Just Like Wanting to be Jewish

I never visit the galleries in Edmonton. It's true. We never explore the cities that we live in, but we really should. So, completely NOT in this spirit, but one of pure and utter procrastination, Stephanie and I walked down to the Harcourt Gallery, and the Vanderleelie Gallery just up the street from us. I have to say, I was pretty impressed, and fell in love with a couple of Canadian artists. Harcourt had an interesting exhibit on, "Spaced Out" by Marcia Huyer, a very strange exhibit of blown up strange shapes, fabric formed into some very interesting shapes and inflated with air. It looked very organic, very - intestinal. Stephanie and I both agreed that it was a little.. gross, even though it was all white and clinical. Strange.

We were taken into the back storage room of Vanderleelie Gallery, and got to see some really fantastic pieces. I fell for one particular artist, Amy Claire Huestis - a fantastic artist from Montreal with just gorgeous paintings. Beautiful. Also, a very interesting Edmonton artist, David Cantine - very organic, smooth, circular.. only circles.. beautiful. You can check them all out here.

Overall, not a bad afternoon - there's a thunderstorm rolling in and I'm going to curl up with my English studying. Take care all.