EXHIBITIONS
2025
Not To Do
Zoë Wallace
08.08.2025-13.09.2025
Reception August 16th 7PM - 9PM
Not to Do imagines memory, dreams, and the calamitous chaos of hindsight. Exploring concepts of emergence from the past and autonomy in the present, the work reclaims and reframes the artist's personal experiences through the filter of recollection and retrospection. It represents the inner, “truth”, and how nature vs. nurture affects the artist; acting as an ode to self-discovery and what lies within.
For her solo debut, Zoë’s work uses a mix of fluidity and tangible objects to represent past events. In the same breath, critiquing and celebrating subcultures found within her hometown in Saskatchewan. The works call to collective memories of growing up in small cities and function as a bridge between personal experiences and broader cultural narratives.
We see the world as we are. Memories are projections of what is seen, not what has happened. They are creative acts. These paintings and writings are products of personal and spiritual struggles in the artist's inner world. A sense of longing, nostalgia, mixed with dread and guilt for being witness to so many grim events. What happens when you have nothing to do? You find out what not to do, the hard way.
Ancestral Echoes
The Land Holds Us Indigenous Art Collective
20.06.2025-25.07.2025
Reception June 20 2025 7PM - 9PM
AJ Kluck, Jillian Dolan, Letecia Ochoa, May Kineyetums, Morgan Black, Stephanie One Spot, Thea Thomas
Language is the home we are always returning to.
Across Indigenous nations, territories, and traditions, we carry a shared truth: our languages are not only spoken but they are felt, remembered, and lived. Though each of our ancestral communities holds distinct relationships to place, language, and story, a common thread runs through us all: every one of our languages has been threatened by the violent legacies of colonialism. And yet, they persist.
This exhibition brings together the voices of diverse Indigenous artists who engage with language as a site of memory, resistance, and renewal. Through word, sound, form, and breath, these artists reclaim ancestral knowledge and imagine futures grounded in the power of our original tongues.
For The Land Holds Us, language reclamation is an act of homecoming, and a return to self, to land, to the teachings held by our grandparents and ancestors, whose resilience ensured that these words would not be lost. Language became what they held onto after all that was taken. It carried them through, and now, it carries us.
Our words are shaped by the Land, by the wind through pine needles, the rhythm of waves, the songs of animals and kin. They move through us alive, embodied, sovereign.
PLUMBAGE
Crawlspace Collective
02.05.2025-07.06.2025
Reception May 2 2025 7PM - 9PM
Panel Discussion May 4 2025 4PM - 6PM
Crawlspace first opened its doors on May 30th, 2024, but its inception began two years prior in the home studios at Alberta University of the Arts. What started as a six month pop-up space has now completed a full year of operation, and continues to grow.
Plumbage features Morgan Black, Sage Deems, Marina Hardie, May Jones, May Kineyetums, Sam Lloyd :^), Liam Naish, Lailey Newton, Dylan Nickolet, Diego Middleton, Kaitlyn Miller, Nicole Miller, and Jessica Rimes.
Crawlspace would also like to use this celebration as an opportunity to thank our community. They have been the recipient of generous support from family, friends, fellow artists, local neighbors, and more. This exhibition was also created through the financial support of Calgary Arts Development.
A Scrappy Sensibility
Camryn Carnell
14.03.2025-19.04.2025
Reception March 14 2025 7PM - 9PM
Using playground equipment as a visual motif, A Scrappy Sensibility explores preowned fabrics as a vital material for play, exploration, and collaboration. Through dye, bleach, and patchwork techniques, I consider reusing textiles as a playful act of discovery and collaboration, where its past life is imbued into new work. Restraints from the fabric’s properties and signs from its past life form prompts for collaborative intervention. I invite viewers to imagine the joy that can be found from a slow, resourceful relationship with textiles, resisting their rapid consumption and disposal. The production of this body of work was made possible by the Edmonton Arts Council.
Lull
Adriana Bergen
24.01.2025-28.02.2025
Reception January 24 2025 7PM - 9PM
Touch, heal, harm, pull, push, hold, cradle, grope, carry, grab, comfort, caress, tear, mend, create, damage, back, forth, feel.
Focusing on moments of introspection in stillness and liminal transitions, Lull explores the body as a vessel for emotional weight and feeling. These moments allow us to process experiences and traumas that the body carries, influencing our anatomy both internally and externally. My interest lies in capturing these moments in visual form to examine and learn from them. Lull delves into identity, femininity, queerness, and physical and mental chronic illnesses; using hands to bring internal conflicts to the surface to aid in the personal and communal processing and understanding of existence.
