YORKTON - A new exhibition has opened at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery featuring several artists who live throughout Saskatchewan and Alberta, some with local roots.
“It’s an exciting exhibition featuring artists from Saskatchewan,” said Kelly Litzenberger, Manager at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery. “It’s the last exhibition booked by former Executive Director, Donald Stein, before he retired.”
“With attitudes ranging from the microscopic to the cartographic, the seven artists of The Flower May Not Look Like the Roots cultivate contemporary relationships to landscape, ecology, and regional identity that respond to local communities past, present and future,” stated show curator Jera MacPherson in a release. “The work plants its roots deep and long ago but to ends that are contemporary and evolving. These renegotiations of a well-worn-in genre materialize themselves in clay, paint, video, drawing, and textile.
“Each of the various artistic mediums, employed by the artists, supply generous insight into the ways in which geography and sense of place figure into the personal landscapes of their own minds.
“Yet collected together, the suggestion of a regional voice begins to assemble -- one that is rooted in history and place, but whose flowers are open and receptive to the conceptual intricacies of region-building.”
This exhibition features artists living throughout Saskatchewan: Bonnie Gilmour (Meacham), Vera Saltzman (Fort Qu'Appelle), Carol Schmold (Plenty), Crystal Thorburn (Assiniboia - former GDAG board member and previously from Melville), Barbara Meneley (Regina), Sarah Timewell (Regina), and Sarah Fougere (Jasper, AB - previously Canora), from the art gallery’s press release.
The exhibition runs from now until Feb. 23.
