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Sylvia Ziemann
“Accidental Utopia”

This new body of work, curated by Holly Fay for the Art Gallery of Regina, consists of black-and-white ink drawings hung in clusters, salon style, with vividly colourful paintings, and culminates in a large painting, entitled eponymously Accidental Utopia. In this speculative fiction, Ziemann asks…
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Ruth Cuthand
A Short Discussion on Trading

(Texte) Margaret Bessai
There must be a word for when an artist’s work combines materials and meaning perfectly; how else to describe Ruth Cuthand’s Trading series? Her mixed-media images use beadwork to portray enlargements from microscope images of diseases in twelve circles of dramatic colour and pattern. Identified by…
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“Axenet’i Tth’ al”—Northern Way of Coming Together

(Texte) Margaret Bessai
As our eyes adjust, we can see a labyrinth of trees awaits exploration. We must walk through carefully though, as the trees are linked into a maze with rope and hanging sticks. This is the “Axenet’i Tth’ al” or “fringe”, a system created by Northern Dene trappers of hanging carefully selected and…
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“Anxieties”
Exposes Emotional Truth

(Texte) Margaret Bessai
Curated by Carmen Robertson, writer and scholar of art history and indigenous people, Anxieties is a mix of sculpture, painting and photography by established and emerging contemporary Saskatchewan artists from both indigenous and settler backgrounds: Lionel Peyachew, Kevin McKenzie, Audrey…
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Saskatchewan Prairie Light Photography Festival

(Texte) Margaret Bessai
Thinking on the exhibitions this fall and winter in Saskatchewan, two things seem clear: the photograph has permeated our culture, and the photograph is no longer a more-or-less recognizable image on a square of white paper. Since 1825, when French photographic pioneer Joseph Niepce exposed and…
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7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.

(Texte) Margaret Bessai
A rare chance to see the formative work of a generation, this spectacular exhibition entitled 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. focuses on the decade during which First Nations master artists Daphne Odjig, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Joseph Sanchez, Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, and…
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Tim Moore. Hybrid

(Texte) Margaret Bessai
Bright “Hunter-safety” orange, primer white and fur visually unite the work in Hybrid, an exhibition of sculptural assemblage and collage created by emerging artist Tim Moore out of everyday objects gathered in Northern Saskatchewan: excess materials from construction sites, deer hide and bones,…
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Edward Poitras - 13 Coyotes

(Texte) Margaret Bessai
Curated by Michelle Lavallee for the MacKenzie Art Gallery, 13 Coyotes: Edward Poitras is a rich mixture of installation, paintings and sculpture, and includes a re-contextualization of Cell, a piece protesting the on-going incarceration of activist Leonard Peltier. (First shown in Borderzones, UBC…
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Jeff Nye - The Fire and the Flood

(Texte) Margaret Bessai
Entering the darkened gallery, the installation cycle begins with sound, abruptly, like a clearing throat, “9… 19…1974…” Stories begin in phrases. Bursts of light synchronize with the voices and illuminate two walls of paintings. Water spills over a tight grid of eight canvases; on the wall…
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