w w w .p re vi ew -a rt .c om THE GALLERY GUIDE ALBERT A I BRITISH COLUMBI A I OREGO N I WASHINGTON February/March 2012 Serving the visual arts community since 1986 Celebrating 25 years www.preview-art.com 6 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 Feb/Mar 2012 62 Vol. 26 No.1 previews ALBERTA 10 Counterpoint in Black and White: 8 Banff, Black Diamond, Calgary 1 6 Edmonton 65 The Photography of Arthur Nishimura 17 Lethbridge & Craig Richards 18 Medicine Hat, Red Deer Museum of Contemporary Art BRITISH COLUMBIA 12 Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central 19 Abbotsford, Burnaby 20 Campbell River, Castlegar, & Eastern Europe Art Gallery of Alberta Chilliwack, Coquitlam, Courtenay, Fort Langley, Gibsons 16 Beyond Vague Terrain: The City 21 Grand Forks , Kamloops , Kaslo, and the Serial Image Kelowna 72 Surrey Art Gallery 22 Maple Ridge, Nanaimo, Nelson, 18 Diana Thorneycroft: A People’s History New Westminster , North Vancou ver The Art Gallery of Calgary 24 Osoyoos 25 Penticton, Port Moody 24 Jon Sasaki: Good Intentions 27 Prince George, Prince Rupert, 9 Southern Alberta Art Gallery Qualicum Beach, Richmond 9 30 Portable Walls: 30 Salmon Arm, Salt Spring Island 5 31 Sidney , Sooke, Squamish Christian Nicolay and Ya-chu Kang Elliott Louis Gallery 33 Sunshine Coast (Roberts Creek, Sechelt), Surrey 38 Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry 34 Tsawwassen, Vancouver Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 51 Vernon 40 Gary Pearson: 52 Victoria 55 West Vancouver Scenes from a ‘Smoker’s Theatre’ 57 Whistler, White Rock 65 Winsor Gallery 44 Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop &Aboriginal Art OREGON Vancouver Art Gallery 58 Cannon Beach 60 Marylhurst, Portland 46 Renée Van Halm: Cross-Cutting/Inside Out 61 Salem Burnaby Art Gallery 62 Marie Watt: Lodge WASHINGTON Hallie Ford Museum of Art 61 Bellevue, Bellingham 62 Ellensburg, Friday Harbor, La Conner 64 Mark Rothko 63 Seattle Portland Art Museum 71 Spokane, Tacoma 70 Gauguin and Polynesia: As Elusive Paradise © 1986-2012 Preview Graphics Inc. 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Please note that all gallery particulars are set out Cover: Christian Nicolay and Ya-chu Kang, Safety 5 , mixed media on paper on panel as submitted by clients prior to the date of publication. [Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC, Mar 29-Apr 21] Printed on FSA approved and recycled paper ing with Atillio Caffaro, a miner who ALBERTA worked for 50 years at the Canmore mine which was closed after 93 years CALGARY in 1979; The Bread With Honey: Pho - # The Art Gallery of Calgary tographs by Andrew Querner , the Stan 117 8th Ave SW ¥403-770-1352 BANFF Terg mine in Trepca, Kosovo is mired www.artgallerycalgary.org Whyte Museum of the in politics and economic hardship, tues-sat 10am-5pm first thurs 4pm- Canadian Rockies with little or no economic activity in the 9pm. Admission by donation. Feb 10- 111 Bear St ¥403-762-2291 region an aging crew of miners bear Apr 7 Eric Louie, Pilar Mehlis, www.whyte.org the burden of providing for their Heather Watts and Landon-Jon Fer - daily 10am-5pm. Admission: adults extended families; Through the Lens – ence , “Down The Rabbit Hole: The $8, seniors/students $5, families (2 15th Anniversary , high school stu - Whimsical World of Pop Surrealism”; adults, 2 children) $20, children 6 and dents explore their community and the Diana Thorneycroft: A People’s His - under free. Thru Mar 20 Watermedia exciting medium of visual communica - tory , controversial new exhibition in the Rockies , features the work of tion through traditional and digital exploring historic Canadian atrocities. artists who work in water-soluble photography; Mar 24-May 22 The media to portray their love and respect