photographers will record the event through painting, sketching and photography, and the body of work created by these artists will be available for submission to a juried retrospective exhibition and sale to be held in the fall of 2005.
large selection of Manitoba and international artists. •Daniel Lindley is the new owner of Image 54 Gallery in Calgary. Lindley is looking for new artists and expanding the focus of the gallery from prints to include Canadian artists with a particular focus on Alberta.
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PUBLIC GALLERIES PREVIEW •Winnipeg Art Gallery presents figure ground: paintings and drawings of Ivan Eyre from April 29 to August 28. Over the past five decades, Manitoba artist Ivan Eyre has become one of Canada’s most
respected artists. See the feature article, page 36. •Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession at the Vancouver Art Gallery June 18 to September 18 is the first presentation in Vancouver in almost 30 years of work by 19th century sculptor Auguste Rodin. This major exhibition offers a complete retrospective of the artist’s career and includes more than 60 bronzes, from small studies to monumental works. •The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria hosts Destinations, Navigations, Illuminations April 8 to July 10. This retrospective exhibition of works from the 1960s to the ‘90s celebrates the career and achievements of one of Victoria’s most loved and colourful personalities, master printmaker Pat Martin Bates. Honoured as “Lady Print” in the UK, Bates is known across the world for her remarkable and inventive printmaking techniques. •Daphne Odjig: Four Decades of
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Marcia Harris April 28 - May 15
Joice M. Hall Aug 25 - Sept 11
Jane Everett May 19 - June 15
Bill Wilkinson
Sandi Ralph •Calgary’s PhotoSpace Gallery has relocated to Inglewood, where it shares space with Stone Fish Arts. PhotoSpace supports, displays and promotes original fine art photography. •Myken Woods Fine Art in Calgary is planning a July move to the second level of Art Central, on the corner of 7 Avenue and Centre Street SW. The gallery will share adjacent space with Cherry Deacon and Terryann Broadhurst. •TU Gallery opened in April in the Edmonton Arts District. The gallery showcases handcrafted furniture along with photographic art and currently represents 20 furniture makers and 11 art photographers. •The Summit Gallery of Fine Art is a new addition to the Banff gallery scene. Opening on Banff Avenue in May, it is owned by Emily Barnett and Bart Habermiller of Skew Gallery in Calgary. •The Fritz Gallery brings fine art to Red Deer in a home-like setting. The gallery offers art-inspired furniture as well as paintings, sculpture, pottery and jewellery. •The new Saddlery Gallery in the former SNAP Gallery location in Edmonton takes its name from the Saddlery Building in which it is housed. •Anna Ostberg has moved her Purple Door studio to 2108 - 18 Street NW in Calgary, around the corner from the Peters Gallery framing annex, and has opened the Ruberto Ostberg Gallery in the same location. •Ian Tan Gallery has opened on Granville Street in Vancouver with contemporary Canadian art by established artists and some recently discovered, including works in glass, ceramics, bronze, painting and photography. •The Moore Gallery opens in the former Caswell Lawrence space in Victoria in May. Owner Caroline Moore can be reached at gallery@themooregallery.com. •Emily Carr Institute has dedicated one of its visual arts studios to internationally-renowned artist Gordon Smith and his wife, Marion Smith, both lifelong supporters of arts and arts education. •Aron Hill has been accepted as one of 29 students into the post-graduate program at the prestigious Goldsmith College in London, England for study this fall. A 2000 graduate of ACAD, Hill is represented by Herringer-Kiss in Calgary and Jennifer Kostuik, Vancouver. www.gallerieswest.ca
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Prints is on view May 29 to August 21 at the Kamloops Art Gallery. One of Canada’s best-known Aboriginal artists, Odjig works in different media, including oil on masonite, pastel on paper, acrylic on paper and coloured pencils. See the feature article, page 50. •In the tradition of William Van Horne, the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is inviting Canadian artists to ride the rails and sleep in Rocky Mountain hotels this year. In summer 2006 the museum plans to mount a major exhibition, Views from the Line, of the works created from this artistic expedition. The concept dates back to the 1880s, when
Van Horne, general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, invited artists to ride the train and create new works with the goal of sparking tourism. The CPR eventually commissioned or purchased at least 55 landscape paintings. A complementary exhibition of 30 vintage CPR images, The Real West: Celebrating 100 Years of Alberta and Saskatchewan, is on at Stone Fish Arts in Calgary May 31 to June 30.
PAINTING ON THE EDGE The third annual Painting on the Edge competition deadline for entries is June 1. The Federation of
IN MEMORIAM Peter Aspell 1918 - 2004 West Coast artist Peter Aspell died of cancer in December at age 86. A well-respected figurative painter who made his home on Pender Island, Aspell’s work was represented in the National Gallery of Canada, the Stern Collection in Chicago and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Recent shows in Vancouver included exhibitions at the Buschlen Mowatt Gallery and the Monte Clark Gallery. His work was also included in the VAG’s A Modern Life: Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960. In the late 1940s, Lawren Harris of the Group of Seven chose Aspell’s work to reprePeter Aspell (1918 - 2004) sent young Canadian painters in postwar Prague. He was included in Ian McNairn’s Seven West Coast Painters exhibition organized by UBC’s Fine Arts Gallery in 1959. Aspell trained at the Vancouver School of Art from 1937 to 1941, where he became friends with Jack Shadbolt, an early contemporary. He also studied at the Academie de Ghent in Belgium and taught at UBC. During a recent show, Aspell was quoted as saying, “My present figurative direction is in the memory portrait. Ever since I was a child I have been impressed by the psychic sense of people around me. The distilled image revealed by their movement and expression shows the hidden workings of their soul.” Roman Kowal 1923 - 2004 Winnipeg artist Roman Kowal has died at age 82. Kowal was best known for the bronze and marble sculpture commemorating the 1932 - 33 famine-genocide in the Ukraine, which stands in front of Winnipeg’s city hall, and for his religious pieces in stained glass and mosaics — his work adorns 18 Ukrainian churches across Western Canada. In 1991 Edmonton’s St. John’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral spent $132,000 for rare stained-glass window icons depicting the life of Christ, the Virgin Mary and other religious symbols created by Kowal over a five18 Galleries West Summer 2005
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Canadian Artists competition is sponsored by Opus Framing & Art Supplies and is open to artists working in all painting, printmaking and drawing media. A total of $7,500 in prizes is being offered, and an exhibition of winning entries will be held at the Federation Gallery in Vancouver August 30 to September 18. More at www.artists.ca/edge.
ART FOR WETLANDS Darren Haley of Calgary is one of the Canadian wildlife artists chosen for the 2005 Ducks Unlimited National Art Print Portfolio. Prints of two Haley paintings will be featured in
fundraising dinner auctions and other events held across Canada to raise money for wetland conservation. More info at 204-467-3252.
Upcoming Exhibition
Correction In a story in our last issue, “Sell is Such a Strong Word,” Calgary-based consultant Diane Burroughes was incorrectly quoted. The correct quote should have been: “Some faculty members feel they just need to teach art. But they are already getting paid a good salary. Their students on the other hand have to make their own way. Without business smarts, what will be the retention of artists doing their work 10 years after graduation?”
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year period. In 1998 the Ukrainian Museum of Canada hosted The Art of Roman Kowal, a retrospective exhibition of his work over a 50-year career in Canada. Reta Cowley 1910 - 2004 Saskatoon artist Reta Cowley passed away in November 2004 after a long illness. Born 1910 in Moose Jaw, Cowley’s distinctive landscape paintings earned her Canada-wide recognition as a watercolourist. When she finished high school in 1929, Cowley came to Saskatoon to study at Normal School, and was a teacher for the next eight years. Cowley didn’t begin painting until she was nearly 30, but after brief explorations of cubist paintings and structurist reliefs, she began interpreting the landscape. She moved with her husband, Fred, to Saskatoon in 1945. After studying art at the University of Saskatchewan summer art school, the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop where she was influenced by Augustus Kenderdine, and the Banff School of Fine Arts where Walter Phillips was an influence, she began to focus her landscape painting on capturing the moment. Her work is included in many collections across Canada. She was presented with the Saskatchewan Art Board’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 1990. Ill health prevented Cowley from painting since 1991.
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PREVIEWS & PROFILES A selective guide to summer exhibitions across Western Canada
DORIS McCARTHY ALBERTA: May 7 - 21, Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont, Banff Springs Hotel, Banff.
By Brian Brennan When Doris McCarthy was a 16-year-old high school graduate in Toronto, Arthur Lismer — a member of the famed Group of Seven — encouraged her to become a “great painter of Canada.” Seventy-five years later, at age 91, she told a Globe and Mail reporter that she was still working toward that goal. “I have painted in every province in Canada, on purpose,” she said, “and there’s no part of this country that I have not been inspired by.” Today, as she approaches her 95th birthday on July 7, she shows no sign of slowing down. Not only is McCarthy still criss-crossing the country, finding inspira20 Galleries West Summer 2005
TOP: Doris McCarthy painting the Irish countryside during a 2004 excursion to Ireland's west coast.
tion in the outdoors for her landscapes, but she ABOVE: Medicine Lake, 2000, is also taking her brushes and paints to places oil on canvas, 36" x 48" like Ireland and Russia, leaving behind her busy home life in Toronto which involves — among other things — preparing for gallery talks, jurying awards, taking on all comers at Scrabble, and mixing up batches of homemade rhubarb wine. “At home, it is very difficult for me to find the time and detachment to paint,” she says. Her constantly updated website, www.dorismccarthy.com, depicts an adventurous soul who will spend one week driving down the coast of British Columbia to translate ocean views into paint, and the next week flying by helicopter into the back country of the Canadian Rockies to do some sketching in the mountains. McCarthy finds that getting out of the city is the best way for her to connect www.gallerieswest.ca
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Upcoming John Di Castri: Early Works, May 8 - 28 Harry Heine (1928-2004): A Major Retrospective, June 7 - 25
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with her muse. “All I need is to be away from people,” she says. Many of her trips have been to Western Canada, where the prairies, lakes, forests, mountains and seascapes serve to fill up her canvases with landscape images born of passion, wonder, affection and recognition. “I am increasingly familiar with the forms of particular mountains — whether it’s Mount Assiniboine, or Three Sisters or whatever — because they have an individuality with which I have become familiar, which I love.” She became a painter by accident. Her first ambition was to become a high school teacher and a writer. However, because she finished high school at age 16 — too young to enter university — she put in a year at what is now the Ontario College of Art and Design, and got hooked. Lismer, who was vice-principal of the college, took her on as a teaching assistant for his Saturday painting classes at what is now the Art Gallery of Ontario, and when she graduated from college she became a full-time art teacher at Toronto’s Central Technical School. Forty years of teaching at Central Tech gave her the freedom to paint whenever she wanted, and the money to buy on the Scarborough Bluffs, within sight of Lake Ontario, a five-hectare property that she whimsically named Fool’s Paradise because she paid $1,250 — more than a year’s salary — for it. She built on it a small cottage that has since grown into a comfortable two-bedroom home with a studio, reflecting pond and large garden. “This place is my root,” she says. “On the other hand, I have always tried to hold it lightly.” She has bequeathed the property to the Ontario Heritage Foundation, which will take possession of it after she dies and operate the site as a retreat for Canadian artists, musicians and writers. Before that happens, however, McCarthy has much to do. This summer, her itinerary takes her to Alberta for the grand opening of the Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont’s new gallery on the lobby level of the Banff Springs Hotel. The featured exhibition, opening May 7 and on public display for two weeks, features 40 of McCarthy’s landscapes and embraces more than 40 years of her career. The paintings focus primarily on Western Canada and on the Arctic. “She was the first woman painter who really opened up the Arctic,” says gallery proprietor Wendy Wacko, a Jasper artist and filmmaker. Some of the paintings in the Banff show are from trips Wacko has taken with McCarthy over the past 28 years. A student of McCarthy during the 1960s, Wacko was reunited with her former teacher on a plane trip from Toronto to Edmonton during the mid-1970s, and since then they have spent a month every year painting in different parts of the world. Last year’s trip took them to the rugged west coast of Ireland, where they had the use of a studio that began life in the 15th century as a barn. The trip, as is the case with all of her painting safaris, reinvigorated McCarthy. “By the end of the first week she had thrown away her cane and was using her wheelchair just as a prop,” says Wacko. When her health is robust, McCarthy paints every day, and is currently producing between 80 and 100 pieces annually that are of exhibition quality. Her most recent show of new work was in February and March at Toronto’s Wynick/Tuck Gallery, which regularly represents her. In Western Canada, her principal dealer is Wacko’s Mountain Galleries, which leases space at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge and at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, as well as at the Banff Springs. Her recent visit to Alberta has rekindled for McCarthy a love affair with the West that began with her first trip here in 1937, when she travelled by train to Jasper and spent two weeks at Maligne Lake. Since retiring from Central Tech in 1972, she has come west almost every year to paint in such places as Lake Louise, Fort McMurray and the Badlands near Drumheller. “The Prairies have their own magic, it’s really a land of sky,” she says. “And the ranch country south of Calgary, I’m a real sucker for it. I just love it.” She says she has always had a great affection for Calgary, where she spent the first two years of her life before her engineer father moved the family to Toronto. “Every time I’m there I wonder why would someone want to live anywhere else? It’s a really beautiful city, so close to the mountains.” Represented by Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont, Jasper, Whistler, Banff; Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto.
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ALTHEA THAUBERGER BRITISH COLUMBIA: A Memory Lasts Forever, a co-production of the Berkeley Art Museum and Presentation House Gallery, April 30-June 5, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, and July 14 - August 21, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, as part of the nationally touring Sobey Art Award exhibition.
Represented by: Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver. Helga Pakasaar is Curator at Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver.
PHOTO BY MICHELE DI MENNA
PHOTOS FAR RIGHT: COURTESY PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY
By Helga Pakasaar Althea Thauberger began her art practice as a photographer and now produces primarily film and video. Born in 1970 in Saskatoon, she currently lives in Vancouver. Thauberger has exhibited extensively since graduating with an MFA from the University of Victoria in 2002, and she has already gained international critical acclaim. In 2004 she was one of five artists short-listed for the Sobey Art Award, the pre-eminent prize for young Canadian artists. Thauberger’s artworks are often concerned with the social document and self expression, and allude to popular forms of music and drama. In addition to contemporary modes, her influences include the histories of painting and photography. Her portraits LEFT: Althea of social landscapes tend to locate people in natThauberger ural settings, as in the recent work, Songstress, and a new project set in a remote wilderness RIGHT: Althea community of tree-planters. Thauberger: A Thauberger’s subjects are often adolescent Memory Lasts Forever, girls in emotional states ranging from abjection 2004, production to euphoria, as with the latest media work, A stills, DVD installation
Memory Lasts Forever. This piece is a collaboration with Jessica Griffiths, Gemma Isaac, Kaoru Matsushita and Natalie Needham, the performers who developed their own characters, costumes, script and songs from improvised sessions. “Their teenage energy became an important part of the work,” says the artist. Here a story about confronting death is told in four different ways, expressed through the anxieties and fantasies of teenage girls. The narrative is driven by the evocative power of song, which the artist sees as “the most immediate and ultimate way of expressing yourself artistically…. singing affirms the desire for communication.” Filmed in a North Vancouver home, the piece is cinematically lit and shot as a stage production played out in real time. The contrived footage resembles soap opera, music video, slasher movies and musical theatre. Typical of her videos that feature improvised performances by amateurs, the film seems to constantly shift between a sense of fiction and documentary realism. Thauberger’s collaborative processes empower the performers. “The unexpected things that other people bring to the work become crucial to the content – they develop ideas in ways that I would never be able to myself.” Two new projects involve collaborations with community choirs, a devotional choir in Montreal and a choir of military spouses in San Diego who will write their own music. “For these projects, I am working not only with the musical content but in the social and spectacular aspects of performance.” In this way, she takes aesthetics into everyday life and becomes an instigator of social interaction.
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GEORGE WEBER
DAVID LANGEVIN
ALBERTA: May 14 - 31, Scott Gallery,
ALBERTA: May 13 - 29, Alicat Gallery,
Edmonton; May 14 - 21, Willock and Sax
Bragg Creek. SASKATCHEWAN: opens
Gallery, Waterton Lakes.
June 18, Pacif'ic Gallery, Saskatoon
By rejecting the Group of Seven “empty” landscape, George Weber’s soft, clean-lined serigraphs anticipate the interest of a much-later generation in the interaction of nature and culture. He records human impact on the prairie: a sundance among the Peigan, pumpjacks and grain elevators, irrigation waterworks along stream and river courses. His print of the Athabasca Glacier in the 1950s can now prove, by comparison, the effects of global warming. His Edmonton and Calgary skylines at night and by day glorify modernism in architecture, if not through his own aesthetic. Raised in Germany, trained in Munich in wallpaper design and display, he studied composition, colour and commercial silkscreen techniques in Toronto from 1930 to ‘34. George Weber: His work was traditional, conventional, illustrative; his attitude was workmanlike, Sturgeon River, 1980, serious and focused, and for 50-plus years he promoted the practice of fine-art serigraph, edition of 35, printmaking in Edmonton. Weber passed away at age 95 in 2002, leaving behind 13" x 10 1/4" a body of serigraphs documenting Alberta’s transformation from depression-era wild west to oil-rich urban prosperity. Significant in the field of printmaking, he maintained his day job as a commercial artist while teaching, writing, lecturing, and producing prints throughout the province. — Mary Joyce
In 1992, David Langevin moved to Kamloops for art. Born and raised in Quebec, he had studied art education at McGill, finished a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Ottawa, and had been teaching and painting landscapes and figures. A friend told him his landscapes didn’t look like anything found in la belle province, but instead captured the expansiveness of the west. Langevin took that as a sign and decamped to central BC, where he’s been painting full time since 1994. He works backwards, first imagining a setting, then going out driving or hiking looking for the space, the sky, the trees, the colours that he’s seen in his head. His landscapes capture a keen sense of place, from the harsh coast of Tofino to the spare, arid grasslands of Kamloops, to the soaring fir trees of the BC Rockies. In all of it, he works with a depth of light that reflects his early training in Baroque technique. Langevin has also gone back to figurative painting, producing a cache of dramatic oils, drawings, and studies. But the landscapes still occupy most of his time, now with a focus on foreboding skies and lots of texture. “I’m thinking ‘big’” he says. — Jill Sawyer
Represented by: Scott Gallery, Edmonton; Willock and Sax Gallery, Waterton Lakes. Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, has a study collection of Weber prints.
Represented by: Alicat Gallery, Bragg Creek, Pim Sekeris: Gas-
AB; West End Gallery, Edmonton, Victoria;
town, 2004, oil on
Hampton Gallery, Kamloops, BC; White Rock
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Gallery, White Rock, BC; Adele Campbell Gallery, Whistler, BC; Pacif’ic Gallery, Saska-
PIM SEKERIS BRITISH COLUMBIA: Pim Sekeris Oil Paintings, June 2 - 28, Jacana Gallery, Vancouver
Holland-born and educated, Pim Sekeris was immersed in the tradition of the 17th century Dutch school of realist landscape painting before coming to Canada. Balanced composition and a fine eye for translating light to paint on canvas mark his work. Sekeris compares realism to abstraction by saying it’s not the image that is important, it’s the vision. “I’m not just painting a picture,” he says from his studio in 24 Galleries West Summer 2005
Montreal. “That’s the tricky part of being a realist. I’m true to nature but I’m also going for a personal vision, capturing a mood, a feeling. And I’m working with light to achieve my inner perception.” In addition to wilderness and country scenes, Sekeris paints cityscapes of locales such as Montreal, New York City, Quebec City, Toronto and Vancouver. “Vancouver has exceptional light. It gives great shadows.” Sekeris is particularly drawn to Vancouver’s old architecture and its colourful buildings. But more than specifics, he goes back to his goal of composing “a certain feeling.” He says: “Basically what I paint is solitude. There may be people in my paintings but solitude is what I’m depicting.” — Beverly Cramp
toon; Birchwood Gallery, Yellowknife.
David Langevin: Vertical Transparent Rocks, 2005, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 40"
Represented by: Jacana Gallery, Vancouver; Galerie Brigitte Desroches and Galeries d’Art du Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal; Robert Mede Gallery, Toronto; and Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York. www.gallerieswest.ca
West End Gallery Celebrating 30 Years in Edmonton
12308 Jasper Avenue Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5 (780) 488-4892
SUMMER 2005 EXHIBITIONS
Edmonton
KAREN REIGER April 30 - May 13
IRENE KLAR May 21 - June 1
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SUMMER 2005 EXHIBITIONS
Victoria
HOLLY CARR CANADIAN GARDEN SHOW June 4 - 25
FRANCINE GRAVEL May 27 - June 10 LOUISE MARTINEAU May 14 - 26 DAVID THAI CANADIAN GLASS SHOW July, August, September
West End Gallery Celebrating 11 Years in Victoria GRANT LEIER & NIXIE BARTON June 18 - 20
1203 Broad Street, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2A4 (250) 388-0009
JOHN REICHERT
CONNIE GEERTS
SASKATCHEWAN: Summer
MANITOBA: through May, Woodlands
2005, Verve Gallery, Regina
Gallery, Winnipeg
John Reichert spends most of his time working on large-scale public sculptures, works that directly inform the smaller paintings he creates in his studio. Drawing on similar ideas of landscape and perspective, the studio pieces are typically more abstract in approach. “I think the main difference is that the smaller studio works are more of a process of instant reaction,” he says. “The smaller works are much more immediate and capture the energy of the piece at that point in time.” The process, then, is intertwined; the
Thinly layered strokes of colour applied in deep rich tints work to dissolve tree and landscape as the eye tries to focus on Connie Geerts’ recent work. Unable to do so, one becomes aware of a rich inner glow emanating from these acrylic works on canvas. Distinct shapes of trees and prairie landscapes disinteConnie Geerts: Wide grate into pixelated colour, optically mixed to reveal a stunning palette. Born and raised in rural Ontario and until recently living in Calgary, Geerts is now relocating to Winnipeg. Her work will be Arms Reaching, showing in Winnipeg’s Woodlands Gallery (in the new location) this spring. She brings diverse inter2005, acrylic on ests together in a series of impressionistic paintings: a background in advertising art, sculpture, canvas, 18" x 36" mould making and collage combined with work in digital journalism and editing studios. Citing influences like Vincent Van Gogh, as well as modern digital work and contemporary artists like Wolf Kahn, Geerts uses a representational subject matter — normally richly coloured prairie landscapes — to suggest a feeling of a certain time or place rather than a geographical location. — Janice Rosen Represented by: Design House, Victoria, Vancouver; Centennial Gallery, Calgary; Elevation 1309, Canmore, AB; Terracotta Dudes, Black Diamond, AB; Destina Gallery, Edmonton; The Gallery on Main, Lacombe, AB; Woodlands Gallery, Winnipeg
RAY WARD BRITISH COLUMBIA: May 6 - 22, The Main Street Gallery, Sidney
Encountering a painting by Ray Ward is akin to a stroll down a Tuscan street, or standing by a rocky cliff on the British Columbian coast. As a realist painter, Ward is adept at reproducing his chosen subjects for the audience. However, the beauty of his city or landscapes lies in his ability to convey the painted moment not with vivid detail but through the suggestion of detail. Photographic elements, which the viewer feels could be present, are obliterated by the use of strong, specific light. This light not only reshapes the skillfully executed images, but it also lets the audience know exactly how it felt to be there as the sun set, rose, or beat down on the scene. “In many cases the lighting can outweigh the subject matter and transform an ordinary scene,” Ward says. — Melissa Whitlock Represented by: The Main Street Gallery, Sidney, BC; The Adele-Campbell Gallery,
Ray Ward: Tidal Pool, Gabriola Island, 2005, oil on canvas, 14" x 18"
Whistler, BC; Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC; and White Rock Gallery, White Rock, BC
John Reichert, Reach, 2004, fabricated Corten steel, patina,
GERMÁN JARAMILLO-MCKENZIE
6' x 3' x 1.5'
SASKATCHEWAN: Saskatchewan Centennial, until July 30, Victoria Art Gallery, Regina
large public sculptures inspire the studio work as the studio work feeds the larger pieces. This exhibition presents a series of topographic landscapes of carved plywood painted in acrylics, many incorporating metal. Reichert is a sculptor, even in his painting, and these works have a textural dimension, playing with light and shadow as a sculpture would. He approaches painting as a method for communicating the same ideas of place that his sculptures convey so effectively. — Kristin Linklater
Enter Regina’s Victoria Art Gallery and you become immersed in the world of Colombian-Canadian painter Germán JaramilloMckenzie. Eager to bring more Saskatchewan art to the public, Jaramillo-Mckenzie started his own cooperative gallery in 2003 and hasn’t looked back. In addition to a diverse collection by Saskatchewan artists in media from porcelain to wood carving, the gallery is also home to the artist’s own studio where he works and teaches private classes. His works are scattered throughout the gallery, juxtaposing realist oil paintings of his native Colombia and his home in Canada, where he settled in 1989. His canvases explore what he is nostalgic for and also what surrounds him — in both ways he is “painting home,” combining artistic expression with his own visceral response. “Through the process I recreate a lot of memories and it comes alive,” he says of his work. The Saskatchewan Centennial exhibition will also include the work of 16 other artists who are part of the cooperative, including photographers Gilbert Complaisance and Gerald Matthews, and Germán Jaramillo- painter Andrew Salgado. — Kristin Linklater Mckenzie: Lottery
Represented by: Verve Gallery,
Seller, 2005, oil on
Represented by: Victoria
Regina
canvas, 48" x 37"
Art Gallery, Regina
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SHEOJUK ETIDLOOIE MANITOBA: through May, Nunavut Gallery, Winnipeg
Developing complex aquatint and etched prints displaying her brilliant use of intense colour and finely detailed work, the late Cape Dorset artist Sheojuk Etidlooie (1932-1999) built a solid following of collectors after one of her images was selected for inclusion in the Cape Dorset Annual Print Release of 1994. Selling out within days of its release, Etidlooie was included in each subsequent collection until 1999. Drawing on her traditional life growing up near Cape Dorset in Akkuatuloulavik, an outpost camp on South Baffin Island, Etidlooie stayed closely in touch with her culture, drawing and printing many images from her life, surroundings and legends. Two rare, previously uncatalogued and richly coloured works of Natsinnguaq, or Seal Spirit, are being featured at the grand reopening of the Nunavut Gallery in its new, larger Winnipeg location in May. These featured abstract prints, the red (edition of 35) and the blue (edition of 25), show the artist’s typical crisp detail and bold use of colour. — Janice Rosen
Sheojuk Etidlooie: Natsinnguaq (Like a Seal) – Red, edition of 35, plate
Represented by: Nunavut Gallery, Winnipeg; Gallerie Elca London, Montreal; Hous-
and proof 1999, edition
ton North Gallery, Lunenburg, NS; Inuit Gallery of Vancouver and Marion Scott
2005, etching and
Gallery, Vancouver
aquatint, 22" x 20"
Kim Metcalfe: Silha, 2005, mixed media (plaster, wax,
ERIN McSAVANEY
oil, latex, varnish) on canvas,
BRITISH COLUMBIA: Defenders of the Faith, May 11 - 25, Harrison Galleries, Vancouver.
