- September 8, 2016 to October 15, 2016
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Mark Hall-Patch’s series of watercolour drawings explore anarchistic art movements. But there is a psychological edge to Hall-Patch’s works which seem depictions of alienation; the figure lost in a landscape facing grave existential danger. The delicate nature of the drawing and watercolour in individual works make very stunning representations of failed utopian societies.
By Mark Hall-Patch - Curated by Glenn Alteen
Category | 313 Programs
Exhibition- September 17, 1996 to October 5, 1996
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Johannes Zits' paintings explore representations of gay sexuality within the context of painting. His new work continues in this vein, presenting images of bar interiors and gay couples, on a scale and in the style of Abstract Expressinoism. The result is a kind of warring of two disparate languages: the extreme America machismo of Abstract Expressionism with its almost hyperbolic expression of a private subjective state and the contemporary representations of the more politicized private spaces of gay bars. Zits' work poses questions pertaining to the language of painting-laden with a modernist history-and the language of contemporary media culture with its emphasis on issues of identity and social space and sets up a tension between the two.
By Johannes Zits
Touch
- March 12, 1996 to March 31, 1996
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"Touched by the Tears of a Butterfly" consists of seven rocking chairs, each a different colour and placed before a silk scrim that flutters in the breeze of an air ionizer. The viewer is invited to sit in one of the chairs to watch the fourteen minute video of a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis and preparing to fly. Following are images of different butterflies feeding.
By Mike MacDonald - Curated by Glenn Alteen
Touched By The Tears Of A Butterfly
- January 20, 1987 to January 31, 1987
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"I find toys, particularly broken toys, a fascinating medium for assemblage both for their colour and shape and their connotation: hues so bright they become repellent, images so stylized they exclaim the mundane. Their use represents the invalid activities, or child's play, that has so addled serious society. I've tried to approach this series from several different sides, taking toys out of their original context and using htem almost as if they were bizarre humour, with whiffs of surrealism and a few light bulbs."
By Ken Gerberick
TOY: Terror Of Youth
- December 1, 1987 to December 12, 1987
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Toyland is a collection of paintings, children's toys, small pieces of furniture, entertainments, a false tree and assorted objects variously created, collected, devised and decorated by Ms. Crossland.
By Jackie Crossland
Toyland
- March 30, 1987 to April 18, 1987
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Trace elements is an exhibition of 14 artists currently working in assemblage in Vancouver. The past several years have seen a resurgence of collage/assemblage as a medium for artwork in this city. This form is one of the most popular art forms of this century. From early work by Duchamp and Schwitters to the collages of Motherwell, the combine paintings of Rauschenberg, the intricate boxes of Cornell collage/assemblage has been an important tool artists use to reflect the modern world. In Vancouver today a large group of artists involved work solely in this form and an overview of the wide range this work encompasses will be the focus of the exhibition. Hosted by the Pitt International Gallery.
By Daav McNab, Danielle Peacock, David Asmodeus, Dianne Radmore, Hillary Wood, Kempton Dexter, Ken Gerberick, Lenna Greer, Lunar Suede, Polly Bak, Roy Green - Curated by Glenn Alteen
Trace Elements
- January 11, 2008 to February 16, 2008
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The works in this exhibition reflect Harold Coego's rediscovery of himself as a visual artist after a long engagement in the worlds of stage and screen. This series of drawings and collage-derived monetary currency bridges the artist's two home countries-Cuba, where historical and cultural heroes (perfect human beings trapped in their own historical circumstances) surrounded him, and Canada where new characters and new human interactions shape a different life. Most of the currency "characters" came to the artist in a "pure" way, as a child growing up in Cuba. Now, thirty years later, Coego gives those characters the chance to break through their own historical frame and wander free in an abstract world of ink and irony where they have become a commodity. The resulting images are representations of the artist's imagination through an abstract cinematographic kaleidoscope-a twisted photocopy of reality, or perhaps more like a dream where something is always out of place
By Harold Coego
Transactions of the Eye
- April 19, 2002 to May 11, 2002
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This exhibition of sculpture by Cuban artist Osvaldo Yero consists of wall-mounted ceramics, running water, and live plants. He makes use of symbols such as the hand, the heart, plants and tears, to use kitsch and cliche to make statements about poverty and Cuban history.
By Osvaldo Yero
Transplant
- June 16, 2006 to July 29, 2006
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By Maurice Spira