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Calgary Art Shows & Exhibits
• A WorldWeb.com Travel Guide to Art Shows & Exhibits in Calgary, Alberta.
January 30, 2010 to April 10, 2010 Opening Reception: January 30, 2010 from 5pm to 8pm AGC Community Day: Free Admission: April 10, 2010 from 10am to 5pm
The Kingston Prize 2009: Canada’s National Portrait Competition More Info
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+ My Favorites Mar 11 to Apr 10 The Kingston Prize is awarded in a biennial national competition for contemporary portraits of Canadians by Canadian artists, with an exhibition of thirty finalists chosen by a distinguished jury. To be eligible, an entry must be a painting or drawing of a specific person, produced within 24 months of the closing date and based upon a meeting between artist and subject. The Kingston Prize of $10,000 is presented by the W. Garfield Weston Foundation to the winner chosen by the jury. A $1,000 People’s Choice Prize, is awarded at each of the four exhibition locations, based upon ballots submitted by visitors to the exhibition.
Heart Lab - Resonance More Info
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+ My Favorites Mar 11 to Mar 31 This work represents a new chapter in our ongoing exploration of the relationship between text and image. We like to think of our work as installation narratives, with ourselves, the artists, as main characters. As our setting changes, so does our focus. Resonance has been created in response and in relation to the surrounding simplicity of the foothills and prairies. This simplicity has inspired us to playfully represent the essence of words as sound, and image as space by creating a 3-dimensional diorama utilizing drawing, stamping, and sculptural methods.
Heart Lab is a collaboration between Anita Levesque and Bradley Smith. Both artists attended ACAD in Calgary, Alberta. They have been exploring apartments together for the past fifteen years; their travels seeing them coast to coast. Currently they live in Nelson, BC, where they continue their on-going effort to bring art into life, life into art.
Stride Gallery Address: 1004 Macleod Tr SE Calgary AB T2G 2M7
Conan Masterson: PEEP SHOW / +15 Window Project More Info
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+ My Favorites Mar 11 to Mar 29 Peep Show blurs the boundaries between entertainer and entertained in a way that is both impulsively humorous and unsettlingly carnivalesque. Hundreds of anthropomorphic eyeballs dangle in the window, watching the passing parade. These ridiculous and unnerving objects put the viewers on the spot as the pupils fix upon the viewer, twisting the subject/object relationship into a “who sees who” game. Peep Show creates an absurd carnival of role shifting between performer and performance, which is discomforting, beguiling, and irresistible.
The +15 Window Project is located in the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts +15 pedestrian walkway, 235 - 9th Ave SE For more information about the +15 Window Project Space Submissions or Programming, contact the gallery.
Truck Address: 815 1 St SW, lower level Calgary AB T2P 1N3
Opening February 11th, 2010 The Paul Kuhn Gallery is pleased to present recent photographs by Calgary artist, Andy Yang. This is Andy Yang's inaugural exhibition at the Gallery. Andy Yang was born in1985 in Guangzhou, China, 1985 and immigrated to Calgary,Alberta in 1997. In 2009 he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Alberta College of Art + Design. Andy's exploration of new media, notably, video installation and photography, allows him to produce exemplary work which was showcased in the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in October 2009. Andy Yang is the Province of Alberta winner of the BMO 1st! Art Award 2009.
"Best of the Contemporaries" More Info
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+ My Favorites Mar 11 Loch Gallery presents new works by senior and emerging artists including: Ron Bolt, Ivan Eyre, Philip Craig, Nadine Lundahl and David Ward among others. Also introducing photographer and astronaut, Roberta Bondar. Show runs until March 11, 2010.
Loch Gallery Address: 1516 4 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1H5
Informed by her experiences with the French language, Stephanie Anne Clark explores the semiotic relationship between the linguistic notion of grammatical gender and the symbols of French history through her photographic studies of Paris.
Jan Peacock’s video work performs a particular form of scrutiny of place, stepping away from immediate events in order to tease out the sometimes obtuse and often contradictory aims and methods of the ‘authorized search’.
Truck Address: 815 1 St SW, lower level Calgary AB T2P 1N3
We are excited to present our principle artists and their works: Lisa Heinricks, Nikki Gour, Roberta Murray and Ron Robinson. Each one of them strives to innovate in what they do through the process of creation and the medium.
Lisa is constantly pushing herself in new directions both on and off the canvas. Her work has been shown from the Prime Ministers Office in Canada to Florence Italy. She will be to the 21st Century what Pollock was to the 20th.
Nikki’s work is based on a unique personal interaction with found objects combined with her deep personal reflections on how she sees the world through life experiences, surroundings, thoughts, feelings, emotions and intuitiveness.
