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Art for All: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, 1855 SW Broadway, Portland OR - Nov 6, 2019 - Feb 15, 2020 by Joseph Gallivan A brand-new museum on Portland…
Exploring South Asian Art
KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY, KAMLOOPS BC - To March 31, 2018  SURREY ART GALLERY, SURREY BC - To March 25, 2018  By Michael Turner The Vancouver Art Gallery’s 2016 Bharti Kher exhibition…
Jon Sasaki: Killing One Bird with Half a Stone
ESKER FOUNDATION, Calgary AB - To Dec 19 by Michael Turner Toronto-based “Romantic conceptualist” Jon Sasaki is a multidisciplinary artist working in video, photography, performance and installation. His current exhibition, comprised of works produced over the…
Our Lives Through Our Eyes: Nk’Mip Children’s Art
KELOWNA ART GALLERY & OKANAGAN HERITAGE MUSEUM, Kelowna BC - To Apr 14 By Michael Turner Nk’Mip Children’s Art is the name given to a body of drawings and paintings made…
Tree of Life
Vancouver Lipont Art Centre, Richmond BC – Sep 21-Oct 10, 2017   By Michael Turner Of the metaphors common throughout the world, the tree is among the most enduring. How appropriate,…
Patterns of Change
by Michael Turner Blackfish Gallery, Portland We are social beings accustomed to patterns, the best of which we call rituals. Those who regularly pick up Preview appreciate and, by extension, participate in a cultural…
Corbin Union: OSOSO
CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To May 2 by Michael Turner Corbin Union, installation view from OSOSO. Photo: SITE Photography Corbin Union is an artist collective comprised of core…
Ansel Adams in Our Time
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, Portland OR - May 5 - Aug 1 Ansel Adams, Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1960,photograph, gelatin silver print. 2018.2681.Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The…
How She Read: Confronting the Romance of Empire
OPEN SPACE, Victoria BC - To Feb 26  by Christine Clark Chantal Gibson is a writer, visual artist and educator who teaches visual and written communication courses in Simon Fraser…
Tomoyo Ihaya: Gwangju Diary – Into Blue
VISUALSPACE GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Oct 3 - 22 by Michael Turner Large-scale public protests, like the recent ones in Hong Kong, bring to mind past protests. Though different in nature, the…
Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To May 24 by Michael Turner This touring exhibition, curated by art historian Nancy Campbell, features drawings by Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona (b. 1961) made over the…
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…
John M. Horton, The Marine Artist: Light, Texture and Colour – A Sea Voyage!
PETLEY JONES GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Nov 8 - 22 by Michael Turner Now in his 85th year, John M. Horton, FCA, CSMA, continues to produce “technically accurate” paintings of seagoing marine vessels both…
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts
MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Sep 8 - Dec 6 by Michael Turner Guest curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, this group exhibition features commissioned…
Ritchie Velthuis: SCTV Monument – Journey of an Artist
HARCOURT HOUSE ARTIST RUN CENTRE, Edmonton AB - To Feb 20 Ritchie Velthius, SCTV Monument (detail), 2020, bronze. Photo: Courtesy of Paul Swanson. by Michael Turner Unlike museum art, where…
Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, Portland OR - To April 28, 2019 by Allyn Cantor Drawn from the revered permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this exhibition of 70 paintings and sculptural works…
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci
WEST VANCOUVER ART MUSEUM, West Vancouver BC - To March 13 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, 2014. Photo: Courtesy of the Cultural Landscape Foundation by Michael Turner At age 99, landscape architect…
Gary McMillan: Galapagos
HARCOURT HOUSE, Edmonton AB - May 1 - June 6 by Michael Turner Between 1978 and 1980, Gary McMillan attended the University of Calgary, with a focus on science and fine art.…
Evan Lee: Fugazi
SFU TECK GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To Apr 26, 2020 by Michael Turner Before it was a major label-loathing 1990s punk band, fugazi was in heavy rotation as an Italian-derived slang word…
Wael Shawky: Al Araba Al Madfuna
THE POLYGON GALLERY, North Vancouver BC - To Jan 12, 2020 by Michael Turner Although lens-based contemporary artworks are nowhere near as dominant as they were in the early 2000s, they continue to attract audiences.…
Todd Lambeth: Night Moves
 DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ART, Victoria BC - To Mar 2   by Christine Clark Night Moves comprises acrylic paintings, the largest at 70 by 52½ inches, which when viewed together present amorphous…
Rooms with a View
THE POLYGON GALLERY, NORTH VANCOUVER, BC - Opens November 18  By Robin Laurence For some 36 years, North Vancouver’s Presentation House Gallery produced a stellar exhibition program out of a…
Remembering Gordon Smith
by Robin Laurence Beloved Canadian artist, educator and philanthropist Gordon Appelbe Smith died in his West Vancouver home on January 18, 2020, one hundred years and seven months after his birth in…
Bentley Meeker
PENTICTON ART GALLERY, Penticton BC - March 23 - May 12 By Michael Turner Artists have used light for as long as colour has required its frequencies. Change the frequency and…
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25
HALLIE FORD MUSEUM OF ART, SALEM OR – Sep 16-Dec 22, 2017   By Allyn Cantor This retrospective exhibition chronicles the history of Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA)…
Paying Homage to Legendary Artist Bill Reid To Speak with a Golden Voice
BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART, Vancouver BC - To April 11, 2021 by Latash-Maurice Nahanee Thinking outside the canoe led the late Bill Reid (1920-1998) to create monumental…
Broken Promises
NIKKEI NATIONAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTRE, Burnaby BC - Sep 26, 2020 - Spring 2021 by Michael Turner The lead image chosen for this exhibition is recognizable to anyone with…
Gather:Make:Shelter Offers Creative Solutions
Dana Lynn Louis (R) & Aileen McPhersonat Gather:Make:Shelter in Portland by Joseph Gallivan Portland sculptor Dana Lynn Louis started Gather:Make:Shelter as a side project to help people experiencing homelessness help themselves. She had…
Cutline: From the Photography Archives of the Globe and Mail
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON AB – Through Nov 12, 2017 By Michael Turner For years, newspapers were as much a part of our daily lives as the weather they reported…
Portia Munson: Flood
DISJECTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, PORTLAND OR - To March 4, 2018  By Allyn Cantor Using refuse from consumer culture as her medium for this exhibition, Portia Munson creates a singular large-scale…
Spill
MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Sep 3 - Dec 1 by Michael Turner If one were asked to name liquids mentioned most during news broadcasts, oil, water and blood…
Colette Urban: Gambler
SURREY ART GALLERY, Surrey BC - To March 24 By Michael Turner The passing of Newfoundland- based artist and educator Colette Urban on June 16, 2013, at the age of 61,…
Heritage Conservation and Redevelopment at The Exchange
by Cheryle Harrison Today, how we live and work influences the ways many older buildings, public artworks and heritage spaces are reinvented and used in our changing urban surroundings. Re-visioning heritage places requires dedication to…
go on: Jeffrey Ellom
