- September 15, 1998 to October 3, 1998
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The work of new York based artist, Tim Watkins has traditionally combined mechanical kinetic sculpture and organic forms. In this series, he moves towards more personal themes reflective of his life.
By Tim Watkins - Curated by Glenn Alteen
medium | 55 Programs
Medium SculptureA work of art carried out (caved, cast, modeled, or otherwise) in three dimensions.
- November 1, 2019 to December 14, 2019
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“How do you remember the past the most?”
Equal parts family recollection, historical research and spectral diary, Coco Means Ghost forms the moving image focal point of Gabi Dao’s new installation. Rooted in Dao’s research along the Mekong Delta and her own family’s history between cultures, a sentimental dissidence employs sculpture, video and sound to put imagined contemporary and historical diasporic voices in conversation. At the centre of the exhibition is a haunting: the eponymous narrator (a ghost in the form of a coconut) resists a singular place and time, moving freely, if not lightly, through personal photographs, contemporary commentary and archival material. Other characters appear– Lan, Ong Nam, Mr.Le, Quang, An, Nguyen and Dung–and together they tell the fragmented story of Ong Dao Dua ( ‘Mr.Coconut’), a monk who founded a small, self-sustaining, anti-war community in the late 1960s-70’s on Con Phung, an island colloquially known to westerners as the “Coconut Kingdom.” Through the lens of Ong Dao Dua’s oft-mythologized character, the work becomes an avenue to explore and enmesh broader notions of memory, nationhood, belief, belonging and dreams for the future.
Dao combines the single-channel video with sonically activated sculptures that transmit her family’s narrative in another form: excerpts from “Foreign Accent Improvement” cassettes used by the artist’s parents in the 1980s. a sentimental dissidence points to texture and poetics rather than conclusive fact, and creates a landscape that at once immerses, entangles and pushes back.
1. coco means ghost: Screen & Video, 25m24s, followed by a short pause. HD video, 2.1 sound, LED lights, cans of coconut water, photograph, bench & pillows.
2. you and i, i and you: Sculptures & Audio, 6m30s, followed by a short pause. Beaded curtains, UV reducing window vinyl, transducers, tempered glass, aluminum.
Accessibility: Hearing Access: Un-captioned English audio, some subtitled Vietnamese (written in English). Sight Access: Low light conditions
By Gabi Dao - Curated by Vanessa Kwan
a sentimental dissidence
- 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
- February 1, 1998
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No description available
By Laura Wee Lay Laq
At the Mercy Of
- March 14, 2000 to April 7, 2000
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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.
By Shelley Rahme
Beauty Piece
- 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
- July 5, 2012 to August 4, 2012
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BLIZZARD: Emerging Northern Artists looks at indigenous artists working in the North who are using their traditions to forge new ideas around contemporary art. The exhibition and publication, in development for over two years, looks at the influence of Inuit and Northern traditional art forms and how these are translated by a younger generation of artists whose roots are in the North. How does the landscape and context of the North influence the visions of its young artists and how do our interpretations of that dreaming - our preconceptions about the North - influence our understanding? Curated by Artist/Curator Tania Willard, BLIZZARD looks at a younger generation of Northern Artists breaking barriers by questioning relationships that tie North and South.
By Geronimo Inutiq, Jamasie Pitseolak, Nicholas Galanin, Tanya Lukin Linklater - Curated by Tania Willard
Blizzard: Emerging Northern Artists
- April 7, 2007 to May 12, 2007
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No description available
By Kuh Del Rosario