Studio Visitations with Jennifer Crighton
Jennifer Crighton is an artist, musician, writer who currently works out of Calgary, AB.
She started this site, studiovisitation.wordpress.com, where she posts her interviews with artists and cultural workers.
Along with the words you will find some of her photos from these interactions. A while back she came around to our new work space to talk to us, you can find this here.
Upcoming Solo Exhibition at TrépanierBaer Gallery
We’re working towards our next solo exhibit at TrépanierBaer in December 2014. More info soon.
DaveandJenn in Kim Dorland’s Voted Most Likely
Voted Most Likely is a Calgary follow-up to Kim Dorland’s recent curatorial endeavor, I ♥ Paint (Angell Gallery, Toronto).
Located at Contemporary Calgary’s C2 space (October 16th-January 18th, 2015), it will be running in conjunction with Homecoming, a decade long retrospective exhibition of Kim Dorland’s career curated by Jeffrey Spalding. More information can be found here .
Made in Calgary: the 2000s
We’re included in the upcoming exhibition Made in Calgary: The 2000s, curated by Katherine Ylitalo.
The last of the Made in Calgary series, this show runs September 20- December 14th at both the Glenbow Museum and the Nickle Galleries.
“…The exhibition explores the diverse approaches of artists creating in Calgary – both emerging and established — such as Diane Bos, Chris Millar, Ron Moppett, George Webber, Dave&Jenn, Jackie Anderson, Alex Caldwell, Mark Mullin, and many others.
The extensive spectrum of their work demonstrates a fascination with both the physics and subjectivity of perception; the relationship between photography and computers; an immersion in pop culture; the presence of narrative (be it fantasy, fiction, memory, history or a blend), an abiding collage aesthetic; a scrappy do it yourself approach; and the redefinition of art and fine craft.
Expect an exhibition that reflects the not-yet-defined, freewheeling nature of contemporary art in Calgary. The artists whose work is in this decade’s exhibition are selected for their outstanding art, but also as representatives of the larger art community in Calgary that is remarkably exciting and vibrant.”
– excerpt from the Glenbow Museum’s website. More info can be found here.
Lieux échafaudés / Architectonics of Space at Galerie Simon Blais
Lieux échafaudés / Architectonics of Space is open now until December 22 at Galerie Simon Blais in Montreal.
“The works included in this exhibition give the illusion of perspectival space merging with painting surface. There are sufficient similarities among them for us to be tempted to see a possible direction being taken by young Canadian painters. It is clear that the practices of several other Canadian artists, like Martin Golland or Étienne Zack, fall within an analogous aesthetic; such a relationship further strengthens the impression of a trend, an approach that is also evident on the international scene in the work of Germany’s Matthias Weischer. It will be particularly interesting to see whether the aesthetic concerns common to these young Canadian painters will, over the long term, become part of the history of our country’s art. The exhibition’s curators, Paul Bradley and Catherine Plaisance, wager that this trend in the visual arts will have a far from passing influence…” (taken from the Galerie Simon Blais website).
The exhibition features work by Julie Beugin, Leigh Bridges, DaveandJenn, Alexis Lavoie, Jessica Peters and Ehryn Torrell .
For more information click here:
http://www.galeriesimonblais.com/en/exhibition/lieux_echafaudes/