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E. A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts
The Exhibition calendar is now only available on the current issue of
City Lights News
April 4 - May 18, 2003
Curated by Ulrike Veith
February 14 - March 26, 2003
Gala Opening Reception: by ticket only
Talk/Tour: Sat., February 15 at 1:00pm: Free
The "Winter Festival Juried Art Show" is a showcase for local and regional artists and fulfills a central role in the region, as it provides the only professionally juried show that serves the area. The "Winter Festival Juried Art Show" is the only juried exhibition in the province that displays all the works entered for a one week period. The show is an important venue for new and emerging artists in the community and allows the gallery to feature these artists and to provide them with feedback on their work. The format includes group and individual critiques.
About the Winter Festival Juror.....Morgan Wood
January 7 - February 5, 2003
Curated by Ulrike Veith
With this exhibition the gallery is celebrating the art of Pamela Burrill. The works in the show have been generously donated by Godfrey Burrill, Pamela's husband, and their children Julia, Duncan, and Gordon. When she died on June 6th, 2001, Pamela was at her Round Lake Cottage surrounded by her family. Her cottage was filled with her art works. She studied fine arts, both for her BFA and her MFA at the University of Saskatchewan with Otto Rogers, Stan Day and Myna Forsyth and participated at the Emma Lake workshops and in classes with George Glenn. Both Pamela and Godfrey were geologists and lived the prospector's life in North Africa, Ireland, Chile and Australia, but settled permanently in Canada. Her experience as a geologist and her extensive travels greatly influenced her work both in her aesthetics and her subjects. Many of her vibrant and colourful works concentrate on gestures and abstraction. Pamela explored personal meanings and connections in a manner that invites and engages the viewer to join her on her journeys. The works in the exhibition are a representative sample of Pamela's explorations. The gallery is fortunate to have been able to preserve this body of Pamela's work in the Permanent Collection. "Art has always been a dialogue of mind and material, here exhibited in both paintings and sculptures. The challenges we have in relating to the landscape, the atmosphere or the spaces around us, are found in small details as well as in the larger interaction. The remnants and residue that tell us of the poetic and mundane aspects of thought came into a special relationship with paint or plaster, wood or colour.
Keeping in mind our continual exploration of new horizons, whether local or astronomical, personal or community, opens up dialogues between artist and content, as well as between the work and the viewer. Always discovering new poetic reactions that continue to reverberate. An adventure." P. M. Burrill
November 29 - January 2, 2003
Curated by Andrew Oko
This exhibition curated by Andrew Oko, takes as its central concept an exploration of how Saskatchewan public art institutions developed their collections of photography. "For many years, photography was not considered "art" in the same sense that painting or sculpture was. With the advent of Pictoralist photography in the late 19th century this began to change as photographers sought the same aesthetic status for their work as other artists...As art making became increasingly concerned with questions of culture, race and gender, the photographic moved from being a subordinate medium to occupying a central position in the visual arts. The collections of Saskatchewan art galleries reflect this direction." Oko
October 11 - November 24, 2002
Curated by Ulrike Veith
"Installation, video, drawing and fibre sculptures, reveal a body of work where I explore questions about being and place. I think of my on-site ephemeral interventions as a way of participating in the power of a place, of being in-between worlds. I explore the symbolic presence of landscape, and identify with elemental processes in nature; tree energy, sandstone, and water. "The Clearing" is a container where the power of the sky and stars gather. Being "at the edge" is a dynamic place of both entry and exit. Identifying with the power of a thing, is an "in-between" world of imagery and energy. How these energies move through the body and connect with the world around me motives my studio process. Borrowing from processes in Celtic shamanism and Qigong, I express an internalized elemental cosmology, and awareness of the energy pathways of the body." Houston
August 27 - October 6, 2002
Curated by Ulrike Veith
"A blend of natural and altered audio forms an immersive environment that enfolds gallery patrons in speechless. Human speech overwhelms our ability to listen to the rest of the world: we have become so enamoured and seduced by the sound of our own voice(s), that we are nearly unable to hear the world around us. Ironically, the alternative language to which the installation alludes is everywhere, in the sound of animals, trees, human interaction and activities.
July 5 - August 18, 2002
Curated by Ulrike Veith
Kathy Bird is an aboriginal artist and psychotherapist and counselor who has
been exploring healing involving the whole being, body, mind, soul. This
exhibition with large scale, gestural watercolours is based on human
energies and feelings. Their transposition to the paper is a subconscious
personal process. The images though are accessible on many levels and invite
association. The pieces will be unframed and the gallery space will function
as an installation, with dialogues and links between the pieces.
May 24 - June 30, 2002
Opening: Thursday, June 6 at 7:00pm
Curated by Ulrike Veith
Altars and shrines as places of worship symbolize particular religions.
