Title: QUIET  展览主题：空灵 

Artist: Zuo-Peng Zhang 视觉艺术家：张作鹏

Exhibition year: 2022

Artist bio: Zuo-Peng Zhang is a visual artist (Canada Council for the Arts, 2020). Senior photographer (2005), member of the China Photographers Association (2003). He has been engaged in visual arts, mainly in photography, documentary film, new media, education, graphic design and publishing. In the field of photography, he had received many awards in photography competitions and exhibitions, such as the 10th China International Photographic Art Exhibition and the 64th International Photographic Art Salon of Japan. He graduated from photography master class in Beijing, China. He lives and works in Calgary, Canada.

Title: kaskitêwastim // dark horse and nipiyêsiw // my thunderbird 

Artist: Sharon Rose Kootenay and Jason Symington

Exhibition year: 2022

Project description: Sharon is a Métis-Cree artist whose beadwork references traditional teaching, the female gaze and the transmission of cultural lifeways. Jason is a conceptual artist who uses visual rhetoric to engage his audience. Kootenay and Symington’s practice is an extension of their friendship and respect for each other’s creative practice.

Title: Community of the Self

Artist: Matthew O’Reilly

Exhibition year: 2022

Project description: This project conceptualizes the self not as an individual, but rather, a community. One can think of this in the literal sense where we are different from moment to moment as we accumulate experience. Also, consider the biological material that makes up our material existence, it is constantly recycling and renewing to the point that the material I am composed of changes week to week, month to month, and year to year. In a more poetic sense, I am exploring the idea of us being multiple people, fighting for grip on the wheel of our motivations and actions.

Title: Still Flows

Artist: Rachel Duckhouse

Exhibition year: 2022

Project description: Still Flows maps Calgary’s Bow River as it travels through a section of southeast Calgary. Using two layers of marks, Duckhouse reveals two very different rivers – a black ink layer depicts the water flow in spring 2013 and the sepia marks represent the flow during the flood in June 2013.

Title: Outdoor Ice

Artist: Candice Ward

Exhibition year: 2021-2022

Project description: The exhibit included six images from the Outdoor Ice series by Indigenous photographer, Candice Ward. The diversity of the athletes who took part in this series and the gender equality in the set is what makes this set special.

Title: Special Thymes

Artist: Les Ramsay

Exhibition year: 2021

Project description: A series of paintings that display current and ancient conversations that coalesce and coexist. This suite of works reflects images of organic states of fractured evolution, text, and figure that float and mingle in lucid landscapes. Ramsay creates his works by recycling the excess of everyday ideas and domestic objects using constructive and deconstructive strategies.

Title: Queer Films Saved Us 

Artist: Kevin Allen

Exhibition year: 2021

Project description: The Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival premiered in Calgary on June 17, 1999, and has become a treasured annual event ever since. The LGBTQ2 Festival has a history of engaging talented local artists to design its festival poster. Over the years, Fairy Tales accumulated a backlog of visually iconic posters that served as both marketing vehicle and artwork. This is a curated retrospective of those beautiful posters. They assert—on the walls, streets, and bulletin boards of Calgary—that queer people were here and always have been.

Title: Land and Memory

Artist: Katherine Boyer, Tiffany Creyeke, Umer Farooq, Braden Gray, Mary Mattingly and Philip Vandermey

Exhibition year: 2020

Project description: From the horizon to the cartesian grid, this collection of articles reveals differing connections to place. Some with hopes for a new city. Others with new attempts to represent, to be heard. How is progress defined and how might planning better respond to cultural identifiers?

Title: Essential Oils (for Alberta)

Exhibition year: 2020

Artist: Alana Bartol

Project description: A series comprised of photographs that document the artist’s experiments with the enfleurage process. She used botanical (and other materials such as coffee beans and socks) from both communities that were donated, purchased or foraged.

Title: Weeping

Artist: Michaela Bridgemohan

Exhibition year: 2020

Project description: Weeping is a contemplative body of work. It presents a series of drawings, mounted and etched onto wood, and handsewn oil-slick pillows that are all adorned with shells. By suspending these artworks, they are all prone to move and twirl based on how the air dictates them

Title: Images of Wrapture

Artist: Molly Caldwell

Exhibition year: 2020

Project description: Images of Rapture explores the ecstatic in vapid: all that is ostentatious yet somehow joyful for it. The sticky sweetness of hair stuck in lip gloss. Flip through a glossy magazine, and rub the perfume ads on your wrist. The tactility, the gesture of scrolling through Instagram. Britney Spears, 'my loneliness is killing me…', your heart screaming along: me too. You want to live fancy? Baby believe me, it’s only a matter of time.

