Current Issue
September 2008
JOEL PLASKETT / Winchester Galleries
GARY PEARSON / Kamloops Art Gallery
MICHAEL DAILEY / Hallie Ford Museum of Art
TIM LEE / Presentation House Gallery
INSPIRING IMPRESSIONISM / Seattle Art Museum
June 2008
DONKEY@NINJA@WITCH / Contemporary Art Gallery
KRAZY! / Vancouver Art Gallery
GEOFFREY JAMES / TrepanierBaer
THE DANCER / Portland Art Museum
LINO TAGLIAPIETRA / Museum of Glass
April 2008
TRUTH BEAUTY: PICTORIALISM / Vancouver Art Gallery
MONT ST. MICHEL / G. Gibson Gallery
THE DATING PORTFOLIO / SFU Gallery
J.C. HEYWOOD / Burnaby Art Gallery
JOHN FRANKLIN KOENIG / Whatcom Museum
February 2008
MICHAEL BROPHY / Laura Russo Gallery
NEXUS / Kelowna Art Gallery
DONNA BALMA / Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
ROY ARDEN / Vancouver Art Gallery
ROMAN ART / Seattle Art Museum
November 2007
CHRISTINE DAVIS / Presentation House Gallery
DOUG BIDEN / Burnaby Art Gallery
JOE FAFARD / Douglas Udell Gallery
GEORGE JOHANSON / Hallie Ford Museum of Art
DING Q, LÊ / Bellevue Arts Museum
September 2007
REMBRANDT AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF DUTCH ART / Portland Art Museum
WIM BLOM: PAINTINGS 2004 / Ian Tan Gallery
GEORGIA O'KEEFE / Vancouver Art Gallery
MARIANNA SCHMIDT / Evergreen Cultural Centre
8TH NORTHWEST BIENNIAL EXHIBITION / Tacoma Art Museum
June 2007
VANCOUVER ART & ECONOMIES / Arsenal Pulp Press
ANXIOUS OBJECTS: WILLIE COLE / Frye Art Museum
HOUSE OF ORACLES: HUANG YONG PIN / Vancouver Art Gallery
KINDERTOTENTANZ / David Haughton
ROAD RUNNER / Kelowna Art Gallery
April 2007
FRED HERZOG / Vancouver Art Gallery
JOHN DIVOLA / G. Gibson Gallery
TOTEMS TO TURQUOISE / Vancouver Museum
SHERRY KARVER / Lisa Harris Gallery
BARBARA McGILL BALFOUR / Richmond Art Gallery
February 2007
NEW LEIPZIG PAINTINGS / Frye Art Museum
JAPANESE ZEN PAINTINGS / Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
PAINT: A PSYCHEDELIC PRIMER / Vancouver Art Gallery
THE DECOR PROJECT / Western Front Gallery
DALE CHIHULY / Diane Farris Gallery
November 2006
VIK MUNIZ / Seattle Asian Art Museum
FRANK BOYDEN / Hallie Ford Museum
Buschlen Mowat Gallery
ARTHUR ERICKSON / Vancouver Art Galler
SHIWAN CERAMIC SCULPTURE / Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
September 2006
SIGRID SANDSTRÖM / Frye Museum
T:BA:06 / Portland Art Institute
RAVEN TRAVELLING / Vancouver Art Gallery
HANS-PETER FELDMANN / Contemporary Art Gallery
GUNILLA JOSEPHSON / Southern Alberta Art Gallery
June 2006
UNFINISHED BUSINESS / Presentation House Gallery
LANDMARKS / Kelowna Art Gallery
THE ARID EDGE OF EARTH / Diane Farris Gallery
CHINA TRADE / Centre A
BILL JACOBSON: PHOTOGRAPHY / G. Gibson Gallery
April 2006
BOBBY BURGERS / Foster White Gallery
ENN ERISALU / Atelier Gallery
EVAN LEE / Presentation House Gallery
BRIAN JUNGEN / Vancouver Art Gallery
CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY PAINTING / Seattle Asian Art Museum
February 2006
MANAWA: PACIFIC HEARTBEAT / Spirit Wrestler Gallery
THE POETICS OF WEST COAST MODERNISM IN WEST VANCOUVER / Ferry Building
THE RICHMOND ART GALLERY: 25 YEARS / Richmond Art Gallery
LOOKING FORWARD, GLANCING BACK / Bellevue Arts Museum
THE ORCHID PAVILION GATHERING / Seattle Art Museum
A BRUSH WITH LIFE / Diane Farris Gallery
November 2005
STEPHEN SHORE / Presentation Housse Gallery
FRANK OKADA / Museum of Northwest Art
EVEN DIENER / Evergreen Cultural Centre
TAKAO TANABE / Vancouver Art Gallery
GELAM NGUZU KAZI / Alcheringa Gallery
September 2005
CHARLES E. HEANEY / Hallie Ford Museum of Art
VESSA PERUNOVICH / Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery
PEOPLE OF THE RIVER / Portland Art Museum
GENERAL IDEA / Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
JIM BREUKELMAN / State Gallery
June 2005
MICHAEL BROPHY / Hallie Ford Museum of Art
CAPE DORSET SCULPTURE / Spirit Wrestler Gallery
WAKING DREAMS / Portland Art Museum
RODNEY GRAHAM / Vancouver Art Gallery
AKBAR NAZEMI / Presentation House Gallery
April 2005
VIETNAM NOW / Billy King Showroom
JOSEPH PARK / Frye Art Museum
THE BOW / Glenbow Museum
CLAUDIA BECK
& ANDREW GRUFT / Vancouver Art Gallery
CHILDE HASSAM / Portland Art Museum
February 2005
DOUGLAS CURRAN / Presentation House Gallery
AMELIA ALCOCK-WHITE / Simon Patrich Gallery
SPHERE / Presentation Gallery
BEAUTY QUEENS / Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
COINCIDENT / Artspeak
November 2004
ATSUKO TANAKA / Morris and Henry Belkin Art Gallery
MASSIVE CHANGE / Vancouver Art Gallery
H.G. COX / Presentation House Gallery
FRED STRICKLAND / Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery
ALLUVION / Campbell River & District Public Art Gallery
September 2004
ALLYSON CLAY / Walter Phillips Gallery
BONIFACHO / Bau-Xi
ROBERT DAVIDSON / Museum of Anthropology
RAU COLLECTION / Portland Art Museum
T:BA:04 / Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
June 2004
