GUIDE TO GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERT A I BRITISH COLUMBI A I OREGO N I WASHINGTON APRIL/MAY 2016 Compliments of Preview Graphics • downloaodanble ilssueis ne • extra images • searchable listings preview-art.com 6 PREVIEW I APRIL/MAY 2016 previews April/May 2016 Vol. 30 No.2 10 Patti Warashina: New Works ALBERTA Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art 8 Banff, Black Diamond, Calgary 67 12 Lisa Matthias: Remnants 1 2 Canmore, Edmonton Christine Klassen Gallery 16 Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, St Albert 20 MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture BRITISH COLUMBIA Vancouver Art Gallery 17 Abbotsford 26 Paulo Majano: I Was Here 18 Burnaby Surrey Art Gallery 20 Campbell River, Castlegar, Chilliwack 25 21 Coquitlam, Courtenay, Fort Langley 28 Ron Tran: Somewhat Mine: A Nanaimo 22 Grand Forks, Kamloops, Kelowna Retrospective 23 Laxgalts’ap Nanaimo Art Gallery 26 Maple Ridge, Nanaimo, Nelson 32 Walter May: One New Work: Object Lessons 27 New Westminster, North Vancouver Glenbow 29 Penticton 34 Patrick Staff: The Foundation 31 Port Alberni, Port Moody, Prince George, Prince Rupert 12 Contemporary Art Gallery 32 Qualicum Beach, Richmond, 38 Your Future Home: Creating the New Salmon Arm, Sidney Vancouver 33 Skidegate, Squamish, Museum of Vancouver Sunshine Coast (Gibsons) 42 Elizabeth Milton: High Kicks Into the Light 34 Surrey, Tsawwassen 61 35 Vancouver Forever and Ever and Ever 55 Vernon, Victoria grunt gallery 58 West Vancouver 48 Marcia Perkins: Still Life Paintings 59 Whistler, White Rock Polychrome Fine Art 60 Williams Lake 50 Liz Magor OREGON Catriona Jeffries Gallery 60 Astoria, Cannon Beach 52 Rick Bond: New Works 2016 62 Portland 63 Salem Madrona Gallery 32 59 This is My City – View from the Inside: WASHINGTON Courage Journey 64 Bainbridge Island, Bellevue, Bellingham The New Gallery 65 Ellensburg, Everett, Friday Harbor, 64 Chuck Close: Prints, Process and Collaboration La Conner, Port Angeles, Seattle Schack Art Center 72 Spokane, Tacoma 68 2016 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards © 1986-2016 Preview Graphics Inc. 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MAIN GALLERY 111 Bear St ¥403-762-2291 grandfather, Walter Joseph Phillips Apr 22-Jun 4 Joani Tremblay , “Land - whyte.org (1884-1963), found in the art vault; scape Gaze and Breezy Erudition, and daily 10am-5pm. Admission: adults Thru May 8 Patricia Askren , “A Few of What About Formal Freedom?”; +15 $10, seniors $9, students & locals My Favourites: Vi Sandford”, whimsi - WINDOW Apr 1-May 27 Zareen Abeer . (Lake Louise to Morley) $4, children cal interpretations of local mountain under 12 & members free. Apr 2-Jun landscapes; Ongoing HERITAGE GALLERY Christine Klassen Gallery 12 MAIN GALLERY Chris Flodberg: In Gateway to the Rockies , interactive 200-321 50th Ave SE Review, 1990 to 2014 , oil composi - exhibition featuring the history of the ¥403-262-1880 tions are richly coloured, subtly tex - Canadian Rockies through artifacts, art - christineklassengallery.com tured and stunningly original, sum - works, archival photographs, record - tues-sat 10am-5pm or by appt. Thru moning images of master painters; ings and documents. May 7 Teresa Posyniak: Eating the David Foxcroft – A Timely Survey , Sun , latest series draws attention to various media – the artist has an the beauty and fragility of plankton, a innate ability to observe orderliness in diverse group of marine organisms disorder; RUMMEL ROOM The Land - BLACK DIAMOND that are responsible for producing scape of Ernest Lamarque: Artist, Bluerock Gallery over half the earth’s oxygen, whose Surveyor and Renaissance Man , 110 Centre Ave W ¥403-933-5047 survival is threatened by human paintings; FOUNDERS ’ G ALLERY May 13- bluerockgallery.ca activity; Lisa Matthias: