THE COMPLETELY FICTIONAL ADVENTURES OF JOSEPHINE BAKER
November 7–15, 2014
THEATRE JUNCTION GRAND
Born in the Year of the Horse, Josephine Baker left her homeland in the USA in the 1920s to live in France where she became an international superstar and a symbol of the Jazz Age. Hers is a story of struggle, humour, dignity and survival. In collaboration with Lisa Brawn, Kimberley Cooper uses the idea of Josephine Baker as inspiration to create a fictional fantasy in an otherworldly setting. Experience images, sounds and movement that celebrate the essence of Josephine Baker set to an original score performed by a three-piece band.
BEAKERHEAD September 2014
In 2013 I bought a vintage kiddie ride business; thirty coin-operated mechanical horses. These had been in front of Calgary stores such as Woolworths and Woodwards since the 1950s and 60s. The horses were in a state of extreme disrepair, having been neglected for a decade.
My intention was to transform them into a giant kinetic sculpture. They required mechanical refurbishment and I removed rotten tack and sandblasted the blistered surfaces down to reveal layers of paint built up over six decades...
Leighton show at Nickle Galleries 6 June - 19 July 2014
group of 20 woodcut portraits:
Alberta Government Employees ca. 1973
painted woodcuts on hundred year old salvaged
Douglas Fir
48" x 48"
Lisa Brawn
2014
AXIS Contemporary Art
New series of Horror woodcuts will be showing at AXIS September 4 - 30, 2013
AXIS Contemporary Art
#203 - 100, 7th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB Canada
Gallery 403 262 3356
cell 403 512 3069
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www.axisart.ca
history of the window gallery at 924 17th Ave SW Calgary
This small scale interdisciplinary project space was originally started by the United Congress in 1999 as One Minute Happiness. In 2007 they handed it over to me and I renamed it Museo Poco. When Angie Inglis + Jane Grace + I closed Sugar Shack Art Salon in 2010 we co-curated the window gallery as Sugar Cube. Then it was a collaborative space known as La Fenêtre co-curated by me + Eddie Olson + White-field Senate. We closed the window gallery after 16 years at the end of 2015.
Photos row 1:
Romana Prokopiw / Leslie Sweder / Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner / John Will / Tanzerpudel (pudilluminator)
row 2:
Jolie Bird / Sally Raab / Jack Bride
DIY 2009-2010
The Sugar Shack Art Salon was an independent gallery and interdisciplinary project space run by Angela "Fat Harp Malone" Inglis, Lisa "Pretty Liver McGee" Brawn, and Jane "Boney Jones" Grace in 2009 and 2010 in a turn-of-the-century “cottage” in residential NW Calgary. Sugar Shack featured 77 local, provincial and national artists at shows such as Debutante’s Ball, Nursies, Paper Jam, Love Shack, DioramaRama!, God Show 2: The Resurrection, and Genderblender. There was also an artist residency, The L. S. Benschop Institute for the Preservation & Veneration of Imagination & Nostalgia. The art salon was closed when centipedes fell from the light sockets.
