Esker Foundation

Fall Exhibitions Launch: Friday 21 September, 6-10pm Join us to celebrate the launch of our fall exhibitions.
Tammi Campbell ‘Dear Agnes’
... ‘Dear Agnes’ is a series of visual letters that serve as Tammi Campbell’s wordless communion with Saskatchewan-born modernist artist Agnes Martin. Read more: www.eskerfoundation.com/exhibition-calend ar/upcoming/
Agnes Martin ‘The mind knows what the eye has not seen’
This exhibition offers unprecedented focus on Martin’s print works, in addition to selected paintings that exist in dialogue with the prints. Read more: www.eskerfoundation.com/exhibition-calend ar/upcoming/
This exhibition is co-produced with the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, and curated by Bruce Hugh Russell and Naomi Potter, with Elizabeth Diggon.
Sarah Stevenson ‘Nothing Hidden’
For the past 30 years, Sarah Stevenson has been making sculptural work that considers and defines space in the most simple and elegant of ways. Read more: www.eskerfoundation.com/exhibition-calend ar/upcoming/
The exhibitions continue until 21 December.
#AgnesMartin #TammiCampbell #SarahStevenson #fallexhibitions
Image: Tammi Campbell, 'Dear Agnes, July 11, 2016.' Graphite on Japanese Paper, 11 x 8.5 inches with letterfold. Private Collection.
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Watch and listen to an interview with artist Anna Torma in this Esker produced mini-doc.
It's the last weekend to view the exhibitions at Esker by Anna Torma and Vanessa Brown. Closing Sunday 2 September.
#inconversation #AnnaTorma

Watch: Vanessa Brown 'The Witching Hour' at Esker Foundation.
#VanessaBrown #WitchingHour #EskerFoundation

It's the final two days to view the exhibitions by Anna Torma and Vanessa Brown! Don't miss them!
Anna Torma 'Book of Abandoned Details'
... Vanessa Brown 'The Witching Hour'
Until 2 September
www.eskerfoundation.art #AnnaTorma #VanessaBrown
Stills from the video 'Vanessa Brown's The Witching Hour' ~ watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/276496661
We love to regram our fav pics from our visitors! Share your pics with us tag us #EskerFoundation
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Join us for the opening of:
Alana Bartol & Mia Rushton + Eric Moschopedis 'a hint of perennial magic lingers in its fingertips'
... Friday 21 September, 6-10pm Exhibition continues until 28 October 2018
'a hint of perennial magic lingers in its fingertips' is a site-specific project that examines native and non-native weed species in relation to urban development in the community of Inglewood. Soil and seeds of native and invasive weed species were collected from the construction site across from the Esker and elsewhere in the neighbourhood. These seeds are being grown in the Esker Project Space throughout the exhibition. In this work, the artists hope to create a conversation about land use, notions of progress, and the de/naturalization process of invasive species. Throughout the process, they will ask what remediation, reconciliation, and reclamation mean in this context. Their research will explore the distribution of plants in relation to development, the perception of various plants in the neighbourhood, and phytoremediation as an actual or symbolic process.
#EskerProjectSpace #EskerExhibitions #fallexhibitions
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Anna Torma, 'Red Fragments' (detail). Installation from the exhibition 'Book of Abandoned Details' on view until September 2.
Last week to view!
#AnnaTorma #RedFragments #yycarts

