Restoration – Art Gallery of Prince Albert hosts this Group Show in The Main Gallery

Restoration

Elizabeth Matheson and Adrian Stimson, Curators

Restoration will engage audiences with the most innovative expressions of contemporary practices through the work of a new generation of painters that renegotiates both the fundamental nature and contemporary relevance of painting.

The exhibition's title derives from Algerian born art historian Yve-Alain Bois' suggestion that any restoration of painting as a contemporary practice in the twenty-first century will be found in the most unexpected places. Selected by Strandline Collective curators Adrian Stimson and Elizabeth Matheson, this exhibition focuses on six artists – Ruth Cuthand, Wally Dion, Holly Fay, David Garneau, Jennifer McRorie and Rick Pilling – living and working in Saskatchewan today – an unlikely place with an international painting history that began over fifty years ago with the likes of Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski and Anthony Caro, and Barnett Newman visiting and teaching in Saskatchewan.

Rather than being nostalgic and conservative, this exhibition brings together recent permutations from the last five years with newly created paintings by emerging and established artists as a reevaluation of the more radical aspects of this modernist legacy stemming from conceptual performance and lens-based practices invigorated by a renewal of the medium itself by six of the most interesting contemporary painters working in Canada today.

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Yellow Fever
by Ruth Cuthand

Shield Wall
by Wally Dion

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by Jennifer McRorie

Polarity
by Holly Fay

At the Fiddle Camp
by David Garneau

Myth and Metaphor
by Rick Pilling