Western Canada’s art magazine since 2002
18 February 2025 Vol 10 No 4 ISSN 2561-3316 © 2025
Shelley Boettcher
From the Editor
I'm freshly home after a couple of weeks of cat-sitting, gallery-hopping and wine-drinking in Paris. (Sorry, to all of you who were enduring the deep freeze in Canada.) While the Suzanne Valadon exhibition at the Pompidou is very good, I was especially charmed by the Musée de Montmartre where her apartment and studio from the early 1900s have been lovingly restored.
And the intensity and colour of Olga de Amaral's exhibition at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain was just what we needed on a chilly grey weekday. If you're in Ottawa, the Colombian textile artist has work on view now in the group exhibition, Woven Histories, at the National Gallery of Canada until March 2.
Then head to Waterloo, Ont. for The Beam family, Painting with Clay, at The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery through May 25. Co-curated by Elka Weinstein and Anong Migwans Beam, the show features pottery created by Anong, her parents Carl and Ann Beam, as well as her two children.
In Calgary, Lissa Robinson visited Innovative Threads: Contemporary Weaving, on view until April 12 at Alberta Craft Gallery at cSPACE. The show features 21 Canadian artists who use weaving to create wall cloths, pillows, vessels and even books.
And on the West Coast, Janet Nicol checked out Flaunting the Rules, a show of abstracts by Jack Bush at Paul Kyle Gallery in Vancouver now through April 12.
While we're on the subject of Bush and his contribution to the Canadian art scene, Katherine Ylitalo is back this issue with a deep dive into Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné by Sarah Stanners, a four-volume compendium that took 12 years to compile and write.
And Agnieszka Matejko shared her thoughts this month on the book Memorable Murals: The Visual History of the Town of Stony Plain, Alberta by Alexis Marie Chute.
CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE: Lissa Robinson, Katherine Ylitalo, Agnieszka Matejko, Janet Nicol
We acknowledge the support of the Government of Alberta Media Fund, the Government of Canada Periodical Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts.
