Jeffrey Gibson: Time Carriers
September 28 - December 20, 2019
Time Carriers conjures a vision of many hands providing a framework of support, a fluid utopia where trust and movement go hand in hand. It evokes a time frame that both unites and collapses present, past, and future into an undulating and responsive single unit, something that could best be…
Jeffrey Gibson: To Name An Other
October 19, 2019
Atlantic Avenue Art Block Lobby
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Nep Sidhu: Divine of Form, Formed in the Divine (Medicine for a Nightmare)
September 28 - December 20, 2019
Curated by cheyanne turions
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Marjie Crop Eared Wolf: Iitsi’poyi
October 28, 2019 - January 26, 2020
Project Space
Marjie Crop Eared Wolf continues her ongoing project to learn Blackfoot in the drawing, sound, and video installation, ‘Iitsi’poyi.’ Using thousands of Blackfoot words transcribed from the ‘Blackfoot Dictionary’ as well as an audio tape made by her mother, this work addresses cultural legacy and…
Kablusiak: Qiniqtuaq
July 29 - October 20, 2019
‘Qiniqtuaq’ (searching/looking) invites viewers to peer through a multi-eyed ghost sheet to witness a looping projection of a video collage screened in front of a piece of oil-stained cardboard. ‘Qiniqtuaq’ is meant to evoke a dream-like state imaging a hypothetical place and time; a…
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…
CHANNEL 51: IGLOOLIK – Celebrating 30 Years of Inuit Video Art
June 1 - August 30, 2019
Esker Foundation is pleased to present selected films from the first large-scale tour of Igloolik Inuit video art from the Isuma and Arnait Women’s Video collective, a collection of over 40 works (short films, documentaries, and feature films) from 1987 to today. It is the product of a 30-year…
May G N: Occlusion Field
May 6 - July 21, 2019
Project Space
‘Occlusion Field’ is a singular moment in time and space made of the stuff of trans defense mechanism: tattoos, liquid gender concepts, and hormonally transforming surfaces that come together to speak to an idiosyncrasy, a gestalt, a whole that transcends its constitutive parts. The Field is a…
Glenna Cardinal: mourning home
February 4 - April 28, 2019
Project Space
Through Cardinal’s beautifully crafted work that includes home furnishings, taxidermy, and rocks from the area around her former childhood home, Cardinal’s work explores themes of land and home, displacement and loss related to the construction Calgary’s Southwest Ring Road through
Neil Campbell: wheatfield
January 26 - May 12, 2019
One might say that the primary focus of Neil Campbell’s practice is perception. Sensory and sensational, his works are meticulously devised to address and influence the physical and phenomenological aspects of the act of viewing. Campbell’s geometric paintings and graphic interventions