Venue / Location:
Art Gallery of Calgary, 117 8 Ave SW
Repeats every day every Tuesday and every Wednesday and every Thursday and every Friday and every Saturday until Sat Jan 22 2011 .
11 Sep 2010 (All day)
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Ticket Price:
Adult $5.00, Student/Youth $2.50 (with valid student I.D.), Senior $2.50 (60+), AGC Member Free, Children under 12 Free. Lunch 12-1pm, T-F $2. First Thursdays after 4pm Free.
LiveRush Price:
$2.00 with valid membership card or student I.D. Live Rush Student Membership - $18.00 (8 months) with valid membership card or student I.D. Free admission on AGC Community Days (first and last Saturday of each exhibition run)
Event Description:
softcore HARD EDGE features artwork by eighteen artists from Calgary and Los Angeles co-curated by art critic for the Los Angeles Times, David Pagel, and The Art Gallery of Calgary’s Senior Art Curator, Marianne Elder. Debuting in Calgary at The Art Gallery of Calgary on September 10, 2010 and continuing to Los Angeles on August 29, 2011, softcore HARD EDGE will bring together 60 artworks that question similarities of contemporary art practice created in these two very different cities.
The premise of softcore HARD EDGE originated from Elder’s observation of similarities of tone, palette, and brushstroke in contemporary painting between Los Angeles and Calgary when she moved back to Canada from Southern California. In conversation with longtime colleague David Pagel, she began exploring possible connections of influence and history that led to such similarities. Curating the artworks independently but in conversation with one another, Elder choose nine artists from Calgary with Pagel choosing nine artists from Los Angeles. Exhibiting all 18 artists together, softcore HARD EDGE examines the possibilities of what visually connects these works and the underlying relationships of history and influence on these two art centers.
First Thursdays: Open until 9pm. Free admission after 4pm.
