My Evil Twin is the third and final exhibition of the MacKenzie’s Mirror Series, which explores how mirrors, mirroring and doubles are used to perform a formal and cultural critique in contemporary art.
Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Vernon Ah Kee - Friday, September 11 at 7:30 pm
Vernon Ah Kee is a conceptual contemporary artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Born in North Queensland, Australia, Ah Kee is best known for his bold, ironic text work and large-scale portraits of family members. His work has most recently been included in the 2008 Biennale of Sydney and at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Ah Kee’s work speaks to the universal issues of racism, colonialism, suffering and the perseverance of Indigenous peoples. Featuring some of Ah Kee’s text-based works in addition to portrait-based drawings created in Regina during his residency at the MacKenzie Art Gallery from August 17 to September 4, 2009, Blow Your House In encourages visitors to draw connections between their community and the world at large.
Curated by Ann Davis. This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of Denise LaForge, J.F. Mackie & Co Ltd., Mike and Jane Anne Smith, Keith and Jayne Smith, Bob and Barb Shaunessy, The Forge Advisory Group at CIBC Wood Gundy, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the University of Calgary.
Calgary artist Ted Godwin is one of Canada’s most important senior artists. This exhibition, Ted Godwin: The Regina Five Years, 1957-1967, is a timely and detailed examination of the early years of his career. The late 1950s and the 1960s were a dynamic time in Regina, when a group of artists, later known as the Regina Five, challenged the status quo and conservatism of the time. They burst onto the national scene with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in 1961, and became part of a North American avant-guard movement, one no longer based solely in New York. As the youngest member of this group, Godwin achieved prominence at the age of 28.
Ted Godwin: The Regina Five Years, 1957 - 1967 and other exciting summer exhibitions opening soon!
This season brings an exciting new line-up of exhibitions to the MacKenzie!
Please note that our Gallery spaces will be closed between April 27 and May 8, 2009, for de-installation of Projections and the installation of our summer exhibitions. For more information about upcoming feature exhibition Ted Godwin: The Regina Five Years, 1957-1967, see Timothy Long's interview with Nick Miliokas in the April 30 edition of the Leader Post.
The Gallery Shop and Learning Centre will remain open as usual during this time. While you’re here, why not go on a free self-guided Sculpture Garden tour? Ask at the information desk or contact Nicolle at 584-4291 for more information.
Douglas Morton - Re: Surfacing
May 9, to September 6, 2009
Curated by MacKenzie Art Gallery Curatorial Intern, Erin Gee
What do cars, television, and abstract painting have in common? In the exhibition Re: Surfacing, I use this question as an entry point into a critical analysis of the work of Regina Five artist Douglas Morton. This show features paintings from the permanent collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, as well as paintings borrowed from local public and corporate collections.
Experience the work of some of Saskatchewan’s most skillful craftspeople.
Event: Playing with Dimensions Award Ceremony and Opening Reception Friday, June 19 at 7:00 p.m.
To link to the Saskatchewan Craft Council website, click here.
PLAYING WITH DIMENSIONS ITINERARY
Sask Craft Council Gallery - Saskatoon - Nov 27 - Jan 10, 2010
Craft Council of Newfoundland & Labrador Gallery - St. John's, NL - Feb/Mar 2010
Grand Couteau Heritage & Cultural Centre - Shaunavon, SK - Apr/May 2010
Chapel Gallery - North Battleford, SK - Jun/Jul 2010
Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre - Lloydminster, SK - Aug/Sep 2010
Organized by the Saskatchewan Craft Council with funding assistance from the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport
Projections: A major survey of projection-based works in Canada, 1964 - 2007
February 14 to April 26, 2009
Projections Opening Reception February 27, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Café Discussion: curator Barbara Fischer, will be interviewed by Carle Steel in the Agra Torchinsky Salon. Refreshments and cash bar.
Projections is the first major exhibition in Canada to focus on the rich history of experimentation with slide, film and video that characterizes contemporary art from the 1960s to present. The works in this exhibition exemplify why projection—using light, slides, film, video, and television—has become such a compelling medium.
Babylon + on + on is at the MacKenzie and available online
December 7, 2008 to January 25. 2009
New communications technology and a historic painting are the starting point for Regina new media artist Lee Henderson in this, the third of a series of interventions into the MacKenzie’s permanent collection.
