Visual Art

My 94-year-old mother and I are sitting in a southwest Calgary medical office and settling in to spend the day. It will be a long one but by the time we leave, my mother will have a new right eye [...]

Viewing “Kaleidoscopic Animalia,” Paul Hardy’s exhibition at Glenbow, is like walking by the window displays of a high-end department store. Each of his 15 scenes is a stage for stories starring [...]

A half-assembled Lego set sprawls across a table in the office lunchroom. A mural spanning a brick wall depicts androgynous silhouettes in various poses—typing, singing, thinking, napping, [...]

I have been in a lot of other people’s basements in the course of my professional life, but never have I received so many unnecessary apologies while being led down flights of stairs. I am used [...]

February. Cold Lake is frozen and silent. An ample sky mirrors the terrain below. But landscapes are inhabited even when they’re empty.  I’m here to visit the painter Alex Janvier at his gallery [...]

Few people on the planet would suggest that Lethbridge has anything in common with Bilbao, Spain. Lethbridge is a town where the prairies sigh under the weight of yet another Wal-Mart squatting [...]

Just as Alberta’s oil riches can be chalked up to a stroke of geological luck, the abundance of ceramic artists in Alberta is in large part thanks to the bountiful clay reserves in the area [...]

For well over a century, if you were talking about photography as an art form, you were talking about black and white photographs produced using film and photographic paper. From Eugene Atget [...]

Within the family of buildings in Edmonton’s downtown core, the city’s public art gallery has long been the plain, neglected stepchild. An unadorned box in a drab cement shell, the building [...]

The buildings around the intersection of 111 Avenue and 97 Street in Edmonton, halfway between Commonwealth Stadium and the Glenrose Hospital, are rather unprepossessing: a large funeral home, a [...]