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Title: Beyond the Looking Glass
Artist: Roberta Murray
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: A series of pictorialist archival pigment photographs. This series of images, captured in the city of Calgary, question if reality can be distorted by how you look at the world. An individual perception determines what exists. Where one person perceives a nightmare, the other sees a dream.
Title: Beyond the Looking Glass
Artist: Roberta Murray
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: A series of pictorialist archival pigment photographs. This series of images, captured in the city of Calgary, question if reality can be distorted by how you look at the world. An individual perception determines what exists. Where one person perceives a nightmare, the other sees a dream.
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Title: Shimmer & Shine
Artist: Nate McLeod & Cassandra Paul
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: Shimmer & Shine filled the Open Spaces window space with a floor‐to‐ceiling wall painting. Beams of color found within the painting draw the viewer’s eye to the center of the window, where a deer skull projects out from a circle of black cast acrylic. A thick layer of crystals has been grown upon the surface of the deer’s antlers using a simple process often taught in elementary school science classes.
Title: Shimmer & Shine
Artist: Nate McLeod & Cassandra Paul
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: Shimmer & Shine filled the Open Spaces window space with a floor‐to‐ceiling wall painting. Beams of color found within the painting draw the viewer’s eye to the center of the window, where a deer skull projects out from a circle of black cast acrylic. A thick layer of crystals has been grown upon the surface of the deer’s antlers using a simple process often taught in elementary school science classes.
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Artist: Margot van Lindenberg
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: This window acts as a metaphor of reversed roles: with our increasing urban sprawl, we have to looks inside a window rather than outside to see the beauty of nature. Inspired by the mythical beauty of lush flora these artworks are presented to share the delicate balance and splendor found in the botanical world: our green gardens as ultimate means of survival. There is less and less open space to enjoy the beauty and nourishment of nature. How odd to have to protect nature and enclose it like some commodity in a window!
Artist: Margot van Lindenberg
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: This window acts as a metaphor of reversed roles: with our increasing urban sprawl, we have to looks inside a window rather than outside to see the beauty of nature. Inspired by the mythical beauty of lush flora these artworks are presented to share the delicate balance and splendor found in the botanical world: our green gardens as ultimate means of survival. There is less and less open space to enjoy the beauty and nourishment of nature. How odd to have to protect nature and enclose it like some commodity in a window!
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Title: Plastic Culture
Artist: Evaline Kolijn
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: Plastic Culture features ten colourful prints from her Plastic Fungus series and constructed organisms created from found synthetic objects such as yogurt containers. Referencing fungi, which are agents of decomposition, the artist brings attention to plastic as a problematic waste material. The installation as a whole is intended to make the viewer "more aware of the actual technological value of this material and be less thoughtless and wasteful with it."
Title: Plastic Culture
Artist: Evaline Kolijn
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: Plastic Culture features ten colourful prints from her Plastic Fungus series and constructed organisms created from found synthetic objects such as yogurt containers. Referencing fungi, which are agents of decomposition, the artist brings attention to plastic as a problematic waste material. The installation as a whole is intended to make the viewer "more aware of the actual technological value of this material and be less thoughtless and wasteful with it."
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Title: Close/Lines
Artist: Jenna Swift
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: Jenna Swift's Close/Lines consists of eight jacket silhouettes, constructed to human scale from the accumulated by-products of her studio practice, as well as text fragments from periodicals and newspapers. Suspended from the ceiling with string and stitching, Jenna’s installation mimics the action played out before the window as the public fall into an uneven line along the train platform, and illustrates the fleeting nature of human relationships, brief and complex as those that transpire in the time between trains.
Title: Close/Lines
Artist: Jenna Swift
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: Jenna Swift's Close/Lines consists of eight jacket silhouettes, constructed to human scale from the accumulated by-products of her studio practice, as well as text fragments from periodicals and newspapers. Suspended from the ceiling with string and stitching, Jenna’s installation mimics the action played out before the window as the public fall into an uneven line along the train platform, and illustrates the fleeting nature of human relationships, brief and complex as those that transpire in the time between trains.
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Title: Floating City
Artist: Barbara Hirst
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project Description: Floating City is part of a series of paintings that was inspire by the views along the canals of quiet neighborhoods in the northern district of Cannaregio, Venice, where I spent many hours painting, sketching, photographing, and working on intaglio plates. Within the ripples of the lagoon, I could easily imagine the palazzos in their former glory.
Title: Floating City
Artist: Barbara Hirst
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project Description: Floating City is part of a series of paintings that was inspire by the views along the canals of quiet neighborhoods in the northern district of Cannaregio, Venice, where I spent many hours painting, sketching, photographing, and working on intaglio plates. Within the ripples of the lagoon, I could easily imagine the palazzos in their former glory.
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Title: Urban Wild
Artist: Calgary Clay Arts Association (Aldo Marchese, Connie Pike, Constance Cooper, Darlene Swan, John Robertson, Krista Gowland, Monika Smith and Susan Thorpe.)
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: A collection of work by urban clay artists investigates tensions and dynamic aspects of “wild” within an urban environment. Cities have organic junctions and interactions with the “wild.” Sometimes planned, sometimes not, but we are often surprised.
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir
Title: Urban Wild
Artist: Calgary Clay Arts Association (Aldo Marchese, Connie Pike, Constance Cooper, Darlene Swan, John Robertson, Krista Gowland, Monika Smith and Susan Thorpe.)
