Samuel Roy-Bois: Presences
September 26 - December 5, 2020
Samuel Roy-Bois’ practice is concerned with the conceptual and material definition of space and the ways the built environment and manufactured things contribute to our understanding of the world. Through sculpture, site-specific installation, and photography, Roy-Bois examines relational networks…
Bridge Space: Unmasking Imagination
June 10 - September 20, 2021
We are pleased to announce a new space on the 4th floor at Esker Foundation: Bridge: A space dedicated to young people. Unmasking Imagination along with the exhibition Thinking of You are the inaugural exhibitions in Bridge. In March and
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…
Jeremy Shaw: Quantification Trilogy
January 26 - May 12, 2019
At the centre of Shaw’s first solo show in Calgary are three para-fictional short films, this trilogy of thematically entangled works present marginalized societies of the future and their engagement in transcendental activities as potential tools towards evolution.
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
Anna Torma: Book of Abandoned Details
May 26 - September 2, 2018
Anna Torma was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary in 1952 and graduated with a degree in Textile Art and Design from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts, Budapest in 1979. She has been an exhibiting artist since that time and has produced a body of extremely skilled and exquisitely detailed large-scale…
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…
Svea Ferguson: airtime
July 6 - October 4, 2015
Project Space
‘airtime’ is a site-specific spatial intervention that is a continuation of Ferguson’s recent interest in exploring the potential of material. Through the cutting and manipulation of vinyl and linoleum flooring products, Ferguson makes sculptures and installations that work with the material’s…
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,…