Remnants , Sep 13 When the Living is Easy , arti - daily 10am-6pm including holidays, new series of large-scale black and facts, drawings and paintings from the thurs 10am-9pm. A destination for white abstract prints that were museum collection, set to the sound handmade, one-of-a-kind fine art and inspired by repetition found in nature, of memorable summer-themed songs craft, we represent close to 200 yet are evocative of blueprints, city from the 1950s to the present; Thru artists, most of whom live and work maps and other types of human con - May 8 Rocky Mountain Winter Won - within 100 miles of the gallery. structions. The works draw on the TO ILLINGWORTH KERR, ACAD § 5th Ave NW W 4th Ave NE E W d W N r m W W N Prince's Island W N W W D 3rd Ave NE t o N N l t Park N N N a n i S t t S r t t t t o o S 2nd Ave N S E h S S S h M n t m t h h e e 6 h T t A t A m 4 t M r 1 2 o 1 1 0 1 0 r 1 1 1 1 EAU CLAIRE ia 1 Bo l D Kensington NW w r Riv er Westmount McDougall Rd 4th Ave SW WALLACE 6th Av e SW GALLERIESN S t. Pa 7th trick Ave SW 's Is NEW GALLERY land 8th Ave SW N N Stephen CONTEMPORARY N 9th Ave SW 9t CALGARY (C) GLENBOW h Ave SE ESKER PAUL KUHN CPR tracks FOUNDATION NN r HERRINGER e N NEWZONES N 11th Ave SW iv E S KISS R t 13th 12th Ave SW w S Av r e SW W W o h T S t t W b S l N E 2 t d S W S t E 1 S S o t S S 15th 14th e W A A v v e t e S S W W e r COLLECTORS' t S h l t S h t S c t 1 6th Ave S t SW n G t ALLERY 8 t s a 6 e s h SN 17th Ave S 1 W t OF ART C 1 M 17th Ave SE 0 h MICHELANGELO W t 1 9 S W t W S S S t t Royal Ave SW S Calgary h Lindsay t S h Exhibition & 1 t Park TO h F , 4 S OUNDERS’ GALLERY t tampede 22nd Ave d NICKLE GALLERIES 5 Park R r (Unive e § rsity of Calgary) l il p TO CHRISTINE KLASSEN GAS LLERY, CALGARY r ALBERTA PRINTMAKERS D § w bo El 8 PREVIEW I APRIL/MAY 2016 artist's background as a biologist and interests in ecology, natural history and environmentalism; Introducing: Carl White , preview of latest series of paintings based on the Greek legend of Prometheus. The Collectors' Gallery of Art 1332 9th Ave SE ¥403-245-8300 collectorsgalleryofart.com tues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm. Apr 23-May 23 John Snow (1911- 2004) , paintings, watercolours, stone lithographs, woodblocks, linocuts, sculptures and etchings. Snow pio - neered stone lithography in Alberta, and created more than 450 different images in this medium. Contemporary Calgary (C) 117 8th Ave SW (Stephen Ave Location), 2nd location: Contemporary Calgary (C2), 104-800 Macleod Trail SE (City Hall Location) ¥403-770-1350 403-262-1737 contemporarycalgary.com thurs-sun 12-6pm during exhibitions. (C2) C ITY HALL LOCATION Apr 7-24 Push Emerging Artists’ Exhibition 2016 ; (C1) S TEPHEN AVE LOCATION May 26-Aug 21 Material Girls , large scale exhibition brings together Canadian and interna - tional emerging, mid-career and senior female artists from across artistic disci - plines and cultural backgrounds. # Esker Foundation 444-1011 9th Ave SE ¥403-930-2490 eskerfoundation.com tues-sun 11am-6pm thurs & fri 11am- 8pm. Thru May 8-Aug 28 Jack Bush: In Studio; Colleen Heslin: Needles and Pins ; May 28-Aug 28 Wafaa Bilal: 168:01; Etienne Zack: Those lacking imagination take refuge in reality ; PROJECT SPACE Apr 11-Jul 17 Kyle Beal: A chicken in every pot or how to cook your own goose . the War – Operation Muskox and objects collected in 2015 that represent Beyond , inspired by the works of Leslie the culture and history of our region Founders' Gallery Reid, from the archival collections of the and beyond; Thru May 29 Embracing 4520 Crowchild Trail SW Arctic Institute of North America to Canada: From Krieghoff to the Group ¥403-410-2340 showcase Operation Muskox of 1946, of Seven , surveying the history of artis - themilitarymuseums.ca/gallery-founders one of Canada's first arctic operations.