24" x 48"
Born and raised in East Vancouver, Erin McSavaney spent much of his childhood exploring the Sunshine Coast, including the forests around his grandmother’s home in Roberts Creek. Inspired by visits back to these familiar family haunts, his new paintings offer quiet and pensive close-up views of the forest interiors, of specific rocks and logs that he remembers — things that haven’t changed. “It’s my little battle against change,” he says. When he was 12 years old, McSavaney’s father died. “That was enough change to deal with,” he says. “I fear change. I find a sense of security in those things that haven’t changed.” McSavaney, now in his thirties, says he has stopped Erin McSavaney: Study for apologizing for being a sentimental person and for painting in a realistic, sometimes Green Ford Econoline, 2005, watercolour on paper, 10" x 20" melancholy style, despite the prevailing taste among his peers for conceptual, abstract genres. A solid foundation of technical and drawing skills is vital before one can grow into abstraction, says McSavaney. His own concentration on developing technical proficiency, he says, has freed him to express himself more clearly than ever in this new body of work. — Jennifer MacLeod
KIM METCALFE BRITISH COLUMBIA: Aug 12 Sept 5, Tiffin Neely Gallery, White Rock
Kim Metcalfe starts work on her mixed media, abstract-inspired art by applying a thick plaster base on canvas. “That gives the canvas a lot of texture. It leads the way for the rest of the materials and the eventual look of the piece. The work creates itself,” she says. Metcalfe says her art is not entirely abstract: “There is a theme and it is vaguely visible.” Born and raised in London, England, Metcalfe was educated at Minchendon Art School in London. Travelling in Europe exposed her to ancient wall paintings, and that inspired her to set up an interior design company specializing in faux finishes when she moved to Canada in 1985. Ten years ago, she began painting on canvas. “The fact that I had no formal fine art training was a blessing. I didn’t feel I had to follow any rules or regulations. For example I mix latex and oils together, which is a big taboo. Whatever I want to add — gold leaf, wax, varnish — I do. Anything that works for the picture.” — Beverly Cramp
Represented by Harrison Galleries, Vancouver, Calgary; Kimzey Miller Gallery, Seattle
RALPH TURTURRO ALBERTA: through summer, Stone Fish Arts, Calgary
In 1982, painter Ralph Turturro interned with George McNeil, an abstract expressionist and member of the New York School. McNeil tried to talk him out of the “difficult” work of making a living as a painter, but Turturro didn’t listen. Based in upstate New York, he’s built a career with work that conforms closely to the intuitive, gestural canvases of the mid-20th century expressionist masters. A poet as well as a painter, Turturro’s process is a weeks-long, intuitive response to what he sees around him and the daily intrusions of news, conversations, TV, dreams. The result is emotive, multidimensional imagery that shape-shifts from frame to frame and distills the randomness of every day into a representation on canvas, wood or paper. “There is nothing more abstract than everyday life,” Turturro says. “The difficulty is in separating what is real from reality. It happens in micro and macro places of our cells, our brains, our homes and schools. One way to balance all this stimuli is to turn it into Ralph Turturro: virtual space. Painting is one option.” Every Fleeting — Jill Sawyer Thought, 2005,
Represented by: Tiffin Neely
Represented by Stone Fish Arts,
acrylic, mixed media
Gallery, White Rock, BC
Calgary
on canvas, 66" x 96"
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Angelika Werth: Ode to
ANGELIKA WERTH
Canada and the RCMP (detail),
ALBERTA: Madeleines, May 28 - June 9, Alberta Craft Council Gallery, Edmonton
hand-felted wool and silk,
Such is the attraction of British Columbia that an artist who holds a degree as a master dressmakerdesigner from Hannover, Germany, and has worked for Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, makes her life in Nelson. Angelika Werth’s felted and quilted pieces are exhibited and sold internationally, and she teaches her skills all over BC. This summer, the ACC Gallery displays three of her waistcoats for Canadian heroines: Ethyl Wilson, Sheila Copps and an anonymous logger. They are similar in concept and technique to Werth’s Madeleines, 12 sculptural, felted dresses. In that collection, each outfit has a pair of matching sports gloves — representing the freeing of the women through sports — and each is built around a brassière technique that has been at the heart of Werth’s practice since 1992. The dress sculptures embody in their fabric the spirits of the heroic women of history for whom they are named; they are constructed, as Werth writes, of: “wool... that resists iron and fire… ultra-feminine elements that make the felt stronger; felted armour with subtle strength not obvious to the viewer… horse hair interfacing, whale boning, silk velvet linings and up to 12 metres of hand-felted material.” — Mary Joyce
with the integration of fragments from an
PHOTO BY JEREMY ADDINGTON
RCMP wool blanket.
Represented by: Alberta Craft Council Gallery, Edmonton
CURTIS CUTSHAW ALBERTA: Breathing Light, May 5 - June 4, Skew Gallery, Calgary
Talking with painter Curtis Cutshaw about his upcoming show, Bart Habermiller, co-owner of Calgary’s Skew Gallery, suggested trying something new. Instead of hanging the drawings and studies that had informed Cutshaw’s recent work, the gallery would construct a Plexiglas case to display them in a stack. There are more than 10,000 drawings. If Cutshaw is prolific today (he has produced more than 130 paintings since last August, and has about 55 works in the Skew show, not counting the drawings), it’s an about-face from the meticulous glazing and layering that marked his work just a few years ago, when he would spend up to three years on each painting. Today, his rule is that he has to finish a painting in one trip to the studio. The result is a series of small colour-gradated canvases shot through with light and reflection. It’s the outcome of an iron discipline that puts him in the studio every single day. Cutshaw says he’d like viewers to take a simple message away from his show: “I hope people will see someone who loves to paint. I hope they get excited by that.” — Jill Sawyer
Curtis Cutshaw: A Hundred Cares,
Represented by: Skew Gallery, Calgary; Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver
2005, oil on board, 12" x 12"
JULIA LUCICH
BILL McCARROLL
BRITISH COLUMBIA: Island
BRITISH COLUMBIA: June 3 - 10, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver
Life, through summer, The
When Bill McCarroll discovered a 1950s golf manual in 1983, it changed the direction of his artwork. “I liked one of the pictures and started to appropriate golfing images,” says the California-educated artist whose work has evolved from oil paint abstractions to large, Pop-art-influenced acrylics. Based in Lethbridge, Alberta, McCarroll is himself a passionate golfer, but that is not why golf images became his central theme. He uses golf is a metaphor for the angst, tension and stress of contemporary life. The golf imagery took McCarroll into the iconicized world of Pop art. “I appropriate the images and treat them lavishly,” he says. “But my (golf pictures) are reductive, simplistic images. The colour is flat and bright.” One of McCarroll’s large canvases is called Icon X and it is the image of a golf tee. “It’s phallic in a way. It’s this big juicy tee, five feet tall. There’s abstraction here too, by reducing things down to a simple design concept.” McCarroll’s June show features a series of smaller, hand-coloured prints as well as several of his acrylic paintings. — Beverly Cramp
Landing Party Fine Art Gallery, Saltspring Island.
Julia Lucich’s luminous, figurative paintings delight the senses, presenting captured moments that emerge from everyday life. Each subject she chooses to paint — be it a brightly coloured animal, a busy market scene, or a solitary man — is approached with the desire to create Julia Lucich: Simply Salt Spring, an atmosphere that allows viewers to 2005, acrylic on canvas, 22" x 28" interact with the piece, filling in the gaps of the narrative with their personal experiences. This desire to create narratives stems from Lucich’s long-time affinity with portraiture. She began her formal artistic training in this area, drawn by the way a face or a gesture can carry so much significance; she has continued with this technique until the present day. Though Lucich employs an array of soft, approachable colours, she maintains that the paintings are not about being “pretty” but focus on joy, which she believes gets lost too often in this angst-ridden world. In recent years, Lucich has found Saltspring Island to be the perfect place from which to derive artistic inspiration because, as she says, “The island is a place of tranquility but also of excitement… There’s a great mix.” — Melissa Whitlock
Represented by: Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver; Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
Represented by: The Landing Party Fine Art Gallery (the artist’s
Bill McCarroll: Icon X, 2001, acrylic
studio/gallery) and Stone Wallace Gallery, Saltspring Island
and collage on canvas, 72" x 24" x 3"
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ANDREW V Visiting with Winnipeg art collectors not too long ago, I noticed the lightfilled surface of a flat-screen television imbued with saturated and luminous colours beckoning from the other room. As I approached, I realized it wasn’t a TV screen, but the hyper-realistic and jeweled night-time surfaces of an Andrew Valko painting. It was the quintessential art experience from classical times — the confusion of the painted surface for some other object in real life. Painters call this trompe l’oeil, or a literal “fooling of the eye.” Born in Czechoslovakia, Valko’s degree in art and design from Red River College in Winnipeg included daily model drawing. The emphasis on accuracy, observation and technique has left its mark. Later studies in Japan in wood block printing catalyzed the artist’s interest in printmaking and in combining paint and print media. His current paintings are acrylics on incised wooden panels. I caught up with Valko in his music-filled, book-lined studio in the Wolsely neighbourhood. His retrofitted garage painting studio houses a drawing table, library, numerous easels, slide projector, computer, projector screen, assorted tables, chairs and paint pots — a tidy and organized reflection of Valko’s sense of order, process and depth. A member of SITE Gallery, an artist’s cooperative, Valko is well known for his cheeky and brilliant prints, and the often amusing anecdotes that accompany these. The annual production of a print related to the Asian zodiac, a tradition Valko
Above: Andrew Valko in his Winnipeg studio.
Right: Full Moon, 2004, acrylic on panel, 17" x 17"
Opposite page: Holiday Inn Afternoon, 2004, acrylic on panel,
PHOTO BY SHEILA SPENCE
IMAGE COURTESY THE ARTIST
25" x 25"
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REALISM AND ABSTRACTION INTERSECT AS ANDREW VALKO PAINTS THE LIGHT AND TEXTURE OF REAL LIFE
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VALKO
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began when he and his wife Julia Lam had a child, are particularly coveted prizes in the art community. But it’s his meticulous paintings that have garnered recent attention. Increasingly, the artist has devoted himself to rendering a big chunk of “real life” in paint. Capturing the specific textures and colours of electric light, wooden siding or the prairie night air has become something of an obsession. Valko does not shy away from difficult formal problems. He notes, “If I have to paint some grass, I might look to see how another painter solved that problem.” He adds: “For the last couple of years I have been working on a certain colouration. If I walk outside and it is cold and foggy, I can lay out the colours.”
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Valko talks about his evolving art form.
“In the 1980s I went to Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Japan. In Tokyo, I would work for four or five months with a master print maker. I did that three or four times. My painting is based on accurate drawing. I’d transfer the drawn image onto the panel with carbon paper. To create relief, I’d router out parts of the image in the back lane for later painting. It was physical and I had to guess at certain things. It became restrictive. I finally stopped relief carving and began linear carving. I inscribe the line with a Japanese carving tool. It creates grooves that catch little bits of light. I carve into it first, then gesso it. I use acrylics and layer thin washes on the panes. I combine this with a cross hatching technique, like with egg tempera. I make it dark then lighten it up. It doesn’t work the other way round. I have spent years figuring out how these things work.” Do you think of your work in relation to other artists or schools?
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“Different artists or personalities lead to different styles. I am not primarily a realist. A lot of people think that when you are doing a realist painting, there’s no abstraction. In fact, it’s all abstraction. I paint the light, not the objects. I want it all to be there but it has to have content, composition, colour use, subtlety and beauty. Beauty is very important. I want the painting to be good on all levels. Like a craftsmen or builder, you have to start with a foundation. I am interested in how painters have solved certain things — how to paint grass or skin.” Valko’s painstaking attention to form and technique is balanced by an exploration of themes drawn from contemporary culture. Valko explains, “I have major themes such as the swimming pool series, the motel series, the drive-in movie screens, and women with weapons. I have become interested in the prairie landscape. I love the sky and the light, and the small town in the middle of nowhere.” Valko’s subjects almost always include the figure within an architectural setting. He notes: “I keep a file of slides. I’ll get an idea and go round and take images. I get ideas all the time but have www.gallerieswest.ca
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Andre Petterson, White Cloak #2, 32” x 24”, mixed media on board.
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A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT WHEN YOU ARE DOING REALIST PAINTING, THERE’S NO ABSTRACTION. IN FACT, IT’S ALL ABSTRACTION
certain themes that appeal to me. I have Cottage Life, 2004, acrylic on panel, sketchbooks where I do drawing. I develop 40" x 30" the characters and story and put it together. I might have a model come in.” The female form, nude or semi-nude, is a reoccurring presence, often represented within the pleasure grounds of travel and escape. These sites of pleasure are fraught with danger, anxiety or detachment. “A lot of my work is painted in night light, a time of melancholy and transitions. I hardly ever paint a daytime picture. There is more mystery and a suggestion of menace that could be real.” Sometimes, these sites of pleasure or escape turn into scenes of unexpected loneliness and abandonment. The anticipated encounter in the get-away motel becomes a banal engagement with the television. The drive-in movie parking lot is empty as Marilyn Monroe, Bella Lugosi or John Wayne light up the night sky. In one piece, a disaffected adolescent looks out from the claustrophobic and flat land ticket booth, dreaming, one imagines, of elsewhere. Valko’s references to the mass media — the drive-in movie theatre, the Hollywood cinema, the Polaroid camera, the television, or the computer — distinguishes his work from painters who emphasize realistic effects but who paint scenes of nature unimpeded by technology. Comparisons to other Canadian painters such as Alex Colville, Christopher Pratt and Eric Fischl come to mind. Like the drive-in movie screens that populate his paintings, Andrew Valko has set his sights high.
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F A CURATOR’S-EYE VIEW OF THIS MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE AT THE WAG
figure ground: paintings and drawings of Ivan Eyre at The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) surveys 50 years of the artist’s work. It features 40 paintings, over 80 drawings and prints, and a collection of still life constructions. The work has been drawn from over 25 private and public collections across Canada, including Western Canadian public collections such as the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the University of Lethbridge Art Collection, the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Gallery One One One, Pavilion Gallery Museum, the WAG collection and the Government of Manitoba art collection. Ivan Eyre was born in Tullymet, Saskatchewan, in 1935. His early art teachers included Wynona Mulcaster, George Swinton, Ernest Lindner and Eli Bornstein, names familiar on the prairie scene. Eyre moved to Winnipeg, completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba, and married fellow art student Brenda Fenske in 1957. After post-graduate work in North Dakota, he returned to Canada to teach, becoming a full professor in 1976. Eyre taught for more than 30 years, influencing hundreds of students. Eyre’s talents as an image maker were recognized and championed early on. While a student, he exhibited at the WAG’s famous Winnipeg Shows. Since that time, Eyre has exhibited his work across North America and Europe, and has been included in significant Canadian collections. David Loch of Loch Gallery is his commercial dealer. Given the number of publications, exhibition catalogues, and articles on Eyre, and the exuberant development of his imagery, the WAG exhibition has been a challenging show to put together. How best to represent half a century of an artist’s oeuvre? There have been exhibitions on Eyre’s figurative
IVAN EYRE BY AMY KARLINSKY
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Far Left: Drawing Table, 1984, graphite and coloured pencil on paper, 40.6 cm x 29.5 cm. Collection of the Pavilion Gallery Museum.
Left: Orange Tower, 1963, oil on canvas, 81.1 cm x 66.6 cm. Collection of The Winnipeg Art Gallery; gift of the Women’s Committee in memory of Mr. John A. Russell.
Below: Stills – White Red River, 1971, acrylic on canvas, 213.6 cm x 156.7 cm. Collection of The Winnipeg Art Gallery; gift of the Women’s Committee
Right: Ivan Eyre with a
PHOTO BY WILLIAM EAKIN
work in progress.
EYRE IS THIEF, INVENTOR AND BRICOLEUR, COMBINING THE INTENSELY OBSERVED WITH THE WONDROUSLY IMAGINATIVE...
figure ground: paintings and drawings of Ivan Eyre April 29 to August 28, 2005 This 50-year survey of the work of one of Canada’s most significant artists highlights his unique vision and the evolution of his imagery and ideas. Exhibition curated by Amy Karlinsky. Exhibition sponsored by Power Corporation of Canada. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Manitoba Arts Council. Media Sponsor: Winnipeg Free Press. IVAN EYRE, Mythopoeic Prairie 1, 1965. Oil on canvas. Collection of The Winnipeg Art Gallery. Gift of the late Mary H. Acheson in memory of her mother, the late Helen E. Acheson. G-66-3
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paintings, and exhibitions devoted to his drawings. Others have celebrated the acquisition of Eyre works into a specific collection. The last major exhibition on Eyre, curated by former WAG director and freelance curator Terrence Heath, traveled around the country in the late 1980s, becoming the first solo contemporary show to open at the new National Gallery in Ottawa. The current WAG show is the first survey to include drawing, painting, prints and still life constructions from 50 years of studio practice. The important role of drawing, in particular, has been emphasized. The artist has used drawings as a means of developing ideas and compositions for subsequent paintings. He has worked in drawing directly as a means to a final form. Earlier in his career he undertook a series of intuitive drawings that combine watercolour and graphite. The exhibition features these detailed and intimate drawings as well as large panoramic paintings. Adding to the complexity of organizing an exhibition that spans 50 years is that Eyre’s work, unlike that of many other artists with a long studio practice, is dispersed across the country in private homes and galleries. Several works were not available to travel; some collectors could not part with their cherished pieces. Needless to say, there have been various versions of the exhibition on the drawing table. Collaboration with the artist, the in-house expertise at the WAG, and the lenders was essential. The show began as a painting exhibition but quickly evolved to include drawing. The WAG’s new Curator of Contemporary Art and Photography, Mary Reid, managed the complexities behind the scenes. Such an exhibition presents the myriad sides of Eyre and will provide the viewer with an opportunity to make judgments about the scope of Eyre’s development. Survey shows are important records which can bring to light little known works or highlight certain relationships. Favourite works from the grey period of the late 1960s and surprising forays into photo-realism have been included. The catalogue is a parallel creative endeavour. Mary Reid has written an essay on Eyre’s self portraits. Prairie poet and English professor Dennis Cooley, also born in Saskatchewan, was commissioned to write original poetry, while the curatorial essay covers the development of his work over time. The goal behind the catalogue’s structure was to open the work up for interpretation rather than reduce it through limiting categories. Eyre’s sketches from the early 1960s show his careful observation and study after nature, a trait in evidence throughout the exhibition. Introduced to modernist concepts as a student, Eyre tried a diverse visual vocabulary that drew upon European and American models including Max Beckmann, Arshile Gorky, Pablo Picasso and others. His confident line and sense of composition are evident in his student work, at a time when abstraction attracted many local practitioners. Eyre examined the School of Paris, the morbidity of German expressionism and the bravado of the Abstract Expressionists. Yet, his iconography and sense of invention owes something to the rich prairie landscape and his singular insistence at following his creative imagination. In this exhibition, luscious oils of the 1960s give way to large-scale acrylic paintings, including landscapes and figurative works. The exhibition allows the viewer to trace Eyre’s movement and maturation — introducing, to a new generation, the panoramic landscapes, the urban dystopias, and the joyous www.gallerieswest.ca
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Winners and Losers
2005, hand-tinted black and white photograph 18.5” x 24”.
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MAY/JUNE elaborations of dancers and nudes. Eyre on canvas, 162.5 cm x 142.2 cm. is thief, inventor and bricoleur, combinCollection of Gallery One One ing the intensely observed with the One, School of Art, University of wondrously imaginative, using whatever Manitoba; gift of the artist. technical means or stylistic currency necessary. Pop, photo-realism, surrealism and the hyper-imaginary all make appearances. Straddling the modernist/postmodernist divide, style in Eyre’s work is not a dogma, but a solution to formal and conceptual problems. Eyre’s exploration of the visual tradition of Western painting and drawing, characterized by the modern-day history painting, portraiture, landscape, still life, and the nude is highly original. What is exceptional is the centrality and insistence of those themes that once made art the repository for our deepest sensibilities — themes like love and beauty, sex and death, war, existence and meaning. Such high seriousness, underpinned by the virtuosity that comes with half a century of sustained studio practice is tempered, too, by a magnifico’s tomfoolery. Ivan Eyre at 70 is a master, one perhaps, with more interrogations than answers. Autumn Model Box, 1993, acrylic
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ART 05:
THE ALBERTA BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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Art 05 is a bold and confident title for the fifth Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art — it heightens my sense of anticipation as I walk through the doors during its spring run at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre. To me, the biennial is a chance to see what curatorial minds are thinking and what artists are envisioning, and to check on the health of contemporary art practice in the province. Before I discuss the exhibition, however, allow me this observation: the biennial has been supported and nurtured by a devoted curator since its inception. Catherine Crowston from the Edmonton Art Gallery is a seemingly tireless worker who has spent much energy guiding the biennial through all of its growth pains. This year Catherine has as her partner in curation Anthony Kiendl of the Walter Phillips Gallery. First sight through the doors is a very large yellow billboard proclaiming Art 05 and a single sculpture, stainless steel, 12 feet high. It sits in the middle of the hall, large and shiny. The surface gives the impression of a soft, buttoned sofa. Walking into the centre of the work, one feels the sensation of entering a padded room. The work, by Simon Black, is nicely crafted but in the end, possibly because of the position, it leaves me wanting either more or none at all. Entering the large main gallery, an intriguing, highly detailed work by Rébecca Bourgault promises excitement. The installation spins slowly on a 40 Galleries West Summer 2005
large table surface. Endless smaller sculptural forms, a line of miniature monochromatic cars and all sorts of curious elements intrigue the viewer and question the obsessive nature of artists’ ideas. This piece sets the tone for the curious world the two curators have created beyond. To the right are wonderful colour photos by photographer/instructor Diane Bos. Her images of the Calgary Stampede are unlike any you have seen; they have a ghostly, hallucinogenic quality. Unfortunately, I immediately find they are absorbed by all the goings-on around the room; somehow they disappear in the larger context. I feel a more intimate space is required. Next is a large stage installation where apparently, if you’re up to it, you can perform. Needless to say it’s not in use and likely requires the application of a beer lubricant. The stage, constructed in raw building materials by Mark Clintberg, does have an enticing mattress and pillow room underneath. I miss the point and carry on. At this point you’re in the main gallery space. A wonderful small installation (the key word of the show is “installation”) is Utopian Station by Tom Andriuk. A small-gauge circle train, with clouds, sun and moon appearing by projection, give me a feeling of peace and comfort; the quiet movements of everything working in order is gratifying. On to the galleries — small rooms filled with the installations of works by www.gallerieswest.ca
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LEFT: Diane Bos: Stampede Midway (detail), 2004, chromogenic print
ABOVE: Rébecca Bourgault: Fun Island II: Dealer's Choice, 2005, mixed media installation
RIGHT: Simon Black: untitled, 2004-05, stainless steel sculpture
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familiar names in Alberta’s contemporary art world: David Hoffos, represented by a film-construction installation from 1998 that makes you feel you really do want to meet the artist; Tanya Rusnak’s small detailed curious drawings, recalling the energy of art nouveau but confused by objects and words; Clay Ellis, representing what’s left of painting in Edmonton with formed extruded plastic materials hung on a stainless rack. These are the works that stood out for me. Beyond the main gallery you begin a long walk outdoors and into other Banff Centre buildings to discover more of the art and artists in the exhibition, numbering 24 in total. Highlights include the only true paintings on exhibit, by Chris Millar: fantastic materials, curious subject and deft handling of layout make these a standout. Liz Ingram’s quiet upside-down garden of colour represents another wonderful world of creation; the ongoing use of odd and common elements is her forte. Mireille Perron’s exploits of gender-specific ideas, science, rabbit forms and experiments actually are full of humour, which is sometimes easier to grasp than the intellectual idea. Nick Wade of Lethbridge has the most traditional work in the whole exhibition: a free-standing contemporary sculpture that gives a feeling of Bauhaus design. This work is a maquette for a proposed large work to be installed in Winnipeg. On one hand it seems tight and hard to view in the location, but on the other hand the complementary colour and form of the building surrounding the sculpture www.gallerieswest.ca
The Elephant's Graveyard, 2005, 1965 Safari Land Yacht, Airstream, digital audio and video installation.
ABOVE: Chris Millar: Batcopter (detail), 2003-04, acrylic on canvas, 63" x 47"
makes the piece feel at home. A short walk brings me to the Airstream trailer parked at the back of the buildings. This ambitious work by Michael Campbell and Janice Rahn is symbolic for me of the “idea” generation of new art: quirky, seemingly pointless, but intriguing nevertheless. The trip into the trailer takes you far away: Apollo mission sound track, a ship frozen in the Arctic ice, moving camera perceptions — it all works, funnily enough, and leaves me with a positive impression. Understanding art and installation is both trying and enjoyable, but never being sure of the exact meaning can make one wonder exactly “where is art going” — the theme song of Art 05. The biennial certainly leaves me with questions: where are the new painters? (they are out there); where are the photo-based artists? (they are out there); is installation art worn out?; is projection art merely complex TV?; is politically based sound experimentation effective? A lot of questions — and that I believe is the best and most positive result of exploring the exhibition. Final thought: what will it all look like in Edmonton, installed at the Edmonton Art Gallery from May 21 to September 4? If you missed the walk in Banff, do yourself a favour and see it in Edmonton. Douglas MacLean of Canadian Art Gallery is an art advisor and private dealer. Summer 2005 Galleries West 41
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RIGHT: Robert Davidson: Double Tri-Neg, 2001, red cedar and acrylic, 119 cm x 58.4 cm x 4.3 cm. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Soren Pedersen. OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM: Robert Davidson: Green, 2002, red cedar and acrylic, 58.4 cm x 94 cm x 4.3 cm. Collection of E. and A. Claggett. These pieces appear in Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Davidson that explores the expanding boundaries of Haida art.
