Current Exhibitions

in the main gallery…

Mark Franchino

Proof

Exhibition Dates

January 12 – February 11

Artist’s Talk

January 12 at 5:15 pm at University of Alberta FAB 2–20

Opening Reception

January 12 at 7:00 pm at SNAP Gallery

As an artist I explore our constructions of everyday environments and events, and the nature of human dynamics that evolve within, around, and through them. My work addresses seemingly mundane spaces and activities as physical constructions that reinforce and perpetuate implicit value systems. What are the rules? What purpose do they serve?

In the Proof series, ‘cloud’ images were generated from of an organization of randomized patterns created by a computer program. Those images were then rendered in 3D software and moved through time. As in the youthful game of finding images in clouds, I selected the ones in which I could ‘see’ something and printed the images in subtle shades of white and iridescent ink through halftone patterns. The clouds are at once present and absent. The images that I allude to in their titles are fictions, as is the notion that they are anything more than random.

in the community gallery…

Yuki Kamata

2011 Artist in Residence

Exhibition Dates

January 12 – February 11

Gallery Hours

Tuesday to Saturday 12 – 5 pm

Gallery Address

10123 – 121 Street