Globalization has brought for many of us access to a larger variety of
religions. We can go "religion shopping" on the internet or on TV. For many
people, their religion is an important means of interpreting the events in
the world around them and brings meaning and fulfillment into their lives.
Religions are central to many societies' self-definition. At the same time,
they are the base or the excuse of many political conflicts that kill
millions of people. Religion can be used as a means of oppression in many
cultures, particularly against women and minorities. This exhibition will
explore artists' views of these personal and societal belief systems,
through critical or poetic reflection, questioning and possibly affirming
values.
April 9 - May 19, 2002
Curated by Ulrike Veith
In these works both artists are reflecting upon the realities of mental and
physical decline in elderly family members and their deaths. The paintings
show the shrinking world of elderly people as their capacities decline. As
well the distance that comes with mental impairment and the loss of the
relationship becomes apparent. The works are powerful in their intensity and
at the same time gentle in their concern." Kever, Marchand.
February 15 - April 1, 2002
The “Winter Festival Juried Art Show” is a showcase for local and regional artists and fulfills a central role in the region, as it provides the only professionally juried show that serves the area. The “Winter Festival Juried Art Show” is the only juried exhibition in the province that displays all the works entered for a one week period. The show is an important venue for new and emerging artists in the community and allows the gallery to feature these artists and to provide them with feedback on their work. The format includes group and individual critiques.
NOTE: Applications for “Winter Festival Juried Art Show” Entry Forms can be obtained by calling the gallery at 306-763-7080.
Friday, February 15 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Saturday, February 16 at 1:00pm
About the Winter Festival Juror: Timothy Long was born and raised in Regina. A graduate of the University of Regina and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long was recently appointed Head Curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, where he has worked for the last twelve years. Over that time he has curated and coordinated a number of exhibitions of Canadian contemporary and historical art, including retrospectives of notable Regina artists Arthur F. McKay and Marilyn Levine and a major survey of contemporary artists involved with urban issues, "A Better Place". His current projects include an investigation of the responses to war by 20th century European expressionists Georges Rouault and Arnulf Rainer, and an examination of the innovative clay practices which emerged from Regina in the 1960s and 70s.
January 5 - February 7, 2002
Curated by Ulrike Veith
This video exhibition explores the link between real and fictional, imaginary worlds. The fictional events and worlds have their grounding in real life events or fears and fantasies. Some of the videos use humour or exaggeration as an entry point. Utopian potential is explored as well as nightmarish possibilities.
November 30 - January 2, 2002
Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 30th at 7:30pm
Curated by Dan Ring, Mendel Art Gallery
October 12 - November 25, 2001
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 12th at 7:00pm
A touring exhibition from the Canadian Museum of Photography
August 29 - October 8, 2001
Opening/Artist Talk: Friday Sept. 7th - 7:00pm
Curated by Ulrike Veith
July 6 - August 19, 2001
Curated by: Brenda Barry Byrne, Kim Houghtaling, Heather Smith and Ulrike Veith
Artists: Judy Bowyer, Bart Gazzola, Laura Kinzel, Joanne Lyons, Ellen Moffat, Stuart Mueller, Ian Rawlinso
Closing Reception: Thursday, Aug. 16th at 7:30pm
This is a joint exhibition project with the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, The Little Gallery, the Moose Jaw Art Museum, and the Swift Current National Exhibition Centre. For the four participating galleries, this show is an important step towards the pooling of resources and the process of collaboration.
May 22 - July 1, 2001
A video installation by artist: Joanne Bristol
Opening Reception and Artist Slide/Talk: Tuesday, May 22nd at 8:00 pm
For The Little Gallery I am presenting a new video installation dealing with conversations between "culture" and "nature". Entitled “Familiar”, the installation focuses on relationships between humans and domesticated animals. It depicts how ideas of "nature" are culturally constructed, and how the representation of animals is often an act of human anthropomorphism. Imagining the perspectives and knowledges of animals can lead us to a decentering of human epistemologies. I am interested in imagining or proposing relationships based on hybridity and the post-human, rather than the control-and-management paradigms which currently dominate human and animal liaisons.
March 30 - May 13, 2001
Joint Project with AKA Gallery
Artists:
"Correspondents" is a collaboration between AKA Artist-Run Centre in Saskatoon and the Little Gallery in Prince Albert. This project is intended to create dialogue and support between artists in these two communities, resulting in a group exhibition to be presented in both cities.
February 16 - March 25, 2001
Local Showcase Exhibition
Opening Reception: Feb 16, 8:00-10:00pm
The Winter Festival Juried Art Show is a showcase for local and regional artists and is an important venue for new and emerging artists providing both exposure and opportunity for feedback. All of the works entered are displayed for a minimum of one week. In that week. approximately 2000 people visit the gallery and are engaged and challenged by the wide range of art practices.
