This exhibition considers the relationship between the aesthetics of kitsch and the role that commercial platforms such as Instagram and Etsy play in the critical reception of contemporary art. Using scratchboards and ceramics respectively, Hooge and McGiveron create works that visually resemble childhood narratives, presenting unusual creatures that are sweetly unnerving. Image Credit: Andrea Hooge,
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Artists Rebecca Chaperon, Davida Kidd, and Chris Reid all use elements of narrative to conjure intense and imaginative worlds through a variety of media including paint, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Although stylistically different, all the work in this exhibition shares a common bond through the artists’ relationship to literary structure and storytelling. Accomplished BC writers
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Saskia Jetten’s work is grounded in printmaking but includes drawing, soft sculpture, and stop-motion animation. In this new body of work, Jetten continues to explore familiar themes through a series of stylized, ungainly figures. The work explores identity and inter-personal relationships, often using the theme of masks and masquerade and the figure of the clown
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Marjatta Itkonen was born in Finland and immigrated to Canada in 1972. As one of five children and a mother of four of her own, like many women artists of her generation she has been required to balance the creative impulse against the demands of family life. Throughout her decades-long practice, she has made little
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Recent paintings by Christopher Friesen are based on the ubiquity and circulation of imagery from the Western art historical canon. Using landscape paintings by French artist Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) as a point of departure, Friesen explores notions of influence, quotation, authorship, and the “real” in the age of digital reproduction. Image Credit: Christopher
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The Projectionist brings together video, painting, performance, and objects from The Reach’s historical collections to explore cinematic histories, settler narratives, gender roles, and museum collections as sites of contested value and values, as well as the role played by museum artifacts (and objects in general) in the construction of identities. Neufeld’s expansive and playful approach to exhibition-making
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We are metaphorically skin boats sustained by, and inseparable from, a dangerously changing global ocean. Salt Water Skin Boats is an inter-arts project by visual artist Erica Grimm in collaboration with acclaimed sound artist Sheinagh Anderson and artist/arborist Tracie Stewart. This large-scale installation and experimental soundscape draws analogies between human bodies and the global ocean.
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