February 19 - March 20, 2010
Billie Rae Busby, Dana Bush and Joshua Fraser : Seasonal Affective
This third annual installment of TNG’s educational initiative providing “real world” curatorial experience to senior art students in Calgary, this year’s exhibition will feature works selected by Jenna Swift, a student curator from the University of Calgary's Art History program.
more >March 26 - May 01, 2010
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens : Horse & Sparrow
This timely multi-media installation examines linguistic and pictorial representations usually associated with economic discourse. The exhibition questions both the forms and methods historically used to think through and communicate macro socio-economic policies.
more >May 14 - June 19, 2010
Chih-Chien Wang : TBA
A recent immigrant to Canada from Taiwan, Wang presents a multi-channel video installation that documents the process from mental preparation to the verbal act of storytelling. Often the actors are silent; when they do speak, several different languages emerge, confusing the cognition of emotion, expression and cultural differentiation.
more >June 25 - July 31, 2010
Rolande Souliere : TBA
A member of Michipicoten First Nation now living and working in Australia, Souliere presents an installation of flowing patterns rendered in reflective traffic sign material and abstracted from traditional Northwest Native art motifs; a nexus of North American indigenous culture, abstraction and the Modernist project.
more >September 02 - October 02, 2010
Nancy Nisbet : Contours in the Crosshairs
Contours in the Crosshairs is a multi-media video installation that exposes fluctuating grays evident in any black and white critique of North American car culture, social responsibility and the human affect on global climate change.
more >October 07 - November 06, 2010
Andrew Forster : TBA
In conjunction with 5th annual Mountain Standard Time Performative Arts Festival (M:ST), TNG is pleased to present the performance-based video installation Duet, a dramatic reiteration of the disarming of a would-be teenage suicide bomber by Israeli soldiers near Nablus in 2004.
more >November 12 - December 11, 2010
Stephen Mueller : TBA
This recent U of C MFA graduate presents an installation that explores the socio-psychological implications of human rituals, performed in the face of death, yet intended to maintain the illusion of immortality.
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