What's On in Calgary

Marjie Crop Eared Wolf continues her ongoing project to learn Blackfoot in the drawing, sound, and video installation, Iitsi’poyi. Found in the Project Space, this work addresses cultural legacy and resilience by actively engaging in language preservation.

An exhibition of collaborative etchings and paintings by Calgary artist, Carole Bondaroff, and her late mother, Francis Gurevitch Bondaroff, swing by on Saturdays for printmaking demonstrations and artist talks about this multi-generational exhibit.

Molly Caldwell explores the ecstatic in vapid and all that is ostentatious yet somehow joyful for it. It channels the sticky sweetness of hair stuck in lip gloss as you flip through a glossy magazine and rub the perfume ads on your wrist.

Philip Kanwischer and Chloe Kinsella present a selection of their collaborative projects. Combining their individual material explorations and shared experiences of time spent in the wild, this show is made up of camouflaged forms against natural backdrops.

The result of Elijah Wells’ research into Blackfoot story archives such as winter counts and story robes, this investigation is also an exploration discovery of Blackfoot visual language. An artist reception takes place from 5:30 to 8:30pm on February 28.

Christine Klassen Gallery’s holiday show is an eclectic and playful mix of new work by CKG artists. Join them for a seasonal celebration with their artists and be the first to see new inventory for 2020. An opening reception takes place on December 14.

A Canada’s Economic Action Plan sign located on the Alberta University of the Arts campus was taken down as a documented performance. This collaborative exhibition re-contextualizes that useless object.

Arts Commons’ Window Galleries features four varied artists this season, each working in the mediums of photography, paint, illustration, and wire sculpture. The work explores the themes of divergent viewpoints, fantasy, female empowerment, and community.

Taking a stroll through a forest is like looking through a prism with a million different sized facets. In this show, Cecile Albi brings attention to nature’s rhythm of patterning using an impressionist style with elements of cubism and abstract expressionism.

This exhibit brings together a collection of 11 new photographs chosen from three folios completed in the past two years during Olivier Du Tre’s travels to Saskatchewan, Tofino, and Yukon. Check out the reception on February 8.

As the temperature drops, Calgarians long for warmer days. A dream-like depiction of Reader Rock Garden in full bloom is the focal point of Snodgrass’s new untitled experimental super 8 film. The show’s reception takes place on January 10.

This solo exhibition from Samuel de Lange asks what could be revealed by taking the histories of salt and photography into mutual consideration. An opening reception takes place January 10 at 7:00pm.

Brad Necyk is a multimedia artist and writer in Canada whose practice engages with issues of medicine, mental health, and precarious populations and subjects. His works include drawings and paintings, still and motion film, sculpture, 3D imaging and printing, virtual reality, and performance.

This exhibition showcases a small selection of early works by Katie Ohe and Harry Kiyooka. Married since 1969, this amazing artistic couple have spent the last six decades making art, teaching, and fostering the Alberta arts community.

A group show of Herringer Kiss Gallery artists including Jason Frizzell, Blake Senini, Ben Skinner, Aron Hill, Dennis Ekstedt, Rhys Douglas Farrell, and Darija Radakovic, be sure to check out the opening reception from 2:00 to 5:00pm on January 11.

Lightbox Studio in Arts Commons features Avril Lopez whose work is inspired by whimsical creations designed to evoke a child-like state of imaginative worldview. Be sure to swing by as she works on creating an experimental environment that explores the use of creativity as a healing process.

A contemporary art exhibition featuring artists Chlan Grant, Jane Lochrie, Mao (Kun) Chen, J. Broz, Laura Erdman, Nuit, Janie Lockwood, Matt Trinh (AKA “Hawk”), Keegan Karlsen, Terry Gregoraschuk, and the provocative work of TAG, be sure to check out this show.