Mia Feuer: Synthetic Seasons
May 23 - September 6, 2015
Mia Feuer is interested in the post-natural landscape, visible sites where human interaction – be it personal, social, political, or financial – has altered or is in the process of rapidly changing the land, and thus our relationship to it. Her work makes connections between our intense material…
Kevin Schmidt: A Sign in the Northwest Passage
May 23 - September 6, 2015
Esker Foundation presents Kevin Schmidt’s A Sign in the Northwest Passage, the multivalent documentation of the creation, delivery, and subsequent search for a cedar billboard that Schmidt emblazoned with foreboding messages from the Book of Revelations and then placed on the steadily melting ice…
Corinne Thiessen: Chronic
April 6 - June 28, 2015
Project Space
In this new site-specific work, Lethbridge-based artist Corinne Thiessen traces the recurring tension among composure and chaos, regimented uniformity and self-conscious release. Using a constructed forest of fragmented trunks salvaged from fallen trees around Lethbridge, Chronic performs an endless…
Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America
February 1 - April 26, 2015
Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America, organized by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), is the largest survey of contemporary Canadian art ever produced outside Canada. Comprising of more than 100 artworks by 62 artists and collectives from across the country,…
Rita McKeough: tender
January 31 - March 29, 2015
Project Space
There is always hope for any hot dog who has been rescued or who has escaped from a restaurant, diner, grocery store, refrigerator, kitchen counter, or right off a dinner plate.
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Ron Terada: We Will Not Grow Old Together
October 14, 2014 - January 4, 2015
Project Space
‘We Will Not Grow Old Together’ mimics the display and function of signage and evokes an urban typology that is at once familiar and accessible, while also suggesting an alternate ethos or way of thinking of another time and place. While the work doesn’t behave like typical signage – it…
Terms of Engagement: Averns, feldman-kiss, Stimson
September 27 - December 14, 2014
Curated by Christine Conley
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Hannah Doerksen: I AM A HOLE IN WALLS OF BUILDINGS
July 21 - October 5, 2014
Project Space
‘I AM A HOLE IN WALLS OF BUILDINGS’ is an installation which uses sculpture, light, kinetic devices, sound, and re-appropriated objects to create a framework for an emotional and reflective experience. Located in a highly visible yet inaccessible window space, the work depicts a variety of…
Cynthia Girard: Unicorns and Dictators
May 31 - September 7, 2014
At first blush Cynthia Girard’s work is a candy-coated world of animals, birds, and simple political slogans: cute but not threatening. But do not be fooled: Girard uses colour, pattern, and the reassuring forms of small beasts to disarm. On closer look this work deals in class struggle, social…
Beth Stuart: Doubting Thomas
May 31 - September 7, 2014
Doubting Thomas is a constellation of works from Stuart’s unfolding project that considers the difficulty and possibility of mapping geometric abstraction onto the human body. The exhibition is in two parts: the first pulls together recent works that consider these ideas via the diverse discourses…