The Lebret Residential Petroglyphs / Tanya Harnett

Jan 7 - Feb 20

SNAP opens the 2016 exhibitions season with important new works by Alberta Artist Tanya Harnett. The Lebret Residential Petroglyphs was originally curated and presented by Todd Schaber at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Traveling Exhibition Program. This series of photographic prints help confront and explore the devastating impacts of the Canadian Residential School System. Documenting and presenting images of the remaining brick gates from the Lebret Residential School, Harnett’s photos act as memorial and reminder and signal the work of healing and reconciliation yet to come. In the wake of The Truth and Reconciliation Commissions recommendations Harnett will be developing a new project in the SNAP Community Gallery. The new work will reference Joane Cardinal-Schubert’s The Lesson and investigate the rhetoric of an apology

Fresh Prints / U of A Senior Print Students

Apr 23 - May 13

SNAP is pleased to once again host the University of Alberta Senior Printmaking Exhibition. Fresh Prints is an exhibition of artwork produced by the senior level undergraduate and first year graduate printmaking students in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta. This exhibition celebrates the completion of many of the student’s undergraduate studies but does not exist to mark an ending. It is a pause to consider their accomplishments thus far, and welcome them as emerging artists in Edmonton.

Featuring works by: Agata Garbowska, Ryan Andrade, Samantha Charette, Alicia Proudfoot, Genevieve Ongaro, Holly Hughes, Kimberly Heacock, Martina Gutfreund, Michelle Paterok, Ray-Al Hochman, Meghan Pohlod, Madeline Mackay.

The Opening Act: A Survey of Jan Xylander Exhibition Posters

Apr 28 - Jun 11

In this ongoing work, Pestich charts the trajectory of a fictitious artist’s exhibition career, not through the artist’s work, but through the design and display of digital and screen-printed exhibition posters “supposedly” made by several different designers, advertising his shows. This work is presented as a curated poster archive exhibition, functioning as an insightful look into the man and his work.

Records / Sergio Serrano

Apr 28 - Jun 11

Sergio Serrano is a graphic designer and artist born in Mexico, now living in Edmonton. He received a BA in Design from the University of Alberta in 2009. His design client-work focuses mainly on the arts and education. Literature and mythology are recurring themes in his artwork, which explores the narratives humans create in order to understand themselves and their place in the world around them.

Return to Sender/ Members Print Exchange

August 4 - 20

This portfolio of twenty eight artists marks the second instalment of the annual SNAP Members Print Exchange. An edition of eight prints were created by each participating artist and were randomly exchanged for other member’s prints. Additionally One print from each edition was archived by SNAP for this exhibition, SNAP’s print archive, and potential future exhibitions. The majority of these prints come straight from SNAP’s printshop, however SNAP members working elsewhere were also invited participate.

Connections / SNAP & PrintMatters

August 4 - 20

Featuring a total of twenty four print-artists (twelve from each print-shop), Connections provides a chance to see a wide array of print art through the tradition of the exchange portfolio. In doing so the portfolio creates dialogue between an expanse of ideas, mediums and methodologies within print previously separated by approximately 3000 KM of geographical distance.

Retrograde / Jill Ho - you

Aug 25 - Oct 8

Through hybrid printmaking and bioart, Retrograde explores the aftermath of the Anthropocene if changes in climate, biodiversity, and sustainability reach their predicted negative climax. Exploring what remains after the projected extinction of humanity, the work explores the idea of systemic failure while drawing parallels between the biologic, environmental, and man-made.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Aug 25 - Oct 8

SNAP invites members and guests to The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Juan Ortiz-apuy. The Garden of Earthly Delights is a sculptural installation exploring advertising and commodity fetishism, specifically how ideas of animism are encoded in the way that objects are designed, imaged and displayed

A Modern Cult of Monuments

Oct 14 - Nov 26

Why is our first instinct to polish the concrete and grind off the rust, effectively cleansing a space of its industrial heritage? A Modern Cult of Monuments attempts to grapple with this question by considering planned obsolescence and the nature of historical preservation efforts. Fusing printmaking, sculpture, video, and chemical experiments, this project reintroduces the evidence of labour into the restoration process: the act of polishing bringing a sharpened awareness to the work that was once performed with these fragments. These absurdly inefficient processes evoke an alchemical creation of time, memory, and historical aura.

To Do:

Oct 14 - Nov 26

SNAP invites members and guests to Graeme Dearden’s exhibition To Do:. The exhibition interrogates his “intrigue with why people, including himself, make objects and how the methods they use convey their personal history.” Dearden’s work is created through the use of written notes that are used functionally during his work hours and notations that are used during his shifts and recreational hours. To Do: is made up of abstracted silkscreen prints which act as a response to his experience as a manual labourer.

Fractions / Ingrid Ledent

Mar 3 - Apr 16

SNAP Gallery invites members and guests to Fractions from Belgian artist, Ingrid Ledent. In this upcoming conceptual exhibition, Ingrid Ledent presents work where she combines mediums to create an interpretation of representation and serendipity of time. Starting with stone lithographic prints, the artist allows the process to influence the content by printing repeating layers to develop new visual forms that both depict the change of time and the time they took to create. These prints act as an element in her finished piece, combining digital elements of print, video and sound, to further augment the boundaries of her craft and the subject of time.

Nothing but us / Dara Humnisk

Mar 3 -Apr 16

In the community gallery SNAP’s 2015 Emerging Artist in Residence, Dara Humniski presents a new body of work titled Nothing but us. In this exhibition the artist looks at the relationship between humans and nature, and considers the implication of the Anthropogenic state of the world, or the actions humans have permanently made upon the environment. To convey this, the artist uses nature as a starting point then assembles fictional worlds created from abstract mark making and mass-produced natural renderings which represent human’s habitual nature, while paying consideration to the effect and scale the scale of the work.

ExChanged / Carolyn Mount

Jun 23 - Jul 30

SNAP invites members and guests to Carolyn Mount’s ExChanged. In this work the artist visualizes and represents the social experience in material form through creating a moment of trade economy at which her prints play a central role. Mount’s current abstract ink drawings and prints are the creation and exploration of a private language of form. Intersecting lines, forms void of context, become a vehicle for the private yet social experience of our inter connectedness.

Ashes Over Water / Holly de Moissac

Jun 23 - Jul 30

Ashes Over Water is a visual investigation of the imperfect and unpredictable nature of human experience. Through fragmentation and reduction, bodies are imagined as emotional spaces that contain injury, experience, complexity, and meaning—inseparable from the natural cycles of breakdown and renewal.