Previews April – May 2018

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Julia Feyrer: Background Actors
CATRIONA JEFFRIES GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC - To April 21, 2018 By Michael Turner Among the highlights of Vancouver’s 2009 exhibition season was the debut of Julia Feyrer’s nine-minute film The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar…
Beau Dick: Revolutionary Spirit
AUDAIN ART MUSEUM, WHISTLER BC - To June 11, 2018 By Michael Turner The passing of revered Kwakwaka’wakw artist, leader and activist, Chief Beau Dick last spring came as a shock to the…
Close-up: Nicholas Dorman, Conservator extraordinaire
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM By Matthew Kangas Seattle followed Vancouver, Portland and Los Angeles in attaining its own in-house, art museum painting conservation department, but when Seattle Art Museum (SAM) director Mimi Gardner Gates hired Nicholas Dorman out…
Spring Exhibition
UDELL XHIBITIONS FINE ART GALLERY, EDMONTON AB - April 7 - 21, 2018 By Michael Turner “To everything – turn, turn, turn,” sang the Byrds in 1965. Whether the Byrds’ cover of Pete…
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers
GRUNT GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC - To April 21, 2018 By Michael Turner A distinguishing aspect of the Vancouver art scene in the early 2000s was a level of critical and commercial recognition achieved by at…
Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America
WHATCOM MUSEUM, BELLINGHAM WA - To May 6, 2018 By Matthew Kangas Whatcom Museum has brought the largest touring survey in years of historic and contemporary basket-making and supported it with local surveys and special…
Karin Lee: Queer-sum 心
SUM GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC - May 12 - August 6, 2018 By Michael Turner Now in its 11th year, Pride in Art’s Queer Arts Festival (QAF) has reached a level of saturation usually achieved…
The Poetics of Photomontage
Colette Baty, Mark Goodwin and Avril Kirby SLIDE ROOM GALLERY, VICTORIA BC - April 13 - 30, 2018 By Christine Clark The Poetics of Photomontage curator Wendy Welch writes, “Why photomontage? It is…
Don Frank: From Somewhere Else
IMOGEN GALLERY, ASTORIA OR - April 14 - May 8, 2018 By Allyn Cantor Don Frank is a well-known photographer on Oregon’s North Coast. This first solo show at Imogen Gallery is the culmination of…
Tony Yin Tak Chu: Ebb and Flow
ART BEATUS, VANCOUVER BC - To April 20, 2018 By Michael Turner It is common to all historical periods that during times of rapid change and protracted distraction we take comfort in constants, from the…
Ipseity
PENTICTON ART GALLERY, PENTICTON BC - To May 13, 2018 By Michael Turner Although there is no exact starting point for Modernism, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917) was recalled by many in the art press last…
Holy Beauty: Northern Renaissance Prints Discovered in an Early English Bible
HALLIE FORD MUSEUM OF ART, SALEM OR - To April 29, 2018 By Allyn Cantor The impetus for this exhibition was the discovery of a well-preserved first edition of the King James Bible printed…
Andre Petterson: Brand
Capture Photography Festival BAU-XI GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC - April 14 - 28, 2018 By Michael Turner As much as language conditions our thinking, as much as it determines our realities, it also allows us…
Fiona Ackerman: Act Naturally
HERRINGER KISS GALLERY, CALGARY AB - April 12 - May 12, 2018 By Michael Turner On the evening of September 7, 2017, those passing the Georgia Street side of the Vancouver Art Gallery…
Ernestine Tahedl
MADRONA GALLERY, VICTORIA BC - May 19 - June 1, 2018 By Christine Clark Ernestine Tahedl at the Madrona Gallery is a wildly expressive exhibit of large-scale acrylic paintings, an explosion of colour, a…
Alfredo Arreguín: New Paintings
LINDA HODGES GALLERY, SEATTLE WA - April 5 - 28, 2018 By Matthew Kangas The late-flowering recognition of Mexican-born Seattle painter Alfredo Arreguín is testament to the good news that the longer an artist lives,…