Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary

The Athlete Series will be available for public viewing at MOCA starting Saturday May 25th and remain up as a part of Olympian Heights until July 1st. The opening/auction event will be Friday June 7th starting at 7 pm. with the auction starting at 8 pm.

MOCA is dedicated to presenting exhibitions, public and education programs and maintaining a permanent collection pertaining to contemporary art, architecture, design and craft from Calgary, Canada and the world.

This small scale interdisciplinary project space was originally started by the United Congress in 1999 as One Minute Happiness. In 2007 they handed it over to me and I renamed it Museo Poco. When Angie Inglis + Jane Grace + I closed Sugar Shack Art Salon in 2010 we co-curated the window gallery as Sugar Cube. It is currently operating as the collaborative space La Fenêtre between myself + Eddie Olson + White-field Senate.

Question: What kind of artwork do you make?

Figurative woodcuts and paintings and scheming up alternative venues/ project spaces: Sugarmobile, Sugar Gallery, Museo Poco (window gallery), The Bambi Media Machine, and the upcoming pushc+artmobile "M.E.A.T.B.A.L.L". 
With Milo Dlouhy and Angela Inglis: Sugar Estate Art Salon and Museum of Oddities and The National Portrait Gallery Inc's Portrait Estate.
With Angela Inglis and Jane Grace: Sugar Shack Art Salon and Sugar Cube (window gallery).
With White-Field Senate and Eddie Olson: La Fenêtre (window gallery)

The Sugar Shack Art Salon was an independent gallery and interdisciplinary project space run by Angela "Fat Harp Malone" Inglis, Lisa "Pretty Liver McGee" Brawn, and Jane "Boney Jones" Grace in 2009 and 2010 in a turn-of-the-century “cottage” in residential NW Calgary. Sugar Shack featured 77 local, provincial and national artists at shows such as Debutante’s Ball, Nursies, Paper Jam, Love Shack, DioramaRama!, God Show 2: The Resurrection, and Genderblender. There was also an artist residency, The L. S. Benschop Institute for the Preservation & Veneration of Imagination & Nostalgia. The art salon was closed when centipedes fell from the light sockets.

WHAT IS A TIMERAISER?

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Timeraiser is like speed-dating with a twist.

Throughout the evening, meet with different agencies and match your skills to their needs. Once you have made your matches you are eligible to bid on artwork. The twist is rather than bid money, you bid volunteer hours.

Have a winning bid? You have 12 months to complete your pledge, then get to bring your artwork home as a reminder of your good will.

Gloss enamel woodcuts guaranteed to pop your eye out & wild bird woodcuts on Douglas fir guaranteed to pop your other eye out.

Exhibit runs October 18 - November 9, 2012
at AXIS Contemporary Art
#203 - 100, 7th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB Canada

Sugarmobile was an artmobile in a 1935 silver trailer from 2001 - 2002. Sugarmobile appeared at ACAD, Estate Gallery, Calgary Folk Festival, Stride Gallery, The Art Gallery of Calgary, and made several appearances in the parking lot of Carpenters Hall in Kensington, Calgary.

Bambi Media Machine was an artmobile in a 1962 Airstream Bambi from 2009 to 2010. This artmobile debuted in August 2009 with the Mobile Surgical Beautification Unit performance and film “I Liked You Better Before”.

My 30" x 60" giant letterpress style woodcut used for marketing the 2011 Calgary Folk Music Festival will be on permanent display at Festival Hall in Inglewood Calgary. 

Festival Hall is the new home of the Calgary Folk Music Festival offices and an intimate performance space seating approximately 200.

Festival Hall is located at 1215 10th Ave SE.

Sugar Gallery was a 300 sq. ft. project space and alternative art salon in the Grain Exchange Building in downtown Calgary, 2001 - 2002. Sugar Estate Art Salon and Museum of Oddities was a collaboration between Milo Dlouhy, Lisa Brawn, and Angela Inglis, 2003 - 2004. The National Portrait Gallery Inc.’s Portrait Estate was a six month storefront museum collaboration between Milo Dlouhy, Lisa Brawn, and Angela Inglis, May - November 2007.