Andy Dixon- Pleasure Studies at the Back Gallery Project

Please join us on September 13th, 2013 for a solo exhibit of Andy Dixon's new works at the Back Gallery Project for a reception with the artist. 

6 to 9 pm 

602 E Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C.

Sydney Koke and Alex Heilbron at Negative Positive Gallery, Vancover,BC

Nouveau Baroque at Gallery Fukai

Nouveau Baroque: ceramic, painting, sculpture, video G A L L E R Y   F U K A I 

May 10 - June 1, 2013

 

602 East Hastings Street @ Princess

-----opening reception: Friday May 10,  8 - 11 pm

Barry Doupe received his BFA (2004) from Emily Carr University in media arts. His animation videos have been screened at festivals and museums around the world including Tate Modern; Centre Pompidou, Paris; New Museum, New York; Drawing Room Gallery, London, UK; 2011 Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah UAE; VIVO, Vancouver, MOCA, Toronto; Whitechapel Gallery London; and Quinary Art Projects, Vancouver. 

James Kemp won the Circle Craft Award in 2012 when he received his BFA from Emily Carr University. He just finished his residency at the Port Moody Arts Centre. Exhibitions includes a solo exhibition at Port Moody Arts Centre, Leo Koo Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery and Ceramics Sculpture 2012 @ Quinary Art Projects. He is also the artist assistant to Liz Magor

Sean Mills received his BFA from Emily Carr University (2010) and has exhibited at Surrey Art Gallery, YACTAC, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Cityscape Community Art Space in North Vancouver and currently has a solo show at the Emily Carr Alumni Gallery in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Office Supplies Incorporated is the street name of Vancouver artist Joseph Grier who participated in WE:Vancouver - 12 Manifestos for the City at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2011 and Cut and Paste, the collage show at Equinox Gallery.

Marc Paris is in his final year at Emily Carr University and has exhibited locally at Quinary Art Projects and Mail Art Gallery. 

Anthony Sonnenberg is a Seattle-based artist who received his MFA (3D4M) from the University of Washington (2012) and has exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery and 2011 Texas Biennale. He was awarded a Pilchuck Emerging Artists' Residency in 2012.

Wesley Yuen is a Vancouver-based art collector who has founded several galleries locally: Project Gallery; Lobby & Space Gallery @ the Dominion Hotel in Gastown; and Quinary Art Projects which presents popup art exhibitions and private art advisory. He was a co-chair with the Canadian Art Foundation's Vancouver Gallery Hop (2005-2007); and was invited to be a member of the acquisition committee @ Vancouver Art Gallery (2004-2008); and President of Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver (2001-2003). 

 

 

Gallery hours: Saturday May 18 & June 1, 2-4pm or by appointment

Sascha Yamashita

Artist. DJ. Gallery FUKAI (and formally Atsui) Owner, Founder & Director.

M: 604.562.5088 

Wesley Yuen: wxyzoo@hotmail.com

Gallery Hop Vancouver 2013

http://iso.canadianart.ca/microsites/vancouverhop/

Skai Fowler at Studio 13 Fine Art

Andrea Büt­tner, Joëlle de la Casinière & Gareth Moore at Catri­ona Jef­fries gallery

Andrea Büt­tner, Joëlle de la Casinière & Gareth Moore group show

Opening reception : Thursday April 25 @ 7 pm 

Catriona Jeffries Gallery

274 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC

( alley entrance: up the stairs )

Website: http://catrionajeffries.com/exhibitions/current/

Matthew Brown at WAAP: Wil Aballe Art Projects

Matthew Brown 

Sargasso Space

Opening Reception : Thurs. April 4 @ 7 pm

#528 - 2050 Scotia Street @ East 4th Avenue
Buzz 189
Vancouver BC

Website :  http://www.waapart.com/

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at Macaulay Fine Arts

INDIAN WORLD

By

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
APRIL 5 – MAY 4, 2013
Opening:  Thursday April 4 @ 7 pm

Macaulay Fine Art is pleased to present Indian World, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. New abstract and allegorical paintings explore the duality of primitivism in its essence, and Native politics in proximity to colonialism.

