Exhibitions Galore....

All my hard work in 2015, in putting gallery submissions out, has paid off.  For the next year-and-a-half, I have numerous exhibitions on the go.  

I just picked up one of my prints that was included in the Open Image 2015 exhibition.  This was sponsored by VAAA [Visual Arts Alberta Association] and showed at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary through the summer, and then moved to the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium here in Edmonton until November.  Unfortunately I was unable to attend the opening for this one as I was down in Utah at the time.

The Annual Monochrome Guild Exhibiton just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago and was a success.  The group got together at my place for a meeting this past Friday and everyone was pretty happy with the way it turned out.  We are already beginning plans for another exhibition next year and hope to make it bigger and better.

I just got word that two of my images have been accepted for the InFocusYEG exhibition here in Edmonton.  This is part of the province wide Exposure Festival.  This is a festival of photography that takes place every year in February.  It started out in Calgary-Canmore-Banff a number of years ago and last year expanded to province wide.  I took part in the first InFocusYEG last year and had one print included.  Last year the show was only on for a weekend but this time around it will be up for a full month, at DC3 Gallery here in Edmonton.

My friend Rob and I have a selection of work showing at the Leighton Art Center near Calgary.  We call this exhibition AG2 [Ag-squared].  It includes a few pieces from our Procession West project as well as some new work.  This will be on display in the main gallery at Leighton and is also part of the Exposure Festival.  It will be on display for the month of February.  I am currently in the process of getting all of my prints mounted and framed for this show.

Rob and I have also collaborated on a show that we call Procession West.  We put this show together a few years back, and have been making gallery submissions ever since.  In 2013 the show was exhibited at the Art Gallery of Regina, the McMullen Gallery here in Edmonton, and the Spruce Grove Art Gallery.  In late 2014 and through 2015 I put a big push on getting more submissions sent out and that has paid off in spades.

Procession West will be exhibited at the Okotoks Art Gallery in March and April of 2016.  In May we are supposed to move a selection of images to the Lebel Mansion Gallery in Pincher Creek.  Then in late August and September of 2016 we will be exhibited at the Summerland Art Gallery in the Okanagan Valley.  There is a photo festival in the Vancouver area, similar to the Exposure Festival here in Alberta.  Procession West will be exhibited at the Port Moody Art Center as part of that festival, in April of 2017.  And finally, the show will be on display at the Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery in Saskatoon at some as yet undetermined date, later in 2017.  There are still a few submission packages out there being considered so perhaps we pick up one or two more shows.  If not this is still a pretty successful run.  Now comes the real work...!!