June Exhibitions
Kick off summer with these visual arts offerings
This month is teeming with great exhibitions you’ll love. Whether you head out to a gallery you visit often or discover a new favourite, make sure to take in some visual art this June!
Good Job Arcade
May 26 – July 1, 2023
TRUCK Contemporary Art (2009 10th Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Good Job Arcade is a Teresa Tam led project that utilizes work and play to explore themes of asynchronicity experienced by diaspora communities that form into nostalgia. Visitors have the chance to engage in all of their senses, with many little treasures and moments to find.
truck.ca
Spotlight: Margaret Hall
May 25 – July 15, 2023
Alberta Craft Gallery & Shop, cSPACE King Edward (2nd floor, 1721 29th Ave. SW)
Free to explore
This collection of summer hats and headpieces highlights traditional millinery techniques in vintage and modern hat styles with a contemporary aesthetic. Summer is a time to celebrate all that is floral and light with a colour palette of white and pinks and reds.
albertacraft.ab.ca
Pulse of the Planet
May 26 – August 27, 2023
Esker Foundation (4th floor, 1011 9th Ave. SE)
Free to explore
Pulse of the Planet is a major solo exhibition by Paris/Sydney-based artist Mel O’Callaghan that synthesizes several years of research, collaborations and ways of knowing. For the last 20 years, O’Callaghan has explored resonant objects, spaces and tools and how they affect, codify and connect bodies.
eskerfoundation.com
Devotion: Louis Riel Writes Home
May 29 – September 1, 2023
Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary (435 Campus Lane NW)
Free to explore
In 2022 the University of Calgary’s Libraries and Cultural Resources acquired an important collection of archival materials from the descendants of Louis Riel. A selection of personal artifacts from this collection is featured in this exhibition at Nickle Galleries.
nickle.ucalgary.ca
Woman’s Work
June 2 – 30, 2023
Sparrow Artspace (36 4th St. NE)
Free to explore
After learning that job losses disproportionately affected women during the pandemic, artist Veronica Funk created the project Woman’s Work which includes portrait paintings and stories of women from around the world.
veronicafunk.com
Hearing Home / Seeing Home
June 1 – October 1, 2023
Lougheed House (707 13th Ave. SW)
With admission
The Lougheed House exhibition brings together Tyler J. Stewart’s Hearing Home, an audio exhibit with listening stations throughout the house, and Seeing Home, a re-interpretation of the collection by members of the Lougheed House Re-Imagined Community Advisory Committee.
lougheedhouse.com
Of Vision & Light
June 3 – 30, 2023
Artpoint Gallery (1038 17th Ave. SE)
Free to explore
In this exhibition, artists Erin Freed, Dianne J Leong, Terra McDonald and George Silas use different media to communicate their visual impressions, which may be improvised, transcribed, transposed or relocated to suit their form of self-expression.
artpoint.ca
Fuel by Nat Cann
June 9 – July 21, 2023
Alberta Printmakers (4025 4th St. SE)
Free to explore
In summer 2022, Nat Cann participated in a residency with the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation’s to find what fuels Calgary. The resulting exhibition is an inspection of glass pillars built atop localized establishments, and the people, things and actors who dwell between such venues.
albertaprintmakers.com
Clothesline Art Market
June 10 & 11, 2023, 10am – 4pm
Leighton Art Centre (282027 144th St. W, Millarville)
By donation
Head to Leighton Art Centre’s annual Clothesline Art Sale where local artists set up outdoors to present their original artwork. Inside the Leighton’s heritage home, you’ll discover more fine art and craft as well as free tours, food trucks and live music!