Roberta draws on her background as a fibre artist through the use of texture, form, and light. The result is images with a mystical quality as if taken at a different time or in a different world. Many of her images are heavily manipulated using multiple images to create a unique texture and depth.
Ron's art has tended to be a journey through inter-connected ideas and inspirations that have pushed in to a wide variety of media that include: sculpture in stone, wood, ceramic, metal, relief printing. He defines himself as a conceptual artist, dictating the medium of expression, often working in series in order to fully explore an idea.
We invite you to come and enjoy each piece and meet the artists at our opening reception as well as to see music being created by performance artist and ACAD Instructor Adan Tindale.
Endeavor Arts Address: 200-1209 1 St SW Calgary AB T2R 0V3
Encaustic, or painting with wax is an ancient technique using pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat. Bigoudi prefers natural pigments and uses heavy cotton canvas as her painting surface. “It is the rich earthiness of the materials that inspires my process and choice of subject,” says Bigoudi. “I see encaustic painting as liquid finding form.”
Pascale Ouellet aka Bigoudi, is a juried member of the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) and an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA). She is the recipient of the 2009 Canmore Mayor’s Awards for Arts & Culture in the ‘Artistic Achievement’ category and is part of the Corridor Collective in Canmore, AB, where she has her own studio. Pascale's work can be found in private and corporate collections in the US and Canada.
Opening Reception: Meet the artist and learn more about the encaustic process. Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 1:00PM to 4:00PM Artist Presentation & Demonstration at 2:00PM
Peter Sawatzky: Wildlife in Bronze More Info
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+ My Favorites Mar 13 to Apr 10 Loch Gallery presents "Peter Sawatzky: Wildlife in Bronze" opening Saturday, March 13th with artist in attendance. Exhibition includes dynamic sculpture of cougars, herons, wolves, polar bears, owls and falcons and other Canadian wildlife.
Loch Gallery Address: 1516 4 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1H5
L'Arche Calgary Cake Walk More Info
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+ My Favorites Mar 14 L’Arche Calgary & the Pastry Chef Guild of Alberta present A Double Helping L’Arche Calgary Cake Walk & Lindt Chocolate Competition. 12:00 PM to 3:30 PM SAIT, Heart Building and 4 Nines Cafeteria.
Witness the artistry of cake and chocolate at two high-calibre competitions for the price of one. Whatever your flavour, these events are sure to satisfy! Tickets are only $5 per person at the door, providing access to both events.
Stephen Kelly: OPEN TUNING (WAVEUP) More Info
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+ My Favorites Mar 19 to Apr 15 In the Open Tuning (WaveUp) project, the aural environment of the installation space becomes a real extension of the ocean environment. Sound replaces water. Real-time sonic data from remote Ocean sensors will be transmitted and transformed in the Gallery space creating an ocean of sound.
Truck Address: 815 1 St SW, lower level Calgary AB T2P 1N3
Inner Prairie; Unconventionally More Info
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+ My Favorites Apr 01 to Apr 30 Inner Prairie; Unconventionally New work by resident artist Lindsey Love Show Runs April 1st – 30th Opening Reception Thursday April 1st 5:00pm – 9:00pm Artist in Attendance
Lindsey Love was born and raised in Bassano, Alberta and Graduated from ACAD in 2006. She left Calgary in 2008 to pursue a full-time painting career in Saskatchewan. It was there that she found her sanctuary amongst the magnificent fields and luminous skies. A young artist of just twenty-eight reveals a fresh style that impacts viewers and invites them to enter the moment and just be.” Lindsey has been a resident artist at Swirl Fine Art since its inception, and is now represented in galleries throughout Western Canada.
Growing up on the prairies has given Lindsey a particular aesthetic. She is drawn to subject matter that has a minimal, spacious and peaceful quality. Her desire is to create invitations to contemplation and to counter hastiness. “It is through contemplation that one becomes truly aware and open to life: to the beauty and transcendence in the ordinary. I paint what I know so that the truth of my own experience will resonate with the viewer, and will invite them to enter the moment and just be.”
ArtaWEARness More Info
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TBA Each year, ACAD presents this extravagant wearable art performance woven together by the school's multidisciplinary students.
Réal Fournier - "THE INFINITE LOVE" + My Favorites Apr 03 to May 01 Opening reception on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 from 10am to 5pm Artist in attendance
Calgary School of Art Spring Show + Sale More Info
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+ My Favorites Apr 08 to Apr 10 The Calgary School of Art invites you to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our students and instructors in their artistic journey. Opening reception is April 8th 5-9pm ...With wine, food, music and of course a wonderful selection of local art.
Concerned with the way objects are viewed, McLeod’s practice focuses on how the viewer physically relates to an object while Paul’s practice considers how the viewer values specific objects. In their first collaborative installation the artists plan to discover the point where their practices converge, combining elements from their individual studio research and creating a transformative installation in the +15 Window Space.
