October Exhibitions
Check out new visual art exhibitions around the city this October! Each month, we spotlight a new or outgoing visual arts exhibitions in the city, followed by a roundup of others you can see this month.
Opening October 19, 2024 at Herringer Kiss Gallery, Random Notes by Calgary-based artist Paul deGroot features a small group of monochromatic oil paintings created over the last two years. Paul started art school at Kootenay College, along with his friend and local artist Chris Cran, then both finished their degrees at the Alberta College of Art (now the Alberta University of the Arts). Paul continued to work in his home studio but did not exhibit until recently. His oil paintings are based on personal photographs, which are generally photoshopped or manipulated in some manner before translating them to canvas. “The subject matter for the paintings are seemingly random but are scenes that held Paul’s full attention over the course of the months it took to paint them: cars, crowds, an orchestra, a Paris souvenir stand and portraits of other artists.”
You can check out Random Notes until November 16, 2024 at Herringer Kiss Gallery located at 101, 1615 10 Ave. SW, in the inner-city neighbourhood of Sunalta.
More October exhibitions:
Paola Pivi: Come check it out
October 3, 2024 – March 2, 2025
Contemporary Calgary (701 11 St. SW)
With admission
Come check it out is Italian artist Paola Pivi’s first major institutional solo show in Canada. Pivi subverts the familiar and ordinary in ways that expands on our relationship with the built environment. This exhibition includes sculptural installations that question the authenticity of iconic landmarks and symbols.
contemporarycalgary.com
Teresa Posyniak: Resilience
October 3 – December 14, 2024
Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary (435 Campus Lane NW)
Free to explore
Resilience explores Teresa Posyniak’s long and varied career as an artist, activist and educator in Calgary. This exhibition explores the intimate connections between her sculptural and painted works and features a monumental installation as well as a number of works never exhibited before.
nickle.ucalgary.ca
No Place Like Homo
October 4 – November 22, 2024
Alberta Printmakers (4025 4th St. SE)
Free to explore
No Place Like Homo by K Sarrantonio brings together screen printed ceramic tile and prints on paper to illustrate a non-linear experience of masculine pregnancy and queer home life. The exhibition draws on themes of choice, loss, intention and autonomy, and questions what it means to “conceive of.”
albertaprintmakers.com
Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) & Body Languages
October 18 – December 21, 2024 | Opening reception October 18, 7 – 9pm
TRUCK Contemporary Art (2009 10 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL)
Lucas Morneau’s Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) is a fictional hockey league made up of 14 teams that use pejoratives used against the LGBT2QIA+ community as team names. By reclaiming these pejoratives, QNHL aims to deconstruct homophobia and critique the hegemonic masculinity in sports and sports culture.
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Body Languages
Body Languages is a group exhibition from Iván Acebo-Choy, Jillian Fleck and Patrick Moskwa that seeks to untangle the intricacies of queer loneliness and the deviant nature of masculine identity in cisheteronormative space.
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Barbara Milne: Season
October 19 – November 6, 2024 | Opening reception October 19, 2 – 5pm
Wallace Galleries (500 5 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Season represents a continuum of work reflecting upon nature; as we encounter it and as we remember it. Barbara Milne’s paintings are meditations on static and flux, the specific and the monumental, and the temporal nature of place, both internal and external.
wallacegalleries.com
Upward Spiral
October 19 – November 16, 2024 | Opening reception October 19, 2 – 4pm, artist in attendance
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art (730 11 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Newzones present a solo exhibition of new work, Upward Spiral, by Canadian abstract painter Bradley Harms. Bringing together multiple series, this exhibition showcases Harms’ manipulation of paint in a delicate dance of flow and control.
newzones.com
Limitless: The Disabled World
October 21 – November 16, 2024 | Opening reception October 25, 6 – 9pm
cSPACE Marda Loop (1721 29 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
This photo exhibition by photographer Lionel Migrino features printed and framed photos of persons with disabilities along with their stories. Migrino’s life motto, “limitless,” reflects his determination to navigate the world despite often being told he cannot do things due to his disability.
cspaceprojects.com
For more visual arts events and exhibitions, head over to the arts and culture events section of yycwhatson.ca.
