Past Exhibitions
Gallery Closed
April 2, 2012 - May 11, 2012 at The Prairie Art Gallery
The gallery is entering the final stages of construction which means the gallery is required to close to the public one last time while the construction crews hammer the last nail, install the last door, set the last tile and paint the last wall. When completed, gallery staff will begin installing the new art exhibitions that will be opening May 11, 2012 at an opening reception at 7:00 pm.
The…
Bev Tosh: War Brides
December 17, 2011 - April 1, 2012 at The Prairie Art Gallery
More than 44,000 British and European women came to Canada as the wives of Canadian service personnel at the end of the Second World War, accompanied by 22,000 children from these marriages. The story of her war bride mother inspired artist Bev Tosh to paint a striking portrait, which is one of the key works in the War Brides exhibition. That first portrait led Tosh on an odyssey to meet,…
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…