Marcel Dzama captures the glory of the Prairies in Ghosts of Canoe Lake at Contemporary Calgary

France has its water lillies. Holland has sunflower seeds. LA. has its David Hockney-infused swimming pools swelling with magic hour alienation. Now, Western Canada has Ghosts of Canoe Lake. That’s the name of the new exhibition of work by New York-by-way-of-Winnipeg artist Marcel Dzama, which opened Thursday night at Contemporary Calgary and runs through late October. Dzama’s idiosyncratic Prairie-infused landscapes will be on display in the new exhibition, which references the impa