Past Exhibitions
2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 1995 - 2000
February 26 to April 17, 2005
Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 26, 2-4 p.m.
April 28 to May 10, 2005
A selection of works from the Alberta Biennial will be presented at the
Ottawa Art Gallery as part of Alberta Scene, the National Arts Centre’s festival of Alberta Culture
May 21 to September 4, 2005
The Edmonton Art Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, May 20, 7-9 p.m.
Where is art going?
The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005 presents the work of 24 artists exploring a range of media from across the province of Alberta. The diversity of the artists and their selected works provides a taste of how dynamic the province’s burgeoning visual arts community is at the beginning of its centennial year.
The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005 will surprise, enlighten, question, stimulate, provoke, amuse, and entertain. Echoing the spirit of these artworks are themes we invite you to explore. Follow along with us as we investigate these evocative paths — to find out where contemporary art is going.
Big
Several artists in the Alberta Biennial stretch boundaries, explore scale, and investigate space. Simon Black, Clay Ellis, Andrew King and Angela Silver, and Nicholas Wade create works that share a provocative look at the built environment. They ask the viewer to reconsider their relationship to the world around them — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Simon Black, Untitled (detail), 2004-05, stainless steel
Sky
Tom Andriuk, Michael Campbell and Janice Rahn, Faye HeavyShield, Liz Ingram, Paul Jackson, Lylian Klimek, Lyndal Osborne, and Tanya Rusnak create a sense of wonder in their mixed media installations. While diverse in their approaches, their work explores relationships between nature and culture, and proposes that our assumptions about both may not be so straightforward.
Paul Jackson, Forest, 2005, colour photograph on aluminum
Spectacle
In addition to the beauty of its natural environment, Alberta is also a media society and a cultural environment. Reflecting on spectacle, entertainment, the media, and popular culture, Dianne Bos, Rébecca Bourgault, Mark Clintberg, David Diviney, and David Hoffos, delineate alternative ways to perceive our information-saturated visual culture.
Diane Bos, Carouse Stampede, 2004, chromogenic print
Story
Utilizing alternatives to conventions of traditional visual art, MaryAnne McTrowe, Chris Millar, Cherie Moses, Mireille Perron, and Marc Seigner share the impulse to tell stories. Whether through documentary narratives, poetry, song writing, the conventions of comics and film, or the world of dreams, these artists take us on a journey beyond the everyday.
Chris Millar, Batcopter (detail), 2004-05, acrylic on canvas
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