Central in the exhibition is “Indian World, My Home and Native Land.” Monumental in scale, Yuxweluptun uses a powerfully energetic palette to depict a melancholy Canadian landscape that speaks to the ongoing dialogue regarding the land rights of First Nations people in Canada. The surreal scene is composed using Coast Salish vernacular, transforming “wilderness” into Native culture.

Yuxweluptun’s abstract paintings, or Ovoidism, possess not only the contemplative ambiguity of colour field painting, but also the detached clarity of vision of hard edge painting. Familiar ideas about modernist painting as purely autonomous are defied, however, by Yuxweluptun’s use of the ‘ovoid’. A central form in Northwest Coast design, the ‘ovoid’ is not free from objective context. These subtle tensions make for a thoughtful and powerful take on the affinities between primitivism and modernism.

Gallery's website: http://mfineart.ca/

293 EAST 2ND AVE
VANCOUVER, BC

Terry Haines at VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver, BC

March  14-28, 2013

 TERRY HAINES is a multi-disciplinary artist of Secwepemc/Welsh- Tsilhqot’n/French ancestry. His practice, rooted in storytelling, addresses social and cultural issues impacting First Nations as well as our treatment of the environment. His short videos and installations have been exhibited and screened across Canada, the USA, Scotland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Germany and Mexico. Haines was a featured artist in Entzaubert Film Festival (Berlin 2010), Dreamspeakers International Aboriginal Film and Television Festival (Edmonton 2008), MIX Film Festival (New York 2007) and ART STAR 3 - Video Art Biennial (Ottawa 2007).

COYOTE X is a four wall video projection installation that evokes issues of land ownership and cultural survival through the presence of Coyote, who acts as metaphor and messenger.

March  14-2, 2013

VIVO Media Arts Centre

1965 Main St, Vancouver

Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 12-5.30 pm

 Opening reception:  Thurs. Mar. 14 @ 8 pm 

Paul Housely, Tim Gardner,Mari Eastman, Jeff Wall, Karl Funk and Attila Richard Lukcas

London Uk based artist PAUL HOUSELY 

presents new paintings

At Monte Clark Gallery's new location 

Opening artist reception: Thursday Feb 21, 6- 8pm

#105, 525 Great Northern Way (next to Equinox Gallery)

Vancouver, BC

 

 

Project Room: new works by Tim Gardner, Mari Eastman,  Jeff Wall & Karl Funk

Macaulay & Co. Fine Art

293 East 2nd Avenue

Vancouver BC

Opening reception Thursday Feb 21. 6- 8pm

Gallery Artists Group Show: Neil CAMPBELL.ShAWN HUNT.BRIAN KOKOSKA. MONIQUE MOUTON. JEREMY SHAW. MARK SOO. LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN

 

 

 

Attila Richard Lukcas

 Closing reception: Thursday Feb 21 . 6- 9 pm

 Winsor Gallery

258 East 1st Avenue

Vancouver BC

Alex Heilbron, Jenny G, and Marie Horstead at Gallery Fukai

Gallery FUKAI is pleased to announce ALL THE ROTTEN EGGS IN ONE BASKET. Join us on Friday February 1st from 8:00 pm onwards for the opening reception. Artists will be in attendance.

New work by Alex Heilbron, Jenny G, and Marie Horstead, on view from February 1st until March 02, 2013. All three artists share a similar approach to producing work by trial and error with an earnest enthusiasm for material and colour. By breaking free from the confines of their own private space, the paintings, drawings, and fibre works are brought together like an unfolding of messages in several bottles. All coming from different points of origin yet if by chance finding their way to the same destination.

