Exhibitions
Trans Trans
May 27, 2016 – June 10, 2016
Trans Trans: Transgender Histories Between Germany and the United States, 1882-1966 Trans Trans explores a network of individuals in Germany and the United States from the turn of the twentieth century into the 1950s who profoundly shaped transgender histories and identities. Exchanging letters and photographs among themselves, these individuals cr…
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be-ing
April 15, 2016 – May 13, 2016
Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition Featuring works by Marina DiMaio, Carlie Mitchell, Melissa Patrinack, and Andrea Rizzuti The Nickle Galleries continues its commitment to the graduate and undergraduate programs of the Department of Art by hosting the annual Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition.
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Games for Life: Canadian Inuit Prints and Carvings from the Collection of Nickle Galleries
December 18, 2015 – May 1, 2016
This exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the balance of work and play in our lives, and reminds us that it’s okay, even necessary, to have fun.
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Eric + Mia: New Maps of Paradise
January 29, 2016 – April 2, 2016
New Maps of Paradise will chart, in an intentionally ambiguous fashion, the creative practices of Calgary artists Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton. Eric + Mia as they are more commonly known, have worked in the Calgary arts community, singularly since the early 2000s, and collaboratively since 2001. Eric’s practice emerged from the theatre and perf…
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Laura Vickerson: The Between
January 29, 2016 – April 2, 2016
Laura Vickerson’s practice has long been drawn from the stuff of life – discarded objects and materials that were at one time a part of everyday experiences. Through changing trends, a general desire to consume, or the vagaries of fashion, things come to outlive their usefulness and quite often become obsolete or discarded. Yet these things also be…
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Ron Moppett: SCULPTUR(AL)
September 24, 2015 – December 19, 2015
Sculptur(al) focuses on those works where Moppett blurs the distinction between painting and sculpture and underscores the physical or “real” presence of the painting as an object. Employing a multi-paneled structure first adopted from British painter Francis Bacon in the early 1970s, Moppett has continued to evolve the gambit, often joining two, t…
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John Chalke: Surface Tension
October 15, 2015 – December 19, 2015
John Chalke’s ‘clay paintings’ are conceptual ceramic works that dance between sculpture and painting. Inspired by the landscape of southwestern Alberta no less than its local clay, minerals, textures, and fissures, Chalke’s works are richly textured. Surface Tension draws on public and private collections from across Canada to explore the horses…
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2015 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
August 13, 2015 – September 26, 2015
Nickle Galleries continues its commitment to the graduate and undergraduate programs of the Department of Art by hosting the annual Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Exhibiting MFA candidates for 2015 are Kevin J. Mellis, Derrick Hoekstra and Jorge Esteban Zapata Garces.
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Ron Thom and the Allied Arts
June 2, 2015 – August 21, 2015
The exhibition “Ron Thom and the Allied Arts” explores the evolution of west coast architect Ron Thom from his beginnings as an artist/protégé of Jack Shadbolt and Bert Binning at the Vancouver School of Art, to his groundbreaking west coast house architecture, to the internationally renowned architecture of Massey College and Trent University in O…
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From the Collection: Abstraction in Canada, the 1950s and 60s
June 2, 2015 – July 31, 2015
Abstraction in Canada, the 1950s and 60s will draw from the Nickle’s considerable holdings of abstract painting from across Canada – in order to provide a context for the work of architect Ron Thom also on exhibition. From Thom’s mentors BC Binning and Jack Shadbolt, to members of the Painters Eleven, the Regina Five and the Neo Plasticiens, maveri…
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