- May 9, 2003 to May 31, 2003
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German painter Jochen Twelker will travel from Berlin to work on what he calls "an anthology of pattern and ornament". Short Cuts will be painted directly on the walls of the gallery, transforming it into an ephemeral canvas whose images must be painted over when the exhibition ends. At first glance his painted installations appear as pure abstraction, but closer examination reveals multi-coloured fabrics and clothes - fashions of countless times, cultures, and tastes. Languages of painting, image, and associative meaning are spoken in a riot of colour and shape, a feast for the senses.
By Jochen Twelker
medium | 69 Programs
Medium PaintingA picture or image made with paint such as oils or watercolours.
- November 22, 1988 to December 22, 1988
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Exhibition of paintings and postcards by David Ostrem from his work "Social Criticism, A display of generational rage by a guy born in 1945."
By David Ostrem - Curated by Donna Hagerman
Social Criticism
- January 11, 2019 to March 2, 2019
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This new series of work by Mexican Canadian artist Carlos Colín merges symbols of Latin American conceptualist art, and Latin American colonialist history, past and present, and its diaspora. Working with archives, books, footage, and audio material related to Latin American history, the artist creates a work based on photographs, text and/or audio with parallels between, arts, politics, religion, and society.
By Carlos Colín - Curated by Glenn Alteen
Strident Aesthetic. Towards a new liberation
- December 8, 2004 to December 24, 2004
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No description available
By Osmar Yero Montero
Summer’s Eyes
- December 8, 2004 to December 24, 2004
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By Osmar Yero Montero
Summer’s Eyes
- September 7, 2017 to October 14, 2017
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Technical Problem is an exhibition of mixed media drawings by Vancouver-based, Iranian-born artist Aileen Bahmanipour that explores cyclical political power and cultural identity. Bahmanipour’s work draws from Iran’s mythic history such as the story of King Zahak contained in the national epic poem Shahnameh written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE. Zahak was cursed by the kiss of the devil with two snakes that grew out of his shoulders. According to the legend, he began beheading the youth of Iran to feed their brains to his snakes. Fearful of being bitten by the snakes, Zahak sacrificed the future intellectual life of an entire nation. The works in the exhibition reference Persian miniature painting, creating an allegorical language that shifts between the political reality of Bahmanipour’s home country, narrative construction, and personal symbolism. She elicits the contradictions between Iran’s mythic past and relationship to modernity as a utopic ideal in contrast with the state’s ongoing repressive control of its people. Medical illustrations and cross sections of limbs combined with animal and abstract forms mimic the border between the interior and exterior, and dissect the past as a reflection of the present. Bahmanipour’s work is both fantastical and meticulous, expressing a process of transformation unfolding and in tension.
By Aileen Bahmanipour - Curated by Glenn Alteen
Technical Problem
- June 15, 1993 to July 10, 1993
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By Anne Jew, Deanne Achong, Kathleen Dick, Shani Mootoo, Sulih Williams, Sur Mehat - Curated by Larissa Lai
Telling Relations: Sexuality And The Family
- January 1, 1994 to January 6, 2016
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The Al Neil Collection includes materials on artist, musician, and writer Al Neil whose long and storied career has included grunt's Al Neil Project (see 2005.1015ALN) as a part of the LIVE Biennale of Performance Art 2005, features in brunt Magazine and the web project Ruins In Process: Vancouver Art in the 60s, and continues with grunt's involvement with the relocation, preservation, and reactivation of Al Neil and Carole Itter's cabin from the Dollarton shore. The Al Neil Collection includes physical copies of Neil's music recordings, photocopied and original articles on Neil, and various ephemera related to Neil's life and work.
By Al Neil
The Al Neil Collection
- June 21, 2013 to July 27, 2013
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"The Big Foldy Painting of Death is a kind of west coast Canadian visual journey through its creator's mind in large scale. It's not an illustration of death or an entirely allegorical painting, but more a meditation on environment and social structures of Western Canada" Noah Becker
By Ian Forbes
The Big Foldy Painting of Death
- July 8, 1997 to July 26, 1997
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By Julie Oakes