GUIDE TO GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA BRITISH COLUMBIA WASHINGTON OREGON February - March 2020 preview-art.com DOWNTOWN HOTEL GUESTS ENJOY HALF OFF MUSEUM PRICES IN FEBRUARY SeattleMuseumMonth.com Restrictions apply Installation Storage Shipping Transport Framing Providing expert handling of your ne art for over thirty years. 155 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Canada V5Y 1L8 604 876 3303 denbighfas.com [email protected] Installation Storage Shipping Transport Framing Providing expert handling of your ne art for over thirty years. 155 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Canada V5Y 1L8 604 876 3303 denbighfas.com [email protected] BRITISH COLUMBIA ALBERTA Laxgalts’ap Prince Rupert Prince George St. Albert Skidegate Edmonton HAIDA GWAII North Vancouver West Vancouver Port Moody Williams Lake Vancouver Coquitlam Burnaby Maple Ridge Richmond New Westminster Banff Canmore Chilliwack Calgary Surrey Fort Langley Salmon Arm Tsawwassen White Rock Abbotsford Foothills Kamloops Vernon Black Diamond Lake Country Kelowna Black Creek Whistler Medicine Hat Comox Valley Penticton Nelson Qualicum Beach Vancouver Lethbridge Port Alberni (see inset) Grand Forks Castlegar Nanaimo Osoyoos Cowichan Valley Bellingham Oroville Victoria La Conner Friday Harbor Everett Port Angeles Bellevue Spokane Bainbridge Island Seattle Tacoma WASHINGTON Pacific Ocean Astoria Cannon Beach Portland Salem Sisters Eugene OREGON 6 FEB - MAR 2020 ★ FIRST THURSDAY OR LATE OPENINGS February - March 2020 Vol.34 No.1 ALBERTA PREVIEWS & FEATURES 8 Banff, Black Diamond, Calgary 15 Canmore, Edmonton 16 Foothills, Lethbridge 10 Alberta Vignettes 17 Medicine Hat, St. Albert 11 Katie Ohe - ESKER FOUNDATION BRITISH COLUMBIA 12 Ready Player 2 - ILLINGWORTH KERR GALLERY 17 Abbotsford 18 Black Creek, Burnaby, Castlegar 21 Tom Thomson Centennial Swim - TOUCHSTONES 19 Chilliwack, Comox Valley, Coquitlam NELSON: MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY 20 Cowichan Valley, Fort Langley, Grand Forks, Kamloops 23 Ahreum Lee - THE NEW GALLERY 22 Kelowna, Lake Country, Laxgalts’ap, 25 Karin Jones & Amy Malbeuf - RICHMOND Maple Ridge 23 Nanaimo ART GALLERY 24 Nelson, New Westminster 28 North Vancouver 26 British Columbia Vignettes 29 Osoyoos 29 David Wojnarowicz - MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN 30 Penticton, Port Alberni, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Prince George ART GALLERY 31 Prince Rupert 31 David A. Neel's Memoir - UBC PRESS 32 Qualicum Beach, Richmond, Salmon Arm, Skidegate, Surrey 35 Acts of Resistance - MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 33 Vancouver 42 Remembering Gordon Smith 51 Vernon, Victoria 55 West Vancouver, Whistler 44 The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom - 56 White Rock, Williams Lake CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY WASHINGTON 47 Gohar Dashti - WEST VANCOUVER ART MUSEUM 56 Bainbridge Island 48 La Decanatura - DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ART 58 Bellevue, Bellingham 60 Everett, Friday Harbor, La Conner, Oroville 52 Richard Young - XCHANGES GALLERY 61 Port Angeles, Seattle 57 Washington Vignettes 65 Spokane 67 Tacoma 59 Close-Up: Leslie Anderson - NATIONAL NORDIC OREGON MUSEUM 67 Astoria, Cannon Beach 66 Reopening - SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM 68 Eugene 70 Portland 69 Oregon Vignettes 74 Salem, Sisters 71 Dana Lynn Louis - RUSSO LEE GALLERY © 1986-2020 Preview Art Media Inc. ISSN 1481-2258 73 Christopher Marley - OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE Member of Tourism Vancouver and Visit Seattle. AND NDUSTRY Reproduction in whole or in part is strictly forbidden I (OMSI) EDITORIAL + ADVERTISING 75 Art Books and Exhibition Catalogues of Interest Tel 604-222-1883 Toll Free 1-844-369-8988 Email [email protected] 76 Art Services Address PO Box 39041, 3695 W 10th Ave. 78 Index Vancouver, BC V6R 4P1 Canada Paula Fairweather, Publisher Meredith Areskoug, Listings Editor Cover: Water-Moon Guanyin, 10th - late 13th century, Naomi Pauls, Copy Editor Trevor Martin, Production Manager Chinese, wood with lacquer, gesso, polychrome and gilding. Judith Mazari, Graphic Production Artist Seattle Asian Art Museum, Eugene Fuller Memorial The views, opinions and positions expressed are those Collection, 35.17. Photo: Paul Macapia. of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the publisher. Please note that all gallery particulars are set Banner Image: Katie Ohe, Doodles, 2019. Works in progress out as submitted by clients prior to the date of publication. (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary. preview-art.com PREVIEW 7 Whyte Museum bluerockgallery.ca of the Canadian Rockies daily 10am-6pm including holidays ALBERTA 111 Bear St and by appt. A destination for 403-762-2291 handmade, one-of-a-kind fine art BANFF whyte.org and craft. We represent close to 200 daily 10am-5pm. Admission: adults artists, most of whom live and work Walter Phillips Gallery $10; seniors $9; students & locals