| Gardens, poetry, comedy and comic book figures – all collide for May’s busy lineup of new exhibitions and events.
Photographer Kimberley French, best known as a stills photographer on films like Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James, launches her solo exhibition show, Surface, a collection of larger scaled pieces, at the Stone Fish Gallery, which runs throughout the month of May.
Located in the Illingworth Kerr Gallery (and throughout the college), the Alberta College of Art and Design’s 2006 Graduating Student Show runs until May 6, then re-opens on May 17. The exhibition features pieces in mediums ranging from traditional drawing and painting, to digital arts.
Metalogos, a touring exhibition highlighting the cross-disciplinary creativity of participants Christian Bök, Beth Learn and Paul Dutton, runs at The New Gallery until May 28. Metalogos (beyond words) attempts to blur the distinctions between poetry, music and visual art.
Alberta Cities: The Urban Landscape runs until May 11 at the Image 54 gallery. The show, organized in conjunction with the Alberta Society of Artists, features paintings from both Helen Mackie and Bill Duma.
Opening just down the street at the Newzones Gallery on May 11 is an exhibition of paintings by Colleen Philippi, titled Retrospective: A Series of Wunderkabinetts. A successful, full-time, Calgary-based artist, Philippi says the oddly titled show, "is not a traditional retrospective.
"Nor is it merely a history of my painting career," she adds. "All of the pieces in this retrospective are new, completed in 2006. Some of them have had long gestations – so long, in fact, that they themselves are ‘one piece retrospectives’ – while others were painted entirely in 2006. Rather, it is the ‘idea’ of retrospective that became the unifying concept for this body of work."
Themes, or visual obsessions, as Philippi describes them, include memory, natural history, disparities of scale, portraiture and scientific theory.
Angus Oblong comes to the Quab Gallery for his first-ever Canadian exhibition of his work, which runs until May 27. The Los Angeles-based artist, known for his comic book-like figures, is best recognized as the creator of the cult animated series The Oblongs, and the books featuring the characters, including Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children.
In addition, the gallery will also be hosting two free comedy events in association with the Funnyfest Calgary Comedy Festival, May 3 and May 10.Focusing on the "dead-end" aspects of the urban landscape, Impasse asks if the "progress" we have made might have gone beyond the point of no return. The show runs at the Truck Gallery until May 27.
The Arts on Atlantic Gallery is showing new acrylic paintings from Paris-born and Calgary-based painter Maria Curcic until May 28, in an exhibition titled Compact Living.
"I have long been inspired by architecture," writes Curcic. "Growing up in France has made me appreciate the beauty of old and new. My work expresses the feel of a city from above… taking these elements and abstracting them. I have always enjoyed aerial views of cityscapes, mostly from my trips to Europe and Canada."
Finally, running until June 3, the Triangle Gallery is showing Outside the Lines, an exhibition of children’s art, from kids age three to 17. The show opens on May 18, with Ald. Madeleine King acting as the official host. |
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