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Play Ink - Ink Play:
The Art of Chinese Opera Painting

Roots and Sensibility

2008 Alberta Contemporary Photography

Masahiro Mori: Simplicity of Ceramic Form

DESIGN "S": Art of Beneficial Design

Summer Sculpture at the Triangle

Platinum: 20 Years of Children's Art

Three Definitions of the Sublime:
Susan Fraser-Hughes, Helena Hadala and Louise Pagé

1st Annual
Art-O-Rama:
Art Exhibition & Sale

Beyond Symbolism:
Ceramic Sculpture by Jean LaPointe Mihalcheon

Hit or Miss:
An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing

Annemarie Schmid-Esler:
The Artist's Odyssey

The Architecture of Frederick Valentine:
Career Works 1963 - 2005

Explosion of Forms and Textures:
Québec Art of the 1960s

Outside the Lines:
19th Annual Exhibition of Children’s Art

Human/Nature

Lest We Forget:
Canadian Designers
On War

With Emboldened Brush:
The Spirited Watercolour Art of
Leo Bushman

A Fine Line:
Works by Dennis Budgen

Beyond Emma Lake:
Contemporary Art of Alberta and Saskatchewan

Form-Space-Concept-Metaphor: Contemporary Alberta Sculpture

Con Memoriam:
Leo Bushman
(1917 - 2005)

Through the Looking Glass

Groundswell:
Emerging Ceramic Artists in Alberta

FORM & FIRE:
Aspects of Modernism in Alberta Ceramics

Figuratively Speaking:
Works by Modern and Contemporary International and Canadian Masters

Migrations in the Third Dimension:
Tradition and Innovation in Canada and the Cyclades

Format to Facet:
Body Ornament West

The Graphic Appetite:
Shin Matsunaga Poster Exhibition

Con Memoriam:
Raymond Arnatt
(July 12, 1934 - July 3, 2004)

Beyond the Fridge Door:
Works by Young Artists

Documents: Survey of Conceptual Art

miniARTure: 10 x 10 x 10 x 10

Absence or Presence:
A Survey of Abstract Painting in Canada from 1950's to 1990's

Habitat:
Canadian Design Now

Landscape & Memory
Six Okanagan Artists

Design for Every Body
Swedish Design For An Active Life

Rock, Paper, Scissors
16th Annual Children's Art Exhibition

Ray Arnatt: Perfecting the View
A Retrospective Exhibition

Fever Lines :
20 Years of Graphic Social Satire by INX Group

Hothouse Design Studio:
On the Leading Edge

Rough Cuts:
Sustainable Designs by Stuart Walker

Worth a Thousand Words:
Contemporary Alberta Illustrators

Alberta Art: Towards Modernism

Vital Illusion:
The Reality of Artiface

In Search of the Human Essence

John Chalke - Past & Present

Con Memoriam :
Eve Koch & John Kenneth Esler

Leszek Wyczolkowski
and
Chin Shek Lam

Stan Perrott

Arts Touch 2001

An Art Odyssey

Roy Kiyooka Sculptures

Indian Tribal Arts

A Look Beneath the Surface

Fragile But Strong & Glass-Art-Function

Paper + Finland = Art

Sharaku

Young at Art!

Out of Print

Creating a Legacy

Kaleidoscope

Sound of Nature

Faces, Places and Spaces

R. Gyo-Zo Spickett

Welcome-Nunavut

 

 

 

Ding Liren – Circus; ink and wash, color on paper. Collection: Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai. Image courtesy of the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai.

Play Ink - Ink Play:
The Art of Chinese Opera Painting

The title of this exhibition "XI MO·MO XI" borrows from the multiple meanings of the word "XI “, a homophone that can mean both "playfulness" and "traditional opera" , and might be translated as " Play Ink ·Ink Play" .

Petr Kuba – Diana, n.d.; tin. Image courtesy of the artist.

Roots and Sensibility

The Exhibition of 17 Czech Artists from Olomouc in Calgary Painting, Graphic and Sculpture in an Intergenerational Dialogue

2008 Alberta Contemporary Photography

2008 marks the 20th Anniversary of the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, a public art gallery responsible for the presentation of contemporary Canadian visual arts, architecture and design in the context of contemporary international art.

Masahiro Mori

Masahiro Mori: Simplicity of Ceramic Form

The Japanese, by their geographic disposition and aesthetic temperament, have historically demonstrated an extraordinary talent for learning and adapting from outside sources without compromising and sacrificing their centuries-old system of beliefs and traditions.

Ava Table – designed in 2006 by Märta Friman for Materia Klaessons AB. Photo courtesy of Svensk Form, Stockholm, Sweden.

DESIGN "S": Art of Beneficial Design
Contemporary Design from Sweden

For over seven decades modern Swedish design has been acclaimed internationally by art critics, collected by leading musea, and enjoyed by an astonishingly large international audience.