OPPOSITE PAGE TOP: Eagle, Raven & Moon, Bear & Human by Clarence Mills (Haida) at the Coastal Peoples Fine Art Gallery in Vancouver. Using a non-traditional material like glass for this totem illustrates the interplay between tradition and innovation.
HAIDA ARTIST ROBERT DAVIDSON TALKS WITH CURATOR KAREN DUFFEK ABOUT HIS VISION OF TRADITION-BASED NORTHWEST COAST ART AND MODERN IDEAS OF CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE
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PHOTOS OPPOSITE AND BOTTOM BY KENJI NAGAI, COURTESY MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, VANCOUVER
The following article is excerpted from an essay by Karen Duffek, “The Present Moment: Conversations with guud san glans, Robert Davidson,” published in the exhibition catalogue Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge (UBC Museum of
that these dualities comprise opposing values is countered by the challenges that Davidson sets for both himself and his audiences, and by the circulation of his work among studio, museum, gallery, and feast hall.
Anthropology, 2004). The exhibition, The Abstract Edge, organized by the Museum of Anthropology and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada, next opens at the Kelowna Art Gallery (November 26, 2005, to January 29, 2006), and then continues its tour to the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, McCord Museum, Montreal, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
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My visits to Robert Davidson at his studio in Semiahmoo Village, on the Salish reserve in White Rock, British Columbia, begin with a knock on the door of his spacious carving shed. A muffled “Come in!” welcomes me inside. There, the artist might be hunched over his jeweller’s block, engraving a gold pendant. Sometimes, he’s searching among his shelves and racks of shaped knives and carving tools, looking for the one that will help him define the precise edge he desires on a cedar sculpture. Occasionally, there will be a small group of friends and assistant carvers gathered around a current project, trading jokes and opinions; more often, Davidson is alone, expecting punctuality from his interviewer just as he does from his apprentices, eyeing his work in progress and contemplating the dialogue between a line he has formed and the space it created. Directing his energies toward his exhibition The Abstract Edge was a major focus for Davidson these past few years. Equally engaging were the simultaneous preparations necessary for the naming potlatch and celebration that he and the t’sa.ahl ’laanaas clan held in their home community of Old Massett on Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands), on November 1, 2003. Linked by the intense commitment required by each event, the exhibit and potlatch make it vividly clear that his practice — like that of many other First Nations artists — straddles a number of apparent dualities: community function and international art market; collective and personal expression; tradition and modernity; past and present. But the notion
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RD There’s this amazing movement now to reclaim cultural knowledge. As we reclaim that knowledge — reclaim the names, the songs, the dances, the crests, the clans, the place of chiefs in Haida villages — it’s gone the whole gamut to reclaiming the land. They’re all one. We’re continually rehashing what we know about our culture and what the names of our territories are all about. In doing that, we’re able to solidify our knowledge and be more confident. And as we gain confidence there, it becomes more than just the art and the artists. I’m increasingly realizing that I cannot work in a vacuum of art. For a while, we artists enjoyed all the glory and all the attention. But now there’s a bigger picture. My passion is reconnecting with my ancestors’ knowledge. The philosophy is what bred the art, and now the art has become the catalyst for us to explore the philosophy. I’m fortunate that I had a grandmother named Florence Davidson who challenged me, in her own subtle way, to learn more about our culture, and who also challenged me in the art. When I go outside the Haida boundaries, I am challenged, too — I want the art to be recognized as a high art form. I feel it is up to the artists to bring it into that arena, to challenge the art world’s blinders of “curio” that still define how our art is seen. Parallel to the regalia and performances based in traditional dance and ceremony are paintings and sculptures clearly oriented toward the art museum or gallery setting. Their encounter with modernist ideas and values seems obvious: their media, their intended abstraction, their apparent separateness from community function, their individualistic style, their play with isolated forms and scale, their ability to “stand alone” as autonomous works of art. But there are additional intersections represented here. Questions about how Davidson’s recent work may — or may appear to — engage in modernist inquiries, or subvert them, or ignore them altogether, keep pushing at the edges of his carefully carved and painted forms. So, too, do questions about how the recovery of First Nations visual strategies may disturb the categories by which modern art is understood. There is an uneasiness that still seems to exist between prevailing tenets of modernism, with their assumptions of universal criteria, and art that expresses continuity with local and inherited cultural practice. Indeed, modernist discourse may be seen as denying a place for “tradition-based” Native art within modernity itself, other than as a representation of its opposite: a kind of anti-modern curio, a form of nostalgia, a reversal of the idea of artistic progress. Critiques of tradition-based works created by Northwest Coast artists often assume a disjuncture between that which belongs to the present and that which is considered insufficiently detached from the past it is thought to represent. The perpetuation of the subjects and forms of Native art styles are read as evidence of artists’ reluctance or refusal to take a critical position toward the current context for their work: its relations of production and its historical dispossession, as well as the actual political and social landscape — rather than the mythological one — in which it is situated. Robert Davidson — whose personal iconography has come to be characterized by fragmented forms, abstraction, and ambiguity — states very clearly that he will not create his art outside the formal language of Haida visual expression. Indeed, the distancing or stripping of historical and cultural associations that “abstracting” often implies is met in his broader cultural practice by the opposite of detachment, the opposite of self-referencing modernity, the opposite of the autonomous work of art. The modernist tenet does not fully Summer 2005 Galleries West 45
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TOP LEFT: Bear Chief Mask by Wayne Young (Nisga’a/Haida) from Alcheringa Gallery in Victoria, now in a private collection. Based on a traditional story, this mask incorporates the artist’s personal vision and more sculptural elements than normally found in a mask.
TOP RIGHT: Merge Wall Panel 1 – Eagle and Whale by Sabina Hill (Caucasian) with Steve Smith (Kwakwaka’wakw) at the Inuit Gallery in Vancouver. Merging modern and traditional materials (stainless steel and Douglas Fir), cultures and motifs, the two artists produced this contemporary art piece.
RIGHT: Eagle Bracelet by Corey Moraes (Tsimshian) at the Douglas Reynolds Gallery. A traditional eagle motif is executed in a modern brushed sterling silver to give a contemporary brushed stainless steel look.
extend into the cultural and political work of which his paintings are a part. How, then, can we talk about this art in terms that are not solely based on a duality of contemporary and traditional but that encompass alternative ways of being present in modernity? What would it mean to create integrated understandings about First Nations and Western art traditions, in which indigenous philosophies and knowledge contribute to an evolving discourse on contemporary art?
RD I’m at a crossroads right now where I’ve recycled the ideas of my teachers, of the old pieces, of the old examples I’ve been studying. My challenge is to go beyond those recycled ideas and create a new vocabulary for myself. At first, I thought I was pushing the art form. But I feel that’s presumptuous — it’s not up to me to say I’m doing that. I have years and years of experience in the art form, and now I’m experimenting to see how far I can push my own understanding. Once I learned the vocabulary of the art, it became my privilege and responsibility to create within those boundaries and to challenge them within the language. I draw on Haida images to express the present moment, and the present moment encompasses the past. That’s true for all generations. My paintings are from an ancient language, but they still speak of today. www.gallerieswest.ca
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TOP LEFT: Crying Woman by Terry Horn (Coast Salish) at Spirits of the North Gallery. The yellow cedar mask is the artist’s contemporary rendition of a traditional mourning story about a woman who has lost her children. Of particular note are the detailed carved teardrops falling down the face.
TOP RIGHT: First Dawn by Philip Gray (Tsimshian/Cree) at the Lattimer Gallery in Vancouver. This three-foot panel in red cedar is painted and carved, revealing a contemporary interpretation of the "raven and the light", one of the many recurring themes found in the complex cosmology of the Northwest Coast.
LEFT: Sea Urchin Bowl by Norman Tait and Lucinda Turner (Nisga’a) at the Spirit Wrestler Gallery in Vancouver. Tait says the sea urchin bowl, made of alder
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and operculum shell, is a figment of his imagination, not part of an established
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story. Nevertheless, he believes it has spirit, hence the little man on top.
The creative freedom that Davidson grants himself has grown most directly from his experience in helping to restore the place of ceremony within his community — and with it the understanding that “culture” can be both inherited and newly imagined. The songs, dances, and protocols that Davidson and other Haida people are beginning to re-establish within current practice have become some of the primary sources from which he is attempting to “make progress” in his own art. He observes that a new vocabulary of ideas is emerging from the study of songs and narratives that have survived in memory, recordings and text, and from rebuilding and translating this cultural knowledge. Working toward defining a deeper, more complex, and historically specific understanding of Haida philosophy and visual expression is critical to Davidson’s attempts to strengthen what he calls “the pool of knowledge”: the foundation from which new forms and meanings may be negotiated.
RD If we look back over the past two hundred years of Haida history, we can see a definite progression in the art form. Who knows where the art will go from here? The limitation is really up to the artist in the present moment.
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Pow-Wow Dancer, 1978, serigraph on paper, AP, 57.3 cm x 57.3 cm Collection of Kamloops Art Gallery
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DAPHNEODJIG A MEMBER OF THE SO-CALLED “INDIAN GROUP OF SEVEN,” DAPHNE ODJIG HELPED OPEN DOORS FOR FIRST NATIONS ART IN CANADA
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Native artists were largely excluded from Canada’s mainstream art community when Daphne Odjig began exhibiting in the late 1960s. The art establishment took the position that Aboriginal art amounted to little more than a quaint crafts culture that should remain forever housed in anthropology museums and souvenir shops. Métis artist Duke Redbird puts it bluntly: “First Nations’ art was relegated to second-class, and dismissed as primitive and naive. It was deemed dangerous and pagan by the smug and repressive regimes of Indian Affairs, the government and the churches.” Odjig was part of a vocal and active Native community that changed this prevailing attitude forever. A self-taught artist from the Wikwemikong reserve on Ontario’s Manitoulin Island, she and a group of fellow Natives — including Ontario Ojibwa artist Norval Morrisseau and Alberta Chipewyan painter Alex Janvier — helped develop the first truly modern Canadian art. Unlike the Group of Seven or the Regina Five, who developed art based on styles imported from Europe or the United States, the so-called “Indian Group of Seven” — which included Jackson Beardy, Carl Ray, Joseph Sanchez and Eddy Cobiness, as well as Odjig, Morrisseau and Janvier — looked to their communities for their imagery and style. “It was really North American art,” says Janvier. “Everything you saw was from here, from our own background.” Odjig’s background was defined by a childhood in which making art was as natural as eating
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or sleeping. “I was born with a paintbrush in my hand,” she likes to say. “Art was just a thing that you did.” Her Ojibwa grandfather, Jonas Odjig, was a gravestone carver who took up painting in his later years. “He was my first mentor.” Her Odawa and Pottawatomie father, Dominic Odjig, painted scenes from the First World War, in which he had served as an infantryman. Her English war bride mother, the former Joyce Peachey of Upper Norwood, did fine embroidery for church vestments and altar covers. “Art was always a part of our lives,” says Daphne. “But I never thought it would ever amount to a career.” Odjig left the reserve at age 19 in 1938, following the death of her ailing mother, and lived in Parry Sound for four years before moving to Toronto. Doing shift work at both the John Inglis gun factory and at Planter’s Peanuts prevented her from taking classes at the Ontario College of Art, so she taught herself to paint in oils by studying the techniques of the French Impressionists and other artists on display at the Royal Ontario Museum and Art Gallery of Toronto (now Ontario). At the end of the Second World War, Odjig married a returning RCAF veteran, Paul Somerville. They started a strawberry farm near Chilliwack, British Columbia. When Somerville was killed in a car accident in 1960, Odjig moved to Vancouver with her 12-year-old son, Stanley, and threw herself into her painting. “Painting was the only thing I felt sure in. It was a part of me, so I would naturally fall back on it.” In 1962, Odjig married Vancouver psychiatric nurse Chester Beavon. Two years later, they moved to northern Manitoba, where Beavon worked as a community development officer on reserves and Odjig produced a series of paintings based on the Anishinabe legends she had learned as a child. Three years after that, in 1967, she had her first solo exhibition, at the Lakehead Art Centre in Thunder Bay. Her second solo show, in 1968, was at Brandon University in Manitoba. Wider exposure followed in 1970 when her work was displayed in the Canadian Pavilion at Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan. A visitor to the Expo show was Pablo Picasso, who reportedly looked at Odjig’s cubist work and asked, “Who is the Picasso in the room?” In the years following, Morrisseau jokingly referred to Odjig as “Picasso’s mother.” During the early 1970s, Beavon and Odjig lived in Winnipeg, where they opened the first Canadian art gallery devoted to Native art. “We had nobody to regularly show our work, so we had to do it ourselves,” she explains. “I think we opened the doors and opened the eyes of the public a bit.” The gallery became a magnet for fellow Native artists who, like the original Group of Seven, created an art expressing their own form of national identity. The National Museum of Man (now Civilization) took notice and, in 1977, it commissioned Odjig to paint a massive 2.5 x 8-metre canvas, The Indian in Transition, to hang in the lobby of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. “A huge project like that, I never dreamed I would ever do,” she says. “If my
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Pebbles on the Beach, 1980, acrylic on canvas, 40” x 32”
mother could only have lived to see what her little girl did, she would have been so proud of me.” Beavon and Odjig moved back to British Columbia in the late 1970s, and settled in a house built on the shores of Shuswap Lake, where Odjig produced an impressive body of work that was displayed in galleries across Canada, as well as in the United States, Europe, Israel and Japan. Formal recognition for her artistic achievements came in the form of two honorary doctorates, the Order of Canada, and a membership in the exclusive Royal Canadian Academy of Art. Canada Post issued a Christmas stamp of her painting, Genesis. Playwright Alanis King commemorated her life and work in a Native Earth Performing Arts production, The Artshow. Her most coveted recognition came in the form of an eagle feather given to her by the chief of the Wikwemikong reserve, where she had grown up. “This was an honour previously reserved for men in recognition of excellence in hunting or war,” she says. In recent years, Beavon and Odjig have been living in a Penticton townhouse to be close to medical treatment. Beavon has undergone a heart bypass and Odjig suffers from diverticulitis, an intestinal problem. Now 85, she is still producing new work, though not as prolifically as in the past, when she sometimes had two shows a year to prepare for. “That’s how our parents brought us up.” As it so happens, Odjig does have two shows on view this year, both in Kamloops, BC, and both featuring works that she created in the past. Daphne Odjig: Four Decades of Prints, the Kamloops Art Gallery’s (KAG) major exhibition for 2005, is a collection of 90 original lithographs and silkscreen serigraphs. As well as being seen at the KAG, from May 29 to August 21, the show may also tour nationally. “It’s long overdue,” says Jann Bailey, KAG director and curator. “We have the largest collection of her print works in Canada, and so we felt it was important for us to do this show.” Morgan Wood, who wrote a catalogue essay for the KAG exhibition, describes Odjig as “one of Canada’s artistic geniuses and a national treasure. Her awe-inspiring artistic practice is unique and filled with wonderment.” The second Kamloops show is at the Hampton Gallery from June 18 to 30, and features as many as 40 of Odjig’s works, including serigraphs and posters.
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ture, stone, clay and bronze. The gallery features the paintings of Canadian icon Doris McCarthy, as well as 20 leading western Canadian painters. New works can be viewed on web site. Other locations at Jasper Park Lodge and Chateau Whistler. Daily 10 am - 10 pm. Public Galleries WALTER PHILLIPS GALLERY 107 Tunnel Mountain Road Box 1020 Stn 40 Banff, AB T1L 1H5 T. 403-762-6281 F. 403-762-6659 walter_phillipsgallery@banffcentre.ca www.banffcentre.ca/wpg/ WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES PO Box 160, 111 Bear St Banff, AB T1L 1A3 T. 403-762-2291 F. 403-762-8919 info@whyte.org www.whyte.org Located on a spectacular site beside the Bow River in downtown Banff. Discover the rich natural and cultural heritage of the Canadian Rockies. The Museum offers guided tours of Banff’s heritage log homes and cabins; historic walking tours of the Banff townsite; and exhibition tours of the galleries. Open daily, 10 am - 5 pm. BRAGG CREEK, AB Commercial Gallery THE ALICAT GALLERY PO Box 463 Bragg Creek, AB T0L 0K0 T. 403-949-3777 F. 403-949-3777 gallery@alicatgallery.com www.alicatgallery.com Located about 30 minutes west of Calgary, the gallery opened in 1987. It represents more than 100 local and Western Canadian artists and artisans working in oils, acrylics and watercolours. Native art, ceramics, carvings, sculpture and ironwork of the finest quality are also shown. Daily 11 am - 5:30 pm. CALGARY, AB NOTE: Some numbers on the Calgary Map may refer to more than one gallery in close proximity.
Artist-run Galleries EMMEDIA GALLERY & PRODUCTION SOCIETY 203-351 11 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2R 0C7 T. 403-263-2833 F. 403-232-8372 info@emmedia.ca www.emmedia.ca EMMEDIA encourages and supports independent video, audio and digital media production and provides access to broadcast quality video and audio production and post-production facilities. The gallery promotes exploration and expression of personal, artistic, social, formal or technical issues and ideas with active programming and both theoretical and technical workshops and scholarship programs. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm. STRIDE GALLERY 1004 Macleod Tr SE Calgary, AB T2G 2M7 T. 403-262-8507 F. 403-269-5220 stride2@telusplanet.net www.stride.ab.ca THE NEW GALLERY 516-D 9 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 1L4 T. 403-233-2399 F. 403-290-1714 info@thenewgallery.org www.thenewgallery.org Calgary’s oldest artist-run centre is committed to providing a forum for a wide spectrum of critical discourse and multi-disciplinary practices within the contemporary visual arts. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. TRUCK 815 1 St SW, lower level Calgary, AB T2P 1N3 T. 403-261-7702 F. 403-264-7737 truck@netway.ab.ca www.truck.ca/ A non-profit artist-run centre dedicated to promoting hybrid and emerging forms of contemporary art through the public presentation of www.gallerieswest.ca
work by regional, national and international artists. TRUCK contributes to the development and understanding of contemporary art within the Calgary community. Free admission. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm.
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Commercial Galleries ART MODE GALLERY 399 17 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2S 0A5 T. 403-508-1511 F. 403-508-1510 Calgary@artmode.com www.artmode.com Located just minutes from the downtown core, this 3,000 square foot gallery is home to more than 50 Canadian artists and several internationally-renowned artists. Many styles and media are represented including eastern and western Canadian landscapes. Also located in Edmonton and Ottawa. Open every day. ARTISTS OF THE WORLD 514 11 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2R 0C8 T. 403-244-8123 F. 403-229-9687 info@artistsoftheworld.com www.artistsoftheworld.com Calgary’s largest and most eclectic art destination, this beautifully-renovated 20,000 sq. ft. heritage building features a vast fine art display, memorabilia and rare custom and vintage motorcycles. The facility boasts a dance floor, theatre room and multiple plasma screens as well as being fully equipped to host events for up to 800 people. Mon to Fri 10 am ñ 6 pm, Sat 11 am ñ 5 pm, Sun noon ñ 5 pm. ARTNEST GALLERY Glenmore Landing, 1600 90 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2V 5A8 T. 403-258-0555 F. 403-258-1863 artnest@telusplanet.net www.artnestgallery.com Promoting original artwork in different media by Canadian artists. Mon to Wed and Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Thur to 8 pm, Sat to 5:30 pm. ARTS ON ATLANTIC GALLERY 1331 9 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 0T2 T. 403-264-6627 F. 403-264-6628 info@artsonatlantic.com www.artsonatlantic.com Located in the Fraser & Seaboom building in historic Inglewood the gallery presents an eclectic mix of fine art and crafts by emerging, mid-career and established Canadian artists working in blown glass, raised copper, origami, artist books, and Polaroid photography. The book arts are a specialty. Wed to Fri 10 am 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm and by appt.
David Langevin, Missed you out there
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18th Annual Spring Exhibition & Sale Featuring: Phil Buytendorp, Lorna Dockstader, David Langevin, Michael O'Toole and Jean Pederson May 13th thru May 22nd 403-949-3777 • www.alicatgallery.com The Alicat Gallery has been in operation since 1987, and specializes in Western Canadian art. Located about 30 minutes west of Calgary in Bragg Creek, Alberta.
ARTSPACE GALLERY 1235 26 Ave SE, Crossroads Market, 2nd level Calgary, AB T2G 1R7 T. 403-269-4278 F. 403-291-0356 natalie@artspace.ca www.artspace.ca Located in an historical building 5 minutes from downtown, the gallery showcases established and emerging Canadian artists with an everchanging kaleidoscope of paintings, sculptures, prints and photography, as well as fine craft media such as glass, ceramics and metals. Fri 4 pm - 9 pm, Sat, Sun 10 am - 5 pm. BE-ART GALLERY 100 7 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-265-2484 beaeismont@shaw.ca www.BEartgallery.com The gallery features culturally significant artwork influenced by historically rich European traditions. There is an ever-changing selection of emerging and established artists reflecting a broad range of styles, subject and media. Patrons will find the artwork intellectually challenging and aesthetically appealing. Tues to Sat 10 am 5:30 pm. COLLECTOR’S GALLERY 1332 9 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G OT3 T. 403-245-8300 F. 403-245-8300 mail@collectorsgalleryofart.com www.collectorsgalleryofart.com Specializing in important Canadian art from the 19th to the 21st century including early topographical paintings, Canadian impressionists and the Group of Seven. The Collectors Gallery Summer 2005 Galleries West 55
Turtle Island Gallery
represents over 30 prominent Canadian contemporary artists. Recently relocated from 17th Avenue. Tues to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am 5:30 pm. COUNTERFLUX ART CENTRE 1336 9 Ave SE - lower level Calgary, AB T2G 0T3 T. 403-313-2800 info@counterflux.com www.counterflux.com
First Nations Art
250-717-8235 115-1295 Cannery Lane Kelowna, BC www.turtleislandgallery.com Located across from The Grand Okanagan Hotel on Cannery Lane
Contemporary Art Jewellery
2nd Floor, Art Central 100-7th Avenue SW Calgary, AB www.influxgallery.com 403-266-7527 Cage Bracelet with Rubies by Charles Lewton-Brain
THE CROFT 2105 - 4 St SW Calgary, AB T2S 1W8 T. 403-245-1212 F. 403-214-1409 info@croftgallery.com www.croftgallery.com Showcases fine art and crafts by 150 regional artists and artisans. Works on exhibit include both decorative and functional pottery, glass, jewellery, turned wood, journals, wood sculpture and paintings. Mon to Wed and Sat 10 am 6 pm, Thur, Fri to 8 pm, Sun to 5 pm. CUBE GALLERY 1520 - 17 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2T 0C8 T. 403-209-2823 DASHWOOD GALLERIES 203-100 7 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-261-7705 kimdashwood@dashwoodgalleries.com www.dashwoodgalleries.com Dashwood Galleries aims for a new standard in the world of craft, design and studio ceramics and glass. With simplicity and elegance, combining state-of-the-art technology with the ancient mediums of glass and ceramics, the gallery sets out to enrich contemporary living, and bring pleasure and art into urban lives. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat noon - 6 pm. DIANA PAUL GALLERIES 314 - 4 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 0H7 T. 403-262-9947 F. 403-262-9911 dpg@dianapaulgalleries.com www.dianapaulgalleries.com Specializing in high quality fine art ñ small and large format works ñ in styles from super-realism to impressionism to semi-abstract. Featuring the work of emerging and well-established artists. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. FOSBROOKE FINE ARTS Penny Lane Mall, 513 - 8 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 1G3 T. 403-294-1362 F. 403-234-8080 fosbrooke_arts@telusplanet.net www.fosbrookefinearts.com Specializing in contemporary original fine art in a wide variety of styles and media from established and emerging Canadian artists. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. FRAMESWEST 1221 9 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 0S9 T. 403-265-8338 greg@frameswest.com www.frameswest.com Long-known for their collector quality framing, the gallery has extended its ‘artful living’ theme at its new location in Inglewood with exclusive leather furniture by Selene, wood sculptures by Colin Schleeh and resin works by Martha Sturdy. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. FUSION ART AND DESIGN INC 208-1235 26 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 1B7 T. 403-235-0250 F. 403-265-0194 fusion_2@telus.net fusionartanddesign.com
Experience a whole new Banff. The new view on Banff Avenue will take your breath away. At Summit Gallery of Fine Art, share the experience of nature's inspiration through Canada’s leading artists in painting, sculpture,
photography, glass, jewelry and ceramics. Browse and bring home original artwork that continually renews and inspires your connection with art and nature. Oh, and hiking Boots are optional.
