Superscreen Exhibition Opening at the MacKenzie Art Gallery

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Kelly Clark, Door sign for the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop, circa 1968

paint on card (University of Regina Archives and Special Collections [2009-32]. photo by Trevor Hopkin)

The MacKenzie Art Gallery presents Superscreen: The Making of an Artist-Run Counterculture and the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop, in partnership with the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba.

Superscreen will look at the activities, social environment and legacy of arguably the Prairies’ first artist-run centre, the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop. The exhibition returns to the Canadian west of the sixties and seventies to contextualize the Screen Shop and surrounding milieu within a time characterized by personal and political consciousness-raising and dynamic change within the arts and society at large. Growing out of the era of Pop Art and psychedelia, the exhibition will feature a black light room that brings the Day-Glo prints of artist and innovator Winston Leathers to life.