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Seattle Tacoma WASHINGTON Pacific Ocean Astoria Cannon Beach Portland Salem OREGON 6 PREVIEW n NOV 2017-JAN 2018 H OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS November 2017 - January 2018 Vol. 31 No.5 ALBERTA PREVIEWS & FEATURES 8 Banff, Black Diamond, Calgary 10 The Writing on the Wall: Works of 13 Edmonton Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA 16 Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, St. Albert Nickle Galleries BRITISH COLUMBIA 12 Michèle Drouin: Gardens Ablaze 16 Abbotsford Jardins de lumière– Paintings 1977-2007 18 Burnaby Bugera Matheson Gallery 20 Campbell River, Castlegar, Chilliwack, Coquitlam 14 Jeneen Frei Njootli: red rose ad lidii Courtenay Southern Alberta Art Gallery 21 Cowichan, Cumberland, Fort Langley, 18 Hastings Park 1942 Grand Forks, Kamloops Nikkei National Museum 22 Kelowna, Laxgalts’ap, Maple Ridge, Nanaimo 26 Nelson, New Westminster, North Vancouver 20 Upstream Benefits: Artist Run Culture in the Kootenays 30 Penticton, Port Alberni Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History/Oxygen Art Centre 31 Port Moody, Prince George, Prince Rupert 29 Rooms with a View 32 Qualicum Beach, Richmond, The Polygon Gallery Salmon Arm, Skidegate, Surrey 33 Tsawwassen, Vancouver 30 The Blue Cabin 53 Vernon, Victoria grunt gallery 57 West Vancouver, Whistler 34 The Pacific 58 White Rock, Williams Lake Libby Leshgold Gallery OREGON 42 True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada 58 Astoria Vancouver Art Gallery 59 Cannon Beach 44 Eastside Culture Crawl 60 Portland 63 Salem 48 Anton Scamvougeras: Dysconnected WASHINGTON hfa contemporary 52 Lyse Lemieux: FULL FRONTAL 64 Bainbridge Island, Bellevue, Bellingham Contemporary Art Gallery 66 Everett, Friday Harbor, La Conner, Port Angeles, Seattle 54 Connie Michele Morey: dwelling 72 Spokane, Tacoma arc.hive artist run centre 57 Mary Babineau: The Vegas Project Xchanges Gallery Cover: Albert Paley in collaboration with Martin Blank at 60 Animating Life: The Art, Science, and Wonder of LAIKA Museum of Glass Altered Equation, 2012, Photo: John Meyers Portland Art Museum 63 I AM THIS: Art by Oregon Jewish Artists © 1986-2017 Preview Art Media Inc. ISSN 1481-2258 Member of Tourism Vancouver and Visit Seattle. Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education Reproduction in whole or in part is strictly forbidden 69 Complementary Contrasts: EDITORIAL + ADVERTISING The Glass and Steel Sculptures of Albert Paley Tel 604-222-1883 Toll Free 1-844-369-8988 Museum Of Glass Email [email protected] Address PO Box 39041, 3695 W 10th Ave. 72 Zhi LIN: In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Vancouver, BC V6R 4P1 Canada Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads Paula Fairweather, Publisher Tacoma Art Museum and Prographica/KDR Meredith Areskoug, Listings Editor Trevor Martin, Art & Production Manager Judith Mazari, Graphic Production Artist VIGNETTES CONTENTS The views, opinions and positions expressed are those of the 11 Alberta 73 Catalogues authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the publisher. Please note that all gallery particulars are set out as submitted by 24 British Columbia 74 Art Services clients prior to the date of publication. 61 Oregon 76 Alphabetical Index 70 Washington 78 Openings + Events Printed on FSA approved and recycled paper preview-art.com PREVIEW 7 ALBERTA BLACK DIAMOND Alberta Printmakers Gallery and Studio BANFF Bluerock Gallery 4025 4th St SE &403-287-1056 110 Centre Ave W &403-933-5047 albertaprintmakers.com Whyte Museum of the bluerockgallery.ca daily 10am-6pm wed-sat 11am-4pm, +15 Window, Canadian Rockies including holidays and by appt. A Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, 111 Bear St &403-762-2291 destination for handmade, one-of-a- Arts Commons, 205 8th Ave SE. whyte.org daily 10am-5pm. kind fine art and craft. We represent AP MAINSPACE To Nov 30 Stacey Admission: adults $10, seniors $9, close to 200 artists, most of whom Watson: Field Work. A series of students & locals (Lake Louise