Everywhere We Are
17 June – *Selection Extended Until 30 January 2022
Everywhere We Are is an ambitious exhibition and public program series addressing many of the challenges, merits, impacts and advantages associated with art collecting. Drawing upon one of Canada’s most significant contemporary art collections, the exhibition is organized and presented as a collaboration between Contemporary Calgary and the Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary.
Everywhere We Are explores boundaries in art. If a boundary can be thought of as a line that separates, who then sets the boundary? Are there rules? How are they negotiated? Applied? When referring to personal relationships, boundaries are further complicated. But what are the implications for art, when artwork itself is viewed as the boundary?
This consideration of boundaries led to a fundamental questioning about collecting with respect to issues from ownership and art markets to sacredness and physiological affect. Through exhibitions, lectures, workshops, panels and more, Everywhere We Are poses a of range questions including how and where art is shown and distributed; how neuroscience is changing our understanding of art; and how collecting is part of a complex ecosystem of relationships with artists, curators, collectors, commercial galleries, and public collections.
Everywhere We Are, ultimately, is intended to express that boundaries are often mutable, flexible and even artificial, and that art is owned by the person who sees it. In the end, the act of viewing itself, however fleeting, creates ownership that is valid, unique and rich in personal meaning.
This program is co-organized by Contemporary Calgary and Nickle Galleries featuring significant works by Vikky Alexander, Chris Cran, Geoffrey Farmer, Wyn Geleynse, Liz Magor, Luanne Martineau, Chris Millar, Ron Moppett, Ron Terada, among many more who have helped shape contemporary art in Canada.
Curators Ryan Doherty and Kanika Anand guide viewers through our exhibition 'Everywhere We Are’.
Explore Everywhere We Are through our online Philespace and learn more about each artwork, the artists and why the collector acquired certain pieces.
ARTISTS
Vikky Alexander, Marcel Barbeau, IAIN BAXTER&, Stephen Booth, Shary Boyle, Catherine Burgess, Roger Cantin, James Carl, Chris Cran, DaveandJenn, Joseph Drapell, Christian Eckart, Gathie Falk, Geoffrey Farmer, Wyn Geleynse, Ted Godwin, David Hoffos, Darryl Hughto, Ken HouseGo, Arthur McKay, Liz Magor, Luanne Martineau, Sandra Meigs, Chris Millar, Damian Moppett, Ron Moppett, Evan Penny, Otto Rogers, Steven Shearer, Ryan Sluggett, Michael Steiner, Ron Terada, David Urban, Ian Wallace, Ronald York Wilson, Etienne Zack
EWA Programming Highlights
Presented By
Peter & Jan Tertzakian
Organized in partnership with
Proudly Supported By
Exhibition Benefactors
Michael & Renae Tims
Exhibition Patrons
Sharon Martens
Karen Radford & Jason Grelowski
Erin Thrall & Peter Johnson
Supporters
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