WINTER FESTIVAL JUROR…
P. A. Winter Festival Juried Art Show 2001 application forms are now available at the Little Gallery office. Call 306-763-7080.
January 5 - February 9, 2001
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 13 at 1:00pm
Group exhibition by La Ronge and area artists, curated by Ellen Moffat
"Points North" is a survey exhibition of art by La Ronge and area artists.
December 1, 2000 - January 2, 2001
Toured by the Mendel Art Gallery, curated by George Moppett
“I and Thou presents a series of oil paintings covering the period 1994 to 1998. It is a metaphorical journey and focuses on pivotal events in the lives of three members of Hauser’s family. By portraying these family members in an intimate and honest manner, Hauser also examines her relationship to them and consequently aspects of her own sense of self. At the core of these works is the acknowledgment that life is a journey with the many transitional phases of fear, suffering, renewal and joy constituting its full and varied texture.“ George Moppet
October 13 - November 26, 2000
Group exhibition of Prairie and expatriate Prairie Artists
The new Millennium coincides with enormous economic challenges to the Prairie region which have far reaching political and cultural implications. Prairie Grain Elevators, the stereotypical, touristic bucolic icons dotting the landscape at regular intervals, are being dismantled at a fast rate, due to the centralization and the restructuring of the farm economy. The dismantling of the elevator is symbolic of the changes the prairie region is undergoing.
August 25 - October 8, 2000
Dmytro Stryjek, Alex Mullie, Charles Crate, Sam Spencer, and Paul Sisetski
Opening Reception: September 18, 8:30pm
Curated by Brenda Barry Byrne
OUTSIDER ART OR ART BRUT - (the term created by French painter Jean Dubuffet meaning Raw Art) is an art without regard to the mainstream art world's recognition - artwork created by people that are, to a great extent, socially isolated, living on the fringe of society or who have had little or no formal education. The work of the five artists included in Informed Memories, represents a kind of extreme individualism, free from all social and cultural constraints.
July 6 - August 20, 2000
Opening Reception: July 6, 5:00-7:00pm
Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Wood is a five part meditation and healing exercise in the form of a sculptural installation. The project was inspired by Eastern systems of spiritual development, especially that of the chakras, or energy centres in the body, as well as by her own experience of dealing with grief and loss.
July 1 - July 30, 2000
Location of Billboard: cloverleaf at the south end of John Diefenbaker Bridge.
This off-site billboard project of The Little Gallery originates from a joint AKA /Tribe exhibition of the work of Saulteaux artist Robert Houle.
May 19 - July 2, 2000
Opening Reception 26 May at 8:00pm
The works of these 2 artists reflect different practices within the tradition of wood working. Rohachuk explores a sculptural and experimental approach toward the object, developing forms that verge on the impossible. His delicate and poetic objects reflects how teases form, function, aesthetics, craft and funk with objects that include hybrids and furniture. Together the works of these two artists play off and each other.
April 1 - May 14th, 2000
Martinson is an accomplished painter who chooses her subject from the natural world. Her still life paintings are poetic abstractions reflecting her personal concerns of intimacy, beauty, harmony and equilibrium in simplicity. Formally her training in art includes classes in various schools in England, at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon and with George Glenn. She has been a regular participant at the Emma Lake workshops. Martinson has been a practicing artist for more than 40 years. Having immigrated to Canada from French Switzerland via Britain, she has lived in the Prince Albert community for 37 years.
February 18 - March 26, 2000
Opening Reception: Friday, Feb 18 from 8:00-10:00pm
The Winter Festival Juried Art Show is a showcase for local and regional artists and fulfills a central role in the region, as it provides the only professionally juried show that serves the area. The Winter Festival Juried Art Show is the only juried exhibition in the province that displays all the works entered for a one week period. The show is an important venue for new and emerging artists in the community and allows the gallery to feature these artists and to provide them with feedback on their work. The format includes group and individual critiques. Artists are making intensive use of this opportunity. The general public is in high attendance at this show. In just one week, 2000 people visit the gallery and are engaged and challenged by a wide range of art practices.
Winter Festival Juror…
This year’s juror is Gilles Hebert, Director of The Mendel Art Gallery. Before moving to Saskatoon in 1998, Hebert was executive director of the St. Norbert Art & Cultural Centre, a young multi-disciplinary residency-based arts organization housed in a former Trappist Mon-astery just outside of Winnipeg. Among other projects, he co-organized a national exhibition of Aganetha Dyck’s work. Hebert has been involved with the Winnipeg Art Gallery both in curatorial and administrative capacities, with the National Film Board of Canada, the Winnipeg Film Group, as well as collaborating with the curator of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris on a retrospective of Canadian films.
