Exhibitions
Insitem: The 2019 Master of Fine Arts Graduates Exhibitions
August 9, 2019 – September 21, 2019
At Nickle Galleries: Novem, Claudia Chagoya (August 9 – September 21) Unspoken Incantation, Kun Chen (August 9 – September 21) Anthropneuma, Joel Matthew Warkentin (August 9 – September 21) At the Taylor Institute Gallery A Part of the Whole,…
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Recall: Recent Acquisitions and their New Context
May 31, 2019 – August 16, 2019
31 May through 16 August, 2019 Curated by Christine Sowiak from the Collections of Nickle Galleries During the summer of 2019, Nickle Galleries will hold three concurrent exhibitions featuring the collections of Nickle Galleries. Money and Calgary: T…
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Money and Calgary: The City’s History of Numismatics
May 10, 2019 – July 20, 2019
Curated by Marina Fischer from the Collections of Nickle Galleries and the Calgary Numismatic Society. “There is nothing more fascinating than collecting coins, all history is summed up in them…they are the story of humanity.” W.H…
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Closer Look: Investigating the Every Day
May 17, 2019 – July 20, 2019
Curated by Christine Sowiak from the collection of Nickle Galleries During the summer of 2019, Nickle Galleries will hold three concurrent exhibitions featuring the collections of Nickle Galleries. Money and Calgary: The City’s History of Numi…
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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 –…
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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, cur…
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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 grea…
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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…
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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 occup…
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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…
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