Jack Blair: Feeling the West
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Alberta Society of Artists 222-1235 26 Avenue SE (Crossroads Art Centre), Calgary, Alberta T2G 1R7
Jack Blair, "Winter Walker," 2020
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This exhibition is a part of EXPOSURE Photography Festival. Admission is free.
‘Feeling’ the west is different from ‘seeing’ the west.
Some viewers of this exhibit will be looking to see if there are any images that meet their aesthetic criteria. I hope they see some that meet their expectations.
Others will look at some of the images and, with only a glance, feel something that brings back an experience or stirs a memory that has meaning for them. They may step back and spend more time in front of the image that grabbed them, but their mind will be elsewhere—feeling the emotions evoked by the experience that the image brings to mind. - Jack Blair
This is an exhibit of western landscapes. Residents from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC can be placed in any of them and look like they belong.
Journeying from the seas of grain, through the mountains, to the ocean seas, each person who connects with these images will feel something different.