LETHBRIDGE – There are four new exhibitions at Casa.
To celebrate, the Gallery at Casa hosted an opening reception Saturday (April 30) night at 7 p.m.
Guests were able to see collections that explore music, photography, trees and oral traditions between generations of women.
Two shows will be in the Main Gallery.
Hanging by a Thread exhibition by Ilse Salkauskas and Barbara West examines the oral traditions passed down between generations of women through the use of fibre art, sculpture, poetry and mixed-media installation.
Darcy Logan, Curator and gallery manager for Casa, said he anticipates the public’s approval of each display,l as both shows in the main gallery complement one another with an elevated craft-based art form.
“The material itself invites the viewer to look in and at the concepts behind them. If the audience wishes they can look deeper. There are a lot of cool material approaches and it is nothing that is really heavy, scandalous or confrontational, it just asks people for reflection,” he said.
The other exhibition held in the Main Gallery, Musicality displays the Oldman River Potters Guild.
This collection uses ceramics focusing on themes of music, songs and sound.
Logan said that the public is invited to make their own sound and music through with the interactive creations and take also take home a piece of broken clay from a pile on display.
A piece is not all that the curator is hoping visitors take home with them.
“I hope people see the history and importance for the groups that have contributed building the arts community in Lethbridge and that people take a look at these materials and the time, labour, energy and studio effort needed to create these pieces,” Logan said.
In the Passage Gallery there will be The Photographs of John Macdonald. This exhibition showcases photos created by shooting through layers of plate glass, capturing a world of transient reflections.
The Concourse Gallery will host Branches Spreading – a single stem, recent works from the Lethbridge Surface Design Guild.
This exhibition includes: handmade books, assemblage, and paintings based on themes about trees.
Artists will be present at the reception to discuss art and didactics will be posted beside art pieces.
As always Casa is free to the public.