OPEN SPACES / Buschlen Mowat Galleries
THINKING TEXTILE / Richmond Art Gallery
THE FIFTH ELEMENT / AION Art Gallery
ALFRED CURRIER: IMPASTO / University of Washington
LANDSCAPE & MEMORY: SIX OKANAGAN ARTISTS / The Art Ark Gallery
THE FABERGÉ MENAGERIE / Portland Art Museum
WILLIAM ALLISTER & DONNA BASPALY / Kurbatoff Galler
February 2004
BAJA TO VANCOUVER / Vancouver Art Gallery
JOHN COLE / Lisa Harris Gallery
HOT CLAY / Surrey Art Gallery
VISION AND FORM: INUIT ART / Marion Scott Gallery
KOREAN CONTEMPORARY ART / Cascata Gallery
November 2003
KIWI SPIRIT CONNECTIONS / Spirit Wrestler Gallery
SAM COLLECTS: CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECT / Seattle Art Museum
GORDON SMITH / Equinox Gallery
FREQUENT STOPS: JACK JEFFREY / ArtSpeak Gallery
CONSCIOUSNESS: SHYH-CHARNG LO / Art Beatus Gallery
September 2003
PLOT / Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
SLIPPAGE / Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
GROUP OF SEVEN IN WESTERN CANADA / Glenbow Museum, Calgary
FOR THE RECORD: DRAWING CONTEMPORARY LIFE / Vancouver Art Gallery
WHAT'S WRONG? WHAT'S RIGHT: AGAINST CENSORSHIP / Arsenal Press
April 2003
MALCOLM CURTIS ROSS / Waterworks Gallery, San Juan, WA
STEPHEN ANDREWS: LIKENESS / Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Vancouver Street Photographs / Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver
STAN DOUGLAS / Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
September 2002
ELSPETH PRATT | LISA ROBERTSON / Artspeak, Vancouver
ALL AMAZED: FOR ROY KIYOOKA / Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver
RENEE VAN HELM / Contemporary Art Gallery
CLAYTON JAMES / Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
VICKEY MARSHALL / Art Gallery at Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC
June 2002
KEVIN RODGERS | DEREK SULLIVAN / Artspeak, Vancouver
LINO TAGLIAPETRA / William Traver Gallery, Seattle
RICK BARTOW / Hallie Ford Museum, Salem
ARNI HARALDSSON / Contemporary Art Gallery
MARK SPENCER / Frye Art Museum, Seattle
April 2002
KYOZON / Kamloops Art Gallery
BRIAN JUNGEN / Contemporary Art Gallery
STUFF OF DREAMS / Portland Art Gallery
ARNI HARALDSSON / Contemporary Art Gallery
THE UNCANNY: EXPERIMENTS IN CYBORG CULTURE / Vancouver Art Gallery
WHAT IS A TRADE? DONALD FELS AND SIGNBOARD PAINTERS OF SOUTH INDIA is an insightful catalogue that explores an exhibition on view at the Tacoma Art Museum until January 18. Fels travelled to India and collaborated with local billboard painters whose trade recently has recently been displaced by digital technologies. The provocative text examines the effects of globalization, presents a multitude of examples from the exhibition, and provides explanations of individual works. The book includes essays by curators and scholars as well as commentaries by Donald Fels.
MANDY GREER: DARE ALLA LUCE was published as a catalogue for the Bellevue Arts Museum exhibit earlier this year. The monograph traces the last decade of the diverse and sensual mixed-media work by this Seattle-based artist through a series of exhibit images, close-up shots and essays by the Museum’s curators. It documents Greer’s largest installation work to date, conceived for this show, and highlights details of her braiding, beading and other techniques. A chronology, biography and exhibition checklist are included.
SCULPTURE WOODS: STUDIO GROUNDS OF ANN MORRIS (Museum of Northwest Art 2008) is a 144-page book that traces Morris' artistic development from her earliest work in two dimensions through her monumental figurative bronzes to her current series entitled Bone Journey. Morris has created an extraordinary 15-acre bronze park called Sculpture Woods on Lummi Island in north Puget Sound. Essays by Ted Lindberg and Jake Seniuk describe her artistic development and images include pictures of the 16 massive sculptural tableaux in the park.
DOMESTIC VACATIONS is a large hardcover book that presents the work of Missouri artist Julie Blackmon, a mother of three and an extraordinary photographer. The book contains full-page colour vignettes of children, pets, toys and the disarray of rooms where children live and play. The photos embrace the everyday with wit and charm and simultaneously move into the surreal and dreamlike with their amazing compositions and narratives. Described as “rich and playful, with an undercurrent of stress and dysfunction”, Blackmon’s work is endlessly rich and insightful.
FIFTEEN RESTLESS NIGHTS by Derek Michael Besant is a startling small volume of solarized photographs and short stories. The exhibit at the Kelowna Art Gallery, curated by Liz Wylie, combined mixed-media and sound elements in a visual/aural record of Besant’s 15 nights driving across Canada and staying in budget motels. The black and white images of unmade beds provide a captivating backbone to the brief anecdotal fiction.