08/26/2026
Save the date: Opening September 17
Kelly Andres: Gleaning the Blue-Green
September 18 - December 5, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17, 6 - 8 pm.
In Gleaning the Blue-Green, Kelly Andres experiments with the ways we seek understanding about the living systems of plants and animals around us. Drawing from her own efforts to learn about an important ecosystem close to her rural home east of Edmonton – the wetland – the artist’s creative fodder is the methods often used in scientific study. Andres has created this series of sculpture, video, photography, and performance from gathering and growing water lentils and spirulina, collecting water samples, and building datasets. Rather than generating data intended for analysis and supporting empirical knowledge, Andres instead uses these artistic interpretations of scientific methods to ask important questions about how and what is knowable – what it is that we can glean – about living systems. The ongoing maintenance of the plants in the gallery is a performance of care between the artist and her living subjects. Andres’s investment in relational care opens space for us to consider what might be required of such relationships as our climate continues shifting.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday: 12 - 5 p.m.
Thursdays: 12 - 7 p.m.
We acknowledge the support of the Province of Alberta through Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Image credit:
Kelly Andres, Gleaning Outwards: Horsetail, Equisetum arvense [detail], 2026. Cyanotype print on watercolour paper. Courtesy of the Artist.
[image description: a scan of a cyanotype print of two horsetail plant stalks. The horsetail looks like a white silhouette against the dark blue background. End of description.]