FLUX MEDIA GALLERY, 1524 Pandora Ave, Victoria BC - To March 18 Jeffrey Ellom, go on, 2020-21, video still by Christine Clark Jeffrey Ellom works with music, visual art and video.…
Thomas Wood: Northwest Landscape Paintings and Early Prints
HARRIS HARVEY GALLERY, Seattle WA - Dec 6, 2018 - Jan 19, 2019 by Matthew Kangas Few trained printmakers are able to make the transition to painting, but Thomas Wood is a…
Salt Spring National Art Prize Finalists’ Exhibition
MAHON HALL, Salt Spring Island BC - Sep 21 - Oct 21 by Deirdre Rowland Established in 2015, the Salt Spring National Art Prize (SSNAP) provides a broad survey of art…
Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC, VANCOUVER BC - To Sep 30, 2018  By Michael Turner While the Vietnam War is among the defining moments of the North American baby boom…
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,…
Hopping for Hope: Ahreum Lee
THE NEW GALLERY, Calgary AB - To Feb 22 by Michael Turner Currently based in Montreal, Ahreum Lee is a South Korean–born interdisciplinary media artist who came to prominence first as co-founder and…
Michèle Drouin: Gardens Ablaze Jardins de lumière– Paintings 1977-2007
Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton, AB – November 17-December 7, 2017 By Michael Turner Over the course of her remarkable career, Quebec-born Michèle Drouin has distinguished herself as both a poet and…
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…
Ira Hoffecker: Transitions
FORTUNE GALLERY, Victoria BC - May 1 - 23 by Christine Clark Ira Ho ecker, The 8th Life Promenade,2021,acrylic and oil paint Ira Hoffecker is an award-winning Victoria- based painter who…
Women Artists Changing Collections: Recent Acquisitions
LEGACY DOWNTOWN, 630 Yates St, Victoria BC - To Jul 20 by Christine Clark Women Artists Changing Collections: Recent Acquisitions, co-curated by Lorilee Wastasecoot and Bradley Clements, is an exhibition of women artists chosen…
Lisa Lipton: Soon All Your Memories Will Be With Me
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA, Edmonton AB - To Oct 20 by Michael Turner First through literature, and then through film, science fi ction has played an important role in defining who we are,…
Earth & Ocean Arts Festival
CANNON BEACH, OR, Sep 20 - 22 by Allyn Cantor The strikingly beautiful convergence of the Pacific Ocean with land and forests has long been an awe-inspiring place for artists. The scenic…
Attila Richard Lukacs: Your Name Here
HERRINGER KISS GALLERY, Calgary AB - Sep 12 - Nov 2 by Michael Turner Those who remember Attila Richard Lukacs from Vancouver’s early-1980s art scene might recall a painter who, though still in…
Kriss Munsya: The Eraser
PENDULUM GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Jan 18 - Feb 12, 2021 by Michael Turner Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and raised in Brussels, 34-year-old Kriss Munsya is a graphic designer,…
Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography
THE POLYGON GALLERY, North Vancouver BC - To May 30 Jo Ann Callis, Untitled, 1994, from the series Forbidden Pleasures, archival pigment print. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Rose…
The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom
CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To April 5 by Michael Turner It is no small irony that Vancouver’s recognition as an art hub (see Phaidon’s Art Cities of the Future, 2013) came…
Surfing the Collection
ALBERTA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS Kablusiak, SHED (akunnirun kuupak), 2019, one of a five-part digital photo/performance series, edition 1/3. Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts by Michael Turner…
Art in Lake Country
ARTWALK, LAKE COUNTRY COMMUNITY COMPLEX, Lake Country BC - Sep 7 - 8 ATKLOKEM, LAKE COUNTRY ART GALLERY, Lake Country BC - To Sep 29 by Michael Turner Now in…
Olivia Whetung: Sugarbush Shrapnel
CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Oct 10, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020 by Michael Turner Chemong Lake-based Anishinaabe artist Olivia Whetung is a member of Curve Lake First Nation and a…
Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects
LEGACY DOWNTOWN, VICTORIA BC - To March 29, 2018  By Christine Clark Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects is an inspiring exhibition of contemporary art and archival materials gleaned from the University…
Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in BC
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To Nov 15 by Michael Turner Today, any exhibition with “British Columbia” in its title must be inclusive to the limit of its provincial and cultural…
Viola Frey: The Future of Yesterday
JAMES HARRIS GALLERY, SEATTLE WA - To June 23, 2018 By Matthew Kangas Celebrated large-scale ceramic sculptor Viola Frey, who died in 2004 at age 70, is often remembered as a beloved professor of art…
Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials
JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART, EUGENE OR Sep 22 - Dec 30, 2018  By Allyn Cantor  Examining the environmental, aesthetic and technological implications of plastic and how it infi ltrates virtually…
The Poetics of Space
KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY, KAMLOOPS BC - To June 30, 2018 By Michael Turner Taking its title from French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 book of the same name, this Vancouver Art Gallery generated exhibition brings…
Complementary Contrasts: The Glass and Steel Sculptures of Albert Paley
MUSEUM OF GLASS, TACOMA, WA – To September 3, 2018  By Matthew Kangas Distinguished East Coast metals artist Albert Paley began using glass in his abstract sculptures when he was invited…
From Pollution to Art: Tacoma’s Newest Park Sculpts the Environment
DUNE PENINSULA PARK, Tacoma WA by Rosemary Ponnekanti For folks who’ve just moved into Point Ruston condos, it’s probably just a nice place to walk the chihuahua. But 11- acre Dune Peninsula Park,…
Sybil Andrews: Art and Life
GLENBOW, Calgary AB - To Jan 12, 2020 by Michael Turner Born in the market town of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk County, England, in 1898, Sybil Andrews yearned to study art after graduating…
Bob Ross: Happy Little Accidents
PENTICTON ART GALLERY, Penticton BC - Jul 3 - Sep 15 by Michael Turner Between 1983 and 1995, artist Bob Ross hosted The Joy of Painting, an art instruction show that aired on…
Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC, Vancouver BC - To Oct 14 by Michael Turner This cross-cultural exhibition, curated by UBC Associate Professor of Museum and Visual Anthropology Nicola Levell, features contemporary and historical puppets from…
Z’otz* Collective: Residency and Exhibition
Z’otz* Collective: Residency and Exhibition OXYGEN ART CENTRE, Nelson BC - Aug 22 - Sep 26 by Michael Turner Taking its name from the Mayan word for “bat,” the Z’otz*…
Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA, Edmonton AB - To Jan 6, 2019 By Michael Turner Co-curated by AGA executive director and chief curator Catherine Crowston and the National Gallery of Canada’s associate curator of contemporary art Jonathan…
Vivian Maier: In Her Own Hands
GLENBOW, Calgary AB - To May 24 by Michael Turner Born in 1926 to a French mother and an Austrian father, Vivian Maier spent her first 25 years shuttling between her New York…
Landscapes of Edo: Ukiyo-e Prints from the AGGV Collection
ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA, Victoria BC - To May 27 by Christine Clark Ukiyo-e was a Japanese art form popular between the 17th and 19th centuries, comprised of paintings and woodblock…
Richard Young: What Comes to Mind
XCHANGES GALLERY, Victoria BC - March 6 - 22 by Christine Clark Maple Bay–based artist Richard Young is celebrating his first solo show of sculpture at Xchanges Gallery. On exhibit will be six…
