There are a cornucopia of art exhibit art openings this week. On Friday, the University of Lethbridge features Concertino — a selection of work from the University of Lethbridge art collection which explore various aspects of music including concert halls, dance halls, orchestras.
There will be a variety of pieces from Claus Oldenburg, Raoul Dufy, Andy Warhol, Berenice Abbott, Tony Urquhart, Allen Sapp and many others. they are in the Helen Christou Gallery. Downstairs in the main gallery will be the annual curated student’s exhibition. The opening reception is 8-10 p.m., march 9. Curator Dawn Cain has chosen some of the best of the university’s undergraduate student works from the past year. The exhibition gives the students professional experience and showcases their best work.
Dawn Cain has been the curator of BMO Financial Group’s Corporate Art Collection since 2003. Cain was formerly Curator of the Malcove Collection at the University of Toronto, where she also taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in art history from 1997 to 2006. In addition to her curatorial responsibilities for BMO's art collection, which include proposing installations for the BMO Project Room, Cain developed, organizes and administers the BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition and curates the annual 1st Art! exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA).
The Bowman features two new exhibitions featuring Lethbridge artists Christie Gray Leila Armstrong.
The Trianon Gallery also has an exhibit.
Downtown, there is Open Studio — Art Exhibit and demo featuring the art of Diana Zasadny and Ian Randall who will be showing Southern Alberta inspired landscape paintings. the reception is March 10 from 10 a,m.- 9 p.m. on the second floor of 317-6th Street South, just down the road from the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
Montreal artist Chris Kline explores the history of painting in his exhibit at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery entitled Bright Limit. His painting reflects the work of colour field artists of the 1960’s who spread paint was spread across or stained into the surface to create areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.
The Southern Alberta Art Gallery also presents Charles Stankievech’s Over the Rainbow/ Under the Radar. The Yukon based artist combines researching, aesthetic, curating , pedagogy and writing in his works. The exhibit features two of his significant new works DEW Project and Ghost Rockets World Tour which employs videos, sculpture, artifacts to comment on the intersection of military influence and the history of communications. Ghost Rockets World Tour explores 12 rocket launches occurring over the span of 12 months all over the world.
The opening reception is at 8 p.m. March 10. He has exhibited in the Palais de Toyko (Paris), International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2010, Germany), Xth Biennale of Architecture (Venice), Eyebeam + ISSUE Project Room (New York), Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida). Stankievech holds an MFA in Open Media and BA (hon.) in Philosophy and Literature. His writings have been included in academic journals, such as Leonardo Music Journal and 306090. A founding faculty member of the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Stankievech shares his time between Dawson City and Berlin.The exhibitions run until April 29.
