Harry Kiyooka, RCA
Paintings from the Venetian Series

November 26, 2011 - January 28, 2012

Harry Kiyooka (b.1928 Calgary, Alberta) is a founding member of the Calgary Contemporary Arts Society (1982), Life Member of the Alberta Society of Artists and member of the Royal Canadian Academy. Harry Kiyooka was awarded a 125th Anniversary Medal of Confederation for his contribution to the community in establishing the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts (1988) in Calgary. Harry is Professor Emeritus of the University of Calgary where he taught for 27 years. In 1996, Harry was the recipient of the Award of Excellence from the Alberta College of Art and Design for his contributions to the visual arts. Harry and his wife, fellow artist, Katie Ohe recently founded the KO Arts Society and will donate their land, home, studios and extensive art collection to the society for a new arts centre for Calgary.

Harry has been working on his Venetian paintings for decades and this will be the first extensive showing of these works

Angela Leach: New Work

October 22 - November 19, 2011

Angela Leach studied painting at OCAD and textile design at Sheridan College. Her series, Abstract Repeat, combines these two disciplines into colourful, eye-popping, shimmering paintings. Her works have been mistakenly described as Op-art but Leach is less interested in the optics of colour and more in the coincidences that occur from adhering to a strict process and thereby identifying her as a process painter. Each of Angela Leach's paintings comprise of a complex repeating pattern of a restricted palette of 32 colours.

Reinhard Skoracki: Detours

September 17 - October 15, 2011

The unveiling of Reinhard's new large outdoor sculpture at the University of Calgary will be part of the Opening Ceremonies to the Calgary 2011 Artwalk on Friday, September 16th from 5:30 to 8:00 pm outside the EEEL Building. Read More...

HK Affordable Art Show

August 24 - September 10, 2011

Group show featuring work under $5,000 in front gallery, under $3,000 in center gallery and under $1,000 in back gallery.

Art for Food 2011

July 23 - August 20, 2011

Proceeds from this annual group show go to support the Calgary Inter-faith Food Bank.

David Burdeny
"ANCORA"

June 18 - July 16, 2011

New images from Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Italy, France and USA by internationally acclaimer photographer, David Burdeny. Shot with an 8" x 10" view camera and printed large as chromogenic prints and transmounted onto Plexiglas, these works are recognizable as David Burdeny images with the strong horizons and use of long exposures.

Having worked on five continents for nearly a decade, David Burdeny has diligently established himself as one of Canada's most successful fine art landscape photographers. With wide representation across Canada, USA and Europe he has participated in over fifty solo and group exhibitions since 2003. David Burdeny was awarded the prestigious "Landscape Photographer of the Year" at the 2008 International Photography Awards for his previous series; "NORTH/SOUTH" which documented the fragile shorelines and monolithic ice forms of Iceland, Greenland and Antarctica.

Fiona Ackerman: Celebratory Gunfire

May 14 - June 11, 2011

Born in 1978, Fiona Ackerman grew up in Montreal. She studied art at Concordia University and graduated from The Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design with a BFA in 2002. She has gallery representation in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary and by the Soho Myriad in Atlanta Georgia and Los Angeles California.

Ben van Netten: Mira Ora

April 9 - May 7 2011

Mira Ora (Wondrous shore) is Ben van Netten's latest series of paintings. An ongoing exploration of the many chaotic combinations of land, sea and sky. Ben uses the elastic qualities of oil paint to bring the energy and movement of nature into his work

Dennis Ekstedt: Event Horizon

March 5 – April 2, 2011

New work by Montreal based painter, Dennis Ekstedt.

Toni Hafkenscheid
Eszter Burghardt

February 5 – February 26, 2011

Debut exhibitions at Herringer Kiss Gallery. Focusing on the art of photography with minimal ranges of focus..

Abstract Hues

January 8th – January 29th, 2011

Group Show of Represented artists embodying the full spectrum of light. Including work by Angela Leach, Fiona Ackerman, Harry Kiyooka, and Ben van Netten.