Gallery Fukai is located at 602 East Hastings Street at Princess, Vancouver. Scheduled walk-in days are Saturday February 9th and 23rd from 1:00-4:00pm, and Saturday February 2nd, 16th & March 2nd from 12:00-6:00pm. Also open by appointment - please contact: galleryfukai@gmail.com

Jeremy Shaw at Sarah Macaulay & Co. Fine Art

JEREMY SHAW
TRANSCENDENTAL CAPACITY
OPENING Thursday JANUARY 17, 6 - 9PM
JANUARY 17 – FEBRUARY 28, 2013
 
In keeping with his ongoing investigations into the mapping of altered states, Transcendental Capacity brings together a selection of Jeremy Shaw’s recent photographic and video works.
Using a Kirlian camera – an out-moded 1960’s scientific-cum-mystic device which electrocutes an object in order to capture an image of it’s magnetic field, or ‘aura’ – Shaw has recorded a series of experiments as the basis for testing the profound effects of music. While listening to various songs from pop history that are thought to have ‘transcendent’ qualities (through headphones, in the dark), the artist photographs his index finger (by placing it directly on Polaroid film on the camera’s copper plate surface and receiving a shock) in order to monitor their visual effect, if any, on his aura.

Jeremy Shaw’s work has recently been on view at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (solo); MOCCA, Toronto (solo); KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (group); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (group). Upcoming exhibitions include Autocenter, Berlin (solo); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (solo); Mass MOCA, Massachussetts (group); GAK, Bremen (group).

Sarah Macaulay & Co. Fine Art  293 EAST 2nd AVENUE @ Scotia, VANCOUVER, BC

Sean Weisgerber at Wil Abelle Art Projects Gallery

SEAN WEISGERBER: AFTER I SHED MY SKIN JANUARY 17, 2013 -  MARCH 9, 2013 Opening: Thursday, January 17, 7 – 9 PM.  The artist will be in attendance Wil Aballe Art Projects is proud to present a solo exhibition of current work by Saskatoon-based artist Sean Weisgerber. Since graduating from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2009, Weisgerber has produced a body of work in which specific modalities of abstract painting have articulated a singular fascination with the relationship between colour, form, material and perception. Typically, his paintings have been defined by opaque colours bounded by hard edges – an uncanny painterly dialect wherein human touch is modulated by a sense of the mechanical. This exhibition sees Weisgerber’s works move away from precision execution, and the subject matter of abstraction and perception, with the mechanical appearing less in the character of the objects presented than in the process of their making. Here, we see stalactites of latex paint, frozen in mid-drip, and suspended from the weave of stretched burlap and wool. Antiseptic chains supporting these objects insinuate their origin in a mechanical process – the repeated immersion of a surface in paint, leading to the development of factures exaggerated, and drawn into grotesque realms. In other works, the fractalization of colour that once appeared on the surface of canvas now appears in a radiating eruption on the gallerist’s living room wall. And while this storm of pigment does not capitulate to the bounds of hard-edged shapes, its chromatic beauty nevertheless does its work within geometric architectural boundaries. Text by Mitch Speed.

Wil Aballe Art Projects, Gallery + Editions 
528 - 2050 Scotia Street @ East 5th Avenue, Vancouver BC 
Buzzer 189
www.waapart.com

Adrian Stimson at Grunt Gallery

Holding Our Breath by Adrian Stimson, is a large-scale installation based on the artist's first-hand experiences and observations at a military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The work is informed by conversations Stimson had with soldiers, some of whom were First Nations, and his impression of daily life at the military base situated in the vast Middle Eastern landscape.

"...This exhibition brings together drawings, photographs, video and sculptural installations that explore the ambiguities of war by linking personal history with wider cultural and political issues. Although this work reflects on the complex situation in Afghanistan, Stimson deflects the focus away from the truncated newsreel moments to daily life affirming moments." - excerpt from, "Holding Our Breath: The Work of Adrian Stimson" by Elizabeth Matheson.

