Artists@TRUCK Interview with curators Nate McLeod and Matthew Mark (Calgary, Alberta) on their collaborative curatorial practice and the group exhibition Phase Seven presented @ TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, September 28 to November 16, 2013.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Artists@TRUCK New video interview with the Donna Legault
In this multi-sensory installation, live sound is transposed to infrasonic frequencies by a customized Pure Data program. This transformation generates visual and sonic variations through the oscillation of fine ball chains that drop from the center of multiple suspended speakers. As the chains make contact with the floor, their movements carve imprints into piles of sand. The resulting sounds mingle with those of viewers and peripheral ambient noise to create a causal loop of co-responsive activity with limitless variation. In this way, the work renders the immateriality of sound as a tangible event by silencing and reinterpreting the data of everyday life.
Monday, September 16, 2013
TRUCK Rolls On!
Over the last few months, TRUCK has initiated a number of
exciting changes, and the transformations are still ongoing. We have packed up
and moved out of the basement of the Grain Exchange and have rolled into a
larger, more accessible, street level gallery space in the Sunalta community. At
our new location, we have demolished, renovated, sanded, primed, painted,
prepped, installed, and, occasionally, taken some well deserved breaks.
Keep reading for a special behind the scenes look at the
space in progress and to see what the TRUCK team has been up to…
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| The demolition in progress... |
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| Photographer Hakan Temucin strikes a pose |
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| Artist Eric Heitman takes a break |
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| Interdisciplinary artist Shyra De Souza painting |
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| Space in progress - check out that high ceiling! |
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| Programming Coordinator, Randy Niessen, and Board Member, Jason DeHaan also painting |
What’s next, you ask?
On September 28th we will be launching our brand
new space with a massive celebration that marks our 30th anniversary,
the opening reception for our new program of exhibitions, and the re-launch of
The Parkade in our fabulous new media/ black box/ installation gallery.
Occupying four oversized shipping crates in our Main Space, PHASE
SEVEN brings together work by six emerging Calgary-based artists. The
exhibition, curated by Nate McLeod and Matthew Mark, features the work of Jillian Daschuk, Studio North
(Matthew Kennedy and Mark Erickson), Kent Merriman Jr., Cassandra
Paul, and Lane Shordee.
Work by Linda Carreiro entitled “Inside Out of Words” will
be on display in our Parkade Project Space and Robyn Moody and Denton Fredrickson
are presenting a newly commissioned offsite installation entitled “Marvels of
the Ages Calling Forth Lost Spirits of Information” at the Sunalta C Train
Station. Robyn Moody and Denton Fredrickson’s offsite installation
is presented as part of the Intersite Visual Arts Festival.
Please join us on Saturday, September 28th,
beginning at 8:00 pm, for the grand opening of our new space and help us to celebrate
our new program of exhibitions and our 30th anniversary in style!
Many thanks to everyone who has helped and encouraged us during
our transition, including, of course, our supportive Board Members and our team
of remarkable and dedicated volunteers.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
AGM and Call for Board Directors
Notice of AGM July 4, 2013
Second Story Art Society O/A TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary
Notice to Membership: Annual General Meeting
July 4, 2013, 7:00 PM @ TRUCK Gallery
TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary would like to invite our members and community partners to our Annual General Meeting on July 4, 2013. We will report to our members on the activities of the past year, our objectives for the coming year, and our new space. We will also be taking nominations from our members for the election of Board Directors. In order to vote, or nominate members at the AGM you will need to hold a current TRUCK Membership prior to the AGM.
Agenda:
1. Welcome to members and Introduction of Staff and Board
2. Approval of Special Rules of Order
3. Approval of the Agenda
4. Approval of the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting
5. Reports
a. Executive Director’s report
6. Financial Review of the financial statements setting out TRUCK's income, disbursements, assets and liabilities and the auditor’s report
7. Approval and appointing of the auditors
8. New Business
9. Nomination and election of the Board Directors
10. Election of the Board Directors
11. Motion to adjourn.
Call for Board Directors
Call for nominations to the Second Story Art Society O/A TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary
Board of Directors
Commencing June 12, 2013
TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary Nominations Committee is seeking nominations to the Board of Directors from our members. We are seeking qualified candidates to play a role in the stewardship of our organization at a key time in the development of our society as we transition to our new gallery space. Qualified candidates will have the skill sets, experience, and resources necessary to assist us in the sustainable, transparent, and efficient governance of one of the leading artist-run centres in Calgary. TRUCK Board of Directors meets on a monthly basis. The terms for our Board members are two years in length with the option to renew for an additional term. Our Board of Directors consists of a majority (>50%) of artists and represents the interests of the Calgary visual arts community.
Interested candidates should contact the Nominations Committee by submitting a letter of intent along with a CV/
Resume through our general email:
info@truck.ca
We look forward to hearing from you!
Thursday, May 23, 2013
New video! Artists@TRUCK Interview with Lucie Chan + Marigold Santos
Check out our latest installment of the Artists@TRUCK videos. Artists Lucie Chan + Marigold Santos discuss their works presented at TRUCK for the exhibition multifarious, April 26 - May 25, 2013.
MULTIFARIOUS / Lucie Chan + Marigold Santos from TRUCK Gallery on Vimeo.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
TRUCK is moving!
After 17year in the basement of the Grain Exchange Building, TRUCK Gallery is on the move.
Well we finally did it! We thought we would kick off our 30th anniversary year with a bang by opening a new gallery location. This fall TRUCK Gallery will be moving to a new, larger, accessible, street level gallery space located in Sunalta community.
For the past 17 year TRUCK Gallery has made the basement of the Grain exchange Building its home. In that time we have presented the highest quality contemporary art programming in Calgary, in one of the most distinctive and truly underground cultural venues of our city.
Our activities have outgrown our current space and after 2 decades in the basement, a number of flooding incidents, a substandard electrical grid, and a large number of hot and humid opening reception, we look forward to launching our amazing new space in the Sunalta community.
This coming September will be our 30th anniversary, and to celebrate artist-run culture in Calgary, and our 30th year of operations, on September 28th 2013, we will launch our new space with a massive 30th Anniversary group exhibition showcasing works by some of Calgary's emerging artists. We will also re-launch The Parkade project space as a black box new media/installation gallery, with the work of Calgary-based artist Linda Carreiro.
Later in the month of September we will also be participating in Intersite Visual Arts Festival with a collaborative work by Robyn Moody (Calgary) and Denton Fredrickson (Lethbridge). Presented the same night as TRUCK’s 30th Birthday Party.
The September opening of the new venue promises to be an event to be remembered, that is if we can get it all done this summer. We will continue to present our Main space, +15 and CAMPER programming up to and during our renovations and move. So to say we will be busy this summer is a bit of an understatement. But this level of activity continues to fuel our excitement about our new gallery space - we can literally drive the CAMPER into the Main exhibition space - so "what now is possible" in our gallery motivates us to establish an artist-run contemporary art space that our Members deserve.
We will keep you posted as this project develops!
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