Past Exhibitions
Peacework
January 1970 - January 1970 |Selections from The Prairie Art Gallery Permanent Collection
A small selection of works from our collection is installed in the Green Space as the main Gallery remains under construction. The exhibition offers visitors a chance to see works from the collection that have rarely been exhibited, with an emphasis on …
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Eric Cameron: A Conceptual Approach
January 1970 - January 1970 |Curated by Todd Schaber of The Prairie Art Gallery
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Travelling Exhibition program (TREX)
Dare to imagine! Try to conceive of a kind of art that is an exercise in controlled unpredictability. Such is the work of Eric Cameron. His Thick Paintings are produced by laboriously …
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75 Million:Bison Drawings of Adrian Stimson
January 1970 - January 1970 |Curated by Todd Schaber of The Prairie Art Gallery
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Travelling Exhibition program
Location: Grande Prairie Public Library, 9839-103 Avenue
Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story — up to a certain point. “When the …
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Eclectic Resonance: Member’s Exhibition 2010
January 1970 - January 1970 |Opening reception: November 4, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Location: Kin Gallery, located at the Heritage Discover Centre in Centre 2000, 11330-106 Street, Grande Prairie.
In this exhibition, which is composed of works created by members of the Prairie Art Gallery, and chosen for exhibition entirely by the individual creators of …
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Laura St.Pierre: AutoPark
January 1970 - January 1970 |AutoPark is a portable garden of defunct vehicles that have been converted into large-scale terrariums. Cars, vans, trucks and SUVs house communities of native plants, re-inserting the wilderness into contrived urban landscapes. Riffing off of the history of the enclosed growing space, the artist investigates our evolving relationship to the …
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The Wild Side of Art
January 1970 - January 1970 |Permanent Collection of The Prairie Art Gallery
Curated by Lynn LeCorre-Dallaire
The Prairie Art Gallery presents the theme of animals in art as enrichment for our children’s summer programs. All the artworks by Alberta artists are selected from our permanent collection, with the exception of the interactive mural display …
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HERS: The Sky’s the Limit
January 1970 - January 1970 |Izabella Orzelski-Konikowski & Bogdan Koral-Konikowski
Canadians have an identity, one to be proud of. HERS is a portrait exhibition and the paintings are all women and all artists. In their honour, 32 large-scale portraits of contemporary, innovative Canadian women in the arts. The artists’ goal is to depict each of …
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Spring Hurlbut: Le Jardin du sommeil
January 1970 - January 1970 |Opening Reception: Friday, June 4, 2010 at 7:00 pm
The moving sight of about 100 cribs and cradles lined up in orderly fashion in The Prairie Art Gallery will summon up memories of hospitals, orphanages, dormitories, schoolrooms, cemeteries—images that telescope the cycle of life: birth, life and death.
Le Jardin du sommeil…
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Janet Enfield: Wisdom of the Ages
January 1970 - January 1970 |Opening Reception: Friday, April 2, 2010 at 7:00 pm
This portrait exhibition earnestly captures the spirit and unique perspective of Peace Country elders whom the artist has had the pleasure of interviewing and photographing. To honour the many character’s individual life stories, every oil painting reveals a senior’s favourite colour, …
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JEAN-PIERRE GAUTHIER: Machines at Play
January 1970 - January 1970 |
Exhibition Opening: January 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Montreal artist Jean Pierre Gauthier has been active on the contemporary art scene since the mid-1990s, when he quickly gained recognition for the inventiveness of his work. The kinetic installations that have emerged from his exploration of the acoustic and metaphorical …