Moving Still: Performative Photography in India
Capture Photography Festival VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - April 19 - Sep 2 by Michael Turner Featuring more than 100 works from mid-19th-century India to the present, Moving Still explores…
John R. Stahl: Oregon Artist
HALLIE FORD MUSEUM OF ART, Salem OR - To Aug 11 by Allyn Cantor This retrospective honors John Stahl (1937-2017), an important and infl uential Oregon artist with a 45-year exhibition history.…
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…
Transits and Returns
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Sep 28, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020 by Michael Turner Now in her third year as the VAG’s Senior Curatorial Fellow of Indigenous Art, Tarah Hogue (Métis/Dutch)…
MOA – Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks New Approaches to Exhibition and Display
By Robin Laurence The natural world meets cutting-edge technology in the new Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. With softbox lighting that’s responsive to outdoor conditions,…
Hastings Park 1942
Nikkei National Museum, Burnaby, BC – To January 14, 2018  By Michael Turner The 1942 incarceration of 8,000 Japanese-Canadians at Vancouver’s Hastings Park and their subsequent relocation to rural internment sites…
Focus on E.J. Hughes
Article by Robin Laurence  In the summer of 1948, E.J. Hughes made a sketching trip by bus from Victoria, where he was then living, to Cour-tenay, on the east coast of…
Women’s Work: Reflections on the History of Women in Textile
IL MUSEO AT THE ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE, Vancouver BC - To Dec 30, 2018 By Michael Turner Mounted in conjunction with the Vancouver-held annual conference of the Textile Society of America, this exhibition…
Samson Young: It’s a Heaven Over There
CENTRE A: VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART, Vancouver BC - Feb 23 - Jun 1 By Michael Turner In celebration of its 20-year anniversary and its recently renovated space…
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…
Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Jul 6 - Oct 27 by Michael Turner Recent VAG exhibitions of senior photo-based artists Marian Penner Bancroft and Carol Sawyer were heralded by those who…
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation Art Collection
VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL / UBC HOSPITAL, Vancouver BC - Ongoing By Michael Turner Launched in 2000, the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation Art Collection program was designed to “create an atmosphere –…
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…
Stephanie Patsula: (In) Site
Capture Photography Festival THE REACH GALLERY MUSEUM, Abbotsford BC - To May 5 by Michael Turner Artist Stephanie Patsula came to public attention with Forum (2014), a window installation derived from her work with…
The Writing on the Wall: Works of Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA
NICKLE GALLERIES, CALGARY, AB – To December 16, 2017  By Robin Laurence Artist, activist, poet, and curator, Joane Cardinal-Schubert was a pioneer of art that articulates Indigenous histories and identities.…
Rescuing the West Gable in a Heritage Lobby, Former Vancouver Stock Exchange
by Cheryle A. Harrison Buildings are more than their uses. Buildings communicate. They have their own language. Historic structures can offer layers of information from stylistic architectural details and the materials used in…
Volcano! Mount St. Helens in Art
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, Portland OR - To Jan 3, 2021 by Allyn Cantor This extensive exhibition takes an in-depth look at the iconic Mount St. Helens to commemorate the 40th anniversary of…
Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942-1955
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, PORTLAND OR - June 16 - Sep 23, 2018 By Allyn Cantor Preeminent American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) is most well known for his abstract style, extending into the later…
Whose Chinatown? Examining Chinatown Gazes in Art, Archives, and Collections
GRIFFIN ART PROJECTS, North Vancouver BC - To May 1 Morris Lum, Xam Yu Seafood Restaurant, Toronto, 2016,photograph by Michael Turner North American Chinatowns serve multiple histories, including a record of immigration,…
Intangible: Memory and Innovation in Coast Salish Art
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver BC – Sep 13-Dec 10, 2017  By Michael Turner Intangible is the latest in a series of large-scale Metro Vancouver exhibitions to…
Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing – French Modernism and the West Coast
AUDAIN ART MUSEUM, Whistler BC - Sep 21, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020 by Christine Clark Any artist who has ever travelled away from their own small town understands the infl…
All Sorts (No Licorice!)
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART, Bainbridge Island WA - To June 7 By Matthew Kangas Unique among American art museums, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s most precious holding is the Artist’s Book Collection…
Knowledge Bennett: Road to Damascus
WESTERN GALLERY, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA - To May 2 By Matthew Kangas Art about art is not a new postmodern strategy, but Los Angeles artist Knowledge Bennett has taken on…
Corey Bulpitt: Recent Works
LATTIMER GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Ongoing by Michael Turner Corey Bulpitt, Naikun Skaana, 2020, red cedar mask Ta’kiid Aayaa, Corey Bulpitt is a gifted Haida carver and a member of the…
The Salt Spring National Art Prize Is Back!
by Ronald T. Crawford As founding director of the biennial Salt Spring National Art Prize, I am very pleased to announce the opening of the call for submissions on January 1 for SSNAP 2021/2022, offering…
True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC – To January 28, 2018  By Michael Turner Those who think Scandinavian design begins and ends with IKEA should be forgiven if one considers for a…
Jim Breukelman: Altered States
Capture Photography Festival WEST VANCOUVER ART MUSEUM, West Vancouver BC - To May 11 by Michael Turner For some, the words “altered states” will always bring to mind the 1981 film by…
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…
Germaine Koh: Home Made Home
EVERGREEN CULTURAL CENTRE, COQUITLAM BC - Sep 15 - Nov 4, 2018  By Michael Turner The 2018 appointment of Germaine Koh to the position of artist-in-residence for the City of Vancouver’s…
contrapposto
VICTORIA ARTS COUNCIL, 1800 Store St, Victoria BC - Nov 1 - 30 by Christine Clark Kegan McFadden, curator and artistic director at the Victoria Arts Council, has organized an exhibition…
Luke Ramsey: Real Cloud
MADRONA GALLERY, Victoria BC - Sep 12 - 26 by Christine Clark In his fourth solo exhibition at Madrona Gallery, Luke Ramsey will be showing 20 new paintings and drawings.…
Ready Player 2: Sonny Assu and Brendan Tang
ILLINGWORTH KERR GALLERY, Calgary AB - To March 7 by Michael Turner Taking its cue from the 2011 Ernest Cline novel Ready Player One and Steven Spielberg’s 2018 film adaptation, Ready Player…
Carmen Papalia with Heather Kai Smith: Guidelines
WALTER PHILLIPS GALLERY/BANFF CENTRE, Ban AB - Jun 15 - Aug 25 by Michael Turner Social practice is arguably the first significant 21st-century art movement. While galleries and museums struggle with its ambivalence –…
Seated
ALBERTA CRAFT GALLERY, EDMONTON AB - Sep 1 - Dec 24, 2018  By Michael Turner An oft-cited work of Conceptual Art is Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs (1965). Comprised of…
Christian Dior
GLENBOW MUSEUM, Calgary AB - To June 2 by Michael Turner Most people know the story of how pleats, cuffs and ruffles fell out of fashion during the Second World War, due…
