Past Exhibitions
JOHN KISSICK: A Nervous Decade
November 18, 2011 - December 10, 2011 at The Prairie Art Gallery
Opening reception: Friday, November 18, 2011 at 7:00 pm
John Kissick’s work has enjoyed acclaim over the past decade for its ongoing attempts to position itself in a viable, if highly critical, dialogue with the historical conventions of abstract painting. What Kissick does with such agility is weave the familiar (the supergraphics on 1960’s civic architecture and contemporary popular music…
High Art: Passport to the Peaks
September 6, 2011 - November 15, 2011 at Teresa Sargent Hall, Montrose Cultural Centre
The exhibition “High Art: Passport to the Peaks” serves as a documentary of the Passport to the Peaks program which has become a part of Alberta’s history. It cements the relationship between fine art, sport and personal achievement. Artist Robert Guest and Dr. Keith Darcel are deeply connected to the natural history written all over the Canadian Rockies. Both of these men are avid…
Kim Huynh: hole/whole
June 1, 2011 - August 23, 2011 at The Prairie Art Gallery
Through the loaded iconography of the pearl, Calgary based artist Kim Huynh’s series of lithographic prints, hole/whole, speaks of the interconnectivity of our personal desires of accumulation and its affects on the destruction of our environment, within a collective culture of capitalism and globalization.
hole/whole was curated by Todd Schaber of The Prairie Art Gallery and is a current…
Peacework
March 11, 2011 - June 20, 2011 at The Prairie Art Gallery
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 the diversity of artistic practices that are preserved in our…
75 Million:Bison Drawings of Adrian Stimson
December 8, 2010 - January 23, 2011 at Grande Prairie Public Library
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 buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift…