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Installation view of Jagdeep Raina: Chase, displaying various paintings installed on the walls of the gallery.

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Group of people sitting in a circle outside. They are sitting on rocks and the grass.

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Alison Norlen: Armatures and Imaginaries

Dates May 25.2023

The armatures and imaginaries of architectural landscapes have long been a source of inspiration for artist Alison Norlen – key to finding one’s bearings within her distinct visual world. From faded amusement park rides and roadside attractions to Vegas casinos and world’s fairs, to obsolete feats of engineering like bridges and industrial forms, Norlen explores the surfaces of both familiar and forgotten sites that once represented spectacle and unsurpassed promise. Melding historical details and autobiographical references throughout this architectural terrain, her meticulous large-scale drawings document how utopia and invention inform everyday landscapes ensuring they are both, and at once, real and imagined, mundane and spectacular, functional and fantastic.

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AGG’s interactive tours are presented with the support of the 2020 City of Guelph Emergency Fund.

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An artwork in colours of yellow, black, and gray depicts two bridges under construction over a river with buildings in the background.
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An artwork in colours of yellow, black, and gray depicts two bridges under construction over a river with buildings in the background.
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Alison Norlen: Armatures and Imaginaries
May 25.2023 / September 10.2023

Incorporating elements of local lore as well as the evolving built landscape, Norlen’s large-scale drawings explore the effects of time and the play of memory and imagination that results.
an arrangement of passageways made up of doors with glass panes with three wooden chairs sitting between them installed in a gallery space
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José Luis Torres: Temporary Territories
May 19.2023 / September 3.2023

The constructions of José Luis Torres evoke the prolonged ambiguity and estrangement inherent in experiences of immigration and exile.
A painting with abstract pink, green, and yellow shapes in the background, featuring a sleeping person with black hair and a white shirt in the bottom right hand corner
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Samuelle Grande: Out of the blue
July 14.2023 / September 3.2023

This exhibition highlights Grande’s distinct visual lexicon culled from her experiences as well as cultural sources – symbolic references that coalesce in surreal, painterly compositions.

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installation view of the exhibition 155,578 with numerous artworks installed gallery walls

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155,578

May 22.2025 August 29.2025

Curated through an open call, artists from across Guelph were invited to share their work in a collective reflection of the city’s creative landscape.
a textile depicting a group of six deer in a multicoloured landscape under a blue and white sky

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Fuzzy Thinking

May 22.2025 August 29.2025

Fuzzy Thinking explores how textiles’ softness and tactility challenge boundaries between art and craft, weaving together historical and contemporary works rooted in material and cultural complexity.
an Emily Carr painting depicting a shoreline of flowers, green grass, and carved totem poles. In the background, a large purple and red undulating geometric shape emerges from behind the land, added by the artist Sonny Assu.

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Recent Acquisitions
Contemporary Indigenous Artists at AGG

January 16.2025 May 4.2025

a black and white photo of a woman applying lip liner with a compact mirror

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Do You Remember Love

September 12.2024 December 15.2024

one person sits on top of another in embrace on a bed

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Some kind of we

September 12.2024 December 15.2024

a colourful abstract mural made up of small pieces of coloured paper layered together

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Entrelazados: Justin Favela

September 5.2024 December 29.2024

a close up of an Woodlands style painting showing a man in profile, surrounded by various rounded shapes and bright patters on a green background

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Yours in Native Spirit: Richard Bedwash

June 13.2024 August 25.2024

Explore the vivid, symbol-rich images of Anishinaabe artist Richard Bedwash that connects his work, his life, and the cultural landscapes of Guelph.
a photo of a hole in a blue surface through which a desert skyline is visible

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What Remains

May 2.2024 August 30.2024

What Remains provides windows, peering into and out from an ongoing global humanitarian crisis, assembled into a multimedia and multidisciplinary experience.
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