
Victoria & Albert Museum presents Energy: Sparks from the Collection, with work by Scott McFarland
The Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK) presents the group exhibition, ‘Energy: Sparks from the collection, on view Thursday, 25 May 2023 – Tuesday, 14 May

Transmissions, Art Gallery Evergreen, to feature Emily Hermant
May 13 – July 23 2023 Within the spun fibres of yarn, the warp and weft of a weaving, the blocks of a quilt and

Royal Bank of Canada Presents Scott McFarland at Photo London
The Royal Bank of Canada, Principal Partner of Photo London presents Scott McFarland’s Sugar Shack, Caledon, Ontario, at the fair this year. Part of RBC’s collection, Sugar

Here and Now, at the Pendulum Gallery
Curators: Emmy Lee Wall, Capture Photography Festival, Chelsea Yuill, Capture Photography Festival Exhibition Dates: Mar 27 – Apr 28, 2023 Pendulum Gallery: M–W: 9 am–6 pm; Th–F: 9 am–9 pm; Sa: 9 am–5

Head Downtown for ‘Here and Now’, Opening at Pendulum Gallery Today
The exhibition brings together emerging artists, like Khim Hipol and Alexine McLeod, alongside internationally renowned artists, such as Jin-me Yoon and Ian Wallace. Each artist has been selected for their unique

Toronto’s Images Festival, has announced its program lineup.
Toronto’s Images Festival, a platform for independent film and media art, has announced its program lineup. The festival, which runs from April 13 to April 26, opens with

Mark Mushet & Shazia Hafiz Ramji nomiated for Alberta Magazine Awards 2023 for their reviews of Vilhelm Sundin and Gailan Ngan.
Galleries West is a finalist for five Alberta Magazine Awards. The awards, organized by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association, honour outstanding work by magazine writers and visual

Roy Arden’s Fragments series to be featured in BOHEMIA: History of an Idea, 1950–2000 23. March 2023
From post-war Paris and New York, through swinging London, to the free spirits of Tehran and Beijing. Kunsthalle Praha explores the idea of bohemia.

Greg Girard i-D Photographing the Forgotten Labrynths of Kowloon Walled City
In the late 80s and early 90s, Greg Girard captured the hidden depths of the infamous, ungoverned city within Hong Kong.

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery: Piecework
Using the materiality of quilt making as a metaphor for how the fabric of the world holds together, this exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists who use textiles and assemblage as world-building tools. Pulling together the seemingly discarded, quilts are a composition of scraps, held together with the intention of offering warmth and comfort. This process of building something new from what was left behind, offers an orientation for engagement and opens possibilities for what can become. Quilts also occupy a set of social relations, where the making and sharing is often intergenerational and collective. They are meant to be passed down and cherished, appreciating in value through use.

Statement Artwork Paints A Vivid Picture In This Home
If you’re hooked on Instagram, then you’re already aware of the growing influence of art and images on everyday life. “The internet has brought a much greater awareness and openness to all art,” says homeowner Pamela Meredith, an independent art curator who, for five years, was the senior curator for TD Bank Group.

UTOPOS
If this is paradise I wish I had a lawnmower – Talking Heads, 1988
The title for this exhibition is taken from the Greek term, Ou-topos; Ou (not) and Topos (a place). The term Utopos holds two other meanings: the first being “the good place” and the second “the place that cannot be.” In the Talking Heads song “Nothing but Flowers,” David Byrne’s lyrics follow a similar path by embodying this shared meaning of Utopos, where yes, the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence, but, upon reflection, neither greens—nor grass for that matter—are all they were cracked up to be. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it and regret it.

SOUS LA PLAGE, LES PAVÉS: ALEX TEDLIE STURSBERG
Charles Baudelaire, the 19th Century poet and art critic, saw the ‘ragpicker’ as an allegorical figure able to convey the essence of consumer capitalism:
Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital. Everything that the big city has thrown away, everything it has lost, everything it has scorned, everything it has crushed underfoot he catalogues and collects. He collates the annals of intemperance, the capharnaum of waste. He sorts things out and selects judiciously; he collects, like a miser guarding a treasure, refuse which will assume the shape of useful or gratifying objects between the jaws of the goddess of Industry.

BAF: Everything Flows
Adorned with the steadily accumulating debris of contemporary life—plastics, Styrofoam, bottle caps, and pennies—the sculptures in Alex Tedlie-Stursberg’s Everything Flows exude, despite their manufactured origins, an aura of the organic. Often they evoke ancient things: fossilised forests, archaeological artefacts, coral reefs, alien planets. Poised between the artificial and the artisanal, the ready-made and the hand-made, they display a trippy, absurd quality that belie Tedlie-Stursberg’s thoughtful engagement with humanity’s discarded materials and the value systems that help create them.

