Edmonton Day 6

So on my final full day in the city I decided I wanted to get a look at some of the art in the city. So after a lazy breakfast starting with orange juice, continuing with coffee & finishing with bacon & eggs, Hardave drove Mavis and I to the train station and we took the LRT to the Art Gallery of Alberta, which was running an exclusive exhibition on Andy Warhol.
Here’s a few pics from along the way.
Sobeys is a major supermarket presence in Edmonton:

This is assuming a lot:

Art:

At our destination! The train stops very close by, and you get an admission discount for showing your LRT stub:

We saw Traffic, which was about conceptual/political art in Canada. From the AGA’s webpage:

TRAFFIC: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 is the first major exhibition in Canada to track the influence and diversity of Conceptual Art in works produced across the country, placing emphasis on the intensely artist-driven involvement in the emergence of this global phenomenon.
The most transformative art movement of the late twentieth century, Conceptual Art became a global phenomenon during the 1960s post-war political unrest that gave birth to anti-war protests and the student, women’s, civil rights and gay liberation movements.
Presenting works by over seventy Canadian and international artists, TRAFFIC: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 also offers a glimpse of some of the movement’s most energetic institutions in the form of the artist-run centres and networks. Concerned with language, body, place and geography–all constitutive elements and primary interests of Conceptual Art internationally–TRAFFIC is organized around urban and regional centres in Canada but seeks to capture the effervescent, and often contentious, lines of traffic between them.

The Warhol exhibition, Manufactured, was actually a guided tour. Our guide was very personable & informative. If you find yourself in the area I definitely recommend checking it out.

Now on view until August 21, ANDY WARHOL: Manufactured features almost 90 works by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The AGA is the only venue to present this show in Canada, which the largest exhibition of Warhol’s work ever to show in Edmonton. The exhibition comprises rarely exhibited drawings, early commercial work, large-scale, iconic works on canvas, Heinz ketchup boxes and small-scale sculptures. Also included are Warhol’s portraits of Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy and Judy Garland, several selections from the Campbell’s Soup series and even some of the wigs that Warhol used to transform himself. The exhibition will also include an installation of Warhol’s Silver Clouds in the 4th floor Borealis Room, a room not typically used as exhibition space. This installation can be accessed by the public during Gallery hours.

Warhol Silver Clouds installation:

A full-time resident’s look at the marketing megalith that is Banff:

Soup Can Drive at the gallery benefitting the Edmonton Food Bank, dovetailing nicely with the Warhol exhibition. At the time I couldn’t tell if it was a real drive or art — perhaps a bit problematic?:

Someone booked the gallery for a wedding; it was beautifully done (and must have cost a fortune!):

After the gallery, we stopped and got some food from the street vendor — Mavis got poutine and I got onion rings. Healthy right?
Walking through the mall:

Catching the LRT:

Bubble tea for the ride home!

Some of the funny art at one of the stops along the way, Southgate mall:

Harddave picked us up and we brainstormed some ideas for dinner.
Millcreek Pizza is a little owner-operated shop that specializes in Indian-style pizza — something I’d never heard of:

Plain on the outside:

Awesome on the inside. We picked up two pies, one butter chicken, and the other veggie-paneer:

Capped the night with ginger beer and the movie Inside Man, which was very good, and, interestingly, had many references to the film I just watched, Dog Day Afternoon.
Another excellent day in Edmonton.