Title: Recent Acquisitions

Artist: Collin Zip

Exhibition year: 2019

Project description: Recent Acquisitions explores the fine line between theft and appropriation and questions the role of production in art making and collecting.

Title: Grandma Kay: Portraits and Places in Fabric

Artist: Agnete Kay (Grandma Kay)

Exhibition year: 2018

Project description: The exhibition, Grandma Kay: Portraits and Places in Fabric features fourteen fabric works, machine sewn with the title hand-embroidered on the front of each work. Together they represent a small sampling of this prolific artist’s engagement with fabric and the art of appliqué.

Title: Ekosi

Artist: Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal

Exhibition year: 2017 - 2018

Project description: Based on Cree teachings Cardinal has received, the work depicts the four stages of life. Four circular pieces are displayed two-by-two in two separate woven structures that comprise Ekosi. The title is a Cree word that can express "that's it; that's the end; alright; good-bye; amen; it is okay," although Cardinal’s usage tends more towards the literal English translation meaning “enough,” asking viewers to consider “what is enough?” The stages are represented by the four circles made of collaged images on a background of empty tea bags, which are woven into a web-like structure of artificial sinew attached directly to the wall by metal hooks.

Title: Mourn

Artist: Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter

Exhibition year: 2017

Project description: Mourn is a two-piece installation that consists of a line of beaded text that reads “you can mourn someone who is still alive” and a painting of a ghost. These two pieces work in conjunction to create a platform for the audience to consider their traumas and offer an affirmation to passersby. Mourn speaks to intergenerational trauma, seeks to communicate loss and acceptance, and considers the performative aspect of lamentation by situating the private into the public. 

Title: 1923 Voyage…well, part of

Artist: John & Lou

Exhibition year: 2016

Project description: In 1982, John Will bought a box of negatives at a garage sale belonging to local resident Louis W. Shulman, which chronicled Lou’s travel from Vancouver to Yokohama in 1923. Will scratched text onto the negatives, enlarged the images, and printed them in colour resulting in a semifictional recounting of the journey.

Title: Sway

Artist: Barbara Sutherland

Exhibition year: 2012-2014

Project description: Sway is comprised of two ceiling mounted sculptural forms made from thread, cloth, steel, and motors. One of the objects represents over 20 years of accumulation of remnants, cast of clothes, quilting fabric, upholstery material, and yardages that I’ve collected and stored. They are both a self-portrait and narrative, and have been arranged in chronological order around the hoop. The other object, of identical form, is made from a neutral coloured cloth and thread, existing as a ghost or counterpoint to the colourful work.

Title: Lovely

Artist: Dean Stanton

Exhibition year: 2012-2014

Project description: These images are based on creating and ‘old school’ kind of feeling for Calgarian’s to hopefully relate to. The backgrounds in each picture are of cool old objects I have collected in Calgary thrifts shops over the last 30 years, the illustrations in the foreground play with nostalgia and retro cartoons aesthetics.

Title: Harmony 2

Artist: Zuopeng Zhang

Exhibition year: 2012-2014

Project description: Harmony is at the heart of Eastern philosophy and is relected in all aspects of Chinese culture such as the arts, architecture, religion, politics, and health. Rather than being opposing forces, this philosophy is rooted in the notion that human beings are an integral part of nature, co-existing in harmony. When I first encountered the majestic and spectacular Rockies, and the expansive Prairies, I immersed in the endless meditation. I was compelled to create this series and highlight the natural harmony that exists in our everyday lives.

Title: Dragon

Artist: Brian Batista

Exhibition year: 2012-2014

Project description: This work showcases two dragons painting side by side in celebration of the year of the dragon. I draw artistic inspiration from a deep and profound curiosity in eastern spirituality and mysticism. I hope to transcend mere representational art to create a mystical experience.

Title: GARY

Artist: Larissa Tiggelers

Exhibition year: 2012-2014

Project description: My two-dimensional practice is an intuitive process that allows me to play within my own subconscious parameters of creating. These paintings and drawings are experimental even though the final pieces appear very measured and systematic. The hard-edged shapes create a form, which then becomes a character, whose colours I manipulate to create a fractured space. The shapes within the characters fall in and out of the canvas depending on where the viewers eye sits when presented with the work.

