Provincial Publications
Michael Hosaluk: Containment
2007 Mendel Art Gallery
ISBN: 978-1-89-6359-61-8
Michael Hosaluk: Containment
Essay by Stephen Hogbin
The official catalogue to the exhibition, Containment is Michael Hosaluk's first solo exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery. Michael has made a significant contribution to the artistic and cultural landscape of Saskatchewan, and his work has received considerable national and international recognition.
Superb craftsmanship, playful invention, and an open invitation to the public to participate are joined together in Containment, offering viewers and experiential encounter with Michael's work. Common chair and grid forms serve as leitmotifs for examining the multiple meanings of "containment."
Michael Hosaluk challenges our everyday habits of perception. His various collaborations and temporary public interventions question the notion of autonomy of authorship to connect creativity with community.
Marking Time
2005 Mendel Art Gallery
ISBN: 1-896359-50-70
Marking Time
Lori Blondeau
Lynne Bell
Morna Greuel (et al)
Structured around the concept of passing, marking, remembering and imaging time and its affect of the people and the land, Marking Time presents a complex interplay of resonating images and ideas.
Curators Lori Blondeau, Josephine Mills, Dan Ring and George Moppett, each selected the work of two contemporary artists who have a deep affiliation with Saskatchewan. The diverse work of Lorne Beug, Dana Claxton, David Geary, George Glenn, Edward Poitras, Sandra Semchuck, James Nicholas, Danny Singer and Margaret Vanderhaeghe offers a thought-provoking reading of the nature and dynamics of human interaction with this place, its past, present and future.
Peter von Tiesenhausen: Blind Faith
2005 Mendel Art Gallery
IBSN: 978-1-896359-54-0
Peter von Tiesenhausen:
Blind Faith
George Moppett
Blind Faith provides special insight into the creative process of the Alberta-based artist Peter von Tiesenhausen, a process grounded in direct experience, personal intuition and the spiritual in nature.
Peter von Tiesenhausen's poetic installation conjures a multiplicity of interrelationships and layers of meaning, revealing a deep respect for the everyday mystery of the world. Through fusion of matter with spirit, this compelling work offers a unique, meditative experience, a healing alchemy for a profane and unbalanced contemporary culture.
Character and Controversy: The Mendel Art Gallery and Modernist Architecture in Saskatchewan
2004 Mendel Art Gallery
IBSN:1-896359-45-0
Character and Controversy:
The Mendel Art Gallery and Modernist Architecture in Saskatchewan
Bernard Flaman
On the occasion of the Mendel's 40th Anniversary, Character and Controversy:The Mendel Art Gallery and Modernist Architecture in Saskatchewan highlights the architectural design of the Mendel Art Gallery as a primary example of Sasktchewan's Modernist architectural history and heritage.
Jim Graham: Metropolis
2004 Mendel Art Gallery
IBSN: 1-896359-44-2
Jim Graham: Metropolis
Dan Ring
For the past 25 years, Jim Graham has given primary attention to the urban geography of the community in which he lives. His cool, Photo-Realist paintings of local architectural subjects emphasize precise detail, reflective surface and strong abstract structure.
Dan Ring's insightful curatorial essay places Graham's work within the context of international "realist" movements, which emerged in the 1960's, and in relation to contemporary critiques of representation in our present age of hyperreality.
Douglas Bentham: Resonance
2004 Mendel Art Gallery
IBSN: 1-896359-43-4
Douglas Bentham: Resonance
Dan Ring
Represented in the Mendel's permanent collection and featured in several one-person and group exhibitions orgainzed by the gallery since 1969, Bentham's distinctive sculptural practice has made a profound contribution to Saskatchewan's cultural landscape.
Through the exhibition Resonance, and the attendant publication, the Mendel continues to demonstrate its commitment to following the development interpretation of contemporary art of national significance.
Ellen Moffat: Blow
2004 Mendel Art Gallery
IBSN: 1-896359-41-8
Ellen Moffat: Blow
Betsy Warland
Blow offers a possible model for exploring the conditions all art has to face the complexity and slippery terrain of the signifying process.
Detaching language from its semantic context and linear unity, Moffat's poetic deconstructions of the spoken word, along with her intermixing of media, proposes an acentred, nonhierarchal system of communication.
Wild Fire on the Plains:
Contemporary Saskatchewan Art
2003 Mendel Art Gallery
IBSN: 1-896359-42-6
Wild Fire on the Plains:
Contemporary Saskatchewan Art
Morgan Wood
An important focus of Wild Fire, is the resonating impact of Aboriginal histories, traditions, and evolving identities
Guest Curator Morgan Wood has likened the work of the four artistis in Wild Fire—Anthony Deiter, David Garneau, cheryl l'hirondelle-waynohtêw, and Neal McLeod—to the natural phenomenon of a plains wildfire.
Visiting
Artist of the Month
September – October 2007
The Gallery Shop features the works of Roxanne Enns .
Youth Council
Phantasmagoria
A group exhibition organized and curated by the Mendel Youth Council
On view from November 16, 2007
Opening Reception: November 24, 2007
- Open Daily 9am to 9pm
- 950 Spadina Crescent East, Saskaton, Saskatchewan
- Free Admission