The sound scape for Lee Henderson's Babylon + on + on is available online here.
Food, as we all know, is more than fodder – it defines our identity as much as our homes or hairstyles. Not surprisingly, artists continue to find the subject irresistible, especially when they cast an eye on the rituals of everyday life.
Join MacKenzie Head Curator, Timothy Long,
for a tour of For Emily on
Friday, July 24, 2009 at
7:00 p.m.
Over the course of the August long weekend, Regina will be a poetry hotspot as the annual meeting of the Emily Dickinson International Society takes place at the Hotel Saskatchewan. In conjunction with this meeting, the theme of which is “Emily Dickinson: Queen Without a Crown,” the MacKenzie Art Gallery will present For Emily, an exhibition featuring works from the Gallery's permanent collection.
To see the For Emily poster, click here. To download the For Emily exhibition handout, click here.
flux: University of Regina Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition
March 14 to April 12, 2009
A partnership between the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina.
flux features ten graduating students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts degree program:
Rosie Armistead, Jesse Goddard, Erin Gee, Rachel Ludlow, Jolene Mathes Lindsay Mitchell, Jamie Slawson, Ashley Tuchscherer, Amanda Walton, and Jialing Ye.
flux: Opening Reception
Friday, March 13, 2009. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. See the artwork of some of Regina’s newest emerging artists! Everyone Welcome and admission is free.
Guest Lecture: June 24, 2009 @ 7:45pm – Dr. Carmen Robertson “Smashing China: Resistance and Engagement in Dana Claxton’s Art.”For more information, click here.
Buffalo Bone China (1997) is an experimental video that metaphorically recalls First Nations peoples' loss of the buffalo and the historical use of buffalo bone to make fine china. Specifically the work refers to British colonial practices that resulted in the decimation of the buffalo, and the devastating effects upon First Nations people who relied heavily on the buffalo for their survival. Buffalo bones were gathered into huge piles on the prairie and some bones were exported to England to be used in the production of fine bone china.
By Michelle LaVallee, Assistant Curator, MacKenzie Art Gallery
When I think of the land, I think of place, of community, of our relationship and responsibility to it and to each other. How does the landscape affects our lives, how do we determine land use, and what is our sense of place in a multi-centered society?
What is certain is the power of the land to inspire and the continued interest of artists in representing it. Although depictions of the land are most commonly identified with landscape painting, the genre can be more broadly described as place-oriented art, a definition which encompasses a variety of mediums.
September 20, 2008 to January 18, 2009
Bob Boyer: His Life’s Work is the first major retrospective of Bob Boyer, a nationally and internationally renowned artist, art historian, curator and educator. Boyer’s influence is far-reaching and interwoven among the communities of art, education and culture. This touring exhibition and the accompanying publication are a celebration of the art, life and critical contribution of this influential artist. Sixty paintings in diverse media trace his career from 1968 to 2004.
In Double Space, the second exhibition of the Mirror Series, attention turns from literal mirrors and their representations to a more subtle form of mirroring: the doubling of space in side-by-side video projections. Featuring recent work by three Canadian artists—Romeo Gongora, Bettina Hoffmann and Rachelle Viader Knowles—the exhibition takes stock of an important direction in recent video installation work.
“Play dead” is one of the tricks performed by Minnie, the elephant star of internationally acclaimed artist Douglas Gordon’s mesmerizing three-channel video installation. The artist arranged to have the four-year-old Indian elephant brought to New York City’s spacious Gagosian Gallery from Connecticut. There, a professional film crew shot her as she carried out a series of tricks – play dead, stand still, walk around, back up, get up, and beg – on the command of her off-screen trainer.
University of Regina Master of Fine Arts Exhibitions: Laura Hargrave
October 11 to 26, 2008 A partnership between the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina
Feeling into Memory
My exhibition centres on the theme of memory loss and empathy. I trace a pathway between memory, imagination and embodiment, recalling my father’s struggles to cope with a diminishing memory. I use a method of figurative drawing in which I turn away from the paper, at times putting my own body into the stance I am visualizing. As part of my exhibition, I will be doing a drawing performance on a daily basis.
Balancing Voices reflects the multiplicity of voices assembled in this exhibition. A response to the Bob Boyer Retrospective currently on display, works of art from the MacKenzie Art Gallery’s permanent collection inspired student curators to fashion a dynamic exhibition that balances political, cultural and artistic voices with their own unique perspectives.
