Preview supports galleries and museums throughout the Pacific Northwest and we hope you will too, even during this particularily challenging time of COVID-19.
Be sure to check venue websites for updates and information.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
