Winter Exhibitions Opening Reception
Andrew Maize, (s)twerH (spin), 2022, digital photograph of spinning mylar blanket.
Join us for the opening reception of our Winter 2026 exhibitions.
Thursday, January 15, 5-7pm.
Artists will be in attendance. Remarks at 5:45.
With a special performance of Emily Hiemstra’s Didsbury for viola quartet, commissioned by the Northern Tornadoes Project.
Atmospheric Shifts features work by Wally Dion, Lisa Hirmer, and David Spriggs who consider the current environmental moment—an era marked by the impact of global warming and a corresponding increase in severe weather events—and imagine our human position within this reality. Their new works, all created for this exhibition, are placed in conversation with works from McIntosh Gallery’s permanent collection, public and corporate collections, and material culture derived from research conducted by the Northern Tornadoes Project, the Northern Hail Project, and the Northern Mesonet Project in Western University’s Faculty of Engineering.
*(s)twerH takes the form of a laboratory/studio where, from January 16 to February 12, Maize will work as artist-in-residence to further develop a body of work that considers the fundamental nature of indeterminacy. Inspired by the work of climate scientists on the complexity of turbulence and the increased prevalence of severe storms, Maize explores potential common ground between scientific and artistic research.
This is a free event, open to the public, no registration required.
