TalesO'Cal'gryLogo.jpg — **Tales O’ Calg’ry & S’roundin’ Reejuns** November, 2020

**Artist Statement:** I live and create near the confluence of the Elbow & Bow Rivers in the Calgary community of Ramsay. I’ve been running Egg Press Co., a graphic and sound design establishment, since 1976. When the press began, the goal was to supply inexpensive printing and graphic design for the burgeoning Calgary arts scene of the ‘70s and ‘80s. The posters displayed as part of this exhibition are some personal favourites from those times.
Since then, the Press has morphed from analogue to digital and I have continued to be involved with the Calgary arts scene; creating graphic designs, theatre sound designs, and peforming as a musician.
For the past six years I have been creating large format artworks based on my past, some of Calgary’s alternative history, and the creative colleagues I have befriended over many years of cultural barnstorming.

Recent works by Peter Moller at cSPACE, November 2 – November 30, 2020. Includes the series Tales O’ Calg’ry & S’roundin’ Reejuns plus the series How I Spent My Pandemic Break. Also on display are select pieces from Moller’s Cultural Portraits series including related vintage posters from Egg Press Co.

cSPACE King Edward, Level 1 • 1721 29th Avenue SW, Calgary, AB T2T 6T7 • Open Monday-Friday from 8am to 8 pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, closed Sunday

THE ARTWORKS

Ramsay

Self portrait with Osprey.

Cal Bombs Calg'ry

Cal Cavendish recalled having, “… developed a burr under my saddle.” Friday, April 11, 1975 found Cal (singer/songwriter, security guard, un-licensed pilot) in flight over downtown Calgary dumping a large bag of cow manure and his vinyl records toward the unsuspecting streets below. Later that day, in the dark, after landing near the Old Dutch potato Chip factory outside city limits, Cavendish was arrested. Then, he didn’t fly much.

Richard At Henry's

Richard McDowell outside his club 10 Foot Henry’s. Henry’s was the alternative hotspot during the downturn years of the early ‘80s. McDowell was sparked to start Henry’s after an inspired visit to the Student’s Club in Copenhagen. Within days of his reurn he snapped up the lease to the former Funk Plaza Disco and presto!

10 Foot Henry’s, Sep. 17, 1982 – Nov. 2, 1985.

Chris Burden Sets A Fire

Chris Burden setting a bale of straw alight in one of the possibly too frequent stairwells of the parking lot attached to the Alberta College of Art, 1976. Part of his performance art piece entitled “Do You Believe In Television?” Upon completion he fled the country, fleeing possible arrest.

Sluggin' The Mayor

An inebriated, highly agitated Ken Walker, Festival Express promoter, in Calgary one day, slugs Mayor Rod Sykes after exchanging insults in a heated disagreement over festival admission a few hours before the Festival ended its second and final day, July 6, 1970. Sykes had referred to Walker as “Eastern scum”. Walker later boasted he still carried a scar on his hand as proof of the punch.

Florence & Emilio

Frozen in a moment, Florence ‘Filumena’ Lassandro and Emilio Picariello, confront Constable Stephen Lawson, September 21, 1922. The pair were sentenced to death by hanging for Lawson’s murder. Upon arrest Lassandro said, “I have nothing to be afraid of. He is dead and I am alive. That’s all that matters.” She is the only woman to have been hung in Alberta’s history.

Geraldine Moodie's Eye

Geraldine Moodie’s eye observing Kingnuck of the Kinepoo Tribe prior to taking his photograph, Fullerton Harbour, Nunavut, February 5, 1905. Then she blinked.