Gallery Archive

In Layering Light I have assembled a series of portraits that embody qualities of light and colour utilizing reflection and depth of field to construct fictitious environments. Persian miniatures, with their intense colour, texture, form and precarious application of composition...

This exhibition explores the theme of sensed tension within liminal space. Memory, story, object, natural, and manmade environments inform narrative within the work, considering the ways in which experience poses juxtapositions.         "I would like to acknowledge...

SNAP invites members & guests to the opening reception of Faulty Poetics, Friday, May 3rd from 7-9 pm. On at SNAP Gallery from Friday, May 3rd - Saturday, May 11th 2019. This exhibition is a result of one year’s worth of...

An exhibition of prints made for the Faulty Poetics portfolio exchange by University of Alberta students and staff. On display in the SNAP Printshop window on Jasper Avenue.

Through the consideration of traumatic experience as unrelenting, Leier presents Coping Mechanisms, an exhibition that draws the eye both downward and toward. One may find themselves looking down, embodying a mechanism unconsciously practiced to avoid confrontation. Another may find themselves...

Identifying as a collector her entire life, Tamara documents the process, deconstruction, and liberation from what she describes as her Insincere Comforts. Tamara intends to recontextualize coping mechanisms, insecurities that come with learned behaviours and survival mechanisms. Through presenting her...

From a dark garden comes a dark seeing—a dark growth of things underneath our everyday attention. Roots, dug up from the garden after a winter’s thaw. Images of light which linger in the eye, after the eye is closed. Combining...

Land in the Veins surveys the landscape of open skies and industry, flag-shipped by the evocative poetry of Mary Pinkoski. Alyson Davies’ cyanotype work is influenced by the sights and history of the local landscape. Her prints feature environments familiar...

SNAP Gallery invites members and guests to BIMPE X The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition. About BIMPE X BIMPE X is the tenth iteration of the traveling exhibition, which showcases small scale works measuring no more than 8 ½" x 11," and is...

This year, we are starting our annual Members Show & Sale in our Printshop space at 12056 Jasper Ave. It will be on display there from November 17-December 1. We will move it to SNAP Gallery (10123 121 St.) with...

What happens when two artists discover they have created works from the exact same inspiration? Leonardo da Vinci’s paper cartoon c 1509-10, Dissection of the principal organs and arterial system of a woman 1 (also known as the Great Lady),...

This work serves as a reflection on youth, identity, memory, and gender. Portraits of male youths drawn using the artist’s high school yearbook as source material are combined with traditionally feminine imagery. In entangling the images of these young men/boys...

Beginning with the idea of erasure as language, I concentrate on the use of processes that are reductive in nature to create my work. Any form of erasure, however violently destructive, can be seen as constructive in some way; something...

What began as unfamiliar, Selvage documents the process of learning textile and craft techniques through the artist’s gendered inexperience. As a tactile, print installation, this series investigates the meanings of fabrics in varied forms - selvages, scraps, previously owned materials,...

Doilies the meaning of life presents a series of relief prints that recombine recycled and collected textiles as assemblages to explore interiors, objects, and iconography as subject matter. Like a storybook, the relief prints form a narrative about a woman in...

Construct is an exhibition of new works by SNAP's 2017 Emerging Artist in Residence, Carly Greene. Memory is built in pieces: assembled layer upon layer, each piece leading to others until we reach a sense of completeness, a progression of time....

This year, we are starting our annual Members Show & Sale in our Printshop space at 12056 Jasper Ave. It will be on display there from November 17-December 1. We will move it to SNAP Gallery (10123 121 St.) with...