Paris 1900: City of Entertainment
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, Portland OR - Jun 8 - Sep 8 by Allyn Cantor This exhibition celebrates a time of flourishing achievements and prosperity, known as the Belle Époque or “Beautiful Age.” Paris hosted…
A Cultivating Journey: The Herman Levy Legacy
KELOWNA ART GALLERY, KELOWNA BC - June 16 - Oct 28, 2018 By Michael Turner Hamilton businessman and philanthropist Herman Levy (1902-1990) had “cultivated” an impressive European art collection by the time he donated it…
Acts of Resistance: Indigenous Art and Environmental Activism in BC
MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER, Vancouver BC - Feb 5 - July 2020 by Michael Turner On July 3, 2018, seven people lowered themselves and seven 40-foot pennant banners from the underside of…
Dean Burke: A Virtual Underwater World
TACOMA OCEAN FEST, Tacoma WA - online Sep 13 and beyond by Rosemary Ponnekanti Q: How do you show art in a pandemic? A: You create a real-world installation, capture…
Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity
WHATCOM MUSEUM, Bellingham WA - To Jan 6, 2019 by Allyn Cantor This thought-provoking exhibition features an international roster of artists who engage with natural science and environmental issues, providing a critical role in building…
The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs
Capture Photography Festival AUDAIN ART MUSEUM, Whistler BC - To May 25 by Michael Turner This exhibition, organized by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada, features over 80 photographs…
Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation
MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY, Seattle WA - Nov 2, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020 by Matthew Kangas With one in 100 Washington state residents of Indian American heritage, a thorough historic examination…
Yechel Gagnon: Midwinter Thaw
Newzones, Calgary AB – Sep 16-Oct 21, 2017   By Michael Turner In 1797, Samuel Bentham applied for patents to protect his veneer-making machines. Since then, the business of gluing together…
Clifford Gleason: The Promise of Paint
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR - To Oct 31 by Allyn Cantor This major retrospective traces the career of Clifford Gleason (1913-1978), an under-recognized modernist from Salem, Oregon.…
Anna Wong: Traveller on Two Roads
BURNABY ART GALLERY, BURNABY BC - Aug 31 - Nov 3, 2018  By Michael Turner The passing of master printmaker Anna Wong (1930-2013) marked the end of an extraordinary life of…
Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC - February 3 - May 6, 2018  By Michael Turner Only a handful of contemporary visual artists, at any one time, achieve the kind of…
Magnificent Mountain Imagery
Encounters with the Sublime: Bradford Washburn & Sebastião Salgado Passion & Purpose: Carbon Prints & Photogravures by Jon Goodman  WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES, BANFF AB - February 3…
Oscar Tuazon: Collaborator
BELLEVUE ARTS MUSEUM, Bellevue WA - To Sep 15 by Matthew Kangas Following on a Seattle Art Museum show with his brother, Elias Hansen, the new show from Oscar Tuazon, Collaborator, emphasizes his…
Donald Lawrence: Casting the Eye Adrift
KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY, Kamloops BC - April 9 - June 27 by Michael Turner This retrospective exhibition brings together works in sculpture, video, photography and drawing, in addition to preparatory modelling and ephemera, by…
Culinaria (Art + Food + Community)
DISJECTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, PORTLAND OR Sep 23 - Nov 3, 2018  By Allyn Cantor Throughout the fall, Disjecta brings together some of Portland’s finest talents in a series of collaborative…
Elzbieta Krawecka: Aglow
BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY, Edmonton AB - Nov 16 - 30 by Michael Turner When describing a landscape painting, its greatest compliment might have less to do with the accuracy of the work’s…
Unsettling Femininity
FRYE ART MUSEUM, Seattle WA - To Sep 20 by Matthew Kangas For the past decade, curators and directors at the Frye Art Museum, a privately funded free-admission institution open seven days…
Citizens of Craft
Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary AB – Through Sep 23, 2017  By Michael Turner Among the recurring conversations that characterize the art of our time is the false dichotomy that pits art…
Southern Rites: Photographs by Gillian Laub
OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION, Portland OR - To May 24 by Joseph Gallivan Gillian Laub went to Montgomery County, Georgia, and photographed the high school proms, which in the 2000s…
Steven Davies: Written in My Blood
FLUX MEDIA GALLERY, Victoria BC - Oct 10 - Nov 1 by Christine Clark Written in My Blood is a 2016 film by Steven Davies (Coast Salish and European ancestry), in collaboration…
Contemporary Sculpture at Lake Washington
NOAA WESTERN REGIONAL CENTER, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle WA - Ongoing by Matthew Kangas Seattle’s celebrated heritage of art in public places has led to a number of…
Anastacia-Reneé: (Don’t be Absurd) Alice in Parts
A note of clarification FRYE ART MUSEUM, Seattle WA - Jan 30 - April 25, 2021 by Matthew Kangas Part of an ongoing series of exhibitions spotlighting African American artists, Anastacia-Reneé: (Don’t…
Between Bodies
HENRY ART GALLERY, University of Washington, Seattle WA - To April 28, 2019 by Matthew Kangas The planet intersects with the human body in this fascinating exploration of sculpture, video, sound art and…
Outdoor Art Walk in Cannon Beach
Ivan McLean, Red Sphere, stainless steel by Allyn Cantor As a scenic town on Oregon’s north coast, Cannon Beach has long been considered an artistic community, with galleries and artists’ studios on…
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…
HAIDA NOW: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition
MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER, VANCOUVER BC - To June 15, 2019 By Graham Richard Crowds packed into the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) to witness the opening of Haida Now at c̓əsnaʔəm Kits Point March…
Alex Janvier: Modern Indigenous Master
GLENBOW MUSEUM, CALGARY AB - June 16 - September 9, 2018 By Michael Turner Now in his 84th year, Denesuline and Saulteaux artist Alex Janvier is a pioneer in the development of…
Hashim Hannoon: City Life
MADRONA GALLERY, Victoria BC - Jun 8 - 22 by Christine Clark Vancouver-based painter Hashim Hannoon returns to Victoria for the first time since 2016. City Life, his second solo exhibition at Madrona Gallery,…
Harold Klunder: Recent Watercolour Paintings
WINCHESTER GALLERIES (DOWNTOWN), VICTORIA BC - June 19 - July 14, 2018 By Christine Clark Born in Deventer, Netherlands in 1943, Harold Klunder immigrated with his family to Canada in 1952. His first…
Frida Kahlo: Her Photos
GLENBOW MUSEUM, CALGARY AB - February 3 - May 21, 2018 By Kevin Griffin A hidden cache of photographs is shedding new light on Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. After Kahlo’s death…
Looking at Persepolis: The Camera in Iran, 1850-1930
THE POLYGON GALLERY, North Vancouver BC - Nov 2, 2018 - Jan 13, 2019 By Michael Turner Every country has its own history of photography. For Iran, that history began in 1842, three years…
BOXCARSIX: A new Victoria Artist Collective
Slide Room Gallery, Victoria BC – Sep 8-25, 2017   By Christine Clark BOXCARSIX, founded in April 2016, is a group of emerging contemporary artists: Clare Thomas, Jenn Wilson, Fern Long,…
Twenty-Three Days at Sea, Chapter Two
Access Gallery, Vancouver BC – Sep 9-Oct 28, 2017   By Michael Turner Amidst the bustle of the December 2014 holiday season came a press release issued by Access Gallery and…