Open Daily 10 am - 9 pm, 120 Banff Ave. Call 403.762.4455 or toll Free 1.888.358.4455 • www.summitfineart.com
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GAINSBOROUGH GALLERIES 441 - 5 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 2V1 T. 403-262-3715 F. 403-262-3743 Toll Free: 1 866 425-5373 art@gainsboroughgalleries.com www.gainsboroughgalleries.com Extensive collection of fine artists including Tinyan, Raftery, Wood, Desrosiers, Lyon, Hedrick, Min Ma, Simard, Brandel, Schlademan, Anderson, Cameron, Crump and Degenhart. Calgary's largest collection of bronze -- by Stewart, Cheek, Lansing, Taylor, Danyluk and Weaver. Gemstone carvings by Lyle Sopel. Mon to Wed 10 am - 5:30 pm, Thur
and Fri till 6 pm, Sat till 5 pm. GALLERY OF CANADIAN FOLK ART 2206A 4 St SW Calgary, AB T2S 1W9 T. 403-229-1300 www.galleryofcanadianfolkart.com A surprising and unique gallery that exhibits and sells Canadian folk art: furniture, paintings, carvings, textiles, antiques and artifacts gathered from across the country. Presents “uncommon art of the common people.” Wed to Sun noon 5 pm. HARRISON GALLERIES 709 A 11 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2R 0E3 T. 403-229-4088 F. 403-920-0494 heather@harrisongalleries.com www.harrisongalleries.com/ Representing the art of local, regional and internationally renowned artists, the gallery carries an extensive collection of traditional and contemporary artwork. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm and by appointment. Other location in Vancouver. HERRINGER KISS GALLERY 101, 1111 - 11 Avenue S.W. Calgary, AB T2R 0G5 1111 11 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2R 0G5 T. 403-228-4889 F. 403-228-4809 deborah@herringerkissgallery.com www.herringerkissgallery.com The Herringer Kiss Gallery represents provocative and innovative artwork by emerging and mid-career Canadian artists. Artists include Marjan Eggermont, Ken Webb, Reinhard Skoracki, Tivadar Bote, Aron Hill, Jeremy Herndl and Tamara Maggio. Tues to Fri 11 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm. IMAGE 54 GALLERY 709 11 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2R 0E3 T. 403-265-5458 F. 403-265-8681 art@image54.com www.image54.com The only commercial art gallery in western Canada to specialize in contemporary fine art prints. Also presents emerging and mid-career Canadian painters and photographers. Offers custom framing and installation; consultation services on collection cataloguing, management and appraisals. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm and by appointment. INFLUX JEWELLERY GALLERY 201-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-266-7527 F. 403-266-7524 info@influxgallery.com www.influxgallery.com Representing over 30 Canadian and international artists, from emerging to established, INFLUX offers a unique collection of contemporary art jewellery and wearable art. Work ranges from rings and brooches to hand bags and scarves while materials span from precious metals and gemstones to rubber, steel, wood and found objects. Exhibitions change monthly. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 6 pm. KENSINGTON FINE ART GALLERY 102-628 11 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2R 0E2 T. 403-228-2111 F. 403-228-0640 kensington@nucleus.com www.kensingtonfineart.com In Calgary since 1968, Kensington Fine Art Gallery features original 21st century Canadian art, including bronze and raku pieces, presented in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Recently relocated to 11th Ave SW between 5th St and 6th St. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. MASTERS GALLERY 2115 4 St SW Calgary, AB T2S 1W8 T. 403-245-2064 F. 403-244-1636 info@mastersgalleryltd.com www.mastersgalleryltd.com Celebrating more than 25 years of quality Canadian historical and contemporary art. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. Recently relocated from 17th Ave to 4th St. MICAH GALLERY 110 8 Ave SW, Stephen Ave Walk Calgary, AB T2P 1B3 T. 403-245-1340 F. 403-245-1575 sales@micahgallery.com www.micahgallery.com www.gallerieswest.ca
The gallery specializes in unique First Nations art and jewellery from across North America. Featured artists include Ernie Whitford, local wood carver; Nancy Dawson, West Coast jeweller; Ernie Scoles, Cree painter; as well as a large selection of Navajo sandpaintings, Inuit soapstones and traditional and contemporary turquoise jewellery. Mon to Wed 10 am - 6 pm, Thur - Fri 9 am - 7 pm, Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun 11 am - 5 pm. Seasonal hours may be in effect, please call. MYKEN WOODS FINE ART 2nd lvl-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-606-8414 myken@shaw.ca In business since 1985, artistic expression from around the world meets in artist Myken Woods' gallery. Along with her own paintings inspired by studies with a Chinese master, Woods showcases the works of 14 artists including Amy Loewan, Ferdinando Spina, Helena Hadala and others from countries as diverse as Poland, Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat noon - 5 pm. NEWZONES GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART 730 - 11 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2R 0E4 T. 403-266-1972 F. 403-266-1987 info@newzones.com www.newzones.com/ Representing leading names in contemporary art: Joe Andoe, Michael Batty, Ross Bleckner, Jack Bush, Cathy Daley, Tom Dean, Suzan Dionne, Evelyne Brader-Frank, John Hall, Brad Harms, Christopher Kier, Ben Macleod, Don Maynard, Donald Sultan, William Perehudoff, Colleen Philippi, Don Pollack, David Robinson, Pat Service, Kevin Sonmor, Michael Walker, Barry Weiss, Jeroen Witvliet, Cybele Young, et al. Tues to Sat 10:30 am - 5:30 pm and by appointment. PAUL KUHN GALLERY 724 11 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2R 0E4 T. 403-263-1162 F. 403-262-9426 paul@paulkuhngallery.com www.paulkuhngallery.com Focuses on national and regional contemporary Canadian paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture; also shows contemporary American prints. Exhibitions change monthly featuring established and emerging artists along with themed group shows. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. PHOTOSPACE GALLERY 1403a 9 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 0T4 T. 403-289-5434 clorenz@telusplanet.net QUAB GALLERY 212-100 7 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-261-2855 F. 403-261-4855 sean@quab.ca www.quab.ca An intriguing art gallery environment with edgy surroundings where the work of Canadian artists is exhibited in an atmosphere of unobtrusive intimacy. With a special Quebec/Alberta connection, Quab wants the viewer to delve into the mind of the artist and be transported into a world that has been created just for them. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat noon - 5 pm, and by appt. ROWLES & COMPANY LTD 311 6 Ave SW - Plus 15 Level Calgary, AB T2P 3H2 T. 403-290-1612 F. 403-290-1942 rowles@telusplanet.net www.rowles.ab.ca Features over 100 western Canadian artists in original paintings, bronze, blown glass, metal, scrimshaw on moose antler, marble and soapstone. Specializing in corporate collections and gifts, the gallery offers consultation for special commissions, packaging and complete fulfillment for a wide variety of corporate projects. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5 pm. RUBERTO OSTBERG GALLERY 2108 18 St NW Calgary, AB T2M 3T3 T. 403-289-3388 ostberganna@hotmail.com This bright exhibition space in the residential community of Capitol Hill shows a variety of www.gallerieswest.ca
contemporary art styles and media in an inner city location for artists and art lovers to meet and interact. Some of the work is produced onsite by artists working in the adjoining Purple Door Art Studio space. Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm.
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SKEW GALLERY 1615 10 Ave SW Calgary, AB T3C 0J7 T. 403-244-4445 ebvisualarts@shaw.ca www.skewgallery.com A recently-opened contemporary art gallery, offering an opportunity for both the uninitiated and the seasoned collector to view or acquire a dynamic range of painting, sculpture and photography from across Canada. Specializing in theme group exhibitions, with a focus on presenting topical art in an informed context. Monthly rotation of shows. Tues to Sat 10 am 5 pm and by appt. STEPHEN LOWE ART GALLERY 2nd level, Bow Valley Square III, 251, 255 - 5 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 3G6 T. 403-261-1602 F. 403-261-2981 stephenloweartgallery@shaw.ca www.stephenloweartgallery.ca Specializing in fine art orginals by distinguished Canadian artists of national and international acclaim for 25 years. Offers an excellent selection of outstanding paintings and sculptures in landscapes, florals, still life, and figurative in contemporary and traditional styles. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. STONE FISH ARTS 1403a 9 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 0T4 T. 403-640-2381 stonefish@stonefisharts.com www.stonefisharts.com Stone Fish is a warm and inviting urban gallery housed within a charming historic space in the heart of Inglewood. The gallery proudly showcases original works of both emerging and established contemporary artists and photographers. Stone Fishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relaxed yet creatively charged atmosphere truly connects artists with collectors and art lovers alike. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm, Thur till 7 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.
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SUNCATCHER DESIGN STUDIO 206-1235 26 Ave SE, 2nd level, Crossroads Market Calgary, AB T2G 1R7 T. 403-265-6200 F. 403-278-6299 elizabeth@heartishome.com www.suncatchersdesigns.com Established in 1976, the gallery is nestled in an alcove surrounded by the arts and culture of Artspace and specializes in custom stained glass and sandcarved glass. They also offer fused and blown glass, Larry Guterson ceramics, jewellery, antiques and paintings. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re invited to discover, linger and enjoy. Fri 4 pm - 9 pm, Sat and Sun 10 am - 5 pm or by appt. THE PETERS GALLERY 100-550 6 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 0S2 T. 403-269-3475 F. 403-269-3475 thepetersgallery@shaw.ca www.thepetersgallery.com Established in 1993, this eclectic gallery represents important traditional and contemporary Canadian artists featuring quality original works of art... paintings, sculpture, glass and works on paper. They assist both first-time buyers and the seasoned collector to make informed choices for their personal or corporate collections. Mon - Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Thur till 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 4 pm. TRĂ&#x2C6;PANIERBAER 105, 999 8 St SW Calgary, AB T2R 1J5 T. 403-244-2066 F. 403-244-2094 info@tbg1.com www.trepanierbaer.com A progressive and friendly commercial gallery specializing in the exhibition and sale of Canadian and international art. In addition to representing well-known senior and mid-career artists, the gallery also maintains an active and successful program for the presentation of younger emerging Canadian artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm and by appointment. VIRGINIA CHRISTOPHER FINE ART 816 11 Ave SW Summer 2005 Galleries West 57
Calgary, AB T2R 0E5 T. 403-263-4346 F. 403-262-9644 info@virginiachristopherfineart.com www.virginiachristopherfineart.com Dealer since 1980 in major works by established Canadian contemporary artists. Recently relocated. Solo and group exhibitions change monthly. Diverse inventory of original paintings, sculpture, hand-dyed silk, works on paper, and ceramics. Works by David Alexander, Maxwell Bates, Terry Fenton, Les Graff, Douglas Haynes, Luke Lindoe estate, Leslie Poole and other important Canadian artists. Wed to Fri noon - 6 pm, Sat - 5 pm, Sun - 4 pm. WALLACE GALLERIES 500 5 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 3L5 T. 403-262-8050 F. 403-264-7112 colette@wallacegalleries.com www.wallacegalleries.com Specializes in Canadian contemporary original art. Features some of Canada’s leading artists including Ted Godwin, Kenneth Lochhead, Vivian Thierfelder, Alain Attar, Les Thomas, Brian Atyeo and Jeff de Boer. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. WEBSTER GALLERIES 812 - 11 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2R 0E5 T. 403-263-6500 F. 403-263-6501 info@webstergalleries.com www.webstergalleries.com Since 1980, Webster Galleries Inc. has been a leading specialist in stone sculpture and offers a large collection of Inuit sculpture, oils, watercolours, bronzes, pencil works, ceramics and hand-pulled prints within 10,000 square feet of gallery space. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm; Sun 1 pm - 4 pm.
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Cooperative Galleries ARTPOINT GALLERY AND STUDIOS 1139 - 11 St SE Calgary, AB T2G 3G1 T. 403-265-6867 F. 403-265-6867 info@artpoint.ca www.artpoint.ca Housed just behind the CPR tracks in Ramsay, the gallery is home to over 40 artists and members of the artpoint society. In the Upstairs and Downstairs Galleries, members and invited art groups show their work in monthly changing exhibitions — from painting to sculpture; photography to textiles. Turn E from 8 St onto 11 Ave SE and follow gravel road. Thurs & Fri 1 pm - 5 pm, Sat 11 am to 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm, or by appointment. BRIC GALLERY 227 35 Ave NE Calgary, AB T2E 2K5 T. 403-520-0707 bowriverclayworks@hotmail.com CENTENNIAL GALLERY 133-125 9 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 0P6 T. 403-266-6783 macland@shaw.ca A unique, artist-run gallery offering excellent quality representational, impressionistic and abstract art work since 1975 — paintings in all media, hand-pulled prints, wall hangings, and functional and decorative pottery and handblown glass, all by local artists who work at the gallery. Tues to Sat 11 am - 4 pm, (also Mon from May to Oct). East end of the Calgary Tower complex, opposite Glenbow Museum. Public Galleries ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE GALLERY 1221 2 St SW, 2nd floor Calgary, AB T2R 0W5 T. 403-245-5662 F. 403-244-3911 director@afcalgary.ca www.afcalgary.ca/ Located in the heritage Memorial Park Building, the Alliance Française of Calgary offers a wide range of exhibitions in its new gallery. It promotes the visual arts and their multicultural aspects as an important expression of French civilization and also facilitates cultural activities offered in conjunction with French language classes. Mon to Fri 9:30 am - 1 pm, 2 pm - 5:30 pm; Sat 9:30 am - 1 pm. ART GALLERY OF CALGARY 117 - 8 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 1B4 T. 403-770-1350 F. 403-264-8077 artinfo@artgallerycalgary.org www.artgallerycalgary.org
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DEVO ART GALLERY 317 7 Ave SW, 4th Flr TD Square Calgary, AB T. 403-268-1388 GLENBOW MUSEUM 130 - 9 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 0P3 T. 403-268-4100 F. 403-262-4045 glenbow@glenbow.org www.glenbow.org/ The colourful history of Canada’s West comes alive at Western Canada’s largest museum. Discover the diverse people, stories and events that shaped this region. Glimpse the world beyond Western Canada through special exhibitions and their own eclectic, international collections. Daily 9 am - 5 pm, Thur till 9 pm. Adult $14; Sen $10.50; Stu $9; under 6 free; family $43.75. Glenbow Shop open daily 10 am - 5:30 pm, Thur till 9 pm. ILLINGWORTH KERR GALLERY Alberta College of Art & Design, 1407 14 Ave NW Calgary, T2N 4R3 T. 403-284-7633 F. 403-289-6682 ron.mopett@acad.ab.ca www.acad.ab.ca/galleries/ikg/gate.cfm LEIGHTON ART CENTRE Box 9, Site 31, R.R. 8 Calgary, Alberta T2J 2T9 T. 403-931-3633 F. 403-931-3673 info@leightoncentre.org Situated on 80 acres of rolling foothills 15 minutes southwest of Calgary, the former home of landscape painter A.C. Leighton represents 50 years in Canadian landscape painting. Changing exhibitions/sales and workshops on painting techniques for various skill levels from beginners to accomplished artists. Located south on Macleod Tr to Spruce Meadows Tr west to 37 St (Hwy 773) and south (then west and south) to 266 Ave W (bottom of big hill, west and south on winding road) to Leighton Centre. Museum entrance 50 yds south of Centre. Tues to Sat 10 am - 4 pm. MARION NICOLL GALLERY Alberta College of Art & Design 1407 14 Ave NW Calgary, AB T2N 4R3 T. 403-284-7625 F. 403-289-6682 mng@acadsa.ca www.acad.ab.ca/galleries/mng/gate.cfm MUSEUM OF THE REGIMENTS GALLERIES 4520 Crowchild Tr SW Calgary, AB T3E 1T8 T. 403-240-9723 F. 403-686-1280 morcd@telus.net www.museumoftheregiments.ca THE NICKLE ARTS MUSEUM University of Calgary 434 Collegiate Bd NW Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 T. 403-220-7234 F. 403-282-4742 nickle@ucalgary.ca www.ucalgary.ca/~nickle A broadly focused public gallery that is an integral part of the University of Calgary. 18 to 24 exhibitions per year focus on contemporary western Canadian art and on numismatics, reflecting the museum’s two major collections. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Thur to 9 pm, Sat 1 pm - 5 pm (May through Aug, Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm only). TRIANGLE GALLERY OF VISUAL ART 104-800 Macleod Tr SE Calgary, AB T2G 2M3 T. 403-262-1737 F. 403-262-1764 jacek@trianglegallery.com www.trianglegallery.com Dedicated to the presentation of contemporary Canadian visual arts, architecture and design within a context of international art, the gallery is engaged in the advancement of knowledge and understanding of contemporary art practices through a balanced program of visual art exhibitions to the public of Calgary and visitors. Admission fee: Adults - $2.00; Senior/Students $1.00; Family - $5.00; Members of the Triangle Gallery - Free. Annual Membership - $25.00. Free admission on Thursdays. Tues to Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Sat noon - 4 pm. To advertise your gallery in Sources, please call 403234-7097 (from Calgary) or toll free 866-697-2002 (elsewhere in Canada).
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CAMROSE, AB Commercial Gallery CANDLER ART GALLERY 5002 50 St Camrose, AB T4V 1R2 T. 780-672-8401 F. 780-679-4121 Toll Free: 1 888 672-8401 candler@syban.net www.candlerartgallery.com Fresh, vibrant and alive describe both the artwork and the experience when you visit this recently restored gallery. You will discover a diverse group of both emerging and established artists all well priced. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 9:30 am - 5 pm. Or by appt. CANMORE, AB Commercial Galleries ELEVATION 1309 204-709 Main St Canmore, AB T1W 2B2 T. 403-609-3324 baxterc@telus.net www.elevation1309.com THE AVENS GALLERY 104-709 Main St Canmore, AB T1W 2B2 T. 403-678-4471 theavensgallery@telusplanet.net www.theavensgallery.com Established in 1980, the gallery features original paintings, both abstract and representational, primarily by local artists, along with fine jewellery and other works in a variety of media including glass, clay and metal. Daily 10 am - 6 pm. (Closed Mon in shoulder seasons.) THE CORNER GALLERY 705 Main St, Box 8110 Canmore, AB T1W 2T8 T. 403-678-6090 Toll Free: 1 800 649-7948 www.cornergallery.com Original works by Canadian artists — Elaine Fleming, Mike Svob, Tinyan, Min Ma and Vilem Zach. Paintings, pottery, bronze, soapstone, jade, photography and raku. Phone for hours. Public Gallery CANMORE LIBRARY GALLERY 950 8 Ave Canmore, AB T1W 2T1 webmaster@caag.ca www.caag.ca COCHRANE, AB Commercial Galleries STUDIO WEST BRONZE FOUNDRY & ART GALLERY PO Box 550 205 - 2 Ave SE, Industrial Park Cochrane, AB T4C 1A7 T. 403-932-2611 F. 403-932-2705 Original bronze works both finished and in progress at Canada’s largest sculpture foundry. Free tours of the lost-wax methods of bronze casting. Also paintings, western prints, Pioneer Women’s Museum, artifacts and more. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5 pm, evenings by appointment and call (403) 932-2611 for weekend hours. In Cochrane, 15 min from Calgary on Hwy 1A. WESTLANDS ART GALLERY 118 - 2 Ave W Cochrane, AB T4C 1B2 T. 403-932-3030 F. 403-932-7810 look@westlandsart.com www.westlandsart.com Canadian First Nations rare and original works, Inuit and aboriginal soapstone sculpture, plus Alberta landscape photographs, raku and functional pottery, metal work and coppersmithing and stained glass from local artisans. Mon to Fri 10:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm. In Cochrane, 15 min from Calgary on Hwy 1A. DIDSBURY, AB Commercial Galleries GILDED GALLERY 106-2034 19 Ave (Box 2004) Didsbury, AB T0M 0W0 T. 403-335-8735 F. 403-335-8736 alison@gildedgallery.com www.gildedgallery.com Specializing in original works by emerging artists www.gallerieswest.ca
of Central Alberta, the gallery shows more than 120 works by over 20 artists. The approachable and welcoming atmosphere is ideal for browsing and buying. Full custom framing services available. Portrait commissions by Sharon Dunbar. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm, or by appt. DONALDA, AB Public Gallery DONALDA GALLERY FOR THE ARTS 5002 Main St Donalda, AB T0B 1H0 T. 403-883-2255 Donaldag@telusplanet.net www.donaldagallery.com A crossroads for art creators and art appreciators, the gallery is located in the historic Imperial Bank of Canada building with a commanding view of the Meeting Creek valley. Features a permanent exhibition of ceramics, water colours and oil paintings by native son, Luke Lindoe along with changing exhibitions by professional, emerging and beginning artists from the area. Just north of Stettler at Hwy 53. Open May through October.
5002 - 50 Street Camrose, AB T4V 1R2 1-888-672-8401 www.candlerartgallery.com candler@syban.net
Featuring Parkland Prairie Artists Jewelled Forest 30" x 48" acrylic on canvas by Diana Zasadny
Art Supplies, Complete Framing Department, Prints, Posters, Gifts
EDMONTON, AB NOTE: Some numbers on the Edmonton Map may refer to more than one gallery in close proximity.
Artist-run Galleries LATITUDE 53 10248 106 St Edmonton, AB T5J 1H5 T. 780-423-5353 F. 780-424-9117 info@latitude53.org www.latitude53.org SNAP GALLERY 10137 104 St Edmonton, AB T5J 0Z9 T. 780-423-1492 F. 780-424-9117 snap@snapartists.com www.snapartists.com Established in 1982 as an independent, cooperatively-run fine art printshop, the SNAP (Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists) mandate is to promote, facilitate and communicate print and print-related contemporary production. A complete print shop and related equipment are available to members. Ten exhibitions are scheduled each year. Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm. Commercial Galleries AGNES BUGERA GALLERY 12310 Jasper Ave Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5 T. 780-482-2854 F. 780-482-2591 info@agnesbugeragallery.com www.agnesbugeragallery.com In the art gallery business since 1975, Agnes Bugera is pleased to continue representing an excellent group of established and emerging Canadian artists. Spring and Fall solo exhibitions offer a rich variety of quality fine art including landscape, still life, figurative and abstract paintings as well as sculpture. New works by gallery artists are featured throughout the year. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm and by appointment. ART BEAT GALLERY 26 St Anne St St Albert, AB T8N 1E9 T. 780-459-3679 F. 780-459-3677 artbeat@telusplanet.net www.artbeat.ab.ca Located in the Arts and Heritage District of St. Albert, this family-owned business specializes in original artwork by Western Canadian artists. Paintings in all media, sculpture, pottery, and art glass. Home and corporate consulting. Certified picture framer. Part of St. Albert Artwalk - May through August. Tues to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Thur to 8 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm. ART MODE GALLERY 12220 Jasper Ave Edmonton, AB T5N 3K3 T. 780-453-1555 Edmonton@artmode.com www.artmode.com Located just minutes from downtown, in the Gallery Walk district, the gallery is home to more than 50 Canadian artists and several internationally renowned artists. Many styles and media are represented including eastern and western Canadian landscapes. Art Mode Gallery is also located in Calgary and Ottawa.
