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Archive for ‘Openings and Talks’

Going to openings is like eating and drinking to an artist. Sometimes it’s refreshing, and sometimes it feels downright repetitive. But, no matter what, you just have to keep on going.

Call: Ensemble at Maple Ridge Art Gallery (Friday, October 28 2011)

The Maple Ridge Art Gallery invites artists and artisans from throughout the Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley to contribute work to our annual Christmas exhibition and sale, Ensemble.

Posted September 28th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 22nd, 2011 at 5:12 pm

Opening: Boisjoly, Hamilton, Piasta at Or Gallery

The dark overtones in both the subject matter and colour palette of the artworks in this exhibition are the effects of a kind of realism that is more concerned with conveying the realities of contemporary experience than with naturalistic depiction. However, the gloomy image of history these works register—one of violence and repetition with few prospects for change—never slips into pessimism. Instead, they draw their force from seeking to split the difference between affirming the possibilities of contemporary experience and calling attention to its frequently disastrous outcomes.

Posted September 28th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 22nd, 2011 at 5:08 pm

Opening: James Clark at Satellite Gallery

Satellite Gallery presents Nature, Knowledge and the Knower, an exhibition that features digital enlargements of panoramic photographs as well as an online display of a selection of artist and explorer James L. (Lippit) Clark’s archives from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

This exhibition presents three dramatic panoramas taken with Kodak Cirkut cameras in Kenya between 1920 and 1930. The enlarged photographs will provide visitors to Satellite Gallery with an immersive environment to consider how African nature was seen, understood and measured for reconstruction and representation at the Museum.

Posted September 28th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 22nd, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Opening: Bardell, Cooper, Rice-Jones at CityScape Community Art Space

This exhibition explores patterns created on hard and soft surfaces by four artists using diverse media such as fabric, canvas, clay and stoneware.
Featuring artists Enda Bardell, Jennifer Cooper, Celia Rice-Jones, Keith Rice-Jones.

Artist Talk: Saturday, November 5, 1-2pm

Posted September 27th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 22nd, 2011 at 5:12 pm

Talk: Jane Kenyon at Elliott Louis Gallery

New works by fibre artist Jane Kenyon using “thread painting” to recreate the macroscopic natural landscape through the microscopic perspective, from lichen on rocks to ethereal forests to distant fields at twilight.

Artist Talk: Saturday, October 22nd – 1:00 pm: there is no fee to attend

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted September 22nd, 2011 at 10:53 pm

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:08 am

Opening: Various Artists at Gallery Gachet

Posted September 21st, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:08 am

Talk: Kyla Mallett and others at Access Gallery

Access Gallery invites you to an artist talk for Once it is a story it remains one or fades… with Kyla Mallett, Michael Markowsky, and Lyndl Hall.

Following the talk, we will join the artists for a drink and a meal at the Irish Heather GastroPub. Please RSVP for the dinner.

Posted September 20th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:08 am

Talk: Rudolph Frieling at Western Front Gallery

Western Front Media Arts is pleased to present a talk by Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA, and video art preservation expert. Frieling will join Western Front Executive Director Caitlin Jones in conversation about how video art is preserved and historicized.

Posted September 18th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:08 am

Opening: Colette Urban at Grunt

Grunt gallery is please to present video and digital stills of works by noted, Newfoundland based artist Colette Urban. The exhibition will feature a single channel video loop, digital still, and costume from Urban’s performance video HOOT; as well as still images and costume from her project “Limited Possession”.

Posted September 18th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 22nd, 2011 at 5:18 pm

Opening: Jane Kenyon at Elliott Louis Gallery

New works, by fibre artist Jane Kenyon, using ”thread painting” to recreate the macroscopic natural landscape through the microscopic perspective, from lichen on rocks to ethereal forests to distant fields at twilight.

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted September 13th, 2011 at 10:52 pm

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:08 am

Opening: Gauvreau & Carreau at Baron Gallery and Studio

Automatist, Pierre Gauvreau was part of a circle of young artists from various discipines who gravitated around painter Paul Emile-Borduas in 1940’s Montreal. Together the Automatists revolutionized painting in restrictive Quebec of the Duplessis years. Inspired by the Surrealists, they found freedom of expression in abstraction pursued through automatism: an instinctive, unpremeditated form of creating art.

