Trépanier Baer Gallery

10/09/2026

10/08/2026

//NOT TO BE MISSED//

Vanishing Fields: The Memory of a Changing Earth

An intimate evening in the gallery, shining light on the work of Han Sungpil and a recent project
conceptualized in residence at the winery La Rioja Alta, Spain. These works are currently on view in the gallery, and the photogravures are exceptional and not to be missed.

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Photogravure is an old printmaking process developed in the 1800s that uses photography to
make fine, richly toned prints. The technique grew from Henry Fox Talbot’s experiments with
photographic engraving and was later refined by Karel Klíč in the 1870s. It is still practiced today by fine art printmakers and contemporary artists who value its distinctive, archival quality. The image is transferred onto a plate coated with a light-sensitive polymer. Light hardens the polymer in some areas, while the softer, unexposed areas are washed away in water, leaving tiny recesses in the plate’s surface. These hold ink, much like the lines of an engraving. A fine dot pattern, exposed separately, gives the plate its texture and allows it to reproduce the soft greys and subtle tones of a photograph. The plate is then inked and run through a press, transferring the image onto paper.

“At La Riajo Alta I found the specific material language I had been searching for. Inside the winery’s centuries-old cellars, time has left its mark not in words but in substance: in the dark, wine-stained surfaces of oak barrels that have absorbed decades of fermentation, in the rust-coloured traces that bleed down cellar walls like geological strata, in the slow oxidation of
wood that has held and shaped some of the most exceptional vintages in Spanish history. These are not merely aesthetic details. They are a form of archive, a record of accumulation, of seasons survived, of a winemaking tradition that has persisted across drought and abundance alike. To photograph these surfaces was to photograph time itself, compressed and made visible.” Han Sungpil

Han Sungpil
Grupo La Rioja Alta, S.A.

09/30/2026

//AN OFFERING

To our Indigenous friends, colleagues, artists, and communities, TrépanierBaer offers our wishes
for a day of reflection, peace, hope.

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we acknowledge that as First Nations, Inuit,
and Métis peoples, you are the original peoples of this country and, as a self-determining people,
have constitutional and human rights that must be recognized and respected.

We acknowledge the reality and horror of our colonial past and offer our sincere apologies. We
acknowledge that we must redress these past harms.

We recognize that reconciliation requires more than acknowledgement: it asks us to listen, to
learn, and to accept our shared responsibility for building a more just relationship.

Our hope is that we can do so with a willful spirit, with trust, understanding, and forgiveness,
and most importantly, with hope as we move together in these uncertain times.

09/24/2026

CANADIAN ART WALK
September 24–27, 2026

A Nationwide Celebration of Canadian Art
TrépanierBaer invites Calgarians, visitors to our city, and art enthusiasts from near and far
to take part in the Art Dealers Association of Canada’s Canadian Art Hop, a nationwide event from Halifax to Victoria. The Canadian Art Hop brings together participating galleries, dealers, artists, and cultural organizations to create a shared national moment of discovery.

Whether you are a seasoned collector, an emerging collector, an art enthusiast, or simply
curious to see what is happening in Canada’s and Calgary’s art communities, the next three or four days will offer many engaging ways to experience art.

Beginning today and continuing through Saturday at TrépanierBaer, visitors are invited to engage with works by internationally and nationally acclaimed artists Vikky Alexander, Han Sungpil, Jen Aitken, and Alicia Henry in four solo exhibitions featuring photography, sculpture, drawing, and textile works.

TrépanierBaer Canadian Art Hop Hours Thursday, September 24 through Saturday, September 26, 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Find out more Canadian Art Hop

Vikky Alexander
Jen Aitken
Han Sungpil

09/16/2026

The Coyote Calls

Faye HeavyShield receives Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts

Congratulations to artist Faye HeavyShield, recipient of the 2026 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts.

A member of the Kainai Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy Faye HeavyShield was born in 1953 at Standoff on the Blood reserve in Southern Alberta where she continues to live. For more than four decades she has developed a highly distinctive practice encompassing sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, sound, and text.

HeavyShield’s work is grounded in the land, language, cultural knowledge of the Kainai Nation, and her lived experience as a Blackfoot woman. The rivers, coulees, prairie grasses, foothills, southern winds, and evening calls of the coyotes are among her inspirations. Her work is an expression of memory, ancestry and belonging. Blackfoot is Faye Heavyshield’s first language, and as she has stated, “art is my second.”

Congratulations to Faye for this well-deserved recognition.

Iiksoka’pii! Ika’kimaat!

Faye HeavyShield, 2025. Photo: Craig Boyko © AGO.

Faye HeavyShield, work in progress, Glenbow commision, 2026

Faye HeavyShield
Pierce, 2026
Acrylic on paper, porcupine quill
TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB

09/12/2026

Vikky Alexander
The Woodlanders

Han Sungpil
Vanishing Fields: The Memory of a Changing Earth

Opening reception: Saturday, September 12
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Artists in attendance

TrépanierBaer is delighted to present The Woodlanders and Vanishing Field: A Memory of a Changing Earth two solo exhibitions by internationally acclaimed artists Vikky Alexander and Han Sungpil.

“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 are a combination of the names of some of McQueen’s friends and models, with the names of Hardy’s female protagonists. These women do not turn their back on nature but emerge in material and immaterial ways through holes and tangles — both literal techniques in my collage process and metaphors for the liminal spaces my figures inhabit. The holes I cut become portals of transformation, while the tangles of collage mirror the dense undergrowth where Hardy’s characters disappear and the complex construction of McQueen’s sculptural garments.” - Vikky Alexander

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Vikky Alexander
Polina, 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 the Viewing Room

In conjunction with Vikky Alexander’s The Woodlanders, the gallery is delighted to present Han Sungpil’s latest series a suite of photogravures, Vanishing Fields: The Memory of a Changing Earth.

In the fall of 2024, Han Sungpil was invited to the renowned winery Rioja Alta (1890) to document

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