Preview supports galleries and museums throughout the Pacific Northwest and we hope you will too, even during this particularily challenging time of COVID-19.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Anton Scamvougeras: Dysconnected
hfa contemporary, Vancouver, BC – November 16 - December 15, 2017 By Michael Turner Among 2016’s publishing surprises was an independently produced 160-page book of pen, ink and wash cartoons accompanied…
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…
Lyse Lemieux: FULL FRONTAL
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC – To March 25, 2018 By Michael Turner Ask a search engine for the definition of “full frontal” and top responses will refer to human nudity,…
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…
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 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.…
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…
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…
Animating Life: The Art, Science, and Wonder of LAIKA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR – To May 20, 2018 By Joseph Gallivan The Portland-area stop-animation house LAIKA has put together an engrossing account of how it makes its cartoons. Each…
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…
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…
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…
