The Art Gallery of Calgary opened its new Spring 2009 exhibitions a couple days ago. They are touted as being “three distinct and diverse exhibitions curated by Marianne Elder” and they definitely live up to the description!
Intermediary – Michael Cameron
In Fighting, by Michael Cameron
Medium: Painting
From The Art Gallery of Calgary website:
Michael Cameron’s paintings combine still motion and frenetic movement. Influenced by the local Alberta landscape and global social environment, Cameron’s process of applying multiple layers of paint creates subtle shifts in colour and depth constructing often tense atmospheres of everyday life.
Sospesi tra Cielo e Terra – Suspended Between Heaven and Earth – Vincenzo Calli
Il Nostro Futuro, by Vincenzo Calli
Medium: Painting
Italian artist Vincenzo Calli creates dream-like environments where languid figures of young men and women evoke a sensation of memory. Through the use of Classical Italian light and oblique perspective, Calli produces tension for his sensual figures and sanguine landscapes.
The Filthy Water Grotto – Justin Patterson and Stacey Watson
The Filthy Water Grotto, by Justin Patterson and Stacey Watson
Medium: Installation
The Filthy Water Grotto is the first major collaborative exhibition by Calgary-based artists Justin Patterson and Stacey Watson. Their grotto of fabric, constructed like a child’s basement fort, acts like a membrane between the conscious and unconscious worlds of imaginative play and dreamlike environments.
A great resource to learn more about these exhibitions is artison.org, a new website created by The Art Gallery of Calgary.
