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Matt Bahen: To Plant Trees Under Whose Shade I'll Never Sit
17 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Matt Bahen's latest exhibition, To Plant Trees Under Whose Shade I'll Never Sit, draws heavily on the literary concept of Chekhov's gun, encapsulating the idea that 'if there is a gun on the wall in the first act, it needs to go off in the third.' This is evident in... Read more -
Catherine Burgess: New Small Studies
17 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Increasingly over the last few years my interest has focused on making the immaterial appear more substantive in my sculptures. In the Folds Series I attempt to bend space to make our awareness of it more palpable. This perception of “bent” space is made more impactful by contrasting it with... Read more -
20th Anniversary Exhibition
14 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 This September, we are thrilled to celebrate a significant milestone—20 years of dedication to the art world at Peter Robertson Gallery. Since 2004, under the guidance of Peter and Camille, we have passionately continued the legacy of the Vanderleelie Gallery, originally founded by Robert and Elizabeth Vanderleelie in 1989. Our... Read more -
Summer Group Exhibition
8 - 31 Aug 2024 Join us for a reception with the artists on Thursday, August 22, 7 - 9 pm Works on diplay by Sean Caulfield, Gordon Harper, David Janzen and Andrew Rucklidge. Read more
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Mind Games
6 Jul - 6 Aug 2024 The group exhibition 'Mind Games' was curated to reflect the concept of positively influencing and controlling another person's feelings through art. Each artist in the exhibition approached this theme uniquely, guiding viewers in novel ways to experience their work. Scott Cumberland: Known for his vibrant abstract works, Scott utilizes what... Read more -
Group Exhibition: Modern Landscape
27 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 The 'Modern Landscape' exhibition offers a vibrant exploration of the Canadian landscape through the innovative lenses of contemporary artists. Each artist in the exhibition brings a unique approach to their work, pushing the boundaries of traditional landscape representation and inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship with nature. Gregory Hardy's utilization... Read more -
David T. Alexander, Matt Bahen, Peter von Tiesenhausen: The Land
4 May - 26 Jun 2024 'The Land' brings together the works of David T. Alexander, Matt Bahen, and Peter von Tiesenhausen, three artists whose profound engagement with the landscape transcends mere representation to provoke thought about nature, memory, and transformation. David T. Alexander’s panoramic and often atmospheric paintings serve as emotional reflections rather than direct... Read more -
Sheila Luck & Mitchel Smith: Scenes From A Marriage
28 Mar - 23 Apr 2024 It’s with great pleasure we announce ‘Scenes from a Marriage’ a two-person show featuring the work of wife and husband abstract painters Sheila Luck and Mitchel Smith. The pair's artistic odyssey started when they met in art school 45 years ago and since that time the couple have been an... Read more
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Frances Thomas: Artist Spotlight
26 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 We are pleased to present a curated retrospective exhibition of works by Frances Thomas. Frances Thomas is a Canadian painter and printmaker, born in Parry Sound, Ontario. MFA, She received both her BFA and MFA from York University, Toronto, Ontario, and is the recipient of the Samuel Sarick Purchase Award... Read more -
Phil Darrah: Shifts In Focus
16 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 The works in this exhibition are selected from 2020 through 2023. My work is abstract and driven by both conscious and intuitive preoccupations. I work on canvas stapled to indoor/outdoor carpet covered platforms, on the floor. I have worked on vertical screens but since I like to work with washes... Read more -
Wilf Perreault: Up Your Alley
9 Dec 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 This body of work which has been created for the current exhibition at the Peter Robertson Gallery in Edmonton is a continuation of the Alley subject I have embraced throughout my career. Acrylic paint is the medium for these works, and is applied on canvas or on alminium composite board.... Read more -
Steve Driscoll: A Place Like No Other
28 Oct - 25 Nov 2023 'Inspired equally by Gaugin and Go-Pro, Steve Driscoll’s paintings respect tradition but embrace technology. More than just re-imaginings of the landscape, his paintings, materially and conceptually, also illustrate how advancements in technology are shaping our interactions with the world and supporting innovative approaches to art-making. Like the glow of a... Read more
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Gary James Joynes: Sonic Suns
