Simple Functionalism
Garry Neill Kennedy

Exhibition
November 29 – December 21
Artists Talk: November 29, 2 p.m.
Opening Reception: November 29, 3 – 5 p.m.
Walter Phillips Gallery

For the seminal 1981 Walter Phillips Gallery exhibition Vocation / Vacation, Garry Neill Kennedy developed a site-specific work that altered the gallery attendant’s desk to comply with the Statement of Design Guidelines prepared by The Banff Centre Aesthetic Committee. Positioned inside the empty gallery, the desk made visible the institutional space of the gallery itself. For the Centre’s 75th anniversary, Kennedy has been invited to recreate this significant installation.

Reverse Pedagogy Creative Residency

Open Studios
November 28, 3 – 6 p.m.
Glyde Hall and Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Studios
Free

Artists, writers, and curators from the Reverse Pedagogy Creative Residency invite the public into their studios. Based on play and collaboration, this thematic residency offers space for the emergence of new artistic possibilities.

Mark Clintberg

Artist’s Talk
December 2, 6 – 8 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Multidisciplinary artist Mark Clintberg’s installation, Love Empire, created for the 2005 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, was acquired by the National Gallery of Canada. This talk will examine love relationships represented in and formed through artworks, illustrated with several key historical works and drawing connections to his own practice.

Janice Kerbel

Artist’s Talk
September 17, 6 – 8 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

A London-based artist who was nominated for the Sobey Art Prize in 2006, Janice Kerbel creates installation and multimedia works for things that are inherently non-visual, from detailed plans for bank robberies, through ghost towns, to imagined nocturnal gardens and emotional states.

Kate Davis

Artist’s Talk
October 1, 6 – 8 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Working across a range of media, including sculpture, drawing, and collage, Kate Davis’s installations respond to specific works from art history. With slides of her recent work, Davis will address this direct collaboration with the past, questioning it in relation to feminist discourse within art, past and present.

Cosmic Ray Research
Creative Residency

Open Studio
October 23, 3 – 6 p.m.
Glyde Hall and Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Studios
Free

Artists, writers, and curators from the Cosmic Ray Research Creative residency open their studio doors to the public, showing works-in-progress on a theme inspired by Banff’s historic Sulphur Mountain research station. Cosmic Ray participants will be creating work around forms that defy visibility, extending from concepts such as time, scale, and sound, to the abstract — anticipation, causality, wonder, and doubt.

Dagmara Genda

Exhibition
October 25 – November 16
Artist’s Talk: October 25, 2 p.m.
Opening Reception: October 25, 3 – 5 p.m.
Walter Phillips Gallery

This newly commissioned architectural installation work takes the form of super-sized wallpaper, dramatically merging images and motifs from iconic Canadian landscape paintings, and imagery inspired by wildlife found in and around Banff National Park.

Paul Butler

Artist’s Talk
November 10, 3 – 5 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Called a “collage enabler” by frieze magazine, Winnipeg-based artist Paul Butler is known for his free-for-all collage parties, which he has held at galleries across Canada and internationally. The results of these intense, collaborative exchanges inform Butler’s own work as an artist.

Matthew Higgs

Artist’s Talk
November 15, 3 – 5 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Matthew Higgs is director of White Columns, New York’s oldest alternative art space. Originally from the U.K., he is as well known for his conceptual artwork as his curatorial practice. Higgs is a past judge for the Turner Prize.