Past Last Resort Aug 11 - Sep 9, 2017 In an ongoing quest to be near bodies of water, these images were gathered over the last three years. Locations of shoots varied between a set of neglected Alberta lakes and sulfurous streams of roadside debris. Shot through water, the... See Details
Past Monument: Coding a Woodcut Jun 22 - Jul 29, 2017 This project is a collaboration between printmaker Beth Howe and digital media artist and programmer, Clive McCarthy. Howe and McCarthy developed custom software to cut large-scale photographic woodcuts of monumental infrastructure and landscape features using a CNC milling machine. The woodcuts are... See Details
Past Fractures Jun 22 - Jul 29, 2017 This exhibition of photographs explores the complex duality that exists in Edmonton as a result of dynamic levels of marginalization and separation. Utilizing a process of photographic manipulation, these images reflect the challenge of questioning the dual nature of existence... See Details
Past Influence May 4 - Jun 10, 2017 This exhibition presents recent work by Nova Scotia-based artist Ericka Walker. Her large-scale multi-colour lithographs draw on the vibrant history of propaganda, printed ephemera, and advertising from twentieth century Europe and North America, exposing nostalgia as an ongoing rhetorical device... See Details
Past Sahtuót’ine: Stories from Deline Elders May 4 - Jun 10, 2017 The act of storytelling is an act of Indigenous resistance, decolonization, and reclamation. We have a responsibility to hold on to our traditional knowledge. This series of screen prints are stories from the Deline of the Northwest Territories. As a... See Details
Past The Formalist’s Library Mar 16 - Apr 22, 2017 In The Formalist’s Library, Jason Urban meditates on the structure of the traditional brick-and-mortar library as a vehicle for delivering information as a we move from the physical to physible. The Formalist’s Library is an ongoing series exploring various aspects of... See Details
Past Great White North Mar 16 - Apr 22, 2017 In our contemporary moment, our cultural landscapes are largely dominated by varying forms of capitalist exchange. There exists little to no separation between experience and consumption, sincerity and farce, and authenticity has been distorted into something that can be photographed... See Details
Past Instigators Feb 2 - Mar 4, 2017 Instigators by Guillermo Trejo will feature a series of posters depicting quotes from Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre, Kerouac, Buda, and others paired with iconic images from protest and social resistance. The result of the combination is an uncannily appropriate protest poster... See Details
Past RE: How Many Reasons Do You Need? Feb 2 - Mar 4, 2017 Marie’s practice is often driven by her desire to overcome shame through as many facets as possible. Whether she is repurposing discarded industrial materials that denote the artist’s shame, or advertising her Shame Hotline, Marie hopes to communicate a more... See Details
Past BIMPE IX Jan 7 - Jan 21, 2017 SNAP Gallery invites members and guests to BIMPE IX The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition. BIMPE IX, the 9th annual international mini-print biennial, is produced by New Leaf Editions in Vancouver BC. BIMPE is held every two years and travels to Edmonton, AB, and Kelowna,... See Details
Past SNAP Members Show & Sale Dec 3 - Dec 17, 2016 SNAP invites all to attend the 2016 Member’s Show and Sale. Print Affair, our Annual Fundraising Christmas Gala will open our 2016 Members Show and Sale. We are pleased to present the work of SNAP Members available for sale to the... See Details
Past A Modern Cult of Monuments Oct 14 - Nov 26, 2016 Why is our first instinct to polish the concrete and grind off the rust, effectively cleansing a space of its industrial heritage? A Modern Cult of Monuments attempts to grapple with this question by considering planned obsolescence and the nature... See Details
Past To Do: Oct 14 - Nov 26, 2016 SNAP invites members and guests to Graeme Dearden's exhibition To Do:. The exhibition interrogates his “intrigue with why people, including himself, make objects and how the methods they use convey their personal history.” Dearden’s work is created through the use of written notes... See Details
Past The Garden of Earthly Delights Aug 25 - Oct 8, 2016 SNAP invites members and guests to The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Juan Ortiz-apuy. The Garden of Earthly Delights is a sculptural installation exploring advertising and commodity fetishism, specifically how ideas of animism are encoded in the way that objects are... See Details
Past Retrograde Aug 25 - Oct 8, 2016 SNAP invites members and guests to experience Retrograde by Edmonton based artist Jill Ho-you. Through hybrid printmaking and bioart, Retrograde explores the aftermath of the Anthropocene if changes in climate, biodiversity, and sustainability reach their predicted negative climax. Exploring what remains... See Details
Past Connections Aug 4 - Aug 20, 2016 SNAP invites members and guests to Connections an exhibition of the combined efforts of two artist run centres: PrintMatters (Houston,TX) and SNAP (Edmonton, AB). Featuring a total of twenty four print-artists (twelve from each print-shop), Connections provides a chance to see a wide... See Details
Past Return to Sender Aug 4 - Aug 20, 2016 SNAP invites members and guests to celebrate and experience the 2016 SNAP Members Print Exchange. A perfect chance to see the portfolio in full! This portfolio of twenty eight artists marks the second instalment of the annual SNAP Members Print Exchange. An edition of eight... See Details
Past ExChanged Jun 23 - Jul 30, 2016 SNAP invites members and guests to Carolyn Mount’s ExChanged. In this work the artist visualizes and represents the social experience in material form through creating a moment of trade economy at which her prints play a central role. Mount’s current abstract... See Details