Visual Arts
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Jan 15, 2009
Howell's black and white portraits of minor league wrestlers, in all their pomp and mitigated glory, were published originally in book form and now receive larger spreads on the walls of Winsor Galery. The docu-interest (and comic tensions) in figures like Cheechuk the Warrior and Bam-Bam Bambi is undeniable.
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Jan 1, 2009
The city’s largest park is deconstructed in an exhibit that sheds light on our blind love affair with supposedly pristine “nature.” The exhibit, presented in Chinese and English, details a long history of human intervention and manipulation that has and drastically altered the iconic park so it would conform with the public’s idea of how “wild” nature should look. Vancouver Museum.
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Jan 29, 2009
For his eighth solo show at the Diane Farris Gallery, Lam (best known, perhaps, for his mammoth pear sculptures) has painted a series of acrylic works that pay homage to classical Greek figural sculptures.
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Jan 16, 2009
For the continuation of Moore’s Uncertain Pilgrimage project (which began in 2006), Catriona Jeffries has given the young artist a full month to install work at the gallery; the resulting sculpture exhibit builds on his travelling and spontaneous interactions outside the gallery. (In the past, Moore had an intervention with a baker in Italy and went to artist Richard Long’s house to ask for a pair of boots.)
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Feb 12, 2009
New works from the man whose wax, ink, and oil series are constantly branching in different directions. A few constants, though: his scenarios often draw on a faux-naïve cast of characters and evoke the artist’s “desire for authenticity.”
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Jan 16, 2009
In the early 1990s, a society in flux led Chinese artists to perform dramatic new physical works that were then documented with cameras; as those photos and videos began to appear in galleries, performances started to be staged with the camera in mind. Among the 14 artists in this survey of performance photography are Zhang Huan, Hong Hao, Cang Xin, and the Gao brothers.
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Nov 28, 2008
Photographs from the 1950s to 1970s, from the collections of CBC Vancouver, the studio of Dick Oulton, and the archives of the Penthouse Nightclub, are collected for this racy survey of vintage shots. A related lecture will be given by sociologist Becki Ross (2 p.m., January 10) on "Burlesque West: Showgirls, sex, and sin in Vancouver's Nightclubs, 1945 to 1980."
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Nov 14, 2008
The Vancouver Art Gallery’s curator of B.C. art, Grant Arnold, has sifted through the collection to create this survey of several branching traditions in landscape representation from the late 18th century to the present. A fine roundup for lovers of Simon Schama’s tome Landscape and Memory, it includes examples by Emily Carr, Paul Cézanne, Geoffrey James, Takao Tanabe, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and others.
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Dec 4, 2008
A quarter-century after her gallery’s launch, Diane Farris gathers a fleet of mature artists who were with her in the early (Gastown) days. This exhibit includes current work by Graham Gilmore, Angela Grossmann, Attila Richard Lukacs, and others.
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Dec 31, 1969
Since the late 1970s, Wall’s large-scale, meticulously produced photographs have had a massive and global impact on the art world. This exhibit—Wall’s first solo show in his hometown since 1990—features the gallery’s four new acquisitions.
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