- Susan Rankin: Valid Objects of Beauty - October 16 to November 21, 2010
- The Holiday Show: Southwest Saskatchewan Open Art Exhibition - November 29 to December 30, 2010
- Russell Yuristy - January 8 to February 10, 2011
- Mind the Gap - February 19 to March 25, 2011
- Brad Copping - April 2 to May 8, 2011
- Chance Operations - May 14 to June 26, 2011
Closed for Remembrance Day Thursday, November 11
This exhibition includes 50 pieces of hand-blown glass by Susan Rankin. This respected artist grew up in Moose Jaw as the daughter of a prominent artist, Joan Rankin. It was a culturally enriched and artistic environment, which included summer trips to the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops where she and her brother Michael, played with the children of the Regina Five and other prominent artists. It was the kind of household with opera on the radio, jazz playing on the stereo, and art books, magazines and materials in abundance.
In the 25 years since attending workshops at the Pilchuck Glass School and studying in Sheridan College’s renowned glass program, she has continually innovated with the medium of glass. Susan Rankin has an uncanny ability to make very intelligent contemporary work with glass that keeps its eye on the history of her medium, but still remains playful, beautiful and smart.
Opening Coffeehouse Evening - Friday, October 15, 2010, 7:30pm.
Artists walk & talk tour. Live music, hors d'oeuvres, cash bar. Door opens 7:00pm. $5.00 cover charge. Everyone is welcome.
Closed for Blenders Concert Saturday, December 11, and for Christmas December 24 through 27.
A large group show presenting a variety of recent artworks and craft by SW Saskatchewan semi-professional and amateur artists.
AGSC and SCAAC present the annual Southwest Saskatchewan Open Art Exhibition: The Holiday Show, this year moved to December. This project provides professional development for artists through exhibition experience. Artists take part in critique with art professionals. Artwork is selected for possible inclusion in OSAC provincial tour program.
Public Reception: Saturday, December 4, 2010, 2:00 pm
Please click here for Submission Information for The Holiday Show at Art Gallery of Swift Current.
Russell was born on 23 March 1936 in a farmhouse built by his great-grandfather near Goodeve, Saskatchewan. He spent two years at home farming before attending the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, where he majored in English and creative writing, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. Art classes at University spurred an interest in art and Russ ended up working for a year as a commercial artist before studying at the University of Wisconsin in Madison were he graduated in 1967 with a Master of Science in Art. He returned to Saskatchewan and in 1968 participated in the Emma Lake Artists' Workshop with Donald Judd and joined the visual arts Faculty at the University of Regina were he taught until 1971 when he moved to Silton, northwest of Regina, to take up art full time. Russell is well known for his big, light-hearted and imaginative playground sculpture that delight children and adults in Regina, Saskatoon, Swift Current, Ottawa and London Ontario. Yuristy’s work whether sculptures, painting or works in pen, pencil, pastels and watercolour, have been widely collected and exhibited throughout Canada and the United States. Russell currently teaches Woodcut Printing at the Ottawa School of Art.
AGSC exhibition organized in partnership with Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery.
Coffeehouse evening with artist TBA
Closed for StirCrazy Blues Festival February 24 - 26.
Mind the Gap! Celebrates, with resounding exuberance, the wealth of talent amongst the diverse population of emerging artists in our province. The title refers to the oft-misguided term that Saskatchewan is plied with - that is, being the gap in Canada's cultural landscape. We mind, actually. Featuring: Judy Anderson, Lindsay Arnold, Amalie Atkins, Joel Carignan, Marc Courtemanche, Wally Dion, Brandan Doty, Randal Fedje, Clark Ferguson, Rob Froese, Gabriela Garcia Luna, Chris Campbell Gardiner, Erin Gee, Todd Gronsdahl, Laura Hale, Kyle Herranen, Sarah Jane Holtom, Rob Jerome, Sandra Knoss, Adam Lark, Nicholas Louma, Mark Lowe, Nancy Lowry, Dakota McFadzean, Judy McNaughton, Jennifer McRorie, Tim Moore, Turner Prize, and Stacia Verigin.
Organized by the Dunlop Art Gallery.
Coffeehouse evening with artists TBA
Closed Victoria Day weekend Sunday May 22 and Monday, May 23.
The Esplanade Art Gallery and the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery are pleased to present this touring exhibition of recent collaborative drawings, prints and photographs by Rhonda Neufeld and Rodney Konopaki. Since 2007, the artists have explored the act and meaning of collaborative art-making through projects which involved sharing, interfering, walking, observing, recording, reflection and dialogue. Underlying Konopaki and Neufeld’s collaboration has been a fascination with the collision of conscious aesthetic decisions and ‘chance operation’, interpreted perhaps most famously by John Cage, but reaching back to Dada and Duchamp.
Rhonda Neufeld is a print media artist who is equally comfortable with lithography, relief, intaglio and screen printing. Her primary investigations are in intaglio, although she also works in drawing and installation. She brings a sensitive approach to her prints and installations, which disclose a deep commitment to and love of the land. Her unpretentious and natural approach to making art is rooted in the land of her home near Armstrong, BC and her considerable experience as an apiarist. Her undergraduate degree is from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and her graduate degree is from the University of Regina. Rhonda has taught at the University of Regina, Thompson Rivers University, Kwantlen University College and Alberta College of Art and Design.
Rodney Konopaki explores print media, painting and drawing to create work that he often grounds in anonymous pop culture. These works usually begin with images taken from historical sources, mass media and even material “stolen” from his friends that all find new meaning in unpredictable collisions with new elements. He has been committed to making art in collaborative ventures for his entire life. Early on he performed nationally as a rock musician with a group that also received commissions from the NFB and the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. For eleven years, he worked as a Master Printer at Tyler Graphics in New York. His work is included in the collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Saskatchewan Arts Board. He is a faculty member teaching print media at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design.
Coffeehouse evening with the artists TBA