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Current Issue: Feb - Mar 2023

The trusted guide to galleries and museums throughout the Pacific Northwest.


Margaux Williamson: Interiors

Margaux Williamson: Interiors

Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB - To Apr 30

by Michael Turner

Margaux Williamson is a Toronto-based artist who works in a variety of media, though is best known for her large oil paintings. Like the earlier work of Canadian contemporaries Damian Moppett and Etienne Zak, she is partial to interior spaces, but with an emphasis on uncanny distributions of light, seemingly incongru- ous relationships between objects and contexts, and the Symbolist’s penchant for the oneiric. Williamson’s worlds recall the artistic marks and gestures Joris-Karl ... Read More

From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers

From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers

Museum of History and Industry, Seattle - Feb 4 - Apr 30

by Matthew Kangas

Organized by the Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, From the Ground Up fills enormous gaps in history as it celebrates two dozen African American pioneers in architecture and design from the late 1800s into the 20th century. Information about Seattle-area architects both past and present supplements this traveling exhibition, thanks to the input of curatorial consultant Hasaan Kirkland and the Black Heritage Society of Washington State.

A number of landmarks are ... Read More

Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe

Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR - To May 14

by Joseph Gallivan

The paintings of Oscar Howe (1915-1983) have a graphic verve and fluidity, with themes drawn from thousands of years of Indigenous culture. One of the most innovative Native American artists of the 20th century, Howe used Modernist techniques to depict his Yanktonai Dakota heritage and came up with his own brand of dramatic figuration and dynamic composition. This comprehensive show at the Portland Art Museum, organized with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, looks ... Read More

Guud San Glans Robert Davidson: A Line That Bends But Does Not Break

Guud San Glans Robert Davidson: A Line That Bends But Does Not Break

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC - To Apr 16

by Robin Laurence

A towering figure in contemporary Canadian art, Robert Davidson – whose Haida name, Guud san glans, means “Eagle of the Dawn” – is internationally recognized for his beautifully realized sculptures and carvings, which range from monumental cedar poles to jewelry in gold and abalone shell. But he is also a master of two-dimensional art, including prints, paintings, drawings and laser-cut aluminum sculptures, works that both honour and improvise upon Haida design ... Read More

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Features

  • Alberta
  • British Columbia
  • Washington
  • Oregon

Margaux Williamson: Interiors

Esker Foundation

2023 Fraser Valley Biennial

The Reach Gallery Museum

From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers

Museum of History and Industry

Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe

Portland Art Museum

Margaux Williamson: Interiors

Esker Foundation

From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers

Museum of History and Industry

Hanny Al Khoury: La La Lands

Art Gallery of Alberta

Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe

Portland Art Museum

2023 Fraser Valley Biennial

The Reach Gallery Museum

Karin Jones: Ornament and Instrument

Burnaby Art Gallery

All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project

Museum of Vancouver

Guud San Glans Robert Davidson: A Line That Bends But Does Not Break

Vancouver Art Gallery

Mike Bourscheid: Sunny Side Up and other sorrowful stories

Richmond Art Gallery

Ikat: A World of Compelling Cloth

Seattle Art Museum

Gule Wamkulu: Dancing Indigenous Governance

University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries

Highlights

  • Alberta
  • British Columbia
  • Washington
  • Oregon

Charles Stankievech: The Desert Turned To Glass

Contemporary Calgary

Rebecca Belmore: Hacer Memoria

The Polygon Gallery

Arbitrary Borders: Works By Artists Of Color in Washington’s State A...

Western Gallery & Sculpture Collection, WWU

Creative Diversity Abides

Blackfish Gallery

Rebecca Belmore: Hacer Memoria

The Polygon Gallery

Story Keeping: Brittney Namaakii Bear Hat & Richelle Bear Hat

Nanaimo Art Gallery

Arbitrary Borders: Works By Artists Of Color in Washington’s State A...

