The Alberta Society of Artists

The ASA is a registered society under the regulations of the Province of Alberta. Its members include professional artists in all media as well as visual arts supporters.

Current Members

E. Ross Bradley

Birth Place
Buckingham, Quebec
1948

Residence
Edmonton, Alberta

Education
1972, BA (Fine Arts), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
1970, A.O.C.A. (Design), Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario

Public Collections

  • Red Deer & District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta
  • The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
  • A.E. LePage, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Edmonton Public School Board, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Pan Canadian Petroleum, Calgary, Alberta
  • The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
  • Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Grande Prairie, Alberta
  • Smyth Radcliffe & Associates, Calgary, Alberta
  • University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Vencap Equities Alberta Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta
  • Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
  • Canadian Airlines
    Calgary, Alberta

Bibliography

  • Alberta Society of Artists, The First Seventy Years by Kathy E. Zimon University of Calgary Press, 2000
  • Mote - Spring 2000 Yellow Pencil Creative, 2000
  • Art Banking: Recent Additions to the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection (writer) Legacy: Alberta's Heritage Magazine, 1999
  • Equus: Drama & Art by Patricia Barry Artichoke, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer, 1999
  • Carmina Burana by P.S. Barry Artichoke (Spring), 1998
  • In Innate Sense: The Intuitive Arts in Alberta, (Writer/Curator) The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta, 1991
  • Out of the Fire (writer) Arts West Magazine, 1983

Solo Exhibitions

  • Duets and Arias
    ArtSpace Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2004
  • Crossing the Line
    ATP/Martha Cohen Theatre Lobby, Calgary, Alberta
    2004
  • Interludes: Selections from Duets and Arias
    Rigaletto's Cafe, Edmonton, Alberta
    2004
  • Intimate Exchanges, An Exhibition of Polaroid Transfers
    Electrum Design Studio & Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    2001
  • Intimate Reflections: An Exhibition of Polaroid Transfers
    Muse Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
    2001
  • Details
    Walterdale Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
    1995
  • Japanese Prints
    Gulf Canada Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1989
  • Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1985
  • Bow River Odyssey
    Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
    1983
  • Paperworks Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1983
  • Paperworks Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1982
  • Shadows Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1982
  • The Church Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
    1981

