Past Incidental Folds May 21 - Jun 28, 2020 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... See Details
Past Horizon Line/Base Line Mar 14 - Apr 25, 2020 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... See Details
Past Residual Assets (skipped steps) Mar 13 - Apr 25, 2020 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... See Details
Past SNAP Members Show & Sale 2019 Nov 23 - Dec 14, 2019 Get prints. Give prints. Curious to see what artists are making in our Printshop? Looking for that perfect gift? Want to deck your halls or spruce up your walls? You’re in luck: the SNAP Members Show & Sale is as... See Details
Past The Rest and the Void Oct 11 - Nov 16, 2019 "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... See Details
Past Affective Bodies Oct 11 - Nov 16, 2019 "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... See Details
Past SMILING PILE Aug 23 - Sep 28, 2019 "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... See Details
Past Microbial Aura Aug 23 - Sep 28, 2019 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... See Details
Past Doppelgängers Jul 5 - Aug 10, 2019 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... See Details
Past Costume Jewelry Jul 5 - Aug 10, 2019 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... See Details
Past Layering Light May 17 - Jun 22, 2019 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... See Details
Past In the Absence of Knowing May 17 - Jun 22, 2019 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... See Details
Past Air Bags May 17 - Jun 22, 2019 On display in the SNAP Printshop window on Jasper Avenue. See Details
Past Faulty Poetics May 3 - May 11, 2019 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... See Details
Past Faulty Poetics Portfolio Apr 30 - May 11, 2019 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. See Details
Past Coping Mechanisms Mar 22 - Apr 27, 2019 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... See Details
Past Insincere Comforts Mar 22 - Apr 27, 2019 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... See Details
Past from a dark garden— Feb 1 - Mar 9, 2019 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... See Details