Truck Address: 815 1 St SW, lower level Calgary AB T2P 1N3
AGCcooks: The Art of Cuisine More Info
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+ My Favorites Apr 14 Our spring fundraiser celebrates contemporary food, art and culture by showcasing six of Calgary’s top chefs in a friendly culinary competition.
Proceeds from AGCcooks will go towards our renowned Public and Education Programs. Tickets are $250 (a tax receipt for $150 will be issued for each ticket).
"Calgary ArTours" brings together the work of three local artists, each exploring the urban landscape of the city.
With collecting at the heart of her practice, Cat Schick uses photography as a tool to ‘collect’ images in order to understand and evaluate the world. Social and natural environments are explored, dissected, critiqued: urban vs. rural, natural vs. artificial, internal vs. external. This body of work is a study of urban environments and how humans create and are creative in these places.
Tomas Jonsson brings The Department of Public Walks, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Walking to the gallery, inviting participants to take part in a collaborative walking project that maps comfort zones of Calgary and explore various borders (either real or imagined). Walking is a strategy that can be employed to explore, confront, and address the conditions that enforce these borders.
Sharon Stevens will present OX: A Crash Course on Loving Calgary This work is a positive, collaborative action that allows participants to stake their claim over what they love about Calgary. A place, a feeling, a song, a building, a street corner, a memory, a recovery – OX: A Crash Course on Loving Calgary is ultimately a collection of stories about loving Calgary.
Truck Address: 815 1 St SW, lower level Calgary AB T2P 1N3
Calgary Stampede Park Spring Antique Show + My Favorites Apr 30 to May 02 Calgary's top spring antique show features an enormous range of antiques, collectibles and retro designs. Visitors will meet top-quality dealers from Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
Big Four Building Address: 1410 Olympic Way SE, Stampede Park Calgary AB CAN T2P 2K8
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sport Artists: Matthew Barney, Mark Bradford, Marcelino Gonçalves, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brian Jungen, Kurt Kauper, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kori Newkirk, Catherine Opie, Paul Pfeiffer, Marco Rios, Collier Schorr, Joe Sola, Sam Taylor-Wood, Hank Willis Thomas Curator: Christopher Bedford Medium: Mixed Media Gallery: All
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, is an exhibition about contemporary art that deals with the subject of the male athlete. This particular artistic theme has become increasingly prevalent during the past several years, building upon several decades of discourse about identity and gender. Including artists ranging from such well-known individuals as Matthew Barney, Catherine Opie, Collier Schorr, and Sam Taylor-Wood to emerging talents such as Shaun El C. Leonardo and Joe Sola, Mixed Signals demonstrates that the male athlete is a far more ambiguous, polyvalent figure in our collective cultural imagination than ever before.
Just in time for Mother's Day gifts, and updating spring accessories and home decor!
We invite you to meet and support the artists and artisans who are painters, photographers, potters, and jewellery designers. Discover creations in glass, wood, fibre,fashion accessories, bath and body products, baby wear, and more!
Admission $5.00 at the door for adults, children 12 and under free. Complimentary parking, restaurant and atm on-site.
"Kiss your friends. Make a toast. Call your Mom. Tell the truth. Confess your love. Cut your hair. Smoke a joint. Forgive your Dad. Take a shot. Bake a pie. Paint a picture. Take a dive. Start a fire. Dance a dance. Buy a boat. Watch the sky. Hold your kids. Feed your pets. Run the block. Watch the clock. Make a fist. Look at art. Slap your knee. Take the blame. Wipe your eyes. Write a song. Bide your time. Laugh aloud. Look around. Pinch yourself. Piss yourself. Raise your hands. Make demands. Think about the world that was–"
This show operates on the curatorial premise that the artists will create new works for this show based upon the assumption that the world will be ending the day after the opening.
Truck Address: 815 1 St SW, lower level Calgary AB T2P 1N3
Gallery Calorie More Info
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+ My Favorites Jun 12 Take a self-guided tour of 17th Avenue's art galleries and restaurants at the Gallery Calorie Tour. Held every June, this event features food and beverage samples and a wrap-up party in Tomkins Park. Tickets are available online or by phone.
Address: Various venues along 17th Avenue, Calgary AB Tel: 1 403 809-1678
Show Opening + My Favorites Jun 26 Show Opening: Saturday June 26th 1:00-3:30 New Members Show Centennial Art Gallery is proud to announce the addition of three exceptional painters, Pat Jackman, Pat Leece and Dianne Middleton. This exhibition shows their expertise in the handling of lanscapes, portraiture and abstract subject matter in various mediums. Exhibition continues until July 23
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