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Portfolio: weekly art listings

Portfolio: weekly art listings
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Caribou is just one of the large-scale and highly-detailed acrylic paintings on display for Edmonton artist Jenny Keith's exhibit Keep Them Safe in the Art Gallery of St. Albert's Vault Gallery. JENNY KEITH/Supplied

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Joanne Guthrie's Bird's Eye View: An Emanation of Perfection is the new exhibit in the main gallery space. The collection features 12 framed embroidery pieces on handmade paper artworks, six of which feature birds in trees. The rest feature delicately arranged flowers and foliage. Juxtaposing those are a collection of 13 complete welded metal sculptures representing the types of birds found in North America. Until Saturday, April 2.

25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave. 780-460-5990 and vasa-art.com

Art Gallery of St. Albert

Julya Hajnoczky's Refugium is the new exhibit on display in the gallery’s main exhibition space. It presents photographs and sculptures that highlight the consequences of industrial human civilization: catastrophic habitat fragmentation and species loss. Hajnoczky’s photographs feature floating islands of plants, fungus, and insects that are suspended in a void. The works direct our gaze to the overlooked life found at our feet. Until Saturday, March 19. 

Raven’s Tales is artist Rick Wolcott's take on four tales featuring the ever-charismatic trickster and teacher Raven for the new exhibit in the Feature Staircase Gallery. Each carving shares a different aspect of Raven and his influence on the world. Until May 7. Virtual tour with the curator will take place on March 16 at noon. Register via Eventbrite at artgalleryofstalbert.ca.

Keep Them Safe by Edmonton’s Jenny Keith is the new exhibit in the Feature Vault Gallery. Three large-scale and highly-detailed paintings showcase three endangered Alberta animals: a woodland caribou, a grizzly bear, and a whooping crane. The works highlight the complex and intertwined relationships that animals, plants, and insects share within their ecosystems. Keith meticulously and exhaustively researched every facet of her subjects, including their habitats, ranges, and diets, as well as the other creatures and plants of those habitats. Virtual tours with curator Emily Baker at noon on both Thursday, March 17 and Friday, April 1. Until Saturday, April 16.       

19 Perron St., 780-460-4310; artgalleryofstalbert.ca

St. Albert Public Library

Art in the Library is a monthly art display featuring works by members of the St. Albert Painters Guild. Look for works by artists Lyn Propp and Laurena Beirnes on the walls this month. Until Tuesday, April 5.

5 St. Anne St. (in St. Albert Place). 780-459-1530; sapl.ca

St. Albert Seniors Association

The St. Albert Photography Club has a rotating selection of artistic photographs on display in the foyer area of Red Willow Place. The latest exhibit of works will be up until Tuesday, May 3.

7 Taché St. stalbertphotoclub.com

Stanley Milner Library

Isolation is a new exhibit of works created by artists during, and in response to, the COVID-19 pandemic. VASA artist Suzan Berwald has three works from her Nesting series in the exhibition. The artworks can be viewed in the Reading Room on the second floor of the library. Until March 26.

7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq. in Edmonton. 780-496-7070; epl.ca 

Events

Colour Scheme is a rotating monthly online art gallery featuring selected works by students of Bellerose, Paul Kane, and St. Albert Catholic high schools. Each month of the school year, several pieces from each school will be highlighted on The Gazette’s website at www.stalberttoday.ca on the last Saturday of the month. The most recent exhibit focusing on the colour magenta was posted on Saturday, Feb. 26.


Scott Hayes, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

About the Author: Scott Hayes, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Ecology and Environment Reporter at the Fitzhugh Newspaper since July 2022 under Local Journalism Initiative funding provided by News Media Canada.
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