13 Coyotes: Edward Poitras January 21 to April 22, 2012 MacKenzie Art Gallery 3475 Albert Street, Regina
In this solo exhibition, Edward Poitras’ coyotes are back. Thirteen coyotes stand together, speaking to Poitras’ concerns with community and how we define and experience connectedness.
A member of the George Gordon First Nation, Edward Poitras’ work has been in almost every major exhibition featuring First Nations art in Canada since the 1980’s.
Throughout his life and art-making practice, Poitras has contemplated structures of inclusion and exclusion within communities. Whether boundaries are geographical, religious, national or institutional, he believes that we are all conditioned by our reality to think in ways that divide us from one another. His work questions these structures and challenges us to ask how we can move beyond the continuous construction of division(s).
In his work, we are witnesses to traces of the artists’ (re)considerations, the results of many years of contemplation of various issues and realities. A continual reworking of symbols and imagery, concepts and meanings, further inform major themes that have evolved and proliferated throughout his work.
Margaret Bessai talks to Regina, Saskatchewan artist and gallery owner Rob Bos about the inaugural exhibition 'The End' on exhibition at the gallery - ROBBOS ArtProjectsGallery:
Gallery hours:
Saturday - November 5th // 2pm to 5pm
Sunday - November 6th // 2pm to 5pmTuesday to Thursday - November 8, 9, 10 - open from 7 to 9 each night.Friday, November 11th // 2pm to 5pm
Saturday November 12th// 2pm to 5pm
Sunday November 13th // 2pm to 5pmFinal day of Show - Tuesday, November 15th from 7 till 9.
Dakota & Jonah McFadzean
The DENTIST BROTHERS February 1 to March 7, 2012
Art Gallery of Regina
Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre
This exhibition features individual and collaborative graphic comics by brothers Dakota and Jonah McFadzean that explore a shared childhood. As children the brothers were inseparable and at one time dreamed of opening a dental clinic together. Instead both artists have become quite well-known in the world of comics where some have trouble differentiating the work of one brother from the other. This show will feature work that investigates this shared bond as well as issues of masculinity, isolation, and fear.
Guest curated by Jack Anderson.
Opening: Wednesday, February 8, 7-9 pm
Artist Talk by Jonah McFadzean: Wednesday, February 22, 7:30 pm
Press: The Work of Articulate Ink Curator: Wendy Peart
January 14 - March 15, 2012
Dunlop Art Gallery, Sherwood Village Branch
Driven by a love for the methods and history associated with printmaking, the founding members of Regina based printmakers' collective, Articulate Ink, have produced a distinct exhibition that exemplifies the command and subtleties of print media. Michelle Brownridge, Amber Dalton, Karli Jessup and Caitlin Mullan use print processes to explore a variety of intimate themes such as mental illness, memory, inter-connectivity, idealism, growth and transformation. Working within traditions of print technology associated posters and advertising, their work challenges the inflated messages inherent in current mass media imagery by demonstrating the slower, more intricate and contemplative aspects of reproductive art making.
