Western Canada's art magazine since 2002
30 January 2018 Vol 3 No 3 ISSN 2561-3316 © 2018
From the Editor
Portia Priegert
We're pleased to highlight two shows in this issue that are part of Exposure, Alberta’s annual photo festival. One is an international show at the Glenbow Museum that features a newly discovered trove of intimate images of iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The other is by Wyn Geleynse, whose humorous look at male identity and mid-life crisis is on view at the TrépanierBaer Gallery. Both shows are well worth a visit.
Wondering what else to check out during the February festival? My list for a trip to Calgary next month includes a group show at Paul Kuhn that features Edward Burtynsky, M.N. Hutchinson, Jennifer Wanner and other gallery artists. While downtown, I'm also planning to drop by VivianeArt to see Winter Garden. It's curated by Kathryn Ylitalo, who writes occasionally for Galleries West.
Meanwhile, across the Bow River, Calgary-based Olivier Du Tré, who recently published a book of black-and-white landscape photography, Seeking Stillness, is showing at Framed on Fifth. And Jeff Cruz, over at Inglewood Fine Arts, takes an experimental approach, using family slides from his childhood to create work that resembles colour field paintings.
The festival’s roots are in Banff, where Craig Richards, the photography curator of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, started the shutter clicking back in 1998. This year, the Whyte is presenting Encounters with the Sublime, photographs of Kluane National Park and Reserve along with other Yukon wilderness vistas by international stars Bradford Washburn and Sebastião Salgado. It promises to be a stunner.
Of course, these are just a few suggestions. The festival has a wealth of other offerings across the region that you can check out here.
Looking forward two weeks to the next issue, we're excited to hear more about the Vancouver Art Gallery's blockbuster, The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, by Japanese art star Takashi Murakami. Vancouver arts writer John Thomson is getting a sneak peek this week of some 50 works in the three-decade retrospective, which pays tribute to Murakami's boundless imagination.
Until next time,
CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE: Stacey Abramson, Paul Gessell, Janet Nicol, Lorna Tureski, Helen Wong
