Open Spaces: Windows to a View Exhibition space for Canadian artists

This program offers local and regional artists an opportunity to showcase their art in a highly visible downtown location while working with a professional guest curator. The program, which began in 2009, celebrates the diversity and quality of works by regional artists, while enlivening the Centre Street LRT platform on 7 Avenue between 1 Street S.E. and Centre Street.

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Current exhibition

QUIET 展览主题:空灵

Zuo-Peng Zhang 视觉艺术家:张作鹏

About the artist

Zuo-Peng Zhang is a visual artist (Canada Council for the Arts, 2020). Senior photographer (2005), member of the China Photographers Association (2003). He has been engaged in visual arts, mainly in photography, documentary film, new media, education, graphic design and publishing. In the field of photography, he had received many awards in photography competitions and exhibitions, such as the 10th China International Photographic Art Exhibition and the 64th International Photographic Art Salon of Japan. He graduated from photography master class in Beijing, China. He lives and works in Calgary, Canada.

Title: QUIET 展览主题:空灵

Visual Artist: Zuo-Peng Zhang 视觉艺术家:张作鹏

Exhibition dates: April 1 – June 30, 2023

About the exhibition: During the 2020 lockdowns, visual artist Zou-Peng Zhang documented the emptiness of Calgary streets and businesses. As Calgarians return to a sense of normalcy, the photos serve as an ethereal, other-worldly reminder of a period that brought great change to our lives, work and even entertainment.

Zhang also hopes it will serve as a reminder, as COVID-19 still exists and continues to mutate, that we learned to adapt and cope with extreme change once and are capable of doing it again.

In the process of human development, difficulty and disaster are unavoidable, but with a healthy and peaceful mind, we can face and solve any problem.

About the artist: Zuo-Peng Zhang is a visual artist (Canada Council for the Arts, 2020). Senior photographer (2005), member of the China Photographers Association (2003). He has been engaged in visual arts, mainly in photography, documentary film, new media, education, graphic design and publishing. In the field of photography, he had received many awards in photography competitions and exhibitions, such as the 10th China International Photographic Art Exhibition and the 64th International Photographic Art Salon of Japan. He graduated from photography master class in Beijing, China. He lives and works in Calgary, Canada.


Past exhibits

2020 - 2022

2016 - 2019

2012 - 2014

2010 - 2012

2009 - 2010

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