Katie Ohe
ESKER FOUNDATION, Calgary AB - To May 3 by Michael Turner Until recently, a great artist was defined by their ability to produce resonant artworks from a temperament that both attracts and repulses. Think…
Representing: Vernacular Photographs of, by and for African Americans
Portland Art Museum, Portland OR – Through Dec 3, 2017  By Joseph Gallivan The Portland Art Museum’s photography curator, Julia Dolan, was browsing Instagram when she saw a cache of snapshots…
Landscape with Goat: Drawings by Ann Kipling
KARDOSH CONTEMPORARY AT MARION SCOTT GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To Nov 17, 2018 By Michael Turner Now in her 85th year, Falkland-based artist Ann Kipling is among a handful of BC artists who…
Upstream Benefits: Artist Run Culture in the Kootenays
Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History/Oxygen Art Centre Nelson, BC – November 18, 2017 - February 11, 2018   By Michael Turner In celebration of Oxygen’s first ten years as the…
Hockey
NANAIMO MUSEUM, Nanaimo BC - Sep 14 - Nov 24 by Michael Turner Those who grew up in Canada in the 1960s know it as Canada’s Official Trick Question: What is Canada’s national sport?…
Seduced by Improbable Images Angela Passalacqua & Barbara Black
BLACKFISH GALLERY, PORTLAND OR - July 31 – Sep 1, 2018 By Allyn Cantor This two-person exhibition brings together the shared interests and emotions of long time Blackfish gallery artists Angela Passalacqua & Barbara Black,…
Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, 1956 –1965: Japan’s Women Printmakers
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, Portland OR - To April 11, 2021 by Allyn Cantor Focusing on Japan’s first women’s printmaking association, this exhibition brings together a collection of rare prints by an innovative…
Kevin Lanthier: HUMAN:NATURE
IAN TAN GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Nov 7 - 30 by Michael Turner Climate change manifests in events often associated with physical geography. From crumbling polar ice caps to massive forest fires, spectacular images like…
Close-up: Director Hafthor Yngvason Dreams Big
WESTERN GALLERY AND OUTDOOR SCULPTURE COLLECTION, WWU By Matthew Kangas Formerly director of Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland and of public art in Cambridge, Mass., Hafthor Yngvason arrived in Bellingham in…
Dana Lynn Louis: Weave
RUSSO LEE GALLERY, Portland OR - Feb 6 - 29 by Allyn Cantor Dana Lynn Louis is a multidisciplinary artist well-known for her thoughtful sculptural works and larger-scale, immersive installations that engage architectural spaces,…
Marsha Burns: Look Again
Prographica/KDR, Seattle WA – Sep 7-Oct 28, 2017   By Matthew Kangas Now that photography is no longer considered a separate or “special” art medium, many artists of the 1970s and…
Scott Sueme: Homework
KIMOTO GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC - To June 9, 2018 By Michael Turner Scott Sueme was raised in Vancouver, and his first forays into art include his participation in the city’s burgeoning graffiti subculture.…
Mary Babineau: The Vegas Project
Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, BC – January 5-21, 2018  By Christine Clark Painted in 2017 before the mass shooting of October 1, The Vegas Project, nevertheless, presents a series of disturbing…
Vladimir Kraynyk: Epiphanies
IAN TAN GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC - February 3 - 28, 2018  By Michael Turner The life of an exhibiting artist rarely begins with any seriousness before the age of 30. But…
Alberta and the Group of Seven
ESPLANADE ARTS AND HERITAGE CENTRE, MEDICINE HAT AB - To July 14, 2018 By Michael Turner Much has been written about the Group of Seven and its place in Canadian history. Whether this…
6th Annual Artists with Disabilities Showcase
FLUX MEDIA GALLERY, Victoria BC - Nov 30 - Dec 3, 2018 by Christine Clark The Victoria Disability Resource Centre (VDRC) has been organizing the Annual Artists with Disabilities Showcase since 2013…
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…
Jeneen Frei Njootli: red rose ad lidii
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB – To November 26, 2017  By Michael Turner Jeneen Frei Njootli is a Vuntut Gwitchin artist who works in a variety of media and “has…
The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography
NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM, Seattle WA - To Jan 31, 2021 by Matthew Kangas After over 20,000 artworks were bequeathed by the artist to Oslo’s Munch Museum, guest curator Patricia Berman could draw deeply…
Gyre
NEW MEDIA GALLERY, NEW WESTMINSTER BC - To Sep 30, 2018  By Michael Turner The word “gyre” derives from the Latin gyrus, and the Greek gûros before it, meaning “circle, ring,…
Sandow Birk: Dante’s Divine Comedy and Selected Works from American Qur’an
RONNA & ERIC HOFFMAN GALLERY, LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE, Portland OR - To Mar 17 by Allyn Cantor Sandow Birk is a well-known Los Angeles artist whose provocative work deals…
Translations: An Exploration of Glass by Northwest Native Carvers and Weavers
MUSEUM OF GLASS, Tacoma WA - To Nov 10 by Matthew Kangas With the examples of glass artist and former Chihuly team member Preston Singletary (Tlingit) and printmaker Joe Feddersen…
Connie Michele Morey: dwelling
arc.hive artist run centre, Victoria, BC – November 11-26, 2017  By Christine Clark Having been raised on a farm, daughter to a family of masons on her father’s side and…
Daphne Odjig 100
KELOWNA ART GALLERY, Kelowna BC - To Jan 5, 2020 by Michael Turner This exhibition, so named after the 100th anniversary of the Odawa-Potawatomi-English artist’s birth, is a “capsule retrospective” based on 12…
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, Seattle WA - To May 23 Jacob Lawrence with Panels 26 & 27, 1958©Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images by Carla Bell After more than 60…
Masaomi Yasunaga: Empty Landscape
LIBBY LESHGOLD GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To March 29, 2021 (held over as a “virtual exhibition”) by Michael Turner Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1982, Masaomi Yasunaga received his formal…
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…
Sculpture Park a Perfect Site for Sunset Stroll
OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK, Seattle WA - Ongoing by Matthew Kangas Following the recent death of Virginia Bloedel Wright, legendary modern art patron, the Seattle Art Museum has organized a show about her. City…
Art and Daylight Meet in Sparkling New Venue
SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM, Seattle WA - Reopening Feb 8 by Matthew Kangas Since its opening in 1933 as the original Seattle Art Museum, the Bebb & Gould–designed Art Moderne structure…
Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE WA - February 15 - May 13, 2018 By Matthew Kangas Participating in Black History Month, Seattle Art Museum curator Catharina Manchanda has organized a survey of…
Brad McMurray: Pedestrian
BURNABY ART GALLERY, Burnaby BC - April 3 - May 3 by Michael Turner “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody,” wrote Canadian-American urbanist Jane Jacobs, “only because, and only when, they are…
Salt Spring National Art Prize – 2017 Finalists’ Exhibition
Mahon hall, salt spring island BC – Sep 23-Oct 22, 2017  By Deirdre Rowland “This exhibition is exemplary – a diverse showcase of visual art from across Canada. I’m very happy…
David Merritt: aweigh
EMPTY GALLERY, VICTORIA BC - To April 11 By Christine Clark London, Ontario–based sculptor and multimedia artist David Merritt is exhibiting one of his large, tornado-shaped sisal pieces at Victoria’s newest contemporary art…
Paul Wong: Suk-Fong, How Are You?