BAF In Conversation: Alex Tedlie Stursberg
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg explores the constantly flowing streams of interactions and transactions that make up our society in a practice that combines sculpture, assemblage and collage. Interested in the “bottom end of the market”, Tedlie-Stursberg’s works tend to incorporate what might be bluntly referred to as garbage – not just waste and discarded objects, but actual earth and soil. The finished works exude an eccentric, fantastical energy, seeming to come neither from the future nor the past, but perhaps an alternate timeline or dimension. This humour and irreverence characterizes Tedlie-Stursberg’s practice; in the past, he has created video art from a Ron Perlman movie and a mock campfire from found objects.

Scout: New “Three-Dimensional Photography” Exhibition Opens in Abbotsford This Friday
A photograph is a photograph is a… sculpture? Experience photography in new ways at The Reach Gallery Museum’s latest exhibition, image/object: new approaches to three-dimensional photography, opening in Abbotsford on Friday, January 27th.
Through the work of three contemporary Canadian artists – Karin Bubaš, Natalie Hunter, and Karen Zalamea – image/object explores the potential for photographic images to be spatial, experiential and material. Each artist, however, approaches photography uniquely.

Holger Kalberg | New Artist
Holger Kalberg was born in Germany and currently lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He graduated from Emily Carr University (BFA, 2001) and the Chelsea School of Art in London (MFA, 2007). Kalberg has been shortlisted for the RBC Painting Competition on three separate occasions, and served on the jury for the 2013 award. Kalberg has recently exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the University of Manitoba, the Belkin Satellite Gallery, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. His work is collected by the Royal Bank of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, TD Bank, the Belkin Gallery, and numerous other public and private collections.

Through the Lattice
Through the Lattice reflects upon the ongoing relevance of the lived environment, whether as owned, alienated, or desired. Each artist foregrounds the role of place—and its aesthetics of style, ornament, design, pattern, and architecture—in their recent works. Though diverse in their methods, the artists share a concern with the deeper meanings of space as well as its material construction.
“Where and how we inhabit space has been the subject of intense discussion as of late,” says exhibition curator Rhys Edwards. “Lockdown protocols, safe living spaces, and affordable housing are very current topics. I wanted to organize an exhibition of artworks that demonstrates how many artists have been responding to the idea of dwelling in recent times.”

LVL3, Dial Tone, Chicago
LVL3 proudly presents Dial Tone, a three-person exhibition featuring Kevin Umaña, Cathy Hsaio, and Emily Hermant. In Dial Tone, Like a visual telegraph, the artists use their disparate iconographies to flag us down in hopes of a conversation.

A Word for Underfoot; The Sun at Hunt Gallery
Gold’s status as a precious metal is tied to a variety of factors, its relative scarcity, its exceedingly difficult extraction, its applications as a key resource across an expansive list of industries. Most of all, however, it is gold’s lustrous, radiant finish that defines and preserves its status at the forefront of our covetousness. It is this same glimmering luminosity that seems universal amongst the objects to which we ascribe most value. Silver, platinum, diamonds, and rubies share it, and it is a fundamental quality of the single most important and enduring object planet earth has ever known: The Sun. And just as gold bears a Midasian list of cautions that accompany our greed for it, so too does The Sun. For every crop grown and flower bloomed, so too does our skin burn and pictures fade by its same light. And it is here, with The Sun and our paradoxical relationship to it, that the most recent show at Hunt Gallery finds its source.

Jeremy Hof: New Work
Jeremy Hof’s paintings are compellingly sculptural, built from countless layers of acrylic paint over an extended time period in his studio. Many are strategically hand-sanded to expose their construction, revealing the artist’s premeditated colour aesthetic, whether subtly gradient, strikingly optic, or sometimes psychedelic and kaleidoscopic. Hof’s work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Richmond Art Gallery, Galerie de l’UQAM, the Mendel Art Gallery, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Power Plant, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), and numerous other venues. His work is collected by the Vancouver Art Gallery, BMO collection, RBC collection, TD Bank collection, and others. In 2008, Hof was the winner of the RBC Painting Competition.

CNN: Vintage photos show underbelly of boom-era Japan
When celebrated photographer Greg Girard landed in Tokyo in April 1976, he expected to spend only a few days in the Japanese capital. At that time a “broke traveler” in his early 20s, he was headed to more affordable destinations in southeast Asia.
He left his luggage at Haneda Airport and, with nowhere to sleep, spent his first night in Tokyo roaming the streets of the city’s lively Shinjuku district, camera in hand.
“I was just floored by the way everything looked, because it was never presented in the West, this modern city,” Girard recalled in a video interview, noting that his arrival was long before movies like “Blade Runner” and ’90s pop culture exposed mainstream Western audiences to Asian metropolises.

Cultural scene mourns Vancouver contemporary artist Rodney Graham
INFLUENTIAL, HIGHLY RESPECTED contemporary-art giant Rodney Graham passed away Saturday at 73.
Condolences are pouring onto social media from around the world. In an announcement, the four galleries who represented him—303 Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Lisson Gallery, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle and Esther Schipper—said he had been battling cancer.
Born in Abbotsford, Graham emerged from the 1970s’ photoconceptual movement in this city—the “Vancouver School” that gave rise to names like Jeff Wall, Roy Arden, and Ken Lum—putting his own unique, cheeky, and genre-busting twist on it. He was known for referencing the art-historical, the literary, the philosophical, and especially the cinematic and the musical.

