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…
Jolie Bird: 1597; Harmonious Frequencies
May 7 - July 29, 2018
Project Space
‘1597; Harmonious Frequencies’ is a performance-based installation to be implemented in the Project Space over the course of twelve weeks. Working within a clean and minimal space, the artist will create an 8-foot diameter representation of the Fibonacci Sequence, which references the golden ratio…
Kapwani Kiwanga: A wall is just a wall (and nothing more at all)
February 3 - May 6, 2018
In this new body of work, Kapwani Kiwanga delves into disciplinary architecture and deconstructs the physical and psychological qualities of different built environments including schools, prisons, hospitals and mental health facilities.
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DaveandJenn: Paradise for an in-between time
January 29 - April 29, 2018
Project Space
DaveandJenn, also sometimes, known as David John Foy and Jennifer Saleik, have been working together since 2004. Their varied practice weaves a long view of both human and natural histories together with the more closed off realms of private spectacles and inner landscapes. For Esker’s Project…
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,…
Postcommodity: A Very Long Line
September 16 - December 22, 2017
‘A Very Long Line’ is a four-channel video installation that employs the image and idea of the fence demarcating the U.S.-Mexico border between Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora. Camera pans of the Sonoran Desert shot through the border fence blur past viewers on all sides, at varying speeds,…
Mary Anne Barkhouse: Le rêve aux loups
September 16 - December 22, 2017
Guest curated by Jennifer Rudder
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Making Treaty 7: Finding Common Ground
July 31 - October 22, 2017
Project Space
July 31 – September 10, 2017
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Jason de Haan: Oh for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!
May 28 - August 27, 2017
Calgary-based artist Jason de Haan has developed an interest in proposing and undertaking projects in which particular environments, natural conditions, and massive time scales complete, animate, and determine his multidisciplinary practice. The work most clearly deals with fleetingness,…
Anton Vidokle: The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun
May 28 - August 27, 2017
The second film of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism looks at the poetic dimension of solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist, Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled, the film introduces Сhizhevsky’s research into the impact of solar…