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Vancouver Show Listings

As of Mar.01.2006

Welcome to the first installment of the Visual Codec Vancouver show listings!! Note that this is a compilation, meaning we take most of the descriptive text on word from the venues. To be considered for inclusion in our show listings next month, send an email to vaclist@visualcodec.com after reviewing our submission guidelines.

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Access
206 Carrall St, 604.689.2907
Alisdair MacRae, 100 Snakes, feb.18:mar.25
MacRae's work is often concerned with issues of community and exchange. Related to this is the artist's interest in self-definition in relation to exterior forms and social situations. 100 Snakes: Architecture for the Eye is a structural investigation of these relationships. The installation will consist of a row of triangular cloth panels near the ceiling of the gallery space.

Art Beatus
108-808 Nelson St, 604.688.2633
2006 FIFA World Cup Art Posters, feb.13:apr.29

Artspeak
233 Carrall St, 604.688.0051
Ian Skedd, DJ Booth / Listening Booth, feb.18:mar.25

Belkin Gallery
UBC 1825 Main Mall, 604.822.2759
Stan Douglas, Inconsolable Memories, jan.20:mar.19
For this exhibition, Douglas is presenting a new film work and a series of photographs inspired by his recent trips to Cuba. The photographs were shot over the last two years and depict the recycled and often dilapidated urban architecture of Havana and its environs. Banks converted into motorcycle lots and villas transformed into schools embody the shifting economies of use under Castro's Revolution. Douglas' prints are immaculate and technically flawless, in obvious contrast to the ruin and entropy they portray.

Belkin Satellite
555 Hamilton St, 604.687.3174
Group show, Common Room, mar.04:apr.02
A two-part exhibition curated by students of The University of British Columbia's MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies (CCST) program. The first part, opening March 3rd, will present the work of nine emerging artists from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program. The second part will be installed on March 21st, and any remaining space in the gallery will be filled with works selected from The University of British Columbia's Art Collection.

Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery
1727 West 3rd Ave, 604.738.3500
Gayle Ryon, Water+, mar.02:mar.30
Ocean-inspired paintings with iconoclastic mark making.

Blanket Gallery
4-2414 Main St, 604.709.6100
Mat Bushell, mar.03:mar.31
Bushell investigates how technology helps to inform and shape the sensibility of a culture, specifically with regard to direct physical sensation. This body of work is a result of the artist's experimentation with microprocessor/software technologies in order to make visible their latent phenomenological properties and create a situation where the relationship between technology, sensibility and sensation is crucial.

Buschlen Mowatt
1445 W Georgia St, 604.682.1234
Modern and Contemporary Masters, mar.01:mar.31
Featuring Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Man Ray, Robert Motherwell, Antoni Tapies, Marino Marini, Joan Miro, and Mimo Paladino.

CAG
555 Nelson St, 604.681.2700
Myfanwy MacLeod, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, jan.20:mar.19

Centre A
2 W Hastings St, 604.683.8326
Group Show, China Trade, mar.04:apr.08
A group exhibition of installation, photography, painting, ceramics, film and video showcasing the latest developments in contemporary art by renowned international artists from China, Taiwan and Vancouver. "China Trade" is intended to encourage a public discussion of the long history and growing importance of Canada's trade with China. It presents an ideal opportunity to engage the business and trade communities in the adventure of contemporary Asian art and to involve the public in trade issues. The exhibition is curated by Zheng Shengtian, co-curator of the 2004 Shanghai Biennale and managing editor of Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.

CSA Space
2422 Main St, 604.876.4311
A stupendous little gem of a gallery showing cutting-edge work just a few doors down and up the stairs from Pulpfiction Books (where you can get the key and instructions).

Diane Farris Gallery
1590 W 7th Ave, 604.737.2629
Grace Gordon Collins, Beyond the Obvious, mar.02:mar.18
A series of architectural photographs taken over time in the port area of North Vancouver then cropped into abstract sensations of colour and shape. Shipping containers and piles of plywood signify the inscrutable face of ports worldwide. Contents cannot be seen and are not always examined by port authorities, masking the implicit danger of what might be hidden within. The series also includes images of people and place.

Douglas Udell Gallery
1558 W 6th Ave, 604.736.8931
See website for programming.

Elissa Cristall Gallery
2245 Granville St, 604.730.9611
Randall Steeves, River Variations, mar.17:apr.15
The artist has entered into the creation of this series by way of a meditative consideration of a very specific location. The work consists of forty confidently rendered panels, all the same subject. The subject is a single tree and an old wharf located on the river that runs through the artist's home town.