The work includes Stimson's own personal perspective on serving in the military as well as his family's history serving in the Canadian military as soldiers and historically as Blackfoot warriors. These experiences, in addition to Stimson's time spent in Kandahar, allow the artist to approach these topics from a perspective that questions the essence of conflict and how this relates to personal, cultural, and military identity.

Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in southern Alberta. His work includes installation, painting, performance, video, and photography. His performances at the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, have seen the creation of "Buffalo Boy" as well as the "Shaman Exterminator", who seeks to explore the myths, falsehoods and realities of Shamanic being. He lives and works in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

http://adrianstimson.com


Opening: Friday, January 4, 2013, 7-10 pm 
Exhibition Dates: Fri., 4 January 2013 - Sat., 16 February 2013


Grunt Gallery
#116 – 350 East 2nd Ave
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V5T 4R8
www.grunt.ca

Gary Aylward & David Pirrie at Ian Tan Gallery

We are honoured to introduce the esteemed works by Gary Aylward and David Pirrie. New works by both artists are featured in our current Winter Exhibition, Dec. 1st - 23rd. 

 

Opening Reception: Saturday, Dec 15th: 2-4pm

 

Ian Tan Gallery 

2201 Granville St., Vancouver, BC

Ph. 604-738-1077

Robert Chaplin at Smash Gallery of Modern Art

Size Matters !
come launch the large print edition of of the world smallest book*
"TEENY TED FROM TURNiP TOWN"

 -SMASH Gallery of Modern Art is tickled to welcome  

ROBERT CHAPLiN into the gallery as we proudly help him to launch his latest book.
Witness the miracle of creation ! This Christmas! Feast your eyes and celebrate, TEENY TED FROM TURNiP TOWN arrives into the big sized world !
Now available, the worlds smallest book in large print, dispense with the scanning electron microscope and save 1.5 million dollars !

If you don't know Robert Chaplin personally, there's a good chance you've heard of him over the last few months. Chaplin is the creative mastermind behind the Guinness Book of Records World's Smallest book, TEENY TED FROM TURNIP TOWN and a few months ago he took to Kickstarter to make his dream of creating a large print edition of the world’s smallest book.  Well...it worked and now, just in time for Christmas,
"TEENY TED FROM TURNiP TOWN" is OUT and we are gonna Party!

Originally carved into a microchip and requiring Simon Fraser University’s scanning electrograph microscope to read it, “TEENY TED” was truly once so teeny-tiny, the entire book was no bigger than a strand of the hair on your head.  
Creative? YES. Practical. No F’ing way.

After Rob's wildly successful kickstater campaign to rise the dough to make The Guinness Book of World records smallest book into a large print edition, we invite you to join on Tuesday, December 11th from 6-10PM for the launch of TEENY TED FROM TURNiP TOWN @ SMASH Gallery of Modern Art. 

Robert Chaplin will be at the Gallery to sign his latest book, along with the others from his collection including DELiCiOUS CHiCKEN SOUP, TeN CoUNTiNG CaT, The elephant Book and BRUSSELS SPROUTS & UNiCORNS.

 

 Tuesday, December 11th,  6 - 10PMSmash Gallery of Modern Art:  580 Clark Drive, Vancouver BC

Brendan Fernandes at Western Front Media Arts

Western Front Media Arts is pleased to present
"The Working Move", a new work by Brendan Fernandes
on Wednesday December 5, 2012
http://front.bc.ca/events/the-working-move/

Amy Mukai at Trench Contemporary Art

Amy Mukai: “The Alchemy of Practice”
November 29th thru to December 22nd, 2012

Trench Contemporary Art, 148 Alexander Street in Gastown, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 29th, 6pm to 9pm
Amy Mukai completed a diploma in painting from the Vancouver School of Art in 1976. Entering the studio at that time, Mukai began her decade’s long practice or devotion as some might call it to painting and drawing and all the while raising her family, earning a biology degree and dedicating seven years to bee and pollination research at SFU.