DR. SUN YAT-SEN CLASSICAL CHINESE GARDEN, Vancouver BC - To Feb 24 By Michael Turner April 22, 2018 marked the start of Occupying Chinatown, Vancouver artist Paul Wong’s year-long residency at…
Karina Kalvaitis: Age of the Unseen World
ARC.HIVE GALLERY, VICTORIA BC - Sep 8 - 23  By Christine Clark  Age of the Unseen World is, in sculptor Karina Kalvaitis’ own words, a collection “of imaginary animals … created…
Save the Date: New and Well-Known Works by Chris Cran
Salmon Arm Arts Centre, Salmon Arm BC – Sep 1-30, 2017  By Michael Turner Chris Cran’s interest in the laziness of everyday language makes writers think twice when writing about his…
Gohar Dashti: Dissonance
WEST VANCOUVER ART MUSEUM, West Vancouver BC - March 18 - May 9 by Michael Turner Nineteen-eighty was an extraordinary year for Iran. On September 22 the country was invaded by…
Tom Thomson Centennial Swim: Paul Walde
TOUCHSTONES NELSON: MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY, Nelson BC - March 7 - May 31 by Michael Turner Ontario artist Tom Thomson was last seen alive on July 8, 1917,…
Daniel Laskarin: ruins and reclamation
Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria BC – Sep 8-Oct 7, 2017 By: Christine Clark About ruins and reclamation, Daniel Laskarin writes, “A great deal of my work comes from reflecting on how…
The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving
Presented by Musqueam, MOA and a community of Salish weavers MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY at UBC, VANCOUVER BC - To April 15, 2018  By Michael Turner Weaving, like pottery in the early…
Steve Tilden, Stephan Soihl and Howard Neufeld
Steve Tilden: Scraps in Transition Stephan Soihl: Small Kinetic Sculptures Howard Neufeld: Structure and Chaos BLACKFISH GALLERY, Portland OR - May 5 - 30 by Allyn Cantor The three artists…
Where Science Meets Art: the New Burke Museum
BURKE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND CULTURE, Seattle WA by Rosemary Ponnekanti Delight. Discovery. Visual joy. Not words you’d immediately think of when imagining a natural history museum. Yet the new incarnation of…
Jennet Thomas
IT ONCE HAD A FACE, NOW IT WANTS ONE AGAIN DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ART, Victoria BC - June 6 - July 11 by Christine Clark Jennet Thomas, based in London, England, is…
Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE WA - Oct 18, 2018 - Jan 21, 2019  By Matthew Kangas Known in the West as riding pants that balloon above the knee, “jodhpurs” were the…
Erika Toliusis: Seascapes
IAN TAN GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Jun 1 - 30 by Michael Turner It is a source of wonder that those who claim indifference to abstract painting can pass an afternoon at a…
Gary Pearson: Short Fictions
KELOWNA ART GALLERY, KELOWNA BC - To March 18, 2018  By Michael Turner A picture is said to be worth a thousand words. A work of short fiction, like those that…
Lynne Cohen: These Walls
Capture Photography Festival BURNABY ART GALLERY, Burnaby BC - To April 21 by Michael Turner By the time of her passing in 2014, photographer Lynne Cohen of Montreal was renowned for her large-scale…
Deon Venter: Missing / Highway of Tears
SAN JUAN ISLANDS MUSEUM OF ART, Friday Harbor WA - To May 25 by Robin Laurence Violence against women is a shocking phenomenon that, in recent years, has preoccupied not only human rights…
Tammi Campbell: Dear Agnes Agnes Martin: The mind knows what the eye has not seen Sarah Stevenson: Nothing Hidden 
ESKER FOUNDATION, CALGARY AB - Sep 22 - Dec 21, 2018  By Michael Turner Born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, in 1912 and raised in Vancouver, Agnes Martin spent most of her adult…
Anna Gustafson: Object Lessons
ESKER FOUNDATION (in conjunction with The New Gallery), Calgary AB - To Aug 9 by Michael Turner A highlight of Mike Nichols’ 1967 boomer spoof The Graduate comes when Mr. McGuire…
Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT
MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – To April 8, 2018  By Michael Turner Just as the Belkin did eight years ago as a co-presenter of the online Ruins…
Land Back
OPEN SPACE, Victoria BC - To Jan 16, 2021 by Christine Clark Eli Hirtle, the current Indigenous curator at Open Space, says: “The idea for this exhibition came to me in February, while…
Witness: Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
HALLIE FORD MUSEUM OF ART, Salem OR - To Dec 21, 2018 by Allyn Cantor Witness brings together more than 80 prints by nationally and internationally recognized artists who explore…
The 5th Okanagan Print Triennial
VERNON PUBLIC ART GALLERY, Vernon BC - To May 19 Yangbin Park, Wave 05, 2019, serigraph on paper by Michael Turner Launched in 2009 as a national juried exhibition, the Okanagan…
Tacoma Art Museum’s New Benaroya Wing Takes Flight
TACOMA ART MUSEUM, Tacoma WA - Inaugural exhibition by Rosemary Ponnekanti Glass trees. Glass water. The new Benaroya Wing at Tacoma Art Museum, which opened January 19, not only tells…
Works of Peter von Tiesenhausen
Songs for Pythagoras  ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON AB - To May 16, 2018 Carbon Capture  PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY, EDMONTON AB - To February 28, 2018 By Michael Turner Among the…
Sun, Shadows, Stone: The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, Portland OR - To Aug 4 by Allyn Cantor Influential photographer Terry Toedtemeier (1947-2008) is known for his explorations of natural rock formations in the Northwest landscape as well as for his…
A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia
CHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM, Vancouver BC - Ongoing MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER, Vancouver BC - Opens Nov 19 by Michael Turner This inventive, multi-venue exhibition highlights the importance of food and restaurant culture in…
Weldon Butler: Selected Works
G. GIBSON GALLERY, SEATTLE WA - To March 3, 2018  By Matthew Kangas The veteran African-American artist Weldon Butler, who moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1968, has been largely overlooked…
Victor Vasarely | Op Art in Vancouver | Uncommon Language
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To April 5, 2021 by Michael Turner Hungarian-born Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) was a leading figure in the global Op Art movement. Though Op (short for “Optical”) has…
In the Beginning: Minor White’s Oregon Photographs
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, PORTLAND OR - To October 21, 2018 By Allyn Cantor This exhibition of Minor White’s rarely exhibited early work reflects the artist’s influence on the region. In 1937…
Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE WA – Oct 19, 2017-Jan 15, 2018   By Matthew Kangas The most important thing to note about Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect,  SAM’s blockbuster this fall, is…
Guo Pei: Couture Beyond
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To Jan 20, 2019 By Michael Turner Billed as the VAG’s “first-ever fashion exhibition,” Guo Pei: Couture Beyond is a survey of more than 40 complete runway looks produced…
Close-Up: Oxygen Art Centre Executive Director Genevieve Robertson on the Kootenay Connection
OXYGEN ART CENTRE By Michael Turner Founded in 2002 by former writing and visual art faculty at the Kootenay School of Art, the Nelson Fine Art Centre Society spent its first two years building…
Journey to the Third Dimension: Tom Cramer’s Drawings and Paintings 1974-2019
JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART, Eugene OR - To Dec 29 by Allyn Cantor Tom Cramer started drawing as a pastime during music theory class at age 13. The iconic Northwest artist…
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…
David Wojnarowicz: Photography & Film, 1978-1992
MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To April 5 by Michael Turner Since 2009, the Belkin has presented a number of exhibitions, events and publications focused on North American aesthetic…
Christopher Marley: Exquisite Creatures
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, Portland OR - To Feb 17 by Allyn Cantor Christopher Marley’s unique artworks are like eye candy for the nature lover. Using real specimens, he creates three-dimensional…
Hexsa’am: To Be Here Always
MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To April 7 By Michael Turner In the summer of 2018, artists of various media (film, video, social media, weaving, animation, drawing,…
The Academic Style and Representing Rural Life
UNO LANGMANN LIMITED, Vancouver BC - Through April and May by Michael Turner Now in its sixth decade, Uno Langmann Limited is an intergenerational family-run gallery focused on European and North American paintings…
Brendan Fernandes: Inaction
RICHMOND ART GALLERY, Richmond BC - Feb 12 - April 3 Brendan Fernandes, Free Fall: For Camera, 2019, video still by Michael Turner Born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Goan Indian…
Wait Until Dark
HOWARD495, Vancouver BC - Through Aug (by appointment) by Michael Turner Guest curated by artist Stephen Waddell, recipient of the 2019 Scotiabank Photography Award, Wait Until Dark “attempts to describe some portion of…
I AM THIS: Art by Oregon Jewish Artists
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education Portland, OR - To February 4, 2018 By Allyn Cantor This exhibition draws inspiration from the writings of mid-century American art critic…
Sejin Kim and InYoung Yeo: dot.dot.dot.