Elliott Louis Gallery
1540 W 2nd, 604.736.3282
Thep Thavonsouk, Light, Shadow and Saffron Robes, feb.23:mar.12

Exposure Gallery
851 Beatty St, 604.688.9501
Group Show, Big Pictures, mar.25:apr.09

Federation Gallery
1241 Cartwright St, 604.681.8534
Group Show, Success!, mar.14:mar.26
Annual exhibition of recently successful Signature status applicants.

Helen Pitt Gallery
102-148 Alexander, 604.681.6740
Erin Shirreff and Colin Zaug, Dual II, mar.03:apr.01
Dual II is the second of a two-exhibition experiment that considers the unavoidable cross-readings and interpretations of the duo-show format. The exhibition features new sculpture, drawings and video projection by Erin Shirreff and Colin Zaug.

Ian Tan Gallery
2202 Granville St, 604.738.1077
Erika Toliusis, Oil on Canvas, mar.01:mar.31

Jacana
2435 Granville St, 604.879.9306
Joe Evershot, Gone Coastal, mar.02:mar.14
New works by artist Joe Evershot created during a sabbatical in Ucluelet on the wet coast of Vancouver Island.

Jennifer Kostuik Gallery
2928 Granville St, 604.737.3969
Dianne Bos, Verre et Mer, mar.02:mar.26
A cult medium comes to life when one of Canada's most celebrated pinhole photographers, Dianne Bos, displays a new series of work for the month of March. Known for her grand interiors, Dianne continues to explore the quality of French light. In Verre et Mer light spills into empty spaces and crawls across tiled floors and textured walls.

Marion Scott Gallery
308 Water St, 604.685.1934
Supernatural, mar.18:apr.23
The spiritual realm has been a common and enduring theme in modern Inuit art produced over the last five decades. Even today, after modernization and urbanization have dramatically altered the shape of Inuit society, many artists across the North continue to be inspired by the otherwordly subjects (shamans, spirits and human-like animals) that for centuries governed the lives and imaginations of their forebears.

Monte Clark Gallery
2339 Granville St, 604.730.5000
Group Show, School of Hard Knocks, feb.22:apr.01
A collection of hard hitting photographs which register their impact in the realm of the emotional as well as the physical. Artists include Larry Clark, Mike Kelley, August Sander, Thomas Annan, Danny Lyon, Weegee, David Ostrem, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Arthur Rothstein and Bruce Davidson.

Or Gallery
103-480 Smithe, 604.683.7395
Group Show, Why I'm So Unhappy, feb.24:mar.25
Examines the theme of unhappiness from diverse cultural and economic perspectives. More than just an intimate emotional state made trite in a public context, unhappiness is often a manifestation of discontent and a form of cultural critique.

Petri Dish
2406 Main St, 604.876.3060
Mike Halwa, Randomonium, mar.10:apr.11
Randomonium is the last twelve months of Mike Halwa's life documented in digital. These images represent what Mike loves most about photography, which is seeking out the interesting world which surrounds him. Mike does not work out of a studio so he spends as much time as possible wandering the outdoors and recently has been drawn to Vancouver's impressive graffiti art, dumpsters and their surrounding environments, plus the many people surviving on the streets. "I try not to work from an agenda or shot list so whatever I found interesting is what made it into this show." Mike's photographs allow us to contemplate the ordinary things in our life that we might not otherwise have time to acknowledge. He illuminates everyday vignettes by artistically composing each one, turning them from ordinary to extraordinary.

Presentation House gallery
333 Chesterfield Ave, 604.986.1351
Carolee Schneemann, Devour, mar.11:apr.09
A dual-screen video projection that continues Schneemann's exploration of the ways that feminist issues can be integrated into imaging that addresses current global issues. She brings the vitality of her ongoing analysis of role of the domestic in the public, but re-contextualized in the collapse of public order, the threats to society posed by global events, and the similarity of today's barbarism to the barbarism of the past.

Railspur Alley Open Studios
1315 Railspur Alley, 604.731.0068
From the one of the artists (Michael den Hertog, #13): "My studio is also my gallery, part of Granville Island's 'open studios' project on Railspur Alley, where visitors can interact with the artists at work."

Tracey Lawrence Gallery
1531 W 4th, 604.730.2875
Althea Thauberger, Photography, feb.10:mar.18
Thauberger, who was herself a tree planter for ten years, records the working life and down-time of these dedicated people, capturing them within landscapes alternatively pristine and decimated. The photographic portraits contain subtle performative gestures and collaborations with her subjects, inviting both sympathetic and critical reflection of tropes relating to individualism and self-expression, romanticism and nature and aspects of youth cultures with which she has personal experience.

Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby, 604.662.4719
See website for programming.

Vancouver Museum
1100 Chestnut St, 604.736.4431
See website for programming.

Western Front
303 E 8th, 604.878.7563
One of Vancouver's most cutting-edge art spaces. See website for programming.