Closed Labour Day, Monday, September 5, 2016

We will be CLOSED Labour Day, Monday, September 5, 2016

we will be back to regular gallery hours on Tuesday, September 6th, 2016

Thank you!

“Made in Calgary” Book Launch at the Glenbow

Joice M Hall featured with Made in Calgary

MADE IN CALGARY BOOK LAUNCH  
 
After eight exhibitions held over two years featuring 219 artworks by 309 artists spanning 50 years of art making in Calgary, The Glenbow Museum is launching the one publication that celebrates it all!

"Made in Calgary: An Exploration of Art from the 1960s to the 2000s" is a gorgeous coffee-table book featuring 368 stunning images of art created in this city. The story of art making in Calgary reflects the evolution of the city itself – a once small town that has emerged into a cosmopolitan, forward-thinking centre. 
We're celebrating the publication of the Made in Calgary book with a party on Wednesday, June 1 at 7pm. There will be music and refreshments, Made in Calgary artists and curators will be in attendance and the book will be availabe for purchase. Everyone is invited to this free event.

Lemay Exhibition eCatalogue

GRID

Our newest exhibition and eCatalogue are available now!  Please join Lemay at the opening of his exhibition: GRID on Saturday, May 7th from 2-5PM

Exhibition Catalogue-CLICK HERE for full screen

Lemay in Fashion Magazine and Where Magazine

Exciting news!  Robert Lemay has an article in the spring issue of Fashion Magazine (p.124).  Where Magazine also has an article (p.26).  These articles illustrates some of our works in our Exhibition with Lemay on May 7th.  Lemay will be at the opening reception from 2-5pm.  The show continues until May 18, 2016

Just Arrived!

Works by Elza Mayhew

"Her sculptures are almost ceremonial figures related basically to architectural forms and spaces, modern in concept yet having affinities with the past, with totemic poles, Mayan stelae, Egyptian stone sculpture, and other hieratic forms through which the artist has asserted the dignity of the human state while reminding us of the awesomeness of the workings of the macrocosm."  - Colin Graham, Canada: XXXII Biennale di Venezia, 1964. Exhibition catalogue.

Candian Art Magazine Must-Sees

We are listed in the Canadian Art Galleries "Must-Sees" for March 5th with our opening show and reception on March 5th!  Hope to see you here!

Harold Town: SAPs, SNAPs ... Exhibition

March 5-16, 2016

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 5th 2-5PM

Exhibition Catalogue-CLICK HERE for full screen

Article on William Duma’s Elbow Series

The Banks of the Elbow River: An Artist’s View

About 25 years ago, Calgary artist William Duma, weakened by a bad bout of pneumonia, found himself searching for river scenes to paint closer to home.  The natural stretches of our inner-city, lower Elbow River were just the inspiration he needed to aid his recovery. Bill, the son of a coal miner, grew up in the Crowsnest Pass and his lifelong love of fishing meant that Alberta river scenes were part of his psyche.

“One of the areas that have inspired my interest for painting has been the banks of the Elbow River. This has been an on-going project for the past 25 years. The stretch of river from below the Glenmore Dam to where it empties into the Bow River is an inner-city oasis, where one can find relief from the congestion and noise of the city.  Unfortunately, the flood of 2013, together with the snow storm of 2014, has done major damage to the banks as well as the trees and shrubs that line the river. This body of work has become even more poignant as much of the landscape has dramatically changed. Hopefully, with our help and nature’s self-healing capacity this peaceful area will be available for future generations to enjoy.”

Duma’s stunning paintings depict the river, its banks, the crisp snow, and dappled foliage in ways that are so familiar to anyone who walks the river pathway system.  He is particularly adept at capturing the nuances of light and colour in his fall and winter scenes. Bill’s compositions are notably devoid of the human element, thus conveying that sense of calm, quiet beauty that the river offers. With the trees stripped of their foliage, his charming winter scenes express a purity of form not possible in the other seasons.

“Having a love of nature and her many moods, I would like to convey this feeling in my painting in hope that others might find the same enjoyment: but also be stimulated into looking deeper within, where intimate moments with nature cause an inner awareness and we sense the integral relationship of nature, the universe, and humanity.“

William Duma, RCA, was born in Calgary in 1936 and graduated from the Alberta College of Art in 1962. His landscape paintings are widely exhibited and found in collections throughout North America and Europe. Trout Unlimited Canada honoured him as Artist of the Year. Works from his fall 2015 show: “Banks of the Elbow River” are available Wallace Galleries (500 - 5th Ave SW) and may be viewed on-line at www.wallacegalleries.com .

by Karen Paul from the S2G+ Prevention Society

New Artist: David SORENSEN

We are pleased to announce the estate of David Sorensen as our newest addition to the gallery!

Sorensen was born in Vancouver in 1937. He first studied architecture with Arthur Erickson and then returned to study at the Vancouver School of Art with Jack Shadbolt and sculptor Bill Reid. Inspired by the Abstract Expressionist paintings of Rothko, deKooning, Pollock and Kline, Sorensen's made the decision to become a full-time artist.

He began his career with his first solo exhibition in Mexico City in 1964, two years after he moved there. Sorensen then relocated to Montreal where he taught, painted and exhibited frequently. Sorensen, now Professor Emeritus, taught visual art at Bishop’s University from 1981-2000.

Over Sorensen's long career he had countless exhibitions across Canada and has shown his work in Switzerland, France, Italy, Japan, China and the US. In 2005, the Musee du Bas Saint-Laurent in Riviere-du-Loup, QC curated a 45 year retrospective of Sorensen's work. In 2007 (and 2010) Sorensen exhibited large works at the Mexican Embassy Gallery ‘Espacio Mexico’ in Montreal and had paintings from his Horizon Series sent on a tour of museums and cultural centers throughout Mexico.

David Sorensen passed away in Montreal in 2011.

NEW ARRIVALS!

Kenneth Lochead works

Recently we just received an exclusive selection of works from Kenneth Lochhead.  We have a variety of fabulous little gems... please stop in for a preview!

New artist: Laurie Steen

We are pleased to announce Laurie Steen as our newest addition to our roster of artists!

Raised in Millarville, Alberta. Laurie grew up with a deep understanding of and respect for nature; specifically the relationships we as human beings have with it. A purist in many ways, Laurie Steen’s drawings area as emotional as they are intellectual. “My relationship with the English landscape is very sensory, leading me to approach nature drawings as I would a portrait, where time and space enter the work in the form of layers. The trees here seem to emit a silence and light, and have an unmeasurable desire to be.”

After studying fine arts at the University of Calgary, Steen graduated with an Honors BID and thesis prize from the University of Manitoba, in the Faculty of Architecture in 1993, where she also taught sketch camps and drawing classes.  A complement to the fact that she has been drawing throughout her life and that drawing remains the genesis of her work today.

Steen is currently residing in the United Kingdom and was recently awarded the RWA (Royal West of England Academy); a prestigious recognition of 5 Royal Academy's in England.

Harold Town book

NEW RELEASE!

"The Picasso of Canda"

"Harold Barling Town (1924- 1990) began drawing as a three-year-old and never stopped.  A prodigious worker, his oeuvre totals some 9,000 works - paintings, collages, monoprints, lithographs, silk screens and linocuts, as well as assemblages, sculptures and murals.  A founding member of the Painters Eleven, the group that propelled Abstract Expressionism to the forefront in Canda in 1953, Town gained international recognition for his technically inventive Single Autographic Prints...."  ~Iris Nowell