“This art show and sale will be an exciting one as all three of these artists ( Diane Larouche Ellard, Carol Carter, and Judy Kasdorf ) have rich histories rooted in the fabric of Saskatchewan. Their artwork will feature the following mediums: fibre art, acrylic, oil, encaustics, and pastels. Their focus is on nature either in the use of it in their artwork or what they reference for their creativity. View the depth of the two dimensional fibre art that brings animals and birds to life, the pastels are exquisite with fine detail and the encaustics bring a different element to the show."

(*Written by Dandelion Art Framing & Gallery)

Opening Reception: Friday, November 1st from 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. & Saturday, November 2nd from 11:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m.

The exhibition “Visual Poetry”, by David Garneau, will open Friday, October 11 and run until October 31, 2024 at Assiniboia Gallery. The Opening Reception will be Friday, October 11 from 5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Holly Fay’s exhibtion “Drawing Water'“ is at Slate Fine Art Gallery from October 10 - 31, 2024.
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 10 from 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

“Drawing Water” engages with concepts of cycle and flux within the hydrosphere. All water present at the beginning of the planet is present today, cycling through and over the earth, moving through the sky, and moving through all the planet’s beings.

Water unequivocally demonstrates the interconnectivity of all natural phenomena.

I use drawing processes to visually conceptualize the wonder present in the hydrosphere. In my series of large-scale drawings, subtle layers of graphite are applied to paper in successions of building up, lifting, and reapplying. The forms produced are void of defined contours, evoking fluidity and continual flux. Linear marks break up the recessive space of conventional landscape to propose the multidimensional aspects and transitory qualities of water, energy, and physical space.

In creating the Water Graphs series, I worked outside, in concurrency with active precipitation. The resulting exquisitely patterned watercolour and graphite works record the presence, actions, and interactions of the precipitation within the time frame the papers are exposed. Correspondingly, dates and the form of precipitation are recorded in the title of each work.

In creating the States of Flow series, I allowed watercolour and liquidized graphite to do what water does when applied to paper—pool, dilate, bloom, stream and merge. Through brushwork, I controlled the application of media to produce forms suggestive of water in states of solid, liquid and vapour.

Water in liquid, vapour, and solid states make up the life system of the planet.

Coinciding with the need for scientific analyses of the natural world, there is also a necessity for meaning gained through personalized acknowledgement and acclaim for the marvels and wonder present in the natural systems which sustain us. In this time of climate crisis and climate anxiety our felt connection to, and the interconnectedness of all natural phenomena is ever more profound, conspicuous, and present.

(*Written by Slate Fine Art Gallery).

The multi-artist exhibition “Into the Woods” opens October 10th and runs until November 2nd at Dervilia art + design. This exhibition captures the beauty and power of the forest, featuring the artwork of Tracey Britton, Michelle Plett, Michaela Hoppe, Christine Boyer, Vance Theoret, and more!

Opening Receptions: Thursday, October 10 from 5:00 p.m. – 9: 00 p.m. & Saturday, October 12, from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Grasslands Gallery Online presents a new online exhibition for Fall. The “Quiet Autumn Art Collection” runs from October 10 – November 22, 2024. This exhibition includes artwork from various Saskatchewan artists such as Catherine Macaulay, Madeleine Greenway, Anne Brochu Lambert, and more.

“… it’s good to remember that real life isn’t a series of big excitements followed by tipping over. Real life is more like our current autumn season. It’s quiet, thoughtful, sometimes wildly windy, mostly rather beautiful, and full of both change and things not changing.” - Laureen Marchand (Grasslands Gallery Online)

Check out Hand Wave Gallery's new exhibition “From the Lathe” by Michael Hosaluk, which runs from October 4 – November 20, 2024. This exhibition features a series of turned wood vessels that are functional and sculptural.

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 20, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Nouveau Gallery’s Fall multi-artist exhibition, “'L’automne”, celebrates the season! This exhibition features various artists working in various mediums - from painting, to woodworking, to ceramics, to sculpture. Featured artists include Miranda Jones, Catherine Macaulay, Bridget Aitken, Jan Corcoran, Bruce Anderson, Charley Farrero, Wilf Perreault, and more!

The Gallery / art placement inc. is delighted to present a group show, “AB(stract) EX(hibition)”, featuring several of the many gallery artists also working in the fields of abstraction and non-objective art. Enjoy the variety of styles and approaches, with each artist offering their own unique perspective. Including new and recent works by Douglas Bentham, Robert Christie, Jordan Danchilla, Lorenzo Dupuis, Lynne Graham, Steph Krawchuk, Sandra Ledingham, and Mel Malkin, as well as a selection of historical works by famed Saskatchewan colour-field painter William Perehudoff.