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: A collection of work by urban clay artists investigates tensions and dynamic aspects of “wild” within an urban environment. Cities have organic junctions and interactions with the “wild.” Sometimes planned, sometimes not, but we are often surprised.
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir
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Title: Chogak Chogak
Artist: Diana Un-Jin Cho
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: For the space Cho created an installation inspired by the Bow River, that’s slow flow gives a sense of calmness and serenity, which is what she wants to capture and convey to the bustling people of downtown. The goal is to deliver a minute of tranquility and a spiritual lift to the commuters of the LRT after a long and stressful day at work
Title: Chogak Chogak
Artist: Diana Un-Jin Cho
Exhibition year: 2011 - 2012
Project description: For the space Cho created an installation inspired by the Bow River, that’s slow flow gives a sense of calmness and serenity, which is what she wants to capture and convey to the bustling people of downtown. The goal is to deliver a minute of tranquility and a spiritual lift to the commuters of the LRT after a long and stressful day at work
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Title: Calgary Dream Log
Artist: Sarah Fuller
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Sarah Fuller combines the dreams submitted by Calgarians into a stream of conscious text to create a collaborative narrative of one night's dreaming in our city. Focusing on the transcription of events and emotions, Fuller uses text to explore the cognitive processes connected to dreams.
Title: Calgary Dream Log
Artist: Sarah Fuller
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Sarah Fuller combines the dreams submitted by Calgarians into a stream of conscious text to create a collaborative narrative of one night's dreaming in our city. Focusing on the transcription of events and emotions, Fuller uses text to explore the cognitive processes connected to dreams.
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Title: The 12
Artist: Doug Driediger
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: The 12 depicts friends and family with attributes assigned to the original Twelve Apostles. Consisting of twelve portraits painted in the style of icon paintings, this vibrant display will change over the course of the exhibition run rotating each month with four new portraits.
Title: The 12
Artist: Doug Driediger
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: The 12 depicts friends and family with attributes assigned to the original Twelve Apostles. Consisting of twelve portraits painted in the style of icon paintings, this vibrant display will change over the course of the exhibition run rotating each month with four new portraits.
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Title: Rush Hour
Artist: Terry Reynoldson
Exhibition year: 2010 – 2011
Project description: A dynamic installation about our shared experiences with others, both physical and emotional.
Title: Rush Hour
Artist: Terry Reynoldson
Exhibition year: 2010 – 2011
Project description: A dynamic installation about our shared experiences with others, both physical and emotional.
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Title: urbanized BuY-productZ
Artist: Daniel J. Kirk
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Urban centres evolve and grow, they consume and they provide and it is somewhere within the idea of an urban centre in which the work forms context. This work is based upon an ongoing dialogue surrounding the ideas and definitions of Graffiti, Vandalism, Community, Urbanization, and Waste.
Title: urbanized BuY-productZ
Artist: Daniel J. Kirk
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Urban centres evolve and grow, they consume and they provide and it is somewhere within the idea of an urban centre in which the work forms context. This work is based upon an ongoing dialogue surrounding the ideas and definitions of Graffiti, Vandalism, Community, Urbanization, and Waste.
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Title: These Three Kings
Artist: Erin Belanger
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Belanger seeks to stimulate collective memory through the narratives created by camp culture and imagery. These familiar signifiers allow for ease of personal association. The ‘great history’ stimulates individual identification and therefore provides a sense of place and comfort to us; assuring us that though death is a certainty, we may not be entirely erased.
Title: These Three Kings
Artist: Erin Belanger
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Belanger seeks to stimulate collective memory through the narratives created by camp culture and imagery. These familiar signifiers allow for ease of personal association. The ‘great history’ stimulates individual identification and therefore provides a sense of place and comfort to us; assuring us that though death is a certainty, we may not be entirely erased.
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Title: Dress Up
Artist: Roxanne Driediger
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Driediger’s collection of two-dimensional painted works for OPEN SPACES addresses ideas about community, identity and cultural diversity from a Calgary woman's perspective. The playful and approachable works address ideas about contemporary costuming and everyday social performance in an effort to define attitude and character that is distinctly Calgarian.
Title: Dress Up
Artist: Roxanne Driediger
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Driediger’s collection of two-dimensional painted works for OPEN SPACES addresses ideas about community, identity and cultural diversity from a Calgary woman's perspective. The playful and approachable works address ideas about contemporary costuming and everyday social performance in an effort to define attitude and character that is distinctly Calgarian.
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Title: My Life on the Island of Misbelief
Artist: Marjan Eggermont
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Eggermont’s work puts Calgary’s homeless statistics in visual form, featuring 4,060 Monopoly houses representing each homeless person in 2008.
Title: My Life on the Island of Misbelief
Artist: Marjan Eggermont
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Eggermont’s work puts Calgary’s homeless statistics in visual form, featuring 4,060 Monopoly houses representing each homeless person in 2008.
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Title: Heaven and Earth X
Artist: Judy Ueda
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Heaven and Earth is about wide open or limitless space, it is also about a sense of stability and calmness or something you have always known; like going back to a favourite spot you used to go to as a child.
Title: Heaven and Earth X
Artist: Judy Ueda
Exhibition year: 2010 - 2011
Project description: Heaven and Earth is about wide open or limitless space, it is also about a sense of stability and calmness or something you have always known; like going back to a favourite spot you used to go to as a child.