For entry forms and/or more information on the Winter Festival Juried Art Show please contact The Little Gallery at 763-7080
January 7 - February 10, 2000
Skoronski’s material is old wall paper that she has salvaged from empty farm houses in Saskatchewan. With this wallpaper she constructs 2-dimensional assemblages. Rather than reconstructing the experience of the settlers who lived with the wall paper, Skoronski uses the material in a spiritual manner. She takes the encrusted wall paper layers, separates them and re-layers them in new configurations. She is guided by her subconscious as much as aesthetics in her creative process, to transform the trapped energies into new abstractions, icons and metaphors.
November 26 - January 2, 2000
Kennedy’s project layers images of dead birds and pieces of table ware with glass etchings of weeds common to the prairies. The layering creates and subverts a juxtaposition of domestic, private, human space with nature. In this pensive, reflective project, Kennedy invites the viewer to consider our relationship with nature. What price is nature paying for human "advancement"? How have we come to see ourselves as the arbiters of good and bad nature? Why do we regard some plants as weeds and not others? Do we know the birds who are sharing their habitat with us? Have we looked at them and felt their physical bodies? What do the human changes to the environment mean for our personal lives? For the birds’ habitat? The images are quiet, somber and powerful in the questions they raise.
October 15 - November 21, 1999
Curated by Dan Ring
Ten Years Later will present a selection of approximately 20 works by contemporary artists which were purchased by or donated to the Mendel Art Gallery since 1989. The exhibition is not thematic as such; works will be paired together with the intention of creating an interaction or tension through shared or opposing subjects and varying strategies of making and presentation. Media used will include painting, sculpture, photography, video and prints.
August 27 - October 10, 1999
Works by: Noah Ballantyne, Allen Clarke, Ruth Cuthand, Chris Ferchuk and Myles MacDonald
This exhibition curated by Ulrike Veith explores political issues in regional artists’ work.
Noah Ballantyne, a Cree artist, contrasts symbols of white cultural dominance with symbols of aboriginal culture in his work. His paintings are closely cropped details of British flags with aboriginal symbols like feathers painted on them.
July 9 - August 22, 1999
Mixed media exhibition at the Little Gallery,
This exhibition explores personal utopias and desires. With the approaching millennium, Canadian society as a whole, is going through an intense process of self-reflection – reviewing past and future challenges. This show takes a more personal approach and investigates individual desires and utopias. Desires and utopias are inherently elusive, but are a driving force in our lives. This exhibition explores how artists have transformed their personal view of the small perfect moment or the complex societal state translated in contemporary art.
Little Gallery Installation Tent,
July 10-13, 1999
July 15-17, 1999
May 21 - July 4, 1999
The rumpus room, a suburban phenomenon, often is the not "presentable" room (unlike the living room), but is well used and "comfortable". Dana Popescul's rumpus room has been ambiguously intensified. It is still a leisure space for sprawling around in front of the TV, but Popescul has modified the furniture with vibrant colours and intense decorative elements. She is including modified tourist souvenirs, (prefabricated mass produced memories), and family mementos purchased at garage sales and other icons/symbols of popular culture such as hockey trophies. The modifications are playful, humorous and intense, but underlying is Popescul's questioning of the objects' role in symbolizing significant events; pointing to the futility of our attempts to preserve the past.
April 1 - May 16, 1999
Mark Makers First Nations Graphics is an exhibition of work by
contemporary Saskatchewan First Nations artists which expands the notion
of First Nations graphics to include mark making on any surface by
scoring, beading, quillwork, pigment and collage application. ... In
First People's traditional culture, representation is reality. The use
of symbol or the act of drawing an image contains the responsibility and
adherences of cultural memory -- image banks are "stored" knowledge,
represented by visual vocabulary, recognized, held, and passed on by the
people revered as "elders". Native images have never been abstractions
of reality, as the hand that made the image was inextricably linked to
an ongoing contemporized protocol." Joane Cardinal Schubert
Participating artists: Richard Agecoutay, Henry Beaudry, Bob Boyer,
Allen Clarke, Ruth Cuthand, Brian James, Michael Lonechild, Ann McLean,
Gerald McMaster, Anquelique Merasty, Janice Morin, Sheila Orr, Edward
Poitras, Sherry Farrell Racette, Celina Ritter, Allen Sapp, Jennifer
Shaw, Bette Spence, Sarain Stump, Jerry Whitehead, David Williams,
Morgan Wood.
February 13 - March 28, 1999
Winter Festival Juried Art Show
The Winter Festival Juried Art Show is a showcase for local and regional artists and fulfills a central role in the region, as it provides the only professionally juried show the serves the area. The Winter Festival Juried Art Show is the only juried exhibition in the province that displays all the works entered for a one week period. The show is an important venue for new and emerging artists in the community and allows the gallery to feature these artists and to provide them with feedback on their work,. Each year, approximately 2,000 people visit the Gallery in just one week to view the show. This year Juror is Helen Maszolf, the Director of the Dunlop Art Gallery.
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