At once minimal and painterly, loose and controlled, geometric and gestural, the works demonstrate Forrest's unique aesthetic sensibility and masterful sensitivity to the medium of paint. Richly saturated colors, elegantly matte surfaces, and an improvisational play with density and structure define this group of works, Forrest’s latest contribution to the lively field of contemporary abstraction.

Born in Scotland, Forrest immigrated to Canada as a teenager, coming of age as a painter in Saskatoon in the 1980s. He relocated to Vancouver Island in 2013 but has maintained a summer studio in rural Saskatchewan, dividing his painting time between the two locations. In a literal sense, the title of the exhibition speaks to this geographic split, acknowledging the influence of place and some of the ways it finds expression in the work. Not necessarily the visual aesthetics of the landscape--the differences in topography, sight-lines, or the quality of the light--but rather in how the studio environment and working pace contribute to the development of the paintings. Vancouver Island offers Forrest proximity to the comforts of home, studio time there is folded into his daily routine. The rural studio, on the other hand, is spacious but also isolated, it necessitates an intensive and largely solitary way of working, longer days, limited contact with the outside world. Subtly, these factors change the work. Ultimately, one of Forrest's greatest strengths as a painter is his openness to these changes. When he arrives in Saskatchewan, it is always with a plan for how he will start out, but also with an eagerness to "see how it goes".

In a less literal sense, the easygoing offhandedness of the exhibition title captures this attitude, which seems so fundamental to Forrest's identity as a painter. Despite his decades of experience, his goal in painting is not "mastery" per se, but rather a state of almost perpetual discovery. Paint is a mercurial medium, fluid, malleable, it bleeds, stains, runs, and drips. The painter's task is arguably to shape the medium to their will. Any painter with a degree of experience learns a great many techniques to make the paint do what they want it to do. A responsive painter learns how to collaborate with the medium; not to beat it into submission but to work with it; not to deny or kill its fluid malleability, but to guide and harness it for dynamic effect. Forrest's latest paintings do just that, finding a compelling balance in the medium's inherent tensions.

(*Written by The Gallery / art placement inc.

Shelley Nicolle-Phillips’ exhibition “Flora, Fauna & Fields” is on now at Traditions Hand Craft Gallery. Check out Nicolle-Phillips’ latest hooked rugs in the window gallery until October 26, 2024.

Slate Fine Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Zane Wilcox’s artwork, entitled “Landforms and Colourscapes”, from September 12 until October 5, 2024.

For the third time since 2016, The GALLERY / art placment inc. is pleased to host an exhibition of work by the Visual Arts Faculty at the School for the Arts, University of Saskatchewan. “in, as, on, for, through” opened August 24 and runs until September 21. This multi-artist exhibition includes artwork from artists such as Lisa Birke, Jennifer Crane, Allyson Glenn, Cam Forbes, John Graham, Mary Longman, Ella Dawn McGeough, jake moore, Alison Norlen, Tim Nowlin, and Susan Shantz. A closing reception will be held Saturday, September 14 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Hand Wave Gallery’s new exhibition “Shadow Series” by Susan Rankin opens tomorrow! This exhibition features a series of vessels and vase forms where shadows are highlighted in the forms.

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 25, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Visit the gallery by appointment, by calling (306) 380-4483 and view all the works online at https://www.handwave.ca/

Anne McLellan’s exhibition “Patterning” is on now at Traditions Handcraft Gallery. This exhibtion showcases McLellan’s latest ceramic artworks and is in the window gallery until September 21.

Stop by the gallery Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. to view this exhibition and discover more Saskatchewan fine art and craft. View more information at https://traditionshandcraftgallery.ca/

In a new exhibition of paintings, Edie Marshall offers a fresh look at one of Saskatchewan’s most familiar roadside images. We’ve all seen them, those once-beloved old family farm houses now crumbling under the relentless force of time. And we’ve wondered. What happened to the people who lived there? Did they just get up from supper one evening and walk away? Is there anyone left who remembers what used to be?

Yet somehow in Edie Marshall’s hands, those forgotten days aren’t as lost as they might be.  Perhaps her free, expressive paint application and unexpected colour reflect the spirit of those who were here before. Or maybe we see the relentless winds that try to sweep away all who stand in front of them leaving a different kind of legacy. In a gift of beauty out of hopelessness, Edie Marshall offers us a resonant visual description that captures the haunting beauty of decay.

Edie Marshall is a Saskatchewan artist whose art deals with the landscape of ecology. Finding an unlimited and often overlooked source of colours, shapes, ideas, and images in the land around her, she creates large energetic canvases and small intimate ones as a way to describe the energy and interrelatedness of a location and its diverse and unique ecosystems. Her paintings also consider the environment, the history, and the culture of place, linking the past to the present.

Edie Marshall: The Old Home Place is available on the website at Grasslands Gallery Online by clicking the button below, and concurrently in a pop-up version in Made.Cafe at With Love Collective, 2150 Walker Street Entrance B, Swift Current SK, Canada. 