Western Gallery & Sculpture Collection, WWU

Creative Diversity Abides

Blackfish Gallery

Regan Rasmussen: Safety Within

Xchanges Gallery and Studios

Charles Stankievech: The Desert Turned To Glass

Contemporary Calgary

Katazome Today: Migrations Of A Japanese Art

Whatcom Museum - Lightcatcher Building

Norman Lundin: The Space Between Things

Greg Kucera Gallery

Jun Ho Yun: New Works

Eutectic Gallery

Pierre Coupey: Echo’s Bones / Enn Erisalu: Floating Forms

Gallery Jones

The Willful Plot

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

The Wishing Well

Kelowna Art Gallery

Keeping the Song Alive

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

For Ukraine: Art Of Freedom

Schack Art Center

Redesigning Paradise

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Through the Lattice

Surrey Art Gallery

Eric Stotik: New Works

Russo Lee Gallery

Locally Sourced

AmcE Creative Arts

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Mar 18

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2023 FRASER VALLEY BIENNIAL is happening at The Reach Gallery in Abbotsford until May! The show features a dynamic, collective representation of exceptional artwork produced in the last two years by 22 artists who call the Fraser Valley region home. The themes is "the body", and the artworks range from those that picture the literal body – in whole, in part or modified – to representations of its sheltered form, be that through clothing or housing. ⁠
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Over three-quarters of the participating artists are women; all of them hail from the Fraser Valley communities of Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Langley and Lake Errock. ⁠
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Image: Jennifer Shepit, When the Body Disappears #1, 2022, watercolour, graphite, ink on paper. ⁠
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Mar 17

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ON THE TRAIL OF THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY is a story of teamwork, wonder and hope. Opening Mar 21 at the Musée Héritage Museum (@artsandheritagestalb) in St. Albert, AB, it features microphotographic images and spectacular aerial photographs from Mexican filmmaker and pilot, Francisco “Vico” Gutiérrez as he follows the monarch’s amazing journey from Montreal to central Mexico. he covered over 6,000 kilometres in 90 hours of flight over 72 days!⁠
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This exhibition is produced by the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in collaboration with the Mexican Embassy and presented courtesy of Ingenium in Ottawa.⁠
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Mar 16

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In Vancouver at Petley Jones Gallery (@petleyjonesgallery) -- a rare exhibition of etchings from 1703 by the father of Italian vertude, Luca Carlevaris! Visit the gallery until March 22 to see this special show <3.⁠
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Veduta prints were highly detailed and accurate, commissioned by wealthy travelers on the Grand Tour. As such, vertude were influential in shaping the popular imagination of Italy and its cities. They helped to create the romantic image of Italy as a land of ancient ruins, picturesque landscapes, and vibrant cities. The exhibition is a must see for art history enthusiasts, lovers of Italian art and culture!

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Mar 15

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On now at the Belkin (@belkinartgallery)! THE WILLFUL PLOT.  From earthly paradise to nature-culture interface, the garden is one of the most symbolically charged of human creations. In this group exhibition, curated by Melanie O’Brian, the garden is considered as a site of wilfulness and resistance. It is also, she writes, “a heterotopia for alternative cultivation and potential transformation.” Artists include Derya Akay and Vivienne Bessette, Derek Jarman, Gabi Dao, Charmian Johnson, Glenn Lewis, Mike MacDonald, Rehab Nazzal and Dana Qaddah.⁠
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Image: Rehab Nazzal, Lifta, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.⁠
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Mar 14

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THE LEDUC ARTS FOUNDRY (@leducartsfoundry) was created in January 2017 by a group of local artists who identified the need for a gathering space for the arts. The Arts Foundry is a centrally located and inclusive non-profit arts collective with a mission is to enrich and inspire the community through art and culture and create a welcoming space for all to come be a part of the arts! Visit their gallery for the upcoming exhibit: KRISTINE ANDERSON OF THE LEDUC ART CLUB - ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS. Check their website at: artsfoundry.ca for opening dates and more info! ⁠
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Mar 12

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To Mar 19 at the Bill Reid Gallery (@billreidgallery) in Vancouver, KEEPING THE SONG ALIVE -- a multi-layered story of the role music and song plays within Kwakwaka'wakw cultural traditions, and how a set of ceremonial recordings has inspired a new generation of contemporary Indigenous artists. Complemented by ceremonial regalia, films, historical photographs and contemporary art, the focus of this rich and resonant exhibition is an astonishing collection of traditional potlatch songs. Co-presented by The Jewish Museum & Archives of BC and the Bill Reid Gallery, guest curated by Cheryl ‘Ka’kaso’las Wadhams.⁠
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IMAGE: Sonny Assu, Live from the 'Latch, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.⁠
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Mar 11