12 Oct - 25 Nov 2023 Sonic Suns is a visual-sound installation and photography exhibition allowing audiences to experience the profound beauty of the unseen. It invites the active process of listening to, looking at, and feeling sound; linking sensoria to allow for immersion in a whole-body experience. It encourages a meditative state in viewers -... Read more -
Gregory Hardy: The Clouds Above
21 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 'I see the landscape as a giant theatre, and the clouds above are a major character in the play.' - Gregory Hardy, 2023 Peter Robertson Gallery is pleased to announce The Clouds Above, an exhibition of new paintings by Gregory Hardy. Greg Hardy is arguably Canada’s leading artist whose practice... Read more -
Shana Wilson: presenting HERstory
24 Aug - 30 Sep 2023 2018 marked the start of my artistic tribute to inspirational women. The Trail Blazers. The Change Makers. The Life Savers. Each is a significant undertaking, filling my studio with hope for a better future. As the years pass, my artistic style evolves and is recorded with the stories of these... Read more -
Lynn Malin: In Continuum
24 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 Malin’s work is a process of visual stimulation; from looking closely at flowers and gardens to her photographs of sprawling aerial views. It mimics images of everyday life from table settings to patterns in nature. Solutions are found between human hieroglyphics and grids and the chaotic marks of seasonal change... Read more
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Kirsty Templeton Davidge: Effacing
24 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 Kirsty Templeton Davidge's latest exhibition focuses on femininity, beauty, gender, age, and intimacy. Her work begins with secondhand clothes; searching for garments that offer a history or a counterpoint. Using models that are women in her life, she seeks overlooked details and intimacies that are only revealed through long and... Read more -
Alice Teichert: PULSAR
8 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Colours speak beyond words. Emitting lightwaves via colours in conversation, I like to think of this new group of paintings as individual pulsars in formation. Similar to sounds that create ripple effects in resonance of their initial tone, colours in my view do the same. Sound and colour both create... Read more -
Monica Tap: Each Thing, in its own way
11 May - 10 Jun 2023 In her work, Monica Tap uses landscape to consider questions of time and history, technology and memory. Her paintings are arrangements assembled from various fragments: outtakes from painting’s history, elements from her own snapshots, colour notes, and memory. Each painting is both an invention and a response to a place... Read more -
Robin Smith Peck: In Proximity
13 Apr - 6 May 2023 'I’m really curious about how images are interpreted or how meaning is created when individual images are seen in close proximity. In the studio I find that many of my choices and decisions are influenced by the proximity of unfinished work and sketches etc. A times it’s as though they... Read more
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David T. Alexander: Revisiting
9 Mar - 8 Apr 2023 We have had the great pleasure of exhibiting David’s work for the last 20 years. The current exhibition, ‘Revisiting’, aims to showcase a series of paintings executed during that time frame. Mountains, trees, and water are all focal points of Alexander’s practice. The series of ‘wet’ paintings are of particular... Read more -
Clay Ellis: Flats, Tropes, Rondos
19 Nov - 10 Dec 2022 “The cake is in the coffee tin marked tea” One of my mothers lines, an example of depression era resourcefulness. Her habit of attaching a history (or sometimes a personality) to an object was entirely something else. Perhaps a result of knowing that every doorknob, latch, newel post, or banister... Read more -
Sean Caulfield: Found Anatomies
17 Nov - 10 Dec 2022 Caulfield initiated his recent series of mixed media works in the Found Anatomies series by drawing on imagery from Andreas Vesalius’s well know 16th -century anatomy work, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body). These anatomical references, which at times are clear and at... Read more -
Peter von Tiesenhausen: The Old Man And His Tin Cans
13 Oct - 12 Nov 2022 The old man and his tin cans' takes its name from a joke about von Tiesenhausen's practice which largely consists of playful exploration through any medium at hand; found, purchased, collected, or residue from a myriad of previous projects. While purchasing the entire stock of cookie tins at a thrift... Read more
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Matt Bahen: As Though It Were Of Some Other Order
6 Oct - 12 Nov 2022 Using the literary device of the enchanted forest Bahen constructs landscape paintings by collaging multiple disparate images of landscapes together. Inspired by science fiction/ speculative fiction specifically, the work of Jeff Vandermeer and his Southern Reach Trilogy, as well as Hayao Miyazaki films such as Princess Monoke and Nausicaa of... Read more -
Catherine Burgess: CORPUS
