This weekend will be a great one for Lethbridge art afficionados.
A pallette of fun begins at 2 p.m. at the Owl Acoustic Lounge with November’s edition of Dr. Sketchy’s anti-art school. It is a jazz theme this time. Model Clair de la Lune is presenting an afternoon of Fosse Jazz. Bob 
Fosse was an American choreographer who was highly influential to the jazz dance style. He was very simplistic yet powerful in his staging and movement. He used a cool, jazz sensibility in his choreography, yet it was burlesque in nature and sleek by choice with pelvic movement and heavy leans.
Fosse Jazz has engaging poses, angles and positions that would suit the portrait studio greatly.
Tickets are $10 for the event, which runs from 2-5 p.m.
In addition to the Burning Ground studio’s exhibition of their latest works at the Trianon and Petit Trianon Gallery, there are several other exhibitions starting as well.
Mary-Anne McTrowe is excited to present Sarah Barr’s latest installation ‘In A Thin Voice’ at McTrowe and husband David Hoffos’s Chinatown studio, Nov. 20.
“Sarah is a graduate of the University of Lethbridge, but she is in Montreal doing her master’s degree at Concordia. She is just back for this show and then goes back to Montreal,” McTrowe said adding though Barr is usually known for working in fibre, she has been working in sculpture lately utilizing books.
The current installation incorporates video and sound.
“It’s been pretty irregular that we’ve been doing shows at the studio expecially since the fire last year,” McTrowe continued adding this show is a partnership with The Trap\Door Artist’s Collective.
The opening reception is 7-9 p.m. at 310-2nd Ave South. The exhibition runs until Dec. 17.
Catherine Ross’s new exhibition “Field Sightings,” opens at 8 p.m., Nov. 20 at the Mueller Gallery.
It features a variety of sculptures of birds and forest creatures.
Local bluesman Daryll Düus will be performing at it as well.
Southern Alberta Art Gallery opens “Boole” and“Silent as Glue”
The Southern Alberta Art Gallery also opens two new exhibitions, Nov. 20.
Southern Ontario based post studio artists and sculptors Christian Giroux and Daniel Young present their exhibiton ‘Boole.”
“Boole” is described as “an ongoing body of work produced using machine fabricated, powder coated, sheet metal enclosures developed in a formal dialogue with pieces of Ikea furniture. It is this fusion of objects from the domestic realm with an industrial mode of manufacturing – the world of the commodity and the component – that positions the practice of Daniel Young & Christian Giroux in conversation with the spirit of contemporary modernism.”
The other exhibition is Lynda Gammon, Matt Harle and Elspeth Pratt’s “Silent as Glue.”
It is described as “ There is a confidence in these works that is reassuring. It comes from both questioning what has been made before and a commitment to moving forward. It is about bringing new images to life that are both of the world and of the artists’ singular imaginations. Each of the artists has a sensibility that has been finely honed over decades, resonating between an appreciation of humble, quotidian materials and a need to re-shape them into something that is both familiar and awkward at the same time—objects and images that one has never seen before, rich with references and allusions to the built world. They are evocative and open-ended in the same way that a great song can be.
How to join one thing to another; which colour, if any, to choose; how many different materials to use; how much of that material to include; will it sit, lean or hang? — these are the kinds of questions that Lynda Gammon, Matt Harle and Elspeth Pratt ask themselves every day in their studios. The answers to these questions and more are revealed in their respective works. The nature of their responses is the subject of this exhibition.”
The opening reception for both exhibitions is at 8 p.m.
More information about these exhibits is available online at http://www.saag.ca/art/exhibitions/
University of Lethbridge New Media Cub presenting their works
Further down the road, the University of Lethbridge’s new media cub presents “The Big Show,” Nov. 25 in the Student’s Union ballroom. It is an evening of student generated interactive media hosted by CKXU's Matty V. It promises to be an evening of sight, sound, imagination and more.
Admission is free.
