What's On in Calgary

Seasons End Liquidation Shop is a variety store, celebratory funeral, and ritual ending of part of Teresa Tam’s artistic practice. It is intended to consider many of the items used in Tam’s previous projects since 2013 and all connect thematically to the concept of various kinds of shops.

Much of the work produced by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau requires active collaboration with not only choreographers, musicians, and dancers, but with the objects they produce. Check out their latest exhibition at Esker Foundation!

Robin Arseneault’s work is performative, provocative, and luxurious one minute, and silly, self-deprecating, and raw the next. Layers of meaning are first constructed—often through sketches, small collages of found photographs, and ink drawings—then information is intentionally wiped away, removed, torn apart, or erased.

Gailan Ngan’s exhibition features hand-built and cast ceramic sculptures that broadly explore shape, surface treatment, and colour. It also presents a collection of industry by-products, organic and processed objects, and studio experiments contributing to a narrative of material influenced by the historically resource-rich West Coast.

Craft and Science explores the interesting ways that science and craft intersect. Both fields rely on creative problem-solving skills, research, specialized training, traditional and innovative techniques and methodologies, imagination, and curiosity to fuel the search for answers. Check it out at Alberta Craft Gallery & Shop!

Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts), in partnership with ATB Financial, are showing their Pride with the exhibition titled More Than a Party. This exhibition focuses on equality regardless of sexuality or gender. It honours self-expression, celebrates victories, and advocates for 2SLGBTQ+. Check it out!

The Alberta Society of Artists is proud to present the Artist’s Choice group exhibition featuring the works of their juried and life members. This annual show gives ASA members and some of Alberta’s finest visual artists the opportunity to submit a work of their choosing.

Norberg Hall is thrilled to open the fall season with a solo exhibition by Hamilton-based, multi-media artist Nathan Eugene Carson. Through portraiture, Carson’s paintings unpack the human experience as well as inter-species connectedness, illuminating his subjects with an expressive, tactile and iconic handling of paint and form.

Referencing ancient Greek terms mythos and logos, Carl White’s newest series of works positions himself as the conduit to the mythos — his lush handling of paint, striking use of colour and unique rendering provide us access to where each painting emerged from. Check them out!

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960 – 2000 is an ambitious travelling exhibition that examines the explosion of innovative textile-based art on the Canadian Prairies between 1960-2000. Curated by Michele Hardy, Timothy Long, and Julia Krueger, the exhibition is a collaboration between Nickle Galleries and the MacKenzie Art Gallery.

This exhibition features 65 works and is the first-ever retrospective of Bob’s career from the 1970s to the present. Visitors to the exhibition will discover a selection of masks, sculpture and regalia, complemented by Bob’s work in bronze casting and vestment production. Make sure to check it out!

Working with curved oak chair backs salvaged from the renovation of the Martha Cohen Theatre, Lisa Brawn dives deep into the shallow waters of this current cultural moment to extrapolate a Theatre of the Absurd tour of our imminent future. Make sure to check out her work!

Blinding is a room-size installation, sound, and light piece consisting of Venetian blinds, chandelier parts, and other scavenged items by artist Violet. The strobing flashing lights shine through the slats, casting shadows in the confined space and heightening the sense of anxiety within the room.