Trépanier Baer Gallery

09/04/2026

Vikky Alexander
The Woodlanders
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

TrépanierBaer is delighted to open its 2026/2027 season with The Woodlanders, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed Canadian artist Vikky Alexander.

A pioneering figure in appropriation art and photo conceptualism, Vikky Alexander has spent more than four decades examining how images of architecture, nature, beauty, and luxury shape desire. Her latest series, The Woodlanders (2025), brings idealized female figures drawn from fashion imagery into dense, dreamlike woodland settings. Comprising thirteen (13) images in an edition of three (3), the series marks a compelling reversal. In earlier works, Alexander introduced artificial nature into architectural interiors; in The Woodlanders, the human figure appears to be drawn back into the landscape, almost overtaken by nature. Yet this landscape remains mediated, assembled through reproduction and collage rather than encountered as pristine wilderness. The title resonates with Thomas Hardy’s novel The Woodlanders, in which human relationships, desire, class, and social ambition unfold within an ancient woodland community. It suggests figures who belong to, emerge from, or are psychologically transformed by the forest.

Vikky Alexander lives and works in Montréal. Her work is held in major museum, private, and corporate collections throughout Canada, the US, and Europe. This is Vikky Alexander’s 13th exhibition at TrépanierBaer.

Vikky Alexander
Felice, 2025
From the Woodlanders Series
Archival inkjet prints on Moab Entrada Naturel - Edition 1/3
44” x 32” / 111.7 x 82.2 cm – image
46” x 34” / 116.8 x 86.3 cm – framed

Promenade and Viewing Room Galleries

In conjunction with Vikky Alexander’s The Woodlanders, in the Promenade Gallery, we will present mixed-media works by Black American artist Alicia Henry, who sadly passed away in October of 2024. Alicia Henry created works that are deeply original, human and unforgettable. In the Viewing Room, we will feature works from Han Sungpil’s latest project, Vanishing Fields — a series of ten photogravures—alongside selected works on paper from Jen Aitken’s Assembled Drawing

08/28/2026

Vikky Alexander
The Woodlanders
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

TrépanierBaer is delighted to open its 2026/2027 season with The Woodlanders, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed Canadian artist Vikky Alexander.

A pioneering figure in appropriation art and photo conceptualism, Vikky Alexander has spent more than four decades examining how images of architecture, nature, beauty, and luxury shape desire. Her latest series, The Woodlanders (2025), brings idealized female figures drawn from fashion imagery into dense, dreamlike woodland settings. Comprising thirteen (13) images in an edition of three, (3) the series marks a compelling reversal. In earlier works, Alexander introduced artificial nature into architectural interiors; in The Woodlanders, the human figure appears to be drawn back into the landscape, almost overtaken by nature. Yet this landscape remains mediated, assembled through reproduction and collage rather than encountered as pristine wilderness. The title resonates with Thomas Hardy’s novel The Woodlanders, in which human relationships, desire, class, and social ambition unfold within an ancient woodland community. It suggests figures who belong to, emerge from, or are psychologically transformed by the forest.

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Vikky Alexander
Joyce, 2025
From the Woodlanders Series
Archival inkjet prints on Moab Entrada Naturel- Edition 1/3
44” x 32” / 111.7 x 82.2 cm – image
46” x 34” / 116.8 x 86.3 cm – framed

“In 2024 I read two books consecutively, a biography of the late designer, Alexander McQueen and Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Woodlanders”. The selection was serendipitous but also, as it turns out, fortunate. Looking through books of photographs of McQueen’s designs, I noticed that he often made pieces that were animal and bird like, transforming the mannequins into strange creatures. Hardy’s novel, set in a rural hamlet in the south of England, introduces characters that appear and disappear into the woods, somewhat of a ‘hide and seek’. In this series, sourcing my inspiration from a selection of McQueen’s designs, I have re-imagined them with collage as characters in the Hardy novel. The titles of the thirteen works

08/26/2026

A rare sighting together! Two luminaries and 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 of the Canadian art world. Yves Trépanier and Paul Kuhn out and about this August in Calgary.

