Marie-Eve Martel - Agricultural Eclipse
Lindsey Bond (local artist) - Negotiating Spaces: Visual Recollections of Train Travel in Canada
Exhibitions: February 24 – March 26 Opening reception: Thursday, February 24 from 8-10 pm Artist talks opening night: Lindsey Bond at 6:30 pm Marie-Eve Martel at 7:00 pm
This month in the Main Gallery, Harcourt House exhibits the work of Quebec artist, Marie-Eve Martel and in the Front Room, local artist, Lindsey Bond. Martel presents, Agricultural Eclipse, an exhibition spanning media from low relief sculpture to printmaking. Using the barn as an architectural icon, she looks at the disappearance of these objects within our landscape alongside the proliferation of suburban areas.
In the Front Room, multimedia artist Lindsey Bond presents her new body of work, Negotiating Spaces: Visual Recollections of Train Travel in Canada. Using medium format film, Bond investigates the perception of space in a VIA Rail journey across Canada. From Vancouver to Halifax and Winnipeg to Cambridge she attempts to rekindle the relationship between individuals and the land.
Both artists will present short artist talks prior to the reception. Join as at 6:30 to hear about Bond’s travels by train followed by Martel’s look into “the death of human scale agriculture.”
It's that time again - oh yes. New exhibition time! and it will be for the next few weeks as Harcourt House presents the work of two fantastic local artists.Sherri Chaba: Life-Line
Cynthia Fuhrer: I Make My Own Friends
January 6 – February 12, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, January 6 from 7-10 pm
Cynthia Fuhrer artist talk: Thursday, January 6 at 6 pmSherri Chaba artist talk: Friday, January 14th at 1:00 pm,
Room 203 at MacEwan Centre for the Arts and Communications, 10045-156 Street, Edmonton
In the Main Gallery, Sherri Chaba presents a sculptural installation sparked by first hand accounts of the impact of industry in northern Alberta. The reclamation and marriage of manufactured and natural materials compose the sculptures in this thought provoking exhibition. Guests are invited to walk through this work and explore the surreal point where nature and industry meet.
In the Front Room Gallery, Cynthia Fuhrer exhibits a new body of work of people who do not exist. This exhibition grew over an 18 month period when Furher compulsively drew faces, which have since evolved into clay busts.
Fuhrer’s portraits are created with no one in mind and no forethought as to what the faces will look like. These beautifully peculiar busts allow the rawness of the material to show through, yet provide something delicately “human” for viewers to identify with.
Join us for these intriguing shows -- and don't forget about the free artist talks.
Julian Forrest: (sir)rogates
Ian Forbes: Foldy Books of Death
November 25 – December 18, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, November 25 from 7-10 pm
Ian Forbes artist talk: Saturday, November 27 at 2 pm
Well, 2010 is quickly coming to a close that means it's time for our last exhibitions of the season - and a couple of great exhibitions we have...
In the Main Gallery we are excited to exhibit one of our very own local artists, Julian Forrest. Julian is a professor at the University of Alberta and maintains his studio on site at Harcourt House Art Centre.
His exhibition, (sir)rogates, presents a playful yet poignant look at masculinity and issues that arise in migratory oil-rich centres, like Edmonton. It offers viewers a chance to contemplate Alberta’s continually evolving landscape.
This is the first time this body of work will be exhibited - so check it out.
Gracing the wall of the Front Room Gallery, Harcourt House Art Centre presents Ian Forbes. Although Ian currently resides in Vancouver he has some meaningful ties to Edmonton as an MFA grad from the University of Alberta.
Ian brings to us a body of work that began “almost by accident” in the spring of 2008. The Foldy Books of Death (FBoD) are a series of accordion-style books that string together the random sketches and doodles typically relegated to the pages of a sketchbook.
The FBoD's are loaded with much to explore, which you can do on Saturday, November 27 at 2 pm while sitting in on Ian's artist talk.
This month in the Main Gallery, Harcourt House exhibits the work of Quebec artist, Marie-Eve Martel and in the Front Room, local artist, Lindsey Bond. 
