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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.

Talk: Tom Forrestall at Elliott Louis Gallery

“Master Works” presents his prolific career beginning in the early 1960′s until today. The collection exhibits Forrestall’s signature style watercolour and egg tempera paintings.

Artist Talk: Saturday, September 17th – 1:00 pm: there is no fee to attend

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 17th, 2011 at 10:49 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 10:19 am

Talk: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at Centre A

Centre A is pleased to present The International Artists in Residence Program and Exhibitions by Internationally renowned Seoul-based duo, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. This project is co-organized with the Audain Galley at Simon Fraser University at Woodward’s. Three newly commissioned works by the artists will be presented in each gallery.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 16th, 2011 at 10:07 pm

Revised August 23rd, 2011 at 10:07 pm

Talk: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at Audain Gallery

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES are the second artists to be hosted by the Audain Gallery Visual Artist-in-Residence Program. For the co-organized exhibitions with Centre A, THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS IN ART, a total of three new, commissioned works by YHCHI will be presented.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 16th, 2011 at 9:59 pm

Revised August 23rd, 2011 at 9:59 pm

Opening: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at Audain

Following the opening at the Audain Gallery – please join us for the opening party at Centre A at 9pm

A fast-moving, text-based video artwork synchronized to a jazz score, THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS IN ART, contrasts the conflict and struggle of daily existence within the seemingly unproblematic and easy life of an artist. In the artists’ characteristically irreverent manner these issues are examined from the artists’ perspective through the use of a narrator whose musings provoke an empathetic critique from within that assumes simultaneously the roles of corroboration and critical inquiry.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 16th, 2011 at 9:57 pm

Revised August 23rd, 2011 at 9:57 pm

Opening: Raymond Boisjoly at Republic Gallery

The Writing Lesson looks to the visual component of the heavy metal subgenre of black metal as a vernacular mode of writing to illustrate place names with indigenous origins. A significant amount of black metal music seeks to recuperate pre-Christian spiritual elements in the face of the forceful encroachment of monotheistic faiths. Through a rudimentary photographic process, the light of the sun has burned the names of places such as Masset, Skidegate, Chilliwack, and Yakima into plain black construction paper with the hope more will be revealed than concealed.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 16th, 2011 at 9:02 pm

Revised September 6th, 2011 at 9:13 pm

Opening: Landon Mackenzie at Richmond Art Gallery

The exhibition brings together several large format canvases by Landon Mackenzie from two recent series called Neurocity and The Structures.

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 15th, 2011 at 10:52 pm

Revised August 22nd, 2011 at 11:29 pm

Opening: Tom Forrestall at Elliott Louis Gallery

”Master Works” presents his prolific career beginning in the early 1960’s until today. The collection exhibits Forrestall’s signature style watercolour and egg tempera paintings.

Artist Talk: Saturday, September 17 at 1:00 pm.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 15th, 2011 at 10:48 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 3:30 pm

Opening: Owen Kydd at Monte Clark Gallery

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Posted August 15th, 2011 at 2:27 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 3:36 pm

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Opening: David Wilson at Winsor Gallery

  • Date: Thursday, September 15
  • Artist: David Wilson
  • Location: Winsor Gallery
  • Address: 3025 Granville St

Wilson’s most recent paintings depict loosely rendered images of urban settings, either at night or during the transitional period of day one finds between darkness and light.

Posted August 15th, 2011 at 10:19 am

Revised August 21st, 2011 at 10:22 am

Opening: Stephen Hutchings at Jennifer Kostuik Gallery

  • Date: Thursday, September 15th
  • Artist: Stephen Hutchings
  • Medium: Charcoal and Oil on Canvas
  • Location: Jennifer Kostuik Gallery
  • Address: 1070 Homer Street

Posted August 15th, 2011 at 12:11 am

Revised August 18th, 2011 at 11:06 am

Talk: Jason Bryden at Vancouver Art Gallery

Writer, actor and comedian Jason Bryden brings you The Surrealists, a short play featuring Dali, Man Ray and Breton. Sex, desire and a good dose of humor: the Surrealists would be proud.

Posted August 13th, 2011 at 8:55 am

Revised September 7th, 2011 at 9:00 am

Opening: William Wegman at Simon Fraser University Gallery

William Wegman has been creating paintings and works on paper using found postcards since the early 1990s. The practice of altering existing images began much earlier in his career, initially altering his own discarded photographs, such as Ray Cat (1978), to create something new and singular. Wegman currently uses the cozy scenes of vintage postcards, and extends/connects/alters them, until they become something completely different, unexpected – yet familiar.

”Do/Redo” features some of Wegman’s first altered card pieces, as well as new paintings, some with cards from Canadian vacation spots. The works in the show span a period of fifteen years, and Wegman’s characteristic intersection of humor and nostalgia is present throughout.

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 10th, 2011 at 10:11 pm

Revised August 22nd, 2011 at 10:21 pm

Opening: Neufeld & Konopaki at the Burnaby Art Gallery

The Esplanade Art Gallery and the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery are pleased to present this touring exhibition of recent collaborative drawings, prints and photographs by Rhonda Neufeld and Rodney Konopaki. Since 2007, the artists have explored the act and meaning of collaborative art-making through projects which involved sharing, interfering, walking, observing, recording, reflection and dialogue. Underlying Konopaki and Neufeld’s collaboration has been a fascination with the collision of conscious aesthetic decisions and ‘chance operation’, interpreted perhaps most famously by John Cage, but reaching back to Dada and Duchamp.

