Ryan Sluggett : Lifestyle Battles - Gallery Hop

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Ryan Sluggett, "Glossy Credit (detail)," 2019

oil, enamel and gouache on aluminum, 5' x 8'

Ryan Sluggett: Lifestyle Battles Opening May 3, 2019 5:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. Ryan Sluggett will be in attendance

Artist Talk Rescheduled: Saturday, May 11 at 12:30 PM

Please note:  the Artist Talk has been rescheduled to coincide with the Art Dealers Association of Canada Gallery Hop! in Calgary on Saturday, May 11 at 12:30 pm. Glenbow Museum Curator Sarah Todd will be in conversation with Ryan Sluggett! 

TrépanierBaer is pleased to announce the opening of Ryan Sluggett: Lifestyle Battles, the artist's eighth solo exhibition at TrépanierBaer. This exhibition will feature the artist’s most recent work produced over the last eight months.

Ryan Sluggett’s new paintings foreground his characteristically gestural drawn line through a combining of techniques on large and small scale sheets of aluminium. Observations on money, consumerist identities, and everyday life are the thread that ties them to previous bodies of work. Ryan Sluggett’s new works on aluminium tend to unfurl outward towards multiple meanings, rather than lock down a singular one. They declare both dramatic movement and inertness simultaneously.

As the artists states, “they are a catalogue of possibilities of painting techniques aimed at mashing up normative manners of viewing the world."

Ryan Sluggett was born in 1981 in Calgary, Alberta. He received his BFA with Distinction in Painting from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 1999, and his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada, the US and Europe.

Sluggett’s work is included in numerous public collections including the Booth Collection at the University of Chicago; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Vancouver Art Gallery; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; the Rubell Collection, Florida; the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection, Edmonton; and numerous private and corporate collections throughout Canada and the US.

The Calgary Member Galleries of the Art Dealers Association of Canada will be hosting a Spring Gallery Hop on May 11th from 11 am to 6 pm.

The Gallery Hop will include brief talks at each location by leading artists, curators and critics as well as refreshments at each location. This event has grown over the years to host crowds of people who have become knowledgeable about the local visual art scene. Join us for a fun and informative day of art!

Gallery Hop: Schedule of Galleries

11:00 Herringer Kiss Gallery 1615 - 10 Ave SW

11:45 VIVIANEART 1114 - 11 St SW

12:30 TrépanierBaer Gallery 105, 999 - 8th St SW

1:15 Newzones Gallery 730 - 11th Ave SW

2:00 Paul Kuhn Gallery 724 - 11th Ave SW

2:45 Wallace Galleries Ltd 500 - 5th Ave SW

3:30 Loch Gallery 1516 - 4th St SW

4:15 Masters Gallery 2115 - 4th St SW

5:00 Jarvis Hall Gallery 3338 - 36 Ave SE