2009
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Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape ManualJanuary 23 to April 18, 2010Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual is an extensive two-floor survey of art that represents the diversity and richness of artistic vision in British Columbia. The exhibition highlights key artistic practices that have recorded, communicated and shaped the public perception of this region and defined a collective consciousness of this place. Drawn primarily from the Gallery’s rich permanent collection and supplemented with key loans, this exhibition includes landscapes, cityscapes and portraits in a variety of media that speak to the diversity of British Columbia, its peoples and its histories...Read more |
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Dawn
September 19, 2009 to January 17, 2010 |
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Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscapes 1860-1918October 17, 2009 to January 17, 2010The first major exhibition to explore the interaction of painting and photography in Canada and the United States from the time of the U.S. Civil War through the end of World War I. Organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and curated by Hilliard T. Goldfarb. Read More |
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Scott McFarlandOctober 3, 2009 to January 3, 2010Scott McFarland will include photographs produced over the past seven years that address the relationship between nature, civilization and representation through the depiction of rustic cabins, manicured landscapes, zoos, obsolescent photo-labs and the pastoral fringe of urban spaces. Read More |
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From the Collection
October 3, 2009 to January 3, 2010 |
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NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim
October 3, 2009 to January 3, 2010 |
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O ZhangJuly 20 to January 3, 2010The Vancouver Art Gallery will launch its new outdoor exhibition space, Offsite, located at the foot of the Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver near the intersection of Georgia and Thurlow streets. The first artwork to be presented at Offsite will be a site-specific installation of artist O Zhang’s major photographic installation Horizon (Sky). For this project, the artist returned to the rural area of her youth in central China to photograph the young village girls who live there. Enlarged to monumental proportions, the images of the young girls, each photographed on a country hillside, are presented with a strength and individuality not commonly represented in popular media. Read more |
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Stan DouglasMay 30 to November 8, 2009Stan Douglas is a renowned Vancouver artist whose art has consistently and provocatively explored the idea of historical record and narratives of location. Much of his work is thematically linked to this region and the many different peoples who have inhabited these lands. Read More |
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Two Visions: Emily Carr and Jack ShadboltMay 30 to November 8, 2009For most British Columbians of Euro- Canadian ancestry, Emily Carr defines how two subjects are viewed---the forest landscape of the province and the totemic sculpture of the First Nations. Subsequent artists working in the province have reacted to or against Carr’s example and Jack Shadbolt had a particularly strong relationship to Carr’s work. Read More |
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NEXT
May 6 to September 20, 2009 |
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Andreas Gursky:
May 30 to September 20, 2009 |
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Vermeer, Rembrandt
and the Golden Age of Dutch Art
May 10 to September 13, 2009 |
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Anthony HernandezMay 30 to September 7, 2009Anthony Hernandez has depicted the social landscape of Los Angeles for more than 40 years. In the tradition of Ed Ruscha’s gasoline stations and Every Building On The Sunset Strip, Hernandez and contemporaries such as Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz invested an apparently detached representation of the urban with an element of the social. Read More |
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Western LandscapesMarch 7 to May 18, 2009The landscape of British Columbia remains a major subject for artists. This exhibition presents works from the permanent collection which take the region’s landscape as their subject, but are remarkably different in terms of approach. Beginning with the pioneering images of Emily Carr, the exhibition also examines the realist work of E.J. Hughes, the visionary drawings of Ann Kipling and the expressionist landscapes of Gordon Smith. . . . Read More |
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Enacting AbstractionFebruary 14 to May 10, 2009The language of abstraction has informed and influenced artistic production for more than a century. The rejection of the figurative in favour of abstract art in the early decades of the 20th century posed a challenge to European artistic traditions that depended on representation of the real world and created radically new possibilities for artistic expression. . . Read More |
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How Soon Is NowFebruary 7 to May 3, 2009How Soon Is Now is an exhibition that looks outside the doors of the Vancouver Art Gallery at some of the most compelling artists working in the region. The exhibition comprises a survey of new work currently being produced by artists in the province of British Columbia, drawing from the breadth of artistic practice and concerns that motivate artists today. . . Read More |
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Legacies of Impressionism in CanadaJanuary 31 to April 19, 2009One of Canada’s finest landscape painters, Maurice Cullen (1866-1934) was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and raised in Montreal. At the age of 22, Cullen travelled to Paris to study painting. He absorbed the Impressionists’ devotion to the fleeting aspects of light and Claude Monet’s gardens at Giverny. . . Read More |
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