Greg Girard Takes Us Back In Time to a Pre-Bubble Tokyo for ‘JAL 76 88’
I’ll never forget the first time I came across City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City by Greg Girard. Even if the entire lawless enclave was long demolished by the time I made it to Hong Kong, the book was one of the reasons that I made the venture to the city. Girard’s ability to put viewers right in the middle of his clandestine locations transports you, not only back in time, but allows you to feel the rawness of each situation.
In his newest book, JAL 76 88, the Vancouver, British Columbia native highlights photographs he took from the years 1976 to 1988 in Tokyo, Japan. What was supposed to be a quick few days quickly led to weeks as the futuristic city enthralled his senses and fed his appetite for discovery and documentation. Spanning over a decade, the works in JAL 76 88 see the urban jungle of Tokyo through the lens of Girard as social and physical transformations were taking place from the pre-bubble era, the full-on explosion in wealth afforded by the bubble economy, and the cusp of what we now know as the Lost Decade.

Transpositions
Transpositions is the final in a three-part series of exhibitions that explore connections between textiles and technology. Building on the preceding exhibitions Interweavings and Remediations, the artists selected for Transpositions offer an expanded understanding of textile construction. Using non-traditional media such as wire, rubber, photographs, or insulation they transpose the technologies of weaving or braiding onto their chosen materials.

A New Book Features Otherworldly Photographs of Japan in the 1970s
Every city is home to thousands of stories. If you look through photographer Greg Girard’s new book JAL 76-88, you’ll find dozens of evocative images taken across Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. Some feature neon-drenched urban landscapes, the kind of haunted cityscape that seems tailor-made for the opening shot of a film noir.

Skateboarding meets contemporary art in Out of Control
WHEN PATRIK ANDERSSON began working on Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding, a major new exhibition at Audain Art Museum, he was clear on what wouldn’t be part of the show. Flips and shove-it tricks are not the focus, and there’s no tribute to legend Tony Hawk.
“I tried very hard—and it was quite difficult—not to make a predictable show about famous skateboarders or famous artists associated with skateboarding,” Andersson tells Stir by phone. “A conscious decision was that I’ve done my best not to make any mention of skateboarding as a sport. I don’t think it’s a sport. It’s become a sport. We can’t argue that; it’s in the Olympics. But this exhibition is not looking at that.”

Audain Art Museum gets Out of Control with playful exhibition highlighting the intersection between contemporary art and skateboarding
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.

Arts Umbrella’s Splash Art Auction celebrates 40 years
Arts Umbrella has just announced that it will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its Splash Art Auction at the Fairmont Hotel on Saturday, October 22.
This year’s auction will feature nearly 100 pieces of work from emerging and established local, national, and international artists, including Dana Claxton, Andrew Dadson, Karin Bubaš, Brent Wadden, Bobbie Burgers, Marie Khouri, and Russna Kaur.

Emily Hermant | Alberta Magazine Awards Finalist
Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist Emily Hermant works with recycled telecommunications and data cables, stripping them down and arranging them into patterns, casting them in silicone to make colourful moulded wall hangings, or creating rippling sculptures from the wires themselves. “The materials that I’m working with have speed built into them,” says Hermant, a professor of sculpture and expanded media at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. “They have a purpose, which is to connect across these large distances to allow people to communicate really instantaneously.”

Take a nostalgic trip back to 80s Japan with these Blade Runner-esque images
Greg Girard is the photographer behind the absolutely stunning retro images of Japan compiled in his latest photo book titled, JAL 76-88.
Arriving in Tokyo in the spring of 1976, photographer Greg Girard only intended to stay for a few days, until a late-night stroll through the city changed his mind.

Tokyo, 1970, Night time: Capturing the Rise of Bubble-era Japan
In his latest photobook, Canadian photographer Greg Girard offers a vivid portrait of Tokyo during the 1970’s and 80’s, before it became one of the world’s most dynamic megacities.

Aesthetica Magazine – A Neon-Soaked City
Ridley Scott’s film adaptation of Blade Runner came out in 1982. It’s since become the blueprint for high-tech, neon-soaked dystopia and cyberpunk aesthetics: cities emblazoned with colourful billboards and 24-hour artificial light. Six years prior to its release, Canadian photographer Greg Girard (b. 1955) arrived in Tokyo. “Blade Runner-esque” had yet to enter the lexicon, and he was soon entranced by this modern, futuristic city. Girard quickly turned his lens on the city’s people and glowing nocturnal architecture. Now, this largely unseen collection of images is published in a new book: JAL 76 88.

