The New Gallery

The New Gallery (TNG), a not-for-profit centre for contemporary art in Calgary’s Chinatown, is seeking applications for a Gallery Assistant. This is a temporary summer position (May-August) funded by Canada Summer Jobs. At TNG, we strive to provide opportunities and venues for artists that foster social and political creative practices, while engaging and educating local communities through artist-run culture and contemporary art.

The role of the Gallery Assistant is to support the Gallery staff in the various facets of the Gallery’s operations. The Gallery Assistant will be working under the direction of TNG’s Co-Directors. Training specific to the role and Gallery will be provided.

For more information and to apply: https://thenewgallery.org/Job-Call-Gallery-Assistant
The deadline for applications is May 2nd.

New show announcement!⁠
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We are excited to welcome Ahreum Lee ( ) to our mainspace with the exhibition “My Mother is Data” opening March 20th!⁠ 🦋👾
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“My Mother is Data” is an immersive installation exploring how relationships materialize when they are solely practiced in digital realms. Drawing from her own experience, artist Ahreum Lee entwines moving images, 3D animation, live-streamed text, and interactive web interface, noting her estrangement from her birth mother. After receiving false notification of her mother’s death in 2014, Lee considered the instability between reality and perception, and how they mirror contemporary digital life, where unrelated data can exist within the same scroll. In opposition to treating digital systems and their content as neutral materials, Lee intentionally considers data as emotional frameworks that construct intimacy, and supersede certainty. This work asks how emotional attachment and memory is restructured, especially when placed alongside global events within the digital realm.
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My Mother is Data, Close-up image of installation, 2022, Clark

Photo credit: Paul Litherland

[Image Description: A smartphone lies face-up on an irregularly shaped gray faux-stone placed on a bright pink rug. On top of the phone sits a clear crystal sphere, magnifying and distorting the screen beneath it. The phone displays text and an image partially visible through the lens.]

It’s the final week of “Wildfire”, our mainspace exhibition curated by Lara Felsing ( ) and David McGregor ( ) 🔥⁠
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It has been such an honour to host these detailed works—come see them for yourself while you still can!⁠
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We are open now through Saturday (10am - 6pm on weekdays; and noon-6pm on Saturdays) at 208 Centre Street South.⁠
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Documentation courtesy of Danny Luong ( .lu )