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Exhibition

Doug Smarch Jr is a Tlingit artist living and working in Teslin, Yukon. Smarch Jr.’s studies of First Peoples’ culture, craft, and story telling are met with the study of the history of technology. What results in Lucinations is a 3D animation of a Medicine Man’s story knit together from anecdotes collected in his home community of Teslin, Yukon, projected on a large white feather screen.

Or Musique: November 26
Artist’s Talk by Doug Smarch Jr

Exhibition

Former board member Melanie O’Brian curates three artists from Los Angeles with three artists from Vancouver using Ed Ruscha’s bookworks as a conceptual starting point.

Performance

Artist’s Talk by Kerry Tribe
Music by Bastion Mews

Special-Event

Exhibition

Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky produce sculptures based on principles of mimicry, approximation and substitution. In some works the artists use immediate means such as casting, tracing or embossing to record the shape and surface characteristics of various objects ranging in size from single staples to automobiles.

Using the most direct means possible, each object is rendered in a single material that approximates its general physical character in terms of colour, opacity, and reflectivity. The limits of the selected materials often result in representations which succeed in certain terms yet fail in others: simplifications, incomplete versions, or exaggerations that manage degrees of simulation, depiction, or evocation.

Performance

Artist’s Talk by Holly Ward
Music by Jeffrey Allport and Tim Olive
Essay by Igor Santizo

Exhibition

Shary Boyle’s practice is based in drawing and painting, and extends into sculpture, projection and performance. She has traveled and exhibited internationally, setting up temporary studios in remote villages such as Dawson City, Yukon and Avondale Nova Scotia, as well as urban centres like Amsterdam, Berlin and Los Angeles. Currently returned from her wanderings and based in Toronto, Boyle has spent the last 6 months making a series of paintings, to be introduced at the Or Gallery as Companions. This work greatly departs from the landscape of fantastical characters in strange environments of her previous paintings, presenting an evolutionary leap in material discipline and focus of content. Her use of underpainting and glazing inspires reflection on craft, patience and the obsessive nature of love. Companions can be viewed as a series of self-portraits and a testimony to the artist’s commitment to solitude.

Exhibition

Vancouver-based artist Holly Ward combines tropes of modernist architecture, science fiction movie sets and utopian design in an interactive, electro-acoustic, sculptural installation. The Future Is Now was constructed during her residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in the winter of 2004. Ward has recently participated in the traveling Soundtracks exhibition.

Or Musique: July 15
Artist’s Talk by Holly Ward
Music by Jeffrey Allport and Tim Olive
click here for an essay by Igor Santizo

Exhibition

HOLDUP is a computer animation made with six images from a short sequence of surveillance camera footage of a bank robbery. Using this footage, Gal constructed a motion picture that simulates the experience of looking through a kaleidoscope. The footage of the bank robbery is only visible at a point in the film when the film rewinds itself. By looking at a hypnotic or psychedelic image and shifting to a position of soberness and control, the role of the viewer changes from that of an innocent bystander to a witness.

Exhibition

Hurry Slowly pertains to notions of time: social, historical, and to it’s relationship with artistic process.

“…a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.”
–Italo Calvino Quickness

Exhibition

Vancouver-based artists Marina Roy and Natasha McHardy assume the identities Boucher and Cacciatore as they embark on a do-it-yourself adventure, taking their audience through a step-by-step gastronomic experience in the kitchen and a life affirming journey through the mundane trials and tribulations of better living.

Special-Event

With Music by Destroyer, Young and Sexy, Bonaparte