Title: Summary

Artist: Linda Carreiro & RICHard SMOLinski 

Exhibition year: 2012-2014

Project description: A series of textual veils installed at varying depths throughout the space. Made from rice paper, the delicate text hangs vertically throughout the space, partially obscuring each other and casting elaborate and ominous shadows upon the wall and floor.

Title: Mapping 2013

Artist: Megan Conley

Exhibition year: 2012-2014

Project description: Mapping 2013 focuses on abstract contouring of the skull, topographic lines and mapping of the skin. My skin is the mask that covers the deformity that is hidden from society; the shape of my skull and its overall shape has been mediated by 25 plates and screws. I show this by combining many altered portraits that use topology and Cartesian systems, which allow me to take over the skin and own it on my own terms. Using these altered portraits and combining parts of the face/skin together allows me to create my own death masks. These masks are meant to speak to how I have lived the life of two different people, one repulsive and the now, attractive. These are the death masks of my grotesque identity.

Title: Beyond the Looking Glass

Artist: Roberta Murray

Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012

Project description: A series of pictorialist archival pigment photographs. This series of images, captured in the city of Calgary, question if reality can be distorted by how you look at the world. An individual perception determines what exists. Where one person perceives a nightmare, the other sees a dream.

Title: Shimmer & Shine

Artist: Nate McLeod & Cassandra Paul

Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012

Project description: Shimmer & Shine filled the Open Spaces window space with a floor‐to‐ceiling wall painting. Beams of color found within the painting draw the viewer’s eye to the center of the window, where a deer skull projects out from a circle of black cast acrylic. A thick layer of crystals has been grown upon the surface of the deer’s antlers using a simple process often taught in elementary school science classes.

Artist: Margot van Lindenberg

Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012

Project description: This window acts as a metaphor of reversed roles: with our increasing urban sprawl, we have to looks inside a window rather than outside  to see the beauty of nature. Inspired by the mythical beauty of lush flora these artworks are presented to share the delicate balance and splendor found in the botanical world: our green gardens as ultimate means of survival. There is less and less open space to enjoy the beauty and nourishment of nature. How odd to have to protect nature and enclose it like some commodity in a window! 

Title: Plastic Culture

Artist: Evaline Kolijn

Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012

Project description: Plastic Culture features ten colourful prints from her Plastic Fungus series and constructed organisms created from found synthetic objects such as yogurt containers. Referencing fungi, which are agents of decomposition, the artist brings attention to plastic as a problematic waste material. The installation as a whole is intended to make the viewer "more aware of the actual technological value of this material and be less thoughtless and wasteful with it." 

Title: Close/Lines

Artist: Jenna Swift

Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012

Project description: Jenna Swift's Close/Lines consists of eight jacket silhouettes, constructed to human scale from the accumulated by-products of her studio practice, as well as text fragments from periodicals and newspapers. Suspended from the ceiling with string and stitching, Jenna’s installation mimics the action played out before the window as the public fall into an uneven line along the train platform, and illustrates the fleeting nature of human relationships, brief and complex as those that transpire in the time between trains.

Title: Floating City

Artist: Barbara Hirst

Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012

Project Description: Floating City is part of a series of paintings that was inspire by the views along the canals of quiet neighborhoods in the northern district of Cannaregio, Venice, where I spent many hours painting, sketching, photographing, and working on intaglio plates. Within the ripples of the lagoon, I could easily imagine the palazzos in their former glory.

Title: Urban Wild

Artist: Calgary Clay Arts Association (Aldo Marchese, Connie Pike, Constance Cooper, Darlene Swan, John Robertson, Krista Gowland, Monika Smith and Susan Thorpe.)

Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012

Project description: A collection of work by urban clay artists investigates tensions and dynamic aspects of “wild” within an urban environment. Cities have organic junctions and interactions with the “wild.” Sometimes planned, sometimes not, but we are often surprised.

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir

Title: Chogak Chogak

Artist: Diana Un-Jin Cho

Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012

Project description: For the space Cho created an installation inspired by the Bow River, that’s slow flow gives a sense of calmness and serenity, which is what she wants to capture and convey to the bustling people of downtown. The goal is to deliver a minute of tranquility and a spiritual lift to the commuters of the LRT after a long and stressful day at work

Title: Calgary Dream Log

Artist: Sarah Fuller

Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011

Project description:  Sarah Fuller combines the dreams submitted by Calgarians into a stream of conscious text to create a collaborative narrative of one night's dreaming in our city. Focusing on the transcription of events and emotions, Fuller uses text to explore the cognitive processes connected to dreams. 