Summer Sculpture at the Triangle

Summer Sculpture at the Triangle

Six Sculptors from Calgary:
Eric Cameron, Honsun Chu, Lylian Klimek,
Ron Kostyniuk, Katie Ohe, Reinhard Skoracki

Platinum: 20 Years of Children's Art

Platinum: 20 Years of Children's Art

20th Annual Exhibition of Children’s Art
Created at North Mount Pleasant & Wildflower Arts Centres

Three Definitions of the Sublime

Three Definitions of the Sublime:
Susan Fraser-Hughes, Helena Hadala
and Louise Pagé

The exhibition Three Definitions of the Sublime brings together the work of three very gifted women artists from Calgary.

1st Annual Art-O-Rama

1st Annual Art-O-Rama:
Art Exhibition & Sale

The exhibition is our way to give back to these artists and acknowledge their contributions while presenting their captivating works to both, familiar and brand new audiences.

Beyond Symbolism

Beyond Symbolism:
Ceramic Sculpture by Jean LaPointe Mihalcheon

Jean LaPointe Mihalcheon is without a doubt one of the most unique artists to emerge out of the Alberta ceramic art community. A visual “poet” working in the area of ceramics, she occupies a ‘stand-a-lone’ position with work that is stamped with her special vision.

Hit or Miss

Hit or Miss:
An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing

The notion of “Hit or Miss” with its Darwinian overtones, seemed like a good idea as a title for an exhibition, given that this is exactly what you expect when you begin a drawing and exactly what you get when you finish it.

Bed, 1973; hand-built clay, lustres, glaze. Collection: Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta. Photo courtesy of J.D. Esler.

Annemarie Schmid-Esler:
The Artist's Odyssey
Annemarie Schmid-Esler is one of the Alberta artists who have made a difference regarding the visual arts. Primarily a clay artist, pushing the boundaries, she was one of the important innovators of the 70s and 80s helping to expand Alberta ceramics...

The Architecture of Frederick Valentine

The Architecture of Frederick Valentine:
Career Works 1963 - 2005

A Principal of Stantec Architecture Ltd., Frederick Valentine, RCA, FRAIC, has been nationally recognized for projecting his vision onto the face of Calgary while enhancing the fabric of public life in the city.

Fernand Leduc – Gate No. 8, 1963

Explosion of Forms and Textures:
Québec Art of the 1960s from the Bas-Saint-Laurent Museum’s Collection
The 1960s, a key transitional period in Québec culture, built on the artistic values of the 1950s to introduce a new artistic vision that was resolutely contemporary.

Kiara Rivers - Me and My Beetle

Outside the Lines:
19th Annual Exhibition of Children’s Art
Created at North Mount Pleasant & Wildflower Arts Centres
The 19th year the North Mount Pleasant and Wildflower Arts Centres have presented this exhibition.

Human / Nature

Human / Nature
The exhibition human/nature presents work by four alberta artists: Lyndal Osborne, Laura Vickerson, Amy Loewan and Liz Ingram.

 Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget:
Canadian Designers On War

War has long been the subject of the art and within this genre posters have been important vehicles for communication. Posters are used to arouse public opinion.

With Emboldened Brush

With Emboldened Brush:
The Spirited Watercolour Art of Leo Bushman

Special Art Exhibition Program Celebrating the Centennials of Alberta and Saskatchewan

 Dennis Budgen - Illustration for the Bow River Trail Interpretive

A Fine Line:
Works by Dennis Budgen

Special Art Exhibition Program Celebrating the Centennial of Alberta

Beyond Emma Lake:
Contemporary Art of Alberta and Saskatchewan

Special Art Exhibition Program Celebrating the Centennials of Alberta and Saskatchewan

Form-Space-Concept-Metaphor:

Form-Space-Concept-Metaphor: Contemporary
Alberta Sculpture

Alberta sculpture is a pluralistic phenomenon, identifiable by a rich diversity of artistic styles, individual goals and innovative studio practices.

Con Memoriam: Raymond Arnatt

Con Memoriam:
Leo Bushman
(1917 - 2005)

On Monday, August 8, 2005, the Western Canadian visual arts community lost one of this country's most prolific artists, pedagogues and mentors to younger artists.

Jada Perkins, age 3 - Blue Bell Kitty, 2004; paper mache and mixed media.

Through the Looking Glass
The 18th Annual Exhibition of Children's Art
Created at North Mount Pleasant & Wildflower Arts Centres

Groundswell

Groundswell:
Emerging Ceramic Artists in Alberta

This exhibit brings together the work of Chris Faulkner, Tyler Fritz, Robin Lambert, Carmen Schroeder, Andi Silver, and Cathy Terepocki, six emerging artists involved in the Alberta ceramics community.