Fun fact about these gentlemen, Yves worked for Paul Kuhn Gallery before starting TrépanierBaer. And as of this year, Paul and his practice are represented by TBG. What a wonderful full-circle moment.

Both have been long standing members of the Art Dealers Association of Canada.

Picture by: Metrovino Calgary Metrovino Calgary

PaulKuhnGallery Paul Kuhn

08/17/2026

Reminder: Celebrating the Life of Eric Cameron

Eric Cameron
April 19th, 1935 - January 29th, 2026

Please join Margaret Cameron and the Cameron family for a Celebration of Life in honour of Eric Cameron, RCA, who passed away earlier this year.

Location: TrépanierBaer Gallery
105, 999-8th Street SW
Calgary, AB, T2R 1J5

Date: Wednesday, August 19th
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Remarks: 4:45 p.m.

Speakers: Yves Trépanier, Margaret Cameron, William (Bill) Laing, Peggy Gale, Thierry de Duve (via zoom), and Gregory Cameron.

RSVP: Judy Ciccagalione: [email protected] by August 17th.

For those unable to attend in person the following Zoom link will enable you to attend online.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88685482318?pwd=hbazzJ5H1acIT6oSS1TfxQStjENQqH.1

You are encouraged to bring photos and to share stories of your time with Eric.

Parking is available in the lot west of the building off 10th Avenue, SW, or on 10th Avenue on the south side of the Avenue.

Eric Cameron
Thanatos Series, 2018
Latex paint on Remembrance Day Poppy, fishing wire
Detail, TrépanierBaer Gallery

08/15/2026

We are delighted to announce that Chris Millar’s extraordinary new work, The Loom Beneath the Loam, is now available for viewing at the gallery.

For the past six years, Millar has devoted himself almost exclusively to the creation of three remarkably ambitious, large-scale kinetic sculptures, each extraordinarily complex and labour-intensive. All three works are now held in private collections; two in Montréal and one in Calgary.

The Loom Beneath the Loam marks Millar’s return to an intimate scale and is his first small-scale work in six years. At just 10” × 9” x 3” (18.5” x 18.5” x 4” framed), it possesses all of the astonishing detail, invention, humour and obsessive craftsmanship for which his work is known.

Part painting, part sculpture, and part fantastical narrative, the work contains eight miniature paintings, including a central portrait, two panoramic landscapes and two additional landscape scenes. These are among the smallest paintings Millar has ever produced. Each painting is incorporated into an elaborate sculptural frame populated by faux wood-carved portraits, strange botanical forms, suspended objects, and a miniature chrysalis pod that together contribute to the work’s richly imagined story.

Millar imagines a species of praying mantis artists who spin silk from which they create their sculptures. One miniature painting depicts an exhibition of their work while the figure in blue appears to be their art dealer. The elaborate hanging form at the lower right is itself one of the mantis artists’ sculptures.

This is Millar at his best: a meticulously constructed world in which painting, sculpture, storytelling, absurdity and an affectionate satire of the contemporary art world collide. The closer one looks, the more the work reveals.

The Loom Beneath the Loam is now on view at the gallery.

Chris Millar lives and works in Delson, Quebec. He is known for extraordinarily detailed paintings and sculptures that combine meticulous craftsmanship with elaborate fictional worlds, dark humour and densely layered narratives. Moving freely between painting, sculpture, model-making and kinetic construction, Millar creates works in which seemingly minute de

08/11/2026

Celebrating the Life of Eric Cameron

Please join Margaret Cameron and the Cameron family for a Celebration of Life in honour of Eric Cameron, RCA who passed away earlier this year.

Location: TrépanierBaer Gallery
105, 999-8th Street SW
Calgary, AB, T2R 1J5

Date: August 19th
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

RSVP: Judy Ciccagalione: [email protected] by August 17th.

