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Amalie Atkins provides a “behind the scenes” tour and talk of the installation for her upcoming exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
Amalie Atkins earned a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2001 and has shown her work in exhibitions nationally and internationally, including: Oh, Canada, a landmark survey of Canadian art at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, Mass., 2012); Dreamland: Textiles and the Canadian Landscape at the Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto, 2012); and Mind the Gap! at the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina, 2010). Recently, she participated in an artist residency at Open Space in Victoria, BC (2013), where she worked on elements of the current exhibition. Amalie Atkins lives and works in Saskatoon.
Her touring exhibition, we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical, is at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery from December 6, 2014 to February 1, 2015, and is co-organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the MacKenzie Art Gallery with funding assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the City of Lethbridge. The opening reception is Saturday, December 6 at 8pm.
Amalie Atkins, Listening to the past – listening to the future (from we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical), 2014. Two screen installation with optical soundtrack, 3:02 min loop. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca