Tim Gardner is a master of juxtaposition. Take his 2012 pastel-on-paper work Nick and Tobi on Ferry. It’s a meticulously detailed portrait done in a classical style, the kind you might find hanging in a great hall (or, yes, in an art gallery). Except the men are dressed in baseball caps and sweatshirts, they are …
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WAG exhibition Tim Gardner: The Full Story featured in Galleries West news article. Tim Gardner made his name in the early 2000s with paintings of young middle-class white guys, in backyards, in hotel rooms, sometimes on spring break. They drink, they eat junk food, they stuff beer cans down their pants, they run naked, they goof …
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Tim Gardner: The Full Story will survey the career of a noted artist with a penchant for capturing rambunctious and mischievous masculinity. Known for his watercolour paintings, Gardner also works in oils and pastels. His art practice embraces the warmth of the moment, whether that moment is on a basketball court or under the stars. …
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WHISTLER, BC, Sept. 6, 2022 /CNW/ – Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding invites skaters and non-skaters alike to reimagine their collective understanding of skateboarding and reflect on its contemporary relevance. Opening on September 17, this ambitious group exhibition at the Audain Art Museum (AAM) brings together nineteen BC and international artists who embody diversity in their practice and explore the aesthetic, social, environmental, political, and architectural aspects of skateboarding.
Anniversary publication & exhibition celebrating 35 years of 303 Gallery 303 Gallery: 35 Years is a new hardcover publication chronicling the story of the gallery from its founding in 1984 through its history creating and mirroring developments in the New York and international art worlds, forming a portrait of the gallery as it stands in …
Known for his exacting watercolors depicting scenes of typically masculine coming-of-age scenarios, here Gardner trains his eye onto New York City, tracing the nature of memory and sensation as they relate to urban environments. Gardner’s relationship to New York is both as insider and outsider – he moved to the city in 1997 and has …
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In the New Yorker article dedicated to the premier of the tenth season of The X-Files, a hit television series of the 90s*, Joshua Rothman relates the rebirth in popularity of retro-futurism with the confused political policies of the current age, and our anticipation of global catastrophes. In Rothman’s view, which has been shaped by …
Eternal Youth explores the concept of coming-of-age as a crossroads in art history: how have artists represented youth since the twentieth century? In particular, since the 1990s, images of youth in the western world have elicited both desire and fear, responding to social, cultural, and political shifts such as HIV awareness and gender bending transition. …
A puff of breath condenses in the cooling air of dusk as a solitary man, clad in a parka, trudges down a highway flanked by densely forested mountains. He carries a jerry can. It’s a stirring scene because we can easily imagine being alone in the cold desolation of the Canadian wilderness where danger lurks. …