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Opening Mar 17 at the National Nordic Museum (@nordicmuseum)! A Special Exhibition: Jónsi [Untitled]. ⁠
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This immersive artwork was created by Jónsi (Jón Þór Birgisson), lead singer of the world-famous Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. Created specifically for the Museum, the artwork will be the focus of Jónsi’s first museum exhibition in the US. It highlights the natural connections between the cities of Seattle and Reykjavik, which became sister cities in 1986. Changing environmental conditions within the gallery space will engage the visitors’ senses of hearing, sight, and smell to transport them to the ocean. This exhibition is curated by Leslie Anne Anderson, Director of Collections, Exhibitions, and Programs, National Nordic Museum.⁠
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Image: Photo of Jónsi by photographer Paul Salveson.⁠
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Mar 10

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Visit the Kelowna Art Gallery (@kelownaartgallery) this weekend for David & Jordan Doody's site-specific installation, THE WISHING WELL. Visitors are encouraged to interact with this large-scale sculpture, installed in the gallery's Rotary Courtyard! ⁠
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Known for their colourful paintings and mural projects, the pair conceived this work as a mural-sculpture hybrid, working it up virtually, as a digital graphic, before translating it into real-world materials and dimensions. Its curving shape, luscious hues and rippling patterns evoke West Coast leisure culture, from surfing to skateboarding to David Hockney-esque swimming pools.⁠
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Image: David & Jorden Doody, The Wishing Well, 2021. Courtesy of Kelowna Art Gallery.⁠
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Mar 9

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Opening Mar 11 at Astoria Visual Arts (@astoriavisualarts), UPROOTED by Anna Kaufman. A recent graduate of Vasser College, Kaufman transforms the gallery space into an engaging multimedia discussion of the old-growth and clearcut forests of the Pacific Northwest in an interactive exhibit allowing the audience to enter both the old-growth and clearcut environments. Experience earth beneath your feet, smells of conifers and sounds of the forest.⁠
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Image: Anna Kaufman, Wintering (part-of-triptych) Astoria Visual Arts, Astoria.⁠
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Mar 8

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The Esker Foundation (@eskerfoundation) in Calgary is now showing MARGAUX WILLIAMSON: INTERIORS. Williamson is a Toronto-based artist who works in a variety of media, though is best known for her large oil paintings. The interiors that have become a dominant theme in her recent work are both literal spaces and places of imaginative interiority. There is a frankness to her work that enlivens her canvases as fields of inquiry and a spaciousness that gives us licence to rove around details that become anchors in a field of possibilities.⁠
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Image: Margaux Williamson, Fire, 2021, oil on canvas. Collection of Christine and Andrew W. Dunn.⁠
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Mar 7

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If you're in Bellingham, make sure to visit the MELOY GALLERY! Located in the heart of the Bellingham Art District in the Bay Street Village Art Center, the gallery features original paintings, prints, pottery, collage and art cards by over a dozen local and regional artists, with a growing collection of consigned/matted works. Exhibitions open on the first Friday of each month from 5-8pm, in part with the Downtown Bellingham First Friday Art Walk. ⁠
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Mar 5

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REBECCA BELMORE: HACER MEMORIA is an outdoor artwork that hangs above the east façade of The Polygon Gallery (@polygongallery) in North Vancouver. Composed of sewn pieces of blue and orange tarpaulin material, the work depicts nine oversized shirts, each “emblazoned” with a single letter that together spell the ambiguous word “hereafter.” ⁠
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See this work through June. ⁠
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Belmore is widely acclaimed for her provocative work across performance, sculpture, photography, installation and video.⁠
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Image: Rebecca Belmore, Hacer Memoria, 2022, in-progress view. Photo: Henri Robideau.⁠
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Mar 4

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On now at Harcourt House (@harcourt_house) in Edmonton, THE END OF THE WORLD: THE BIRTH OF THE WORLD is a meditation on a future we hope to escape from. This experimental dance film is created and directed by Brad Necyk in collaboration with Gary James Joynes and Van Grimde Corps Secrets Dance Company.⁠
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Image: Brad Necyk / Gary James Joynes / Van Grimde Corps Secrets: The End of the World // The Birth of the World⁠
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Mar 3

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Opening Mar 4 at Perry and Carlson Gallery (@perryandcarlson) in Mount Vernon, WA -- AARON LOVEITT: VANTAGE. Join the community for the opening reception on Mar 4, 2-5pm.⁠
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"Traveling downstream from mountain glaciers, through forested valleys to river deltas, I have encountered moments of environmental and historical significance. This series of metal forgings sculpturally captures these vantage points of understanding." ⁠
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Image: Aaron Loveitt, “Recede”, Steel, 35” x 17.5” x 1.5.”

