Spotlight: Julya Hajnoczky

January 20 – March 6, 2021
Live Talk: February 6, 2021 | 11:00AM

Join us for a live talk and tour of Julya’s work at the Alberta Craft Gallery Calgary in cSPACE King Edward on Instagram @albertacraftcouncil.

“When I’m out among the trees, my nose full of the smell of pines, leaves, creeks; these are the tiny places that my mind conjures up – the miniature, simple, unobtrusive, homes that I imagine into being, wishing I could stay there forever. All of the forests and wild places that I visit have some interesting little odds and ends to offer up to me: a gnarled piece of driftwood, a perfectly shaped pinecone, an especially pretty twig. I gather up these things, bring them home, and build these little imaginary cabins on their foundation, a reminder, an affirmation, that among the trees is where I am truly home – a home that is a sanctuary, an escape, a refuge.”
Julya Hajnoczky is a Calgary based artist with a BA in French from the University of Calgary and a BDes in photography from the Alberta University of the Arts. Her multidisciplinary practice includes digital and analog photography, fiber art, and book and paper sculpture, and seeks to question the complex relationship between humans and the natural world.

Shop Julya’s artworks at www.albertacraft.ab.ca/online-shop

Level 1 Hallway Gallery

Artist Statement: Picking up the pieces, dressing for another day, a new look a new season. I keep losing my head over it all. Working as a Visual Artist for over 35 years there comes a day when everything must fall.

Leigh Reed’s photography exhibition, presented in conjunction with the Exposure Photo Festival, will be on display in the Cubby Gallery of cSPACE, 2nd Floor, for the month of February.

View on site by appointment only. Phone the office at 403-476-2025 for details.

View exhibition online here.

Level 2 Hallway Gallery

In Fire and Masks, Angela Boehm and J. Ashley Nixon exhibit landscape and portrait images from Canada and Peru exploring cultural heritage, forest fire and regeneration, resilience and responses to environmental and social changes.

Viewing at cSPACE by appointment only. Call the office at 403-476-2025 for details.

View the online exhibition here.

VIDEO CLIPS ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

1. Extended!
2. Social Camouflage
3. Promo Clip for Fire and Masks 
4. Intro to Fire and Masks
5. The Giving Tree

Level 3 Hallway Gallery

Artist’s Block focuses on photography and mixed media through a collaboration between photographer Scott Campbell and artist Christine Hoeppner. Artist’s Block presents four series of work titled Room, Artist’s Block, Black and White and Mask. 

 The first in this exhibition series is titled Room. Room was born from a photograph made by Scott for the 2018 exhibit Inferno, a fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation in the theme of “I Dress Red for Women” campaign. In the Inferno exhibition each image showed a woman, wearing a red dress, portrayed in the context of her power. Scott wanted to portray Christine, an artist, as a subject within her work. Christine spontaneously drew a whimsical image on large format paper, and Scott then photographed her lying on the paper in an artistically cut red and black dress, while posing in a context that worked with the image that she had drawn. The idea of having Christine as a subject within her artwork inspired Scott to develop Room into a series. The series is a collection of 10 photographs, exploring the idea of an artist breaking free of the confines of a space, an allegory for the confines that artists often impose upon their own creativity. Within each photograph there is a progression from Artist Proof to the Finale, as Room disintegrates the artist breaks free.

Created immediately after Room, Scott worked on Artist’s Block which is a short sequence that is less an allegory for artist’s block in general and more an expression of Christine’s own frustration with artist’s block.

In addition to Room and Artist Block the exhibition presents Black and White and Mask. Scott has long been fascinated with the film noir style and his series Black and White uses that style to explore the typical creative progression from consternation, to idea, to creation. Christine, a wonderfully creative person, is also very private. Scott wanted to explore the idea of having Christine pose in public (we created all the previous work in the studio) with her art while maintaining her privacy. The result of this exploration was the Mask series where Christine drew on plain white masks and Scott photographed Christine wearing her art at various locations around Calgary. To finalise this collaboration, Scott printed his photographs and Christine drew on them to make the work feel like a canvas.

Viewing at cSPACE by appointment only. Call the office at 403-476-2025 for details.

View online exhibition here.