22 Sep - 8 Oct 2022 CORPUS — the main body or corporeal substance of a thing CORPUS is a group of small sculptures created in the spring and summer of 2022. In the past I have often worked by making pieces in series that share a common title as well as a similar starting point... Read more -
Kirsty Templeton Davidge - Woman's Work
15 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 Artist’s statement As a woman, the way I behave and express myself is shaped by the cultures I was brought up in. Gender roles, characteristics and activities are not innate, but are socially constructed. Further, my gender roles morph, contract and expand in time with the passing years and responsibilities.... Read more -
Gavin Lynch - Rural Days
18 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 The paintings in the Gavin Lynch’s latest exhibition, Rural Days, continue to act as stages for the artist to experiment with the conventions of the landscape genre. Using both a hard edge and collage approach, Lynch culls, crops and paints a variety of source images on the picture plane, using... Read more
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Julian Forrest - Beacon
18 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 A studio is like a bubble or a cave in that, if you want, you can stay hidden away from the world for days and weeks and months on end. I have spent a lot of time holed up in my studio over the last couple of years – sitting... Read more -
Lynn Malin - FRESH
14 May - 4 Jun 2022 In FRESH, Edmonton artist Lynn Malin conveys the ethereal feel of how light effects colour and form. With a new series of black and white works on lexan, Malin continues to push her practice forward incorporating dramatic aerial elements into the grayscale paintings. Read more -
David Cantine - Still-Life Pictures
9 - 23 Apr 2022 Opening: Saturday, April 9 from 2 - 4 pm Artist in attendance Read more -
Steve Driscoll - Stuck In That Moment Forever
12 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Read more
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Wilf Perreault - Chromatic Moondreams
2 - 23 Dec 2021 Join us Saturday, December 4th for the opening of Wilf Perreault's latest exhibition, Chromatic Moondreams. Artist in attendance from 2 - 4 pm, Saturday Masks and vaccine passports required. Wilf Perreault is one of Saskatchewan’s most celebrated artists. For over 40 years the Regina based painter has been best known... Read more -
Gregory Hardy - Shimmer and Boom
6 - 27 Nov 2021 Read more -
Steve Driscoll - River Rising
16 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 Artworks not only reflect the time in which they were first conceived, they’ll often come to represent the times in which they are first seen. Steve Driscoll began producing his latest body of work before the pandemic. In those ‘before times’, he was primarily interested in discovering how different technologies... Read more -
Andrew Rucklidge - Edge of the Wild Country
24 Apr - 31 May 2021 Read more
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Matt Bahen - On the Wind
24 Apr - 31 May 2021 Read more -
Alice Teichert - Between Worlds Everything
7 May - 18 Jun 2020 “Between Worlds Everything is connected between where we were and where we are going. Like a note in music, the expression of Everything that we are is connected to a form of resonance. The question I keep hearing is: How Now can we be? Lately I have been experiencing overlapping... Read more -
Gavin Lynch - O M E G A
12 Mar - 7 Apr 2020 Influenced by a recent road trip to California, current global events and contemporary science fiction, Gavin Lynch’s exhibition OMEGA further explores the artist’s interest in the potential of landscape painting. Lynch uses elements of text, the monochrome, figuration and abstraction to create contemplative spaces that portray our natural surroundings and... Read more -
Peter von Tiesenhausen - Translations
12 Mar - 7 Apr 2020 Read more
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Steve Driscoll - The Sudden Flood of Memories
7 Nov - 1 Dec 2019 Read more -
David Alexander - Land's Meaning
1 - 30 Nov 2019 Read more -
David Janzen - Crestline
17 Oct - 1 Nov 2019 Peter Robertson Gallery is pleased to present ‘Crestline’, a survey of David Janzen’s diverse painting practice over the last 15 years. Janzen has found inspiration in a wide range of subjects; caves, dams, transfer stations, rockets, aircraft and surveillance cameras have all inspired him. David Janzen graduated in 1983 from... Read more -
Phil Darrah - Out of the Box
17 Oct - 1 Nov 2019 Read more
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Mitchel Smith - Colour Floes
19 Sep - 8 Oct 2019 'I share a birthdate with Arnold Schoenberg. This is a fact completely random and also curious. Curious because I also seem to share an aesthetic outlook with Schoenberg in that I try to manipulate the formal elements of the medium I work in to achieve a satisfying effect. Satisfying in... Read more -
Monica Tap - Arrangement