Posted August 10th, 2011 at 9:52 pm

Revised August 22nd, 2011 at 9:59 pm

Opening: Kohei Yoshiyuki at Presentation House Gallery

Presentation House Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of gelatin silver prints by Kohei Yoshiyuki. The series of images on display, collectively titled The Park, were taken at night in the vicinity of Tokyo from 1971 to 1979 and capture sexual encounters between straight and gay partners, and the voyeurs who stalked them. The ghostly overexposed look of The Park results from the infrared film and filtered flash that Yoshiyuki used to disguise his presence. Indeed, a striking aspect of the images is how the photographer captured the absorption of his subjects in their illicit activities without disturbing them.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 10th, 2011 at 8:58 pm

Revised September 6th, 2011 at 9:08 pm

Opening: Larry Clark at Presentation House Gallery

Clark lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. He continues to exhibit his artwork worldwide and to produce feature-length films. His work is included in the collections of major museum collections. Recent exhibitions include: Kiss the Past Hello at Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, and Teenage Lust, New York. The prints for this exhibition are on loan from the Washington Art Consortium Collection: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman; Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane; Seattle Art Museum; Tacoma Art Museum; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham; Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham. The Tulsa film is courtesy of Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 10th, 2011 at 8:57 pm

Revised September 6th, 2011 at 9:07 pm

Opening: Peng Liu at JACANA Gallery

Peng Liu continues his exploration of the ephemeral nature of beauty. The subject of flowers of his previous exhibition is still present but much more abstract this time. Those who are familiar with the Liu’s work will recognize the rich and complex textures of his work.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 10th, 2011 at 2:18 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 3:34 pm

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Opening: Various Artists at Hunter Bisset Gallery

Through small windows we see the wide world…

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Posted August 10th, 2011 at 2:14 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 3:33 pm

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Opening: Mathew Sawyer at UNIT/PITT Projects

London-based artist Mathew Sawyer will present a series of new work in a one-month exhibition and will use the Pitt as a base camp for a one week residency in the city of Vancouver. The work produced during the residency will be published in book form in spring 2012.

This project is curated by Cate Rimmer.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 9th, 2011 at 2:56 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Opening: Arni Haraldsson at CSA Space

Since the eighties Arni Haraldsson has amassed a vast collection of found imagery gathered from various religious publications such as Awake! and Plain Truth that were made available to him while out strolling in his neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant. Haraldsson clipped the photographic images from these publications and assorted them into various categories. The resulting deconstructed forms and groupings of found images simultaneously espouse the religious and utopic pedagogical intent of their publications and the personal aspirations and hopes of the local Mt. Pleasant followers who distributed them. Taken as such, Awake in Mt. Pleasant can be seen as an unorthodox portrait of the artist’s neighbourhood.

Posted August 9th, 2011 at 9:09 am

Revised September 9th, 2011 at 10:02 am

Opening: Graham, Weiner, and Baxter at Artspeak

An Exhibition in Three Parts

1) Dan Graham (September 10 – October 1)

2) Lawrence Weiner/Ian Wilson (October 5 – 22)

3) Iain Baxter& (October 26 – November 12)

Posted August 9th, 2011 at 9:03 am

Revised September 9th, 2011 at 10:01 am

Opening: Art Rental Show at CityScape

Visit CityScape Community Art Space for the semi-annual salon-style exhibition of the Art Rental collection. The Art Rental Show features more than 300 pieces of original artwork created by local artists. 100 pieces have just been added to the collection!

This is a unique opportunity to enjoy original art in your home or office. Art Rental is a convenient and affordable way to enhance any space. Artworks rent for as little as $10 to $40 a month. Works are varied in subject and style; created in watercolour, acrylic, oil, pastel, photography and mixed media – something for everyone.

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 8th, 2011 at 10:19 pm

Revised August 22nd, 2011 at 10:19 pm

Opening: Neil Beloufa at Western Front Gallery

Western Front has commissioned a new moving image work by the Paris based artist Neïl Beloufa for his autumn solo exhibition. Shot in Vancouver over the summer, this new video work will be embedded throughout a gallery installation that relies on the assemblage of readily available and found materials. These maximal installations have quickly become the artist’s style, where a strong fragmentation of the gallery space occurs in order to provide several discrete environments for projection.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 8th, 2011 at 3:03 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 3:41 pm

Opening: Paddy McCann at Petley Jones Gallery

Petley Jones Gallery is proud to present the North American debut of Irish artist Paddy McCann.

Born in Cladai, Co. Armagh, North Ireland, this Belfast-based painter has exhibited extensively across Europe since the early 1990s.

Focusing predominantly on figure, windows, bridges, and notions of landscape and cityscapes, Vertical Bridge allows the viewer to not only explore the abstractions of the artist’s mind but embark on a journey of their own.

The opening of the exhibition will also feature a special talk by Paddy McCann at 6:45pm.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 8th, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Revised August 24th, 2011 at 3:39 pm

Talk: Clint Burnham & Andrew Feldmar at Vancouver Art Gallery

Clint Burnham, writer of poetry, fiction and critical theory, and Andrew Feldmár, internationally renowned psychotherapist, elucidate psychoanalytic theories of Freud and how they have fed the inspiration and interest of the Surrealists.

Contributed by Mike Gobbi

Posted August 8th, 2011 at 8:12 am

Revised September 7th, 2011 at 8:52 am

Opening: The Game at Seymour Art Gallery

The Game: Another take on the Exquisite Corpse a gathering of works made by textile and surface design artists who have exhilarated in happenstance and the imaginary, taking the Surrealist game ”Exquisite Corpse” to new levels.

Posted by Mike Gobbi

Posted July 30th, 2011 at 11:22 pm

Revised August 22nd, 2011 at 11:25 pm

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