Nov 2011 –Jan 2012 - Preview

New York scenes in acrylic andabstract floral paintings in oil; Dec 8-22 Shortbread and Sherry, groupshow of gallery artists.Alberta Craft Council Gallery10186 106 St NW ✆780-488-6611www.albertacraft.ab.camon-sat 10am-5pm FEATURE GALLERYThru Dec 24 Natural Flow: ContemporaryAlberta Glass, group exhibitionbased in the unique ability of hotglass to embody natural and organicideas, forms and forces; Jan 14-Apr 7Thinking Big, group exhibition highlightingthe work behind public artsprojects; DISCOVERY GALLERY Thru Dec3 Jim Etzkorn, “Saltalk”, new work byMedicine Hat clay artist Etzkorn; Jan7-Feb 11 The Recipients, 2011 AlbertaCraft Award recipients.Art Gallery of Alberta2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq✆780-422-6223 www.youraga.catues-fri 11am-7pm sat & sun 11am-5pm. Admission: members free,adults $12.50, seniors (65+)/students$8.50, children under 6 free,children 7-17 $8.50, family (up to 2adults + 4 children) $26.50. Thru Jan8 Jacob Dahl Jürgensen and SimonDybbroe Møller (Denmark), RagnarKjartansson (Iceland) and KevinSchmidt (Canada), “Up North”,works by contemporary artists evokenostalgia for the wild, romantic landscapesof the 19th century; Thru Jan15 Arlene Wasylynchuk: Saltus Illuminati,installation extending theshape of painting, by rolling paintingsinto long tubes and standing themvertically, diagonally and laying themacross the gallery floor; Thru Jan 29Maxwell Bates, Fritz Brandter, JanetMitchell, Bartley Robilliard Pragnell,John Snow and Ella May Walker,“Prairie Life: Settlement & theLast Best West 1930-1955”, theseModernist artists interpreted thechanging rural and urban landscapein their work; 19th Century FrenchPhotographs, 66 daguerreotypes,salted paper, albumen silver and photogravureprints with several 20thcenturyexamples; Thru Feb 20 APassion for Nature: LandscapePainting from 19th Century France,traces the development of the landscapein French painting from themid-19th to the early 20th centurywith examples from key movementsincluding the Barbizon School, Realism,Naturalism and Impressionism;State of Nature, examines nature as amajor theme in contemporary paintingin Alberta and Saskatchewan andits connections to the art movementsthat shaped the 19th century, includingRomanticism, Realism andImpressionism.Douglas Udell Gallery10332 124 St NW ✆780-488-4445www.douglasudellgallery.comtues-sat 10am-5:30pm. Nov 19-Dec 3 Natalka Husar, “Burden ofInnocence – Trial & Banquet”; Dec10-24 Christmas Show.West End Gallery12308 Jasper Ave NW✆780-488-4892www.westendgalleryltd.comtues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Nov 10Bev Rodin; Nov 19-30 W.H Webb;Dec Christmas Show, features variousartists.LETHBRIDGESouthern Alberta Art Gallery601 Third Ave S ✆403-327-8770www.saag.catues-sat 10am-5pm sun 1-5pm.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 21