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Both Floors

April 15-26, 2025

Reception: Thursday April 17, 7-9 p.m.

Strange Currents is the culmination of many years of hard work, exploration and inquiry, trial and error, frustration and joy. It is a collection of work in which diverse paths intertwine; creating a space to hold each other’s joys and grievances. This exhibition features works by 15 emerging artists from the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Alberta. It is the result of creating art during a time where the world is full of economic strife, genocide, and fascism. When we think of currents we see water flowing, dynamic and in a constant state of flux, always adapting in response to its environment and charging forward regardless of anything in its path. We think of electric currents, sudden and shocking bursts of energy, sometimes violent but awe inspiring and powerful. Strange Currents encompasses these phenomena and feelings while holding up a mirror to our paths leading to, and beyond, this point, it evokes an undercurrent of uncertainty amidst excitement for what the future may hold.

Featuring work by:

Hannah Boyle
Miriam Colindres
Madelaine Mae Dack
Juno Dorey
Samantha Gaudet
Karys Hallett
Amy Leigh
Nic Martin
Natesa Medlicott-Kappo
Kodiak Pittel
Jenna Sampson
Kirsten Claire Untalan
Hannah Walter
Emily Williams
Nadia Abigail Zamora Hernández

Website:

https://www.strangecurrents.ca

 Both Floors

May 20 - June 21, 2025

Reception: Thursday May 22, 7-9 p.m. | View the PDF e-vite

During the summer of 2020, the unique circumstances of the unfolding pandemic led to an ongoing collaboration between the printmaking division at the University of Alberta and Jillian Ross, a master printer at David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa from 2003 through 2020.

Exploring the possibilities of working in photogravure allowed Ross and Kentridge to continue their creative relationship from afar. Contact was made with Steven Dixon, artist and technical demonstrator in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta, and an expert in the production of copperplate photogravure. Over the last four summers, Ross and Dixon have worked on print projects for William Kentridge, including two large-scale photogravure prints which are among the largest ever made.

In addition to the work with Kentridge, Ross has expanded the group of artists she is working with to include South African artists Puleng Mongale and Cinthia Sifa Mulanga, and Canadian artist Wally Dion, each of whom has been able to explore their work using photogravure through her collaborative efforts.

Oh to Believe in Another World: South African—Canadian Collaboration in Print, brings together a broad selection of artworks made through the process of photogravure including works by Faculty, students, and alumni of the University of Alberta as well as artists from across Canada and South Africa.

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Winter 2025 Exhibitions Listings

January 7-25, 2025

January 7-February 8, 2025

• Second Floor:
  Alcuin Society Book Design Awards
  

February 4-8, 2025 (International Week Event)

• First Gallery:
  Narges Noori

Feb 25-March 15, 2025

• Main Floor:
  Tamara Deedman, MFA Thesis Printmaking

March 25 - April 5, 2025

• BDes Grad Show

April 15 - 26, 2025

• BFA Grad Show

May 20 - June 21, 2025

• Oh to Believe in Another World: South African—Canadian Collaboration in Print