- June 30, 1987 to July 11, 1987
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The show is a collection of Arthur Simmons' rebuilt and customized phones, which take on strange and wonderful personas. Some are built into radios, some into toy trucks, some onto long planks, and one called Don't Hang Up has the receiver cradled in a noose.
By Arthur Simmons
date | 29 Programs
Dates 1987- June 2, 1987 to June 13, 1987
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The show is a collection of visual and sculptural short stories, based on myth and fantasy. A lot of the titles for the pieces are cliques and puns on classic themes.
By Lynn Onley
Angels Beasts And Other Fantasies
- January 6, 1987 to January 17, 1987
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These photographs by European born Csere have a quality of darkness and light that is unique and speak to the camera's ability to create meanings.
By Leslie Csere
Aperture
- November 22, 1987
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Award winning science fiction author Spider Robinson has recently moved to Vancouver. His new book "Time Pressure" has just been released.
By Spider Robinson
Ashnola Reading
- December 20, 1987
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By Leon Rooke
Ashnola Reading
- October 6, 1987 to October 17, 1987
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Stan Lake's ceramic masks and figurines are well known to Vancouver gallery goers. Last year's successful Bric a Brac exhibition at the Montgomery and the Swan Leak Exhibition at the Old Pitt on Pender have been his only solo exhibitions in Vancouver to date. His inclusion in the last two False Face mask exhibitions have always drawn attention and exclamation. This time Lake takes us Beyond the Pale with his new series fo ceramic masks and figures.
By Stan Lake
Beyond The Pale
- May 13, 1987 to May 31, 1987
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In coordination with the 2nd Biennale of Visual Art in Eastern Quebec in Matane, Pitt International Galleries and grunt gallery will be displaying the work of ten artist from Eastern Quebec during the month of May. In Quebec three Vancouver artists will be participating in the larger exhibition entitled Seductions of Sceneries with artists from Eastern Quebec and Nice, France. This exchange, sponsored by the Art Gallery of Matane will set up a dialogue between artists in the three centres and will question the barriers of language, nationalities andr rural and urban art production.
By Bruno Berube, Danielle Binet, Lise Labrie, Michel Lagace
Biennale Des Arts Visuals De L’Est Du Quebec
- March 3, 1987 to March 14, 1987
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Any collassemblage artist is essentially a trash collector. Collecting modern-day trash means collecting a lot of plastic and plastic has three great drawbacks as objet d'art: it is not intrinsically beautiful as paper and wood, it has no grain, no organic fibres; nor does it weather in interesting ways as wood or metal, it doesn't acquire patina only a bunch of scratches. Plastics also come in a fairly limited range of garish colours.
By Polly Bak
Black And White
- October 20, 1987 to October 31, 1987
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grunt has run non-stop for over 3 years and 75 exhibitions and each year on the month of our anniversary the members at grunt prepare a show of their work. This year the theme is Blues chosen for its evocative moods and textures adn multiplicity of meanings. This exhibition will feature up to 20 artists that range from original members to members of a few months. In addition to the opening on July 20, performance artist Lowell Morris will perform a new work. At 10:30 Jazz singer Kate Hammett-Vaughan will sing a set of blues. On October 31 there is a concert of solo blues music by Terry Edmunds.
By Bryce Rosmussen, Cindy Johnson, Daav McNab, David Asmodeus, Dawn Richards, Dianne Radmore, Garry Ross, Georgie Haggerty, Hillary Wood, Joey Schwartzman, Kempton Dexter, Ken Gerberick, Paul MacDonald, Roy Green, Sarah Vincent, Spike, Terry Edmunds