ARTery

What is ARTery?
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ARTery is an exhibition organized and presented by the Prairie Art Gallery to the people of Grande Prairie who will be able to view important elements of the exhibition from inside their cars as they drive on Grande Prairie’s busiest street.
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ARTery starts January 4, 2008, and your experience of it will grow daily […]

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Wildlife Excursion

John Hall, Helen Mackie, Jim Westergard, Illingworth Kerr, and others
Curated by Sue Cloake Millar
Availability October 2007 to September 2008
2 Crates, 70 running feet
This exhibition presents works of art that focus specifically on wildlife in its natural habitat, including wild animals, birds, vegetation, and other living things. Take note however, that the title word ‘Excursion’ […]

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MICHAEL DOWAD : Escape

The exhibition is composed of 14 small paintings of toys that are at once humourous and disturbing, and literal but impenetrable. Dowad, a devout Buddhist, and a one time mathematician and computer scientist, paints mysterious images of enigmatic toys that offer the viewer insight into his perspective on the complexity of individual experience. Michael Dowad […]

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JULIAN FORREST : self

The exhibition comments on the rapid change in visual culture that has been precipitated by the rise of consumer digital photography and individual opportunities for mass communication through the internet. The artist collects the self-portraits of strangers that he finds posted on the website www.hotornot.com and translates them into the more traditional portrait medium of […]

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TERRY REYNOLDSON : Windows

The exhibition reflects upon the isolation and alienation of urban life using the window as a metaphor for all of the factors within the contemporary city that, while creating the illusion of contact with others and the environment, in fact serve to prevent that very contact. Each of the works in the exhibition is a […]

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Kate Armstrong

GRAFIK DYNAMO
Grafik Dynamo is a work of net art that loads live images from sources on the web into a never ending and always changing comic strip. The work is currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by narrative fragments written by Kate Armstrong that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought […]

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Safe and Sound

Over 300 works from the Permanent Collection of the Prairie Art Gallery, all rescued from the collapsed Gallery building on March 26, 2007 are on view in open storage at the Gallery’s temporary location.
The portion of the Gallery’s collection that requires hanging storage for its safe preservation is now fully accessible to the community. The […]

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Tina Martel

  
  
tenuous
an installation by Tina Martel

tenuous is an installation by artist Tina Martel. For a period of several days, from July 3 - July 21, 2008 Martel is casting a half ton truck in hand made paper, culminating in its removal during the Street Performer’s Festival on July 20. Please stop by and visit her while […]

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Maquette to Mural

Tim Heimdal
Curated by Sue Cloake Millar and Todd Schaber
Availability September 2007 to August 2008
2 crates, 70 running feet

According to Webster’s Dictionary, mural simply means “a painting on a wall.” During the Renaissance, masters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were commissioned by individuals and organizations of great power to paint large murals. The […]

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Brainstorm: 5 Abstract Painters

Carmen Haakstad, Carrie Klukas, Tina Martel, Anita Pimm, Marjorie Taylor
Curated by Sue Cloake MillarÂ
Available September 2007 to August 2008
3 crates, 80 running feet
To these abstract painters the act of ‘brainstorming’ may not be a group session, but a constant discussion with themselves. They must produce ideas, make decisions, and discover ways of solving their […]

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