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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.
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.
Magalie Guérin: Orange to Rattle
Magalie Guérin presents a striking body of work by the Marfa-based artist known for her rigorous, expressive approach to painting and drawing. Drawing on decades of international exhibition and critical acclaim, Guérin’s work balances formal precision with emotional intensity.
Anthony Cudahy: metronome yawned
Cudahy is a figurative painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions, he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gestures. Personal and poetic, Cudahy’s figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments.
Alexandre Pépin: Lavender
Alexandre Pépin: Lavender presents luminous paintings that draw from fresco traditions and modern decorative movements to explore Queer intimacy, memory, and spiritual reflection. Pépin’s richly layered works blend historical influence with personal iconography.
Justin de Verteuil: sie will / muse. zur marionette
This exhibition features evocative oil paintings that explore the shifting relationship between figure, space and spectator. Through ambiguity and carefully placed detail, de Verteuil’s work invites projection and interpretation, turning each scene into a psychological encounter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Montageries
Montageries invites you to look beyond the frame. Each piece, from the intricate silkscreens of Katie Ohe to the pixelated compositions of Chris Cran, acts as a flash of memory, offering a glimpse into Alberta’s evolving cultural identity.
Ashes! Ashes!
This tactile intimate exhibition by Margaret Joba-Woodruff uses charcoal, beeswax, paper and wool to trace memories of home, loss and repair. Through experimental printmaking techniques, the works reflect on housing precarity, shared domestic spaces and what we carry with us as we move on.
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.
Emerging Artist Unleashed
The Alberta Society of Artists presents the annual EAU exhibition, showcasing work by post-secondary fine art students from across Alberta. Featuring scholarship recipients and emerging artists, this exhibition celebrates new talent and supports the next generation of artists.
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.
Sparks Fly
Sparks Fly explores the powerful connections between disability and mental health. Curated by Carla Isabella Salter, the exhibition brings together artists whose work reflects the intensity, complexity and resilience of lived experience.
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.
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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Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
