Your AGA opens "The Edge: Avant-Garde in Canada" and "David Altmejd: The Vessel"

Name: Your AGA opens "The Edge: Avant-Garde in Canada" and "David Altmejd: The Vessel"
Start: 2016-10-08T00:00:00
End: 2017-01-30T00:00:00
Location: Art Gallery of Alberta

Oct 8, 2016 to Jan 29, 2017

Art Gallery of Alberta 2 Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2C1

October 6, 2016

4:10 PM

David Altmejd, "The Vessel (detail)," 2011

plexiglas, chain, plaster, wood, thread, wire, acrylic paint, epoxy resin, epoxy clay, acrylic gel, granular medium, quartz, pyrite, assorted minerals, adhesive, wire, pins, and needles, 260.4 x619.8 x 219.7 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa © David Altmejd. Photo ©NGC.

The Art Gallery of Alberta has two new exhibitions opening: The Edge: Avant-Garde in Canada and David Altmejd: The Vessel. Both exhibitions run from October 8-January 29.

Discover Canada’s first and foremost abstract artists with avant-garde works from the AGA collection. Experience movement and stillness with The Vessel, a plexiglas sculpture of monumental proportions.