CHROMA

Christine Klassen Gallery is pleased to present CHROMA, our annual summer exhibition exploring colour as a force for curiosity, connection, and reinvention. This year’s exhibition brings together new work by Carl White, Steve Speer, Bryce Krynski, and others, alongside Chrissy Nickerson’s new Bridges series and the gallery debut of Philip Kanwischer. Rather than offering colour as simple brightness, CHROMA considers it as a way of reimagining the familiar. Across portraiture, photography, landscape, architecture, and abstraction, the artists in this exhibition transform what we think we know into something more open, layered, and alive. Chrissy Nickerson’s Bridges turn Canmore, Banff, and Calgary’s bridge structures into vivid studies of passage, connection, and time. Carl White’s new portraits blend historical elegance with bold contemporary interventions, collapsing past and present into something theatrical, strange, and electric. This summer also marks the debut of two exceptional artists joining the CKG roster. Photographer Philip Kanwischer explores the shifting relationship between humans and the natural world. His carefully constructed images blur the boundary between observation and intervention, inviting viewers to reconsider ideas of wilderness, coexistence, and belonging. Métis artist Tayler Schenkeveld creates luminous paintings rooted in identity, place, and cultural reconnection. Drawing upon Indigenous teachings and her relationship to the prairie landscape, her work speaks to memory, resilience, and the enduring connections between people and land. Together, CHROMA and "Introducing" celebrate artists who challenge the familiar, offering fresh perspectives through colour, imagination, and thoughtful observation.