VISUAL ART

Anna Anthropy: Herding Cats

January 18 - April 4

Dunlop Central Mediatheque, 2311 12 Ave.

Anna Anthropy makes fun and simple videogames, as well as tabletop games, puzzle games, cooperative games, interactive fiction, and zines. Her work explores autobiographical subjects ranging from the personal to the fantastical to the everyday. Herding Cats features an 8-bit, purple-haired, unrepentant cat lady who is on a mission to make friends with every cat in the neighbourhood. Addressing subjects and scenarios often overlooked in the videogame world, Anthropy is part of a growing movement of queer, trans, and femme indie game developers who are making space for other voices in the scene.

Bev Pike: Grottesque

January 19 - April 1 Dunlop Art Gallery, 2311 12 Ave.

Bev Pike is known for her monumentally-scaled, performative landform paintings. Painted with gouache on paper, Pike’s works stretch from floor to ceiling and are no less than eighteen feet in length, enveloping the viewer. They invite the viewer to psychically and performatively inhabit while imagining the circumstances that may necessitated a move underground. In neoclassical fashion, these science-fictional spaces reference architectural forms of the past, particularly English gardens, castles, and concert halls, but instead of soaring upward, evoke the interiority of the body.

Mixing Stars and Sand: The Art and Legacy of Sarain Stump

March 3 - June 24

MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St.

A multi-faceted project that makes a major contribution to the art history of the Canadian prairies. It focuses on the art and legacy of Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974), Italianborn Plains Cree autodidact and polymath artist, writer, musician, actor and educator. The exhibition will feature a new, commissioned video installation by Edward Poitras; over two hundred works by Stump in a variety of media, documentation, and ephemera, including the unedited manuscript for a new book of image-poems never before seen in public.

Plain Red Art Gallery

Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

First Nations University

Represents indigenous visual art practices, culture and history found in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada and globally.