17 March to 22 May 2006

String Game No. 7

Rick Rivet

2002

www.rickrivet.ca

Rick Rivet
Paintings 2000–2005

This exhibition presents 21 paintings by British Columbia-based Rick Rivet and constitute a survey of the artist’s work over the last five years. Born and raised in Canada’s Northwest Territories, Rivet’s artistic practice has been primarily influenced by his experience of the rich diversity of Inuit, Indian and Métis culture.

It has been further shaped by his subsequent study of other ancient shamanistic societies throughout the world, philosophical thought centered on the idea of the universal unconscious, as well as his interest in the work of artists connected to the movements of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. For Rivet, art is a meditative process, one that mirrors the shaman’s function as mediator between the spirit world and the world of the human. Rivet’s visionary canvases of archetypal forms, expressive surfaces and finely tuned colour, provide for a metaphorical access to a mysterious dimension.

Curated by George Moppett. Organized and presented by the Mendel Art Gallery.

Revelation

Paul Sisetski

1995-2000

Paul Sisetski
Don’t Shoot the Messenger

Paul Sisetski is a Saskatoon painter and sculptor whose exhibition Don’t Shoot the Messenger presents a powerful and disturbing vision of the world based on the artist’s extensive studies of the bible and suppressed or marginalized religious texts such as the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, the Apocrypha, and the Gnostic Gospels.

From these readings, Sisetski has produced an interconnected series of paintings around the themes of conspiracy, temptation, revelation, fall and redemption.

Organized and presented by The Mendel Art Gallery. Curated by Dan Ring.

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Progress 1

Edie Marshall

2006

artistsbyartists
Edie Marshall / Terry Billings

The Mendel Art Gallery’s Spring 2006 artistsbyartists exhibition pairs established artist Terry Billings with emerging artist Edie Marshall.

Organized by the Mendel Art Gallery Programming Plexus

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Joni Mitchell

Courtesy of Myrtle Anderson

Naked City
The Amazing Childhood of Joni Mitchell

In celebration of Saskatoon’s centennial year, thespacebetween will house exhibitions that feature odd and unusual city collections including this edition with Myrtle Anderson’s childhood memorabilia of her world-famous daughter, Joni Mitchell.

Organized by the Mendel Art Gallery Programming Plexus.

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