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Edge Effects – Inaugural Exhibition
Gibson Art Museum, Burnaby, BC - Sep 20, 2025 – Feb 15, 2026
The opening of a purpose-built art museum is a signal event that marks time. Everyone who has attended such an event remembers the museum’s statement exhibition. In 1995, UBC’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery opened with Salish artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s Born to Live and Die on Your Colonialist Reservations; in 2017, the Polygon Gallery followed suit with N. Vancouver, a group exhibition featuring work on or about North Vancouver.
For the ... Read More
At the Core: Recent Paintings by Barbara Sternberger
Western Gallery & Sculpture Collection, WWU, Bellingham, WA - Sep 24 – Dec 13
The distinguished painter Barbara Sternberger, based in Bellingham, has exhibited widely throughout the US and won numerous awards, including the Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award at the Seattle Art Museum. Sternberger was educated at University of California, Irvine (MFA, 1983). Her works since 2019 are a departure from her earlier abstract paintings, which were admired by critics in New York, Washington, DC, and Portland, OR. They comprise her third solo museum ... Read More
What’s Not to Love? Portraits and Reflections from the Schnitzer Collection
The Schnitzer Collection, Portland, OR - Oct 4, 2025 – March 31, 2026
Jordan Schnitzer’s growing private art collection is up to 22,000 pieces, including works by artists such as Jeff Koons, Malia Jensen, Pablo Picasso, John Baldessari and Mel Bochner. Schnitzer has multiple university museums and traveling exhibitions, and his storage space in industrial Northwest Portland can hold public shows, the latest of
which focuses on portraiture.
According to one of the curators, Azure Attoe the show “aims to engage educators and ... Read More
Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy
Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB - Sep 20 – Dec 21
First unveiled in the late 1980s, Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorexic (1987) is probably the most recognizable work of Prague-born Canadian artist Jana Sterbak. Sculpted from 50 pounds of raw flank steak, the garment became an enduring cultural touchstone, stirring controversy with visceral imagery revived by Lady Gaga when she wore a meat dress to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
Sterbak’s ongoing fascination with the body is at the core of her ... Read More
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