Exhibitions

Being There: Mentors and Memories

June 24, 2016 – July 29, 2016

One of the earliest art works to be donated to the University of Calgary is a delicate wood cut print by Walter J. Phillips, Venus and the Priest (1930). It was accessioned in 1968—eleven years before The Nickle Arts Museum existed. Since opening in 1979, the Nickle has built a substantial collection of artists’ prints with examples of different t…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…