Our Communities Our Stories: Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do or Do Without
27.10.11 - 08.01.12
The exhibition of permanent collection artefacts will demonstrate early successes at re-use, recycling and re-purposing from Tramp Art created from cigar boxes in contravention of Federal Excise laws and making and remaking quilts to ingenious repairs to extend the useful life of a valued possession.
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From prehistoric to modern times, civilizations have employed repetition and patterns as if conveying a secret language, mathematics or meaning. When investigating the microscopic world, the rituals of patterning reflect the hidden mathematic complexities of diamond, DNA, celluar, structures, and fractal geometry to name a few of the many example of patterns nature has to
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Punjabi Visions
Ali Kazimi, Baljit Kaur, Jarnail Singh, Jeet Aulakh, JitenThukral, Manu Kaur Saluja, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Shilpa Gupta, Sumir Tagra
27.10.11 - 08.01.12
This exhibition brings together regional, national and international artists who explore the social memories and cultural heritages of the Punjabi/Sikh communities. The artists in this exhibition employ various visual strategies revealing original and unconventional approaches that are characteristic of some of Canada’s most divergent, rising visual artists. These strategies include: exploration of spiritual, religious and
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These images were reworked and applied to wooden panelling which was sourced from post consumer facilities. These surfaces were gradually built up over time with material being collaged on then partially scraped off to reveal the previous layers. This process would repeat as the image developed eventually leading to a visual conclusion. In creating these
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These artists push the traditional boundaries of bead-making with a focus on individual style and experimentation. The exhibit features art glass beads on their own, as well as art glass beads used in finished jewellery or sculptural work. Pacific Pyros is a group of glass bead-makers based in Vancouver, BC with members from across BC
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The artists positioned seventeen cameras throughout Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu stadium and directed a team of camera operators to remain fixed on the French soccer star throughout the entire match. This installation juxtaposes a film composed of footage from all seventeen cameras with the raw footage from camera number one. Zidane’s image is projected larger than
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Drawn entirely from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition brings together the work of 27 twentieth century artists who examine industrial exploitation, large-scale government action, the atrocities of warfare, the history of slavery and the representation of women in society. Curated by Ian M. Thom, Senior Curator, Historical Organized and circulated by the
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The Disasters of War is divided into three parts. The first illustrates the horrors of war and its effects; the second deals with famine and displacement as a consequence of war; and the last, through allegorical scenes, explores the trauma of the postwar period. Together these two bodies of work have come to be seen
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It addresses issues around hybrid culture and its relationship to place, migration, boundary and transformation in the 21st century. It examines global dialogues by bringing together social processes, mobility of place and cultural interaction to connect with migration, identity and memory. The two rivers are positioned as metaphors for hybrid identity and culture and are
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