Past Exhibitions 2008
Fall: Friday, September 5, 2008– Saturday, January 3, 2009
Portrait, George Webber
Artist: George Webber
Curator: Marianne Elder
Medium: Photography
Gallery: Main Gallery
Portrait, George Webber is an exhibition of nearly 25 years of George
Webber's photography which links the outside world to communities and individuals in Calgary and the Canadian prairies that few of us will ever get to know. These portraits bring together some of the most important works of his career, taken from the artist's personal collection, many of which are being shown for the first time.
Lots
Artist: Milutin Gubash
Curator: Marianne Elder
Medium: Photography and Video
Gallery: Tall and Media Galleries
Milutin Gubash’s video and photography create reality-based fictions that explore the issue of personal identity through the use of subjects closest to him: his mother, his father and his close friends. His work examines what is “real” in art and life and plays on the presumptions and prestige of showing at a contemporary art gallery.
*Video program for Lots is organized by the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal.
Cowboy Wild
Artist: David Campion
Curator: Marianne Elder
Medium: Photography
Gallery: Top Gallery North and South
David Campion's photography investigates the myth of the West and the dichotomy between the cowboy of our collective imagination and the real McCoy. His images are of the unscripted: made over a decade at the Calgary Stampede, they are an examination of those moments where myth, history and spectacle collide.
David Campion, Cowboy Wild, Exhibition Broadsheet [PDF 8.7 MB]
More Images from David Campion, Cowboy Wild [PDF 4 MB]
Spring: Friday, April 18 – Saturday, June 21, 2008
Interglacial Free Trade Agency.ca
Artist: Lynn Richardson
Curator: Sarah Songhurst-Thonet
Media: Mixed Media Installation
Space: Main Gallery
Currently based in New England, Richardson completed her MFA in Sculpture at the University of Texas in 2005 and her BFA at the University of Manitoba. She has exhibited in group and solo shows in a variety of galleries across North America. This installation is part of a solo exhibition which she has shown previously in Toronto, Texas, Regina and Winnipeg. Of this exhibition, she has said: "Inter-Glacial Free Trade Agency examines the relationship between governments and corporations through the guise of a trade show. Here I focused specifically on the end products being marketed to the public; fashionable survival gear in the event we are thrust back into an ice age as a result of global warming. All items were branded with the same logo convincing the viewer that in the ‘new world’ there is only one choice."
Sound Drawings
Artist: Diana Burgoyne
Curator: Sarah Songhurst-Thonet
Medium: Interactive Installation
Space: Tall Gallery
Diana Burgoyne refers to herself as an electronic folk artist. Her performances and installations have been exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, New York, France, Holland, and Estonia. She was commissioned by Telus Science World to collaborate on a permanent piece which is exhibited as part of Contraption Corner. She has been the artist in residence at the Surrey Art Gallery’s Tech Lab, participated in SCANZ in New Zealand and has just finished working on a work entitled “Audio Quilt” as artist in residence at the Roundhouse Community Centre. She has noted: "A common theme in my work is the relationship between society, technology, and environment. I investigate these relationships through the use of sound, performance, and installation. Sound stimulates another sense in the viewer and I use it metaphorically as communication. In creating the sound, I use integrated circuits. It is important that my work does not make specific comments or criticisms of society, culture, or technology but rather stimulates the viewer to raise questions. "
Diana Burgoyne, Sound Drawings, Exhibition Broadsheet [PDF 31 KB]
CMYK: Hues Tones and Tints of Architecture
Artists: U of C Architecture Graduates
Curator: Marc Boutin
Medium: Architectural drawings, models and video
Space: Top Gallery North and South and Media Gallery
The Graduating class from the University of Calgary Architecture program exhibits their final conceptual projects. Each student was interested in sustainable architecture and created a concept drawing and scale model of their proposed building project.
TRIO: 3 Exhibitions from the Alberta Craft Council
Artists: Bee Kingdom, Sam Uhlick, Lyn Pflueger, Ezequiel Morales, Katrina Chaytor
Curator: Mary-Colleen Rabb
Medium: Glass, Ceramics and Textiles
Gallery: Top Gallery North and South
The Future is Later features the works of Bee Kingdom, artists: Phillip Bandura, Ryan Marsh Fairweather and Tim Belliveau. These three hot glass artists, through sculpture and illustrated imagery, convey their thoughts on the changing climate, environment and, in effect, the future of living things.
Alberta is my Home, an exhibition by Sam Uhlick, features ceramic works that have a strong sense of function, form and beauty. Uhlick has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is in several private, corporate and public collections and kitchens.
The Recipients of the 2007 Alberta Craft Awards: Lyn Pflueger (Award of Honour), Ezequiel Morales (Award of Achievement) and Katrina Chaytor (Linda Stanier & Family Memorial Award), are featured in TRIO. The Alberta Craft Awards recognize craftspeople that are dedicated to fine craft and Alberta’s fine craft culture.
Summer: Friday, July 4 - Saturday, August 23, 2008
Redshift: Witnessing Landscape Change
Artist: Erik Olson and Marcia Harris
Curator: Lori Ellis
Medium: Paintings, sculpture, drawings and video
Gallery: Main, Tall, Top Gallery North and South and Media Gallery
Redshift is an exhibition focusing on the work of Erik Olson and Marcia Harris that investigates the current ecological and environmental effects on the pine tree. The pine tree has been invaded by an unusual number of pine beetles causing the trees to turn a vibrant red before they die. The pine beetle infestation has accelerated over the last decade killing an alarming number of trees across Western Canada.
Do You Know What I Mean?
Artist: Five former sex trade workers
Curator: Marianne Elder
Medium: Photography
Gallery: Mezzanine
Do You Know What I Mean? is a research project conducted by the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary in collaboration with the United Way of Calgary and Area. This project collaborated with five former sex trade workers to produce photography and text that explores the issues of the sex trade through these women’s photographs and stories.
Do You Know What I Mean? Exhibition Brief [PDF 551 KB]