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Alberta Comm un Art Clubs Asso ity ciation Central Zone Show May 14 - 23, 2005
Permanent exhibition Works by Luke Lindoe in a variety of media
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Open May to October, call ahead for hours
5002 Main Street, Donalda, AB T0B 1H0 (Just north of Stettler at Hwy 53)
403-883-2255
“Three Ladies” Luke Lindoe
www.donaldagallery.com
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118 - 2 Avenue W, Cochrane, AB (20 minutes west of Calgary)
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BANYAN TREE GALLERY 10336 107 St Edmonton, AB T5J 1K2 T. 780-425-2727 F. 780-425-9037 banyangallery@shaw.ca This recently-opened gallery in the loft district focuses on established and emerging contemporary artists from India and Pakistan. The art is sought after by international collectors and has been selected to appeal to both collectors and those with a burgeoning interest in South Asian images. Complemented by antique Asian furniture, artbooks and jewellery. Tues to Sat 10:30 am - 6 pm, Thur till 8 pm. BEARCLAW GALLERY 10403 124 St Edmonton, AB T5N 3Z5 T. 780-482-1204 F. 780-488-0928 info@bearclawgallery.com www.bearclawgallery.com Specializes in Canadian First Nations and Inuit art from artists including Daphne Odjig, Norval Morriseau, Roy Thomas, Maxine Noel, Jim Logan, George Littlechild, Joane Cardinal Schubert, Jane Ash Poitras and David Morriseau. A wide variety of paintings, jade and Inuit soapstone carvings, and Navajo and Northwest coast jewellery. Mon 11 am - 5 pm, Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. CHRISTL BERGSTROM’S RED GALLERY 9621 Whyte (82) Ave Edmonton, AB T. 780-439-8210 F. 780-435-0429 christl@christlbergstrom.com www.christlbergstrom.com This storefront gallery and studio, in the Mill Creek area of Old Strathcona, features the work of Edmonton artist Christl Bergstrom. The gallery is featuring “Flesh - Beyond the Surface”, provocative paintings by Christl that explore beyond the skin of the canvas. The gallery also displays other recent and past work including still lifes, portraits, nudes and landscapes. Mon to Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Sat by appt. 60 Galleries West Summer 2005
DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY 10332 124 St Edmonton, AB T5N 1R2 T. 780-488-4445 F. 780-488-8335 dug@douglasudellgallery.com www.douglasudellgallery.com In the art business in Edmonton since 1967, and Vancouver since 1986, Douglas Udell Gallery represents many of Canada’s leading contemporary artists as well as some of the leading young artists gaining momentum in the international playing field. The gallery also buys and sells in the secondary market in Canadian historical as well as international. Tues to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Mon by appt. ELECTRUM DESIGN STUDIO & GALLERY 12419 Stony Plain Rd Edmonton, AB T5N 3N3 T. 780-482-1402 F. 780-482-1347 electrum@compusmart.ab.ca www.gallery-walk.com/electrum EVERGREEN GALLERY 2-20 McLeod Ave Spruce Grove, AB T7X 3Y1 T. 780-962-6222 F. 780-962-6247 grant@evergreengallery.ab.ca www.evergreengallery.ab.ca Established in 1995, the gallery presents origional artwork by western Canadian artists such as Mel and Fran Heath, Karen Findlay, and Frances Alty-Arscott and pottery by Noboru Kubo, bronze sculpture by Roy Leadbeater, soapstone carvings by Roy Hinz and glass Art by Martha Henry and Jeff Holmwood. Selected a “Top 100 Art And Framing Retailer” by Decor Home magazine in 2003 and 2004. Mon to Fri 9:30 am - 6 pm, Thurs till 8 pm, Sat 9 am - 5 pm. FRINGE GALLERY 10516 Whyte Ave - lower Edmonton, AB T6E 2A4 T. 780-432-0240 F. 780-439-5447
FRONT GALLERY 12312 Jasper Ave Edmonton, AB T5N 3K6 T. 780-488-2952 F. 780-488-2952 frontgal@telusplanet.net Located in Edmonton’s gallery walk district. Since opening in 1979 the gallery has specialized in exhibiting fine art and craft by Alberta artists, with exhibitions changing every three weeks. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. GALLERY DE JONGE 27022A Highway 16A Spruce Grove, AB T7X 3M1 T. 780-962-9505 ena@gallerydejonge.com www.gallerydejonge.com Established in 1995 in a country setting just 15 minutes west of Edmonton, the gallery represents original fine art by Western Canadian artists such as Mary Masters, Beth Coulas and Earl Cummins. Also featured is pottery, raku work, porcelain and other one of a kind gift items for functional as well as decorative uses. Follow Stony Plain Road west 15 km past 170 Street. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. JOHNSON GALLERY SOUTH SIDE 7711 85 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6C 3B4 T. 780-465-6171 info@johnsongallery.ca www.johnsongallery.ca LANDO GALLERY 11130 - 105 Ave NW Edmonton, AB T5H 0L5 T. 780-990-1161 F. 780-990-1153 mail@landogallery.com www.landogallery.com Edmonton’s newest commercial art gallery in the centre of Edmonton was established as Lando Fine Art in 1990 by private art dealer Brent Luebke. It will continue to provide superior quality Canadian and international fine art, fine crafts, custom framing, art leasing, appraisals and collection management. The
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gallery also buys and sells Canadian and international secondary market fine art. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 4:30 pm, or by appt. MURUNGO GALLERY 10614 124 St Edmonton, AB T5N 1S3 T. 780-433-5504 Toll Free: 1 866 717-9485 murungo@telusplanet.net www.murungogallery.com A major piece by internationally-recognized Shona sculptor Lazarus Tandi is at the centre of a variety of stone sculptures from Zimbabwe. This import gallery prides itself on purchasing each piece directly from the artist. A selection of generally smaller specialty objects complements the sculpture. Tue to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. NORTHERN IMAGES GALLERY 2113 West Edmonton Mall, 8770 170 St Edmonton, AB T5T 3J7 T. 780-444-1995 F. 780-481-0530 NI.Edmonton@ArcticCo-op.com www.ArcticCo-op.com Canada’s leading retailer of Inuit and Dene art from the Arctic. Specializing in soapstone carvings, tapestries, original prints, jewellery, beaded slippers and glassworks. Located on the Upper Level, Phase 1, West Edmonton Mall. Mon to Fri 10 am - 9 pm, Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. ROWLES & COMPANY LTD 10130 103 St, Mezz Level Edmonton, AB T5J 3N9 T. 780-426-4035 F. 780-429-2787 rowles@telusplanet.net www.rowles.ab.ca Features over 100 western Canadian artists in original paintings, bronze, blown glass, metal, scrimshaw on moose antler, marble and soapstone. Specializing in corporate collections and gifts, the gallery offers consultation for special commissions, packaging and complete fulfillment for a wide variety of corporate projects. www.gallerieswest.ca
SADDLERY GALLERY 10137 104 St Edmonton, AB T5J 0Z9 T. 780-423-4484 This new gallery prides itself on building community, sharing inspiration. Tues to Sat 10 am 7 pm. SCOTT GALLERY 10411 124 St Edmonton, AB T5N 3Z5 T. 780-488-3619 F. 780-488-4826 info@scottgallery.com www.scottgallery.com Established in 1986, the Scott Gallery features Canadian contemporary art representing over thirty established and emerging Canadian artists. Exhibits include paintings, works on paper including hand pulled prints and photography, ceramics and sculpture. Tues to Sat 10 am -5 pm. TU GALLERY 10718 124 St Edmonton, AB T5M 0H1 T. 780-452-9664 apaterson@tugallery.ca www.tugallery.ca TU Gallery is an innovative new gallery representing talented Canadian artists — blending beautifully handcrafted furniture, exquisite photographic art and archival quality picture framing into one very personal expression. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. VANDERLEELIE GALLERY 10183 112 St Edmonton, AB T5K 1M1 T. 780-452-0286 F. 780-451-1615 vag@vanderleelie.ab.ca www.vanderleelie.ab.ca Representing, since 1992, Canadian and European painters and sculptors at various stages of their professional development, Directors Robert and Elizabeth Vanderleelie share the conviction that showmanship is vitally important in distinguishing their gallery. Their creativity, enthusiasm, and technical know-how inform every aspect of the 15 exhibitions they mount every year. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. WEST END GALLERY 12308 Jasper Ave Edmonton, AB T5N 3K5 T. 780-488-4892 F. 780-488-4893 info@westendgalleryltd.com www.westendgalleryltd.com Established in 1975, this fine art gallery is known for representing leading artists from across Canada — paintings, sculpture and glass art in traditional and contemporary styles. Exhibitions via e-mail available by request. Second location in Victoria. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. Cooperative Galleries LITTLE CHURCH GALLERY 455 King St, PO Box 3511 Spruce Grove, AB T7X 3A8 T. 780-962-0664 F. 780-962-0664 alliedac@shaw.ca members.shaw.ca/alliedac Administered by the Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove, the gallery is housed in a church built in 1920. It shows original works by members of the Allied Arts Council, as well as a new featured artist every month. There are several member shows each year and an annual art competition open to all Alberta artists. Ongoing classes for both adults and children. Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm. THE STUDIO GALLERY 143 Grandin Park Plaza, 22 Sir Winston Churchill Ave St Albert, AB T8N 1B4 T. 780-460-5990 F. 780-458-7871 the-studio-gallery@telusplanet.net Public Galleries ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY 10186 106 St Edmonton, AB T5J 1H4 T. 780-488-5900 F. 780-488-8855 acc@albertacraft.ab.ca www.albertacraft.ab.ca Alberta’s only public gallery dedicated to fine craft presents four exhibitions in the main gallery each year. The Discovery Gallery features new work by ACC members. The gallery shop offers contemporary and traditional fine www.gallerieswest.ca
craft - pottery, blown glass, jewellery, woven and quilted fabrics, home accessories, furniture and much more - all hand-made by Alberta and Canadian craft artists. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS D’ALBERTA 9103 95 Ave Edmonton, AB T6C 1Z4 T. 780-461-3427 F. 780-461-4053 FAB GALLERY 3-98 Fine Arts Building, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2C9 T. 780-492-2081 bbrennan@ualberta.ca www.ualberta.ca/ARTDESIGN/html/ fab/index.html
Willock & Sax Gallery
Scott Gallery
Gallery of Fine Art & Photography
Canadian Fine Art
305 Windflower Avenue Waterton Lakes National Park Alberta 1.866.859.2220, 403.859.2274 www.willockandsaxgallery.com May 14-21
10411 124 Street Edmonton Alberta 780.488.3619 www.scottgallery.com
Concurrent Exhibitions
May 14-31
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY 10215 112 St - 3rd Flr Edmonton, AB T5K 1M7 T. 780-426-4180 F. 780-425-5523 harcourt@telusplanet.net www.harcourthouse.ab.ca The Arts Centre delivers a variety of services to both artists and the community, and acts as an essential alternative site for the presentation, distribution and promotion of contemporary art. The gallery presents 10 five-week exhibitions, from local, provincial and national artists, collectives and arts organizations as well as an annual members’ show. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat noon - 4 pm. MULTICULTURAL PUBLIC ART GALLERY 5411 51 St Stony Plain, AB T7Z 1X7 T. 780-963-2777 F. 780-963-0233 PROFILES PUBLIC ART GALLERY, ARTS & HERITAGE FOUNDATION 19 Perron St St Albert, AB T8N 1E5 T. 780-460-4310 F. 780-460-9349 ahfgallery@telus.net Located in the historic Banque d’Hochelaga in St. Albert, the gallery features contemporary art, usually by Alberta artists, who show their painting, sulpture, video, quilts, glass and ceramics at both the provincial and national level. Monthly exhibitions, adult lectures and workshops, “Looking at Art” school tours, art rental and sales plus a gallery gift shop. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Thurs till 8 pm.
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Opening May 14
PROVINCIAL MUSEUM OF ALBERTA 12845 102 Ave Edmonton, AB T5N 0M6 THE EDMONTON ART GALLERY 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq Edmonton, AB T5J 2C1 T. 780-422-6223 F. 780-426-3105 info@edmontonartgallery.com www.edmontonartgallery.com Founded in 1924, The Edmonton Art Gallery is the only museum in Alberta devoted strictly to the exhibition and preservation of art and visual culture. In conjunction with a full and varied exhibition schedule, the Gallery provides lectures, talks and seminars on art and art-related issues. Tues to Fri 10:30 am - 5 pm, Thurs till 8 pm, Sat, Sun 11 am - 5 pm, closed holidays. THE WORKS GALLERY AT COMMERCE PLACE 10150 Jasper Ave, Main Floor, Commerce Place Edmonton, AB T5J 1W4 T. 780-426-2122 F. 780-426-4673 theworks@telusplanet.net www.theworks.ab.ca VAAA GALLERY 10215 112 St, 3rd Flr Edmonton, AB T5N 1M7 T. 780-421-1731 F. 780-421-1857 Toll Free: 1 866 421-1731 visartaa@telusplanet.net www.visualartsalberta.ab.ca Visual Arts Alberta Association is a non-profit Provincial Arts Service Organization (PASO) for the visual arts which celebrates, supports and develops Alberta’s visual culture. The gallery hosts an ongoing exhibition schedule. Mon to Fri 10 am - 4 pm. To advertise your gallery in Sources, please call 403234-7097 (from Calgary) or toll free 866-697-2002 (elsewhere in Canada).
Aaron Paquette
Mon to Fri 9 am - 5 pm, Sat noon - 5 pm.
Bearclaw Gallery 10403-124 St. Edmonton, Alberta T5N 3Z5
TEL: 1+(780) 482-1204 info@bearclawgallery.com www.bearclawgallery.com
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26 St. Anne Street, St. Albert, AB (780) 459-3679 • www.artbeat.ab.ca
FORT MCMURRAY, AB
Winter Whyte Avenue, 30" x 40"
Kari Duke
Fine Art & Professional Custom Framing
Diversity "100"
during The 2005 Works Art & Design Festival
the vaaa gallery
presents. . .
June 23 - July 16
. . . an exhibition & sale marking the occasion of
Alberta's Centennial
showcasing the diverse talents of Alberta artists . . . for more information on membership, programs, or the VAAA Art Gallery, call
visual arts alberta
3rd flr, 10215 112 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 1M7 ph. 780.421.1731 toll. 1.866.421.1731 e.visartaa@telusplanet.net www.visualartsalberta.com
Commercial Gallery ARTWORKS GALLERY 9917 Biggs Ave Fort McMurray, AB T9H 1S2 T. 780-743-2887 F. 780-743-2330 info@artworksgallery.ca www.artworksgallery.ca Showcases paintings, bronze sculptures, glass, photography, jewellery, funky furniture, and other multimedia works. Also features Northern arts such as soapstone and wood carvings, caribou hair tuftings and birchbark bitings. Changing group exhibitions feature new works by gallery artists, including paintings by Alex Janvier, Frederick R. McDonald and Carol Breen, sculptures by Brian Clark, and various works by other Western Canadian artists. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 6 pm, Fri till 8 pm, or by appointment. Public Gallery KEYANO ART GALLERY 8115 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray, AB T9H 2H7 T. 780-791-8979 Public Gallery PRAIRIE ART GALLERY 10209 99 St Grande Prairie, AB T8V 2H3 T. 780-532-8111 F. 780-539-9522 pag@telusplanet.net www.prairiegallery.com Located in the restored Central Park School building, a Provincial Historical Resource, the gallery is celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2005 as the only major public art gallery in north-western Alberta. Maintains a rigorous exhibition schedule and is a regular contributor to the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat and Sun 1 pm - 5 pm. Closed statutory holidays. HIGH RIVER, AB Commercial Galleries ART AND SOUL GALLERY 124 6 Ave SW High River, AB T1V 1A1 T. 403-601-3713 art@artandsoul.ab.ca www.artandsoul.ab.ca Annie Froese’s working studio/gallery presents paintings in a variety of media, ceramic arts, glass, weaving, furniture and jewellery. In addition to Annie’s own pieces, many of the original works shown are by teachers and mentors or simply the work of artists she has admired. Located about 1/2 hour south of Calgary. Wed to Sat 11 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 4 pm. TWO FEATHERS GALLERY 153 Macleod Tr, PO Box 5457 High River, AB T1V 1M6 T. 403-652-1024 F. 403-652-1026 rbarstad@rbarstad.com www.rbarstad.com
Sat 10:30 am - 5:30 pm. Winter Hours: Tues to Sat noon - 5 pm. LETHBRIDGE, AB Commercial Galleries COULEE RIDGE ART GALLERY Lethbridge Centre Mall, 217-200 4 Ave S Lethbridge, AB T1J 4C9 T. 403-380-2210 F. 403-380-2219 art@couleeridge.com www.couleeridge.com JERRY ARNOLD GALLERY 604 3 Ave S Lethbridge, AB T1J 0H4 T. 403-320-2341 www.jerryarnoldgallery.com TRIANON GALLERY 104 5 St S - Upstairs Lethbridge, AB T1J 2B2 T. 403-380-2787 F. 403-329-1654 Toll Free: 1 866 380-2787 trianon@savillarchitecture.com www.savillarchitecture.com Public Galleries BOWMAN ARTS CENTRE 811 5 Ave S Lethbridge, AB T1J 0V2 T. 403-327-2813 F. 403-327-6118 aacbac@shaw.ca members.shaw.ca/aacbac SOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERY 601 3 Ave S Lethbridge, AB T1J 0H4 T. 403-327-8770 F. 403-328-3913 svansluys@saag.ca www.saag.ca One of Canada’s foremost public galleries, SAAG fosters the work of contemporary visual artists who push the boundaries of their medium. Regularly changing exhibitions are featured in three distinct gallery spaces. Learning programs, film screenings and special events further contribute to local culture. Gift Shop and a Resource Library. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 5 pm. UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE ART GALLERY W600, Centre for the Arts, 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4 T. 403-329-2666 F. 403-382-7115 galleryinfo@uleth.ca www.uleth.ca/sfa-gal/ MEDICINE HAT, AB Public Galleries CULTURE CENTRE GALLERY 299 College Dr SE Medicine Hat, AB T1A 3Y6 T. 403-529-3806 F. 403-504-3554 cultural@city.medicine-hat.ab.ca www.memlane.com/nonprofit/ccga
JASPER, AB Commercial Gallery THE GALLERY AT JASPER PARK LODGE Beauvert Promenade, Box 1651 Jasper, AB T0E 1E0 T. 780-852-5378 F. 780-852-7292 Toll Free: 1 888 310-9726 jasper@mountaingalleries.com www.mountaingalleries.com Sophisticated contemporary art — abstract impressionism to magic realism. Museum quality sculpture, stone, clay and bronze. The gallery continues to feature the paintings of Canadian icon Doris McCarthy, as well as 20 leading western Canadian painters. New works can be viewed on web site. Other locations at Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel and Fairmont Chateau Whistler in Whistler, BC. Daily 8 am 10 pm.
Celebrating Visual Culture
62 Galleries West Summer 2005
LACOMBE, AB Commercial Gallery THE GALLERY ON MAIN 4910 50 Ave, 2nd Flr Lacombe, AB T4L 1Y1 T. 403-782-3402 F. 403-782-3405 artstop@telus.net Located just off Hwy. 2 in the heart of Historic Downtown Lacombe, this gallery boasts the largest selection of original art in central Alberta. Representing over 60 Alberta artists, the gallery’s selection covers a wide variety of media. Mon to
MEDICINE HAT MUSEUM & ART GALLERY 1302 Bomford Cres SW Medicine Hat, AB T1A 5E6 T. 403-502-8580 F. 403-502-8589 mhmag@city.medicine-hat.ab.ca Exhibition space closed temporarily pending move to the new Esplanade centre in September 2005. MOUNTAIN VIEW, AB Commercial Gallery THE CURIOUS BIRD South side Hwy 5, PO Box 136 Mountain View, AB T0K 1N0 T. 403-653-1155 handz@telusplanet.net Artist-owned gallery specializes in original twoand three-dimensional art from emerging artists and artisans in Southern Alberta. The gallery also offers a unique line of original fine art note cards and hand painted sweatshirts. Open daily May 1 to Sept 30, wknds only in Apr and Oct. OKOTOKS, AB Public Gallery THE STATION CULTURAL CENTRE PO Bag 20, 53 North Railway St Okotoks, AB T1S 1K1 T. 403-938-3204 F. 403-938-8963 tward@okotoks.ca www.gallerieswest.ca
RED DEER, AB Commercial Gallery THE FRITZ GALLERY 4831 53 St Red Deer, AB T4N 2E7 T. 403-309-2420 thefritz@shaw.ca This recently-opened gallery prides itself on originality — from the homelike setting and artinspired furniture to the paintings, sculpture, pottery and jewellery created by senior and emerging Alberta artists. Thur 4 pm - 8 pm, Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm. Public Gallery RED DEER & DISTRICT MUSEUM 4525 47a Ave Red Deer, AB T4N 6Z6 T. 403-309-8405 F. 403-342-6644 museum@museum.red-deer.ab.ca www.museum.red-deer.ab.ca WATERTON LAKES, AB Commercial Galleries GUST GALLERY 112A Waterton Ave Waterton Lakes, AB T0K 2M0 T. 403-859-2535 gustgal@telusplanet.net The Gust Gallery embraces the art and landscapes of Southern Alberta reflected by the extraordinary talents of artists working in 2 and 3 dimensional mediums. Open daily mid-May to end-September. WILLOCK & SAX GALLERY Box 85, 305 Windflower Ave Waterton Lakes, AB TOK 2MO T. 866-859-2220 fineart@willockandsaxgallery.com www.willockandsaxgallery.com The gallery strives to cultivate aesthetic appreciation of the natural grandeur of the environment and concern for the world by offering a thoughtful collection of fine art. Featured artist exhibits complement a broad collection in all media types and styles. Purchase plans, commissions, corporate sales, installation and world wide shipping. Daily, May 1 to Oct 31. By appointment or call for hours, Nov to April.
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INVERMERE, BC Commercial Galleries BAVIN GLASSWORKS 4884A Athalmer Road RR 3 Invermere, BC V0A 1K3 T. 250-342-6816 glass@rockies.net Established in 1988, the Glassworks is a handson, father-and-son, working operation with an inhouse hot glass shop, glass beadmaking shop and glass fusing shop where visitors can watch the artists work. The attached gallery displays their art and that of 37 other artists who work in glass, clay and metal. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat till 5:30 pm. (Also open Sun, mid-May to mid-Sep.) THE ARTYM GALLERY 934 7 Ave, Box 235 Invermere, BC V0A 1K0 T. 250-342-7566 F. 250-342-7565 info@artymgallery.com www.artymgallery.com KAMLOOPS, BC Commercial Gallery HAMPTON GALLERY KAMLOOPS 167 4 Ave Kamloops, BC V2C 3N3 T. 250-374-2400 F. 250-374-2400 hamptongallery@telus.net www.hamptongalleries.com Since its opening in 1994, Hampton Gallery has earned a reputation for excellence in the local community, and it has become a destination spot for art lovers travelling through the interior of British Columbia. Hampton Gallery represents approximately 40 regionally and nationally acclaimed artists. Mon 11 am - 3 pm, Tues to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 4 pm. Public Gallery KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY 101-465 Victoria St Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9 T. 250-377-2400 F. 250-828-0662 kamloopsartgallery@kag.bc.ca www.kag.bc.ca
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WILDWOOD, AB KELOWNA, BC Commercial Gallery WILDWOOD GALLERY AND STUDIO Box 623, 5410 50 St Wildwood, AB T0E 2M0 T. 780-325-3904 F. 780-325-3907 patdimarcello@msn.ca Sun, and holidays 11 am - 5 pm or by appt.
BRITISH COLUMBIA GALLERIES ABBOTSFORD, BC Commercial Gallery CHARISMA GALLERY 33339 S Fraser Way Abbotsford, BC V2S 2B2 T. 604-852-3999 F. 604-852-3315 Toll Free: 1 866 852-3999 info@charismagallery.com www.charismagallery.com Founded in 1983, the gallery shows a wide selection of original artworks and limited edition prints by Canadian and international artists. Owner Rod Bishop is pleased at the development of a West Coast style of art and notes its emergence in the collector community. He has an ongoing commitment to connect the artist with the collector in a relaxed atmosphere. Mon to Sat 9 am - 5:30 pm. COURTENAY, BC Public Galleries COMOX VALLEY ART GALLERY 367 4 St Courtenay, BC V9N 1G8 T. 250-338-6211 F. 250-338-6287 cvag@mars.ark.com mars.ark.com/~cvag/ THE MUIR GALLERY 440 Anderton Ave, PO Box 3053 Courtenay, BC V9N 5N3 T. 250-334-2983 F. 250-334-2934 www.gallerieswest.ca
Artist-run Gallery ALTERNATOR GALLERY FOR CONTEMPORARY ART PO Box 5090 Stn A 421 Cawston Ave Kelowna, BC V1Y 8T9 T. 250-868-2298 F. 250-868-2896 alternator@telus.net www.alternatorgallery.com Commercial Galleries ART ARK GALLERY 135-1295 Cannery Lane Kelowna, BC V1Y 9V8 T. 250-862-5080 F. 250-862-5049 artark@okdomains.org www.theartark.com A spacious contemporary art gallery featuring paintings, sculpture, mixed media, artist prints, photography and fine crafts. The gallery showcases the diversity and skill of accomplished and established artists and provides a venue for introducing exceptional emerging ones. It is comprised of six exhibition spaces with shows changing monthly. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm. GEERT MAAS SCULPTURE GARDENS AND GALLERY 250 Reynolds Road Kelowna, BC V1V 2G7 T. 250-860-7012 F. 250-860-0494 maas@geertmaas.org www.geertmaas.org HAMBLETON GALLERIES 781 Bernard Ave Kelowna, BC V1Y 6P6 T. 250-860-2498 F. 250-868-4841 info@hambletongalleries.com www.hambletongalleries.com/ Since its establishment in 1964, the Hambleton has provided an extraordinary showcase for leading Canadian artists whose works presently grace many national and international private and corporate collections. In its heritage setting, owners Stewart and Tracy Turcotte have added
Hampton Gallery Ltd. ODJIG CELEBRATION OF LIFE June 18 to June 30, 2005 View the exhibition online: www.hamptongalleries.com 167 4th Avenue Kamloops BC V2C 3N3 Tel: (250) 374-2400 Summer 2005 Galleries West 63
ceramics, wood carvings and bronze sculpture to complement the paintings. Tues to Sat 10 am 5:30 pm. TURTLE ISLAND GALLERY 115-1295 Cannery Lane Kelowna, BC V1Y 9V8 T. 250-717-8235 info@turtleislandgallery.com www.turtleislandgallery.com The gallery has a stunning selection of Northwest Coast wood carvings including ceremonial masks, totem poles, talking sticks, plaques, and bentwood style boxes and a few Cree and Ojibway artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; works from eastern Canada. Also stone carvings, jewellery, original paintings and limited edition prints both contemporary and traditional. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm (Summer only: extended Thur, Fri till 8 pm, Sun 11 am - 4 pm). TUTT STREET GALLERY 9-3045 Tutt St Kelowna, BC V1Y 2H4 T. 250-861-4992 F. 250-861-4992 staff@tuttstreetgallery.com www.tuttstreetgallery.com Visitors will find outstanding original Canadian art works by regionally and nationally-acclaimed artists â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in oils, acrylics and water colour, as well as magnificent steel sculptures. There is an exciting variety of work from representational to abstract, to suit all fine art preferences. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm or by appt.
T. 250-493-2928 F. 250-493-3992 agso@telus.net www.galleries.bc.ca/agso The gallery presents contemporary art and historical exhibitions of both established and emerging artists in four exhibition spaces. A place of inquiry, interest and enjoyment, the AGSO proudly promotes Okanagan as well as provincial and national artists. Admission: Adults $2, students and children free, weekends free. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat and Sun noon - 5 pm. PRINCE GEORGE, BC Public Gallery TWO RIVERS GALLERY OF PRINCE GEORGE & REGION 725 Civic Plaza Prince George, BC V2A 1H3 T. 250-614-7800 F. 250-563-3211 Toll Free: 1 888 221-1155 info@tworiversartgallery.com www.tworiversartgallery.com QUALICUM BAY, BC Commercial Gallery QUALICUM BAY SEASIDE GALLERY 6161 West Island Highway Qualicum Bay, BC V9K 2E3 T. 250-757-9180 eife@shaw.ca www.qualicumgalleryc.com SALT SPRING ISLAND, BC
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Public Gallery KELOWNA ART GALLERY 1315 Water St Kelowna, BC V1Y 9R3 T. 250-762-2226 F. 250-762-9875 kelowna.artgallery@shaw.ca www.kelownaartgallery.com Founded in 1976, the gallery serves the central Okanagan Valley with a variety of exhibitions and education programs for all ages. The new 15,000 square foot facility, opened in 1996, offers three gallery spaces. The Treadgold/ Bullock Gallery, The Reynolds Gallery and the Rotary Courtyard. Admission: members free, individual $4, senior $3, student $3, family $8, children under 12 free, Thur 3 pm - 9 pm by donation. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm Thur till 9 pm, Sun 1 pm - 4 pm. NANAIMO, BC Commercial Gallery GALLERY 223 223 Commercial St Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G8 T. 250-741-1188 F. 250-741-0868 gallery@gallery223.ca www.gallery223.ca Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a classic coastal landscape or something funky by innovative and engaging new artists, Gallery 223 offers a fresh approach to enjoying fine art â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an extraordinary selection of original paintings, ceramics, glass, wood carvings and stone sculptures in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studios, art education facilities, an art supplies store and custom framing. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. (Also Sun from Apr - Sep.) Public Gallery NANAIMO ART GALLERY 150 Commercial Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G6 T. 250-754-1750 info@nanaimogallery.ca www.nanaimogallery.ca PENTICTON, BC
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Commercial Gallery THE LLOYD GALLERY 598 Main St Penticton, BC V2A 5C7 T. 250-492-4484 art@lloydgallery.com www.lloydgallery.com Experience the beauty of the Okanagan through artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes. Browse through four large viewing galleries hung French salon-style. Original oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, mixed media and sculptures depict the many faces of the Okanagan, Canada, Europe and Asia. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm. Public Gallery ART GALLERY OF THE SOUTH OKANAGAN 199 Marina Way Penticton, BC V2A 1H3
Commercial Galleries J. MITCHELL GALLERY 3104 Grace Point Square, Ganges Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2T9 T. 250-537-8822 jmitchellgallery@saltspring.com www.jmitchellgallery.com Representing 40 Island contemporary artists and artisans distinguished by the quality of their work and their fresh, innovative approaches to the diverse range of media in which they work. Monthly solo shows feature outstanding original works including many that achieve beautiful blends of form and function. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun 11 am - 3 pm. JILL LOUISE CAMPBELL ART GALLERY 3-110 Purvis Lane Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2S5 T. 250-537-1589 F. 250-537-9766 Toll Free: 1 800 474-6705 saltspring@jlcgallery.com www.jlcgallery.com This European-inspired gallery, located on the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge, is the charming setting for popular island artist, Jill Louise Campbell. Her impressionist paintings of the American Southwest, Europe, Pacific Northwest and now Tibet, are collected by thousands of clients each year. Open daily year round with extended summer hours 9 am - 10 pm. LANDING PARTY FINE ART GALLERY 2191 North End Rd Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 1E1 T. 250-537-8447 Toll Free: 1 888 371-6444 lucich@saltspring.com www.landingpartygallery.com MORLEY MYERS GALLERY & STUDIO 7-315 Upper Ganges Rd Salt Spring Island, BC T. 250-537-4898 F. 250-537-4828 mgallery@telus.net www.morleymyersgallery.com The gallery shows the progression of earlier works of stone to Morley Myersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; latest bronze creation. In the lower level studio you can see and visit with the artist at work on his next piece. His work is influenced by cross-cultural indigenous art forms. Represented by Thunderbird Gallery on Salt Spring Island. Sat and Sun 11 am - 5 pm or by appt. PEGASUS GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART Mouatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mall, 1-104 Fulford-Ganges Rd Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2S3 T. 250-537-2421 F. 250-537-5590 pegasus@saltspring.com www.pegasusgalleryca.com THUNDERBIRD GALLERY 3105-115 Fulford-Ganges Rd Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2S3 T. 250-537-8448 F. 250-537-9233 Toll Free: 1 877 537-8448 www.gallerieswest.ca
thunderbird@saltspring.com www.thunderbirdgallery.com Since 1992 Thunderbird Gallery has specialized in the contemporary art of the Northwest Coast and the very best of Salt Spring Island’s world class art community. As the Island’s second oldest fine art gallery they have built their reputation one collector at a time. Mon to Sat 10 am 5 pm, Sun 11 am - 4 pm. SECHELT, BC Public Gallery SUNSHINE COAST ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY 5714 Medusa, Box 1565 Sechelt, BC V0N 3A0 T. 604-885-5412 F. 604-885-6192
Vancouver, BC V6B 2J2 T. 604-688-0051 F. 604-685-1912 artspeak@artspeak.ca www.artspeak.ca GALLERY GACHET 88 E Cordova St Vancouver, BC V6A 1K2 T. 604-687-2468 F. 604-687-1196 gallery@gachet.org www.gachet.org GRUNT GALLERY 116-350 E 2 Ave Vancouver, BC V5T 4R8 T. 604-875-9516 F. 604-877-0073 grunt@telus.net www.grunt.bc.ca
SIDNEY, BC, BC Commercial Galleries LAROCHE GALLERY 1B-9851 Seaport Place Sidney, BC V8L 4X3 T. 250-655-8278 larochefineartgallery@shaw.ca www.larochefineartgallery.com Eclectic collection of fine art in all media and styles from established international artists and some emerging local artists. Most are members of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Focus is on west coast art — notably by Clement Kwan SCA, and Glenn Howarth RCA — and figurative and wildlife sculpture in stone. Affordable prices. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. MAIN STREET GALLERY 1-2449 Beacon Ave Sidney, BC V8L 1X7 T. 250-656-6246 F. 250-652-6249 info@mstreetgallery.com www.mstreetgallery.com PENINSULA GALLERY 100-2506 Beacon Ave, Landmark Bldg. Sidney, BC V8L 1Y2 T. 250-655-1282 Toll Free: 1 877 787-1896 pengal@pengal.com www.pengal.com Gallery offers original paintings and sculptures as well as a wide range of limited edition prints for sale both onsite and through a comprehensive website. Mon to Sat 9 am - 5:30 pm. ROY HENRY VICKERS GALLERY 102-2537 Beacon Ave, Sidney Cannery Building Sidney, BC V8L 1Y3 T. 250-655-6466 F. 250-655-6477 gord@royhenryvickers.com www.royhenryvickers.com VILLAGE GALLERY 2459 Beacon Ave Sidney, BC V8L 1X7 T. 250-656-3633 F. 250-656-3601 vilgal@telus.net SILVER STAR MOUNTAIN, BC Commercial Gallery GALLERY ODIN 215 Odin Road, PO Box 3109 Silver Star Mountain, BC V1B 3M1 T. 250-503-0822 F. 250-503-0822 info@galleryodin.com www.galleryodin.com The gallery proudly represents a talented group of Okanagan, British Columbian and Canadian artists, some of them well-established and highly accomplished, others just emerging, but all working in a distinctive and original style — oils, acrylics, watercolours, scrimshaw, sculpture, pottery. (Summer) Thur and Sat 2 pm - 6 pm; (Winter) Wed and Sat 1 pm - 6 pm or by appt. GREATER VANCOUVER, BC NOTE: Some numbers on the Vancouver Map may refer to more than one gallery in close proximity.
