July 3rd First Thursday -
Heather Bloxham
Heather Bloxham is a fibre artist. She graduated from the ACAD Fibre Program in 2003. Her current obsessions are embroidery and cross stitching. These processes are inspired by all things antique, vintage, historical, traditional and macabre. The series of fourteen embroidered black hearts with borders was a cathartic way for her to ponder the experiences that have touched her own black heart (the good, bad, ugly and unnecessary). Heather presently resides in Japan where she continues to express all her inner most thoughts and repressed feelings through the therapeutic medium of stitching.
May 1st First Thursday -
Chelsey Freyta
Chelsey’s extraordinary pieces reveal an intricate environment that totters between the whimsical and the disturbed. Strange creatures, playful colours and textures inspired by old wardrobes and papers combine to create illustrations in which one will find themselves lost. The fashion accessories are all designed and handcrafted by Chelsey and her partner Matt in Australia and Canada. Each piece is delicately unique and a small window into Chelsey’s world.
March 6th First Thursday -
Aimee Qiu
Aimee Qiu is an artist with a background in fashion design and is currently completing her studies at ACAD, majoring in graphic design and illustration. Her works have been published in Avenue and FFWD. This year, her collection has also been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary Opera, Calgary Tattoo Convention and Cafe Koi. For her upcoming display at SHISOMISO, Aimee will use Acrylic ink and brush to highlight the individual elegance of the modern women.
January 3rd First Thursday -
Brian Sew - Featuring Rosanna Terracciano
My Flamenco juxtaposes the tradition of southern Spain’s loved dance form, flamenco, with the corporate, fast-paced culture of Calgary - the hometown of local flamenco dance artist and photographed subject, Rosanna Terracciano. Brian Sew’s stunning photographs, which depict Terracciano dressed in full flamenco attire moving through day-to-day Calgary activities, project a sensation of isolation, and awkwardness, offering the viewer thought-provoking insight into the realities of practicing an art so far removed from its cultural birthplace.
November 1st First Thursday - Kimberly Wieting
Kimberly Wieting is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design who has been working in the field of Design & Illustration for the past 5 years. In this short amount of time she has branded local businesses, gained knowledge in the advertising industry, freelanced as an editorial illustrator, and has worked on private commissions. To accompany this hectic lifestyle, she also works for a menswear retailer as their product developer.
This show will explore her love of fabrics, fashion illustration...and cotton fields. Her work is known for its tactile appearance and random subject matter that ranges from subject to subject depending on what has captured her eye at the moment...and this show "threads" carries on with this trend.
September 6th First Thursday - David Belcourt & Kristi Woo
David Belcourt has been working with graffiti since 1988. His shift from mainstream graffiti to graffiti as a fine art became increasingly apparent during his undergrad at the University of Calgary (1992-97). Since then he has continued to integrate the conventions of graffiti with traditional and contemporary art forms producing works such as installation pieces, stencil narratives, iconographic images and currently working on non-representational forms.
Kristi Woo graduated from Ryerson University,Toronto with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fashion Design. She has lived and traveled intricately through Japan and S.E Asia pursuing teaching and design opportunities. In 2006, she showcased her Spring 2006 collection at Design Festa Vol.23 in Tokyo.
August 2nd First Thursday - Kara Love Eaton
Kara Love Eaton is a 3rd Year Visual Communications major attending the Alberta College of Art and Design. With her full student work load eight months of the year, she looks forward to her summer holidays where she can focus on her own personal creativity and style. Much of Kara's work embodies nature, the female form and color. She loves to play with these elements, and see how they interact with one another on the surface. Creating a visual display of color, fairytale, and poetry.
July 5th First Thursday - Nicole Thiessen
Nicole's work involves collaging layers of ordinary, everyday materials on a small scale, and blowing them up into large paintings. Fracturing phrases, words and images from the past allows her to then reconstruct information in a way that questions previously established societal roles or systems. By breaking apart material we normally take for granted, taking them out of context and creating them anew, we may form a new understanding of reality.
