Western Canada’s art magazine since 2002
6 February 2024 Vol 9 No 3 ISSN 2561-3316 © 2024
Shelley Boettcher
From the Editor
Already February! I’m listening to new music from Yard Act and making a list of exhibitions to see this weekend. The 20th annual Exposure Photography Festival kicked off last week with a big launch party (Photos! Popcorn! Coffee! Cocktails!) at Contemporary Calgary and continues all month across Alberta.
Speaking of Contemporary Calgary, don’t miss Lissa Robinson’s Breath as Art, a review of Respiration and Resistance, on view at the gallery until April 14.
Also in Calgary at the Nickle Galleries, Harry Kiyooka’s nearly 70-year career is being celebrated with Harry Kiyooka: Artist. Educator. Activist, which opened this past week.
Of course, there’s a lot going on elsewhere, too. Read Yani Kong’s review of Cathie Falk: Revelations, on now through May 6 at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, B.C..
And in her first Galleries West story (but we hope not the last), writer, artist and educator Iris Hauser takes a look at the beloved prairie artist, Wynona “Nonie” Mulcaster, in Aspirations for Excellence. Mulcaster’s work is on view now at the Kenderdine Art Gallery in Saskatoon.
Next, we head to New York for Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s Neo Reservation Landscape Painting and Ovoidism at Arsenal Contemporary Art, and then Vancouver for Intersecting Orbits: Michael Morris and Joan Balzar at Griffin Art Projects. The Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton celebrates Black History Month with the 18th annual 5 Artists 1 Love exhibition, too.
Banff artist Elise Lavallee Findlay has been named as the first winner of the Canadian War Museum’s Artist Residency Program. And the co-founder of Montreal’s Atelier Céladon, Hera Chan has been appointed as Tate Modern’s new adjunct curator, Asia-Pacific.
Finally, in case you missed the news, we have a new association with Amazon that allows you to support independent arts journalism in Canada by buying books directly through our site. If you purchase a book by clicking on the Amazon link in a review, Galleries West may receive a small commission.
In our next newsletter: an interview with Canadian musician-artist Tom Wilson and much more.
CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE: Yani Kong, Iris Hauser, Lissa Robinson
We acknowledge the support of the Government of Alberta Media Fund, the Government of Canada Periodical Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts.
