Gallery Archive

We Live in a Packaged World. Artist Statement: I’ve spent a lot of time asking questions about the corporate world and the mistrust surrounding it. Beginning as a printmaker in art school, I now work as a graphic designer, where...

Artist Statement: Our meaningful interactions within the realm of the Other define and develop who we are as social and cultural individuals. Other refers to everything peripheral to one’s self, self being who we are as developed through our personal,...

In February Rebecca Beardmore will be a visiting artist at The University of Alberta and SNAP is excited to present her newest body of work The Complacency of Seeing in the Community Gallery. Beardmore will be showing 12 new works on paper,...

SNAP‘s first exhibition of of 2013 is BIMPE VII, the Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, hailing from New Leaf Editions in Vancouver. This traveling juried exhibition of over 400 works showcases miniature prints measuring less than 15 cm x 20 cm....

Artist Statement: What is the shape of the universe? This question attracted me in early childhood. When a little girl drew the picture, it sometimes took the shape of a single cluster of grapes hanging from the vine, and at...

To commemorate our 30 year history as an artist-run centre dedicated to the proliferation of printmaking SNAP has commissioned a portfolio of 30 prints by local, national and international print artists. The portfolio features work from various individuals who’ve played a vital...

Over 25 inspiring stories of citizenship documented by the project will be showcased in film, photographs and mixed media. Special guests, Mayor Stephen Mandel and Associate Minister Frank Oberle will be in attendance. This exhibition showcases citizenship stories documented through...

The Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists (SNAP) has promoted the creation and display of contemporary print art and the experimentation of new, emerging techniques since the opening of its first print shop in Edmonton’s Great West Saddlery Building. SNAP Gallery highlights artists...

Curatorial Statement: Locating Spirituality simultaneously acts as a retrospective of SNAP’s archival collection as well as an introspective display of the spaces depicted by artists working at SNAP over the past thirty years. Using an assortment of technical methods, these prints capture spaces...

Artist Statement: The Sunny Side of Edmonton is a celebration of landmarks and the emotions that they evoke about the place that we call home. Our climate goes through some extreme changes in season, which can produce a very cyclical...

Artists' Statement: Micropolis 2.0 explores urban life and the relationships between people and large cities. This enchanted universe made out of silkscreen cutouts and digital prints is intended to convey a sense of wonder, awe and contemplation. Looking though the...

The Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists (SNAP) is pleased to present the graduating exhibition of the 2012 class of the University of Alberta Printmaking Department. Opening May 26th is “Walking on Walls”, the seventh annual senior print exhibition held...

Artist Statement: Originally from Saskatchewan and residing in Montréal for nearly twenty years, I am an illustrator and a self-taught screenprinter. Since 2004 I have run Bree,ree, a small scale print studio. Photography, illustration, collage, stencil and letterpress have all...

Artist Statement: This body of work is a visual narrative of exploration and discovery between and within the two worlds of science and art. Each print has its genesis in the anatomy of specimens preserved in the University of Alberta...

The Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP) is pleased to announce the opening of Oh…Know, the first in a series of exhibitions and events that will celebrate SNAP’s 30th anniversary. Oh…Know is a dynamic exhibition featuring the work of two of SNAP's...

Artist Statement: As an artist I explore our constructions of everyday environments and events, and the nature of human dynamics that evolve within, around and throughout them. My work addresses seemingly mundane spaces and activities as physical constructions that reinforce...

In 1953, Belgian artist Rene Magritte painted versions of an image titled, “Golconda” (translates as “Mine of Wealth”), that depicted male figures (presumably modeled on his own typical alter-ego self) floating in space on three planes of foreground, mid-ground and...