2022. 11 Exhibitions / 2 galleries
Touching Gravitas / Liz Ingram and Bernd Hildebrandt
Feb 5 - Mar 19
This exhibition results from years of collaboration and intimate contact between Bernd Hildebrandt, Liz Ingram and a special site in the boreal forest of Alberta. Consisting of printed works on paper, fabric print installations, video works, objects, and an artist bookwork, this exhibition strives to give the viewer an experience that re-establishes understanding, sense of place and responsibility within nature. Images of body contact with trees, moss, rich muskeg peat, and water speak of ‘otherly’ connections and love within nature. Other works allude to precariousness – to climate changes that are causing fire, floods and other devastating occurrences. A fragile and rather melancholic artist bookwork evokes a sense of touch, memory and the passing of time, utilizing images and text gathered during a prolonged stay in Buenos Aires, the city of Ingram’s birth.
Present Tense / U of A senior Print Class.
April 9 - 23
Present Tense is a group exhibition of print-based works by the senior level students in the Printmaking Area at the University of Alberta, Department of Art and Design. The prints in this exhibition represent the culmination of a year of work, in which students engaged in self-directed creative projects involving both academic and theoretical research, as well as extensive practiced-based experimentation and exploration in the printmaking studio. The creative work in the exhibition explores a wide range of conceptual and creative concerns including examining subjects related to landscape, environmental change, the body, technology, play, abstraction, and perception, among others. At the same time, because the senior students worked closely together for a year, there is a considerable amount of dialogue between works, with students examining related and overlapping themes from a different creative lens. The Department of Art and Design is delighted to be partnering with SNAP on this exhibition, and to have the opportunity to share the dynamic and innovative work of this group of emerging artists as they embark on the next stage of their creative practice.
Artists: Artists: Jungeun An, Devin Cypher, Hanna Dotzenroth, Sylvie Ellis, Louisa Hammond, Lily Jeon, Thea Lao-an, Hannah Maxwell, Hannah Nobert, Emma Rockwell, Christian Stahl,
Boyd Webber
On a clear day I can see forever / Nicholas Hertz
May 7 - Jun 4
On a clear day I can see forever is an invitation to question the relationship between documentation and representation. Through this exhibition, the viewer is situated in parallel with my gaze, as I recontextualize moments of my lived experience. In these dissected frames, spaces like the backseat of an Uber, a motel room ceiling, and a Berlin flat become anthropomorphized. Conversely, elements of the body within these spaces become objectified and foreign.
decompose this body. / Taryn Walker
May 7 - Jun 4
decompose this body. dives into an incredibly intimate examination of Walker’s relationship to their own ever evolving sense of self, spirituality, and what they have had to let go of to make way for aspects of their identity that are most in alignment with their true sense of self. To begin to heal. And like many of Nature’s cycles with the embrace of the new, the old is washed away and redirected like the channels of a river.
Nonsuch / Morgan Melenka
Jun 18 - Jul 23
In 2015 I worked as a weed-puller for the City of Edmonton and the map of parks and boulevards led me to strange pockets of the city. One such pocket was located on Nonsuch street in Griesbach, with neatly piled ruins and orderly remaining upright street lights. This street – with its destroyed military housing awaiting replacement – is the basis of this exhibition.
The new Greisbach development enforces architectural guidelines where houses must adhere to five historical building styles representing a vague Anglo history: Victorian, Tudor, Colonial, Craftsman and Prairie. In an effort to maintain the “historic” flavor of the military base CFB Griesbach, planners landed on representing an Edmonton that never existed. Compounding the oddity of young ruins replaced with new old buildings was that name which seemed to sum it all up: Nonsuch.
W Y S I W Y G / Alex Linfield
Jun 18 - Jul 23
Through lithography and silkscreen printing, the works displayed in W Y S I W Y G, create representations, visual metaphors, and stand-ins for the artifacts, systems, and codes involved in digital communications. Familiar base materials such as dust are chosen as both subject matter and backdrop because of their connection to concepts of trace, indexicality, and time. By falsifying and manipulating these familiar materials through digital means, the stark contrast is made visual between the material world and the tools which increasingly shape how we conceptualize and interact with it.
SNAP at 40: Anniversary Showcase
August 6 - Sept 17
This year marks 40 years of community-building, printmaking experimentation, and artistic excellence at SNAP. Since 1982, our printshop members and renters have donated over a thousand creative works to SNAP’s archive. To celebrate this milestone, we’ve selected a variety of prints that showcase prolific skills, methods, and techniques explored at SNAP throughout our 40 years of operation. This exhibition is a glimpse into the breadth of this archive — a jumping-off point for one to reflect on SNAP’s long history of printmaking and community in Edmonton.
Nehiyaw Isko ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ / Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ
Oct 1 - Nov 15
Nehiyaw Isko ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ presents the work of Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ (Bigstone Cree Nation) and speaks to her identity as an Indigenous femme. This show presents two performance works: Cahkipêhikan and Grieving with the Land. Through the act of reclamation Cheyenne speaks to both the past and the present, exploring song, language, and grief.
Just add oil; I feel cold. / Kev Liang
Oct 1 - Nov 5
Just add oil; I feel cold, is about all the things as a diasporic and queer 2nd generation Chinese-Canadian. Experiences of generational trauma, cold existential anxieties of ending up a queer man, keeping up with and dominating our capitalist workforce, and the everlasting search for kinship and ephemeral warmth.
SNAP Members Show and Sale
Nov 19 - Dec 17