The exhibition “More than Butter and Sugar” is on now until September 29 at The Lobby Gallery. This body of artwork by Sarah Cummings Truszkowski features paintings that explore the intrinsic meaning of baking and food.

Reception: Thursday, September 12, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Dervilia art + design is pleased to present “Doodle - Freehand Art”. This multi-artist exhibition runs from July 18 until September 7, 2024.

Opening Receptions: Thursday, July 18, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 20, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

“Doodle with an Artist”: July 18, 2024 from 7 until 9 p.m.

Dervilia art + design is located at 465 1st Ave N, Saskatoon, SK and open Monday to Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. or view online at https://www.derviliaart.com/

"Summer Selected and New" is live now at Grasslands Gallery Online. This multi-artist exhibition invites viewers to celebrate the warm and cool this season with favourite and new works from Grasslands Gallery Online Artists.

To view the exhibition virtually, visit https://grasslandsgallery.com/

The exhibition "Of Interest: Summer 2024 Edition" runs until August 31st at Assiniboia Gallery. This exhibition includes works by Ernest Luthi, Ruth Pawson, Michael Lonechild, Allen Sapp, and others.

Stop by Assiniboia Gallery, open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. to view the exhibition. Find more information at https://www.assiniboia.com/exhibitions.

Traditions Hand Craft Gallery presents a new exhibit from artist Arbie Kepler entitled, “Bye Bye Birdies: Sculptures in Steel”. The exhibit runs from July 16 until August 17, 2024 and is located at Traditions Hand Craft Gallery in Regina, SK.

Traditions Hand Craft Gallery is located at 2718 13th Ave, Regina, SK and open Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. or view online at https://traditionshandcraftgallery.ca/.

Mud Matters is open now at Saskatchewan Craft Council and runs until September 28, 2024. Mud Matters is a spectacle of miniature vignettes that are both whimsical and pensive in nature. The exhibition showcases art by Charley Farrero and Evan Quick.

Visit in person or view the exhibition online here: https://saskcraftcouncil.org/exhibitions/mud-matters/

In a new exhibition of original prints and drawings, Madeleine Greenway invites us to celebrate the beauty of human connection. Here the artist blends simple shapes with intricate details that showcase her value of caring for one another through the shared experience of food.

Stop in to see the Pop-Up exhibit at Made.Cafe in Swift Current, or view the virtual exhibition using the link below:

Source: https://grasslandsgallery.com/madeleine-greenway-the-food-of-love/

Hand Wave Gallery presents “Cover Story”, a textile dialogue by artist and gallery owner June Jacobs. The show runs from June 7, 2024 until August 21, 2024 and an Opening Reception will be held June 7 , 2024 from 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the Interior Gallery.

The Gallery / art placement presents “Summer Selections”, a group exhibition bursting with life and colour inspired by summer in Saskatchewan. This show offers a variety of gorgeous landscape views, striking abstract compositions, and artwork that blend the two. The show runs from July 6, 2024 until August 3, 2024 at The Gallery / art placement in downtown Saskatoon.

Slate Fine Art Gallery’s annual multi-artist exhibition “Summer Rhubarb 2024” is on now until September 7, 2024. This exhibition features Slate Gallery’s roster of artists and showcases various mediums and artistic styles.

Coinciding with Pride Week festivities in Saskatoon, Art Placement is pleased to host "Spark Your Pride", a group exhibition of LGBTQIA2S+ artists from the Saskatoon community.

Spark Your Pride has become an annual celebration of older/senior/elder 2SLGBTQ+ folk that takes place during Saskatoon's Pride Festival. Spark Your Pride is hosted by the Western Development Museum (WDM), which has a mandate to acquire, exhibit, and preserve the stories that make up Saskatchewan's diverse history, including as many perspectives as possible. Since 2020, Spark Your Pride has offered a variety of programs and activities during Pride, including banquets, performances, concerts, poetry readings, art exhibits, and the transformation of the WDM’s Boom Town into “Queer Town”, a street festival that celebrates the lives and culture of Saskatchewan’s lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, and 2Spirit people. Click here for more information about the Spark Your Pride events taking place this week at the WDM.

For 2024, Spark Your Pride brings their art exhibition to Art Placement in downtown Saskatoon. The artists included explore a range of subjects, mediums, and styles. Featuring work by Joseph Anderson, Jean Dudley, Dave Heinrichs, Steph Krawchuk, Rebecca La Marre, Dane Moore, Levi Mathew, the Estate of Peter McGehee, Tessera Nova, Donald, Cesar Alejandro Romero, Evan Rystrom, Brett Schiisler, Leif Shantz, Carey Shaw, Nguyen Tran, Jo Van Young, and Azby Whitecalf.

(*Written by The GALLERY/ art placement)

Reception: Saturday, June 22 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.