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Feature Gallery
The ACC operates the only public gallery in the province dedicated to exhibiting craft arts and is Edmonton’s second largest public gallery. The Feature Gallery hosts
4+ exhibitions per year.

Discovery Gallery
The Discovery Gallery is dedicated to showing new work by established and emerging fine craft artists as well as small group exhibitions.  The Discovery Gallery is located on the main level of the ACC and features 7+ exhibitions per year.

PAYCE: Celebrating Greg Payce’s 2013 Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Craft
January 11 – March 29, 2014

For 44 years, Greg Payce has been shaping his experiences and passions at the potter’s wheel. He pulls from design, film, photography, philosophy, and history – all the while reinforcing his connection to fellow potters through the ages.  Whether it is his trademark rows of vases enclosing profiles of human figures in the negative space between, or his latest large-scale lenticular (holographic-like) photographs that create the illusion of depth and movement, Payce’s body of work is rich in philosophical, historical and cultural references. In recent years he has begun to overlay his ceramics with video and photography.

As an assistant professor at Calgary’s Alberta College of Art + Design, Payce has mentored countless students and influenced the direction of fine craft in Canada. He has presented his work in over 150 solo and group exhibits around the world.

In 2013, Payce was the recipient of the Saidye Bronfman Award for Fine Craft, one of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

“The Governor General Awards in Media and Visual Arts are a vital recognition of excellence in our creative communities. At the ceremony, I dedicated this honour to all the family, friends, students, colleagues, teachers, galleries, curators, and collectors who have helped me to succeed. I feel quite humbled and honoured to be selected for such a prestigious award. It is very special that in Canada, these career awards go out to a wide range of artists who have been working hard for many years to thoroughly engage and push their disciplines. The greatest pleasure in receiving the award is the ongoing sincere congratulations from friends, colleagues and students. Far too many great artists never get this kind of confirmation of the value of their contributions.”

 

Pairadocs
1996, Earthenware with Terra Sigillata
29.7 x 47.3 x 16.6 cm

Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Art - Certified as Canadian Cultural Property

Greg Payce - Portrait of the Artist

 

PAYCE 2014