For those unable to attend in person the following Zoom link will enable you to attend online.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88685482318?pwd=hbazzJ5H1acIT6oSS1TfxQStjENQqH.1

You are encouraged to bring photos and to share stories of your time with Eric.

Parking is available in the lot west of the building off 10th Avenue, SW, or on 10th Avenue on the south side of the Avenue.

Eric Cameron
Thanatos Series, 2018
Latex paint on Remembrance Day Poppy, fishing wire
Detail, TrépanierBaer Gallery

07/27/2026

TrépanierBaer will be closed for a short holiday from Tuesday, July 28th through to Monday August 10th.

The gallery will reopen with regular business hours on Tuesday, August 11th.

On behalf of TrépanierBaer we wish you and your families a relaxing, enjoyable and rejuvenating summer. We look forward to welcoming you back in August.

Opening in September: Vikky Alexander: The Woodlanders.

Kim Spink
Helleborus x Glandorfensis, Ice and Roses Pink, 2025
Colour pencil and graphite on 70 lb (114 g/m2) acid-free white sketch paper
9” x 12” / 22.8 x 30.4 cm – image
Private Collection

07/23/2026

07/22/2026

In the Viewing Room: Chris Cran

In celebration of Chris Cran’s appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada on June 26, 2026, TrépanierBaer is pleased to present four works spanning thirty years of his more than fifty-year career.

Anchoring this intimate exhibition is a rare 1988 work titled Hand as Gun. Related to the artist’s renowned Self Portrait series (1984–1989), which established Cran’s national reputation, Hand as Gun foreshadows his 1992 suite of six monumental Hand Gesture paintings. Together with the large-scale Heads from the same period, these works marked the beginning of Cran’s long investigation into the relationship between representation and abstraction, and between painting and photography. The hand has recurred as a motif throughout his career, including Hand, Spray Can and Spray (1984), Cheers(2013), and Hand with Glass (2017).

Other works in the exhibition include Red Tok (2016), Edge Painting #2 (1999), and Beatnik (2009). Chris Cran’s appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada recognizes not only his respected painting practice, but also his extraordinary influence as a teacher and mentor.

The official citation reads:

• “A transformative force in the Calgary visual arts community, Chris Cran has shaped generations of artists through his innovative explorations of painting. Blending traditional genres with popular cultural sources, he playfully disrupts perception. A celebrated exhibitor, mentor, teacher, and advocate, he has profoundly enriched Canada’s artistic landscape.”

We look forward to seeing you at the gallery.

Chris Cran
Beatnik, 2009
Acrylic on paper
48.3 x 33 cm

Chris Cran
Hand as Gun, 1988
Oil on canvas
63.5 cm x 76.2 cm

Chris Cran
Red Toc, 2016
Acrylic on board
76.2 cm x 60.69 cm

Chris Cran
Edge Painting #2, 1999
Oil on board
49.5 cm x 40 cm

07/04/2026

Happy Stampede
New Works at TrépanierBaer

As Calgary welcomes the excitement and energy of the Stampede season, we are pleased to present a selection of new works now available at the gallery, including Fred Herzog’s dramatic Jackpot, DaveandJenn’s Bee Sting from 2015, Chris Cran’s Beatnik, and Peter von Tiesenhausen’s Vessel.

Whether you’re visiting Calgary for the Stampede or exploring the city close to home, we invite you to stop by the gallery to experience these exceptional works and view our summer group exhibition, FIND YOUR EYES.
We look forward to seeing you.

Yahoo!

Fred Herzog
Jackpot, 1961/2010
Colour photograph, archival inkjet print
Edition 14/20
11 ¾” x 18” - image

DaveandJenn
Bee Sting, 2015
Resin and acrylic paint
14 ¼” x 11 ¾” x 2 3/8”
Side View

Chris Cran
Beatnik, 2009
Acrylic on paper
13” x 19”

Peter von Tiesenhausen
Vessel, 2013
Propeller bronze, cast using an unconventional charred-timber mold ignited by a mirrored solar Prometheus (concentrated solar) furnace; unique cast
11” x 3.25” x 2”