Image David Garneau Canadian Flag/Flower, 2005 Oil on Canvas 153.0 cm x 122.2 cm Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, purchased with the financial support of the Canadian Council for the Arts Acquisition Program.
A partnership between the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina.
University of Regina Master of Fine Arts Exhibitions: Loretta Paoli
November 3 to 16, 2008 A partnership between the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina
This Space of Translation is an interdisciplinary MFA thesis project in Visual Art and Linguistics based on Loretta Paoli’s research with her friend and collaborator, Hala Elkarib. This interactive media installation uses sound, video and mirrors to evoke a multi-layered space of translation, where ‘translation’ refers to linguistic, cultural, and geographic transformations, as well as dialectic relations between people.
Wally Dion and Allen Sapp opening reception on Friday, June 6, 2008 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wally Dion will lead a tour through the exhibition featuring his work.
Saskatoon artist Wally Dion is featured in a solo exhibition showcasing portraits from his Red Worker series and his new Starblankets. Dion uses the techniques of social realism to discuss First Nations class struggles in modern Saskatchewan life.
Wally Dion and Allen Sapp opening reception on Friday, June 6, 2008 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wally Dion will lead a tour through the exhibition featuring his work.
For over 50 years, the body of work produced by Allen Sapp has explored and celebrated the life, culture and daily activities of the Northern Plains Cree community. Avoiding pretense, stereotypes or staged events, he pulls images from the past and connects them with the present. His images recall community, family, particular moments in time — they are autobiographical memories.
University of Regina Master of Fine Arts Exhibitions: Barbara Meneley
November 22 to December 7, 2008 A partnership between the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina
The Idea Behind
A city may be planned as an ideal, as a two dimensional plan, but develops organically as citizens live within it, changing, affecting, altering and realtering the urban landscape.
Dimensions award ceremony and opening reception on Friday, June 13, 2008 beginning at 7 p.m. For more information on the awards, please contact the Saskatchewan Craft Council by calling (306) 653-3616.
Jurying for the Saskatchewan Craft Council’s (SCC) Dimensions – Growth 2008 exhibition took place from April 2 to 5. Approximately 150 pieces of Craft were entered into the province’s most prestigious Fine Craft exhibition. Thirty-five were selected for the touring show.
Opening reception and artist talk on Friday, May 2, 2008 beginning at 7:30 p.m.
To coincide with and complement the exhibition Captured: Portraiture and the Permanent Collection the MacKenzie Art Gallery has invited contemporary artist Kent Monkman to present an installation that redefines the roles, assumptions and politics of traditional portraiture by relating them to the narratives of contemporary artists.
Captured: Portraiture and the Permanent Collection
May 3 to September 7, 2008
We think of portraits as capturing a likeness, but is that all they capture? Drawing on works from the MacKenzie’s permanent collection, Captured: Portraiture and the Permanent Collection will create a dialogue examining the concept of portraiture through a survey of historical and contemporary portraiture by over 60 artists. Together with related exhibitions (Allen Sapp, Dorothy Knowles, Kent Monkman and Wally Dion) they will expand the concept of the portrait to include those of community, time, place,
history, memory, concept and consciousness.
Dorothy Knowles: Watercolour Portraits of Saskatchewan
May 3 to September 1, 2008
If the landscape of Saskatchewan were to have an official portrait artist, a leading candidate would have to be Dorothy Knowles. Few artists have spent as much time crisscrossing the face of the province capturing the varied aspects of the “land of living skies.” Like the artistic pioneers Augustus Kenderdine and Ernest Lindner, she has spent countless hours contemplating the lakes which sit like pocket mirrors amidst the forests of the north. And like her predecessors James Henderson and Inglis Sheldon-Williams, she has also taken to the plains of the south, surveying the grass and low bush contours of its coulees and bloughs.
Credited as one of the major artistic innovators of the 20th century, Warhol's fame spread well beyond painting and printmaking. Filmmaker, sculptor, author, collector, publisher, music producer, celebrity, and provocateur—Warhol understood and negotiated the ride of fame, a sophisticated arbiter and manipulator of popular culture and fashion.
The mirror in Edward Kienholz’s National Banjo on the Knee Week offers one of the most unsightly reflections in contemporary art: you, the viewer, as the head of a phantom, dysfunctional family.
