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…
Janet Werner: Another Perfect Day
June 15 - September 6, 2013
Another Perfect Day comprises a snapshot of Janet Werner’s production over the last ten years that is invested in reinterpretations of the historically established practice of portraiture. This collection of work favours a deeply internalized, subjective, and subverted interpretation of generally…
Dagmara Genda: Scenic Route
June 15 – September 6, 2013
June 15 - September 6, 2013
Blending appropriated imagery from nature photographs, coffee table books, calendars, and travel brochures with original drawn and painted elements, Dagmara Genda’s Panorama and Corrupted Animals address clichés of the Canadian landscape. The work is formed using the logic of a jigsaw puzzle:…
Jillian McDonald: Valley of the Deer
June 15 – September 6, 2013
June 15 - September 6, 2013
Incorporating video, performance, and drawing, Jillian McDonald’s work examines popular film genres such as romance and horror in relation to their effect on audiences. Currently focusing on the archetypes and themes found in American horror films, McDonald avoids the use of extreme violence in…