Gallery Archive

Andrew Testa SNAP is pleased to present over and over, again and again, an exhibition by Andrew Testa, in the gallery from June 12 to July 17, 2021. "In this body of work, I pose and begin to respond to...

Presenting UNREALITY NOW, a virtual exhibition featuring new works by students in the 2021 University of Alberta senior printmaking class. The exhibition features both print and digital projects created by students in the past months. Print works by the students...

You see what you don’t see explores beliefs that influence our perception of value. The work surveys how an environmental space contains assumptions that are embedded in the fabric of that built environment. Thus objects in our world take on...

MACROMAREAL (a rising tide lifts all boats) approaches the tidal range of the Bay of Fundy and its documentation in tide tables and real data through a series of interrelated works that explore ways of understanding natural processes, and our...

Through her book artist’s practice (Penrose Press) Brianna Tosswill navigates collaborative book-making, and stretches her viewers/readers’ notions of what a book looks, smells, and feels like, as well as how it can be read. She has created scrolls to eliminate...

"Two years ago while searching for images relevant to my painting practice, I came across the Alberta Hunting Addicts forum on facebook. I had assumed with joining this online community that I would use it solely as an image source...

"Hauntology suggests that our perception of the future is only conceivable by acting in retrospect to the past.1 My work presents a hypothetical future in which reality and virtual reality haunt each other in one simultaneous space. This future holds no...

This year’s print exchange invited artists to engage with the ways that everyday life has been disrupted by the global pandemic, and to use this disruption to create small print editions at home. In Place had artists considering ideas of...

This exhibition celebrates the fruits of a year of self-directed studio and academic research by ten undergraduate senior level printmaking students, and three first-year graduate students in the Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta. Incidental Folds features a...

This body of work stems from an interest in the geometry of letterforms and design associated with typography. Through Print, my aim is to ponder and investigate the architectural sensibility of letterforms. In the graphic alphabetic system that we predominantly...

Residual Assets (skipped steps) is distilled from experience of place intertwined with consideration of the complex histories of land, objects, and materials. Referencing historical events, significant sites, and objects, the images and materials in Pinheiro’s work become vessels that record her...

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"The Rest and the Void is an immersive installation composed of large scale black and white woodcuts that reflect the changing city environment; disjointed, fragmented, and under construction. More specifically, the installation considers the evolving landscape of urban areas, the...

"The internal landscape of the body is a complicated space. Through their work, LeeAnne represents the layers of scars and wounds inflicted upon our psyche as a result of trauma and time. They draw upon their own experience with mental...

"Primarily working in screen printing and lithography, I contemplate the ways Canadian history and contemporary society are fabricated through master narratives and nationalistic storytelling. Conducting field work within tourist spaces and large group events has become my entry point into...

Microbial Aura is a series of prints exploring the human micro-biome. This work is an investigation of how a microbial cloud follows us everywhere we go in our everyday existence. This is at once terrifying and revolting but also astounding and exactly why cellular...

People are evidenced on paper throughout their homes and across their personal and professional lives. We keep paper intentionally and as the result of laziness – not wanting to cull piles and undertake the work of sorting the necessary from...

The exhibition Costume Jewelry utilizes large format analog photography to depict highly constructed scenes made up of found and sculpted objects. Questioning the notion that photography is an objective medium, this work portrays simulated or impossible forms with implied motion...