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Archive for the ‘Art & Galleries’ Category
February 9th, 2010 by Lisa Murphy-Lamb
One of the best things about moving back to Calgary is rediscovering how many festivals take place here.
February is EXPOSURE, the Calgary, Banff, Canmore Photography Festival. Running February 1-28, 2010, there will be a number of lectures and educational events throughout Calgary and the Bow Valley corridor with nearly 40 photography-based exhibitions by Canadian and international artists.
The Triangle Gallery offers Counter-Photography: Japan’s Artists Today. Over 60 images by 11 leading Japanese contemporary photographers are on display. Still images flank the wall and the floor and there is one looped video with an accompanying on the second floor. (more…)
Tags: EXPOSURE, Photography, Triangle Gallery
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January 16th, 2010 by Lisa Murphy-Lamb
Considering I enjoy both art and walking, I’m looking forward to the 6th Annual Winter Stroll this Saturday, January 16, 2010. Art Stroll is a series of Satellite Art Presentations in conjunction with the Triangle Gallery’s Exhibition Beyond Printmaking: Images in Objects-Experimental Printmaking in Western Canada.  That’s where I began on Friday, to get my feet wet, so to speak.
Eight leading contemporary artists from Alberta and Western Canada are featured in this exhibition and each approaches printmaking in a wholly unique way. After looking at the moving human forms on fields of colour by artist Ewa Tarsia, the violence and insects in the fantastic 3-D ‘wounds’ by Jill Ho-You and the cement blocks by artist Marjan Eggermont, I had to go back to the beginning and buy myself an exhibition guide ($10) so I could understand how these diverse and inriguing installations and images relate to each other as a form of printmaking. I continued both floors of the series, enjoying the remaining five artists, with much more appreciation and understanding. For those who prefer listening to reading, catch the curator Jacek Malec at 1:00pm Saturday, January 16 for a gallery talk and tour.
Malec’s talk is one of many events happening throughout the day at a number of galleries between 10:00am and 6:00pm (although each gallery does vary, so check before you stroll).
Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts
#104 Macleod Trail SE (adjacent to the Muncipal Building)
Admission is free.
Intergraphia: Art Stroll
 Tags: Art Stroll, Triangle Gallery
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January 6th, 2010 by Wil Knoll
Surprisingly, not as much leather and chaps as you would think
Starting Thursday (Tomorrow!), and running through the end of this month, One Yellow Rabbit is once again firing up the core with the High Performance Rodeo. It’s just under four weeks of cutting edge performance art under the frozen sky. The program is filled with theatre, music, dance and other events spread out across 22 venues in the downtown area. It’s diversity is unparalleled in the city. One night, you’ll be attending a free concert at Olympic plaza while members of Alberta’s Thermal Shock Mafia (part of the Fire Conclave last year at the Burning Man festival) play with fire, next you’ll be challenged to replace a performer and try to deal with having no home to call your own.
It’s no surprise that many theatre goers in Calgary look to the HPR to break up the bleakness of the winter months. But what does surprise is how long it’s legs really are. At 24 years old, the HPR is just a year younger than my last girlfriend, with One Yellow Rabbit themselves celebrating their 27th anniversary this year. In celebration of my 28th year, and my 2nd with a small cameo at the HPR, here are my picks, sans shameless plug.
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Tags: High Performance Rodeo
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November 23rd, 2009 by Jill Roberts
 Say Haida Manga three times quickly… kinda fun to roll off the tongue, but even more rewarding to see how this remarkable fusion of two far-flung yet complementary styles are invigorating both traditional Haida art and modern Japanese comics.
A giant mural of Michael Yahgulanaas’s graphic novel, Red, pages all torn out and assembled like a totemic puzzle, grips viewers of his Haida Manga exhibit in the Glenbow. (more…)
Tags: Glenbow, Haida art, Haida Manga, Japanese comics, mash-up, Michael Yahgulanaas
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November 19th, 2009 by Lisa Murphy-Lamb
If you are finding you need to escape-the office, the weather, the usual lunchtime routine-and you are looking for a place of quiet contemplation. Consider the art installations along Epcor Centre’s +15 window space. These window galleries present a taste of the art works that may be found in divergent not for profit galleries of Calgary. The art that is displayed in these window galleries are selected by the galleries and run for a short time.
Currently there are five installations on display: (more…)
Tags: +15, EPCOR Centre
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November 11th, 2009 by Lisa Murphy-Lamb
Art Central’s Fifth Birthday celebration was a success!  It was a hot and  lively crowd that waited around for ACAD’s wearable art show, which ended the formal events of the evening.  Viewing lines were four deep as colourful and creative dresses and designs were paraded up and down the central staircase to an appreciative crowd. (more…)
Tags: Art Central, First Thurdays
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November 2nd, 2009 by Lisa Murphy-Lamb
Who is up for a party?
My girlfriends and I are so we are happy to to attend Art Central’s First Thursday AND 5th birthday party November 5 from 5-9pm. Besides a chance to check out the three levels of galleries and new exhibitions which will kick off that night there will be ACAD’s wearable-art show, (I’ll take pictures), DJ Bruno, a cake walk, yes, I said a cake walk (when was the last time you participated in a cake walk?), openings and a chance to shop. (more…)
Tags: Art Central, First Thurdays
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October 30th, 2009 by Fiona Wren
When you first see Ron Mueck’s 800-pound sculpture of a baby girl, you might feel a mixture of things. First, you might be really thankful that the baby is a healthy pink colour – a much livelier shade than it appears in photographs. Then, if you look into her eyes, you’ll probably feel startled at how aware she seems.
Of course, around that time you might also feel as if someone else is watching you – that “someone else” is another sculpture, a gargantuan baby head that surveys the room with dark, innocent eyes. (more…)
Tags: 800 Pound Baby, Glenbow Museum, Guy Ben-Ner, Ron Mueck
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October 25th, 2009 by Lisa Murphy-Lamb
I needed a break from my day and so I took a walk down the river and ducked into Eau Claire Market to locate a piece of contemplative aquatic art I had heard about.
 Until November 7, 2009 at The New Gallery, Christophe Jivraj’s The Swimmers can be viewed. This video installation which runs continuously daily examines, through two underwater video recorders which are projected simultaneously from opposite ends of the swimming pool, a group of swimmers and their relationship with the water. Those swimmers in the foreground, the subject of this piece, all have a disability, either cognitive or physical and Christophe has worked with them both as a caregiver and an artist over a number of years. The result of his relationship and work is a candid and mesmorizing portrayal of people not often represented in art. The screen is suspended alone in a stark and darkened room and the movements on the screen, the swimmers’ relationship with the water, are both fluid and awkward, both inspiring and curious. You can stay a minute or an hour. I spent about thirty minutes while the noise of the mall melted behind me.
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Tags: Christophe Jivraj, eau claire market, The New Gallery, The Swimmers
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September 17th, 2009 by Wil Knoll
no more comics composed solely of stick people
One of the strongest ideals that I took from Pecha Kucha Night on Monday was from Jane Pendergast. She spoke about cultural spaces, be them art or civic or otherwise. She said that dynamic cultural spaces are about performance. The community transforms the space through their presence and interaction with the space. Just get the physical building, and the artists and community will grow the culture.
per.spec.tive gallery, who’s grand opening goes down this Friday, seem to be aligned with this to a degree. (more…)
Tags: Art Gallery, Launch Party, per.spec.ive
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