Kowloon Walled City: Exploring the City of Darkness that inspired Stray’s cyberpunk world
One of the most fascinating aspects of Stray, the latest indie gaming hit that has caught everyone’s attention, is the beautifully rendered walled city that is inhabited by humanoid robots. The rich and intricate explorable space has been immensely praised by both reviewers and critics for its visual aesthetic, ambience and design.

Gailan Ngan, Fundamental forms for now, here and beyond – Galleries West
Vancouver artist Gailan Ngan’s From the Studio Floor presents a collection of works that are playful and inviting despite their weighty materials. The exhibition, on view at the Esker Foundation in Calgary until Dec. 18, brings together found materials such as chunks of clay and a cactus, with a series of ceramic sculptures collectively titled Moon Orbit, which Ngan describes as “blobs.” They look like colourful boulders from outer space but are mostly made of clay from British Columbia.

Greg Girard interview with Vancouver Sun, 2022
Greg Girard in conversation with John Mackie of Vancouver Sun. “Rare rock-star vintage photos pair with vintage and contemporary pieces in stunning Vancouver exhibition”

E’yles’lek Claude “Rocky” LaRock at Art Gallery at Evergreen
The Art Gallery at Evergreen is proud to announce its presentation of Semá:th Xó:tsa: Sts’ólemeqwelh Sxó:tsa/Great Gramma’s Lake. In November 2021, extreme rains flooded extensive areas of the Fraser Valley, including what is today known as Sumas Prairie. This “once in a century” flooding has dramatically impacted the lives and livelihoods of many Fraser Valley residents, including Stó:lō master carver E’yies’lek Claude “Rocky” LaRock.

Holger Kalberg, Interview, Sink/Swim
I would describe the theme for the series as uncertainty. Personal uncertainty in relation to family histories but also uncertainty in relation to our current as global issues.

Alison Yip – june, Berlin
Sleeping In examines notions of safety and rest, and their inextricable relationship to an individual’s most intimate space of a home—a site of shelter, coziness, and domesticity. The artists in this exhibition, CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen and Niclas Riepshoff), Antonia Nannt, Tanja Nis-Hansen, Jessy Razafimandimby, and Alison Yip navigate the ideas of comfort and tease out the individual that exists at the contentious bounds of productivity and rest, and wakefulness and slumber.

Gailan Ngan – Esker Foundation
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.

Mari Eastman – Frieze
The night air around Soon-Yi Previn, as Mari Eastman has rendered it, is overbearing. Surrounded by short, effusive brushstrokes, Previn’s impervious silhouette is further peppered by inky blue daubs. A chatty young Moses Farrow stands beside her, the red folds of his jacket matching an awning above (Soon-yi and Moses, 2021). The poolside portrait of a girl that opens ‘Night Life’, Eastman’s second solo exhibition at Goldfinch in Chicago, is executed with similar aplomb. Untitled (Sanded Painting) (2021) is atmospherically grey-pink and lavender; the girl, bored but assured, sits with one leg propped up. Any rococo resonances, however, are challenged by her completely sanded face and body; the abrasions give the effect of splitting light.

Alex Morrison – Scout
Mushrooms, furniture, and patterns proliferate in Nooks and Corners, Vancouver-based artist Alex Morrison’s new exhibition, opening January 28th at the Contemporary Art Gallery in downtown Vancouver.

Stephen Waddell – Audain Tuesday Night Talks
Season 3 of the Audain Art Museum’s (AAM) immensely popular Tuesday Night Talks (TNT) offers a unique opportunity for online participants to simultaneously enter the Museum and the artist’s studio or home during the evening, while learning about key works in the AAM’s Permanent Collection directly from their respective makers.
Hosted by the Museum’s Director & Chief Curator, Dr. Curtis Collins, this sixth Episode features Stephen Waddell a Vancouver-based artist who received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1994.

Greg Girard – Mixmag
In 1974, Greg Girard arrived in Hong Kong on a freighter from San Francisco armed with not just a camera slung over his shoulder but a starry-eyed vision of capturing the raw electricity that was charging through the rapidly changing continent at night. With Asia full of promise and infinite possibilities, the Canadian photographer was at once spellbound and spent the 30 years that followed navigating the chaotic yet unencumbered neon-lit alleys of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Thailand and Vietnam.

Greg Girard – The Times
The Canadian photographer Greg Girard only intended to stay a few days in Tokyo when he arrived in 1976. “I spent the night wandering around Shinjuku and nearby neighbourhoods, and by morning I knew I wanted to stay,” he says in his new book, JAL 76 88 (the initials stand for Japan Airlines, while the numbers refer to the years the work spans).

Colleen Heslin at qathet Art Centre
Collecting and Purging is a solo exhibition of minimal fiber-based paintings by Colleen Heslin.

Karin Bubas in The Trylowsky Collection at Griffin Art Projects
This exhibition is part of a two-part series, called The Great Exchange. Coinciding with Teeth, Loan and Trust Company: The Trylowsky Collection, eminent Toronto-based artist

Greg Girard at M+ Museum (Hong Kong)
Greg Girard is included in Hong Kong: Here and Beyond, Nov 11, 2021 – Nov 26, 2022.

