Exhibitions
Revolutionaries and Ghosts: Memory, Witness and Justice in a Global Canadian Context
January 31, 2019 – May 3, 2019
Works from the Collections of Nickle Galleries and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, curated by Timothy Long and Christine Sowiak Co-produced by Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary and MacKenzie Art Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday 31 January, 5:00 – 8:00 pm They would live on, as dangerous as revolutionaries but as intangible as ghosts – Ma…
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BREAKING TRADITION: LANDSCAPE (IM)POSSIBILITIES
January 31, 2019 – April 13, 2019
Curated by Jasmine Hynes in collaboration with Museum and Heritage Studies from the Collection of Nickle Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday 31 January, 5:00 – 8:00 pm Traditionally, in Canada, when we think of landscape we think of the great north, vast and barren, wild and unspoiled. The paintings of A.Y Jackson, Lawren Harris, and other…
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Mireille Perron – The Anatomy of a Glass Menagerie: Altaglass
January 31, 2019 – April 13, 2019
Inspired by Anna Atkins (considered the first female photographer), artist Mireille Perron contributes to a reactivation of meaning for Altaglass. Opening Reception: Thursday 31 January, 5:00 – 8:00pm. Organized by Nickle Galleries, curated by Christine Sowiak with catalogue essay by Julia Kruger. Mireille Perron acknowledges her coll…
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Lyndal Osborne: Mutation of the Commons
September 27, 2018 – December 15, 2018
Lyndal Osborne: Mutation of the Commons offers a survey of Osborne’s poignant sculptural work, completed since 1995. Her work speaks to forces of transformation within nature and comments upon the pressing issues relating to the environment. In her recent work Osborne has focused on an examination of the issues of genetically modified organisms. …
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Jude Griebel: Illuminated Collapse
October 18, 2017 – December 15, 2018
Jude Griebel: Illuminated Collapse offers a series of dioramas that project metaphorical End-of-Time narratives. Richly detailed, they represent anatomies/landscapes engaged in dramatic acts of self-consumption and destruction. Griebel’s work occupies a liminal space between difficult fact and dystopic fiction, between techniques of natural histo…
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Shona Rae: Re-Imagined Narratives
October 18, 2018 – December 15, 2018
Shona Rae: Re-Imagined Narratives is the culmination of two decades of work by this locally based ‘madwoman extraordinaire.’ Begun in 1998, Rae crafted 22 wearable sculptures inspired by fairy tales and the archetypes found in the Higher Arcana of the Tarot. Rae uses the Tarot, not for fortune telling, but for revealing insights into the journey…
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INTERSTITIAL – 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition
August 10, 2018 – September 15, 2018
Organized by the Department of Art and Nickle Galleries After two years of research-led creation, seven MFA students present their final works in an exhibition, organized and curated by the students themselves and Nickle Galleries. The interdisciplinary nature of the students’ artistic practices unifies the works showcased in INTERSTITIAL. Featurin…
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What is Money?
May 3, 2018 – September 8, 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018 to Saturday, September 8, 2018 Curated by Marina Fischer with assistance from Justine Buchler, Organized by Nickle Galleries What is Money? is the newest exhibition of ethnographic objects from the Nickle’s numismatic collection, showcasing diverse forms of money used across the globe through time. From some of the earliest mi…
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LAND – PEOPLE – MOVEMENT: Selections from the Collections of Nickle Galleries
May 25, 2018 – August 10, 2018
We began planning this exhibition near the end of a winter determined to hang on longer than most, so perhaps that is why we were drawn to works from all the collections that took us outside. To the wilderness, to city streets and small towns, to the intersection of people and the world. Our focus though became not landscape, or at least not exclus…
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Striking Images: Hellenistic Portraits in the Nickle Coin Collection
February 27, 2014 – August 7, 2018
Portraits on modern coins are so standard that we rarely give them a second glance. While these images have their roots in the ancient world, it was only during the Hellenistic Period (ca. 323-32 BC) the tradition of coin portraits fully developed. Striking Images: Hellenistic Portraits in the Nickle Numismatics Collection, explores how, from this…
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