Picture Perfect—in Vue Weekly

Vue’s David Berry also wrote about the National Portrait Gallery in this week’s paper. He spoke to some of the show’s central characters:

As co-curator/artist Norman Omar put it in a brief talk not long before the show’s official opening last Friday, “Though its roots may have been in a reaction to what was going on the portrait gallery, we quickly realized there was something much bigger that we could do.” And it’s the fact that the group at the heart of this show (which, besides Omar, includes artists Fish Griwkowsky, Sean Borchert and Dara Huminiski, arts administrator Leanne Olson and public art director Kristi Trinier) recognized that and exploited it that not only elevates it beyond a simple but clever reaction—similar, say, to the way Make it Not Suck decorated the construction sites fine but suffered in a gallery space—but works as a statement that a certain cohort of Edmonton artists are finally coming into their own.