Western Canada’s art magazine since 2002
20 February 2024 Vol 9 No 4 ISSN 2561-3316 © 2024
Shelley Boettcher
From the Editor
When I was in my 20s, most nights of the week, you’d find me at a bar or club somewhere in Canada, watching bands and listening to live music: folk, singer-songwriter, punk, rock, you name it. I was there, soaking in every song. I still go as often as I can, which isn't nearly often enough.
It was particularly special, then, to reconnect with Juno Award-winning musician, bestselling author and artist Tom Wilson, in the story Mohawk Warriors, Hunters and Chiefs about his music, books and art exhibition at Cultural Goods Gallery in Toronto.
Then we head over to the West Coast, where artist and writer Amy Gogarty explores the large-scale ceramics of Isabel Wynn, in her poetic review, Harmonious Destruction. Wynn’s eponymous show is on view at Equinox Gallery in Vancouver until March 16.
Next stop: Edmonton, to learn about the work and life of Santosh Korthiwada, whose inspiring photo show, Inseparable Fragments, is on view at the Art Gallery of St. Albert through May 4. He arrived in Canada in 2018 and was taken aback at quiet and lack of colour in his newfound home, compared to his former life in India. Edmonton writer Agnieszka Matejko checks out the art he’s created since arriving here in Memories of Home.
Also in Edmonton, Mitchell Art Gallery at MacEwan University in Edmonton is hosting -miut, an exhibition of painting, textiles, 3D works, video and jewelry from five Inuit artists including Atsinak Bishop, Alberta Rose w./Ingniq, Sarah Whalen Lunn, Yvonne Moorhouse and Kablusiak, recently named the 2023 Sobey Art Award winner. The exhibition is on now through March 28.
Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halfax features Allen D. Crooks: Family Matters; and Prairie Dreaming: Folk, Funk & Their Connections (part 1) is on view now at Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery in Saskatchewan. Check out Janna Wilson’s abstracts in the aptly titled, Poems, at Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver. And there’s still time to catch some of the Exposure Photography Festival in Alberta, including artist Cris Cran’s After the Flood at Herringer Kiss Gallery, on until Mar. 2.
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CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE: Amy Gogarty, Agnieszka Matejko
We acknowledge the support of the Government of Alberta Media Fund, the Government of Canada Periodical Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts.
