Showtime: 40 Years On Stage
21.10.10 - 09.01.11Vistas: Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway
21.10.10 - 09.01.11
Curated by Roger Boulet (Guest Curator). Vistas features over 90 visual art works and historical photographs from the Glenbow Museum collection and from public and private collections in Canada and the United States. The exhibition is organized by the Glenbow Museum, Calgary and is curated by Roger Boulet who is a specialist in Canadian historical
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Our Communities Our Stories: A Day in Town
27.01.11 - 27.03.11
Bright’s paintings acknowledge and express the imprecision, fuzziness and gaps of memory through the use of paint drippings, scrapings and intentional un-detailed brushwork and it is engaging then, for the viewer of these paintings to fill in the blanks expressed by these mechanisms, with their own thoughts, their own experiences, their own understanding. Janet Bright
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Man Turned To Stone: T’xwelatse
14.04.11 - 29.05.11
Through his transformation he was to give lessons to the people on how to live together in a good way. For the Stó:lō, Stone T’xwelatse is a beloved ancestor; a stone man with a living soul. Over one hundred years ago, Stone T’xwelatse was taken from Stó:lō territory. He was more recently discovered in Seattle
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The paintings that she creates contain an atmospheric feel to them that attempt to invoke a sense of familiarity and comfort of past experience but also suggest uncertainty of the present and future. “To create the suggestion of light in my work, everything but the light itself is depicted. Objects are broken down into colour
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Our Communities Our Stories: Sikh Pioneers – 100 Years of Immigration, Integration and Identity
14.04.11 - 29.05.11
This significant temple has been designated as a National Historic Site by the Canadian Government and is the only one of its kind in the Americas to be bestowed with this honour. As the only early Sikh temple that has survived intact through the 1st century of settlement, the Gur Sikh Temple is imbued with
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The bones I have used in this work, which were found or given to me, are real and are mostly from domestic animals we consume as ‘meat’ without thinking about them as ‘animals’. Though I believe all of creation is sacred and to be respected, these remains are not meant as fetishes of any kind.
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