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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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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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Kai AlthoffNovember 8, 2008 to February 15, 2009In the first Canadian exhibition of Althoff’s work, the Gallery’s presentation will focus primarily on new material. Central to the exhibition will be a collaborative installation entitled the Weaving Place. Althoff will design this space to display and experience the work of San Francisco-based artist Travis Joseph Meinolf, whose manifesto and invention of the Laser-Loom explores issues related to alternative modes of production and the distribution of goods. Other new work will include sculptures made solely for this presentation and a collaborative dance-theatre piece, entitled I will be last. Read More |
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Jeff WallOctober 25, 2008 to January 25, 2009Vancouver artist Jeff Wall has become internationally recognized for his compelling photographs. Over the past thirty years, he has asserted the importance of the pictorial traditions of modernism in the wake of the challenges to that tradition presented by conceptual art and the postmodern critiques of representation of the 1980s and 1990s. Read More |
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Rapture and Ruin
October 25, 2008 to January 25, 2009 |
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WACK! Art and the Feminist RevolutionOctober 4, 2008 to January 11, 2009WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution is the first comprehensive, international survey of a remarkable body of work that emerged from the dynamic relationship between art and feminism between 1965 and 1980, a time in which a majority of feminist activism and art-making occurred across the globe. Read More |
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NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim
October 4, 2008 to January 11, 2009 |
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Canadian Women Modernists: the Dialogue with Emily CarrApril 19 to October 19, 2008In the early years of the twentieth century, working as a female artist was particularly challenging. Nonetheless, there was a strong desire among many female artists to express themselves in a way that was responsive to the modern world and to currents in art. Read More |
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Zhang Huan: Altered StatesJune 7 to October 5, 2008Zhang Huan: Altered States is the first museum survey of Zhang Huan, encompassing major works produced over the past 15 years in Beijing, New York and Shanghai. Zhang Huan is best known for his early body-based performances, both controversial and poetic, most of which involve physical endurance. He moved to New York IN 1998 and established himself as one of the most important and widely recognized expatriate Chinese artists. More recently, Zhang returned to China and founded a studio in Shanghai, where he has expanded his medium. Read More |
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Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the OccasionJune 7 to October 5, 2008Through powerful images that implicate the body, performances that address history and memory, and gestures that evoke a sense of place, Rebecca Belmore is known for creating multi-disciplinary works that reveal a long-standing commitment to the politics of identity and representation. Read More |
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NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim
June 6 to September 7, 2008 |
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KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games
May 17 to September 7, 2008 |
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Kutlug Ataman: Paradise and KübaFebruary 9 to May 19, 2008In his newly commissioned video installation, Kutlug Ataman offers a remarkable portrait of twenty-four southern Californians who describe their encounter with that place they call “paradise.” Read More |
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TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945February 2 to April 27, 2008The hauntingly beautiful photographs created within the Pictorialist movement in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries are among the most important works of art in the medium’s history. Read More |
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The Tree: From the Sublime to the SocialFebruary 2 to April 20, 2008The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social begins with images of the forest as a subject that inspires awe and instills reverence for the power of nature. This association with the spiritual and sublime is inherent in the historical work of Emily Carr and is further investigated by contemporary artists such as Ed Pien and Kevin Schmidt. Read More |
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