June 7th First Thursday - The Remix Collective
The Remix Collective is a loosely knit group of photographers, designers, graffiti writers, painters and musicians. They have mixed and mastered within their collective environments and an urban network was formed. When opportunity for cultural subversion arises the Remix Collective is down to get up. This show marks the beginning of a movement by a group of like-minded artists, musicians and abstract thinkers. We hope you enjoy the show. Photography by Alix Broadway. Paintings by Jai Benteau, Reed Smith, the kid belo, Shane Haltman, Luke Van Wyk, and Kara Love.
May 3rd First Thursday - Juliana Miller solo exhibition
Chairs are forms-architecture for the interior. These 'seated' constructions provide stability, personality, and utility. Miller stitches fiber to create natural contours as subject, and its relationship with mixed media into a visual-emotional presence. The constructed compositions allow the viewer to objectify how chairs define our own experiences and personal tastes within our environments. Miller is responding boldly in strength-posture.
April 5th First Thursday - RedHead Designs
Shisomiso will host an opening reception for the launching of RedHead Designs new spring line. Sarah Thompson lives and works in Calgary. She spends her days sewing, gardening and painting portraits of dogs. Sarah graduated in 2002 from the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) with a BFA in Sculpture. While attending ACAD Sarah studied Sculpture with a minor in Textiles. Redhead Designs is the platform for Sarah’s merge from the non-functional to the functional world of her sculptural handbags.
March 1st First Thursday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Shisomiso will be celebrating it's 2nd birthday! We will host an opening reception for the launching of our new spring line in conjunction with the lovely Sarah Piantadosi's photograhs.
January 4th First Thursday
Shisomiso will host an opening reception for the launching of "Organic Memory", paintings by Sam Walrod. Sam Walrod was born in Calgary Alberta in 1983. Growing up around the natural landscape of Kananaskis country, she has come to appreciate nature’s organic forms, as they become representations of her personal memory.Sam currently lives in Calgary and studies at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and has studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art. She has been involved in several group exhibitions around the college and now looks forward to exhibiting her work in Shisomiso.
November 2nd First Thursday
Shisomiso will host an opening reception for the launching of Deitra Kalyn's New Fall line & paintings by Nicole Thiessen. Deitra's line reflects a very sensual and playful feel with nods to the 30's and 60's. This season she is quite intrigued with vintage curtians and brocade fabrics. Her collection includes vests and capletes,which are trimed with hand made bindings,and appilique fabric images. The prize pony ribbons are a playful refection of her achievments. Nicole's work involves collaging layers of ordinary, everyday materials or images on a small scale and blowing them up into large paintings.
Miss Calgary Chinese 2006 - Sunday October 29
Miss Calgary Chinese 2006 is taking place on Sunday October 29, 2006. Shisomiso is proud to sponser the event by providing the evening wear for the contestants this evening. The Miss Calgary Chinese Pageant is a not-for-profit organization that gives young, women of Chinese descent the opportunity to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The mission is to promote goodwill between the Asian community and mainstream Calgary. Miss Calgary Chinese's role as a Goodwill Ambassador is to represent Calgary in the Miss Chinese International pageant to be held in Hong Kong in 2007. For more information and tickets please see Miss Calgary Chinese
September 7th First Thursday @ Shisomiso
Please join us this First Thursday, September 7th (5-9 pm) in support of the First Annual Calgary Fashion Week! Shisomiso will host an opening reception for the launching of Broken Doll's New Fall line & paintings by Christy Lee Menzies.
Calgary Fashion Week - September 5-8
Downtown Calgary Fashion Week will be hosting an event to support emerging and estalished local designers with a Designer Gala held at Hotel Arts on Friday Septmeber 8th. Doors open @ 7:30 pm. For more information on tickets please see Calgary Downtown Fashion Week.
