01 - Main Space

Wherever you go, there they are

May G N

Anti-trans legislation is passing in this province all the time. Rent in my neighborhood has gone up 50% since I moved in four years ago. Everywhere I look there are unending fourplex condo developments that I will never be able to afford.

"Wherever you go, there they are" is a meditation on the Capitol Hill area, the ongoing housing crisis, and the rupturous nature of the bodies that inhabit it.

May G N is a trans-albertan artist working on Treaty 7 territory since 2010. Her practice centres around the friction between gender diverse folk and the real and imagined structures which underly and overlay their experience. Graduating in 2015, May has worked with and for many YYC institutions including The Bows, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Esker Foundation and currently serving on the board at The New Gallery.

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Closing Reception October 2 @6pm

BAD ART

Ceyda-Anne Altiok, Murray Heidt, Noah Milo, Elias Rose, Serena Williamson

Most artists know the pain of being asked to show their sketchbook to someone who expects each page to be a perfect, realised drawing, and the embarrassment of then having to reveal all the ugly working out, abandoned tests, doodles, and other mess that goes into every successful work. When did all that chaos get cut from the process of making something “good”? In the age of the internet especially, we’re all evaluating whether each piece we complete is worth posting, worth being seen, worth representing us. We’re alienated from the essential processes of improvement and experimentation–the necessary steps to greatness. This exhibition is a celebration of all the failures who never made it to our websites, our social media pages, our personal halls of fame, or our friends’ eyes. It’s time to show some work previously only seen on our parents’ fridges. Let’s get a little ugly with it.