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…
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…
Tobias Zielony: Vele
January 18 - May 11, 2014
Tobias Zielony’s photo- and video-based series Vele explores the legacy of Le Vele di Scampia, a monumental Brutalist housing complex in northern Naples built by Franz Di Salvo in the 1970s. Originally hailed as a revolution in urban social housing, the complex was subsumed by the Camorra crime…
Cedric Bomford: Concrete Logic
January 18 - May 11, 2014
Known for installations that the artist describes as a mode of “thinking through building”, in which the act of construction is akin to a process of drawing or sketching, Esker Foundation presents Bomford’s Prague Air Vents, a series of large scale photographs that act as both studies of and…
Peter von Tiesenhausen: Experience of the Precisely Sublime
January 18 - May 11, 2014
The title of this exhibition draws from Donald Judd’s idea of an integrated utopia, where art, architecture, and place come together. For Judd, art could only be realized in an ideal location, and as such could only be experienced in this “precisely sublime” setting – an environmental,…
Tyler Los-Jones: The way air hides the sky
December 16, 2013 - March 16, 2014
Project Space
Much of Tyler Los-Jones’ practice is concerned with the way in which we frame nature and insist upon a detachment between it and ourselves: the anthropocentric assumption that we are distinct from it and not intrinsically linked to it, neither physically nor temporally. That nature is Othered to…
Fiction/Non-fiction
September 28 – December 22, 2013
September 28 - December 22, 2013
The thirteen artists in Fiction/Non-fiction challenge mainstream cultural and political narratives by offering transcultural critique through works that propose counterpoints, rhetorical questions, and revisionist statements (often as increasingly abstract forms of representation) to official…
Raymond Boisjoly: (Shadows) & (Reflections)
August 20 - December 8, 2013
Project Space
This photographic work continues the artist’s interest in technological mediation, what happens in the space between sender and receiver, and the provisional character of knowledge. The source material for (Shadows) & (Reflections) is the 1961 film The Exiles, which documents one night in the…