Roctoc: Recent Acquisitions November 24, 2007 to January 6, 2008
A recently acquired print by Toronto artist Nobuo Kubota, Roctoc alludes to relations between technology and our environment. This humorous self-portrait of the artist in conversation with a rock creates a dialogue around seemingly conflicting notions of Western and Eastern relations with the natural world.
University of Regina Graduating Exhibition Master of Fine Arts: Judy Anderson
October 19, 2007 to November 18, 2007
Coyote’s Trick
Struggling to overcome her concerns of working with a spiritual theme Coyote played the ultimate trick resulting in this painting and installation exhibition.Here layered meaning results from the four directions and four circles converging on the heart of the show:a woman’s big drum.Used as a tool for bringing women together to heal and celebrate it represents the heartbeat of Mother Earth and those who sit at it.Relying on spirituality for its meaning the artwork ultimately asks whether you will sit down and join the circle to aid in the building of culture or be a passive or judgemental observer.
University of Regina Masters of Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition: Jennifer Delos Reyes
October 6, 2007 to October 21, 2007
Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance
October 11 to 13, 2007, Regina
three-day conference on art and social engagement directed by Jennifer Delos Reyes as her conclusion to her MFA program at the University of Regina.
Degrees of Dialogic: conversational art within the white cube
October 12, 2007
4:00-6:00 PM, MacKenzie Art Gallery
Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada. This project has been made possible in part through a contribution from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.
Over the past four decades, Joe Fafard has created a body of work that has found a permanent place in people’s hearts and minds. His work crosses the lines that typically divide our society: urban and rural, French and English, east and west, elite and popular. Regionally rooted yet universal, Fafard’s art has always advanced hand in hand with a serious engagement in the concerns of our community life. This exhibition and its accompanying publication are a celebration of the art, life and critical contribution of this influential artist.
An artist's engagement with the permanent collection by Sarah Abbott. Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the City of Regina Arts Commission.
The history of the art gallery, although not as long as the history of art, is long enough to have its own complexities. Art has been displayed in many places: in the long galleries of manor houses, where family portraits line up to look down on their progeny; in the private houses of wealthy collectors and patrons; in the fashionable yearly salons of the Academies at which the year’s artistic production was displayed and debated; in the temple-like precincts of the newly-formed museums of the nineteenth century; and in the modern white box we are all familiar with today. But throughout the art gallery’s history, art has always spoken and the gallery has provided a place for the conversation, whatever sort of conversation that may be.
After four decades of painting white on white, Ronald Bloore, one of Canada’s preeminent non-representational painters, has returned to colour. This exhibition presents works from the past decade-and-a-half, including fourteen recent oil paintings in which semi-geometric figures of pure and vibrant colour float against dark chocolate fields of oil-stained masonite.
Studio Series - "L'Agamine": Portrait of an Anagama Kiln in Saskatchewan
August 27 to November 13, 2005
Organized and circulated by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the generous support of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
This exhibition offers a change from the usual single-artist format of the Studio Series to present the work of a remarkable group of ceramic artists associated with a wood-fired kiln known affectionately as “L’Agamine.”
TELLING DETAILS: The Architecture of Clifford Wiens
May 26, 2007 to August 26, 2007
TELLING DETAILS goes beyond the ‘fashion show’ approach of some design exhibitions that rely solely on photographs, to also use textual explanations, video footage of the architect, original working drawings and stunning new scale models built expressly for this exhibition by the architect, to interpret and explain the ideas and principles implicit in his design work.
Drawing on works from the MacKenzie’s permanent collection, The Regina Five Plus reflects on the creative conjunction which brought together modernist art and architecture in Regina.
Historically landscape painting is linked to a highly politicized and tumultuous time — the industrial revolution. At precisely the time in European history when people were relinquishing their direct contact with the land, landscape painting emerged in Europe as a legitimate genre.
Mobile Structures: Dialogues Between Ceramics and Architecture in Canadian Art
January 27, 2007 to May 13, 2007
Organized by the MacKenzieArtGallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the City of Regina Arts Commission.
Lasting Impressions: Celebrated Works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton
January 13, 2007 to March 18, 2007
Lasting Impressions is organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario. The AGH gratefully acknowledges the support of the Museums Assistance Program, Scotia Private Client Group, ScotiaMcLeod Heritage and Pacific Arts Services.
Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the City of Regina Arts Commission.