GRUNT GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To Jun 22 by Michael Turner We see them in emails and in texts and in old family letters. Dictionaries like Google’s know them as ellipses (“the omission[s]…
Noritaka Tatehana: Refashioning Beauty
PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN, Portland OR - To Dec 1 by Allyn Cantor Japanese artist and designer Noritaka Tatehana, known internationally for his innovation, is having his first solo show in North America at…
Krista Belle Stewart: Truth to Material
NANAIMO ART GALLERY, Nanaimo BC - To Nov 10 by Michael Turner In architecture, truth to materials is a twofold principle that refers to (a) the use of materials most appropriate to the…
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…
Cindy Sherman
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, Vancouver BC - To March 8, 2020 by Michael Turner At a time when the selfie is social media’s leading portrait sub-genre, it makes sense to mount an exhibition by an…
Lucinda Parker: Force Fields
HALLIE FORD MUSEUM OF ART, Salem OR - To Mar 31 by Allyn Cantor Lucinda Parker has been a central figure in the Portland art world for several decades. This…
Art by Surrey Secondary School Students
SURREY ART GALLERY, Surrey BC - To April 30 Sydney Trotman, Fallen Sisters, 2020, digital photography by Sanjana Karthik At Surrey Art Gallery, it has been a spring tradition since 1983…
A Curator’s View: Ian Thom Selects
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC - Sep 22, 2018 - Mar 17, 2019  By Michael Turner The announcement last spring of VAG Senior Curator Ian Thom’s retirement allowed many in the…
Tammy Salzl: Into the Woods
Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George BC – through Oct 8, 2017  By Michael Turner For many, mention of “the woods” brings to mind a forest setting populated by plants and…
Lone Tratt: 50 Years of Printmaking
DUNDARAVE PRINT WORKSHOP + GALLERY, Vancouver BC - April 1 - 26 by Michael Turner Originally from Denmark, Lone Tratt attained a bachelor’s degree from the School of Interior Design in Copenhagen before…
Karen Tam: With wings like clouds hung from the sky
RICHMOND ART GALLERY, Richmond BC - May 4 - June 30 by Michael Turner To say that artistic practice has shifted significantly since the turn of the 21st century is a monumental understatement. Although…
The Ceramic Art of Thomas Kakinuma
WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM, VANCOUVER BC - To March 10, 2018 By Michael Turner The story of ceramics in British Columbia art is a furtive history that includes artists who received their…
Towards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet
FRYE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE WA - To August 5, 2018 By Matthew Kangas Part of what’s fascinating about the Frye Art Museum’s summer blockbuster exhibition, Towards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet, is learning…
Tales of an Empty Cabin: Somebody Nobody Was…
AUDAIN ART MUSEUM, Whistler BC - To May 6 by Michael Turner In 2009, Whitehorse-based artist Joseph Tisiga, of Kaska Dena ancestry, enacted a performance named after a 1936 collection of campfire stories…
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…
Alden Mason: Fly Your Own Things
BELLEVUE ARTS MUSEUM, Bellevue WA - May 14 - Oct 10 by Matthew Kangas Alden Mason, Montezuma, 1985, acrylic on canvas. Collection of Kim and George Suyama Alden Mason (1919-2013),…
A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC, Vancouver BC - Feb 11 - Sep 5 Atsunobu Katagiri, Flower: Southern magnolia / Location: Ukedo,Namine town from Sacrifi ce series, 2013-14, photograph by Michael…
Robert Pruitt: The Majesty of Kings Long Dead
KOPLIN DEL RIO, Seattle WA - To Sep 28 by Matthew Kangas A leading contemporary African- American artist, Robert Pruitt has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as important solo and group…
Real Tears: Christine D’Onofrio
DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ART, VICTORIA BC - To February 24, 2018  By Christine Clark Christine D’Onofrio is an artist and educator who works as an instructor at UBC and is well regarded for…
Malleable: Changing Notions of Women
IL MUSEO AT THE ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE, Vancouver BC - To Dec 10 by Michael Turner Malleable is the third and final group exhibition in Il Museo’s Gendered Voices, an ambitious and…
La Decanatura: Centro Espacial Satelital de Colombia
DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ART, Victoria BC - March 7 - April 4 by Christine Clark Centro Espacial Satelital de Colombia (2015) is a video work by the Bogotá-based artist collective La Decanatura,…
Person/ne
GRIFFIN ART PROJECTS, North Vancouver BC - To Sep 2 by Michael Turner Now in its fifth year of private collection-based exhibitions, artist and curatorial residencies, and imaginative public programs, Griffin Art…
Jenny Heishman: New Work
SPECIALIST GALLERY, SEATTLE WA - Oct 4 - Nov 25  By Matthew Kangas Jenny Heishman’s new work at Specialist Gallery in Pioneer Square follows on her 2016 residency at Banff Centre…
jasna guy with Lincoln Best: Pressed for Time
SEYMOUR ART GALLERY, NORTH VANCOUVER BC - June 9 - July 21, 2018 By Michael Turner A consequence of our accelerating, space-saving times is the proliferation of acronyms, many of which refer to…
Close-up: David Setford, Tacoma Art Museum’s visionary new director
TACOMA ART MUSEUM By Matthew Kangas When Stephanie Stebich left Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) to head the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, she left a legacy of unmatched successes that made TAM “already…
Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection
AUDAIN ART MUSEUM, Whistler BC - To Jan 28, 2019 By Michael Turner With the 21st century nearing the end of its teenage years, one could argue that the greatest shift in Canadian contemporary art…
Nicole Katsuras: Painter’s Paradise
BAU-XI GALLERY, Vancouver BC - Nov 16 - 30 by Michael Turner The exhibition title is seductively ambiguous. Is the artist referring to a mood state in which a painter can work…
And They Faded into the Landscape: Arnold Shives
SEYMOUR ART GALLERY, NORTH VANCOUVER BC Sep 15 - Nov 3, 2018  By Michael Turner Arnold Shives was born in Vancouver in 1943 and was a childhood friend of the avant-garde…
Gary Lee-Nova: Oblique Trajectories
BURNABY ART GALLERY, Burnaby BC - To April 18 Gary Lee-Nova, Radio City, 1967-68, acrylic on canvas.Collection of Museum London, London, Ontario, 68.A.115 (LS) by Michael Turner Gary Lee-Nova is…
CORRECTIONS
