ART GALLERY OF REGINA
Imagined Objects
Jessica Morgun
Tamara Rusnak
Saskatchewan artists Jessica Morgun and Tamara Rusnak make imagined objects corporeal and substantial through lavish tactility in their exhibition Imagined Objects.
DATES
August 6 - September 26, 2021
Opening Reception (by appointment): Friday, August 6, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
OPEN
7 days/week
always free
MAIN GALLERY - Imagined Objects
Jessica Morgun & Tamara Rusnak
OUTSIDE THE BOX HALLWAY GALLERY - Return to the Garden Gerri Ann Siwek
OUTSIDE THE BOX DISPLAY CASE - I am completely serious. Michael Gronnerud
As of Monday, July 5, we will be open on our summer schedule:
HOURS
Mondays - Sundays 12 - 5 PM
A Pea Can Be Chopped Up and Reassembled into the Sun
Phomohobes, Paul Robles, Gerry Ruecker, Rhayne Vermette
curated by Sandee Moore
The Banach–Tarski paradox in geometry proves the counter-intuitive idea that "a pea can be chopped up and reassembled into the Sun." While cutting up and reassembling a ball to increase its volume confounds basic geometric intuition, the notion that the blade is not destructive but creative is familiar magic to collage artists.
The four artists and collectives - Phomohobes, Paul Robles, Gerry Ruecker, and Rhayne Vermette - in A Pea Can Be Chopped Up and Reassembled into the Sun skew norms and uncover new ways of thinking about the world generated by illogical juxtaposition.
DATES
May 28 - July 31, 2021
Artist Talk: Vera Saltzman
Award-winning photographic artist Vera Saltzman will share her unique hybrid of digital and analogue photography techniques, give viewers a glimpse into her makeshift developing lab, and talk about her unconventional path to becoming an artist.
Wednesday, April 28
7 PM
Watch recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Osse6fy5i5E
FREE
talk: Wilf Perreault virtual studio tour
Get a peek inside Wilf Perreault’s studio. Wilf will guide you through an intimate tour of his studio and creative process.
Watch the archived video on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Art-Gallery-of-Regina-228399860562366/videos/263562271878525
FREE
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Visiting Safely
As of July 11, the following will be in effect:
YOU DO NOT NEED TO WEAR A MASK IF:
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Visiting the main gallery or our Outside the Box Exhibitions;
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Attending an outdoor event;
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Attending an indoor event with less than five people.
PLEASE WEAR A MASK IF:
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Attending an indoor event with more than five people;
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Speaking with a staff person in an enclosed office;
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If a workshop instructor or artist requests that participants wear one.
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Outside the Box Display Case
I am completely serious. by Michael Gronnerud
Skateboard decks become canvases for illustrator, writer, designer and long-time skateboarder Michael Gronnerud. His absurdist humour and colourful illustrations, published on Instragram under the handle sourmilk, will tickle your funny bone in a way that's certain to be more enjoyable than bailing off one of his boards.
DATES
August 4 - September 29, 2021
the dig: Linda Duvall & Jillian McDonald
Collaborating with the community in a peer-based learning framework, the artists will explore excavation as a method of interacting with the land.
In particular, the artists intend to activate emotional connections to the land through digging and exploring history as laid down in the soil. Research in summer 2021 will be followed with free public events and a "lab" in the AGR's main gallery in Summer 2022.
A Pea Can Be Chopped Up and Reassembled Into The Sun exhibition catalogue
A Pea Can Be Chopped Up and Reassembled Into The Sun: Phomohobes, Paul Robles, Gerry Ruecker, Rhayne Vermette
essay by exhibition curator Sandee Moore
What do the magician, the mathematician and the collage artist all have in common? Exhibition curator Sandee Moore connects how these three figures cut up and reassemble bits of the world to create more than what they've started with. She carves up the exhibition into an imagined set of artists materials - the cut, the rabbit/duck, the frame, infinity, the impossible - and describes how artists working in collage create more than the sum of their assembled materials, just as the Banach-Tarski paradox from theoretical geometry proves that a sphere can be cut into disjoint subsets and reassembled to create a greater volume than the original sphere.
Publication free to read online or download.