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted September 13th, 2011 at 10:03 pm

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:08 am

Opening: Ishiuchio Miyako at Museum of Anthropology

This powerfully moving exhibition features 48 photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako of clothing and personal items belonging to victims at Hiroshima.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted September 13th, 2011 at 2:38 pm

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:09 am

Opening: Psychic Plaza at Shudder Gallery

PSYCHIC PLAZA

OPENING RECEPTION OCTOBER 13th, 7-11pm, 2011
Exhibit OCTOBER 14– 29, 2011

AVERY NABATA, SIMON REDEKOP, JANICE CHEUNG, CHRIS BONI, MAKIKO YOSHII, IAN EDMONDS, ALAINNAH WHACHELL, AARON MORAN and SETAREH YASAN

Curated by Patrick Cruz

Imbued with ambiguity and poetic materiality Psychic Plaza brings together nine emerging artists that examine notions of process and the construction of an aesthetic language. The works evoke a sense of physical agency that alludes to the aesthetic means employed by utilitarian culture. Playing with notions of clairvoyance and ritualistic prophesy, Psychic Plaza speculates on the uncertain future and its relationship with the uncertainty of time and space

Posted September 13th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 22nd, 2011 at 5:11 pm

Opening: Young Song at Vanart Gallery & Studio

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted September 9th, 2011 at 3:00 pm

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:09 am

Opening: Gary Warren Hubbs at 221a

Gary Warren Hubbs is an emerging photographer and artist based in Vancouver. Hubbs holds a BFA in photography from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (2005) and has exhibited work at Artswork Studios (2005) and The Electra Building (2006) in Vancouver and at the Lobot Gallery in Oakland, California. His Practise explores industrial typologies, advertising, globalization and localization. Hubbs’ work was published in THIS IS EAST VAN (2011) and he was a finalist for the international photography competition Hey, Hot Shot! (2010). He is currently the Daily Flickr columnist for Vancouver is Awesome. Relative Value will be Hubbs’ first solo exhibition.

Posted September 7th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:09 am

Opening: Christie Lee Charles and others at UNIT/PITT Projects

To commemorate Vancouver’s 125th anniversary, emerging artists will produce commissioned works highlighting the wrong side of history, seen through the lens of the 36-year history of the Helen Pitt-Unit/Pitt-Pitt International Galleries.

Curated by Cease Wyss and Keith Higgins. The project will include commissioned works by: Christie Lee Charles, Chunhua Catherine Dong & Ek Rzepka, Patrick Cruz, Wil George, and Dustin Rivers.

Posted September 7th, 2011 at 1:00 am

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:09 am

Opening: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at Centre A

YHCHI’s C.E.O., Young-hae Chang (Korea), and C.I.O., Marc Voge (U.S.A.) are based in Seoul. They have created work in 16 languages which have been presented at major art institutions all over the world. Their work has been commissioned by the Tate, London (2006), the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2005, 2007), and the New Museum, New York (2007), and has shown at the Venice Biennial (2003), the São Paulo Biennial (2006), and the Istanbul Biennial (2007). In June 2008, YHCHI received the Grand Prix Multimédia from the Société des Gens de Lettres, Paris, and they have given lectures at Brown, Yale and Columbia Universities.

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted September 5th, 2011 at 10:37 pm

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:10 am

Opening: Luis Camnitzer at Belkin Art Gallery

Until recently, Luis Camnitzer has been an insider’s tip in the field of conceptual art. This solo exhibition features some seventy works created between 1966 and the present day, offering visitors a close look at the Uruguayan artist who may be considered one of the art world’s key figures in the second half of the 20th century.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 29th, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:10 am

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Opening: Objective Reality at the Ferry Building Gallery

Showing work of Lynn Pocklington, Alan D. Blair, Julie Rudd, Richard Alm, Melanie Cossey

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 27th, 2011 at 11:14 pm

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:10 am

Talk: Diyan Achjadi & Mary Bryson at Vancouver Art Gallery

Diyan Achjadi is a visual artist whose ongoing animation series Girl explores identity formation and socialization. Mary Bryson, a scholar on critical studies of sexuality and gender, joins Achjadi in analyzing how women are represented in Surrealist works.

Posted August 27th, 2011 at 8:59 am

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:10 am

Talk: Edward Top & Tom Cone at Vancouver Art Gallery

Composed by Edward Top with libretto by Tom Cone, Love They Neighbour is an operatic oddity, featuring four voyeurs in Jerusalem spying on their neighbour. Performed by Siri Olesen, Melanie Adams, Joel Klein and CD Saint.

Posted August 27th, 2011 at 8:58 am

Revised October 21st, 2011 at 10:10 am

Talk: Gonzalo Lebrija at Vancouver Art Gallery

Gonzalo Lebrija addresses how his works use humour and absurdity to probe ideas of power and political structures.

Posted August 24th, 2011 at 8:57 am

Revised September 7th, 2011 at 9:02 am

Opening: Stephen Hutchings at Jennifer Kostuik Gallery

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 22nd, 2011 at 2:19 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 3:34 pm

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Opening: Andrea Taylor at Grey Door Gallery

Artist in attendance

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 22nd, 2011 at 2:04 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 2:07 pm

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Talk: Lyle Wilson at Vancouver Art Gallery

Acclaimed Haisla artist Lyle Wilson and Jennifer Kramer, curator of Pacific Northwest at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, explore cognitive mapping, the Surrealists’ interest in Indigenous cultural materials and contemporary ideas on repatriation of cultural property.

Posted August 20th, 2011 at 8:56 am

Revised September 7th, 2011 at 9:01 am

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