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Mar 2

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Opening Mar 9 at the Seattle Art Museum (@seattleartmuseum), IKAT: A WORLD OF COMPELLING CLOTH offers a view of this ancient art that is both broad in scope and immersive in depth. Among traditional textiles, ikat stands out for its brilliant colors and bold patterns; the complex techniques that go into its making often remain beneath the surface. Ikat is a living tradition.⁠
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The exhibition opens with an installation by contemporary artists Rowland and Chinami Ricketts, and another gallery features a dozen works from Threads of Life, an organization that supports Indonesian women weavers practicing traditional and sustainable techniques. More than a visual feast, the exhibition encourages viewers to look beyond the surface of a beautiful and venerable textile tradition.⁠
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Image: Pardah hanging, late 19th century, Silk Road (Uzbekistan), silk, warp ikat, cotton weft. Collection of David and Marita Paly.⁠
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Mar 1

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On now at the Nanaimo Art Gallery (@nanaimoartgallery)! STORY KEEPING is an exhibition of new and existing work by Mohkinstsis (Calgary)-based artists Brittney Namaakii Bear Hat and Richelle Bear Hat. Drawing from their shared Blackfoot and Dane-zaa Cree heritage, the artists look to storytelling practices and legacies of land and language displacement through their experiences growing up in both rural and urban environments. Through sculpture, photography, drawing, and video, they share how stories can connect people and places, and ask what can be told, and what should be held close.⁠
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Image: Richelle Bear Hat, film still from In Her Care, 2017 ⁠
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Feb 28

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Jun Ho Yun is slowly mastering the six techniques of buncheong, which uses dark, iron-bearing clay, white slip for decoration and a clear glaze. The Eutectic Gallery (@eutectic_gallery) in Portland presents his beautiful vessels in JUN HO YUN: NEW WORKS beginning Mar 10. This Korean ceramicist's grey and white pots are sublime in their simplicity and smoothness. His brushwork in the glaze helps with his self-expression. Says the artist, “Work is based on three frameworks of my emotion: peaceful and gentle, happy, and frustrated and hopeless.”⁠
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Image: Jun Ho Yun, vases, 2022.⁠
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Feb 25

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In THROUGH THE LATTICE, contemporary artists reflect on ornamentation, craft and design of the lived environment. Filled with both realistic and abstract representations of domestic architecture, this group exhibition asks us to consider the deeper meanings of the built spaces we daily inhabit. Speaking through different mediums and cultural perspectives, the artists here investigate the experiential and symbolic significance of style, ornament, design, pattern and structure.⁠
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On now at the Surrey Art Gallery (@surreyartgal) in BC, closing Mar 26.⁠
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Image: Alex Morrison, Interior with Mushroom Motif, 2019.⁠
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Feb 24

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Until Mar 26 at the Cannon Beach Gallery (@cannonbeachgallery), FIGURE & FACE highlights portraiture and figurative work, and features artist Laura Ross Paul - a Portland based artist, teacher and arts cheerleader. She has been painting professionally for over four decades and has been represented by nine different galleries on the West Coast. Her figurative paintings are in private and public collections throughout the US. ⁠
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Image: Figure & Face, Cannon Beach Gallery.⁠ Featured painting by artist Jen Hoff @jhoffstudios.
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Feb 23

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Opening Mar 2 at Contemporary Calgary (@contemporarycalgary), Calgary, CHARLES STANKIEVECH: THE DESERT TURNED TO GLASS. Be visually and sonically immersed in this ambitious “transmedia” installation by award-winning Canadian artist Charles Stankievech. Making full use of Contemporary Calgary’s planetarium architecture, from the projection room of its dome to the huge galleries below, the artist asks us to consider different theories of human consciousness and the origins of life on Earth. Geographically and cosmically diverse video and audio recordings transport us across the planet, into its subterranean depths and out through the vastness of deep space. A MUST SEE!⁠
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Image: Charles Stankievech, The Eye of Silence Series, 2022, video still.⁠
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