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Dates 2000

Anthony MacNab Favel

March 14, 2000 to April 7, 2000
Exhibition
This exhibition is the third in the New Sculpture Series guest curated by sculpture and writer Robin Peck. The New Sculpture Series was designed as a showcase for emerging sculptorsw and the three exhibitions will be shown together at the Evergreen Art Centre in Coquitlam in the fall of 2000 with the possibility of touring nationally in 2001.

February 8, 2000 to March 4, 2000
Exhibition
Saul Terry was the first native graduate of ECIAD in 1968 and worked as a sculptor in the late 60s and early 70s. In the mid 1970s he became involved in politics culminating in six terms as the president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. In 1998 he left politics and enrolled in the Art Institute Program at Capilano College producing the series of sculptural work featured in this exhibition. An essay on Terry's work by sculptor/educator George Rammell will acompany the exhibition.

April 18, 2000 to May 13, 2000
Exhibition
Dagmar Dahles series of paintings, China Birds, explores European decorative arts traditions during the period of development of sea trade between Europe and Asia (17th and 18th Century). By using ordinary, everyday objects from the 1950s and 1960s readily found in working and middle class households she uses free association to link historical events.

May 23, 2000 to June 17, 2000
Uncategorized
Claude Perreaults large collage installations deal with pop culture icons as the commodities of current consumer society and their influence on us all, drawing parallels with Catholic iconography that is satirical and insightful. His use of the media of collage is truly astounding, painting with colour photography from pornographic magazines. His subjects, Michael Jackson, Princess Diana, OJ Simpson et al, are revealed against classical representations that are over the top. Ornate to the point of gaudy, the works appropriate classical and ecclesiastic imagery revealing our societys fascination with icons. Perrault is a Montreal bassed artist who has shown extensively in Quebec. This will be his first show in Vancouver.

June 27, 2000 to July 22, 2000
Exhibition
Based on the classic conventions of portrait photography, Shari Hatt`s exhibition Dogs is an unflinching, up-close look at the mug shots of many marvelous mutts. Captured in lush, crisp intensity, these avant-guard dogs cut a colourful cross section of the canine world. From the smiling to the somber, the perky to the petulant, the playful to the proud, Hatt portrays each of her subjects with a careful blend of humour, sensitivity and respect. As a result, Dogs serves to please the eye while puzzling the mind.

May 25, 2000
Performance
A literary and philosophical stroll through the labyrinthine aisles of Walmart, throughout which Faust, now a Walmart CEO, weighs and ponders the value of his soul. His task today is to oversee the new arrival of genetically modified homunuli and to make sure they are not overpriced. True to his character he reviews important company items such as evil, the perverse imagination, online wagers, corporate expansion and the need for greed. His eternal sidekick Mephisto, provides useful information on diabolical investment schemes and shoplifting. While Faust and Mephisto argue about the merits of Nietzche, on the occasion of the centennial of his death, a mischievous homunculus makes a run for it.

November 17, 2000
Performance, Publication
High (bridi) Tea is a performative collaboration between artist Haruko Okano and writer Fred Wah that explores the visual and textual terrain of racial and cultural hybridity. The performance installation centres on table settings for 16 guests and, based on a material relationship on fungus and mould, plays with issues of contamination. Through a series of anecdotes and textual surprises, Okano and Wah interact with audience assumptions and expectations to create an unstable and questioning emulsion of language and memory. Haruko Okano is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver. Fred Wah is a Calgary based writer and teaches at the University of Calgary.