![In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]](https://eskerfoundation.com/assets/Kustec-1-scaled-e1614392058780-300x128.jpg)
ᐊᕙᑖᓂᑦᑕᒪᐃᓐᓂᑦᓄᓇᑐᐃᓐᓇᓂᑦ Among All These Tundras
June 1 - August 30, 2019
Among All These Tundras, a title taken from the poem ‘My Home is in My Heart’ by famed Sámi writer Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, features contemporary art by Indigenous artists from around the circumpolar world. Together, their works politically and poetically express current Arctic concerns towards…
Yvonne Mullock: HIT & MISS
May 5 - July 13, 2014
Project Space
Adopted as a means to make floor coverings from humble, recycled materials, rug hooking enjoys a long and creative history in Canada. For this exhibition, Calgary-based artist Yvonne Mullock, along with members of the The Chinook Guild of Fibre Arts, will transform Esker’s project space into a…
Yvonne Kustec: The Garden
February 8 - June 6, 2021
Project Space
Within The Garden a human figure transforms into a dense landscape, overrun by flora and fauna. Drawing on the long history of floral work in clay, Kustec works to honour both the tradition of the craft and the delicacy and resiliency of nature through recreating its intricacies. Her…
Yolkless Press & Discovering Choices: Analogue Counterpart: A Riso Workshop
May 25 - September 18, 2022
In the Bridge Space. Analogue Counterpart: A Riso Workshop features prints and zines created by Dani, Destiny, Erika, Hanah, Hannah, Kris, Sid, Sy, Troy, Zach and Zachary in a two-part, hands-on workshop led by Yolkless Press.
Wafaa Bilal: 168:01
May 28 - August 28, 2016
Opening reception: Friday, May 27, 6-10pm
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Vivek Shraya: Legends of the Trans
October 18, 2021 - February 6, 2022
Project Space
This new photographic work, inspired by the 1994 film Legends of the Fall, continues Vivek Shraya’s queering of performance, photography, and storytelling to reflect an open-ended and ever-evolving notion of herself and the immense value of non-conforming role models. For Shraya, whose…
Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun
January 22 - June 26, 2022
Painter Veronika Pausova draws on figurative imagery to tell diagrammatic short stories – hands grasping, noses sniffing, fruit flies teeming – that mine the territory between animation and stasis. These figurations form a cast of recurrent characters that evolve within
Veronica Verkley: Second Nature: FERAL
October 30, 2017 - January 21, 2018
Project Space
This work by Veronica Verkley, reads as a time-lapse shot over several years, but in reality, it is a stop motion animation shot over many months, with the ruin and decay painstakingly animated by hand. From destruction, there emerges a transformative beauty: the house becomes uninhabitable to some,…
Vanessa Brown: The Witching Hour
May 26 - September 2, 2018
Vanessa Brown works in the space between strength and fragility through an alchemical fusing of steel, pigment, and glass – sculpture flirting with painting, a symbolic narrative collage, form as gesture or character. This exhibition brings together new installations and recent works, ranging…
Unmasking Imagination
June 10 - September 20, 2021
We are pleased to announce a new space on the 4th floor at Esker Foundation: Bridge: A space dedicated to young people. Unmasking Imagination along with the exhibition Thinking of You are the inaugural exhibitions in Bridge. In March and