Splendour Without Diminishment, The Mainlander
In Vancouver, there is no image of nature that is not at the same time an image of private property. Possession structures the visual culture

TRUE PICTURES Contemporary Photography from Canada and the US, Sprengel Museum Hannover
From the beginning of the 20th century, North American photography was considered to be groundbreaking for the development of an artistic visual language for the

Emily Hermant: Insider Series at Burrard Arts Foundation
In a contemporary setting, it is becoming increasingly difficult to divorce ourselves from technology. Produced in BAF’s Artist Residency program, Emily Hermant’s new show till your

Roy Arden in “Curated by Studio for Propositional Cinema – A Sculpture in Search of an Author” at Emanuel Layr (Austria)
A Sculpture in Search of an Author is an exhibition centered around an artwork by the Italian artist Emilio Prini (1943–2016). Or, rather, an artwork

Colleen Heslin in “Holding a line in your hand” at Kamloops Art Gallery
Holding a line in your hand presents the work of five Canadian women painters from different cultural backgrounds, at different stages in their careers, and

Colleen Heslin in “An Inheritance” at Victoria Arts Council
One way or another, it comes to us. Through death, and it’s precarious opposite, our time becomes full and fuller, still; resplendent and it’s abundant

Gailan Ngan in “Spitting circle” at Unit 17
Mediation repeatedly emerges as a tactic through which artists disrupt art making practices – not only from a perspective of art history, but also through

Galian Ngan on Materiality talk at the Gardiner Museum
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

Greg Girard in “City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium” at UCCA
The opening exhibition at UCCA Edge looks back at the moment Chinese contemporary art entered into global dialogue and the transforming urban fabric of Shanghai

Greg Girard, MAS Context, Nocturnal Landscapes in Photography
As part of the Nocturnal Landscapes project, photographer and sociologist David Schalliol is leading a series of conversations with photographers who regularly work at night.

Roy Arden, Pictures and Promises
Drawn from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rich photographic holdings, Pictures and Promises focuses on lens-based works that employ the structures, conventions and formal qualities used

Colleen Heslin, Tanabe Prize
An annual art prize honouring Vancouver Island painter Takao Tanabe has been awarded to Powell River’s Colleen Heslin. Read more

Greg Girard, Fitchburg Art Museum
The BIG Picture: Giant Photographs and Powerful Portfolios is a two-part exhibition that highlights recent photography acquisitions at the Fitchburg Art Museum. The Giant Photographs

Karin Bubaš, Where We Have Been, Surrey Art Gallery
Where We Have Been explores the interconnection between place and identity in the South of Fraser region, through selections from the Surrey Art Gallery’s permanent

Alison Yip, Dortmunder Kunstverein
Alison Yip’s works negotiate the role of fantasy in a post-factual world and incorporate parapsychological derivations from figurative representation. Based on painting, the artist creates

Karin Bubaš, Fitchburg Art Museum
The BIG Picture: Giant Photographs and Powerful Portfolios is a two-part exhibition that highlights recent photography acquisitions at the Fitchburg Art Museum. The Giant Photographs

Graham Gillmore, The End of Eloquence
GHC is pleased to present The End of Eloquence, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by iconic Canadian artist Graham Gillmore. The paintings in the

MUSHROOMS: THE ART, DESIGN, AND FUTURE OF FUNGI
A new exhibition celebrating the remarkable mushroom, and all the progressive, poetic and psychedelic wonder it evokes. Bringing together the work of over 40 leading

JELENA AND THE MAGIC FLUTE: A STORY IN 12 ARTWORKS
The idea for the exhibition is to generate a sequence of works by different artists that builds a narrative in their accumulation. The works were

Karin Bubaš, Lineages and Land Bases, VAG
lineages and land bases presents more than 80 artworks from the Gallery’s permanent collection that challenge the modern Western assumption that nature and culture exist as

Art Trip: Owen Kydd and Sara Cwynar showcase innovative images
From its own picturesque home, perched on a headland in a tony Oslo suburb, the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter has set out to take stock of

A Handful of Dust: From the Cosmic to the Domestic
A Handful of Dust features a selection of modern and contemporary images from the last 100 years, focusing on the visual representation of dust in photography,

Clint Burnham on Evan Lee’s Fugazi
Speaking in response to Evan Lee’s Fugazi, an installation in the Teck Gallery that queries how value is socially constructed, Clint Burnham will approach the

Hi Ventilation at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnof
Hi Ventilation, show me your winding winds and breathe some air into the corners! Let’s pretend we’re trains, let’s roll together, let‘s train surf and

Alison Yip, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
Hi Ventilation, show me your winding winds and breathe some air into the corners! Let’s pretend we’re trains, let’s roll together, let‘s train surf and

Evan Lee, Artforum
Evan Lee’s series of paintings “Fortune Happiness,” 2018, is distinguished by long shadows and listless figures that might be found in Edward Hopper’s canvases. But

