Visual Art
Calgary's visual arts community offers many options, ranging from contemporary to traditional work exhibited in artist-run centres, commerical galleries and museums. Check out the listings below for current and upcoming shows.
What's On Today:
The Kingston Prize 2009: Canada’s National Portrait Competition
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The $10,000 Kingston Prize is awarded in a biennial national competition for contemporary portraits of Canadians by Canadian artists. The exhibition of thirty finalists is being shown in Kingston, Ontario, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Toronto and Calgary.
Weighed In The Balance
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In the region we now know as Ghana, gold has been found in alluvial sands and shallow mines for many centuries. During the Roman period gold-hungry traders looked south of the Sarah Desert for sources of gold and found it in Ghana. In the early Middle Ages Islamic merchants traded for gold with the local cultural group of people known as the Akan. By the fifteenth century European traders discovered this source of gold, and referred to the region as the Gold Coast.
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Encaustic Workshops at Swirl Fine Art
This intensive workshop with instructor Tracy Proctor is designed to cover the basic principles of encaustic techniques. Once an artist understands the fundamentals of heating and manipulating surfaces, there are limitless possibilities to the versatility of encaustic painting.
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Resonance
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HEART LAB: ANITA LEVESQUE & BRADLEY SMITH
RESONANCE
Please note that Heart Lab will be doing a performative install for the first few days of their exhibition, so get to the window early to see their process in action.
Reception will be held Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Refreshments to follow at the Auburn Saloon - 163, 115 - 9 Ave SE
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.
Within Reach!
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February 11 through March 13, 2010
Opening: Thursday 6-8 pm February 11
This is Andy Yang's first exhibition at Paul Kuhn Gallery. Andy Yang was born in Guangzhou, China, and immigrated to Calgary, Canada in 1997. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Alberta College of Art + Design in May of 2009. Andy's exploration of new media, such as video installation and photography, has allowed him to produce outstanding work that has already captured the attention of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, where he showcased his work in October 2009. Andy Yang is the Province of Alberta winner of the BMO 1st! Art Award 2009. www.aoay.ca
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 A.M. to 5:30. P.M.
"No Explanation!" and "Texture and Color"
5 Mar 2010 - 1:00pm
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Opening Friday March 5, 5-9 pm
"No Explanation!" New work by Jacqulynn Mulyk and Simon Aitchison in the Main and Red Gallery.
"Texture and Color." Paintings by Maria P. Scott in the Upstairs Gallery.
ARTPOINT is open Thursday & Friday from 1 to 5 pm, and Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm
Lisa Heinricks, Nikki Gour, Roberta Murray & Ron Robinson
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Opening reception: Friday March 5, 6 - 9pm
Endeavor is very excited to host an exhibition featuring these innovative local artists that have differentiated themselves either through the process in which they create their works, or the medium they display on. Special guest, performance artist and ACAD instructor, Adam Tindale.
Visit Endeavor Arts Exhibitions for more information.
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Seasonal Affective
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The third annual installment of TNG’s educational initiative providing “real world” curatorial experience to senior art students in the city, this year’s exhibition will feature work by Billie Rae Busby, Dana Bush and Joshua Fraser, selected by Jenna Swift, a student from the University of Calgary’s Art History program. The exhibition title is a variation on the mood disorder clinically known as Seasonal Affective Disorder. The onset of this condition conventionally occurs in winter, as the temperature drops and days grow shorter. This exhibition explores the effect of environmental factors on the internal weather of the psychological condition. The tyranny of winter manifests itself in subtle and insidious ways, causing us to withdraw from the world outside. Seasonal Affective seeks to reveal the mental processes which follow this retreat.
Tuesday through Friday 11 AM to 5 PM & Saturdays noon to 6 PM.
Opening reception Friday February 19, 2010 at 7 PM
Nexen Building Art Show
8 Mar 2010 - 9:00am
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Riverview Artists is a non profit group of 12 local Calgary artists was organized in 1987 and features a variety of approximately 80 paintings per show holding exhibitions about six times each year. We try to encourage a variety of styles and techniques so that the shows have a unique freshness and quality of each original painting.
Visit http://www.riverview-artists.com/ for more information.
Printmakers
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Alberta Society of Artists presents Printmaking at Lougheed House.
Opening: 2-4 pm, Mar. 21st, 2010
Print Demos Sundays 2-4: March 14, 20 and 28 and April 11 and 18.
Hours: Wednesday to Friday, 11 AM - 4 PM, weekends 10 AM - 4 PM.






