#VISUAL ART
The Permanent Collection: Walking with Saskatchewan Mackenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. This permanent collection exhibition explores the diverse ways that artists in Saskatchewan have related to land, and how our objects carry stories and histories. Guest curated by Bruce Hugh Russell, this 10-month long exhibition will examine the history of Saskatchewan art and culture through Indigenous and settler perspectives, featuring a rotating selection of works primarily from the MAG’S permanent collection with select works that both highlight and help fill in the gaps in our collection. Christi Belcourt & Isaac Murdoch — UPRISING: The Power of Mother Earth Mackenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. This is the first retrospective of Belcourt’s work. It traces her practice from its beginnings, in the early 1990s, to the present, and concludes with recent works made collaboratively with Isaac Murdoch, an Anishinaabe knowledge keeper and emerging visual artist. The exhibition comprises more than 30 major Belcourt paintings, loaned by numerous private collectors and by such public institutions as the National Gallery of Canada, Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Museum of History, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, and Crown-indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. It also includes Murdoch’s iconic images, such as Thunderbird Woman, which feature prominently on the front lines of the resistance movement against resource extraction. Erin Gee To the Sooe Mackenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. It is a digital irony that we are more than ever deprived of connection and emotion in the age of advanced communication technology. Originally from Regina and now based in Montreal, media artist Erin Gee seeks to understand the relationship between machines and human body by creating emotionally stimulating environments using sonic electronics and computational algorithms. Experiencing algorithmic distortion, transformation, and enhancement, our bodies responses to Gee’s technology will reveal a healing potential in technologically augmented settings.
Paradise (To All Those Who Did and Did Not Make it Across)
Mackenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. Earth is all we have, what will we do with it? In conjunction with the launch of its Black History Month programming, the Mackenzie Art Gallery present a screening program featuring single-channel video artworks that investigate the concept of Paradise. Featuring work by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman, Elizabeth Webb, and a collaborative video work by Cauleen Smith, Jérôme Havre and Camille Turner — the program, which goes until May 26, will investigate questions specific to sovereignty and belonging; asking where is paradise and to whom does it belong? Black existence moves with the vision of an alternative or other, paradise-reality at some point just outside of now — whether it is built on 40 acres with a mule, a life on Mars or a return to Africa. In a time where questions about land and climate must be directly addressed, each of these works consider permutations of blackness in relation to land, and identity. Earth is all we have, we will not be imagined out of it. Aura Satz: Doorway for Natalie Kalmus Dunlop Central Mediatheque, 2311 12th Ave. Doorway for Natalie Kalmus explores the disorienting prismatic effects of the lamphouse of a 35mm colour film printer. Evoking perceptual afterimages and the vibrant Technicolour lighting of films by Paul Sharits and Dario Argento, the work is named for Natalie Kalmus, a colour consultant for hundreds of early colour films, including The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind, who also wrote a text called “Doorway onto another world,” about her sister’s experience of seeing deceased family members on her own deathbed. Aura Satz is based in London, where she teaches at the Royal College of Art. She has performed, exhibited and screened her work nationally and internationally. Hannah Claus: trade — treaty — territory Dunlop Central Gallery, 2311 12th Ave. Runs until March 6. The artworks of this exhibition bring together elements of trade, treaty and territory to demonstrate ideas of relationship, both Indigenous and colonial. Through sensory engagement with materials, light and shadow, her installations piece together an atemporal space critical of Western ideologies and systems.
Leah Marie Dorion: Thirteen Moons Dunlop Sherwood Gallery, 2311 12th Ave. Métis artist Leah Marie Dorion shares the moon teachings through her detailed painting and poetry. Important to Indigenous women’s wisdom and traditional cultural knowledge, the moon teachings honour women as vital life-givers. The moon, known by many elders as “Our Grandmother,” marks the passage of time. It provides wisdom, comfort, protection and strength from its position above us in the sky. Through her work, Dorion restores Indigenous women’s teachings and connects us to the sacred and healing natural law cycles. Forest Sojourn by Ward Schell Slate Fine Art Gallery, 3424 13th Ave. Ward Schell received his art education at the Emily Carr School of Art in Vancouver, the University of Regina, and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Over the last 22 years he has exhibited his work nationally in many solo and group exhibitions. Since 1990, Schell has been teaching a variety of painting and drawing classes at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre in Regina and has given numerous workshops on drawing and painting throughout Saskatchewan. Alee & Ayla: Approaches to Portraiture The Lobby Gallery, 1077 Angus Street; Regina. Hours: Monday to Thursday, noon - 8 pm; Fri., noon - 4 p.m. Viewing outside these hours may be arranged by calling 306-779-2277. H.J. Linnen; Patron of the Regina Art Collective will be exhibiting works from his collection by artists Allee and Ayla.