Preview – The Gallery Guide – April-May 2007

Vivian Thierfelder: Lux Eterna
DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERIES, EDMONTON AB – Apr 5-21 Vivian Thierfelder was born in Alberta
and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1970. Before turning
to painting full-time in 1983, she worked in exhibit design
and construction at the Provincial Museum of Alberta, as a
preparator for the Natural History Diorama Program, and in
the graphics department of a major telecommunications
firm.
Over the past 30 years, Thierfelder has developed an
enviable style of watercolour painting. Her technique
employs rich and saturated paints in a manner more typical
of oils or acrylics, and her treatment of colour and light is
breathtaking. Her subjects range from simple fruit and
flowers to complex still life arrangements of postcards,
tropical flowers, silverware, fine china and photographs, all
with dense and intricate patterns. The images are filled with
movement and radiant light, “celebrating the lushness of the
natural world” as she puts it.
Thierfelder is a member of the Canadian Society of
Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Canadian Academy
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www.douglasudellgallery.com
Vivian Thierfelder, Santa Rosa Plums (2007),
watercolour on paper [Douglas Udell Galleries,
Edmonton AB, Apr 5-21]
of Arts. She is best known for her floral works which are in corporate and individual collections all
over North America, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council Art Bank, The
Glenbow Museum, and the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, as well as in the
Collection of Drawings and Watercolours for HRH Queen Elizabeth II. Mia Johnson
TrepanierBaer
105-999 8th St SW ✆(403)244-2066
www.trepanierbaer.com
tues-sat 11am-5pm and by appt Thru
Apr 21 David Hoffos, “Scenes from the
House Dream: Phase 5”, installation is
a kind of “personalized architecture of
the self”; Apr 19-May 19 Michael
Smith, “Cradle of Words”; VIEWING
ROOM Sarah Holtom, “100 Portraits of
Calgary Artists”.
Wallace Galleries
500-5th Ave SW ✆(403)262-8050
www.wallacegalleries.com
mon-sat 10am-5:30pm Thru Apr 18
Walter Bachinski, Jen Dyck, Steve
Mennie, Herald Nix, Kenneth
Lochhead, Ted Godwin, Mary Fox,
“Easter Celebrations!”; Apr 19-May 8
Brent Laycock, “Life Forms”, new
works; May 10-22 Camrose Ducote
and Jamie Evrard, “Acts of Light”;
May 24-Jun 7 Linda Nardelli and
Doug Williamson, “New Works”.
★ Open late First Thursday of
every month until 8pm
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EDMONTON
Agnes Bugera Gallery
12310 Jasper Ave NW
✆(780)482-2854
www.agnesbugeragallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm Representing
original art by a group of mid-career
and established contemporary Canadian
artists, including landscape,
abstract, still life painting and sculpture.
Thru Apr 5 Gordon Harper,
“Ghost Lake”, solo show; Apr 14-26
Jerry Heine; May 5-17 Terry Fenton;
May 26-Jun 8 Karen Yurkovich.
Alberta Craft Council
Gallery
10186-106 St NW ✆(780)488-6611
www.albertacraft.ab.ca
mon-sat 10am-5pm Apr 7-Jul 14 FEA-
TURE GALLERY Brew-haha, juried exhibition
of fun and fabulous teapots and
tea-sets in many craft media; THE DIS-
COVERY GALLERY Thru Apr 7 Carole Epp,
“Snow Series”, new ceramic work; Neil
Lazaruk, “Neo-Ovo”, new egg designs;
Apr 14-May 26 Chris Boha, “Naked
Truth”, glass and sculptural work.
★ Art Gallery of Alberta
(formerly the Edmonton Art Gallery)
The AGA has moved to a temporary
location in the Old Bay Building at
100-10230 Jasper Ave
✆(780)422-6223
www.artgalleryalberta.com
tues, wed, fri 10:30am-5pm thurs til
8pm sat, sun 11am-5pm Admission:
members free, adults $10,
seniors/students $7, children 6-12 $5,
children under 5 free, family (up to 2
adults + 4 children) $20, thurs
evenings “Pay what you may” Apr 14-
Jun 10 China Sensation: New Art
From Chengdu, traditional and
groundbreaking contemporary work
by 22 artists from Chengdu; “unflat”,
David Cantine, paintings explore
depth and the perceptual properties of
pure colour; Apr 14-May 27 flat,
Edmonton artists respond to the
Alberta landscape and critic Clement
Greenberg’s modernist notions of flatness;
Art Outdoors, the AGA and Pattison
Outdoor Advertising team up
again to turn Edmonton into an outdoor
exhibition of Canadian art – billboard
images are accompanied with
the original art works in the gallery;