Western Canada’s art magazine since 2002
21 January 2025 Vol 10 No 2 ISSN 2561-3316 © 2025
Shelley Boettcher
From the Editor
I love it when writers send me notes about artists or books they'd like to write about. Sometimes I'm familiar with the artist (or the book), but sometimes I'm not.
That was the case when Lin Li reached out to me about Mohadese Mohaved. I wasn't familiar with Mohaved's work but Li thought the show sounded interesting. She's right — check out her review, Mohadese Mohaved at Montreal's Art Mûr. The show is on now through March 1. I wish I could zip to Montreal in time to see it.
And longtime contributor Agnieszka Matejko recommended a book to me before Christmas. I received a copy over the holidays and I was as charmed as she was by All the Beauty In The World by Patrick Bringley.
In Calgary, Lissa Robinson visited Mia + Eric's In a Strange Place, on view at Contemporary Calgary until Feb. 9. “As deforestation and climate change accelerate, artists such as the Calgary-based duo Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis are finding evocative ways to illuminate what’s at stake and rekindle humanity’s connection to forests,” she writes. (A version of In a Strange Place is also on view at the Kelowna Art Gallery now through March 23.)
The stunning work of women carvers is the subject of Yani Kong's story, Curve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast; you can see the art in real life at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler until May 5.
Then we head to Thunder Bay for Joel Richardson and Nyle Miigizi Johnston, whose new exhibition, Gaganoonidiwag: They Talk To Each Other, is at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery through April 13.
And the latest work from Persimmon Blackbridge, Speak No (emergency), is at the Richmond Art Gallery in Richmond, British Columbia until Mar. 23.
Hope your week is going well. Send us an email at editorial@gallerieswest.ca if you have any stories to share.
CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE: Lin Li, Agnieszka Matejko, Lissa Robinson, Yani Kong
We acknowledge the support of the Government of Alberta Media Fund, the Government of Canada Periodical Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts.
