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Gallery Hours:

Wednesday: 10am - 8pm

Thursday - Saturday: 10am-5pm

Visitor Update - June 29, 2022:

A/P has updated our visitor guidelines for all in-person visitors.

(1) Masking is not required.

Visitors are supported in wearing a mask if they prefer.
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION

My Data Body / Marilène Oliver

Exhibition Dates: March 31 - May 19, 2023

Reception with the artist in attendance: Friday March 31 from 7-9pm

Members and invited guests are welcome to attend the this FREE event. The artist talk will begin shortly after 7pm, followed by the reception where light refreshments and local sips will be available.

My Data Body is a collaborative, multimedia installation that includes sculptures, video projection, large scale prints, an artist book, a zine, and a virtual reality artwork. My Data Body brings together different forms of personal data such as medical scans, social media, biometric, banking and health data in an attempt to make visible and manipulable our many intersecting data corpuses so that in VR they can be held, inspected and dissected. In My Data Body, the medically scanned, passive, obedient, semi- transparent body becomes a data processing site that can be pulled apart, de- and re-composed or as Yuval Harari warns ‘surveilled under the skin’.

When developing the My Data Body VR project, Oliver recognized the potential of the VR medium as acompositional and layering space where digital assets can be spatially arranged and then captured and exported as separate image layers. In this exhibition, Oliver explores this affordance to create a series of large scale laser engraved images into spray paint on paper, and a large artist book comprised on neon woodcut and screen prints.

My Data Body is an interdisciplinary and collaborative project made as part of the research project KnowThyself as a Virtual Reality (KTVR). Collaborators include Marilène Oliver (visual art), Scott Smallwood(sound), J.R. Carpenter (poetry) and Stephan Moore (sound).

Marilène Oliver is an associate professor of printmaking and media arts at the University of Alberta. Marilène works at a crossroads between new digital technologies and traditional print and sculpture, with her finished objects bridging the virtual and the real worlds. Oliver uses various scanning technologies, such as MRI and CT to create artworks that invite us to materially contemplate our increasingly digitized selves and better understand what sociologist Deborah Lupton terms our, human-data assemblages. Marilene’s print works have been featured in several high-profile printmaking books including Installations and Experimental Printmaking by Alexia Tala and Printmaking: a Contemporary Perspective by Paul Coldwell.

Previous Exhibitions

A/P MAINSPACE Juried Exhibition Archive

Residue / Guillermo Trejo and Andrew Testa, January 20 - March 3, 2023

Found in Oblivion / Melika Forouzan Pour, October 7 - November 25, 2022

Zones / Indicators by Elizabeth Claire Rose, April 1 - May 13, 2022

WYSIWYG / Alex Linfield, January 14 - March 4, 2022

Kasia Koralewska / Basic Social Unit Hierarchies, September 17 - November 5, 2021

Trio / Martha Street Studio & Vague Démographique / L'Atelier Presse Papier, July 9 - August 27, 2021

In Conversation with John Snow / Group Exhibition in partnership with the Collectors' Gallery of Art and curated by Sheryl Spencer (works by John Snow, Stephanie Victorine, Westbury Jordan, Tasia Selimos, and Rosemary Allan), May 22 - July 2, 2021

Sara Norquay / Citizen of the World, October 2 - November 20, 2020

Stephanie de Couto Costs / Anthology of Mourning , March 7 - April 7, 2020

Christeen Francis / Borough Burrow , October 25 - November 30, 2019

Adrian Gor / In Bloom or in Doom, September 13 - October 19, 2019

Briana Palmer / Traversing the line, with no fixed point, April 26 - June 7, 2019

Jonathan Green / Make or Break, March 1 - April 12, 2019

Angela Snieder / Obscura, January 12 - February 22, 2019

John Graham / Fiercely Open, October 19 - November 30, 2018

Laura Peturson / Wasteland/Wanderland, September 14 - October 12, 2018

Madeline Mackay / Not Yet Earth, June 8 - July 20, 2018

Elizabeth D'Agostino,-April - June, 2018

Jaqueline Leigh Huskisson / absurd walls - Feb 23 - April 6, 2018

Katie Bruce & Christie Kirchner / surface to surface, January 5 - February 16, 2018

Stacey Watson / Field Work, October 20 - November 30, 2017

Chad Eperlding / Talking Stock, September 8 - October 13, 2017

Miriam Rodolph / disPOSSESSION, June 2 - July 15, 2017

Robert Pugh / Etchings, April 21 - May 27, 2017

Darian Goldin Stahl, 2016

Joani Tremblay, 2016

April Dean, 2016

Marilee Salvator, 2016

Marnie Blair, 2015

Gabriela Jolowicz, 2015

Aleksandar Mladenovic & Robert Truszkowski, 2015

Audrey Hurd, 2015

Emmanuelle Jacques, 2015

Jeff Kulak, 2015

A/P EMERGING ARTIST Archive

2nd Pressing, Group Exhibition of collaborative works featuring: AJ Colum, Paul Dudar, Isis Horne, Levin Ifko, Rachel MacKinnon, Nicole Olson Grant-Suttie, Sam Rollo, Andy Rubio, and Jessica Wu, A/P Main Gallery, July - August 2022

Shelby Wolfe-Goulet, Burnt Toast Studio Gallery, 2019

Mitchell Luken, Burnt Toast Studio Gallery, 2019

Kristina van Westenbrugge, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2018

Mitchell Chalifoux, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2018

Ryan Statz, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2018

Katelyn Payette, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2018

Kenzie Housego, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2018

Graeme Dearden, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2017

Robert Lemermeyer, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2017

Tracy Wormsbecker, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2017

Samantha Charette, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2017

Kellen Spencer, ArtsCommons +15 Window Galleries, 2017