within 100 miles of the gallery. The Banff Centre (Lake Louise to Morley) $5; children 107 Tunnel Mountain Rd under 12 & members free. To Apr 12 CALGARY 403-762-6281 Participant in Exposure: Alberta’s banffcentre.ca Photography Festival. Danny Alberta Craft Gallery walter-phillips-gallery Singer. This solo exhibition features Suite 280-1721 29th Ave SW wed-sun 12:30-5pm. Ongoing Rita large photographs of small prairie 587-391-0129 McKeough: darkness is as deep towns in Alberta and Saskatchewan. albertacraft.ab.ca as the darkness is. National- Projecting Illusions reinterprets wed-fri 11am-5 pm; sat 10am-5pm. ly recognized for her complex the spectacle of the magic lantern Free, all welcome. To Mar 8 installation-based works integrat- show offering stunning visuals from SPOTLIGHT YYC: Wildflower ing electronic media, sound and the archives. This exhibit highlights Arts Centre: Gillian Mitchell & performance, darkness is as deep as the social history of lantern slides, Sally Dobbin. To Mar 21 Cultivate the darkness is by Rita McKeough is underlining the practice of collecting | Instigate is about the influen- an invitation into an imagined sub- and displaying slides in the tial creatives at the forefront of terranean just below the ground’s Canadian Rockies. Ongoing Gems post-secondary craft education in surface. A space where darkness Within: 50 Years of Collecting and Alberta. The artists in this exhibition connotes a richness of lived entan- Gateway to the Rockies. balance the dual roles of educator glements between beings above and and professional practicing artist. below the soil, the exhibition also BLACK DIAMOND Featured artists include faculty at references contested sites of urban the Alberta University of the Arts in development and extraction that Bluerock Gallery Calgary, Portage College in Lac La penetrate into the burrows, roots 110 Centre Ave W Biche, and the Ceramics program and remains of animals and plants. 403-933-5047 at Red Deer College. Nickle Galleries UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY 1 0 S t N W 1 Trans-Canadans-Canada HwyHwy Edmonton Trail 1A Illingworth Kerr Gallery ALBERTA UNIVERSITY CALGARY OF THE ARTS orial Dr N em W M Bo w Ri DOWNTOWN ve r 2 14 SW St The New Gallery Ave SW 4 S Contemporary Calgary t S 8 Ave SW e r t TRUCK Contemporary Art 10 Ave SW 9 Ave n SW e Glenbow C Esker Foundation 10 Ave SW Herringer Kiss Newzones E S The Collectors' Gallery of Art 11 Ave SW t 9 S A ve 1 17 Ave SW SE SW t CALGARY S 2 7 7 St SW 6 6 StSW STAMPEDE E B S ow Rive il ow lb r ra R E T iv t e o o r ckf Bla 29 Ave SW Alberta Craft Gallery E t S S 33 Ave SW 4 il a l Crowchild Trail SW Trail Crowchild r i T a r d T o 42 Ave SE t e l o 20 StSW c o Leighton Art Centre a rf M e Founders’ Gallery e Bluerock Gallery D 8 FEB - MAR 2020 ★ FIRST THURSDAY OR LATE OPENINGS Reception: Feb 15, 2pm. Feb 1 & blackholes, to the highly personal Esker Foundation March 7 Sheep Creek Weavers and nostalgic relationships shared 1011 9th Ave SE, 4th floor Meet the Sheep Creek Weavers with this iconic city landmark, &403-930-2490 and Fibre Guild at these two interac- Centennial Planetarium is an eskerfoundation.com tive demonstrations. endless expanse of inspiration in tue-sun 11am-6pm; thu-fri 11am- Planetary–Contemporary Calgary’s 8pm. Free admission. Ongoing Katie Contemporary Calgary H first exhibition in their new home Ohe. An in-depth look at Katie Ohe’s Centennial Planetarium featuring 36 Calgary-based artists. sculptural practice, the exhibition 701 11 Street SW To Mar 15 Luke Jerram: Museum will bring together sculptural work &403-770-1350 of the Moon. UK artist Luke spanning six decades of Ohe’s contemporarycalgary.com Jerram’s Museum of the Moon is a remarkable career, marking this the tue-sun 11am-6pm; thu 11am-9pm. large scale model of the moon mea- largest and most comprehensive Admission: single entry $10, annual suring 6m in diameter and featuring solo exhibition of her work to date. membership $20; family member- 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of Opening Feb 3 Anna Gustafson: ship $50. Ongoing Planetary. From the lunar surface suspended from Object Lessons in partnership with stars and planets to nebulae and the top of their 13m Dome. The New Gallery. preview-art.com PREVIEW 9 Katie Ohe Vignettes by Robin Laurence ALBERTA ESKER FOUNDATION, Calgary AB - To May 3 by Michael Turner LUKE JERRAM: MUSEUM OF THE MOON Contemporary Calgary, Calgary. To Mar 15 Until recently, a great artist was As one of Contemporary Calgary’s inaugural exhibitions in its new home at the former defi ned by their ability to produce Centennial Planetarium, Museum of the Moon awes visitors with its spectacular size resonant artworks from a tem- and imagery. Consisting of a luminous scale model of Earth’s moon, this astonishing perament that both attracts and work by British artist Luke Jerram measures six metres in diameter and features high- repulses. Think Pablo Picasso, ly detailed imagery of the lunar surface. Suspended from the top of a 13-metre-high Andy Warhol or Tracey Emin.