Exhibition

Wanda Koop – Face to Face

20 November 2009 - 10 January, 2010
Opening: Thursday 19 November, 7–9 pm

Richmond Art Gallery

Recognized for her landscapes, Koop's solo exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery will present a little-known aspect of Koop’s production: portraits and figures spanning nearly 25 years. Beginning with large-scale paintings of Chinese opera characters, the exhibition will include works developed from extensive notes and sketches recorded on Koop’s first trip to China in 1986, and recent works on robotics. This exhibition precedes and complements Koop's major exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in 2011.

 

O Zhang

July 20 to November 29, 2009

Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery will launch its new outdoor exhibition space, Offsite, with a site-specific installation by Chinese artist O Zhang from July 20 to November 29, 2009. Offering a rotating program of innovative public art projects by local and international contemporary artists, the new exhibition space in the downtown core will allow artists to explore and respond to Vancouver’s unique urban environment. Located at the base of the Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver near the intersection of Georgia and Thurlow streets, Offsite will present new projects organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery every six months, funded by the City of Vancouver through the Public Art Program.

JUDY RADUL: World Rehearsal Court

Oct 9 to Dec 6,2009

Morris and Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

World Rehearsal Court is large-scale media installation by Vancouver artist Judy Radul. In one area, a pre-recorded seven-channel video work presents a series of court room vignettes based on trial transcripts from the international Criminal Tribunals, The solemn videos contrast with live scenes captures by a series of a computer-controlled cameras and displayed on an array of monitors. The two parts of the exhibit create a tension that challenges the kinds of distinctions made by courtrooms and lawyers between experience, testimony, truth, and fiction.
Through World Rehearsal Court. Radul investigates the complexities of real-life experience, the roles of new technologies in court of law, and the compression of such complex, multi-sensory and multi-dimensional experience into written record . The work reflects aspects of Radul’s Doene’s Point(2005),which explored the spatial architecture of views through a camera lens, and Describe Video(2007),which examined different kinds of “blind spots”.

www.belkin.ubc.ca

ROW: Reflections on Water

September 12 to November 22, 2009

Museum of Art and History
502 Vernon St., Nelson BC, V1L 4E7

ROW: Reflections on Water navigates our symbolic associations with water, such as renewal, the fountain of life and the unconscious.  It does this by juxtaposing artifacts from the Touchstones Nelson permanent collection with the work of nine contemporary artists.  A variety of media will be featured, including:  film, video, installation, photography, story, drawing, painting and sculpture.  What unites the diversity of this exhibition is an eye to presenting a narrative beyond literal and figurative meaning.
Meaningful examples include turn of the century baptismal gowns and Bathing as Ritual, a video installation by Nancy Rosenblum; a historic wooden row boat and the photorealist paintings of the surface of water by Karen Rice; a collection of trilobite fossils from ancient seas that covered the Rocky Mountain Trench and the telling of the story of Coyote’s creation of the Columbia Basin by Marilyn James.

http://www.touchstonesnelson.ca/exhibitions/index.php