Form and Fire

FORM & FIRE:
Aspects of Modernism in Alberta Ceramics

Works from the Art Collections of the Nickle Arts Museum, University of Lethbridge

Renee Van Halm - Ultimate Conceit, 1985

Figuratively Speaking:
Works by Modern and Contemporary International and Canadian Masters

The works in this exhibition cover the wide range of possibilities for depicting the human form.

Migrations in the Third Dimension

Migrations in the Third Dimension:
Tradition and Innovation in Canada and the Cyclades

Born in Tokyo in 1940, Shin Matsunaga expressed an interest in visual forms in his early childhood.

Format to Facet:
Body Ornament West

Born in Tokyo in 1940, Shin Matsunaga expressed an interest in visual forms in his early childhood.

Shin Matsunaga. Photo courtesy of the artist. Copyright by Shin Matsunaga

The Graphic Appetite:
Shin Matsunaga Poster Exhibition

Born in Tokyo in 1940, Shin Matsunaga expressed an interest in visual forms in his early childhood.

Con Memoriam: Raymond Arnatt

Con Memoriam:
Raymond Arnatt
(July 12, 1934 - July 3, 2004)

Ray Arnatt left a great artistic legacy for us, and he remains alive through his exceptional art and personal memories.

Beyond the Fridge Door: Works by Young Artists

Beyond the Fridge Door:
Works by Young Artists

17th Annual Children's Art Exhibition, organized and curated by the staff of the Wildflower and North Mount Pleasant Arts Centres.

Documents: Survey of Conceptual Art
Organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge and circulated by the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery with the works from The University of Lethbridge Art Collection, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Nickle Arts Museum, Paul Kuhn Gallery and private collections.

miniARTture: 10 x 10 x 10

miniARTure: 10 x 10 x 10 x 10
Miniature sculptures by: Kirsten Abrahamson, Jeff de Boer, Kim Bruce, Jadwiga Byszewski, Adrian Cooke, Dallas Diamond, Honsun Chu, Ron Kostyniuk, Walter May and Catherine Paleczny

Absence or Presence

Absence or Presence:
A Survey of Abstract Painting in Canada from 1950's to 1990's

This exhibition from the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery's permanent collection focuses on abstract painting in Canada from the 1950's to the 1990's.

Habitat: Canadian Design Now

Habitat:
Canadian Design Now

Habitat: Canadian Design Now is a timely exhibition surveying selected elements of Canadian contemporary design for domestic environments.

Landscape & Memory

Landscape & Memory
Six Okanagan Artists

The work of this group blurs the line between the landscape of the body and the body of the landscape and employs them as a cipher for the nameless yearnings of human experience.

Design for Every Body

Design for Every Body
Swedish Design For An Active Life

Presented by Svensk Form, Konstfack and the Embassy of Sweden in Ottawa in partnership with the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts .

Rock, Paper Scissors

Rock, Paper, Scissors
16th Annual Children's Art Exhibition

This annual exhibition of children's art is produced in partnership with North Mount Pleasant and Wildflower Arts Centres that are operated by the City of Calgary.

CD

Ray Arnatt: Perfecting the View
A Retrospective Exhibition

For nearly 50 years of his artistic career, Ray Arnatt has focused on the development of his philosophy on art and life, and on finding new ways to express them in his sculptural works.

CD

Fever Lines :
20 Years of Graphic Social Satire by INX Group

The INX Group was formed with a core of editorial illustrators who worked for The New York Times at the dawn of the Age of Reagan.

CD

Hothouse Design Studio:
On the Leading Edge

Alberta and award winning furniture are not terms that most people group together, but an Edmonton design studio is well on the way to changing that.

Hermit Radio

Rough Cuts:
Sustainable Designs by Stuart Walker

Stuart Walker: designer, philosopher and Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Design at the university of Calgary, examines - in his works - the implications of sustainability for furniture design and manufacturing.

Worth a Thousand Words: Contemporary Alberta Illustrators

Worth a Thousand Words:
Contemporary Alberta Illustrators

The job of the illustrator is to put visual form to words and ideas. What sets the illustrator apart from the fine artist is that the illustrator's work is created to complement or enhance expression...

Alberta Art: Towards Modernism

Alberta Art: Towards Modernism
30th Anniversary of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Examines an aspect of modernism in Alberta art through a presentation of 30 works by 30 leading artists of this Province.

Vital Illusion

VITAL ILLUSION:
The Reality of Artiface

The activity of art making exists on a wide variety of levels. My main interest with this exhibition is to find out what informs these six artists.

