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Art of Reclamation
Hotel Arts’ new collaboration with Whiskey Jack Gallery and artist Shannon Carla King brings you an installation that’s as thought-provoking as it is beautiful. These pieces celebrate the incredible work of reclamation experts, transforming forgotten lands into renewed spaces.
Timeless: 100 years of Oscar Peterson
Timeless: 100 years of Oscar Peterson commemorates the centenary of one of Canada’s greatest musical legends. The exhibition celebrates the extraordinary life, music, and legacy of the virtuosic jazz pianist, composer, and humanitarian who captivated audiences around the world.
Unfamiliar Perspectives
Built around archival photographs, sketches, newspaper pages, personal journals and government records, this exhibit at The Confluence highlights lesser-known stories about the North-West Mounted Police.
Shadowlands
Shadowlands, an exhibition by painter Cindy Bouwers at Ambrose University, explores the meeting of light and shadow in nature and inner life. Through layered colours and intuitive gestures, the works invite reflection on moments of transition, uncertainty and emotional nuance.
Next Generation Artists of Alberta Exhibit
Created in partnership with ArtLaunch, check out artwork from young artists, plus two info panels on why community support for young artists matters across 160 feet of wall space outside of the former Hudson’s Bay storefront at Chinook Centre.
Yvonne Mullock: Why don’t you…
Yvonne Mullock’s exhibition Why don’t you… is a solo presentation that brings together multiple projects spanning more than ten years of the artist’s practice. Beginning with printmaking and extending into textiles, video, ceramics, and bronze, Mullock crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore questions of human behaviour. Opening Feb. 5, 5 – 8 pm.
Heather Leier: Practice Pinny
As a printmaker, Heather Leier is deeply attuned to embodied knowledge—the physical instincts and repeated actions that shape studio practice. Her practice pinny becomes a metaphor for this “costume of preparation,” echoing the apron worn in the print studio. Opening Feb. 5 from 5 – 8pm.
Eternal Gaze of Contemplation
Inspired by the legend of Mi Fu, this exhibition uses sculptural “rocks” to explore biracial identity and belonging. Through these symbolic forms, the artist reflects on perception, expectation and the weight of imposed labels.
Pictorial Psalms
Pictorial Psalms features work by Zambian-born, Canada-based artist Chish, whose multidisciplinary practice blends storytelling, culture and faith. Drawing on early influences and a biblical lens, the exhibition explores art as a sacred language of connection, reflection and wonder.
Liminal Space
Liminal Space, the debut exhibition by the Uncommon Art Collective, explores themes of transition, possibility and the in-between. Using abstraction, the works evoke mystery and a dream-like quality, inviting viewers to embrace the beauty of the unknown.
Gestural Dialogues
Gestural Dialogues brings together works by Cathy Daley and Janna Watson in a two-person exhibition exploring gesture as both a physical act and a powerful form of communication, through drawing and painting.
Liminal Space
Liminal Space immerses viewers into the abstracted liminal, a place of transition, a physical or metaphorical “threshold” between two states. The exhibition is the first group show for the Uncommon Art Collective.
Nika & Madison
This tense drama follows two childhood friends forced on the run after a violent encounter with a police officer. As they seek refuge and evade capture, the story explores loyalty, survival, and the deep biases within the justice system.
My Mother is Data
This immersive installation explores how relationships take shape in digital spaces. Blending moving images, 3D animation, live text, and interactive media, the work reflects on data in a world where personal experience and global events coexist within the same digital scroll.
SPOTLIGHT: Sara Young
Check out Cochrane-based woodworker and fibre artist Sara Young’s handcrafted textile tools, from weaving shuttles to tapestry looms. The exhibit celebrates material, texture and the unique character of hardwoods.
Rebus Plates For Our Times
Inspired by 19th-century French rebus plates, Mireille Perron reimagines the riddle form to reflect on urgent contemporary issues. Blending image and text, the exhibition connects historical craft with present-day social commentary.
Prism Rooms
Inspired by dream pop and New Romantic subcultures, Megan Dyck’s luminous figurative paintings evoke hazy dance floors and euphoric, cinematic encounters.
Hot Scrap & Bouquet
Hot Scrap & Bouquet brings together collage works by Sondra Meszaros and August Klintberg, exploring how images shape identity, memory and personal histories. These exhibitions invite viewers to consider what pictures reveal, conceal and transform.
Stacking Crates to Reach a Banana
Through sculpture and video, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens examine how bodies (human and nonhuman) are measured, valued and shaped by systems of data and performance, drawing on the visual language of modern science to trace the ethical stakes of systems that quantify lived experience into units of labour.
Erdem Taşdelen: Wounded in Three Acts
Marking Erdem Taşdelen’s return to Calgary, this multi-part exhibition spans audio, film, print and live performance to consider power, resistance and difference, inviting us to confront our own roles within today’s sociopolitical landscape.
April Exhibitions
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Free This Week
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Free This Week
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Free This Week
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