Artist-run Galleries ACCESS ARTIST RUN CENTRE 206 Carrall Street Vancouver, BC V6B 2J1 T. 604-689-2907 F. 604-689-2907 vaarc@lynx.net ARTSPEAK GALLERY 233 Carrall Street www.gallerieswest.ca
HELEN PITT GALLERY 882 Homer St Vancouver, BC V6B 2W5 T. 604-681-6740 F. 604-688-2826 pittg@telus.net www.eciad.bc.ca/~pittg OR GALLERY 103-480 Smithe St Vancouver, BC V6B 5E4 T. 604-683-7395 F. 604-683-7302 or@orgallery.org www.orgallery.org WESTERN FRONT GALLERY 303 E 8th Ave Vancouver, BC V5T 1S1 T. 604-876-9343 F. 604-876-4099 exhibitions@front.bc.ca www.front.bc.ca Commercial Galleries AARON ROSS GALLERY 840 W Hastings St Vancouver, BC V6C 1C8 T. 604-876-7705 F. 604-876-1196 aaronrossgallery@telus.net www.aaronrossgallery.com AMATI ART GALLERY B6-4255 Arbutus St, Lower Level Arbutus Village Square Vancouver, BC V6J 4R1 T. 604-736-9813 APPLETON GALLERIES 1451 Hornby St Vancouver, BC V6Z 1W8 T. 604-685-1715 F. 604-685-1721 info@appletongalleries.com www.appletongalleries.com
LATTIMER GALLERY Specializing in Northwest Coast Native Art and Jewellery
ART BEATUS 108-808 Nelson St Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H2 T. 604-688-2633 F. 604-688-2685 info@artbeatus.com www.artbeatus.com ART WORKS GALLERY 225 Smithe St Vancouver, BC V6B 4X7 T. 604-688-3301 F. 604-683-4552 Toll Free: 1 800 663-0341 info@artworksbc.com www.artworksbc.com Representing dynamic contemporary Canadian and International artists in a wide variety of mediums and styles including original canvases, sculptures, monoprints and limited editions. Feature exhibitions change monthly. Conveniently located in the entertainment district on the edge of Yaletown. Deliver locally and ship worldwide. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. ARTZCO GALLERY 1025 Cambie St Vancouver, BC V6B 5L7 T. 604-683-8225 F. 604-683-9626 artzco@telus.net ATELIER GALLERY 2421 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5 T. 604-732-3021 ateliergallery@telus.net www.ateliergallery.ca BAU-XI GALLERY 3045 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3J9 T. 604-733-7011 F. 604-733-3211 info@bau-xi.com www.bau-xi.com
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BEL ART GALLERY 2171 Deep Cove Rd North Vancouver, BC V7G 1S8 T. 604-924-3719 F. 604-924-3719 belart@axionet.com www.belartgallery.com Art dealers since 1990, Beatrice and Stefan Schreiber offer an excellent collection of orginals, limited edition prints and sculptures from fine local and internationally-acclaimed artists in the intimate atmosphere of their private gallery. Tues to Thur 11 am - 5 pm, Fri by appt. Check their website for schedule of showings by the Bel Art Group outside the gallery. BJORNSON KAJIWARA GALLERY 1727 W 3rd Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 1K7 T. 604-738-3500 F. 604-738-0204 info@tag.bc.ca www.tag.bc.ca BUCKLAND SOUTHERST GALLERY 2460 Marine Drive West Vancouver, BC V7C 1L1 T. 604-922-1915 mary@bucklandsoutherst.com www.bucklandsoutherst.com An eclectic gallery owned by Mary Southerst and Richard Buckland. Mary opened her first gallery in Vancouver in 1972 and since then has been managing galleries both in Spain and Vancouver. Their aim is to hang quality art without too high a price tag. The gallery represents 12 artists, many with international roots. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5.30 pm, Sun noon to 5 pm. BUSCHLEN MOWATT GALLERY 1445 West Georgia St Vancouver, BC V6G 2T3 T. 604-682-1234 F. 604-682-6004 bmg@buschlenmowatt.com www.buschlenmowatt.com A leading gallery of contemporary Canadian and international art, opened in 1979, Buschlen Mowatt has earned a global reputation for showcasing some of the world’s most esteemed artists, for producing museum calibre exhibitions and for 66 Galleries West Summer 2005
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distinguishing emerging talent. A second location opened in Palm Desert, Ca in 2001. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. CASCATA GALLERY 1536 W 2nd Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 1H2 T. 604-730-9117 One of seven galleries located in the Waterfall Building near Granville Island, Cascata Gallery presents paintings, prints, collages, ceramics and glass art by several artists including Jeanne Krabbendam, John Liang, Jutta Kaiser, Marion Harding, Pnina Granirer, Yoo Hyling Gill, Kris Browesky and T.K. Chung. Wed to Sun noon - 5 pm or by appointment. CATRIONA JEFFRIES GALLERY 3149 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3K1 T. 604-736-1554 F. 604-736-1054 cat_jeffries_gallery@telus.net www.catrionajeffries.com CENTRE A, VANCOUVER CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART 849 Homer St Vancouver, BC V6B 2W2 T. 604-683-8326 F. 604-683-8632 centrea@centrea.org www.centrea.org CH ART GALLERY 323 Jervis St, Coal Harbour, Escala Vancouver, BC V6C 3P8 T. 604-688-3269 F. 604-688-3269 arts@ch-artgallery.com www.ch-artgallery.com COASTAL PEOPLES FINE ARTS GALLERY 1024 Mainland St Vancouver, BC V6B 2T4 T. 604-685-9298 F. 604-684-9248 coastalpeoples@telus.net www.coastalpeoples.com COVAN ART GALLERY 3778 W 10th Ave
Vancouver, AB V6R 2G4 T. 604-225-0388 F. 604-225-0399 DANCING CRANES ORIENTAL FINE ARTS 807 West Hastings St Vancouver, BC V6C 1B4 T. 604-688-3835 F. 604-688-3865 finearts@dancingcranes.com www.dancingcranes.com DIANE FARRIS GALLERY 1590 W 7th Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 1S1 T. 604-737-2629 F. 604-737-2675 diane@dianefarrisgallery.com www.dianefarrisgallery.com DOCTOR VIGARI GALLERY 1312 Commercial Dr Vancouver, BC V5L 3X6 T. 604-255-9513 www.doctorvigarigallery.com DORIAN RAE COLLECTION 410 Howe St Vancouver, BC V6C 1A5 T. 604-874-6100 dorianrae@telus.net DOUGLAS REYNOLDS GALLERY 2335 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-731-9292 F. 604-731-9293 drg@axionet.com www.douglasreynoldsgallery.com DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY 1558 West 6th Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 1R2 T. 604-736-8900 F. 604-736-8931 douglasudell@shawcable.com www.douglasudellgallery.com In the art business in Edmonton since 1967, and Vancouver since 1986, Douglas Udell Gallery represents many of Canada’s leading Contemporary artists as well as some of the leading young artists gaining momentum in the International playing field. The gallery also buys
and sells in the secondary market in Canadian historical as well as International. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Mon by appt. EAGLE SPIRIT GALLERY 1803 Maritime Mews (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC T. 604-801-5205 Toll Free: 1 888 801-5277 eaglespiritgallery@telus.net www.eaglespiritgallery.com ELISSA CRISTALL GALLERIES 2243 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G1 T. 604-730-9611 info@cristallgallery.com www.cristallgallery.com ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY 1540 W 2nd Ave The Waterfall Building Vancouver, BC V6J 1H2 T. 604-736-3282 F. 604-736-3282 gallery@elliottlouis.com www.elliottlouis.com Former Ballard Lederer Gallery features Canadian fine art representing contemporary artists and historical masters. Art dealer Ted Lederer prides himself on the standard and diversity of work the gallery carries, their innovative programs and excellent service, providing “in-house” art consultations and an art rental program available to private and corporate clients and the entertainment industry. Tues to Sun 10 am - 6 pm and by appt. ENVISION GALLERY 2675 W 4th Ave Vancouver, BC V6K 1P8 T. 604-733-2082 monny@shaw.ca www.geocities.com/monnysenvisiongallery/index.html This gallery of longtime collector Monny, has a permanent collection as well as a rotating schedule of exhibitions by local artists Sonja Kobrehel, Shu Okamoto, Ruth Lowe and others www.gallerieswest.ca
working in a variety of media. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. EQUINOX GALLERY 2321 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-736-2405 F. 604-736-0464 equinoxgallery@telus.net www.equinoxgallery.com EXPOSURE GALLERY 851 Beatty St Vancouver, BC V6B 2M6 T. 604-688-9501 exposuregallery@shaw.ca FEDERATION GALLERY 1241 Cartwright St Vancouver, BC V6H 4B7 T. 604-681-8534 fcagallery@artists.ca www.artists.ca The Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery on Granville Island offers sale, exhibition and gallery rental opportunities to members. New exhibitions are usually scheduled every two weeks throughout the year. Tues to Sun 10 am 5 pm (mid-May - Aug), 10 am - 4 pm (Sep - mid May). GALA GALLERY 1771 Marine Drive West Vancouver, BC V7V 1J5 T. 604-913-1059 galagallery@telus.net www.galagallery.ca The gallery focuses on original paintings by contemporary Canadian and international artists with established market values — often through recorded auction results — and potential for further appreciation. Also offering bronze sculptures — both original works and limited editions. Tue to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun 11 am - 5 pm, and by appt. GALLERY JONES 1725 West 3rd Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 1K7 T. 604-714-2216 info@galleryjones.com www.galleryjones.com HARRISON GALLERIES 2932 Granville Street Vancouver, BC V6H 3J7 T. 604-732-5217 F. 604-732-0911 info@harrisongalleries.com www.harrisongalleries.com Family owned and operated with over 35 years’ experience in the art community, representing the art of renowned regional and internationally-recognized artists. They carry an extensive collection of traditional and contemporary paintings between their locations in Vancouver and Calgary. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. HAVANA GALLERY 1212 Commercial Dr Vancouver, BC V5L 3X4 T. 604-253-9119 F. 604-253-9181 havana@havana-art.com www.havana-art.com HEFFEL GALLERY LTD 2247 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G1 T. 604-732-6505 F. 604-732-4245 mail@heffel.com www.heffel.com HILL’S NATIVE ART 165 Water St (Gastown) Vancouver, BC V6B 1A7 T. 604-685-4249 F. 604-637-0098 info@hillsnativeart.com www.hillsnativeart.com HOWE STREET GALLERY OF FINE ART 555 Howe St Vancouver, BC V5C 2C2 T. 604-681-5777 F. 604-605-8577 info@howestreetgallery.com www.howestreetgallery.com Home for two distinct art forms: the “International Fine Art Collection” features paintings, bronzes & etchings by artists who evoke the timeless qualities of beauty in works spanning classical methods of creation and contemporary themes; a separate “Soul of Africa Collection” exhibits sculpture from leading Zimbabwean artists. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 6 pm. www.gallerieswest.ca
IAN TAN GALLERY 2202 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 4H7 T. 778-863-2103 info@iantangallery.com www.iantangallery.com IMAGES FOR A CANADIAN HERITAGE 164 Water St Vancouver, BC V6B 1B2 T. 604-685-7046 F. 604-682-1910 Toll Free: 877-212-8900 arnold@imagesforcanada.com www.imagesforcanada.com INUIT GALLERY OF VANCOUVER 206 Cambie St Vancouver, BC V6B 2M9 T. 604-688-7323 Toll Free: 1 888 615-8399 gallery@inuit.com www.inuit.com Presenting Canada’s foremost collection of masterwork Inuit art and exceptional Northwest Coast Native art since 1979. A tradition of presenting important exhibitions of Canadian aboriginal art, featuring new works by senior artists and exploring the work of the talented next generation of artists. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun 11 am - 5 pm. JACANA GALLERY 2435 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5 T. 604-879-9306 jacana@jacanagallery.com www.jacanagallery.com The vitality generated by a truly original approach to art is the inspiration for Jacana’s fusion of Asian antiques and contemporary art. A fresh source of inspiration comes from artists including Claire Coutelle, Heather Craig, Joseph Evershot, Alex Ignatius, Cybele Ironside, Peng Liu, Kelly Milton, Timothy Nash and Pim Sekeris. Tues to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. JENKINS SHOWLER GALLERY 1539 Johnston Rd White Rock, BC V4B 3Z6 T. 604-535-7445 mail@jenkinsshowlergallery.com www.jenkinsshowlergallery.com Established in 1990, representing important traditional and significant contemporary Canadian artists, this eclectic gallery features quality original works of art - paintings, sculptures and works on paper. They assist both first-time buyers and seasoned collectors in making informed choices for their personal or corporate collections. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon 4 pm. JENNIFER KOSTUIK GALLERY 2928 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3J7 T. 604-737-3969 F. 604-737-3964 info@kostuikgallery.com www.kostuikgallery.com KURBATOFF ART GALLERY 2427 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G5 T. 604-736-5444 F. 604-736-5444 art@kurbatoffgallery.com www.kurbatoffgallery.com LAMBERT’S GALLERY & SHOP 2492 West 41 Ave Vancouver, BC V6M 2A7 T. 604-263-1111 lambertsgallery@telus.net www.lambertsgallery.com The gallery offers a variety of artwork — from colourful, stylized still lifes to realistic landscapes as well as sculptures, glassworks and furniture in a warm and friendly environment. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm or by appt. LATTIMER GALLERY 1590 W 2nd Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 1H2 T. 604-732-4556 F. 604-732-0873 info@lattimergallery.com www.lattimergallery.com The unique, warm atmosphere of a Northwest Longhouse encourages browsing of their large selection of original paintings and limited edition prints by many well-known native artists as well as finely-crafted gold and silver jewellery, argillite carvings, soapstone sculptures, steam bent boxes, masks, totem poles and
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2235 Granville Street, Vancouver BC CANADA T. 604 732-5353 • F. 604 732-5669 info@petleyjones.com www.petleyjones.com
Specializing in 19th and 20th century Canadian, European and American paintings, sculpture and original prints.
Cascata Gallery
Offers a wide range of fine art services including framing, restoration and appraisals.
Don Li-Leger Riding through the Garden 24" x 24"
more. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun & Hol noon - 5 pm. LINDALANDO FINE ART 2001 W 41 Ave Vancouver, BC V6M 1Y7 T. 604-266-6010 F. 604-266-6010 info@lindalandofineart.com www.lindalandofineart.com Specializing in Canadian historical paintings as well as representing many fine artists, both local and national. Quality historical works by the Group of Seven, Canadian Group of Painters and many of Canada's early impressionists can often be found there. Clients are invited to peruse Canadian art books and paintings and to enjoy the visual, cultural education offered. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. MARILYN S. MYLREA STUDIO ART GALLERY 2341 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-736-2450 F. 604-736-2458 mmylrea@telus.net www.marilynmylrea.com MARION SCOTT GALLERY 308 Water St Vancouver, BC V6B 1B6 T. 604-685-1934 F. 604-685-1890 art@marionscottgallery.com www.marionscottgallery.com Vancouver’s oldest Inuit art gallery (opened in 1975) and one of Canada’s most respected has recently relocated to Water St in Gastown. The gallery is committed to presenting the finest in Canadian Inuit art, with a wide range of Inuit sculpture, prints and wallhangings from many different regions of Canada’s North, with special emphasis on rare pieces from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Mon to Sat 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sun 10 am 5 pm.
T.K. Daniel Chuang, Autumn Gold, Acrylic on Canvas, 20"x20"
John Liang, Tree #21, 40"x30"
Art Exhibitions • Paintings • Prints • Collages • Ceramics & Glass 1536 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, BC 604-730-9117
Michael Tickner “Stories Around The Beach”
Opening May 12, 5 to 7 pm, continues to May 27 at 1095 W Pender St. The first available collection of Michael's work since his Show last May.
One Man Show by MICHAEL TICKNER At THE MANULIFE BUILDING, 1095 West Pender St, Vancouver, BC Presented by THE STUDIO ART GALLERY, located in Lions Bay Centre 604 908-2927 or 604 921-7865 www.thestudioartgallery.com
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RENDEZ-VOUS ART GALLERY 671 Howe St Vancouver, BC V6C 2E5 T. 604-687-7466 F. 604-687-7466 Toll Free: 877-787-7466 info@rendezvousartgallery.com www.rendezvousartgallery.com ROMANOV GALLERY 875 W Hastings St Vancouver, BC V6C 3N9 T. 604-687-6968 F. 604-687-6286 romanov@romanov.net www.romanov.net SHARING THE SPIRIT NATIVE ART GALLERY 232-757 W Hastings St, Sinclair Centre Vancouver, BC V6C 1A1 T. 604-438-1111 F. 604-437-4511 SIMON PATRICH GALLERIES 2329 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-733-2662 F. 604-733-2282 info@simonpatrich.com www.simonpatrich.com
MARTHA STURDY ORIGINALS 3039 Granville Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9 T. 604-737-0037 F. 604-737-0233 info@marthasturdy.com www.marthasturdy.com With an international reputation as a leading designer of furniture, home accessories and wall sculptures, Martha Sturdy is known for creating distinctive artwork that is bold, clean and simple. Martha takes artistic simplicity and makes oversized statements using materials such as casting resin, leather, steel and brass. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.
SPIRIT WRESTLER GALLERY 8 Water St Vancouver, BC V6B 1A4 T. 604-669-8813 F. 604-669-8116 info@spiritwrestler.com www.spiritwrestler.com
MICHEL BLAIS GALLERY 900 Howe St Vancouver, BC V6Z 2M4 T. 604-688-4520 F. 604-688-4530 Toll Free: 1 800 404-2122 info@mblaisgallery.com www.mblaisgallery.com MONTE CLARK GALLERY 2339 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-730-5000 F. 604-730-5050 info@monteclarkgallery.com www.monteclarkgallery.com
ONEPOINTSIX GALLERY 878 Homer St Vancouver, BC V6B 2W5 T. 604-684-0478 F. 604-684-0488 inquire@onepointsix.com www.onepointsix.com Blue Twist
PORTFOLIO GALLERY 863 W Hastings St, Terminal City Club Tower Vancouver, BC V6C 3N9 T. 604-801-6928 F. 604-801-6860 info@portfoliogallery.ca www.portfoliogallery.ca
MARSHALL CLARK GALLERIES 1625 56 St Tsawwassen, BC V4L 2B7 T. 604-943-6033 F. 604-943-8830 marshallclark2@attcanada.net www.marshallclark.com
NEW-SMALL & STERLING GLASS STUDIO 1440 Old Bridge Rd (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC V6H 3S6 T. 604-681-6730 F. 604-681-6747 glass@paralynx.com www.hotstudioglass.com
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PETLEY JONES GALLERY 2235 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G1 T. 604-732-5353 F. 604-732-5669 info@petleyjones.com www.petleyjones.com Established in 1986 by Matt Petley-Jones, nephew of the late Canadian and British artist Llewellyn Petley-Jones, the gallery specializes in 19th and 20th century Canadian, European and American paintings, sculpture, and original prints. It also offers a range of fine art services, including framing, restoration and appraisals. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm.
PETER OHLER FINE ART 2095 W 44 Ave Vancouver, BC V6M 2G1 T. 604-263-9051 Dealing primarily in quality historical Canadian fine art for more than 40 years.
SPIRITS OF THE NORTH 2327 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3G4 T. 604-733-8516 F. 604-733-2282 gpatrich@spiritsofthenorth.com www.spiritsofthenorth.com STATE GALLERY Upper Floor, 1564 W 6th Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 1R2 T. 604-632-0198 F. 604-632-0151 info@state-gallery.com www.state-gallery.com THE ART EMPORIUM 2928 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3J7 T. 604-738-3510 F. 604-733-5427 tvk@theartemporium.ca www.theartemporium.ca THE IRONWORKS 235 Alexander St Vancouver, BC V6A 1C2 T. 604-681-5033 F. 604-681-5033 irnwrks@attcanada.ca www.theironworks.ca THE STUDIO ART GALLERY PO Box 396 West Vancouver, BC V0N 2E0 350 Centre Rd West Vancouver, BC T. 604-921-7865 F. 604-921-7865 mtick@telus.net www.thestudioartgallery.com Located 7 mins past Horseshoe Bay, a gallery well worth seeking out. The owner features emerging artists as well as established artists including E.J. Hughes, Michael Tickner, Dan Varnals, Peter Holmes, Amanda Martinson and others. Also offers original giftware. Check with gallery for Vancouver shows. Mon, Wed to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat till 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm, closed Tues. www.gallerieswest.ca
TIFFIN NEELY GALLERY 15567 Marine Dr White Rock, BC V4B 1C9 T. 604-536-9764 enquiries@tiffinneelygallery.com www.TiffinNeelyGallery.com Promoting exceptional Canadian and international artists who create with passion and dedication. Exhibiting a unique perspective and a clear sense of signature in their work. Thur to Sun and holidays 11 am - 8 pm and by appointment. TRACEY LAWRENCE GALLERY 1531 W 4th Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 16 T. 604-730-2875 F. 604-730-2870 info@traceylawrencegallery.com www.traceylawrencegallery.com UNO LANGMANN GALLERY 2117 Granville St Vancouver, BC V6H 3E9 T. 604-736-8825 F. 604-736-8826 Toll Free: 800-730-8825 uno@langmann.com www.langmann.com VAN DOP GALLERY 421 Richmond St New Westminster, BC V3L 4C4 T. 604-521-7887 F. 604-293-6625 Toll Free: 1 888 981-9886 info@vandopgallery.com www.vandopgallery.com WESTBRIDGE FINE ART 1737 Fir St Vancouver, BC V6J 5J9 T. 604-736-1014 F. 604-734-4944 info@westbridge-fineart.com www.westbridge-fineart.com WHITE ROCK GALLERY 1247 Johnston Rd White Rock, BC V3B 3Y9 T. 604-538-4452 F. 604-538-4453 Toll Free: 1 877 974-4278 info@whiterockgallery.com www.whiterockgallery.com Offering an extraordinary selection of original paintings, serigraphs, etchings, ceramics, bronzes and stone sculpture by artists from across Canada since 1989. Custom framing service includes a large selection of Italian hand-finished mouldings. Personal attention. Home-like atmosphere. Tue - Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. WINSOR GALLERY 667 Howe St Vancouver, BC V6C 2E5 T. 604-681-4870 F. 604-681-4878 jennifer@winsorgallery.com www.winsorgallery.com Cooperative Galleries CRAFTHOUSE GALLERY 1386 Cartwright St Vancouver, BC V6H 3R8 T. 604-687-7270 F. 604-687-6711 cabc@telus.net www.cabc.net MALASPINA PRINTMAKERS GALLERY 1555 Duranleau St (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC V6H 3S3 T. 604-688-1827 F. 604-688-1851 kimbates@telus.net www.malaspinaprintmakers.com Part of the Malaspina Printmakers Society, the gallery hosts a full schedule of juried exhibitions throughout the year from both the local and national communities of artist-printmakers. Members’ works are available for purchase. Member group exhibitions have been held in Peru, Scotland, Finland, Italy, Japan, Australia and the USA. Tues to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 11 am - 5 pm, (Sun noon - 5 pm, Jun through Sep only). PEMBERTON STUDIOS 6-1583 Pemberton Ave North Vancouver, BC V7P 2S4 T. 604-454-1475 u.salemink-roos@shaw.ca STUDIO BLUE 1494-4 Old Bridge St (Granville Island) Vancouver, BC V6H 3S6 T. 604-725-9612 info@studioblue.ca www.studioblue.ca www.gallerieswest.ca
Public Galleries ASIAN CENTRE 1871 West Mall, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 T. 604-822-3114 F. 604-822-5597 sabrina.yan@ubc.ca www.interchange.ubc.ca/ubcintl/asi anctr/index.html BELKIN ART GALLERY 1825 Main Mall, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 T. 604-822-2759 F. 604-822-6689 belkin@interchange.ubc.ca www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca BELKIN SATELLITE 555 Hamilton St Vancouver, BC V6B 2R1 T. 604-687-3174 F. 604-822-6689 www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca BURNABY ART GALLERY 6344 Deer Lake Ave Burnaby, BC V5G 2J3 T. 604-205-7332 F. 604-205-7339 gallery@city.burnaby.bc.ca www.burnabyartgallery.ca Dedicated to presenting a variety of exhibitions and events in the gallery and throughout the community — educational programs for children, adults and seniors; community projects and exhibitions in schools, recreation facilities and community centres. “Get the Picture” art rental and sales program. Tues to Fri 10 am 4:30 pm, Sat & Sun noon - 5 pm.
