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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 be Absurd) Alice in Parts…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Matthew Kangas After a series of advances and setbacks since moving into its Steven Holl-designed facility in 2001, Bellevue Arts Museum had a series of directors who alternately rescued or…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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?…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 –…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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*…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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),…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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)…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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]…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 –…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…