Fascination Station

Exhibition space at the Centre Street LRT platform

A group of colourful, handmade hanging sculptures made from beads, bells, plastic trinkets and ribbons. The decorations dangle from the ceiling in front of a window.
Installation view of a corner gallery with multiple vibrant, handcrafted hanging sculptures made from beads, plastic, tinsel and fringe. The ornaments are hanging from the ceiling, casting soft shadows on the white walls. A multicoloured woven mat with graphic patterns is on the floor.
A group of hanging sculptures made from colourful beads, tassels, and found materials suspended from the ceiling in a white gallery space. The pieces include bright orange trays, gold fringe, neon yellow rods, and transparent elements that cast soft shadows on the wall.
A group of colourful, handmade hanging sculptures made from beads, bells, plastic trinkets and ribbons. The decorations dangle from the ceiling in front of a window.
Installation view of a corner gallery with multiple vibrant, handcrafted hanging sculptures made from beads, plastic, tinsel and fringe. The ornaments are hanging from the ceiling, casting soft shadows on the white walls. A multicoloured woven mat with graphic patterns is on the floor.
A group of hanging sculptures made from colourful beads, tassels, and found materials suspended from the ceiling in a white gallery space. The pieces include bright orange trays, gold fringe, neon yellow rods, and transparent elements that cast soft shadows on the wall.
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Title:

Fascination Station

Program:

Open Spaces: Windows to a View

Timeline:

November to December 2025

Location:

Centre Street LRT Platform (125 7 Ave. SE)

Artist(s):

Arianna Richardson

The Program

Open Spaces: Windows to a View

Since 2009, the Open Spaces program has provided exhibition space to local and regional artists while enlivening the Centre Street LRT platform on Seventh Avenue between Centre Street and First Street SE. Two large display windows on the exterior of the Telus Convention Centre are updated with new exhibits regularly throughout the year.

The current exhibition in the West Window was initiated by The New Gallery and will be featured for approximately one month starting in November 2025. The New Gallery pitched the project through our Submit Your Public Art Ideas intake, which invites artists, curators and community members to share ideas for public art projects. The temporary exhibition (see details below) is a great fit for the space, which was available for a short-term installation before the launch of a new year-long Open Spaces partnership.

The East Window has been temporarily blocked due to nearby construction, so the latest exhibition in partnership with the Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation (ICAI), featuring photography by Samuel Obadero, has been extended to give people more time to view the artworks. Learn more about the East Window exhibition here.

Special exhibition with The New Gallery

West Window Space

Fascination Station

Artist: Arianna Richardson

The New Gallery exhibition in the West Window features Fascination Station, an installation by artist Arianna Richardson. The objects in this exhibition, created during a workshop at The New Gallery in collaboration with STEPS Public Art, are crafted from discarded plastic packaging, thrift store craft supplies, and bits of broken household objects, both common and strange. Workshop participants were asked to consider connections between waste and consumerism, adornment and visibility, and the possibilities of conjuring beauty and wonder with mass-produced, throw-away forms and materials.

This project is made possible with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment.

Arianna Richardson is a sculptor, performance artist, sewist and mother from Lethbridge, Alberta in Treaty 7 territory. She also works as lead preparator at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and as a sessional instructor at the University of Lethbridge. Arianna graduated from the University of Lethbridge in 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Studio Arts and a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Sculpture from NSCAD University in 2018. 

 

The New Gallery (TNG) is a non-profit artist-run centre located in Mohkinsstsis, also known as Calgary, in Chinatown. The New Gallery aims to provide opportunities and venues for artists that foster social and political art practices, while engaging and educating audiences through artist-run culture and contemporary art. Currently, The New Gallery programs three exhibition spaces: the main gallery space, Billboard 208 and TNG’s online exhibition platform “Mainframe.” TNG also operates a resource centre above the main space gallery, which includes TNG’s archive, a library and communal working space. thenewgallery.org

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