EXPOSURE @ Art Central

February

EXPOSURE is a month long celebration of Canadian and Internation photo-based work, featuring exhibitions, workshops, and educational events in Calgary and Banff. Art Central is proud to join this year's festival with six exhibitions and a fantastic promotion:

FREE Digital enlargement print!

Hewlett Packard and The Camera Store are proud to present:
The HP world of Digital Printing.

Get your favorite digital image file and come to Art Central to get one free enlargement print. Extra enlargements can be arranged for a donation to Exposure 2008

Thursday Feb 7th, 11.00-8.30, Friday 8th, 11.00-4.00 & Saturday 9th 11.00-4.00.

FourbyFive Gallery of Photography

DAN GORDON Observations: Time and Place

Opening reception: February 7th, from 5:30pm - 9pm (First Thursday)
February 7th Thru March 4th

The exhibition Observations: Place and Time documents patterns and symbols explored by Dan Gordon, a photographer with over forty years of experience in making photographs. His images record a disappearing rural way of life as manifested in its material culture: an ancient automobile all but subsumed by the earth, an abandoned grain elevator that no longer indexes the precarious fortunes of area farmers.

UPPERCASE Gallery

Type Block: Photography + Typography

Opening Reception: February 7 from 5pm - 9pm (First Thursday)
February 7 to February 29

International artists explore letterforms in their surroundings by documenting what they see within one city block of where they live or work. Curated by Janine Vangool and Kirstie Tweed.

Shisomiso Boutique & Gallery

My Flamenco: a dancer, her city and her art

Opening Reception: February 7 from 5pm - 9pm (First Thursday)
January 1 to February 28

My Flamenco juxtaposes the tradition of southern Spain's loved dance form, flamenco, with the corporate, fast-paced culture of Calgary - the hometown of local flamenco dance artist and photographed subject, Rosanna Terracciano. Brian Sew's stunning photographs, which depict Terracciano dressed in full flamenco attire moving through day-to-day Calgary activities, project a sensation of isolation, and awkwardness, offering the viewer thought-provoking insight into the realities of practicing an art so far removed from its cultural birthplace.

To a T Artists' Studio and Gallery

Shauna Jackson

February 7th - March 2nd 2008
Opening reception: Feb. 7th 5pm - 9pm (First Thursday)

To a T Artists' Studio and Gallery's mission is to celebrate and promote art and artists through quality experiences in a unique and inviting gallery space and to create an inclusive environment, which enriches and encourages visual art interaction in the community of Calgary.

In participation with Exposure Photo-Fest 2008, To a T artist's studio & gallery proudly presents Shauna Jackson. Over 40 large scale c-prints from her Objects in intimate spaces series.

Shauna Jackson completed a Masters of Visual Art with a Major in Photography from the Queensland College of Art. She has exhibited her work in Australia and Canada. Over the past five years she has lived, traveled and worked in Australia, Japan and Spain.

OneBlueWall Gallery

The Doppelganger Show

Opening Reception: February 7 from 5pm - 9pm (First Thursday)
February 7 to February 29

Doppelganger (ˈdä-pəl-ˌgaŋ-ər, -ˌgeŋ-) n. Legend. A ghostly duplicate of a living person. German, doppelganger, from doppel - double + - ganger - goer. Eight photographers, sixteen images. Gayhour-najafabadi, Ivan, Kokemor, Jamieson, Lagore, Mathieson, Nylund, Tzanakos.

st[art] @ Art Central

Colleen Rauscher, artist in residence

January/February
Opening Reception: First Thursday February 7th, 5pm-9pm

Artist Residency program sponsored by the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation will host Colleen Rauscher for January and February. Visit Rauscher's studio to view an installation in process of polaroid transfer prints and mixed media collages incorporating altered polaroid transfers.

Website: http://www.exposurecalgarybanff.com/