Gailan Ngan at Hardware Applied Services, Bellingham, WA
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

Gailan Ngan, Kamloops Art Gallery
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

Tim Gardner, 303 Gallery
Anniversary publication & exhibition celebrating 35 years of 303 Gallery 303 Gallery: 35 Years is a new hardcover publication chronicling the story of the gallery

till your voice catches the thread | BAF
Emily Hermant’s recent body of work—made using telecommunication wires that are stripped and then glued together to form a surface—could be said to re-weave technical

Alexine McLeod, Birch Contemporary
Cognizance : A distinguishing mark or emblem. Knowledge or awareness. Notice or acknowledgement What does it mean to be distinguished by a feature or mark?

Colleen Heslin, The Reach
Something More than Nothing brings together a diverse group of artists whose work all deals in some way with notions of hidden or invisible labour:

Greg Girard, designboom
to mark the release of his latest book, ‘tokyo-yokosuka 1976-1983’, greg girard has shared a collection of largely unseen images offering a nostalgic glimpse of

Greg Girard, British Journal of Photography
Greg Girard’s interest in east Asia was cemented by a single image. Nestled in a Time-Life photography book, the still depicted a Hong Kong harbour

Gailan Ngan, The Georgia Straight
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

Anthony Goicolea, Postmasters, New York
Postmasters Gallery is pleased to announce PRIDE, a large-scale exhibition marking the #Stonewall50 anniversary through art and artists from the LGBTQ+ community. Curated together by

Roy Arden, Judith and Normin Alex Art Gallery
Drawing from the collections of the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada, this exhibition celebrates the diversity of photographic production in Canada

Stephen Waddell Wins the 2019 Scotiabank Photography Award
“Stephen’s refined photographic explorations evoke his keen awareness about the poetics of space and the history of painting, while also walking the line between documentary

Greg Girard, The Georgia Straight
Greg Girard’s photographs of Asian cityscapes, notably shot in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hanoi, have firmly established his reputation, both locally and internationally. During the

Stephen Waddell, Shortlist, Scotiabank Photography Award 2019
This morning, three artists were shortlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Photography Award. The award describes itself as “the largest peer-nominated and peer-reviewed celebration of excellence in

Alison Yip at L’INCONNUE
Three ruminations on no place I) It’s so easy to think we know a place. To speak of it off-hand as this or that: ‘this

Roy Arden, Art Forum
Anna Atkins, the Victorian botanist widely considered the first female photographer, created thousands of cyanotypes depicting white negatives of flora, often seaweed, suspended in atmospheres

Scott McFarland, a Handful of Dust
a Handful of Dust offers a rare opportunity to view a remarkable diversity of photographs from the last 100 years, focusing on the theme of

Emily Hermant | The Bakery
Emily Hermant is an interdisciplinary artist whose sculptures, drawings, and installations explore themes of communication, gendered labor, and the spatial experiences of the body. She

Roy Arden, Musée Magazine
The mid 19th century was an era of philosophical and scientific advance. The Naturalism fad possessed middle and upper classes with an obsession for paleontology,

Owen Kydd, Anna Atkins Refracted, New York Public Library
In 1843 Anna Atkins began producing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book to be printed and illustrated using photography. Today, 175 years

Roy Arden, Anna Atkins Refracted, New York Public Library
In 1843 Anna Atkins began producing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book to be printed and illustrated using photography. Today, 175 years

Holger Kalberg, Border Crossings Magazine
Throughout the 30 years he has been making art, initially in Germany where he was born, then in Vancouver and London, UK, where he was

Greg Girard, Capitalist Realism
In this year’s Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2018, the central exhibition entitled “Capitalist Realism“, which is structured in two large sections, at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Anthony Goicolea in conversation with Ian Alteveer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York NY
You are invited to join us at the Center on Tuesday, July 17, to commemorate the launch of New York City’s new LGBTQ Memorial. Designed

Anthony Goicolea, New York’s first LGBTQ Monument, unveiled June 24, 2018
For over a century, the Christopher Street Pier on the Hudson River in Greenwich Village, Manhattan has been a hub for the LGBTQ community. By

Tim Gardner, 303 Gallery, June 7 to July 13, 2018
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

Alison Yip, Peripheral Review
Last year a number exhibitions, events and talks addressed the state of contemporary painting in Vancouver. The following essay is a belated survey of these

Owen Kydd, Montecristo Magazine
Naively, Owen Kydd’s works could be described as GIFs. But while Graphic Interchange Formats have been adopted to be widely circulated, and to in some

Roy Arden, Hessel Museum of Art
Artists include: Roy Arden, Alex Bag, Art Club 2000, Lutz Bacher, Dennis Balk, Bernadette Corporation, J. St. Bernard, Tom Burr, Moyra Davey, Jessica Diamond, Stephan

