Works on Paper

Works on Paper is a term used by museums to classify a range of artifacts produced on paper. Taking playful liberty with the designation, this exhibition presents work from the Mendel Art Gallery Permanent Collection that reconsiders the medium and explores its material and conceptual potential. This alternate take on the thematic exhibition showcases the cheeky and inquisitive spirit of artists working in the past half century and offers insight into the business of collecting, sorting, and classifying objects for preservation and display.

Containing more than 5,600 works of art, the Mendel Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection chronicles the creative pursuits of local and regional artists, and those working on a national and international stage. Works on Paper — curated by Troy Gronsdahl and Troy Mamer — celebrates the creative and innovative efforts of contemporary artists and demonstrates the Mendel Art Gallery’s ongoing commitment to art and artists through acquisition, research and presentation.

Works on Paper
April 16 – June 13, 2010
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, CANADA

LIST OF WORKS

Derek Michael Besant
Drawing Room #23, 1978
watercolour, ink on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased with funds from the Canada Council Special Purchase Assistance Program 1978. 

Otto Donald Rogers
Sky as Architecture, 1980
acrylic, charcoal, paper collage on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased 1981.

Otto Donald Rogers
Construct Landscape, 1979
paper collage, acrylic, charcoal on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased
with funds from the Canada Council Special Purchase Assistance Program 1983. 

Michael James Aleck Snow
Stowaway, 1961
graphite on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased 1986.
 
Robert Rauschenberg
Tampa 3, 1972
lithograph, paper collage, graphite on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Gift of Charles Ringness 1998. 

Michael Gerard Maranda
The Three Critiques of Immanuel Kant, 2000
mixed media bookwork
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased with assistance from the Canada Council 2000.

Gunter Nolte
Untitled (Instant Criticism of Illusion), 1976
spray paint on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Gift of Judith Nolte 2001 

Simon Arthur Read
Drawing Towards a Sidelong Glance, 1979
(and supporting permanent record documents)
ink, watercolour and acrylic on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased 1984.