Past

Any soul born from childhood will connect with the universal experience of growing up, a sensation that Laura Peturson implores with apparent effortlessness - and capitalizes on as a space to draw attention to the world that today’s children are destined to inherit. Within large scale murals, Peterson immerses her audience in a fantasy land that at first glance seems separate from the adult world. And yet, there is something looming in the margins...

…A series of book-sized etchings, true to techniques of the past, practices of making the past present…Their dark registers and diminutive humanoids approach and conjure some kind of back- looking vision of some kind of primeval action. Vibrational energies swell around a vortex, carry souls down a river, hover over a birth of an idea, assemble tools under a sharp cliff...

For his exhibition at Alberta Printmakers, Erpelding analyzes data from Canada's S&P/TSX composite index, studying its relationship with the Global Economy. These numbers offer a unique glimpse into Canada's connection with the rest of the world, and offer the viewer a new platform to consider their own connection with Canada and the globe. It is a relationship that some experts follow closely, but one that most people dismiss or overlook, living their everyday lives without examining its effect on them...