14 Jun - 7 Jul 2019 In her work, Monica Tap uses landscape to consider questions of time and history, technology and memory. Her paintings are arrangements assembled from various fragments: outtakes from painting’s history, elements from her own snapshots, colour notes, memory. Each painting is both an invention and a response to place that she... Read more -
Frances Thomas: The Broader Picture
23 May - 22 Jun 2019 For me painting is a way of thinking. I have always just followed the work. Even if something is completely different from what I have made before, I know it’s right—it either works or it doesn’t as an artwork. I am interested more in what is happening in the moment,... Read more -
Gregory Hardy - Prairie Revisited
22 May - 22 Jun 2019 'For the past number of years, the motif of Lac la Ronge has been the major source of my inspiration and interest in trying to evoke or capture a sense of light through the use of exaggerated colour. Over the winter of 2018 /2019 I had a yearning to paint... Read more
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Scott Cumberland - Serious Whimsy
7 Feb - 5 Mar 2019 'The paintings in Serious Whimsy attempt to investigate the often tenuous and complicated relationship between the ‘decorative’ and abstract painting. Using the Rococo art movement as a point of reference, I combine decorative patterning with my continued interest in the ribbon motif. My intention is to tease out concepts associated... Read more -
Gordon Harper: Tree Island
7 Feb - 5 Mar 2019 Tree Island is a place in the imagination, where two worlds meet. It is a place where we encounter the wilderness, on the fringes of the built world. It is a place where our conflicting inner selves meet: the person who is part of nature by birth, and the person... Read more -
Erin Loree - Forth and Back
29 Sep - 20 Oct 2018 In her upcoming exhibition, Forth and Back, Loree presents a series of pairs of paintings that continue her exploration of the opposing forces of freedom and constraint. In each pair, one of the paintings displays the artist’s typically unrestrained, intuitive approach, while the other demonstrates an attempt to replicate the... Read more -
Julian Forrest - The is not a Century for Paradises
5 Mar - 7 Apr 2018 Read more
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Gregory Hardy: Of Sky and Water
16 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 “Like many artists I go back to and explore the subjects I have gotten to know and love over many years of observation. Painting from motifs that are very personal and full of visual stimulation for me, I try and do another painting that has a lasting quality and feels... Read more -
David T. Alexander: Events in Nameless Land
19 Oct - 4 Nov 2017 Read more -
BEGIN TRANSMISSION
25 May - 13 Jun 2017 Read more -
Gavin Lynch: Land of the Midnight Sun
4 - 20 May 2017 ... Among these landscapes, various itemized mementos are presented: Human skulls, a deadly Amanita muscaria, andan ominous raven suspended in dark sky. These works – figures which operate on the ground of the landscapes, if you will – dilate a sense of human mortality. They are traces of our involvement... Read more
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Isla Burns: Tempered Steel
6 - 22 Apr 2017 Read more -
Frances Thomas: In Pursuit: Contemporary Abstraction and Persuasion
6 - 29 Apr 2017 Artist Statement I am a painter and printmaker. Each work is an event, a speculation, an opportunity for the viewer to feel something. At its most basic I make images in my desire to touch others through a sensory experience involving colour, shape, line, mark, form and space. Relying on... Read more -
Steve Driscoll - ....And a Dark Wind Blows
14 Oct - 5 Nov 2016 The Peter Robertson Gallery in Edmonton is pleased to present Steve Driscoll: And a Dark Wind Blows, a suite of new contemporary landscape paintings by the highly regarded Toronto artist. Presented as an immersive installation featuring an artificial lake and boardwalk, the show opens Friday, October 14 (reception 7:00 to... Read more -
Gregory Hardy: Dashes of Red
5 - 26 Sep 2015 “I continue to explore the relationship between my observations of the natural world and the sheer joy of putting paint on a surface. In my recent work I have primarily focused on trying to achieve a luminous quality in the paintings by experimenting with the intensity of my... Read more
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David T. Alexander: Landmind: an Equilibrium of Events and Process
25 Oct - 12 Nov 2014 Read more -
Gregory Hardy: The Light Within
5 - 22 Apr 2014 'In this recent body of work I return over and over to the motifs of the prairie and the northern shield where I spend countless hours drawing and absorbing what I see. The drawings, primarily in sketchbooks, become the visual skeleton and emotional reference for the paintings. Observing clouds and... Read more -
Monica Tap: Road Trip
6 - 17 May 2011 Monica Tap's new work smoothly blurs the line between landscape and abstract. Based on a series of digital still images, the oil paintings are reminiscent of quickly scanning a view, then closing your eyes to recall it. The eye and the memory play tricks, instilling a meld of fabrication and... Read more
