Gailan Ngan: What Goes Around Comes Around

The seemly interchangeable right and wrong in the phrase, in the wrong place at the wrong time, or the right place at the right time, offers several ways to consider the role location has in fate. Regardless of interpretation, assigning value seems irrelevant; it is more interesting to be in a place for something to cross your path, recognize the significance of this, and alter the course of your movement through this world because of the encounter.

Mediation repeatedly emerges as a tactic through which artists disrupt art making practices – not only from a perspective of art history, but also through the reformulation of the artist-object-viewer relationship. Though the idea of “disruption” tends to conjure up visions of chaos and destruction, the mediations and interventions taking place in Splitting circle are …

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In this live online event hosted by Chief Curator Sequoia Miller, Vancouver-based artist Gailan Ngan will discuss three of her artworks in connection to the theme “Materiality.” Ngan’s ceramic sculptures accumulate layers of fused surfaces into compositions of texture and colour. Read more

Hardware Applied Services is thrilled to present the works of Gailan Ngan and Peter Scherrer, two artists whose practices explore the sublime mysteries of the natural world. Immersed in the artists’ deep connection to the environment, these works dive into organic and process based subversions of their mediums. Simultaneously Cider Gallery, our project at Bellingham …

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The act of forming objects out of clay and permanently fixing them with fire is one of the most ancient cultural practices. Going back thousands of years, ceramics have been integral to the progress of human development. Within the history of Western art, ceramics have been considered a decorative or applied art and have generally …

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Two of our most gifted ceramic sculptors are exhibiting new work concurrently, Gailan Ngan at Monte Clark Gallery and Brendan Lee Satish Tang at Gallery Jones. Both artists bring a wealth of ideas, insights, and technical knowledge to their practices, and although their art differs widely, both create work with a strong visual and intellectual …

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