According to an exhibiting artist at the Nanaimo Art Gallery, abstract art is a lot like literature. The name of the group show, Sun Over Swamp, is taken from the title of a 1964 painting by Takao Tanabe – which is displayed at the gallery along with additional works by the artist. The original painting …
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Canadian photographer Greg Girard is paying homage to his beloved Hong Kong in May with a one-day live event comprising a photography exhibition that also includes a performance by an experimental post-punk band with a loyal following in the city. “Greg Girard: Hong Kong Made Me,” which takes place on May 11 at the M+ museum …
From 2017 to 2022, Girard documented snack bars across Japan. These tiny bars are places where regulars can hang out, maybe sing some karaoke and have a few drinks. Food is served, he notes, but it may be as simple as some peanuts. Greg Girard: Snack Sakura is on view April 20 to May 18 at …
Greg Girard`s American Stopover book has arrived at the Monte Clark bookstore Read More »
From 2017 to 2022, Girard documented snack bars across Japan. These tiny bars are places where regulars can hang out, maybe sing some karaoke and have a few drinks. Food is served, he notes, but it may be as simple as some peanuts. Greg Girard: Snack Sakura is on view April 20 to May 18 at …
Greg Girard explores the personalities and history behind popular Japanese hangouts Read More »
HiLo presents Snack Sakura, a short film following Canadian photographer Greg Girard as he journeys across Japan, searching for a place he once knew. We join him from town to town, bar to bar, as he moves across the country, reflecting on memory, life between cultures, and what it means to make a picture. Director: …
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Monte Clark presents “Snack Sakura”, a selection of new pictures by Greg Girard, taken in Japan between 2017 and 2023. The exhibition coincides with the release of a publication of the same title, presenting the full series. Girard’s expansive photographic project documents snack bars across Japan from Okinawa to Hokkaido. Read more
A contemporary master in a variety of media, Anthony Goicolea made a name for himself as a young artist working with staged photography and film in the early 2000s and then expanded his practice to drawing, sculpture, and painting in the following years. The poetic, water-themed paintings in his solo presentation for the gallery’s two-person …
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Kim Dorland, Stan Douglas, Tim Gardner, Cameron Kerr, Krystle Silverfox, Ian Wallace, Jin-Me Yoon and Karen Zalamea Curated by Jackie Wong April 12 – June 22, 2024 Prevailing Landscapes addresses the ways in which the Canadian landscape prevails in contemporary conceptual artistic practices and how the narrative or predominant theme of the work is affected …
Greg Girard recalls his younger days Asia-bound on America’s west coast – the subject of his latest photobook In the 1970s and early 1980s every trip to Asia started in California. Whether flying, or travelling by Greyhound down the coast from Canada, the journey only truly began once you arrived in San Francisco or Los …
American Stopover: My memories of hitting the road alone as a teenager in the 1970s Read More »