Art’s Northern Exposure

Pia CottonWall Street JournalDecember 29, 2012Page C14     Image Credit:DaveandJenn, And then Voyager returned, 2012...

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Winter 2012/2013 Newsletter

NEW WORK: Available now at TrépanierBaer are new works by James Carl, Chris Cran, Harold Klunder, and Ron Moppett. UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS IN 2013:  Fred Herzog, Gwenaël Bélanger, Christian Eckart, Chris Cran and David Hoffos. Douglas Coupland: Developers Qualex-Landmark have commissioned Douglas Coupland to create an original artwork...

Ron Moppett: Mosaic

Opening reception Saturday, November 24, 2012 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. The artist will be in attendance. In the wake of the unveiling of THESAMEWAYBETTER/READER, Ron Moppett’s spectacular public artwork recently installed in Calgary’s East Village, TrépanierBaer is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Mosaic on...

Douglas Coupland to create art for downtown Calgary condo tower

Stephen HuntCalgary HeraldNovember 5, 2012 A new generation of downtown Calgary condominium owners will get a special surprise in the lobby of their new building: a piece of original art created by the author of generation X. That would be Douglas Coupland, the Vancouver-based artist, author and...

Jean Paul Riopelle and the Montreal School

Exhibition extended to November 17, 2012 October 13 to November 10, 2012 Please join Ms. Yseult Riopelle and TrépanierBaer for the opening reception of Jean Paul Riopelle and the Montréal School, Saturday, October 13 from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Opening remarks: Yves Trépanier and Jeffrey Spalding...

Richard Halliday (1939-2011)

Jill SawyerGalleries WestFall/Winter 2012 Image Credit:Richard Halliday (1939-2011)Constellation Series # 112, 2010Oil stick and acrylic on canvas4.4' x 4.5'...

Evan Penny: Re Figured at the AGO

Leah SandalsToronto StarSeptember 22, 2012 Double-takes abound at Evan Penny: Re Figured, just opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Penny, a Toronto-based artist, has been making wondrous, hyper-real sculptures of the human form for more than 30 years. Along the way, he’s gained international acclaim for...

Evan Penny Looks Back, And Ahead, in AGO Survey

David BalzerCanadian Art OnlineSeptember 19, 2012 South African–born Canadian sculptor Evan Penny has been working for more than 30 years to create figures that both astound with their hyperrealism and confound with what might be called their post-realism. (Many of his works feature strangely distorted or...

AGO exhibits body of work by Evan Penny

James AdamsGlobe and MailSeptember 19, 2012 With his spiffy brogues, tight jeans, pressed shirt, semi-Corbusier-style glasses and generally well-groomed appearance, Evan Penny seems rather like one of those precisely rendered, meticulously produced aluminum/silicone humanoid sculptures for which he is famous, the ones where every liver spot...

Evan Penny: Re Figured at the Art Gallery of Ontario

The acclaimed exhibition Evan Penny : Re Figured opens today at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Curated by Daniel J. Schreiber of Germany's Kunsthalle Tübingen  and accompanied by a multilingual catalogue, this large-scale survey exhibition includes over 30 works including larger-than-life sculptures and photographs....

Michael Smith: Paradise Lost

September 8 - September 29, 2012 Please join TrépanierBaer for the opening reception Saturday, September 8 from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. MIchael Smith will be in attendance. TrépanierBaer opens its fall season with a survey exhibition of new works by British-born, Montréal-based artist Michael Smith.  The exhibition...

In the Viewing Room
Geoffrey James: In Colour

Please join TrépanierBaer for the opening of Geoffrey James: In Colour, an exhibition of new works. On view from September 8 through to September 29, 2012. In 2008 Geoffrey James was celebrated with a major survey of his work at the National Gallery of Canada. Titled...

ROUND-UP 2012
Summer Exhibition opens Thursday, July 12, 2012

In the spirit of the 100th anniversary of the Stampede and Calgary's designation as one of Canada's 2012  Cultural Capitals, TrépanierBaer is organizing a little round-up. Not the traditional kind though, we're not counting and inspecting cattle for eventual sale, not at all. We're roundin'-up...

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Summer 2012 Newsletter

Summer 2012 HONOURABLE MENTIONS TrépanierBaer is proud to announce that Chris Millar has been honoured with a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award for 2012. This award was established for emerging artists to support and encourage them in their careers, while also serving to raise the...

In the Viewing Room
Jean Paul Riopelle, Harold Klunder and David Urban

As part of its Conversations 2012/2013 series, TrépanierBaer is pleased to present paintings by Jean Paul Riopelle, Harold Klunder and David Urban in the Viewing Room.Both Klunder and Urban are influenced by Riopelle's practice. The resonances between these artists' works are noteworthy, from the impasto...

Richard Halliday (1939-2011): The Constellation Series

Exhibition opens Saturday June 16th from 1 to 5 pm and runs through to Saturday July 7th, 2012. TrépanierBaer is honoured to present paintings from the Estate of Richard Halliday (1939-2011). These paintings from Halliday’s Constellation Series, a body of work begun in 2000, represent works...

Oh, Canada: National Dreams

by Nancy TouslelyCanadian Art Online - May 31 to June 6, 2012   Image Credit:  A view of "Oh, Canada" including works by Janet Werner, Ed Pien, Graeme Patterson and Étienne Zack / photo Richard Rhodes...

Oh, Canada
MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts

May 27, 2012 through to April 1, 2013 The largest survey of contemporary Canadian art ever presented outside Canada, Oh Canada features work by more than 60 artists who hail from every province and nearly every territory in the country, spanning multiple generations and working in...