Calgary artist gets some closure years after art heist – Calgary [Video]

A Calgary artist recently received a bit of closure years after several of her own art pieces were stolen during an elaborate heist.

On Saturday night, Michelle Kruger held a long-awaited art exhibit for nearly 200 people, showing off a half dozen paintings the public has never seen.

She called the exhibit “The Heist,” and displayed the paintings as if they were part of a crime scene.

“This situation was sort of very easy for me to express the fact that, no, this isn’t going to beat us. We’re going to rise again, and art always wins,” she said.

Eleven of Kruger’s paintings were stolen along with dozens of other pieces in May 2018 during an art heist at the now closed Gerry Thomas Gallery just days before a planned exhibit.

All her paintings at Saturday’s exhibit still had evidence stickers on them from the police investigation as well as some of the visible damage …