Fall Exhibition Launch: Friday 21 September, 6-10pm
Join us to celebrate the launch of our fall exhibitions.
Tammi Campbell... ‘Dear Agnes’
‘Dear Agnes’ is a series of visual letters that serve as Tammi Campbell’s wordless communion with Saskatchewan-born modernist artist Agnes Martin.
Agnes Martin ‘The mind knows what the eye has not seen’
This exhibition offers unprecedented focus on Martin’s print works, in addition to selected paintings that exist in dialogue with the prints.
This exhibition is co-produced with the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, and curated by Bruce Hugh Russell and Naomi Potter, with Elizabeth Diggon.
Sarah Stevenson ‘Nothing Hidden’
For the past 30 years, Sarah Stevenson has been making sculptural work that considers and defines space in the most simple and elegant of ways.
The exhibitions continue until 21 December.
Read about the exciting upcoming fall exhibitions on our website – https://eskerfoundation.com/exhibition-ca lendar/upcoming/
#AgnesMartin #TammiCampbell #SarahStevenson #fallexhibitions #painting #printmaking #lithography #grids
Image: Tammi Campbell, 'Dear Agnes, July 11, 2016.' Graphite on Japanese Paper, 11 x 8.5 inches with letterfold. Private Collection.
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<< Save the Date >> Fall Exhibition Launch: Friday 21 September, 6-10pm
Join us to celebrate the launch of our fall exhibitions.
... Tammi Campbell ‘Dear Agnes’
‘Dear Agnes’ is a series of visual letters that serve as Tammi Campbell’s wordless communion with Saskatchewan-born modernist artist Agnes Martin.
Agnes Martin ‘The mind knows what the eye has not seen’
This exhibition offers unprecedented focus on Martin’s print works, in addition to selected paintings that exist in dialogue with the prints.
This exhibition is co-produced with the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina. The exhibition is curated by Bruce Hugh Russell and Naomi Potter, with Elizabeth Diggon.
Sarah Stevenson ‘Nothing Hidden’
For the past 30 years, Sarah Stevenson has been making sculptural work that considers and defines space in the most simple and elegant of ways.
The exhibitions continue until 21 December.
Read about the exciting upcoming fall exhibitions on our website – https://eskerfoundation.com/exhibition-ca lendar/upcoming/
#AgnesMartin #TammiCampbell #SarahStevenson #fallexhibitions #painting #printmaking #lithography #grids
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📚👀 Look for the Esker booth in Winnipeg at the first-ever Prairie Art Book Fair!
"Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is extremely excited to present our inaugural Prairie Art Book Fair September 7-9, 2018."
"As a means to acknowledge the critical relationship between contemporary art and publishing with a regional focus on the Prairies, the weekend will showcase over 29 exhibitors and present numerous events with highlights including collaborative hole punch drawing with W...innipeg born artist Micah Lexier; a talk connecting DIY tattooing and artist multiples by Maxine Proctor (Director and Co-founder of the Toronto Art Book Fair and Managing Editor of BlackFlash Magazine); and a workshop with key presenter Jeff Khonsary (Co-Founding and Artistic Director of Fillip and Director of New Documents) on alternative book fair models, looking at the economics and social space of the book fair model itself.
Explore diverse and accomplished publications from over twenty-five publishers, artists, and galleries ranging from zines, catalogues, artist editions, fiction, poetry, criticism, and periodicals."
Exhibitors:
aceartinc. • ARP Books • Association of Manitoba Book Publishers • At Bay Press • Bison Books • BlackFlash Magazine • BLINKERS Art and Project Space • Border Crossings • Carnation • Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber • Esker Foundation • Cliff Eyland • Flux Gallery • Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg • Jeff Khonsary (Fillip and New Documents) • MacKenzie Art Gallery • Martha Street Studio • Micah Lexier • Parameter Press • Public Parking • Red Rising Magazine • Remai Modern • The Third Rail • University of Calgary Press • Urban Shaman Gallery • Video Pool Media Arts Centre • Walter Phillips Gallery • Warehouse Journal • Whiny Femmes
#prairieartbookfair #freeevent #artbookfair #artbook #pluginbookshop
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🏃‍♀️Hurry! Only one week left to view the exhibition 'Book of Abandoned Details' by Anna Torma. Closes September 2.
As a descendant of generations of skilled needleworkers and embroiderers, Anna Torma produces work that is both rooted in a deep Hungarian textile tradition and is also part of a vibrant contemporary practice connected to radical feminist avant-garde movements of the 1960s and 70s, which reclaimed craft and fibre-based work as urgent and political fine art prac...tices.
Through the synthesis of techniques such as embroidery, drawing, collaging, dyeing, free-hand quilting, appliqué, and photo transfer, Torma’s work offers us an extraordinary world in which the domestic and the fantastic collide in lush imagery drawn from familial history, books and literature, real and imagined places, mythology and folklore, flora and fauna, and personal and cultural memory.
Read more at www.eskerfoundation.com
#AnnaTorma #textiles #embroidery #freeyyc #contemporaryart #thisweekend #yycart 📷 @AllisonSeto
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Quick! Make a return visit to explore Vanessa Brown's exhibition 'The Witching Hour' ~ last week to view! Last day September 2.
Vanessa Brown works in the space between strength and fragility through an alchemical fusing of steel, pigment, glass, and textile. Her work is hybrid and multidimensional: sculpture flirting with painting, symbolic narrative collage, a physical gestalt of states of consciousness. The Witching Hour brings together new installations and recent works, ...ranging in scale from larger-than-life to intimate. It is a proposal in material, colour, light, and sound; an invitation into an emotively charmed circle where magic, fantasy, and humour offer coded strategies to consider material histories, our connection to the natural and supernatural worlds, and gendered systems of labour, communication, and value.
#VanessaBrown #sculpture #calgaryarts #contemporaryart 📷: John Dean and courtesy the artist.
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☆ IN THE PROJECT SPACE
ALANA BARTOL & MIA RUSHTON + ERIC MOSCHOPEDIS: a hint of perennial magic lingers in it's fingertips
... Until 28 October
🎙📻 Listen to artists Alana Bartol and Mia Rushton interviewed by Peter Oliver on The Almanacs on radio CJSW.
a hint of perennial magic lingers in its fingertips is a site-specific project that examines native and non-native weed species in relation to urban development in the community of Inglewood. Soil and seeds of native and invasive weed species were collected from the construction site across from the Esker Foundation and elsewhere in the neighbourhood.
These seeds will be grown in the Project Space throughout the duration of the exhibition. In this work, the artists hope to create a conversation about land use, notions of progress, and the de/naturalization process of invasive species. Throughout the process, they will ask what remediation, reconciliation, and reclamation mean in this context.
#EskerProjectspace #weeds #Inglewoodyyc #Ramsay #RamsayYYC #InInglewood #neighbourhood #AlanaBartol #EricMia
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Thanks to our pals at CJSW 90.9 FM and Peter Oliver of the Palgary Almanac for this lovely interview with our current Project Space artists Alana Bartol & Mia Ruston + Eric Moschopedis! Their exhibition, a hint of perennial magic lingers in its fingertips, continues in our street level Project Space until October 28th. Have a listen to their interview below!