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Tend exhibition catalogue
Ruth Chambers
essay by Julia Krueger
Julia Krueger interprets ceramic artist Ruth Chambers’ artful calligraphy of stems and blossoms in her essay Tending Time. This exhibition catalogue features numorous documentation photographs by Don Hall capturing the delicacy of Chambers' solo exhibition, Tend, at the Art Gallery of Regina.
Publication free to read online or download.
Ritual & Lore
Ayla Dmyterko, Blair Fornwald & Brette Gabel, Audie Murray, Marigold Santos, Zoë Schneider, Maia Stark
curated by Jess Richter
Enjoy images and ideas from Ritual & Lore: download the exhibition catalogue as a free PDF.
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Outside the Box Hallway Gallery
Return To The Garden by Gerri Ann Siwek
Artist Gerri Ann Siwek explores gardens in various habitats - urban, prairie, grassland and farm - and media - watercolour and encaustic.
Says Siwek: "At times, the garden can appear as a complex earthly paradise or Eden. Other times, it can become an endeavour of toil with uninvited visitors. The garden is like a microcosm of the universe, containing and attracting a variety of species and organisms. All living things come together to create a biodiversity that makes the garden a good place."
DATES
August 4 - 29, 2021
Between Us:
long-term creative partnership between artists and bees
Between Us is a long-term creative relationship – part mentorship, part collaboration – connecting senior artist Aganetha Dyck with selected artists, beekeepers and honeybees in Regina, Yorkton, Swift Current, Estevan and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Between Us refers to the distances and differences between us, especially evident during social isolation due to COVID-19. The project title also refers to the wondrous experiences that bind us together; "us" includes humans and non-human collaborators.
Black In Art panel discussion
The Art Gallery of Regina has partnered with Black In Sask on a visual arts-focused second installment of their ‘Black In' panel series.
We are thrilled to share the practices of Black artists living in Saskatchewan, the paths they’ve followed in their artistic careers, their personal experiences of blackness, and how these experiences inform their art.
Read artist bios for Peter Tucker, Hagere Selam "shimby" Zegeye-Gebrihwot & Janielle Ogilvie at https://www.artgalleryofregina.ca/talks
Saturday, June 26
12 noon
watch the recorded panel here: https://www.artgalleryofregina.ca/recordings
artist talk: The Artist Is In panel & discussion forum
KC Adams (Winnipeg), Carole Epp (Saskatoon) and Brenda Wolf (Regina) share their ceramics practices in conversation.
a recording of this artist's talk and discussion forum is available to view on the AGR's online talks page
Pavilion of Shadows
Nic Wilson
Curated and essay by Wayne Baerwaldt
Read Wayne Baerwaldt's exhibition essay accompanied by Don Hall's installation photos of Nic Wilson's Pavilion of Shadows at the Art Gallery of Regina. Read online or download the exhibition catalogue as a free PDF.
Important Information about the
Art Gallery of Regina
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
We’ve updated our mask policy to reflect the new provincial guidelines and to make sure that we are keeping our community safe!
As of July 11, the following will be in effect:
YOU DO NOT NEED TO WEAR A MASK IF:
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Visiting the Main Gallery or our Outside the Box Exhibitions;
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Attending an outdoor event;
-
Attending an indoor event with less than five people.
PLEASE WEAR A MASK IF:
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Attending an indoor event with more than five people;
-
Speaking with a staff person in an enclosed office;
-
If a workshop instructor or artist requests that participants wear one.
APPOINTMENTS FOR AT-RISK VISITORS
We understand that many people are still unvaccinated, come into contact with people at risk or are themselves at risk. If you wish to take extra precautions, please make an appointment for our special Saturday morning hours. From 10:00 am – 1:00 pm on each Saturday, you can book a private appointment to view the gallery safely outside of our regular hours.
The Art Gallery of Regina is an independent, nonprofit, public art gallery located at 2420 Elphinstone St within the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre.
Regina, Saskatchewan
The Art Gallery of Regina respectfully acknowledges we are located on
Treaty 4, traditional territory of the Cree, Saulteaux, Nakota, Lakota and Dakota peoples, and the homeland of the Métis people.
No admission fee.