2023. 12 Exhibitions / 2 galleries
synthesis / Hildur M H Jónasson
Jan 21 - Feb 18
synthesis addresses ecopsychology or the psychological, emotional and spiritual side of the climate crisis. This exhibition touches on hope/despair, creation/destruction and beauty/ugliness in our human/nature relationship. The work is created using either natural elements, including glaciers or human generated waste in the form of plastic pollution collected from the high Arctic.
My Story of Sublimation / Libby Hague
Mar 4 - Apr 8
In sublimation, ice transforms directly into a gas: seeming to skip a step, it disappears. This work is about the mystery of changing states, of disappearing from one form and assuming another. It stretches the imagination as it tries to picture the other side of life.
After Thought / U of A senior Print Class.
April 15 - 29
Artists: Artists: Addison Primeau, Alyssa Lao-An, Bail, Cynthia Schroter, Eli Young, Evan Robinson, Grace McLean, Jess Bishop, Renee Hart, Ronnie Seo, Nicole Wrishko
Endlessly Unending / Neah Kelly
Oct 21 - Nov 18
Endlessly Unending is an exhibition that includes interactive artist books, an installation of paper sculptures, and a large-scale wall work that will combine to create an atypical playspace forming around an invented game. This show seeks to tempt the viewer into interaction using techniques such as connect-the-abstract-dots, paying attention, and handling objects, in the hopes that viewers will find their own piece to play with and become a part of the game.
Watchings / Devin Cypher
Oct 21 - Nov 18
Watchings is a collection of works focusing on the joy in making, experimenting, and growing through art. It explores the relationship between the man-made and natural, the designed and wild, and the time we take to slow down and look at our surroundings, all through the lens of birdwatching.
Pattern of Place / Elise Futoransky
May 6 - Jun 10
Pattern of Place is an exhibition of print and textile work that explores Ukrainian Canadian heritage through the use of repetition, tiling, and recombination of motifs drawn from Ukrainian visual culture and local Albertan plant life. By combining linocut print with textiles my aim was to explore the relationship between what is traditional and what is contemporary, and to investigate the ways the land informs visual culture and artistic forms. The residency with SNAP was an opportunity to experiment and delve into new areas of research with the cultural motifs I reference. I spent some time reviewing materials and texts held at the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives to inform the formal elements of the quilt pieces and embroidery references on the prints.
Faire des doubles – The surety of more-than-one / Michelle LaSalle
May 6 - Jun 10
Faire des doubles – The surety of more than one reflects on the slippery moments that link personal memories to the objects and images we archive. These works arise out of an intuitive investigation into the stories our collections might tell. They are a tribute to the passage of time and the traces it leaves on our objects and ourselves. The process was an unearthing of memories and their objects, objects and their memories, as ritual and artistic practice—opening a long-sealed box, developing an unknown roll of film, remembering details, attempting to thread them together only to miss the needle’s eye, and then giving it another go.
Today’s Special / Yilu Xing
Jun 24 - Jul 29
Today’s Special brings together my passion for connecting with people through food, and creating interactive spaces with prints. This exhibition is an experimental kitchen space for collective culinary discussion and exploration, without the actual edibles.
Having lived alone in Edmonton during the pandemic, I formed a habit of cooking meals (almost daily) for myself. It wasn’t just about nourishment; it became a therapeutic ritual that brought me immense joy and comfort. I found solace and a sense of flow in my daily routine, whether it was cooking in the kitchen or printing in the studio.
Mending Roots / Edward Fu-Chen Juan
Jun 24 - Jul 29
Mending Roots is an exhibition by Edward Fu-Chen Juan that reflects his experience as a Taiwanese Canadian artist and an immigrant to Canada. The work explores his connections to his homeland of Taiwan through traditional techniques of printmaking and papermaking using indigenous plants.
Fruition / Ceilidh Munroe
Sept 2 - Oct 6
Fruition is a work that celebrates the abundance and fecundity of West Indian flora, particularly fruit, while simultaneously exploring the impacts of slavery and colonization through the lens of economic botany. Fruit, while symbolising fertility, bounty, and wealth, has a troubled historical relationship with labour and class, especially in the Caribbean. At its core, the work is a long table reminiscent of a feast setting, laid with hand printed tablecloths, napkins, flowers, and piled with bone-white plaster fruits. On an adjacent wall, 13 historical lithographs from the British Museum depicting flowers, fruits, and Black people at work and at rest are on display.
How Could I Know If No One Ever Told Me / Callum McKenzie
Sept 2 - Oct 6
How Could I Know If No One Ever Told Me explores the frustrating and often ambiguous dysphoria of navigating the world as a queer ADHDer. Through their work, Callum McKenzie seeks to create an outlet for this dysphoria while holding space to embrace the confusion, contradictions and euphoria inherent in their neurodivergent queer experience.
SNAP Members Show and Sale
Dec 2 - 16