Notice Board

Amalie Atkins provides a “behind the scenes” tour and talk of the installation for her upcoming exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

senselikeblueplace is an artist-initiated exhibition of recent work by Dahle, Kavanagh, Martin and David Miller,  that examines their individual studio production in relation to one another’s, exploring a shared sensibility. Through exchanges that have unfolded over months and even years, the exhibition presents works by the four artists in conversation.  

Eric Dyck is a cartoonist and art educator living in Lethbridge, AB. Eric studied at the Red Deer College and Alberta College of Art & Design. Eric has shared his love of graphic novels and comic-storytelling in art galleries, museums, schools and libraries throughout Alberta and New Brunswick.

“My work is concerned with travel, tourism, and the processes of history. Perhaps growing up in rural/urban western Canada instilled an idea of “frontier in reverse,” an exploration for the headwaters of population flow. I am strongly interested in the idea of “Place” as well, what it is that makes a community distinctive. I am also interested in that which links seemingly unconnected places, the discovery of these connections is always illuminating.

Michael Belmore was born in 1971 north of Thunder Bay and graduated with an A.O.C.A. in Sculpture/Installation from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario in 1994. Belmore’s materials are key to his work and bring into account how we view nature as commodity. For several years his work has evolved around our use of technology and how it has affected our relationship to the environment.

“TOTALLY FALSE CREEK: Vancouver, Dubai and marayaprojects.com”

JEAN-FRANÇOIS PROST, artist who has studied architecture and environmental design; he has a keen interest in new urban research territories – neglected, undetermined spaces (and situations), and those overcontrolled, sterile, with no apparent specificity. In Prost's work, art is an act of resistance, a state of mind, a device to enunciate and exchange ideas. It activates and promotes social engagement, defends the presence of art everywhere and at anytime.

Kevin Kelly is an art professor at the University of Manitoba. His comical works are both ridiculous and erotic. He will present his new animation pieces that focus on Bangalore, Beijing, Montreal, and Winnipeg. These high strung psycho tropes promise a future of kinetic monuments and structures.  Although he was trained primarily as a painter his work takes form in a broad range of media.

Nancy Townshend will present the highlights of her book, Art Inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains and Selkirk Mountains 1809 - 2012 (Calgary:  Bayeux Arts, Nov. 2012).

Townshend’s practice is rooted in bringing to the world's attention the significant accomplishments of Canada’s visual artists that have been previously overlooked and undervalued. Whether a book, major art exhibition or website, Townshend tries to bring national and international recognition to this deserving art.

Andrew Hunter is an accomplished curator, artist, writer and educator. He is the Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Hunter has held curatorial positions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Kamloops Art Gallery, the University of Waterloo, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and Charlottetown’s Confederation Centre Art Gallery. With Lisa Hirmer, he co-founded DodoLab, an international program of community collaboration and interdisciplinary creative research.