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CHARLES H. SCOTT GALLERY 1399 Johnston St, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9 T. 604-844-3809 F. 604-844-3801 scottgal@eciad.bc.ca chscott.eciad.bc.ca CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY 555 Nelson St Vancouver, BC V6B 6R5 T. 604-681-2700 F. 604-683-2710 cag@axionet.com www.contemporaryartgallery.ca LA GALERIE DU CENTRE 1551 West 7 Ave, Le Centre Culturel Francophone Vancouver, BC V6J 1S1 T. 604-736-9806 F. 604-736-4661 info@lecentreculturel.com www.lecentreculturel.com
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MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 6393 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 T. 604-822-5087 F. 604-822-2974 jenwebb@interchange.ubc.ca www.moa.ubc.ca PENDULUM GALLERY 885 W Georgia St Vancouver, BC T. 604-872-6991 F. 604-876-5374 www.pendulumgallery.bc.ca PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY 333 Chesterfield Ave North Vancouver, BC V7M 3G9 T. 604-986-1351 F. 604-986-5380 presentationhousegall@telus.net www.presentationhousegall.com RICHMOND ART GALLERY 180-7700 Minoru Gate Richmond, BC V6Y 1R9 T. 604-231-6457 F. 604-231-6423 gallery@city.richmond.bc.ca www.city.richmond.bc.ca/artgallery The Richmond Art Gallery plays a dynamic role in the growth of visual art in Richmond, and is a vital part of the contemporary art network in BC and Canada. Through excellence in exhibitions and education, the RAG strives to enhance an understanding and enjoyment of contemporary art. Mon to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat and Sun 10 am - 5 pm. SURREY ART GALLERY 13750 88 Ave Surrey, BC V3W 3L1 T. 604-501-5566 F. 604-501-5581 artgallery@city.surrey.bc.ca www.arts.surrey.ca
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Artist-run Galleries MINISTRY OF CASUAL LIVING 1442 Haultain St. Victoria, BC V8R 2J9 lacroixthomas@hotmail.com www.ministryofcasualliving.ca OPEN SPACE 510 Fort Street, 2nd floor Victoria, BC V8W 1E6 T. 250-383-8833 F. 250-383-8841 openspace@openspace.ca www.openspace.ca For over thirty years, Open Space has been a substantive entity for professional artists who utilize hybrid and experimental approaches to art-making, as well as a touchstone for young and emerging artists. It reflects the wide diver70 Galleries West Summer 2005
sity of contemporary art practices in Victoria, across Canada and beyond. Tues to Sat noon 5 pm. Commercial Galleries ALCHERINGA GALLERY 665 Fort St Victoria, BC V8W 1G6 T. 250-383-8224 F. 250-383-9399 alcheringa@islandnet.com www.alcheringa-gallery.com For 30 years, the gallery has exhibited contemporary tribal art from Papua New Guinea and later, graphic works by Aboriginal Australian artists and premium-quality work by established and emerging First Nation’s artists of Canada’s Northwest Coast. In the South Pacific, the work of master carvers still living a village lifestyle is selected on-site by gallery staff. Mon to Sat 9:30 am 5:30 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. ARTEFACTS 550 Yates St Victoria, BC V8W 1K8 T. 250-383-5320 sarcy@shaw.ca www.artefactsstore.com AVENUE GALLERY 2184 Oak Bay Ave Victoria, BC V8R 1G3 T. 250-598-2184 F. 250-598-2185 info@theavenuegallery.com www.theavenuegallery.com Especially noted for finding and establishing new talent, the gallery considers itself a showcase for contemporary British Columbia, Canadian and international art, serving both corporate and private collectors — those new to the contemporary art scene as well as knowledgeable collectors. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm. CHOSIN POTTERY 4283 Metchosin Rd Victoria, BC V9C 3Z4 T. 250-474-2676 F. 250-474-2676 chosin@chosinpottery.ca www.chosinpottery.ca
From their studio set in a beautiful, awardwinning garden of a renovated house from the turn of the century, Robin Hopper and Judi Dyelle produce a wide range of work, mainly in high temperature, reduction-fired porcelain — from one-of-a-kind pieces for decoration or contemplation to an excellent selection of functional pottery for everyday use. One half hour north of Victoria via Hwy 1, Exit 10 to Hwy 14 (Sooke Rd) and Metchosin Rd. Daily 10 am - 5 pm. DALES GALLERY 537 Fisgard St Victoria, BC V8W 1R3 T. 250-383-1552 F. 250-383-1552 dalesgallery@shaw.ca www.dalesgallery.ca EAGLE FEATHER GALLERY 904 Gordon St Victoria, BC V8W 1Z8 T. 250-388-4330 F. 250-388-4328 info@eaglefeathergallery.com www.eaglefeathergallery.com FRAN WILLIS GALLERY 200-1619 Store St Victoria, BC V8W 3K3 T. 250-381-3422 F. 250-381-7374 info@franwillis.com www.franwillis.com Victoria’s oldest and largest contemporary art gallery started in 1982 as the North Park Gallery. It was moved to its present heritage location in 1984, and re-named in 1988 when Fran Willis became the sole owner/director. They represent both emerging and established western Canadian artists of national and international stature. Solo shows change monthly, running concurrently with a continuing exhibit of artists exclusive to the gallery. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5:30 pm. GALLERY 103 IN THE REEF 103-21 Erie St Victoria, BC V8V 5A8 T. 250-380-3933 gallery103@shaw.ca
GALLERY ON HERALD 545 Herald St Victoria, BC V8W 1S5 T. 250-480-7180 suzannemir@mac.com www.galleryonherald.com HILL’S NATIVE ART 1008 Government Street Victoria, BC V8W 1X7 T. 250-385-3911 F. 250-385-5371 Toll Free: 866-685-5422 info@hillsnativeart.com www.hillsnativeart.com JILL LOUISE CAMPBELL ART GALLERY 636 Fort St Victoria, BC V8W 3V2 T. 250-383-6779 F. 250-383-5876 Toll Free: 1 866 383-6777 victoria@jlcgallery.com www.jlcgallery.com Centrally-located on Fort St in the heart of Victoria, you will enjoy the impressionist watercolours by popular Salt Spring Island artist, Jill Louise Campbell. Her impressionist paintings of the American Southwest, Europe, Pacific Northwest and now Tibet, are collected by thousands of clients each year. The gallery is open daily year round. MARINE ADVENTURE GALLERY 105 - 19 Dallas Rd (at 21 Dallas Rd) Victoria, BC V8V 4Z9 T. 250-361-3684 F. 250-361-3685 info@marineadventuregallery.com www.marineadventuregallery.com MARTIN BATCHELOR GALLERY 712 Cormorant St Victoria, BC V8W 1P8 T. 250-385-7919 MAY IP-LAM GALLERY 655A Herald St, Victoria, BC V8W 3L6 T. 250-384-1629 mayiplam@telus.net www.gallerieswest.ca
STARFISH GLASSWORKS 630 Yates St Victoria, BC V8W 1K9 T. 250-388-7827 F. 250-388-7828 starfish@starfishglass.bc.ca www.starfishglass.bc.ca STORE STREET GALLERY 101-1619 Store St Victoria, AB V8W 3K3 T. 250-480-7505 F. 250-480-7506 richard@storestreetgallery.com THE GALLERY AT MATTICK’S FARM 109-5325 Cordova Bay Rd Victoria, BC V8Y 2L3 T. 250-658-8333 F. 250-658-8373 dawnmscott@shaw.ca GALLERY AT SIXTY DALLAS 10-60 Dallas Rd Victoria, BC V8V 1A2 T. 250-658-8363 F. 250-658-8373 dawnmscott@shaw.ca THE GALLERY IN OAK BAY VILLAGE 2223A Oak Bay Ave Victoria, BC V8R 1G4 T. 250-598-9890 F. 250-592-5528 thegallery@shaw.ca Just a short distance from downtown in the picturesque Oak Bay Village, the gallery shows a variety of works by mostly local artists including Kathryn Amisson, Sid and Jesi Baron, Andres Bohaker, Bryony Wynne Boutillier, Tom Dickson, Robert Genn, Caren Heine, Harry Heine, Shawn A. Jackson, Brian R. Johnson, David Ladmore, Jack Livesey, Dorothy McKay, Bill McKibben, Ernst Marza, Hal Moldstad, Ron Parker, Natasha Perks. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 3 pm. THE LIGHTHOUSE GALLERY 45 Bastion Square Victoria, BC V8W 1J1 T. 250-381-2781 Toll Free: 1 800 381-2981 lighthouse_gallery@telus.net THE MOORE GALLERY 1014 Broad St Victoria, BC V8W 1Z9 T. 250-388-7030 F. 250-388-7035 gallery@themooregallery.com www.themooregallery.com Located in the heart of Victoria’s historic downtown area, the gallery specializes in contemporary and representational original paintings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, glassworks and jewellery by Westcoast artists. Exhibits are complemented by works from Haida carvers and other native artists. Mon to Sat 10 am ñ 5 pm or by appt. WEST END GALLERY 1203 Broad Street Victoria, BC V8W 2A4 T. 250-388-0009 info@westendgalleryltd.com www.westendgalleryltd.com First established in Edmonton in 1975, Dan and Lana Hudon opened a second Gallery located in the heart of downtown Victoria in 1994. Visitors are encouraged to explore and select from a wide range of styles and prices, from emerging to established artists and to purchase with confidence. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am 5 pm, Sun/Holidays noon - 4 pm.
Public Galleries ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA 1040 Moss Street Victoria, BC V8V 4P1 T. 250-384-4101 F. 250-361-3995 aggv@aggv.bc.ca www.aggv.bc.ca Home to BC’s largest public art collection, including one of Canada’s leading Asian collections, the Gallery features exhibitions ranging from Asian, historical, Canadian and contemporary art and a permanent exhibition of paintings and writings by BC’s premiere artist, Emily Carr. Admission: Adults $6, Seniors/Students $4. Mon to Sun 10 am - 5 pm.
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COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER VICTORIA G6-1001 Douglas St Victoria, BC V8W 2C5 T. 250-381-2787 F. 250-383-9155 info@cacgv.ca www.cacgv.ca HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY GALLERY 1150 Douglas St, 1 Bay Centre, 4th Floor Victoria, BC V8W 2C8 T. 250-385-1311 Extn: 503 F. 250-385-9247 suzan.lagrove@hbc.com MALTWOOD ART MUSEUM AND GALLERY Box 3025 Stn CSC, University Centre, B155-380 Finnerty Road Victoria, BC V8W 3P2 T. 250-721-8298 F. 250-721-8997 pub@maltwood.uvic.ca www.maltwood.uvic.ca
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WHISTLER, BC Commercial Gallery THE GALLERY AT CHATEAU WHISTLER 4559 Chateau Blvd Whistler, BC V0N 1B4 T. 604-935-1862 Toll Free: 1 888 310-9726 whistler@mountaingalleries.com www.mountaingalleries.com Sophisticated contemporary art - abstract impressionism to magic realism. Museum quality sculpture, stone, clay and bronze. The gallery features the paintings of Canadian icon Doris McCarthy, as well as 20 leading western Canadian painters. New works can be viewed on web site. Other locations at Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel and Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge. Daily 10 am - 10 pm.
MANITOBA GALLERIES
2184 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, BC V8R 1G3 T 250-598-2184 • F 250-598-2185 info@theavenuegallery.com • www.theavenuegallery.com
May 5 - 28 HELEN ROGAK and BETTY MEYERS June 2 - 25 ANGELA MORGAN June 30 - September 3 GALLERY ARTISTS SUMMER EXHIBITION
BRANDON, MB Public Gallery ART GALLERY OF SOUTHWESTERN MANITOBA 710 Rosser Ave, Suite 2 Brandon, MB R7A 0K9 T. 204-727-1036 F. 204-726-8139 director.agsm@mts.net www.agsm.ca Tracing its roots back to 1890, the gallery’s mission is to lead in visual art production, presentation, promotion and education in western Manitoba. Its focus is on contemporary art while respecting local heritage and culture. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Thurs till 9 pm. GIMLI, MB
WINCHESTER GALLERIES 2260 Oak Bay Ave Victoria, BC V8R 1G7 T. 250-595-2777 F. 250-595-2310 art@winchestergalleriesltd.com www.winchestergalleriesltd.com Exclusive fine art dealers handling Canadian historical and contemporary art. Opened in 1974, the gallery has been under the ownership of Gunter H.J. Heinrich and Anthony R.H. Sam since 1994 and in 2003 has moved to its own building in Oak Bay Village. They regularly run major exhibitions of two to three weeks both here and in a second downtown gallery. Tues to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm.
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sional artists from across Canada including Ivan Eyre, Leo Mol, Peter Sawatzky, Anna Wiechec, Philip Craig and Carol Stewart. Mon to Fri 9 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 9 am - 5 pm. MARTHA STREET STUDIO 11 Martha St Winnipeg, MB R3B 1A2 T. 204-779-6253 F. 204-944-1804 printmakers@mts.net The home of the Manitoba Printmakers Association is a production space and gallery featuring limited edition graphics by artists from Manitoba and Canada. Mon to Fri 11 am - 4 pm. MAYBERRY FINE ART 212 McDermot Ave Winnipeg, MB R3B 0S3 T. 204-255-5690 bill@mayberryfineart.com www.mayberryfineart.com This gallery in the heart of the historic Exchange District represents a select group of gifted professional artists including Joe Fafard, David Blackwood, Ken Danby and Robert Genn. They also specialize in historic 19th and 20th Century Canadian works of collectible interest. Regular exhibitions feature rare and important early Canadian art as well as shows spotlighting gallery artists. Tues to Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am - 5 pm. NORTHERN IMAGES GALLERY 393 Portage Ave, Portage Place, 2nd Floor Winnipeg, MB R3B 3H6 T. 204-942-5501 F. 204-942-5502 NI.Winnipeg@ArcticCo-op.com www.ArcticCo-op.com Retail outlet of Arctic Cooperatives, owned by the Inuit and Dene of Nunavut in the Northwest Territories. The collection includes prints and sculpture in stone, antler, bone and ivory along with wall hangings, Lorna Design jackets, crafts and jewellery. Mon to Wed, and Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Thur and Fri 10 am - 9 pm. www.gallerieswest.ca
NUNAVUT GALLERY INC 220 Osborne St Winnipeg, MB R3L 1Z3 T. 204-478-7223 F. 204-475-7539 richard@nunavutgallery.com www.nunavutgallery.com SITE GALLERY 55 Arthur St Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H1 T. 204-942-1618 F. 204-943-7980 site@mts.net www.sitegallery.ca Six thousand square feet of outstanding contemporary art. In Gallery One, SITE features 32 Manitoba artists in 4 group exhibitions annually. Gallery Two offers 12 one-person shows each year, and the Small Works Gallery features fine craft items at modest prices. Tues to Sat 11 am 4 pm. THE GENUINE ARTS GALLERY 402 Notre Dame Ave Winnipeg, MB R3B 1R1 T. 204-942-5313 F. 204-942-5373 gabrein@shawbiz.ca www.genuineartsgallery.com A gallery of distinction with both modern and traditional artwork, featuring framed mosaics, stained and coloured glass, broken plates and icons — artistry inspired from the traditional and historical ways. The acrylic and oil paintings on canvas are also available in limited reproductions. Co-directed by retired architects, Samia Soliman and Ghazoly Gabra. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm. THE LION AND THE ROSE GALLERY 875 Corydon Ave Winnipeg, MB R3M 0W7 T. 204-452-5350 info@thelionandtherosegallery.com www.thelionandtherosegallery.com THE SHAW GALLERY 336 William Ave Winnipeg, MB R3A 0H7 T. 204-944-9518 F. 204-956-0030 Toll Free: 1 800 261-3161 ev@shawgallery.ca www.shawgallery.ca WAH-SA GALLERY 302 Fort St Winnipeg, MB R3C 1E5 T. 204-942-5121 F. 204-888-3140 wahsa@escape.ca www.wahsa.mb.ca Specializing in Canadian aboriginal art, primarily of the Woodlands and Prairie styles, with limited edition prints, originals and art cards, carvings, handicraft and giftware. Appraisal services and framing. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm. WAREHOUSE ARTWORKS 222 McDermot Ave Winnipeg, MB R3B 0S3 T. 204-943-1681 F. 204-942-2847 sasaki@mts.net www.warehouseart.mb.ca A Winnipeg fixture for more than 25 years, the gallery presents original art, in a variety of media, mainly from Manitoba artists. They also offer limited edition prints and reproductions along with a major framing facility. Mon to Thur 9 am - 5:30 pm, Sat to 5 pm. WAYNE ARTHUR GALLERY 186 Provencher Blvd Winnipeg, MB R2H 0G3 T. 204-477-5249 waynearthurgallery@waynearthurgallery.com www.waynearthurgallery.com Artist Wayne Arthur and wife Bev Morton opened the Wayne Arthur Sculpture & Craft Gallery in 1995. After Wayne passed away, Bev moved the gallery to Winnipeg and together with new husband, Robert MacLellan, has run the Wayne Arthur Gallery since 2002. Some of Wayne’s drawings are available for purchase as well as the creations of more than 60 Manitoba artists, working in painting, print-making, mixed media, sculpture, pottery, jewellery, glass and photography. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. WOODLANDS GALLERY 535 Academy Road Winnipeg, MB R3N 0E2 T. 204-947-0700 F. 204-488-3306 woodlands@mts.net www.woodlandsgallery.com www.gallerieswest.ca
Cooperative Galleries ADELAIDE MCDERMOT GALLERY 318 McDermot Ave Winnipeg, MB R3A 0A2 T. 204-987-3517 MEDEA GALLERY 132 Osborne St in The Village Winnipeg, MB T. 204-453-1115 medea@mts.net www.medeagallery.ca An artist-run cooperative established in 1976 featuring traditional and contemporary original fine art by Manitoba artists — oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, intaglio and serigraph prints, ceramics, sculpture and photography. Rental plan and gift certificates available. Mon to Sat 10:30 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 pm - 4pm. STONEWARE GALLERY 778 Corydon Ave Winnipeg, MB R3M 0Y1 T. 204-475-8088
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Public Galleries GALLERY 1C03 University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9 T. 204-786-9253 F. 204-774-4134 j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca gallery1c03.uwinnipeg.ca GALLERY ONE ONE ONE Main Floor, Fitzgerald Building, School of Art, UofM Fort Garry Campus Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 T. 204-474-9322 F. 204-474-7605 eppr@ms.umanitoba.ca www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/con tent/galleryoneoneone/info111.html LA GALERIE Centre culturel franco-manitobain, 340 Provencher Boulevard St Boniface, MB R2H 0G7 T. 204-233-8972 artsvisuels@ccfm.mb.ca www.ccfm.mb.ca LA MAISON DES ARTISTES 219 boul. Provencher St Boniface, MB R2H 0G4 T. 204-237-5964 F. 204-233-8360 maisondesartistes@hotmail.com www.tourismeriel.com/fr/STBCity Hall/site.html MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTRE GALLERY 600 Shaftsbury Blvd Winnipeg, MB R3P 0M4 T. 204-888-6781 F. 204-831-5675 rdirks@mennonitechurch.ca www.mennonitechurch.ca/ programs/gallery PIANO NOBILE GALLERY 555 Main St Winnipeg, MB T. 204-489-2850 sross1@mts.net PLUG IN INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART 286 McDermot Ave Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T2 T. 204-942-1043 F. 204-944-8663 info@plugin.org www.plugin.org ST NORBERT ARTS CENTRE 100 rue des Ruines du Monastere St Norbert, MB R3V 1L6 T. 204-269-0564 F. 204-261-1927 snac@snac.mb.ca www.snac.mb.ca THE MANITOBA MUSEUM 190 Rupert Ave Winnipeg, MB R3B 0N2 T. 204-956-2830 F. 204-942-3679 info@manitobamuseum.ca www.manitobamuseum.ca Linus Woods THE PAVILION GALLERY MUSEUM INC 55 Pavilion Cres Winnipeg, MB R3P 2N6 T. 204-888-5466 F. 204-889-8136 stephaniemiddagh@mts.net partnersinthepark.org
Specializing in Canadian Woodland Aboriginal art and craft.
THE WAH-SA GALLERY 302 Fort St, Winnipeg MB R3C 1E5 • (204) 942-5121 • wahsa@escape.ca • www.wahsa.mb.ca
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With a focus on Manitoba artists, the Pavilion Gallery showcases the work of Ivan Eyre, Clarence Tillenius and Walter J. Philips. New temporary gallery highlights the artistic accomplishments of other Manitoba artists. Shows change every few weeks. In Assiniboine Park, near the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden. Open daily 10 am - 5 pm.
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THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 300 Memorial Blvd Winnipeg, MB R3C 1V1 T. 204-786-6641 communications@wag.mb.ca www.wag.mb.ca Manitoba’s premiere public gallery founded in 1912, has nine galleries of contemporary and historical art with an emphasis on work by Manitoba artists. Rooftop restaurant, gift shop. Tues to Sun 11 am - 5 pm, Wed til 9 pm.
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UKRAINIAN CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL CENTRE - OSEREDOK 184 Alexander Ave Winnipeg, MB R3B 0L6 T. 204-942-0218 F. 204-943-2857 ucec@mb.sympatico.ca www.oseredok.org To advertise your gallery in Sources, please call 403234-7097 (from Calgary) or toll free 866-697-2002 (elsewhere in Canada).
SASKATCHEWAN GALLERIES ESTEVAN, SK Public Gallery ESTEVAN ART GALLERY & MUSEUM 118 4 St Estevan, SK S4A 0T4 T. 306-634-7644 F. 306-634-2940 eagm.estevan@sasktel.net LUMSDEN, SK
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Commercial Gallery LETTERBOX GALLERY 220 James Street N Lumsden, SK S0G 3C0 T. 306-731-3300 brenner.attic@sasktel.net
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CALGARY STAMPEDE WESTERN SHOWCASE SALON July 8 - 17
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SPRUCE MEADOWS MASTERS EQUI-FAIR Sept. 7 - 11
Commercial Gallery THE HAND WAVE GALLERY Box 145 Meacham, SK S0K 2V0 T. 306-376-2221 june.jacobs@handwave.ca www.handwave.ca Presenting the work of 75 Saskatchewan artists and artisans for more than 20 years with changing gallery exhibitions during May through December. Works in fibre, glass, metal, wood and with a large selection in clay including the work of Charley Ferrero and Anita Rocamora. Thur to Mon 11 am - 6 pm; 1 am - 6 pm Oct through May; by appt Jan through Mar, 55 km east of Saskatoon. MOOSE JAW, SK Commercial Gallery YVETTE MOORE FINE ART GALLERY 76 Fairford St W Moose Jaw, SK S6H 1V1 T. 306-693-7600 F. 306-693-7602 info@yvettemoore.com www.yvettemoore.com Showcasing the award-winning works of Yvette Moore, her gallery features her original artwork, limited edition prints, framed artcards and art plaques along with the works of over 70 other artisans, shown amid the copper grandeur of the former 1910 Land Titles Office. Food service. Corner Fairford and 1 Ave. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun (Late May - Dec) noon - 4 pm.
