Lecture // C2 - CITY HALL LOCATION

NEXT2015 / Jake Klein-Waller
Thursday, September 17, 7:30PM | FREE
@ C2 / Suite 104 – 800 Macleod Trail SE

Please join us on Thursday, September 17th as artist Jake Klein-Waller presents a selection of readings, and discusses his practice on the final day of his NEXT2015 residency at Contemporary Calgary. Doors open at 7:30 PM and presentation will begin at 8:00 PM. 

ARTIST BIO / Jake Klein-Waller is an emerging artist who recently graduated from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2014. Engaging in a multi-disciplinary practice, Jake creates work dealing with the landscape, phenomenon, and invisibility. Jake lives and works in Calgary, where he has participated in several exhibitions such as Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival 7 and Could It Be, We've Surpassed Material Expectations at Stride Gallery. 

NEXT2015 / Sponsored by RBC Emerging Artists Project, NEXT2015 is the inaugural iteration of a new annual residency series at Contemporary Calgary. Four artists have been invited to work independently in the upper level of the gallery of a one-month period to produce temporary, site-specific works as part of a continuously evolving group exhibition on the main level, responding to and building upon the work and ideas of previous artists using the space. 

UPCOMING RESIDENCIES

Dana Buzzee / September 19 to October 15, 2015
Tia Halliday / October 17 to November 12, 2015
Quartet in Transit / November 14 to December 10, 2015

In conjunction with NEXT2015. Exhibition continues until January 17, 2016.