EXPOSURE has become a highly anticipated event in Calgary and the Bow Valley. Throughout the month of February, this festival is a celebration of Canadian and international photo-based work featuring exhibitions and educational events in Calgary, Canmore, and Banff.
The exhibitions included below are a part of EXPOSURE 2010. For information on other events, visit www.exposure2010.ca
February 6 – April 4, 2010
Main Gallery
Opening Reception February 6, 2010, 7 – 9 PM
Shaped like a broken arrowhead pointing southwest, Alberta’s Blood Reserve was created in 1877. The reserve is Canada’s largest, home to some 9,000 people. Those who live there call themselves Kainai which means “many chiefs,” a reference to the clan system once used by the tribe. Early traders called them the Blood in reference to the richly-coloured red markings the people used on their faces during spiritual ceremonies.
Since 1992 George Webber has made photographs on the reserve, journeying “from the land of the dog to the land of the wolf.” Ritual, celebration, and the hard facts of everyday life are the themes Webber explores in his intimate photographs of darkness and hope.
February 6 – April 4, 2010
Main Gallery
Opening Reception February 6, 2010, 7 – 9 PM
After spending 25 years exploring traditional large format photography and alternative printmaking techniques, including Gum Bichromate, Cyanotype, and Platinum, Bill has chosen digital acquisition and printing to realize this body of new work.
The force behind creating these images was born out of a desire to harmonize elements often avoided in the search for a perfect, or untroubled brand of beauty, and from Bill’s growing interest in abstract expressionism. To consider these themes, and with aesthetics being a primary concern, it was often necessary to re-establish spatial, tonal, and color relationships, by treating each important element separately. Once reconstructed, the paradoxes of, for example, near and far, the manufactured and the organic, the transient and the immutable, combined to create a new context and, hopefully, a heightened sense of place. Now, a no wake sign or counterbalance may flit between their figurative roots and non-objectivity; and a scoreboard’s scrawled message can better harmonize with nature’s.
February 6 – April 4, 2010
Main Gallery
Opening Reception February 6, 2010, 7 – 9 PM
Over the past 13 years more than 500 students have participated in Through the Lens, an exciting program and exhibition for local and international students. It immerses them in the creative process of photography, and encourages them to experiment and learn about themselves, their community, and the exciting medium of visual communication.
In 2009, Erin Wallace, photographer and Through the Lens alumni, worked with students while travelling in Novovolynsk, Ukraine. Selections of these photographs will be included together with photographs taken by students from Banff Community High School, Canmore Collegiate High School, and Morley Community School.
This Whyte Museum outreach program continues to expand the influence of photography and the creative experience.
Opens November 21, 2009
Heritage Gallery
Celebrate the Luxtons – one of Banff’s most well-known and influential families. This exhibition is a tribute to the spirit, vision, commitment, and creative energy of one of the early pioneer families in Banff and the Bow Valley. It showcases many wonderful artifacts and photographs of the Luxton family, as well as several video vignettes produced by The Banff Centre which incorporate the recollections of Stoney elders and others who remember the Luxtons.
High Fashion in the Rockies – A new story has been added focusing on a surprising collection of gorgeous dresses belonging to Georgina and Eleanor – the Luxton ladies. Rediscovered in the Eleanor Luxton Historical Foundation collection were dozens of beautiful dresses from 1910 through the 1960s. A small percentage of this extraordinary assortment of apparel along with accessories including gloves, purses, smoking paraphernalia and lingerie, is now in the Heritage Gallery as part of The Stuff of Legend:
The Luxton Family in Banff and the Bow Valley.
November 21 - April 4, 2010
Rummel Room
Opening Reception November 21, 7 – 9 PM
Every four years, the best athletes in the world match skill and endurance in a series of contests called the Olympic Winter Games. The purposes of these games are to foster the ideal of a “sound mind in a sound body” and to promote friendship among nations. Olympic athletes are the greatest ambassadors of goodwill in the world of sports.
For decades, the Bow Valley has been home to, and a training ground for, hundreds of people who have excelled at their sport and been chosen to represent Canada at the Olympic Winter Games. The athletes chosen to participate in this exhibition are only a small selection of athletes from the Bow Valley that have represented Canada. On the eve of the upcoming games in Vancouver, B.C. in February 2010, this exhibition is a tribute to all those who are the best athletes in the world.
These athletes epitomize the Olympic motto:
Citius, Altius, Fortius
Faster, Higher, Stronger
January 18 – April 7, 2010
Opening Reception February 6, 2010, 7 – 9 PM
An opportunity to purchase contemporary adventure photographs by amazingly talented photographers, this showcase features a diversity of activities, from skiing to hiking to ice climbing. These images capture the passion for and interaction with the mountains by men and women who enjoy playing and working in the Rockies.
All photographs are matted using 100% archival museum board. The photographer’s name and copyright are included on the back of each print. These prints are NOT framed, but are ready for framing. The prints are produced by the Whyte Museum from the original transparency, negative, or digital capture. Except for the original silver gelatin photographs included, all prints are printed digitally on an Epson 4800 printer using archival ILFORD Galerie Gold Fibre Silk inkjet photo paper.
All proceeds from the sale of these works will support the artists, and the Whyte Museum’s exhibitions and programming.