Situation Comedy is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (iCI), New York. The exhibition was curated by Dominic Molon and Michael Rooks. The exhibition, tour and catalogue are made possible, in part, by grants from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, with additional support from the iCI International Associates and the iCI independents.
Organized by the MacKenzieArtGallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the City of Regina Arts Commission. Guest curated by Neal McLeod.
Presented by Scotiabank. Organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
The Sobey Art Award is Canada's pre-eminent prize for a young Canadian artist. Funded by the Sobey Art Foundation, it is awarded every two years to an artist 39 or younger who has shown their work in a public or commercial art gallery in Canada in the past 18 months. The winner of the award receives $50,000.
July 19, 2006 to September 24, 2006
Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board and City of Regina Arts Commission.
Da Vinci's Shadow: The High Realist Legacy in Canadian Art
May 6, 2006 to September 24, 2006
Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board and City of Regina Arts Commission.
What is the real legacy of Leonardo da Vinci for the generations that have followed? While writers from Sigmund Freud to Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) have attempted to decipher his work in hopes of revealing its mysteries to audiences in our era, the real meaning of his work still lies in the artistic revolution which he and his contemporaries initiated over 500 years ago. This exhibition looks at how the visual language of Leonardo and the High Renaissance continues to speak today through the work of Canadian high realists, including Alex Colville, Ken Danby, Robert Bateman, and Mary Pratt among others. Leonardo's intense interest in observation - whatever the anotomy of a bird's wing or the reflected colours in a shadow - is a common thread that runs through this exhibition, which is drawn from the collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery.
April 1 to July 9, 2006
Organized and circulated by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. The National tour of the exhibition has been made possible with the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, through its Museums Assistance Program.
Amid the Ruins: Contemporary Landscape Photography from the Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery
March 4, 2006 to July 9, 2006
Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board and City of Regina Arts Commission.
The Three Gorges Dam in China is a project of unparalleled scale, visable even from space. While promising to control flooding on the Yangtze River, the immediate effect of the project was to displace several million people. Whole cities were first evacuated and then dismantled, brick by brick, to make way for the dam. These government-created ruins were the subject of a recent series of photographs by Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky, one of which was recently purchased by the MacKenzie Art Gallery.
site reading: The University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada Faculty Show
December 10, 2005 to March 19, 2006
Every five years the MacKenzie Art Gallery has the privilege of presenting the works of the University of Regina Faculty to the larger Regina community. This exhibition brings together for the second time artists and theorists from Visual Art, Media, Production and Studios, and the First Nations University of Canada. With recurring allusions to place and identity, the exhibition situates both the viewer and the maker in a contemporary prairie context and engages the questions of how location and experience influence practice.
Recent Acquisitions: Faye HeavyShield - Aapaskaiyaawa (They Are Dancing)
November 26, 2005 to March 5, 2006
Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the City of Regina Arts Commission.
Regina Clay: Worlds in the Making
November 19, 2005 to February 26, 2006
Organized and circulated by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Clay is a paradoxical medium. Its history as a material for pottery is as old as mud, but as a medium for sculpture its lineage is no more ancient than the aluminum pop can. It can take any shape, mimic any material, but despite its versatility it has struggled to win the respect given to metal and stone. As a medium with too much and not enough history, with abundant promise but no esteem, it was very much like the place where it found an unexpected home in Canada during the 1960s and 1970s: the small prairie city of Regina, Saskatchewan.
The Calling Black Lake Exhibition and Educational Program were organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery in collaboration with the City of Regina, with the financial support of Government of Canada, through the Cultural Capitals of Canada, a program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Centennial Initiatives Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, and Centennial Funding through the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Masterworks of 19th Century French Realism from the National Gallery of Canada
September 10 to November 27, 2005
Organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada and supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canada Travelling Exhibitions Indemnification Program. Presented with the generous support of Dr. Jacqui Shumiatcher.
The MacKenzie Art Gallery once again welcomes to its walls some of the most celebrated paintings from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. The sixteen Realist canvases in this masterworks exhibition represent the reforming wave which transformed nineteenth-century French art: a revolution in how artists saw themselves and the world around them.
An Arctic Gathering Selections from the Williamson Collection of Inuit Sculpture recently donated to the MacKenzie Art Gallery
September 3, 2005 to November 27, 2005
Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, and City of Regina Arts Commission.
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