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Public Gallery MOOSE JAW MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Crescent Park, 461 Langdon Crescent Moose Jaw, SK S6H 0X6 T. 306-692-4471 F. 306-694-8016 mjamchin@sk.sympatico.ca www.mjmag.ca
Public Gallery ART GALLERY OF PRINCE ALBERT 142 12 St W Prince Albert, SK S6V 3B8 T. 306-763-7080 F. 306-953-4814 www.citylightsnews.com/galler02.htm
Artist-run Gallery NEUTRAL GROUND 203-1856 Scarth St Regina, SK S4P 2G3 T. 306-522-7166 F. 306-522-5075 anna@neutralground.sk.ca www.neutralground.sk.ca Commercial Galleries ASSINIBOIA GALLERY 2429 11 Ave Regina, SK S4P 0K4 T. 306-522-0997 F. 306-522-5624 mail@assiniboia.com www.assiniboia.com Opened in the late 1970s with the goal of establishing a gallery with a strong representation of regionally and nationally recognized artists reflecting a variety of style, subject and medium. The main focus is professional Canadian artists including Allen Sapp, Ted Godwin, W. H. Webb, Brent Laycock, Louise Cook and many more. Tues to Sat 9:30 am 5:30 pm. MCINTYRE GALLERY 2347 McIntyre St Regina, SK S4P 2S3 T. 306-757-4323 mcintyre.gallery@sk.sympatico.ca www.mcintyregallery.com Established in 1985 to promote the work of contemporary Saskatchewan artists. A particularly strong representation by women artists and regularly features emerging artists. Regular exhibitions in diverse media: oil and acrylic, watercolours, collages, drawings, original prints, fabric art and furniture. Tues to Sat 11 am - 5 pm. SUSAN WHITNEY GALLERY 2220 Lorne St Regina, SK S4P 2M7 T. 306-569-9279 F. 306-352-2453 info@susanwhitneygallery.com www.susanwhitneygallery.com TRADITIONS HANDCRAFT GALLERY 2714 13 Ave Regina, SK S4S 1N3 T. 306-569-0199 cheryl.wolf@sasktel.net www.traditionshandcraftgallery.ca The gallery shows the work of Saskatchewan artisans dedicated to the ‘Art of the Craft’ with art work made in time-honoured ways that reflect the artist’s skill and vision. Monthly exhibitions feature pottery, wood, fibre, metal and stained glass works. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm. VERVE GALLERY 1801 Scarth St, PO Box 37002 Regina, SK S4S 7K3 T. 306-352-4560 vervegallery@sasktel.net www.vervegallery.ca Regina’s newest gallery offering a bright, dynamic mix of traditional and contemporary Canadian art for every taste. Works include paintings, glass, jewellery, clay, sculpture, and textiles by various artists. Call gallery for current hours and location or for appointment. VICTORIA ART GALLERY & STUDIOS 348 Victoria Ave Regina, SK S4N 0P6 T. 306-352-4148 F. 306-352-4149 german@gjm.ca www.victoriaartgallery.com Specializing in original ìmolasî folk art of the Cuna Indians from Panama. Representing contemporary Saskatchewan artists including German Jaramillo, Jason Edwards, Cliff, Aaron Feser, Beverley Florek, Robert Young, Christie Saas, Gerald Matthews, Gula Volodin, Jerry Veresh, Andrew Salgado, Ernie Dieter, Joyce McNeil. Group exhibitions throughout the year. Mon to Sat 10 am ñ 6 pm. Public Galleries DUNLOP ART GALLERY 2311 12 Ave, PO Box 2311 Regina, SK S4P 3Z5 T. 306-777-6040 F. 306-949-7264 www.gallerieswest.ca
dunlop@rpl.regina.sk.ca www.dunlopartgallery.org MACKENZIE ART GALLERY T C Douglas Building, 3475 Albert St Regina, SK S4S 6X6 T. 306-584-4250 F. 306-569-8191 mackenzie@uregina.ca www.mackenzieartgallery.sk.ca Excellent collection of art from historical to contemporary works by Canadian, American and international artists. Major touring exhibits. Gallery Shop, 175-seat Theatre, Learning Centre and Resource Centre. Corner of Albert St and 23rd Ave, SW corner of Wascana Centre. Open daily 10 am - 5:30 pm, Thur and Fri until 10 pm. ROSEMONT ART GALLERY Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, 2420 Elphinstone St Regina, SK S4T 3N9 T. 306-522-5940 F. 306-522-5944 info@rosemontartgallery.ca www.rosemontartgallery.ca Features contemporary art with an emphasis on Saskatchewan artists. Exhibitions change frequently. Access via 15 Ave and McTavish St. Mon to Thur 1 pm - 5 pm and 6:30 pm - 9 pm. Fri to Sun 1 pm - 5 pm. SASKATOON, SK Artist-run Galleries A.K.A. GALLERY 12 23 St E Saskatoon, SK S7K 0H5 T. 306-652-0044 F. 306-652-9924 aka@sk.sympatico.ca www.akagallery.org PAVED ART & NEW MEDIA GALLERY 12 23 St E 2nd Flr Saskatoon, SK S7K 0H5 T. 306-244-8018 F. 306-665-6568 videoverite@sk.sympatico.ca Commercial Galleries ART PLACEMENT INC 228 3 Ave S Saskatoon, SK S7K 1L9 T. 306-664-3385 F. 306-933-2521 gallery@artplacement.com www.artplacement.com COLLECTOR’S CHOICE ART GALLERY 625D 1 Ave N Saskatoon, SK S7K 1X7 T. 306-665-8300 F. 306-664-4094 sales@collectorschoice.ca Represent primarily Saskatchewan artists such as Ches Anderson, Lou Chrones, Alamgar Huque, Caroline James, Cecilia Jurgens, Ken Lonechild, Mary Masters, Duane Panko, Linda Jane Schmid and Regina Seib who create abstract and representational art. Maintain a small collection of Inuit sculpture and estate art. Regular exhibitions. Tues to Fri 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 9:30 am - 5 pm. DARRELL BELL GALLERY 317-220 3 Ave S Saskatoon, SK S7K 1M1 T. 306-955-5701 darrellbellgallery@sasktel.net www.darrellbellgallery.com Exhibiting contemporary Canadian art with an emphasis on professional Saskatchewan artists, including David Alexander, Darrell Bell, Lee Brady, Megan Courtney Broner, Inger deCoursey, Kaija Sanelma Harris, Hans Herold, Ian Rawlinson and various Inuit artists. Media include painting, sculpture, textiles, jewellery, glass and ceramics. Rotating solo and group shows year-round. Tues to Sat noon - 4 pm or by appointment. PACIF’IC GALLERY 702 14 St E Saskatoon, SK S7N 0P7 T. 306-373-0755 F. 306-373-2461 art@pacificgallery.ca www.pacificgallery.ca Outstanding painted works by regionally and nationally acclaimed artists in a variety of media including oil, acrylic, watercolour, coloured pencil, felted wool and hand-pulled prints plus an extensive selection of handmade pottery and raku, blown and fused glass, jewellery, wrought iron furniture and handpainted art cards. Corner of Temperance, Lansdowne and 14 St E. Mon to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm. www.gallerieswest.ca
Cooperative Gallery SASKATCHEWAN CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY 813 Broadway Ave Saskatoon, SK S7N 1B5 T. 306-653-3616 Extn: 25 F. 306-2442711 saskcraftcouncil@shaw.ca www.saskcraftcouncil.org
Darlene Hay
Public Galleries DIEFENBAKER CANADA CENTRE University of Saskatchewan, 101 Diefenbaker Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B8 T. 306-966-8384 mary.miller@usask.ca www.usask.ca/diefenbaker KENDERDINE ART GALLERY University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Dr - 2nd level Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8 T. 306-966-4571 F. 306-978-8340 kenderdine.artgallery@usask.ca www.usask.ca/kenderdine MENDEL ART GALLERY 950 Spadina Cres E Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8 T. 306-975-7610 F. 306-975-7670 mendel@mendel.ca www.mendel.ca The gallery is charged with collecting, exhibiting, and maintaining works of art and the development of public understanding and appreciation of art. Exhibitions of contemporary and historical art by local, national and international artists include those organised by Mendel curators and curatorial consortium members, as well as major touring exhibitions from other Canadian galleries. Daily 9 am - 9 pm. Admission free. SWIFT CURRENT, SK Public Gallery ART GALLERY OF SWIFT CURRENT 411 Herbert St E Swift Current, SK S9H 1M5 T. 306-778-2736 F. 306-773-8769 k.houghtaling@city.swift-current.sk.ca www.artgalleryofswiftcurrent.org Features exhibitions of regional, provincial and national works of art. Discovery Tours and activities for groups, special events, receptions, conferences, music, films, readings, studio workshops and courses. Mon to Thur 2 - 5 pm and 7 - 9 pm, Fri to Sun 1 - 5 pm, Closed Sun in Jul and Aug.
Gaston Rebry
Assiniboia Gallery 2429 - 11th Avenue Regina, Saskatchewan Canada S4P 0K4 Phone (306) 522-0997 Fax (306) 522-5624 E-mail: info@assiniboia.com
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Public Gallery GODFREY DEAN ART GALLERY 49 Smith St E Yorkton, SK S3N 0H4 T. 306-786-2992 F. 306-786-7667 info@deangallery.ca www.deangallery.ca
YUKON GALLERIES WHITEHORSE, YT Commercial Gallery YUKON ARTISTS @ WORK GALLERY 3B Glacier Rd Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S7 T. 867-393-4848 yaaw@artlover.com www.yaaw.com Spectacular gallery overlooking the Yukon River ten minutes south of Whitehorse. Recent Local Secret/Big Find and Editor's pick for North America by Travelocity.ca. Forty-two Yukon artists include potters, photographers, printmakers, beadmakers, jewellers, sculptors, knifemakers and woodturners; watercolour, acrylic, textile, encaustic, batik and oil painters; ceramic, sandcarved, warm and stained glass artists; plus furniture makers. Daily May to Sept noon - 5 pm. To advertise your gallery in Sources, please call 403-234-7097 (from Calgary) or toll free 866-6972002 (elsewhere in Canada).
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The Peters Gallery Downtown Gallery: 550 - 6 Avenue SW Framing Store: 1904 - 20 Avenue NW Calgary, Alberta 403-269-3475 www.thepetersgallery.com
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DIRECTORY To advertise, call 403-234-7097 or 1-866-697-2002
Art Consultant/Representative JAMES FINLAY FINE ART T. 604-219-4090 F. 604-677-5961 Jim_Finlay@telus.net Offering comprehensive fine art services, including the sale of Modernist and Contemporary Canadian art; advice on purchasing investment-quality art works; appraisal of fine art for insurance, tax or estate purposes; and consultation regarding the creation or disposition of an art collection. Call or email for appointment.
T. 403-678-2783 F. 403-678-2783 Toll Free: 1 866 834-0837 virginiahemingson@hotmail.com This historic log cabin art studio near Banff National Park East Gate showcases exclusively the art of Virginia Hemingson. Popular with collectors worldwide, her charming art is featured in the National Film Board of Canada documentary, “The Longest Road.” Thirty-fifth Anniversary celebrations and exhibitions throughout the summer. Daily noon - 6 pm.
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Art Auctions HODGINS ART AUCTIONS LTD
Calgary, AB T. 403-263-7226 info@onthelevelart.ca www.onthelevelart.ca A fully insured, full service fine arts handling company with 23 years experience providing consulting, design and installation service throughout western Canada.
5240 1A St SE Calgary, AB T2H 1J1 T. 403-252-4362 F. 403-259-3682 kevin.king@hodginsauction.com www.hodginsauction.com Hodgins is one of western Canada’s largest and longest running auction companies dedicated to quality fine art. They hold catalogued auctions of Canadian and international fine art every May and November. In addition, appraisal services are offered for estate settlement, insurance, matrimonial division and other purposes. Individual and corporate consignments of artworks for sale are always welcome.
Artists and Studios AUSTIN-BEECH FINE ART L-11-100 7 Ave SW, Art Central Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-605-5760 terri@austinbeech.com www.austinbeech.com Terri Austin-Beech’s art studio, classroom and retail gallery showing a large selection of original watermedia paintings, drawings, archival giclée and print reproductions. Subjects vary, and include European scenes, animal and pet topics, portraits and figures. A limited number of commissions are considered each year. Tues to Thur 3:30 pm 6 pm, and by appt.
BRYAN JOHNSON CREATIONS Winnipeg, MB T. 204-779-2361 F. 204-779-2361 sales@bryanjohnson.ca www.bryanjohnson.ca Bryan Johnson Creations is an internet based jewellery studio that designs and manufactures original and one-ofa-kind jewellery in high karat gold, sterling silver, precious metal clay, and coloured gem stones — specializing in ammolite jewellery. Clients can choose from the “galleries” on their website or they will develop custom designs. Wholesale inquiries welcomed.
GORDON GALENZA DESIGN STUDIO
PRESENTS EXCITING PROGRAM OFFERINGS WITH: • The Emma Lake Artist's Workshop (July 23-Aug. 5) • ELKC Residency Programs (June, August and September) • ELKC Arts and ecology Workshops (June-September)
www.emmalake.usask.ca • emma.lake@usask.ca • 306 966 2463
T. 403-270-4286 info@ggalenza.ca www.ggalenza.ca Contemporary work in wood. Gordon Galenza is an established artist, craftsman and designer of studio furniture, fine boxes, accessories and mixed media sculptural pieces. His work has been shown in Canada and the United States and resides in collections in both countries. Located in Calgary, Alberta. By appointment only.
KAMILA & NEL ART GALLERY 10545 16 Ave NW Edmonton, AB T6J 5B4 T. 780-436-8277 F. 780-436-9317 NelKwiatkowska@Picture2Portrait.net www.Picture2Portrait.net Interested in commissioning an experienced and internationally-recognized artist to create an ageless fine art gift? Portraits, architecture, animals, landscapes and any other subject of interest to you could be captured and transformed in a creative way. Paintings can be done from photos or a session arranged at the studio.
KIM PENNER Box 69 Glenboro, MB R0X 0X0 T. 204-827-2717 F. 204-827-2718 info@kimpenner.com www.kimpenner.com Kim Penner finds continual inspiration for her beautiful acrylic paintings from all types of horses. From a portrait of a team of Belgians, to her “Kentucky Quintet”, inspired from the paddocks of a Kentucky Thoroughbred farm, Penner’s work offers a surprising diversity within her chosen genre. Originals, limited-edition prints and canvas transfers. Best of Show award at 2003 and 2004 Calgary Stampede.
VIRGINIA HEMINGSON GALLERY 800 Harvie Heights Rd Canmore, AB T1L 1C2
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LANDO ART AUCTIONS 11130 105 Ave NW Edmonton, AB T5H 0L5 T. 780-990-1161 F. 780-990-1153 mail@landoartauctions.com www.landoartauctions.com Provides quality fine art combined with personalized customer service and professional expertise. They hold a minimum of two catalogued auctions a year of Canadian and international fine art. Individual and corporate consignments welcome. Appraisals for insurance, donation, estate settlement, family division and other purposes. Call or email for a confidential appointment. Mon to Fri 10 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10 am - 4:30 pm, or by appt.
Art Fair 4TH ANNUAL YUKON BUYER’S SHOW Whitehorse, YK T. 867-456-7373 wer@yknet.ca A wholesale trade show on September 25, 2005 featuring created-in-the-North fine art, craft, fashion, music, literature and giftware. Explore a wonderful variety of highquality, distinctive products created by over 60 artisans from across Yukon, NWT, Alaska and Northern BC. 11 am - 4 pm. Ask about First Buyer’s Incentive program. Contact Charlene Alexander, Coordinator.
Art Gallery Software GALLERYSOFT INC 10 Oak Ridge Drive Georgetown, ON L7G 5G6 T. 905-877-8713 F. 905-877-4811 info@gallerysoft.com www.gallerysoft.com NEW - GallerySoft V3 software for art gallery management works on Mac as well as Windows; allows use of the same database between multiple gallery locations; online, real-time help; eliminates software updates and installations; web link capabilities; accounting details transfer to any accounting package; handles biographies, client information, commission statements, labels, images, inventory, invoices, reports and more. Free trial available online.
Art Preservation CANADIAN CONSERVATION INSTITUTE Department of Canadian Heritage, 1030 Innes Rd Ottawa, ON K1A 0M5 T. 613-998-3721 F. 613-998-4721 cci-icc_services@pch.gc.ca www.preservation.gc.ca “Preserving my Heritage” web site provides free information about how to care for works of art on paper, photographic material, sound recordings (including CD’s) and silver objects, among other topics. Includes online bookstore, information about appraisals, careers in art and artifact conservation, even an interactive game.
Art Rental TRIANGLE GALLERY ART RENTAL SERVICES T. 403-874-9685 info@artrentals.ca
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www.artrentals.ca Rent and/or purchase artwork by more than 35 emerging and established professional artists from Calgary and region rangeing from realist to abstract style with a wide selection of sizes and media. View and choose directly on the Art Rental Services website. Organized by Friends of Triangle Gallery in support of the gallery’s exhibition and education programs.
Artist Retreats/Travel EMMA LAKE KENDERDINE CAMPUS University of Saskatchewan, c/o Kate Hobin, Director, Room 133, Kirk Hall, 117 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C8 T. 306-966-2463 F. 306-966-5567 emma.lake@usask.ca www.emmalake.usask.ca Drenched in the history of Canadian art, the campus offers a unique setting for meetings, retreats, workshops or mini-conferences. Competent staff will assist in planning your event with customized programs. The Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus also delivers summer arts residencies and workshops for professionals and learners. Make your next summer vacation an educational event with a painting, drawing, photography, fibre art or sculpture workshop at this lakeside retreat in the boreal forest on the southeast edge of the Prince Albert National Park.
FEED YOUR SOUL CREATIVE TRAVEL T. 403-802-1095 kat@katherinelakeman.com www.katherinelakeman.com This creative travel opportunity to the beautiful colonial town of San Miguel de Allende — Oct 29 - Nov 6 — offers the charm of an historical, world heritage site to revitalize and feed your soul with its colour, culture, mythology, music, architecture and artistic expression. Includes celebration of “Day of the Dead” — a special time to lift the veil between the living and the dead, and to honour the loved ones who have passed on. Register by Sep 15, 2005.
Art Schools ALBERTA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN 1407 14 Ave NW Calgary, AB T2N 4R3 T. 403-284-7678 F. 403-284-7644 Toll Free: 800-251-8290 admissions@acad.ab.ca www.acad.ab.ca Founded in 1926, the ACAD is one of only four degreegranting institutions in Canada dedicated exclusively to professional visual art and design education. ACAD provides accredited degree-standard education and learning opportunities to more than 1000 full time and 1130 continuing education students. The rigorous studio program produces innovative thinkers, creative problem solvers, and visually talented students. ACAD creates a learning environment rich in character and extensive in quantity, quality and professional capability for its student body of artistic thinkers.
THE JUSTINA M. BARNICKE GALLERY, HART HOUSE University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle Toronto, ON M5S 3H3 T. 416-978-8398 judi.schwartz@utoronto.ca www.utoronto.ca/gallery Call for submissions: Located in downtown Toronto, this public art gallery is comprised of two exhibition spaces highlighting contemporary Canadian artists. Artists are encouraged to apply by the August 31 deadline for exhibitions two years in the future. Submissions are to include 10 slides/photographs (include artist name, title, medium, size and image orientation), a rÈsumÈ, artist statement and a self-addressed stamped envelope. The gallery pays CAR fees.
Art Supplies ARTISTS EMPORIUM 1610 St James St Winnipeg, MB R3H 0L2 T. 204-772-2421 F. 204-786-4700 Toll Free: 800-665-0322 artists@artistsemporium.net www.artistsemporium.net A Canadian based company supplying highest quality products since 1977 with over 100,000 items offered in a 12,000 square feet retail space. The fun-friendly atmosphere extends from the free Saturday morning art classes, through the extensive art library and spinning the roulette wheel at their annual Artists Open House. They are committed to maintaining a high level of inventory at competitive prices while continually expanding product lines. Mon to Thur 9 am - 6 pm, Fri til 9 pm, Sat 9 am - 6 pm, Sun noon - 4 pm.
CLASSIC GALLERY FRAMING INC 3376 Sexsmith Road Kelowna, BC V1X 7S5
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T. 250-765-6116 F. 250-765-6117 Toll Free: 1 800 892-8855 info@classicgalleryframing.com www.classicgalleryframing.com High quality mouldings, liners and liner profiles are produced by utilizing the most efficient manufacturing processes combined with the care and detail that comes with creating handcrafted products. All steps of production are done inside their factory. The full range of products may be previewed on-line and are available through most fine art dealers and framers.
INGLEWOOD ART SUPPLIES 1006 9 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 0S7 T. 403-265-8961 F. 403-265-8962 inglart@telusplanet.net www.inglewoodart.com Store claims best selection and prices in Calgary on prestretched canvas and canvas on the roll. Golden Acrylics and Mediums with everyday prices below retail. Volume discounts on the complete selection of Stevenson Oils, Acrylics and Mediums. Other name-brand materials, brushes, drawing supplies, easels, an extensive selection of paper and more. Mon to Fri 9 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am 5 pm.
KENSINGTON ART SUPPLY 132 10 St NW Calgary, AB T2N 1V3 T. 403-283-2288 F. 403-206-7095 info@kensingtonartsupply.com www.kensingtonartsupply.com Fine art supplies featuring Winsor & Newton, Golden, Liquitex, Maimeri and other quality products, as well as friendly, knowledgeable advice. Books, magazines, and art class information. Custom canvas service — all sizes and types of canvas, including linen. Senior, student and professional discounts. Mon to Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Thur till 8 pm, Sun noon - 5 pm.
OPUS FRAMING & ART SUPPLIES 1360 Johnston St, Granville Island Vancouver, BC Toll Free: 1 800 663-6953 sales@opusframing.com www.opusframing.com Western Canada’s favourite artists’ resource for art materials and information. Monthly visual arts newsletter and free ‘how to’ handouts, available in-store or on-line. Extensive selection of fine art materials and quality framing supplies — or just drop by for some creative inspiration. Other locations at 120 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver; 5501 204 St, Langley; 512 Herald St, Victoria; 1357 Ellis St, Kelowna; plus national mail order service.
SWINTON’S ART SUPPLIES 7160 Fisher St SE Calgary, AB T2H 0W5 T. 403-258-3500 swintond@telus.net Large selection of art materials and hard-to-find supplies. Special orders welcome. Free delivery in the Calgary area for bulk orders. Full custom framing shop and complete restoration services. Swinton’s Art Instruction classes, art books and magazines. Sign up for regular newsletter mailing.
Art Special Event WHITE RABBIT ART AUCTION Beverly Hills Ballroom, Fantasyland Hotel, West Edmonton Mall Edmonton, AB T. 780-429-3277 ellen@camphehoha.com www.camphehoha.com A live and silent auction Saturday, October 1, 2005 featuring original 2-d and 3-d works of art in all media by some of Alberta’s best known artists. Proceeds support Camp Health, Hope and Happiness, a summer place for children and adults with physical and mental disabilities. Tickets $60.00 each. Call or e-mail Ellen Green for more information.
Art Studios/Galleries to Lease ART CENTRAL 100 7 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 0W4 T. 403-543-9900 rob@artcentral.ca www.artcentral.ca This landmark building on the NW corner of 7th Ave and Centre St SW in downtown Calgary has been renovated to house artist studios, galleries, and ancillary retail businesses. Centrally located opposite Hyatt Regency Hotel, only one block from Stephen Avenue Walk. For more information or leasing inquiries please visit website or call for Rob Mabee.
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Discover the distinctly northern flavour of this popular wholesale trade show featuring visual art, craft, music, literature, fashion, specialty foods and gift items created by over 60 artisans from across the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alaska, Northern BC and Nunavut.
First Time Buyer’s Incentive Program The YBS offers to first time Ex clu sive Finae program Art, C rafts, and buyersGiftw from outside the to travel are fro mYukon th e No rth free of charge to the show. Successful appplicants will be given one economy return airline ticket to Whitehorse.
September 25, 2005 11 am – 4 pm Yukon Convention Centre Whitehorse, Yukon Registration and Show Information:
To advertise in DIRECTORY, please call 403-2347097 (from Calgary) or toll-free 866-697-2002 from elsewhere in Canada.
Charlene Alexander, Coordinator
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BACK ROOM
GEORGE HENRY ANDREWS (1816 - 1898) DURING THE WHOLE OF THE AFTERNOON, AND IN FACT DURING THE WHOLE DAY, THE ENTIRE FRONT OF THE CITY WAS CROWDED WITH PERSONS, TO CATCH THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE HERO. AT TWO O’CLOCK, A HUGE BLACK MASS OF SMOKE APPEARED DIRECTLY OVER POINT LEVI, IT WAS SURMISED THAT IT MUST BE FROM THE ROYAL VESSELS’ FUNNELS, AND IN THIS THE PEOPLE WERE NOT MISTAKEN… THEN CAME THE THUNDERING AND DEAFENING ROYAL SALUTES FROM THE THREE MEN-OF-WAR, FROM THE CITADEL, THE DURHAM TERRACE, AND THE GRAND BATTERY. (THE GUNS OF THE LATTER HAD NOT BEEN FIRED FOR THIRTY OR FOURTY YEARS PREVIOUSLY.) WHAT A NOISE! IT FAIRLY SHOOK QUEBEC AGAIN AND AGAIN. Royal Visits. Addresses Presented to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales During His State Visit to British North America, with the Replies Thereto, July, August, and September, 1860.
George Henry Andrews was a professional engineer, marine painter, watercolourist and illustrator. Born in Britain in 1816, he began exhibiting in 1840 and was elected a member of the Old Watercolour Society in 1856. Later he became the Royal Navy Artist and in 1860, at the peak of his career, he accompanied the Prince of Wales (who became Edward VII) on a tour of Canada. This large-format watercolour by Andrews showing the prince’s ship, the Hero, entering Quebec City was acquired by Uno Langmann Limited in Vancouver after it surfaced in a collection in Eastern Canada. The work, estimated to be worth between $200,000 and $300,000, was subsequently sold and 78 Galleries West Summer 2005
Prince of Wales (Edward VII) visit in 1860 By George Henry Andrews Watercolour signed G.H. Andrews, with gold Royal Navy Artist seal lower left Size in inches: 30h X 51w
now resides in a permanent collection in Canada. “You can’t really put a value on something like this — it is absolutely priceless,” says Langmann, whose gallery specializes in European and North American paintings from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. “To have this kind of watercolour of a Canadian scene from the 1860s — there is nothing else like it.” www.gallerieswest.ca
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UPCOMING GALLERY WALKS 2005
Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 - 5 pm Sunday, Sept. 25, Noon - 4 pm
Agnes Bugera Gallery
Richard Herman
Art Mode Gallery 12220 Jasper Ave. 453-1555
Bearclaw Gallery
Bruce Andrew Sherman
12310 Jasper Ave. 482-2854
Agnes Bugera Gallery
Art Mode Gallery
10403 124 St. 482-1204
Douglas Udell Gallery
Electrum Design Studio and Gallery 12419 Stony Plain Road 482-1402
W. Mackenzie
Norval Morrisseau
10332 124 St. 488-4445
Bearclaw Gallery
Electrum Design Studio
Front Gallery 12312 Jasper Ave. 488-2952
Scott Gallery George Weber
Douglas Udell Gallery
12308 Jasper Ave. 488-4892
Andrew Raszewski
Scott Gallery
Irene Klar
West End Gallery
Caio Fonseca
10411 124 St. 488-3619
West End Gallery
Front Gallery
Located just west of the downtown core in the 124th Street area. www.gallerieswest.ca
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Mary Bell Eastlake, "Girl in the Garden" c. 1915, 12" x 16" oil/canvas
Fall 2005 Selected Works by Mary Bell Eastlake 1864 - 1951
The Art of Collecting Quality Masters Gallery Ltd. 107, 2115 Fourth Street SW T2S 1W8 (403) 245-2064 Hours : Tuesday – Saturday 10 AM –5:30 PM www.mastersgalleryltd.com