Group Exhibitions

  • The Vagina Monologues
    Grande Prairie Regional College, Grande Prairie, Alberta
    2006
  • Ad Parnassum
    Fringe Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    2006
  • Metamorphosis
    Fringe Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    2005
  • Lucky 13 (The Naked Show)
    Harcourt House Art Center, Edmonton, Alberta
    2005
  • Peep Show III: 16th Annual Members Show
    Harcourt House Art Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2004
  • I Love Alberta Beefcake: Naked 12
    Harcourt House Art Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2004
  • Aida to Zazà
    Rigaletto's Café, Edmonton, Alberta
    2004
  • Illusive Images
    Profiles Public Art Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
    2003
  • Naked 11
    Harcourt House Art Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2003
  • Peep Show II: 15th Annual Members Show
    Harcourt House Art Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2003
  • Time After Time-The Exhibition
    The Rice Theatre Lobby, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2003
  • Return to Olympus
    Fringe Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    2003
  • One Size Fits All: 14th Annual Members Show
    Harcourt House Art Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2002
  • X Rated: Naked Number 10
    Harcourt House Arts Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2002
  • Naked Exhibition
    Café le Gare, Edmonton, Alberta
    2002
  • People
    Label Mansion Gallery, Pincher Creek, Alberta
    2002
  • Doing Leonard Cohen Exhibition
    The Rice Theatre Lobby, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2002
  • Out Of Bounds: Naked Number 9
    Harcourt House Arts Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2001
  • Naked in Grande Prairie
    Muse Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
    2001
  • Go Figure
    Alberta Craft Council Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    2001
  • Pantheon
    Fringe Gallery (PaintSpot), Edmonton, Alberta
    2001
  • It's In the Cards: Alberta Artists Explore the Mystery of the Tarot
    The Works International Visual Arts Festival, The Rice Theatre Lobby, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2000
  • Open To The Public
    McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta
    2000
  • Officially Naked/Works Approved
    The Works International Visual Arts Festival, Harcourt House Art Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    2000
  • South of 9, East of 23
    Medicine Hat Cultural Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    2000
  • Fygure or Lykenesse: Life Drawings
    Upstairs Gallery/Great Bear Framing, Edmonton, Alberta
    2000
  • Friends and Mentors Revisited
    Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1999
  • Figuratively Speaking
    Willock & Sax Ltd. Gallery, Waterton, Alberta
    1999
  • out with a BANG: 11th Annual Members Exhibition
    Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1999
  • No Dress Code*
    The 7th Annual Naked Exhibition, Harcourt House Art Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    1999
  • Equus - The Exhibition
    Walterdale Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
    1999
  • Still Naked After All These Years
    The Works International Visual Arts Festival, Harcourt House Art Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
    1998
  • Saints and Sinners - Presented by the Alberta Society of Artists
    The Works International Visual Arts Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
    1998
  • Fully Exposed
    Manifesto Gallery & Bistro, Edmonton, Alberta
    1997
  • From the Dust of the Earth
    Electrum Design Studio & Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1997
  • Carmina Burana
    The Works Festival//ASA/Manifesto Gallery & Bistro, Edmonton, Alberta
    1997
  • Buck Naked
    The Works Festival/Harcourt House, Edmonton, Alberta
    1997
  • Naked IV
    The Works Festival/Harcourt House, Edmonton, Alberta
    1996
  • Naked III
    The Works Festival/Harcourt House, Edmonton, Alberta
    1995
  • Au Plein Air
    Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
    1995
  • 'Till You Drop
    The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
    1995
  • Provincial ASA Exhibition
    Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, Alberta
    1995
  • Eclectic Art
    Red Deer & District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta
    1995
  • Tribute - Fifteen Years of Alberta Craft
    McMullen Gallery, Univertity of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, Alberta
    1995
  • The Myth of Male Power
    Kamena Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1994
  • kaleidoscope
    Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
    1994
  • Diversity in Action
    Harcourt House, Edmonton, Alberta
    1994
  • Naked II
    The Works Festival/Harcourt House, Edmonton, Alberta
    1994
  • 4 x 4
    The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
    1994
  • Once Upon A Time
    McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1994
  • The Figure Refigured
    The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
    1993
  • Couples
    The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
    1993
  • Naked
    Harcourt House Annex, Edmonton, Alberta
    1993
  • Something Complete Different
    Old Court House Gallery, Red Deer, Alberta
    1992
  • Postcards from Edmonton
    Nova Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1992
  • Figuratively Speaking
    Beaver House, Edmonton, Alberta
    1992
  • Best Foot Forward
    ASA 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Beaver House, Edmonton, Alberta
    1991-92
  • Sand, Fire and Light
    McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1991
  • 1990 at the Front
    Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1990
  • Artifacts of Past Lives
    The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
    1990
  • ASA at the Front
    Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1989
  • Towards a New Canadian Mythology
    The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
    1989
  • Trees, Gravel, Water, Rocks
    The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
    1989
  • Selfportrait
    The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
    1988
  • En Route
    Paperworks Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1987
  • Alberta/A Sense of Place
    Alberta Art Foundation, Travelling Exhibition Program, Alberta
    1987
  • On the Road to Kobe
    Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1986
  • Alberta Pavilion, EXPO 86, Vancouver, British Columbia
    1986
  • Japanese Impressions
    Gulf Canada Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1985
  • Ten Approaches to Landscape
    Gulf Canada Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1984
  • Canadian Perspectives Canadienne
    National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
    1981

Traveling Exhibitions

  • Inspired, Influenced....InSERIES
    Alberta Craft Council Gallery, Edmonton, Red Deer and District Museum and Archives, Alberta
    2006
  • Ars Poetica
    Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program, Alberta
    2003-2005
  • Bridging A New Century
    Red Deer, Stony Plain, Lethbridge, Edmonton, Blairmore, Grande Prairie, and Calgary, Alberta
    2000-02
  • Symbols in Civilizations
    The Alberta Society of Artists' 65th Anniversary Traveling Exhibition, Various locations in Alberta
    1996-97
  • My Name is Tom Three Persons
    Alberta
    1992
  • Alberta Visions
    Japan
    1991-93
  • The Human Condition
    Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program, Alberta
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