to live and work within 100 miles of intaglio prints that explore notions Morley) $4, children under 12 & the gallery. of labour, creative process and members free. lost endeavour, the pieces record To Jan 28 On the Fringe of the days of the artist’s work history in Bow. Featuring skateboard designs, CALGARY the landscape. Jan 5-Feb 16 Katie tattoo art and three-dimensional Bruce & Christie Kirchner: surface chainmail constructions. To Jan Alberta Craft Gallery 28 Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bears: to surface. AP +15 WINDOW To Suite 208 - 1721 29th Ave SW Nov 24 Graeme Dearden. Each One is Sacred. Field biologist &587-391-0129 albertacraft.ab.ca and artist, Colleen Campbell tracked wed-sat 12-6pm. the patterns of bears along the The Collectors’ Gallery of Art To Nov 4 ALONG THE BOW II. A eastern slopes of the Rockies and 1332 9th Ave SE &403-245-8300 collection of 16 Alberta Craft Council created renderings detailing the collectorsgalleryofart.com bears’ individuality and demon- members who live along the Bow or tue-fri 10am-5:30pm; sat 10am- strating the challenges they face in whose work is directly inspired by 5pm. To Nov 16 Will Millar: Ghosts this high-traffic corridor. Ongoing time spent on the river. Nov-Dec The of Old Ireland. Millar, the former Gateway to the Rockies. Shares Gallery will display and sell work leader of The Irish Rovers, in this Canadian Rockies history through from some of the most exciting, exhibition is a voyager into the art, artifacts and archives and professional craft artists in Alberta. Ireland of his youth, portraying the library materials. Dec 2 A Whyte Opening Jan 13 UNCOMMON country in the 1950’s. Nov 14-Dec Christmas. Celebrate the festive BLENDS. Sam Knopp, Sean Kunz, 14 Steve Coffey: Fallen Star Cars, season with crafts, cookies, carols, Noriko Masuda, Mynthia McDaniel is conceptually driven, sometimes community friendships and of and Juliana Rempel explore the emotional, sometimes tongue in course, a visit from Santa! evolving relationship of coffee and cheek, an ode to our own mortality tea with respect to ceramics. TO NICKLE GALLERIES TO ILLINGWORTH KERR GALLERY § (University§ of Calgary) (Alberta College of Art + Design) 5th Ave NW 4th Ave NE Edmonton Tr Prince's Island Park 3rd Ave NE 2nd Ave NE Bow RiverMemorial Dr Memorial Dr NW 12th St12th NW St NW11A St NW11th St NW10A EAU CLAIRE 14th St NW 16th St NW Kensington NW St10th NW THE NEW GALLERY N McDougall Rd 4th Ave SW 6th Ave SW St. Patrick's Island 7th Ave SW RUMBLE HOUSE N 8th Ave SW CONTEMPORARY N § CALGARY TO TRUCK GALLERY 9th Ave SW N 9th Ave SE GLENBOW ESKER PAUL KUHN FOUNDATION NN CPR tracks N NEWZONES HERRINGER 11th Ave SW N KISS 13th Ave SW 12th Ave SW N Elbow River 12th St SE 15th Ave SW 14th Ave SW COLLECTORS' 16th Ave SW GALLERY 8th St SW 6th St SW 17th Ave SW 1st St SW OF ART Centre St 1st St SE Macleod Tr 17th Ave SE 10th St SW 9th St SW Royal Ave SW Calgary Lindsay Exhibition & 1th St SW § 4th St SW Park Stampede TO FOUNDERS’ GALLERY 5th St SW Park AND ALBERTA CRAFT GALLERY Spiller Rd TO ALBERTA PRINTMAKERS CALGARY § Elbow Dr 8 PREVIEW n NOV 2017-JAN 2018 H OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS and human condition. Dec 16-Jan 17 Festive Times. Works by Arlene Hobbs, Shelley McMillan, Jean Geddes, Bewabon Shilling, Barbara UNTIL 22 DECEMBER Hirst, Rene Thibault, Kathryn Pryce, Jean Pederson and others. Contemporary Calgary MARY ANNE BARKHOUSE 117 8th Ave SW (at Stephen Ave) &403-770-1350 Le rêve aux loups contemporarycalgary.com wed-sun 12-6pm during exhibitions. Guest curated by Jennifer Rudder To Jan 21 extratextual, explores ways in which modes of writing, concepts of textuality and narrative POSTCOMMODITY have informed artistic production. The exhibition includes contempo- rary and historical projects by artists A Very Long Line and writers across disciplines. It looks at ways in which texts have both informed and created their own cosmologies, event-scapes and terms of engagement, and how they shape our understanding of »PROJECT SPACE contemporary narrative as well as visual and spatial culture.