News: Shauna Thompson

Review of Synthetic Seasons

Maeve Hanna reviews Mia Feuer’s Synthetic Seasons for Issue 173 of frieze magazine.

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The Story Of the Esker Foundation’s Synthetic Skating Rink

Avenue Magazine‘s Andrew Guilbert visits Mia Feuer’s Synthetic Seasons and delves into the complicated and networked stories behind many of the installations.

» Avenue Magazine

50 Great Things In 50 Great Neighbourhoods

Avenue Magazine lists Esker Foundation as one of the greatest 50 things to get out and explore.

» Avenue Magazine

Akimblog Review of Mia Feuer, Kevin Schmidt, & Guido van der Werve

Sarah Todd reviews Esker’s summer exhibitions and makes note of the disturbing changes happening at ACAD’s Illingworth Kerr Gallery.

» Akimbo

Calgary’s Esker Foundation offers a chance to skate on art

“These icy images are sure to prompt some heated discussion this spring and summer.” Marsha Lederman profiles Esker’s spring/summer exhibitions for The Globe and Mail.

» The Globe and Mail

Skating on Thin Black Ice

Border Crossings magazine’s Borderviews of Mia Feuer’s exhibition at Esker in their latest issue.

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Things to do in Calgary this weekend: MAY 22, 2015

The Calgary Herald lists Esker’s spring/summer opening receptions as an event to attend this weekend.

» Calgary Herald

Corrine Thiessen’s Collapsing Trees Mount a Warning

Maeve Hanna reviews Corinne Thiessen’s Project Space installation, Chronic, for Canadian Art.

» Canadian Art

Calgary’s Best Streets

Inglewood’s 9th Ave was named one of Calgary’s best streets by Metro News.

» Metro News

Esker Foundation hot doggin’ it with new exhibition

The existential debate at the heart of 1965’s Oscar Mayer wiener jingle was this: Is it better to be a hot dog because then everyone would be in love with you, or not to be a hot dog because you’d surely be devoured in short order? Fifty years later, a Calgary artist has come up with a beautiful middle-ground solution: if you are a hot dog, everything’s going to be alright—as long as you can escape the usual fate and find your way to a tiny convalescence bed in Inglewood.

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