During that time she made no real fuss for exhibition, connecting, networking or strategizing she simply drew and painted; exploring, adjusting, allowing, playing, waiting, watching, contemplating, making and unmaking. The result of her practice or “devotion” is a body of work that reflects the patient, quiet energy of someone willing to be lead toward accomplishment through practice rather than forcing it through ambition.

Mukai's sensitive yet complex geometric drawings and paintings document the artists patient pursuit of "understanding” a medium and reveal that mediums potential to embody the sublime through its capacity for beauty. 

This exhibition, ‘The Alchemy of Practice’ brings together a collection of drawings and paintings completed over the past 30 years.

All of Amy Mukai’s drawings and paintings are ink, oil or acrylic gouache on paper in a variety of sizes.

For more information and print sized images, contact Craig Sibley at 604-681-2577 or by email: info@trenchgallery.com.

Mungo Thomson at The Apartment Gallery, Vancouver BC

Mungo Thomson
11/24/12 – 06/01/13   

The Apartment is thrilled to present an exhibition by 
Los Angeles artist Mungo Thomson. Known for his use of vernacular culture within refined conceptual frameworks, and for collapsing the social and the phenomenological in his work, Thomson will present a new 35mm slide projection work entitled ‘The Trail’, 2012, and a sculpture edition for his second project and first exhibition with The Apartment.

In ‘The Trail’, Thomson deploys found images as a lens for a quotidian notion of the sublime–specifically the natural and cultural sublime of Northern California between 1969 and 1984, the years these photos were taken, and, coincidentally, the years Thomson was growing up there. The images include storm clouds over the Sierras, rainbows over treelines, hikers on mountain paths and swimmers in lakes and waterfalls, children and animals, auto racing and a Rolling Stones concert at Candlestick Park–all viewed through the lens of a single camera. While Thomson recognizes these locales and tropes, they are not his photographs. Thomson frames this sequence of images as a social landscape–a set of instances of amateur feeling that lay behind and around the more formalized realizations of time and place that were happening in the Light and Space and Land Art of the same period.

Thomson will exhibit ‘The Trail’ in dialogue with a six-pack of bottles from his 2001 project, Royal Leerdam Beer Bottle Candle Holders. Thomson worked with the glass artisans at Royal Leerdam near Rotterdam, The Netherlands, a renowned factory that produces both rare crystal objects and glass beer bottles by the thousand, to produce an edition of mouth-blown lead-crystal Heineken bottles which he utilizes as candle holders.

Mungo Thomson has had solo shows and projects at the Aspen Art Museum (2012); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2008); the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2007); and Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy (2006). He participated in the Istanbul Biennial (2011), the Whitney Biennial (2008), and the Performa Biennial of Visual Art Performance (2005). 
He will present a major exhibition of his work, TIME, Money, People, Crickets in 2013 at Site Sante Fe.
 
Mungo Thomson
11/24/12 – 06/01/13
opening reception Fri Nov 23, 8pm
Friday – Sunday, 1-5pm
119b E Pender St, Vancouver BC  info@thapt.ca

Michael Morris at The Marion Scott Gallery

MICHAEL MORRIS: BACK TO THE PROBLEM OF NOTHING

Kardosh Projects, in association with the Marion Scott Gallery, is very pleased to

announce Michael Morris: Back to the Problem of Nothing. On view from November 22 until January 12, 2013 the exhibition will be Morris’ first one-man show in a commercial Vancouver gallery in more than 30 years. Comprising both historic and newer images, Michael Morris: Back to the Problem of Nothing will feature works produced in a variety of media, including prints, drawings, and sculptures. At the centre of the exhibition will be City Deluxe, a newly produced suite of large format etchings based on 10 iconic drawings originally composed by Morris in the late 1960s. 

-opening artist reception Thursday November 22, from 7 - 9 pm.
 
Kardosh Projects in association with Marion Scott Gallery, 2423 Granville Street, Vancouver BC