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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Land in the Veins

Feb 1 - Mar 9, 2019
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...

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BIMPE X

Jan 5 - Jan 19, 2019
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...

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SNAP Members Show & Sale

Nov 17 - Dec 15, 2018
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...

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Brains and Breasts: Omitted Anatomies

Nov 2 - Dec 1, 2018
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),...

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Guys I went to High School with

Nov 2 - Dec 1, 2018
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...

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Aplacados – entre cascos percutidos y bardas

Sep 21 - Oct 20, 2018
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...

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Selvage

Sep 21 - Oct 20, 2018
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,...

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Doilies the meaning of life

Aug 3 - Sep 8, 2018
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...

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Construct

Aug 3 - Sep 8, 2018
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....

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SNAP Members Show & Sale

Jun 15 - Dec 15, 2018
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...

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Home and Garden

Jun 15 - Jul 21, 2018
Artist Micheline Durocher says about her work: "In my photos I embrace the inherent theatricality of objects. Banal objects and consumer goods appear both as props and actors. I have this passion for objects. I am an active scavenger of...

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Copy Tropic

Jun 15 - Jul 21, 2018
Copy Tropic is a search for love, belonging, & mutual ownership in six acts. A two-dimensional theatrical journey, plants drawn from second-hand memory are objects of affection and guides in pursuit of reciprocal affection from The Place You Belong To. 1....

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India Inked

Apr 27 - Jun 2, 2018
Curatorial Statement: It all started in 2011 when Nirmal Raja and her artist and friend Dara Larson did a short residency at a print shop in Hyderabad, India. This little print shop called Banyan Hearts is an oasis in the...

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FELT

Apr 10 - Apr 21, 2018
SNAP invites members & guests to the opening reception of FELT – April 13, 7–9 pm This exhibition represents the culmination of a year of self-directed studio and academic research by eleven undergrad senior level printmaking students, and two first-year graduate students in...

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