Previews September – October 2017

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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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,…
Toby Lawrence
Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC   By Michael Turner Normally this space is devoted to exhibitions. But given the many personnel changes at BC’s public art galleries of late, it was…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…