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Last Chance + Ongoing Exhibitions
A Provisional Vista
Until June 11, 2023
Esker Foundation (street level, 1011 9th Ave. SE)
Free to explore
Morgan Melenka’s A provisional vista offers a collage of forms that reference architectural and decorative elements commonly found in our contemporary built environment, such as bollards, awnings, wind-resistant mesh banners and ornamental architectural facades.
eskerfoundation.com
Little México
Until June 17, 2023
The New Gallery (208 Centre St. S)
Free to explore
The project Little México by Carlos Colín critically engages with the community of Mexican labourers, their socio-political-cultural diasporic contribution to British Columbia, where the project was created, and Canada.
thenewgallery.org
FreshFaces
Until June 17, 2023
Newzones Gallery (730 11th Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Newzones’ third edition of FreshFaces brings together select artists for a one-time group show analyzing the ways in which they challenge the traditional use of materials and formal aesthetics through painting, photography, mixed media and sculpture.
newzones.com
Form(ed)
Until June 24, 2023
Alberta Craft Gallery & Shop, cSPACE King Edward (280, 1721 29th Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Carissa Baktay’s Form(ed) presents a series of O.O.U.U.s (Objects Of Unidentified Uses) exploring memory, body and femininity. These mixed material sculptures come to life through intuitive process and intimate performative acts.
albertacraft.ab.ca
It’s About Time, Space & Place
Until June 24, 2023
ASA Gallery, Crossroads Art Centre (Suite #222, 1235 26th Ave. SE)
Free to explore
The Alberta Society of Artists presents group exhibition It’s About Time, Space & Place featuring the work of artists Bonnie Scott, Debra Ward, Mary Ann Wilson and Wanda Rottenfusser. Presented is a contemporary sense of place developed through years of art-making.
albertasocietyofartists.com
Treelines — Here and There
Until July 21, 2023
Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary (2500 University Dr. NW)
Free to explore
Gwen MacGregor explores the multilayered and contradictory relationships that settlers on Turtle Island have to land. Her installation brings together photographs and videos with a forest of crocheted trees — altering perspectives, toying with memory, loss and environmental degradation.
nickle.ucalgary.ca
Prairie Persuasion
Until August 27, 2023
Gasoline Alley Museum, Heritage Park (1900 Heritage Dr. SW)
With admission
Beginning in the 1860s, propaganda was everywhere. It brought settlers and tourists to the province, helped form community groups, enlisted troops for war efforts and opened doors for fake remedies and advertisements. Join Heritage Park for their newest temporary exhibit all about propaganda.
heritagepark.ca
Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956-1971
Until September 17, 2023
Contemporary Calgary (701 11th St. SW)
Free to explore
In 1956, photographer Diane Arbus (1923–1971) marked a roll of film with the number 1 and her career as an artist began. Over the next 15 years, she produced a body of work that would revolutionize not only the portrait genre, but the medium of photography.
contemporarycalgary.com
Canadian Music Hall of Fame: Nickelback
Until September 30, 2023
Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre (850 4th St. SE)
With admission
This exhibition features numerous instruments, personal items, concert footage and behind-the-scenes photos. The gallery includes a large video wall outfitted with a full stage display with many of Nickelback’s outfits and customized instruments.
studiobell.ca
Human Sprawl
Until March 31, 2024
Leighton Art Centre (282027 144th St. W, Millarville)
By donation
Michelle Atkinson explores humanity’s tendency to live in excess, with personal consumption impacting biodiversity. Born from industrial waste, animal sculptures were created using thick slabs of once broken office window glass destined for the landfill.
leightoncentre.org
11,104 Days: From Artists to Zenith
Ongoing
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art (730 11th Ave. SW)
Free to explore
In honour of its 30th anniversary, 11,104 Days: From Artists to Zenith displays each of Newzones’ represented artists, including spectacular new work created by gallery artists in celebration of this milestone.
newzones.com
Music & Wellness
Ongoing
Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre (850 4th St. SE)
With admission
National Music Centre’s permanent Music & Wellness exhibition taps into the power of music on mental and physical health through a series of powerful video interviews that create an immersive sense of personal conversation.
studiobell.ca
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