VISUAL ART
Annual Salon Show
March 11-April 25. Opening reception: March 11, 7-9 p.m. Art Gallery of Regina Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre 2420 Elphinstone St.
Light Passing Through Glass Michael Bell’s photographs display a highly technical and inquisitive pursuit of light refraction through coloured glass marbles. Until April 15. Opening reception: March 11, 7-9 p.m. Hague Gallery, Creative City Centre, 1843 Hamilton St. Undergrowth: Brendan Schick Intricate organic patterns influenced by nature’s creatures delicately rendered in graphite. Until March 21. Slate Fine Art Gallery, 2078 Halifax St. Landscape and Sky, People and Place: Contemporary Canadian Fine Art The Artists of Scott Nicholson Fine Arts Until March 22. Government House, 4697 Dewdney Ave. Martha Cole: Patterns of Excitation March 15-April 18 Reception: March 15, 1-4 p.m. Mata Gallery, 106–2300 Broad St.
Intimate Details in Textures A collection of 18 framed prints on archival watercolour photographic paper. Through the camera lens, the artists have probed and explored textural elements in the everyday world to allure, entice, tease, excite and compel us to see beyond that which is in front of us and to experience a powerful visual impression and examine more deeply the notion of sensuality. Until March 31. Artful Dodger, 1631 11th Ave.
Material Girls Works by 24 female artists of different ages, from a variety of disciplines and cultural backgrounds, using both traditional and new media overload the senses with bright colours and decorative motifs. Until April 5. Dunlop Central Gallery, 2311-12th Ave.
Persons of Interest Is this moment public or private? Recorded or unrecorded? Intimate or anonymous? More than ever, how we see ourselves is inseparable from how we are being seen. Art by Vancouver artist Ken Lum. Until April 5. MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. Moving Forward, Never Forgetting This exhibition creates a space for intercultural dialogue and storytelling, encouraging sharing, empathy, and deeper understanding of what it means for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to coreside in these territories. Until April 19. MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. Tricia Middleton: Joy is just melancholy with a really strong sense of purpose An immersive installation by Montreal-based artist Tricia Middleton. An uneasy marriage of materials and process, Middleton’s practice incorporates castoffs and debris from consumer culture, organic elements, byproducts from studio production, and utilitarian building and craft supplies. Until April 22. Dunlop Art Gallery – Sherwood Village Branch, 6121 Rochdale Blvd.
Quixotic Susan Bozic and Evan Tyler’s two-person show of performative photography. Both artists use store mannequins, which they animate as actors in dramas that each directs and then visually records. Until April 24. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday to Friday. U of R University Club, College West room 215. Landscape and Sky: Contemporary Canadian Fine Art The Artists of Scott Nicholson Fine Arts Until April 30. Regina Centre Crossing, 1621 Albert St. --
Assiniboia Gallery 2266 Smith St. Open Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Neutral Ground #203-1856 Scarth St. Open Tues. to Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Nouveau Gallery 2146 Albert St. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Oakland Gift and Fine Arts Oil and ink paintings by Chinese artists Lingtao Jiang and Huaiyi Tian. 2312 Smith St. Open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.