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Yukon Prize for Visual Arts 2023 Finalists Exhibition
Yukon Prize, Whitehorse, YT - Sep 14 - Nov 17
The second biennial Yukon Prize for Visual Arts Celebration Weekend takes place September 14 to 17 in Whitehorse, with the Finalists Exhibition opening at the Yukon Arts Centre. Open to Yukon residents, this year’s competition received submissions from over 60 artists, of which six finalists were chosen for the exhibition. Preview spoke by phone with prize co-founder Julie Jai.
Preview: The Yukon Prize follows the relatively recent Sobey Art Award (2002- ... Read More
Salt Spring National Art Prize: A Juror's Point of View
The Salt Spring National Art Prize (SSNAP), Salt Spring, BC - Sep 23 - Oct 23
The 2023 Salt Spring National Art Prize exhibition features a long list of 52 artists chosen from 2,158 entries, with prizes to be awarded at SSNAP’s Closing Gala and Awards on October 21. This year’s jury is comprised of Kwakwaka’wakw artist Richard Hunt, Montreal gallerist Pierre François Ouellette, Wexner Centre for the Arts executive director Gäetane Verna, and Vancouver curator Helga Pakasaar, who recently left the Polygon Gallery after 21 years, and who consented to a quick, ... Read More
Renegade Edo and Paris: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec
Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA - To Dec 3
While the influence of ukiyo-e woodblock prints on the lithographs of Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries is well documented, this show brings together some 90 masterworks of Edo-period Japan and late-19th-century France in a presentation that sheds new light on the art. Curator Xiaojin Wu delves deeper into the socioeconomic conditions that underlie the aesthetic connections.
In both countries, a prosperous middle class of merchants, artisans and entertainers concentrated ... Read More
Takahiro Iwasaki: Nature of Perception
Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, OR - Sep 24 - Dec 4
These are exciting times at Portland Japanese Garden, where what started out as a postwar “peace garden” is becoming a major US-Japanese cultural and educational center. With its Kengo Kuma–designed pavilion, galleries and craft spaces, the garden can now attract world-class artists, and give them the time and space to make something truly original and particular to this place.
Hiroshima-based Takahiro Iwasaki, who represented Japan at the 2017 Venice Biennale, is the ... Read More
Care and Wear: Bodies Crafted for Harm and Healing
Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB - Sep 23 - Dec 17
Art today is known as much for collaboration and inclusion as it once was for singular genius and vanguardism. Though artists continue to work under solo monikers and attend exclusive dinners hosted by collectors, more and more are aligning with communities whose material circumstances are rooted in more immediate bodily concerns, like food security and sustainable energy. Some, such as Brendan Griebel and Jude Griebel, eschew the word “artist” altogether, preferring ... Read More
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