New York-based multimedia artist Etty Yaniv has brought a series of site-specific hanging sculptures and two-dimensional paper pastiches to the Art Gallery of St. Albert. Viewing Parallel Topographies is like walking through a weird land of imagined scenery that perhaps could be best described as a Jackson Pollock bursting off of the canvas.
It’s an effect that the artist works very hard to create. Every fold and ridge of those corrugated mobiles has a story, she proffered.
“The people will be able to go in between those mobiles and take a closer look at the detail. In each of them, there are many, many little narratives,” she said. “The idea behind the show is… to bring a sort of landscape that are somewhere between abstraction and figuration. From afar, it looks like abstraction. When you go closer, you will see lots and lots of little narratives inside.”
The exhibit also features a black mobile made of plastic bubbles and shipping material under which is a mound of earth. That’s located in the vault. Yaniv liked the idea of placing this piece in this “isolated, insulated and cavernous” area to emphasize the effect of a levitating orb offering a shadow to a piece of land. It might feel otherworldly to some, like floating in space looking down at the world.
There is also an element of environmentalism and ecological awareness.
Parallel Topographies runs until Saturday, July 30. Call 780-460-4310 or visit www.artgalleryofstalbert.ca for more information.
Helen Rogers has a marvelously colourful series of new mixed media mosaics for the masses at the Visual Arts Studio Association. She typically uses cut or broken pieces of traditional mosaic materials such as stained glass, glass tiles, vitreous glass, smalti, and marble while also incorporating other objects including found materials (sea glass, ceramic pieces, wire, jewelry, glass beads, stones, etc.) in her mosaic art.
30 Shades of Round runs until Friday, July 22. VASA is located at 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave. in the Hemingway Centre. Call 780-460-5990 or visit www.vasa-art.com for more information.
The Whyte Avenue Art Walk is on this weekend and features enough art to wear out your sneakers. It covers four kilometres of sidewalk along Whyte (82) Avenue from 101 to 108 streets.
Among the 450-plus artists who will be on site with works on display (and for sale) include Madeleine Arnett, Cathy Bible, Ryn Climenhaga, Kaytlyne Dewald, Sue Scott, Phil Alain, Daniel Evans, Ilda Labrecque, and Denise Lefebvre. Many artists will also be producing art on site and offering demonstrations too.
The event runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Visit www.art-walk.ca for more details.
Abstract and landscape artist Shirley Cordes-Rogozinsky is just one of three painters who have teamed up to be featured in the Group Exhibition at the Lando Gallery. The show also features works by gallery artists Holly Burghardt and Michele Holland. It runs until Saturday, July 30.
The Lando Gallery is located at 10310 124 St. in Edmonton. Call 780-990-1161 or visit www.landogallery.com for more information.