Title: The 12

Artist: Doug Driediger

Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011

Project description: The 12 depicts friends and family with attributes assigned to the original Twelve Apostles. Consisting of twelve portraits painted in the style of icon paintings, this vibrant display will change over the course of the exhibition run rotating each month with four new portraits. 

Title: Rush Hour

Artist: Terry Reynoldson

Exhibition year: 2010 – 2011

Project description: A dynamic installation about our shared experiences with others, both physical and emotional.

Title: urbanized BuY-productZ

Artist: Daniel J. Kirk

Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011

Project description: Urban centres evolve and grow, they consume and they provide and it is somewhere within the idea of an urban centre in which the work forms context. This work is based upon an ongoing dialogue surrounding the ideas and definitions of Graffiti, Vandalism, Community, Urbanization, and Waste.

Title: These Three Kings

Artist: Erin Belanger

Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011

Project description: Belanger seeks to stimulate collective memory through the narratives created by camp culture and imagery. These familiar signifiers allow for ease of personal association. The ‘great history’ stimulates individual identification and therefore provides a sense of place and comfort to us; assuring us that though death is a certainty, we may not be entirely erased.

Title: Dress Up

Artist: Roxanne Driediger

Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011

Project description: Driediger’s collection of two-dimensional painted works for OPEN SPACES addresses ideas about community, identity and cultural diversity from a Calgary woman's perspective. The playful and approachable works address ideas about contemporary costuming and everyday social performance in an effort to define attitude and character that is distinctly Calgarian.

Title: My Life on the Island of Misbelief

Artist: Marjan Eggermont

Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011

Project description: Eggermont’s work puts Calgary’s homeless statistics in visual form, featuring 4,060 Monopoly houses representing each homeless person in 2008. 

Title: Heaven and Earth X

Artist: Judy Ueda

Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011

Project description: Heaven and Earth is about wide open or limitless space, it is also about a sense of stability and calmness or something you have always known; like going back to a favourite spot you used to go to as a child.

Title: Exploring Creativity

Artist: In-Definite Arts Society

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: For the Exploring Creativity exhibition, In-Definite Arts’ artists find common ground in their shared commitment to exploring elements of community, creativity, and culture through their diverse art practices. Join us as we take a playful look at what it means to be creative. 

Title: Birdhouse

Artist: Julie Chapdelaine

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: By creating multi-dimensional environments and interfacing elements from both urban and prairie, she explores how they might shape one another into something that is unique to our place.

Title: Horizon

Artist: Peter Greendale

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: The work presented focuses on the concept as horizon as a metaphor for what awaits us in the future. The site specific installation is critical to it’s understanding Situated directly across from a busy impersonal train station, the drawing takes us to a private personal space where we can contemplate that which lies ahead.

Title: The Value of Art

Artist: Nikki Gour

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: Gour’s work questions the value placed on art by using Canadian Coins in her work with a mirror, inspired by Mr. John Holden’s speech “The value of Culture”.

Title: Land Titles

Artist: Billie Rae Busby

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: Billie Rae is a non traditional landscape artist and is inspired by both the terrain of the Canadian Prairies and urban cityscapes, seeking to reconcile the solitude of the prairies and the visual complexity of modern cities.

Title: :  “The Pyres” With Drawings; Five Elements from the Birdhouse Project

Artist: Christine Nagel

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: With this work, Nagel’s intention was to create a sense of space and a sense of place that is familiar to Calgarians living amidst the prairies. Interfacing elements from both urban and prairie environments to explore how they might shape on another.

Title: Shifting Terrain

Artist: Vera Parlac

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: In Shifting Terrain, Parlac engages the viewer through movement and its intricate geometry.

Artist: Mandy Stobo

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: Stobo explores perception and personal associations of the viewer by approaching a single topic in three different styles of execution.

Title: Chronicles of Stephen Ave

Artist: Vincent T. Joachim

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: "Chronicles of Stephen Ave," is a photo project which began in July 2008. The artist has taken more than 2000 pictures in this year long project. Audiences are invited to view a photo story that documents the street with candid, documentary and humorous elements.

Artist: Alice Helwig

Exhibition year: 2009

Project description: A. S. Helwig utilizes techniques such as collage, texturing, glazing, and underpainting to explore the prairie landscape. Themes of alienation, awe, personal epiphanies, and prayerfulness emerge. The fleeting moment transcends itself to reveal that feeling, the truth, which we intuitively understand but find difficult to articulate. These are visual poems which insinuate the eternal into our understanding of the immediate.