New Gallery and Show: KiCK and KiCK START

KiCK Gallery
We are pretty happy to be able to announce the launch of new gallery KiCK and their first show KiCK START. KiCK is an artist-first project promoting Canadian works domestically and abroad.
KiCK is a new project which features artists from across Canada, exposing their work to a larger audience by providing unique show and [...]

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Calgary Art Blog Update!

Hello everyone!
There hasn’t been an update in a while now and we at Calgary Art Blog apologize for that. At the moment, we are a volunteer-driven blog and post frequency is very much based on the amount of time our contributors can find. These last two weeks have been unusually hectic, so you can definitely [...]

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Artist Trading Cards? Event: Art Card Trading Session

Nope, you didn’t read the title incorrectly. There really is such a thing as Artist Trading Cards!
Theo Nelson of The Artist Trading Card Committee sent me an e-mail to let me know about this quasi-new media as well as their up-coming art card trading session. I say quasi-new because after doing a little bit of [...]

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Art Workshop: Painting with Pastels

This post is a bit last minute as we’ve been working through a number of technical difficulties at Calgary Art Blog.
Anyways, without further ado, there is a great full-day workshop being held this weekend with artist R. Duane Hendricks called Painting with Pastels.
In the workshop, you’ll learn value and colour choices, how to use a [...]

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Exhibition: North/South, David Burdeny

In keeping with the photography theme of our last post, we have another award-winning photographers new exhibition.
North/South is the new photography series by David Burdeny, winner of the Nature Photographer of the Year award in the 2008 Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards. The images of the exhibition presented by Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary depicts [...]

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Exhibition: Elemental, Michael Levin

Elemental is an exhibition of award-winning, Michael Levin’s new photographs that opens today and runs until March 7, 2009. The exhibition is part of the Exposure Photography Festival taking place in Calgary and Banff, Alberta and promises to be one of the greatest photography showcases to come to Calgary this year.
Traveling extensively to capture the [...]

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Upcoming Art Exhibition: Crystallize

New exhibitions are always something to get excited about in Calgary, but the new exhibition presented by Summit Gallery of Fine Art is particularly special. Crystallize is the debut exhibition of Ciara Jayne Hossack – a Calgary-born artist.
From the Summit Gallery website:
Crystallize is a cohesive series of new work in ceramic, hand-blown and fused glass. [...]

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Linda Darty: Artist Talk and Workshop

The Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) is bring internationally-renowned artist, author, and educator, Linda Darty to Calgary.
Linda Darty heads the Metals Program at the School of Art, East Carolina University in Greenville, NC and is a professor of Metalworking and Enameling. Her new book “The Art of Enameling: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration” is now [...]

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The Art Gallery of Calgary: Experimental Art + Culture

The winter exhibition at the Art Gallery of Calgary opens today and runs until April 4, 2009.
From the Art Gallery of Calgary website:
Experimental Art + Culture investigates the role and relevance of experimentation and collaboration in contemporary art through the examination of diverse practices that operate outside the normal art world hierarchies, lending to an [...]

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Triangle Gallery: Neo-Minimalism

The American Heritage Dictionary describes “Minimalism” as:
A school of abstract painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colours, objectivity, and anonymity of style.
In the Triangle Gallery of Visual Art’s newest exhibition, Neo-Minimalism, curator Harry Kiyooka brought together nine Western Canadian artists [...]

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