In Search of the Human Essence

In Search of the Human Essence
Humankind at the Beginning of the 21st Century
The national juried exhibition of the works by the members of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour

John Chalke - Past & Present

Celebrating John Chalke - Past & Present
John Chalke … potter, ceramic artist, teacher, writer, philosopher, construction worker .. a man for all seasons … a westerner with an English accent.

Con Memoriam:
Eve Koch & John Kenneth Esler

Opening of the exhibition will be held on Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 7:30 p.m. at the Triangle Gallery with the opening remarks by Jacek Malec, Gallery Director and followed by a wine & cheese reception.



LESZEK WYCZOLKOWSKI:
BEYOND SYMBOLISM

and
CHIN SHEK LAM:
PAINTINGS FROM THE MIND'S EYE

The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts presents two evocative exhibitions.
Both presentations have been organized for 2001 Art City - Calgary Festival of Visual Arts, Architecture & Design. The official opening of both exhibitions will take place at the Triangle Gallery on Thursday, September 13, 2001 at 7:30 p.m.

Stan Perrott: The Chalk and the Easel

THE CHALK AND THE EASEL - The Life and Work of Stanford Perrott
This retrospective exhibition presents a thorough examination and celebration of the life and work of Stanford Perrott, one of the most prolific Alberta watercolourists and art educators.

Arts Touch 2001

Arts Touch 2001 - Calgary and Area High School Students Art Exhibition
This exhibition celebrates the artistic accomplishments of Senior High School students from the Calgary Public and the Calgary Catholic School Districts. June 7 - July 2, 2001

An Art Odyssey - Installation Photo

An Art Odyssey - 14th Annual Children's Art Exhibition
Organized and curated by the Calgary Parks & Recreation Arts Centres. This exhibition will be held at the Triangle Gallery from May 17 to June 2, 2001.

Cedar Sculpture #7

Roy Kiyooka:
1971- The Penultimate Year
Cedar Laminated Sculpture - Paintings - Prints

The exhibition centres on Kiyooka's art between 1970 and 1971, the most intensivepersonal, creative and productive period of the artist's life.

Jivya Soma Mashe, Warli tribe's celebration of Diwali, 1985, Rice paste on paper.

Indian Tribal Arts
For thousands of years, the arts and crafts of India have followed traditions of manufacture and use in isolated tribal communities.

A Look Beneath the Surface

A Look Beneath the Surface
From the beginning of civilization to the present time, there have been certain characteristic figures, attributes, symbols, signs and metaphors that have formed a part of the language of what may be called Art.

Fragile but Strong & Glass-ARt-Function

Fragile But Strong & Glass-Art-Function
Fragile But Strong features the most recent works in glass and ceramics by Brita Flander and Elina Sorainen, two leading Finnish artists and designers.
Glass-Art-Function was organized in partnership with Calgary-based KIT Gallery, presents works in glass by eminent post-modernist Finnish artists and designers.

Paper + Finland = Art

Paper + Finland = Art
The exhibition unites eighteen artists who have come from a variety of backgrounds: the graphic arts, painting, sculpture, ceramics, textile design, and interior design.

Sharaku Interpreted by Japan's Contemporary Artists
Twenty - eight portraits of kabuki actors created - between May 1, 1794 and February 1, 1795 by Toshusai Sharaku.

Young at Art!

Young at Art! - Works by young artists
An exhibition of Children's Art from the North Mount Pleasent & Wildflower Arts Centres.

Narcissus

Out of Print - New Wave in Contemporary Printmaking of Alberta
Out of Print illustrates the impetus of new print artists to push the limits of the printmaking medium.

The City: Sunday

Creating a Legacy
Calgary's Civic Art Collection

An exhibition presenting historically significant two and three-dimensional artworks by eminent Alberta artists.

Alignment # 2

Kaleidoscope - The Artists' Circle
In 1993 the Artists Circle initiated discussions with the WG Atelier Group in Amsterdam for an exchange exhibition. The exhibition from Amsterdam presented at the Triangle was called A Wider Horizon.

Festival

Sound of Nature
Contemporary Art from South Korea

This exhibition demonstrates how Korean contemporary art has evolved into various forms that integrate influences of Western art while maintaining aspects of Korea's traditional spirit.

Faces, Places and Spaces

Faces, Places and Spaces
This exhibition is an opportunity to see, experience and examine in the context of a group presentation the works of five photographers who have recorded the changing lifestyle of a people and settlements on the prairies.

The Rider

R.Gyo-Zo Spickett
This retrospective exhibition profiles the art of Calgary-based artist R. Gyo-Zo Spickett, from the late 1940's to the late 1970's, during which time he made significant contributions to contemporary Canadian art.

Happy

Welcome-Nunavut
The Welcome-Nunavut Art Exhibition celebrates the signing - on April 1, 1999 - of the historic agreement between the Federal Government of Canada and the Inuit people to create the new Canadian Territory of Nunavut.

 

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