Garry Neill Kennedy With painting installers Jesse Campbell and Miles Giesbrecht OPEN SPACE, VICTORIA BC - To December 31, 2018 By Christine Clark The first in a series of stairwell installations intended…
Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, Seattle WA - Oct 17, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020 by Matthew Kangas Founded in 1738 by King Charles VII of Bourbon (who later became Charles III of Spain),…
Mel Bochner: Enough Said
OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION, Portland OR - To May 26 by Allyn Cantor Mel Bochner, Squawk, 2017, monoprintwith collage, engraving and embossment.Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer…
Nikkei National Museum Reopening
Featuring Cindy Mochizuki: Sue Sada Was Here NIKKEI NATIONAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTRE, Burnaby BC by Michael Turner When the Nikkei centre opened in 2000, plans were already underway for…
John Graham: Fiercely Open
ALBERTA PRINTMAKERS GALLERY, Calgary AB - To Nov 30, 2018 By Michael Turner The publication of Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams (1900) was a landmark 20th-century event. On the one hand, the book recognized…
Makeshift Contemporary Textiles Festival
MULTIPLE VENUES AND SITES, Victoria BC - November 9, 10 & 11, 2018 by Christine Clark Makeshift, an expansive, three-day, city-wide celebration of contemporary textiles practice, features over 40 artists working in…
Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Their Circle: French Impressionism and the Northwest
TACOMA ART MUSEUM, Tacoma WA - To Jan 5, 2020 by Rosemary Ponnekanti If you’re expecting a blockbuster full of water lilies, you won’t find it at Tacoma Art Museum’s new…
Rebecca Belmore: RESERVOIR
AUDAIN ART MUSEUM, Whistler BC - Nov 14, 2020 - April 11, 2021 by Michael Turner Anishinaabekwe artist Rebecca Belmore has lived and worked in some of Canada’s largest cities (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg),…
E’yies’lek Rocky LaRock: The Wild Inside
THE REACH GALLERY MUSEUM, Abbotsford BC - To May 8 by Michael Turner Rocky LaRock, Th’owxeya, the Cannibal Woman, 2019-21, wood, horsehair, antlers, feathers, abalone, bone, fabric, string. Collection of…
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…
David A. Neel’s Memoir Traces His Homeward Journey
UBC PRESS, 2019 by Latash-Maurice Nahanee The Way Home is a new memoir by David Neel, a renowned Northwest Coast artist from Vancouver Island. Early childhood traumatic events were overcome by a passion for…
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…
Maureen Gruben: TUKTUUYAQTUUQ (Caribou Crossing)
LEGACY GALLERY, Victoria BC - May 2 - Aug 27 By Christine Clark Based in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., Maureen Gruben is an Inuvialuk artist. Inuvialuit are Inuit who live in the western Canadian…
Frances Thomas: The Broader Picture
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY, Edmonton AB - To Jun 22 by Michael Turner With the 21st century nearing the end of what can only be described as a difficult adolescence, it is not…
Appearance: New Works by Jianjun An
PENDULUM GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC - August 20 - September 8 2018 By Michael Turner Born in Gansu, China, Jianjun An graduated from the Shan Dong University of Art & Design in 1988, after…
Earthbound: Ceramic Art
LIPONT GALLERY, Richmond BC - May 15 - June 16 by Michael Turner When reflecting on a quarter-century of internet ubiquity, it should come as no surprise that certain contemporary artists sought refuge in…
Karin Jones & Amy Malbeuf: Labour’s Trace
RICHMOND ART GALLERY, Richmond BC - Feb 15 - April 11 by Michael Turner Among our more remarkable recognitions of late is our expanded understanding and appreciation of labour. No longer that invisible…
Antoni Tàpies: Prints, 1948-1976
GLENBOW MUSEUM, Calgary AB - Feb 3 - July 14 By Michael Turner Antoni Tàpies was born in Barcelona in 1923 and raised in a household of Catalan nationalists. Although partial…
The Groundhogs: Hinterlands
GALLERY JONES, VANCOUVER BC - Sep 6 - Oct 6, 2018  By Michael Turner The idea of the artist collective continues to confound those who hold a romantic view of the…
Cul-de-sac
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA, Edmonton AB - April 13 - Aug 18 by Michael Turner For many post-war North American parents, the cul-de-sac was a residential design feature that promised trafiic-calmed neighbourhoods and family-oriented block…
Seattle Style: Fashion / Function
MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY, Seattle WA - May 4 - Oct 14 by Matthew Kangas The first survey of Seattle men’s and women’s fashion has been organized by Museum of History…
Celebrating 100 Years of the Group of Seven
WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES, Banff AB - To Jan 17, 2021 ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA, Edmonton AB - To Mar 13, 2021 by Michael Turner Billed by the…
The Pacific
Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, BC – To January 14, 2018  By Michael Turner Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s recent move from Granville Island to the newly branded False Creek…
The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts
by Kerry Mason Almost 40 years ago, I saw an Arthur Pitts watercolour for the first time; it was tucked away in a drawer in the BC Archives. The “Who…
Zhi LIN: In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads
TACOMA ART MUSEUM, TACOMA, WA – To February 18, 2018 PROGRAPHICA/KDR, SEATTLE, WA – January 4-27, 2018  By Matthew Kangas  In works filling both a museum and gallery, Chinese-born artist Zhi…
Tender Works
ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA, Victoria BC - To Feb 23, 2020 by Christine Clark Tender Works is a group exhibition of video-based work that includes contributions from local artists and others chosen from…
David Campion and Sandra Shields: Grand Theft Terra Firma
GALLERY 2 – GRAND FORKS ART GALLERY, Grand Forks BC - Aug 8 - Nov 14 by Michael Turner Though five years removed from the federal government’s June 2015 Truth…
Kim Stewart: INJUN-uity, or Growing Up Pop
TWO RIVERS GALLERY, PRINCE GEORGE BC - To July 8, 2018 By Michael Turner As a child growing up in Prince George, Métis artist Kim Stewart was raised on “family lore” as told to…
The Blue Cabin
Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC   By Michael Turner The North Vancouver foreshore has a long and storied history. While much of this history informs the present-day life of the Tsleil-Waututh and…
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