May 22 – June 24, 1990
McPherson Library Gallery
A selection of drawings executed between 1968 and 1985 that represent only some of the diverse works in the British Columbia Art Collection. This exhibition was organized by the Kamloops Art Gallery. It features 17 artists, including Jack Shadbolt, Edward Hughes, Ann Kipling, and Toni Onley.
January 4 – January 25, 1988
Unknown location
This exhibition aimed to bring together for interpretation a diversity of Canadian and American artists’ books that contribute to the understanding of the roles of photography and artists’ books in the 1980s.
It features almost 50 works from artists from all over Canada, including Donna Leisen, Michael Lawlor, Don Corman, Brad Brace, Liz Magor, Codge/Beveridge, Jamelie Hassan, Paul Berger, John Weber, Robert Heinecken, Sue kae Grant, Paul Rutkowsky, Barbara Rosenthal, Keith Smith and Jane Northey. Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver organized the exhibition.
January 26 – February 16, 1987
McPherson Library Gallery
This exhibition features twenty-five 16×20 black and white photographs taken by members of AFRAPIX, South Africa’s first non-racial photographer’s co-op. These photographs evoke the spirit of the anti-apartheid movement and its hope that a new society, responsive to the black majority, can be built in South Africa.
AFRAPIX photographers give a balance to the mainstream news photographs of destruction and oppression with affirmative images of resistance and regeneration. This exhibition has been purchased by OXFAM Canada.
September 12 – September 30, 1984
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery
An exhibit of 47 photographs that do not copy reality but create a world existing only in the imagination. The photographers composed pictures by arranging or even constructing the subject matter resulting in surprising, enigmatic and evocative images.
The artists included were: Randy Bradley, Jack Buquit, Shane Corsault, John Divola, Michael Mitchell, Janet Pietsch, Stanley Smith, Volker Seding, and Cheryl Sourkes.
July 9 – July 30, 1984
McPherson Library Gallery
A photographic exhibit illustrating trail history, location and usage, presented by the Sierra Club of Western Canada. It was organized to bring attention to a part of this fragile heritage that deserves and indeed needs attention if it is to survive. Alberta retains a network of historic trails and established by its explorers, early settlers and First Nations. The exhibit was supplemented with information on settlement, forestry, mining, oil and trade to add context to the photos.
January 5 – January 29, 1984
Maltwood Art Gallery
This exhibition featured 50 examples of Pre-Columbian ceramic work. In the two and a half millennia that preceded the Spanish conquest, the peoples of the New World made pottery in great quantity. Much of this production consisted of ordinary utilitarian vessels. However, sacred vessels which embodied cosmological, philosophical and religious beliefs were also produced.
The exhibition draws from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts collection. The vessels, figures and objects displayed are the creations of civilizations who inhabited the area between Mexico and Chile during the period 1000 B.C. to 1550 A.D.
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January 18 – February 27, 1983
Maltwood Art Gallery
This educational exhibition highlighted printmaking and graphic art. It examined the processes, limitations and potential of printmaking. It also provided a brief but valuable introduction to the art market.
The artists included Alistair M. Bell, Richard Yates, Kazumi Surano, Roy Vickers, Karen Appel, Wayne Eastcott, Andrejs Sinats, Olga Tomlinson Kornavitch, Robert Rauchenberg, Walter Hoyle, Patrick Hickey, Fenwich Lansdowne, Helen Piddington, Gwen Curry, John Debereiner, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Anne Kipling, Rhonda Neufeld, Renaldo Norton and Jo Manning.
Developed by the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, it was available as a travelling exhibition.
January 25 – February 14, 1983
McPherson Library Gallery
An exhibition of 77 paintings by W. Smirnoff which confirms Smirnoff’s “scientist-artist” duality through the research of his subjects and the poetry of their interpretation. Smirnoff isolates anonymous aspects of the forest and renders then in their singular beauty on canvas. This exhibition was circulated by Ottawa’s National Museum of Natural Sciences.
About the Artist:
Wladimir Smirnoff (1917-2000) focused much of his life on the protection of the environment. He was a senior scientist at the Laurentian Forest Research Centre, Environment Canada. In 2002, the first $10,000 Wladimir A. Smirnoff Fellowship was awarded.
March 10 – April 7, 1980
McPherson Library Gallery
This was a travelling exhibition of the ceramic work of Les Manning.
I remember, as a young boy, being aware of finding shelter from the wind. I believe this influenced me to spend a lifetime beside a warm kiln. In this collection perhaps you can feel some of the elements I experienced. As a person’s experience grows it’s important to be more direct, removing indecision and questioning, and to be confident and united with the material – not disciplining it, but sharing the clay’s expression. I fell all things are related, even the conflict between the formal and the informal which I attempt to bring together in my work. This is highlighted by form and with textures of clay related to my life experience as well as the natural environment.
Heavy grogged stoneware for the now and immediate surroundings. Smooth media stoneware for the near future and background porcelain for the distant and more refined statement.
-Les Manning
May 17 – June 6, 1979
Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)
The exhibition Contemporary Canadian Indian Art is a survey of Indian art and craft created in Canada in the last few years. Examples from the contemporary-traditional culture include masks and wood-carvings while modern-western inspired art is represented in paintings and sculptures. The paintings in particular exemplify the merging of the traditional with the contemporary culture to produce a wholly new artistic expression.