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Pat rick' 7th Ave SW ART GALLERY s Isl OF CALGARY and 8th Ave SW N NEW GALLERY Steph 9th Av N en TREPANIER N e SW N GLENBOW BAER 9th Ave SE PAUL KUHN CPR track NEWZONES N s NNWEISS r W e HERRINGERS N UDELL N 11th Ave SW NSTRIDE iv NARTFIRM t R COLLECTOR'S W CONTEMPORARYW KISS S 12 GALLERY th Ave S SW w S E r N h o t t t S W T b 13th t Ave W l SW S t 1 S E S S E S d 1 S h t S h o t t 14 e h 15th t th Ave Ave S SW t W S t r e 9 S l 8 t 2 S t h c n 1 t 1 t 6th s Ave SW N a LOCH e 6 s 1 17th Ave SW C 1 M 17th Ave SE W W S S t t Calgary Royal Ave SW S S Lindsay h h Exhibition & t t Park 5 4 Stampede 22nd Ave d Park R r e ill p CALGARY S Dr w bo El 8 PREVIEW I SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS www.trepanierbaer.com Vikky Alexander: Lost Horizons TRÉPANIER BAER, CALGARY AB – Sep 11-Oct 11 “The world is no longer informed by direct experi - ence but through two-dimensional media presentations in the form of billboards, televisions, news - papers and magazines. I use these forms of information as if they are the only resources available.” Vikky Alexander is a photographer and sculptor who lives and works in Vancouver. She has been an Associate Professor of Photogra - phy at the University of Victoria since 1998. Her archival ink prints on canvas, installations and photographs explore relationships between art, architecture, and nature, with a focus on how nature is experi - enced in a post-modern, consumer society. For her finely-crafted pieces, she has made use of such mass-produced decorator materials as plywood veneers, MacTac, Formica, mirrors and wallpaper murals of landscapes. Alexander was born in Victoria, British Columbia and graduated with a BFA in 1979 from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her work is included in numerous public collections across Canada. Vikky Alexander, Punta Gorda Since first showing with TrépanierBaer Gallery in 1993, Alexander has Reflected (Zacatitos 1) (2008), investigated notions of domestic utopia, modern buildings and artifi - digital print on aluminum, edition 2 cial environments through juxtapositions of manufactured products of 3 [TrépanierBaer, Calgary AB, Sep with appropriated photographic images of exotic, unspoiled land - 11-Oct 11] scapes.