21st Century Nesting Practices from Edmonton artist Sydney Lancaster considers the human penchant for investing significance in objects in the material world. This work explores the tangible reality of nest objects and its relationship to what those objects may signify psychologically or emotionally to people.
Read moreThis Art Makes Me Feel...
October 7 - December 3 2017
Opening Reception - October 12, 7-9pm
This Art Makes Me Feel... is a collaboration between Friends of University Hospitals & Alberta Foundation for the Arts celebrating 30 years of visual art supporting the healing experience.
image credit: Doug Haynes, CIELO, 1995, acrylic on canvas, Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Comfort
August 14 - October 1, 2017
Opening Reception - August 23, 7-9pm
The work featured in Comfort predominantly features clothing, and imagery of clothing. Artists Kirsty Templeton Davidge and Anne Billy have portrayed clothing to signify someone without directly or entirely depicting them. In this way, they use suggestion, symbolism, and personal narrative to frame the personal intimacy they feel, or attempt to feel, with their subjects.
Read moresee me, hear me, heal me
June 22 - August 3, 2017
Opening Reception - Wednesday June 28, 7-9pm
Since 2015, artists, researchers and health care providers have been listening to, learning from, and collaborating with people whose lives have been impacted by head and neck cancer.
The artwork and stories from the project are displayed in McMullen Gallery.
Read moreThe Space Between You and Me
The Lake - Pamela Thurston
Pamela Thurston’s paintings are simple statements about the joy of being still; of simply seeing and being aware of a connection with place. The images speak in mystical tones, not only because of her own sense of wonder in the face of nature, but because of the time in her life when they were created. Viewers are asked to slow down and sense the inner peace that the landscape near the artist’s home provided during a time of stress and loss.
Read moreembodied - Kelsey Stephenson with audio by Alex Gray
January 7 - February 26, 2017
Artist Reception Friday January 20, 12-2pm
embodied sees McMullen Gallery filled with a room-sized installation made up of the print work of Kelsey Stephenson. Stephenson's work draws on connections to places meaningful to her, searching for how place creates and receives impact.
Read moreConnections Made Visible: Visualizing Patient Connections through the work of Nancy Corrigan, Artist on the Wards
November 5 - December 4, 2016
Opening Reception: Wednesday November 9 12-2pm
This exhibition focuses on the work of the Friends of University Hospitals’ Staff Artist on the Wards, Nancy Corrigan, who has been working with the program since she helped establish it in 1999. TThe murals, sculptures, and individual drawings seen here were completed by patients under Nancy’s guidance – mostly in group scenarios.
Read moreAllen Ball & Kim Sala: InterCity
September 10-October 30, 2016
The paintings in InterCity record real, imagined, felt, and remembered ideas of the city. Edmonton artists Allen Ball and Kim Sala engage in conversations about contemporary urban life through painting, a medium which, by the act of making marks on a canvas, combines subject matter with physicality.
Read moreTemper Talk - Jes McCoy
July 9 - September 4, 2016
Temper Talk features prints, sculptures and interactive installations from Calgary-based artist Jes McCoy:
“The simple act of communicating can aid in the alleviation of stress and anxiety; hence the saying, “a weight has been lifted” when someone tells the truth or shares their feelings. I believe however, that sometimes it is not that simple to just speak up.
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