“…Revolving around Brown’s work is an exploration of how different photomechanical processes influence an audience’s interpretation of the images. The mutable nature of texts is evidenced through Brown’s disassembling of the original image into expositions of the various processes and layers, with each multiple producing a unique image that is as transient and changeable as the subject matter it portrays. Depicted are the three elementals in their momentary, but significant forms. With each image uncovering yet another layer of photo processing, and contextualized with the subject matter of the images, Brown hints towards each process shown as momentary, but significant…”

– excerpt from exhibition essay by Joanne Fung

“Laura Wider describes her work as “a quiet act of defiance in a digital age.” The Kelowna-based artist finds herself living in tension with our connected/dis-connected world. She seeks to celebrate the physical and handmade in an era of glossy tablets and storing memories on a cloud. These memories are permanent, and yet subtly impermanent. While they may never be lost, they are easily changed and altered. Hand-made, physical objects, however, are not so easy to change. They carry with them the histories of their making – the errors and triumphs of their creation…”

– excerpt from exhibition essay by Gina Freeman

“Through MRI In Use, Darian Goldin Stahl offers a glimpse into the experience of navigating a medical diagnosis and living with chronic illness. The print-based installation emerged from the ongoing collaboration between the artist and her sister Devan Stahl, a writer and bio ethicist who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her early twenties. Devan’s research, her personal accounts, and her magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are the specific source material for the exhibition. MRI In Use addresses broader, shared anxieties and uncertainties surrounding medical intervention, the fallibility of the human body, and mortality. It calls attention to the rift between the hopes attached to medical science-its potential for discovery and healing-and the bureaucratic and dehumanizing aspects of undergoing diagnosis and treatment…”

– excerpt from MRI In Use: A Psychological Snapshot – exhibition essay by Heather Caverhill 

“Joani Tremblay’s work is rooted in the creation of spaces, both external, physical spaces to be occupied, and internal, psychological spaces of experience. Working in embroidery, printmaking and drawing, she creates illusory multi-media environments that weave together imagined places and experienced places, leading us tenuously along and across the borderline between our outer and inner landscapes. Her installations – often characterized by suspended embroidered drawings interspersed with prints, sculptural objects, and even live plants – create spaces that must be physically occupied, but that also provide an ethereal, abstract environment, in which the viewer can project their own backdrop of memories, fixations, and fantasies…”

– excerpt from Joani Tremblay – Landscape Gaze and Breezy Erudition, and What About Formal Freedom? – exhibition essay by Christie Kirchner

“April Dean is an artist and a writer who transmits messages from her home in Edmonton. In this Alberta Printmakers exhibition, Dean presents prints and related work that reveals her ongoing interest in the connection between emotions and words. Dean confronts our seemingly inexhaustible need to relate our deepest thoughts and feelings and the misplaced sloganizing that often accompanies our attempts to communicate meaningfully with others.

The majority of works in this show are photographic images of text on T-shirts. Dean prints phrases on the T-shirts and photographs them wet on a light table. The final works are digitally printed on transparent Pictorico Film and displayed off the wall by a few inches. These works have the feel of X-rays, nicely commenting on our need to communicate our innermost desires with this relatively recent fashion item. T-shirts proclaim, “this is what is inside me”, whether they say, “WE ARE ILL-EQUIPPED & UNPREPARED”, as one of Dean’s works declares, or “Go Oilers!”…”

– excerpt from April Dean’s Word Work – exhibition essay by Blair Brennan