Rocky Mountain Photography Show , Artfirm Gallery for the Rocky Mountains and nearby group show of photoworks inspired by ¥403-471-1168 www.artfirm.ca areas; Feb 4-Mar 25 Kathleen Daly the fantastic scenery of the Rocky Online and by appt. Artfirm Gallery and the Canmore Coal Mines , art - Mountains. presents an expanding group of artists works by Daly of coal mines and min - working in a full range of media includ - ers of the 1940s while she was conva - ing painting, printmaking and innova - lescing from polio; Feb 4-Apr 1 Coal tive media, committed to the sale of Mining Stalwarts: Photographs by BLACK DIAMOND exceptional, contemporary artwork by Lawrence Chrismas , explores the cul - Bluerock Gallery Canadian and international artists. ture of Canadian miners through envi - 110 Centre Ave W ¥403-933-5047 ronmental portraits and stories start - www.bluerockgallery.ca The Collectors’ Gallery of Art wed-mon 11am-5pm. A destination 1332 9th Ave SE ¥403-245-8300 # Identifies galleries and museums for handmade, one-of-a-kind fine art www.collectorsgalleryofart.com open until 8pm on the First Thursday and craft, we are committed to repre - tues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm. of every month. Many galleries host senting regional artists – most of Feb 11-Mar 6 “Kerr & Friends”, oils opening receptions on First Thursday whom live and work within 100 miles and works on paper by Illingworth evenings. of the gallery. We stock beautiful art Kerr, Maxwell Bates, H.G. Glyde, for every budget. Helen Mackie, Margaret Shelton, Trans-Canada Hwy W ILLINGWORTH KERR, N 4th Ave NE E N r d ACAD D Prince's Island m W al 3rd Ave NE o i n N r Park o t t o W 2nd Ave NE m n S e N M T t h r t M S e 4 mo 1 h B ri t o al 1st Ave w D NW 0 R r 1 i ver McDougall Rd 4th Av e SW GAINSBOROUGH WALLACE NGALLERIES 6th Ave SW GALLERIESN DIANA PAUL S t. 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Their landscape photographs, although quite distinct from each other, confuse the line between the real and the unreal, the documentary and the fabricated. Hafkenscheid, especially, creates images of actual landscapes that read as artificial, evoking miniature dioramas or scale models lit - Eszter Burghardt tered with children’s toys. IAIN BAXTER&: 1N4ØRMAT1ØN Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Jan 21-Apr 9 One of Canada’s original and most important conceptu - al artists, Iain Baxter& is represented here by collaged Polaroids, multimedia installations, and over-painted TV screens, all addressing his interest in the relationship between information systems and our understanding of the natural world. Among his many pioneering accomplishments, Baxter& co-founded the Iain Baxter& N.E. Thing Company in 1966, explored the use of back-lit Cibachrome transparencies in the 1960s and 70s, and helped set the stage for Vancouver’s emergence as an international centre of photo-based practice. THE BREAD WITH HONEY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW QUERNER Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Feb 4-Apr 1 Also part of Exposure 2012, these sombre and stirring portraits, shot in an economically depressed mining town in Kosovo by Can - more-based photographer Andrew Querner, gives us insight into some of the devastating, long-term consequences of the Andrew Querner war in the Balkans. “Through the experience of the miners, their children, and the tired town at the mine’s threshold,” Querner states, “these pictures are my attempt to better under - stand the complexities of the Kosovar landscape.” ALBERTA MISTRESSES OF THE MODERN: 1935-1975 Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Mar 10-Jun 3 This survey reveals the significant but under-appreciated role women artists played in the development of modern art in Alberta.