https://www.artforum.com/picks/anna-torma -76244
“Using appliqué, embroidery, and freehand quilting, Anna Torma plunges into a storehouse of accumulated experience, charting the conversion of attention into memory and meaning-making.”
“…crucially, curator Shauna Thompson introduces Torma’s work with a trio of pieces hung from the ceiling, including the prelapsarian dreamscape Permanent Danger, 2017. Presenting textiles in this way reveals the movement of the needle through the... backing, a reminder that every piece on view contains a world of half-seen, burrowing lines.”
- Lucas Matheson
Art Forum, critic’s pick, 17 August 2018.
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“Using appliqué, embroidery, and freehand quilting, Anna Torma plunges into a storehouse of accumulated experience, charting the conversion of attention into memory and meaning-making.”
“…crucially, curator Shauna Thompson introduces Torma’s work with a trio of pieces hung from the ceiling, including the prelapsarian dreamscape Permanent Danger, 2017. Presenting textiles in this way reveals the movement of the needle through the backing, a reminder that every piece on view co...ntains a world of half-seen, burrowing lines.”
- Lucas Matheson. Art Forum, critic’s pick, 17 August 2018.
Artforum #AnnaTorma #ArtForum #criticpick
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Luma Quarterly - issue 013 is now live! link is below.

Visit Esker today - we are open until 6pm and always free! Escape the smoky air and engage with contemporary art.
Enjoy the exhibitions by Anna Torma and Vanessa Brown, and new in the Project Space Alana Bartol + Mia Rushton & Eric Moschopedis 'a hint of perennial magic lingers in its fingertips.' Read more on our current exhibitions at www.eskerfoundation.art
... #AnnaTorma #VanessaBrown #AlanaBartol #EricMia #TheWitchingHour #BookofAbandonedDetails
Photos by: Allison Seto.
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“It could be Esker Foundation’s revolving entrance door, but my breath is taken away by the theatrical display that greets me from a semi-circular dais. Two sheer black housecoats stand upright with sleeves extended as if actors from The Costume Institute. They hang on simple steel stands, reminiscent of kimono displays, with earrings hung inside and outside on their fabric. Some are made of dried flowers and others of sculpted metal, like charms to be carried with the wearer... of the coat. Then, after getting context from these human-scale housecoats and earrings, we enter a giant world. “
~ Lindsay Sorell in Akimbo.
Read the review here: http://akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=1387
#VanessaBrown #TheWitchingHour #EskerExhibitions #Akimbo
Installation views of Vanessa Brown's exhibition 'The Witching Hour' on view until 2 September. Photos by: John Dean & courtesy the artist. @ Esker Foundation
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The foundation's aim is to bring art to all people and they do an amazing job with their exhibits, events and programs for every age group. The physical space is beautiful!

Thanks for touring us and our wild and wiggly toddlers today. It was a new experience for all of us. Our tour guides were wonderful, patient, and knowledgeable.

Simply gorgeous space, elegant openings, excellent public programming.

Saw the "Earthlings" show and was completely blown away. Also a gorgeous space!

Free to begin with...omg global art in Calgary. I took my 5 year old daughter she was amazed with the space and such a wonderful layout of quality work. Great energy in the space.

Drawing workshop. Collaboration story boarding watercolor was fun to meet other artists and ACAD grads

By far the best global art shows in YYC. The best part is that's it free free free. Excellent!

An Incredible gallery. Calgary is lucky to have a space like that.