Scott McFarland, Artforum
Toronto-based artist Scott McFarland doesn’t represent reality—he cultivates it. He is best known for creating dense composite landscapes—often gardens—that conflate the temporal and spatial coordinates

The Material Turn
The Material Turn exhibition presents international and intergenerational conversations around contemporary textile practices in the digital information age. In particular, the materiality of digital technologies is

Jeremy Hof, Georgia Straight
Entangled is a big, energetic, and engaging exhibition. It trots us past an abundance of contemporary works, from John Heward’s hanging pieces of paint-stained fabric

Jeremy Hof, Two Coats of Paint
Contributed by Dion Kliner / A preamble: An elephant in a living room, as unlikely as it is to find one there, would never be

Jeremy Hof, Vancouver Sun
They look like coloured blocks of concrete left over from a construction site or maybe rocks used in some industrial process. In fact, they’re leftovers

Mari Eastman, Newcity
Painter Mari Eastman has spent the better part of the last two decades cultivating a visual aesthetic that is at once breezy and self-assured. Pastel-hued,

Greg Girard, South China Morning Post
From dive bars to neon lights: a look into the underside side of Hong Kong’s colourful nightlife Read more

Evan Lee, The Pacific, Libby Leshgold Gallery
The Pacific, the inaugural exhibition at the Libby Leshgold Gallery, brings together artists from countries in and around the Pacific Ocean. The exhibition considers the

Jeremy Hof, Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Art Gallery is about to open an exhibition about contemporary painting. Some people might be tempted to say, “It’s about time.” To art

Alexine McLeod shortlisted for the 2017 CASV Emerging Artist Award
The CASV Artist Prize was established in 2011 to encourage and support artists demonstrating remarkable ability within the first five years of their careers. Awarded

Roy Arden, Paul P Civilization (inverted) at Griffin Art Projects
To expand this special exhibition project, which originated at Scrap Metal, Toronto, the curators have selected additional work from private collections for inclusion in the

The Art of Words
The work of Vancouver artist Graham Gillmore could attract curious writers just as easily as it attracts art lovers. Whether he creates a painting, panel or

Karel Funk in the New York Times
Karel Funk’s oil paintings remain unwavering in their concentration on well-made outerwear. At 303 Gallery, in his first gallery show in New York since 2010,

Karel Funk in the New York Times
Karel Funk’s oil paintings remain unwavering in their concentration on well-made outerwear. At 303 Gallery, in his first gallery show in New York since 2010,

Colleen Heslin, Open Horizons, Cultural Foundations of Tinos, Greece
The aim of Open Horizons is to introduce the Greek public to the works of three established Canadian artists—Ron Moppett, Allyson Glenn, and Colleen Heslin.

Karel Funk talks about painting hoodies in the style of the Old Masters
A realist painter who uses the term “urban voyeurism” to describe his approach, Karel Funk createsportraits of subjects at odd close-up angles, as though they

Karin Bubaš: Hidden Valley
In Karin Bubaš’ newest exhibition Hidden Valley, the artist presents a suite of large-scale, colour-shifting photographs shot in California in 2016 and 2017. Bubaš has

Splendour Without Diminishment, The Mainlander
In Vancouver, there is no image of nature that is not at the same time an image of private property. Possession structures the visual culture

Greg Girard, Pictures from Here, Globe and Mail
The Vancouver Art Gallery goes beyond expectations by exposing visitors to a more contemporary picture of life in B.C. Read more

Roy Arden, Pictures from Here, Globe and Mail
The Vancouver Art Gallery goes beyond expectations by exposing visitors to a more contemporary picture of life in B.C. Read more

Karin Bubaš, Vancouver Report: A Changing Climate, Canadian Art
“Hidden Valley,” Karin Bubaš’s solo exhibition at Monte Clark Gallery, is a series of photographs taken with LomoChrome Purple and Turquoise film, presented as large-scale

Greg Girard, CBC News, by Claire Hennig
Photographs can take you back in time and that’s certainly what Greg Girard’s photography show accomplishes: returning viewers to an era in Vancouver’s history before

Greg Girard Interview, David Campany, The Tyee
David Campany: The oldest images in this book are from 1972. Clearly Vancouver has changed a lot, and large parts of the city would be

Tim Gardner, Contemporary Art Centre
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

Evan Lee, Inorganic Seductions, Capture Billboard Project
Inorganic Seductions, the 2017 Capture Billboard Project, brings together four local and international artists in an unprecedented public presentation in Canada. Examining the genre of

Evan Lee, Three Ginseng Roots, public art installation, River Park Place
The photographic sculpture Three Ginseng Roots is a commissioned artwork for River Park Place in Richmond, BC. Balancing modern materials and processes with natural forms and colours,

Tim Gardner, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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 Natural Entropy of Things, an Interview with Stephen Waddell in Border Crossings Magazine
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Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasured including works by Alison Yip reviewed in the Georgia Straight
There’s such an exuberance of colour, texture, and form in Vancouver Special that the overall impression is one of delight. Yes, there may be sombre

Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasured including works by Colleen Heslin reviewed in the Georgia Straight
There’s such an exuberance of colour, texture, and form in Vancouver Special that the overall impression is one of delight. Yes, there may be sombre

Alison Yip in Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery
The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced the 40 participating artists in its new triennial Vancouver Special. The exhibition intends to offer a comprehensive survey of

Colleen Heslin in Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery
The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced the 40 participating artists in its new triennial Vancouver Special. The exhibition intends to offer a comprehensive survey of

Paintings Glow in a Repurposed Northwest Side Bar: A Review of “The Noise of Art” at Soccer Club Club, curated by Mari Eastman
Soccer Club Club, owned and operated by Drag City Records, brings together curator Mari Eastman’s work along with artists Rebecca Morris, Mary Weatherford, Anna Sew

Tim Gardner, Oil Paintings in Galleries West
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

Anthony Goicolea, Simulacrum at Galeria Senda, Barcelona
Galeria Senda presents “Simulacrum” by Anthony Goicolea, the artist’s second solo show in Barcelona. Read more

Emily Hermant: Searching the Starry Sky
In her most recent and on-going body of work, Emily Hermant utilizes slow, hand-making processes to generate modes of representing the rapid movement and proliferation

The Voyeuristic Work of Karel Funk, National Gallery of Canada
Praised by the New York Times as “outstanding” and “suffused with an unexpected spirituality,” Karel Funk’s paintings have been purchased by the likes of the Guggenheim, the

Stephen Waddell in Galeries West Magazine
For Vancouver-based photographer Stephen Waddell, the line between fiction and reality in art can be a blurry one. In a 2008 interview with Canadian Art

Jonathan Syme, Montecristo Magazine
Entering Jonathan Syme’s gilding and framing studio, which operates under the moniker The Workshop, a particularly sentimental heart may skip a beat. Modestly tucked away

Karel Funk in The Globe and Mail
Hyperrealist artist Karel Funk’s paintings to be shown in Winnipeg Marsha Lederman The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Jun. 05, 2016 12:00PM EDT Winnipeg artist

Colleen Heslin: Needles and Pins at the Esker Foundation, Calgary
Colleen Heslin’s paintings resonate with the tension of material and gestural complexity. Successfully fusing thought and action, the work dismantles material hierarchy by providing equal

Owen Kydd, Time Image Casemore Kirkeby, San Fransisco
Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to announce Owen Kydd: Time Image, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new location at 1275 Minnesota Street. The exhibition will

Colleen Heslin in Galleries West Magazine
There’s a push and pull in Colleen Heslin’s quilt-like paintings, a pull to examine the undulating dyes and the rolling seams that stitch together second-hand

Owen Kydd in For The Love of Things: Still Life at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
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Roy Arden, Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Themes of seriality, identity, and place explored in conceptual photography on the West Coast from the 1960s to the present. Since the 1960s Los Angeles

Karin Bubaš, Material Girls, Doris McCarthy Gallery
Material Girls is about women taking up space. This large-scale group exhibition brings together Canadian and international emerging, mid-career and senior female artists from across

Off the Radar: Jeff Wall Puts the Spotlight on Stephen Waddell
Stephen Waddell has been working for more than 15 years in painting and photography. He’s been exhibited widely, and has a following among some discerning

Emily Hermant | LVL3
Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do. I’m an interdisciplinary artist who makes sculptures, drawings, and installations. I’m Canadian. I moved to

Review: Scott McFarland’s vaguely surreal concoctions a cause for wonder
In his latest exhibition at Regen Projects, Canadian artist Scott McFarland pulls back the curtain — if only a little bit — on his digitally

Bang! Kaboom! Art!
The rubble from a “concert” in which a piano gets smashed; a
sculpture that slowly pushes apart its gallery; a drawing by a modern master…

Vancouver artist Scott McFarland has an eye for the main chance
When it comes to dissecting the key ingredients in mastering his expansive subjects, artist Scott McFarland proffers the notion of “happenstance.” Read more

e-flux: Survey of Work by Renowned Photographer Scott McFarland
The Vancouver Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of work by Scott McFarland, the renowned Canadian photographer whose images challenge the fundamental idea of

Scott McFarland, Regen Projects, May 23 – July 3, 2009
Scott McFarland’s photography reconsiders the traditional concept of a photograph as the depiction of a single captured moment in time. Through digital means he is

Karel Funk in 303 Gallery
Karel Funk creates astonishingly detailed and hauntingly quiet paintings that at once rely on and challenge conventional notions of portraiture. Historically, portraits were painted with

Karel Funk – 303 Gallery
Karel Funk’s hyperrealist painting immediately commands attention. Influenced by 17th century Dutch and Flemish painters and by Renaissance portraiture, Funk depicts torsos and heads of

CAG: Scott McFarland, Coastal Cabin
Scott McFarland is a photographer whose images are highlighted by meticulous staging and high-production values. McFarland documents a discrete range of subjects in ongoing suites,