Western Canada’s art magazine since 2002
17 September 2024 Vol 9 No 19 ISSN 2561-3316 © 2024
Shelley Boettcher
From the Editor
Planning a road trip this fall? I suggest Enderby, British Columbia.
Only a few years ago, I would have associated Enderby with its giant flea market and vast array of pot shops.
While those may have their charms, these days the town is making headlines for its art and its artists. Veteran writer and editor Roslyne Buchanan visited Enderby's Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse.The Canadian couple behind the space, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, are world-renowned artists who represented Canada at the Venice Biennale a few years ago and recently set up a museum/gallery for their work in this small central BC town. Why? You'll have to read Buchanan's story to find out.
On a completely different note, our intrepid intern Janille Delos Reyes has returned to school this fall but will stay on to manage our social media accounts. Before going back to school, however, she turned her expertise on all things education-related to work on a package of art school stories for us. The first, Visual Arts Grads Can Find Job, Life Satisfaction, has been published; watch for the second coming up in a future issue.
Paul Gessell visits Madweyàshkà | Like a Wave, on now through May 2025 at Ajagemo, the Canada Council Art Bank's Ottawa gallery. The show is, he notes, “an opportunity to celebrate the amazing trajectory of the Indigenous art world from the day when Carl Beam entered the National Gallery in 1986 and began a revolution that continues today, with young Indigenous artists like Kablusiak, Caroline Monnet and Meryl McMaster topping the contemporary charts.”
And the latest Galleries West book review comes to us from Agnieszka Matejko, who read Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen's new book Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.
I've long been fascinated by the life of model-turned-photographer Lee Miller, whose life was the stuff of legend. This fall, The Image Centre (IMC) in Toronto shares stories of her life and selected art in the exhibition, Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932–1945), through Dec. 7.
And a shout-out to Edmonton's Peter Robertson Gallery, which celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special exhibition now through Sept. 28.
Thanks again for reading and drop us a note if you have more art school stories you'd like to see. We at Galleries West look forward to hearing from you.
CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE: Agnieszka Matejko, Roslyne Buchanan, Janille Delos Reyes, Paul Gessell
We acknowledge the support of the Government of Alberta Media Fund, the Government of Canada Periodical Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts.
