Gallery Exhibition Schedule
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| Heidi Nagtegaal & Kristi Malakoff - Guise February 5 - March 22 | |
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Each artist creates idiosyncratic delineations between what is visible and what is hidden and considers the possibilities of potential or imagined lives and experiences. Nagtegaal knits a rainbow of facial hairpieces, exploring alternate identities. |
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| Breanna Maag - Observation of Wonder April 2 - May 17 | |
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The works in Observation of Wonder a two-part installation, investigate scientific theories, naming, and classification to view the formal aspects of daily existence and the poetics of nature’s diversity. Maag constructs an octagonal dome or “conservatory” of fabric doilies along with a collection of cyanotype prints documenting different doilies as ‘scientific’ specimens and arranged in taxonomic rank. |
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| Diyan Achjadi - The Further Adventures of Girl May 28 - July 12 | |
| This body of work addresses the complexity of negotiating the current socio-political climate through the simplistic visual language of children’s media. Achjadi’s print series portray a single character, "The Girl" , as she navigates dangerous dystopic landscapes informed by news events and popular culture images in cartoon-like visual narratives. |
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| Barbara Zeigler - Hidden Sites May 28 - July 12 | |
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Hidden Sites links two provincial sites that are significant yet hidden to most British Columbians, Cache Creek and the Broughton Archipelago. |
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| Jay Bundy Johnson - (Mary's Room) Conditions for Qualia July 23 - September 6 | |
| Johnson’s audio-kinetic sculptures and interactive installations are ‘machines’ without external purpose, serving to amuse the viewer and to satisfy the artist’s compulsion to create. The artist begs for a return to a tradition of compulsion, where artistic practice is driven by the creative impulse as opposed to the consideration of artistic trends or commodification. Utilizing found materials in the development of his sculptures, Johnson fuses engineering and art as a critique of over-consumption while delighting in humour and spontaneity. |
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Project Rainbow | |
| Curated by Kathy Slade this group of Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artists collaborate to explore the study of colour through photography, film, video, and movement. The Ruby Glass, a study of the colour red, takes its name from Werner Herzog’s 1976 film, Herz aus Glas in which Herzog claimed to have hypnotized his actors in the filming of a pastoral village’s obsession with red glass. Motivated by the manner in which Herzog’s film set-off a space of interrogation of movement that ranged from repressed or involuntary gestures to gestures of agency or control, Project Rainbow has produced a series of new works, conceptually organised as workshops, that take the form of performance art, video, film, dance, an photography. |
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| Elizabeth Russell - Migration/ Immigrant Stories September 17 - November 1 | |
| Migration/ Immigrant Stories is a research project involving the gathering of stories of new and settled Richmond immigrants. Vancouver Island-based Russell will explore the first encounter and challenges of new Canadian beginnings. The creativity that often comes from having nothing and beginning again will be the focus of her drawings and paintings derived from a selection of narratives based on her research and discussion with new immigrants. |
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| Colleen Brown, Paul Kajander and Kara Uzelman - Black Hole is also Supernova September 17 - November 1 | |
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This exhibition will feature the work of Colleen Brown, |
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| Wanda Koop - FACE TO FACE November 19, 2009 to January 10, 2010 | |
| Curated by Deborah Koenker, this exhibition presents Koop’s highly inventive process, starting with China and landscapes and moving into transformative portraits, masks and robotics: landscape/figure, figure in landscape, landscape in figure, figure/machine. This exhibition covers a range of work and themes developed over a period of nearly 25 years. As Koop sums up her recent work, it’s “all the things I’m thinking about”. |
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Exhibition Schedule for 2010 | |
| Arthur Renwick - Mask January 28 - April 4, 2010 | |
| The Gallery presents an exhibition of photographic work by First Nations artist, Arthur Renwick. Renwick grew up between the two worlds of Kitimat, the Alcan workers’ town, and Kitimaat, the Haisla Reserve. Mask is a series of 16 larger-than-life sized portraits of First Nations artists from various disciplines. In developing this series Renwick spoke at length with each artist about the complex relationship between representation and First Nations people. The results are portraits of people “pulling faces” as they look back through the lens in response to that history. |
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