SNAP NEWS
UPCOMING MAIN GALLERY:
"The Trapeze"
Karen Dugas
Opening reception: Friday, June 20, 2008, 7-9pm. This exhibition is featured as part of The Works art & Design festival 2008.
Exhibition continues: June 5 - July 19, 2008. This exhibition is featured as part of The Works Art & Design Festival 2008.
"Untitled"
David Poolman, and Slawomir Grabowy
Opening reception: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 7-9pm
Exhibition continues: July 24 - September 6, 2008
UPCOMING STUDIO GALLERY:
"The Current"
Kyla Fischer
Opening reception: Friday, June 20, 2008, 7-9pm.This exhibition is part of NEXTfest 2008.
Exhibition continues: June 5 - July 19, 2008.
"Untitled"
Michelle Lavoie
Opening reception: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 7-9pm
Exhibition continues: July 24 - September 6, 2008
SNAP
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
SNAP ANNOUNCES OPEN STUDIO
On Wednesdays from April 2, 2008, onwards, SNAP will be providing extended hours for drop-in and limited access renters
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SPRING SUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
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SNAP ANNOUNCES NEWEST
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE JILL STANTON
who will be at SNAP from May to August 2008
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CALL
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VISIT EPI 2008-
Edmonton Print International
The Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists
(SNAP) is pleased to host a competitive international exhibition
of the best innovative print art being produced in the world today.
EPI 2008 is a world-class event that will
focus attention on Edmonton as a centre of vision and leadership
in visual arts and culture. EPI 2008 will open eyes and minds to
evolving graphic traditions around the world, engaging audiences
with a magical energy and sense of connection with artists and cultures
from Boston to Beijing.
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" Fine Print: Find Out Why Edmonton
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SNAP
Gallery is a registsered, not-for-profit, organization devoted to
the art of printmaking. Since
1982, SNAP has been the only artist-run-centre in the province dedicated
to the print medium.Located
beside the historic Red Strap Building, SNAP is a multi-use facility
that serves as an exhibition space, education centre, and a printshop
facility, open to all members of the public. For
more information, feel free to contact SNAP at the address below:10309-97
Street
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Karen Dugas
Silence
2007
digital print
44” x 44”
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SNAP MAIN GALLERY
‘The Trapeze’
by Karen Dugas
Opening Reception: Friday, June 20, 2008, 7-9pm
(as part of The Works Art & Design Festival)
Exhibition Duration: June 5 to July 19, 2008
Public Viewing Times: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12noon – 5pm
(please contact SNAP for details on Canada Day hours)
Admission Free
Wheelchair Access
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The Trapeze
In the SNAP exhibition ‘The Trapeze’, Edmonton artist Karen Dugas has focused on creating in her works narratives that explore the precarious balance between humanity and the natural environment. The inclusion of text from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, provides direction and support in interpretation and “reading”. With this body of new work Dugas is employing digital output in order to produce images of high resolution and visual complexity.
Karen Dugas’ work extends the legacy of Dada and Surrealism which continues to influence printmaking, which now freely combines photomechanical processes with direct mark making. Dugas uses the structures of film and advertising to involve the viewer through the “easy” spectacle, the acrobatics of special effects. The content of her work, however, is in line with most contemporary “Tableau” photographers. Dugas attempts to “picture” images which float like dreams but linger in consciousness as questions – even warnings.
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Kyla Fischer
WaterShadow 3
2008
photo-etching, relief
42cm x 56cm
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SNAP STUDIO GALLERY
‘The Current’
by Kyla Fischer
Opening Reception: Friday, June 20, 2008, 7-9pm
Exhibition Duration: June 5 – July 19, 2008
Public Viewing Times: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12noon – 5pm
(please contact SNAP for details on Canada Day hours)
Admission Free
Wheelchair Access |
The Current - artist's statement
"My work stems from personal experiences and observations in nature. I am inspired by the beauty and quiet present in the natural environment and am often lead to contemplate ideas of human transience. The Current includes some large-scale prints from a previous body of work combined with a new WaterShadow series, both of which explore ideas of internal reflection, and our relationship with nature. The exhibition shows a transition in my printwork as I experiment with using multiple plates and a wider, lighter colour pallet.
Much of my work begins with photographs taken during long walks outdoors. The WaterShadow series grew from photos taken of the textures, forms and shadows in the snow after a winter storm. Unlike traditional landscape photography, the prints have little relation to specific identifiable spaces or objects. The original subject matter is manipulated through cropping, and later, through layering in the printing process. The resulting prints consist of layers of transparent colour forming shapes reminiscent of flowing, breaking ice."
- Kyla Fischer
Interview Opportunities & Artist Talks:
Karen Dugas, and, Kyla Fischer, will both be available for interviews for the duration of their individual exhibitions at SNAP, from June 5 to June 19, 2008.
Admission free.
For further exhibition/artist details, interviews & images please contact SNAP staff at:
Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists
10309-97 St.
Edmonton, AB T5J 0M1
Ph. 780-423-1492
Email: snap@snapartists.com
For further exhibition/artist details, interviews & images please contact SNAP staff:
Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists
10309-97 St.
Edmonton, AB T5J 0M1
Ph. 780-423-1492
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