FIRST IMPRESSIONS “The spiritual world is very much part of life and a source for creative inspiration in Taiwan,” says Nakamura. “The compelling array of work on display will express and visualize the religious beliefs, myths and legends that are an inherent part of Taiwan’s urban and rural life cycles.”
And the winner is ... Artist Peter von Tiesenhausen, of Demmitt, Alta., has received Alberta’s highest arts recognition, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award. He will be showing his work from Nov. 5 to Nov. 24 at the Peter Robertson Gallery in Edmonton. Five Western Canadian artists are among the 15 finalists for the $25,000 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. They are Winnipeg’s Robert Taite and four Vancouver artists, Tristan Unrau, Russell Leng, Megan Hepburn and Simon de Brée. The winner will be announced Nov. 16. Three Saskatchewan Book Awards went to the MacKenzie Art Gallery for a book published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition, 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. It features work by Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Walis Labai, Invisible Project: Whispering with Spirits, 2014, video work
Carl Ray and Joseph Sanchez. The exhibition will make its next Western stop at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton.
People on the move … Sandra Guimarães has been appointed chief curator at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon. She spent 11 years at the Serralves Museum in Portugal, and has collaborated with leading artists and arts organizations. The Remai is slated to open in 2016. Wayne Baerwaldt, director of the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, retired recently. The college has decided the gallery will be curated by a college committee. Lorna Brown has been named associate director and curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Peta Rake has been appointed curator of the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre. Rake will co-curate the 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art in conjunction with the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. Vancouver gallerist Sherri Kajiwara is the new director and curator at the Nikkei National Museum. Jaimie Isaac is the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s new aboriginal curatorial resident, a two-year position funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Towards Evening acrylic on paper 22 x 30 inches
LESLIE POOLE October 17 - November 7, 2015
Grassland Vitae acrylic on canvas 37 x 25 inches
KELLY KRUEGER November 14 - December 5, 2015
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