Art Mimics Life – so what do your walls say about you? If you are in that 20 percentile who are intimidated by conventional art galleries, perhaps you’ll feel comfortable in Calgary’s one-and-only Living Room alternative – our Urban Concept Gallery. Sit down, have a coffee or tea, relax and we’ll discuss your ambitions for […]
Living with art is a Joy, especially during Exposure Photography Festival! The Urban Concept Gallery final opening day is Saturday – then sadly, Alexis, Greg, Brenda, and Joel take their art home, David and Lizzy head to New Zealand. When you think about it, Neanderthals had to carve and paint the walls of their caves […]
New in the Gallery for Exposure Photography Festival: Doing Time by David Leech. Nord-Süd-Fahrt runs directly underneath the glass façade of Renzo Piano’s Peek & Cloppenburg department store in downtown Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Colour of the glass changed with various camera angles, here reflecting an ancient church next door undergoing restoration. 45 x 30 inch […]
Joel Matthew Warkentin is a Masters Candidate at the University of Calgary, who graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design. He was born, raised, and currently works in Calgary, Alberta. His performance work delves into the visceral and emotional qualities found within humankind, while utilizing oppositional binaries. What is beautiful can also be […]
The Quiet Rebuild – Exposure Photography Festival 2018 Alexis Marie Chute is a distinguished artist, photographer, filmmaker, writer, and curator. She is the author of the multi-award-winning memoir Expecting Sunshine: A Journey of Grief, Healing and Pregnancy After Loss and is the director-producer of the accompanying feature documentary. Her second book, Above the Star, is […]
Re-Cognition – the psychological result of perception, learning and reasoning—again. Surprising and beauteous images that disturb and disrupt— sanctioning poetic license beyond the norm. Allow the paradigms to shift and revel in the mysterious.
Walnut is a video exploration into vulnerability and emotive output. As an endurance performance, the video presents a discussion of hidden emotions and the privacy of inward expression.
Hand Painted Tins Brenda combines her past experience in art with her passion of photography by printing her images on high gloss metal (dye sublimation transfer), then hand painting the textures and details with acrylic textured gel mediums, resulting in a highly detailed tactile experience of her stunning landscapes and macro florals. Art you are […]
Excited to have Greg Gerla back with a new fine art series. Adrift pays homage to the past. Shooting images of drift wood on the shores of Vancouver Island. The work is reminiscent to the classical still lives of Edward Weston. The subject matter, itself, is also evidence of the past. Trees that have lived, […]
