Her series Precious consists of a group of repurposed farm implements that Jones has embellished with damascene inlay, an age-old technique originally developed for inlaying silver and gold on arms and armour. The work addresses pastoral notions of agricultural labour and the romanticization of rural life. Image credit: Karin Jones, Scythe (detail), 2010, from the
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Something More than Nothing
23.05.19 - 15.09.19
From domestic or care work, to digital and tech labour that is increasingly performed in the home as piece work, to the hidden labour that is inherent in the art world itself, all the works in this exhibition draw attention to labour that, though often ignored, is nevertheless fundamental to the workings of the world.
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For her project Gen 1.5 at The Reach, Zhang combines installation, performance, and photography to address her own experience as a “1.5 generation” immigrant, constantly navigating between cultures and discourses. The Art on Demand exhibition program is a part of Emerge @ The Reach, a creative incubator that offers exciting professional development activities to aspiring
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Through a series of sculptural installations, screen-prints, sound and video installations, and photographs examining the significance of merging symbols between Latin American art and history and its diaspora in Canada, Colín’s project for The Reach will look closely at the lives and experiences of participants in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), which brings thousands
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Curated by Lisa Edwards Art Demand 5.1 features work by emerging local artist Kendra Schellenberg. Featuring images of the female form drawn from glossy magazines, then reinterpreted and transformed using natural elements like wood and thorns, the works in this exhibition address broad themes of body and identity, particularly as they relate to notions of
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Curated by Kate Petrusa With her project When I Cross-Stitch, I Feel Like a Machine, emerging artist Mallory Donen explores the nuances of the human/machine relationship by employing repetitive artistic processes such as embroidery, knitting, and digital image-making, in an attempt to explore and understand what she has in common with machines. View Monograph Image
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Emerging artist Stephanie Patsula earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, and has recently relocated to Edmonton to pursue her Master of Fine Art at the University of Alberta. Her work to date has tended to be performance-based, taking place in remote wilderness areas for very limited (or no) audiences.
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Cindy Baker is an interdisciplinary and performance artist whose practice explores gender culture, queer theory, fat activism, and art theory, often with a focus on the ways weakening, disabled, obese, or otherwise socially taboo bodies fail to meet the demands of capitalist, consumer culture. This exhibition includes two distinct but related bodies of work. Crash
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Remote Gardening with DysfunctionED Tools: A Mohsen Khalili Retrospective
24.01.19 - 05.05.19
Originally from Tehran, Mohsen Khalili emigrated to Canada in 1997 and was soon exhibiting his work regularly in the Lower Mainland. Khalili’s career took an unexpected turn when he was diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition that attacks vital organs, skin, and bones. As he continues to work with physical tools that are increasingly failing,
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British Columbia’s War, 1914–1918
27.09.18 - 06.01.19
This bilingual exhibition organized and circulated by the Royal BC Museum is designed to educate British Columbians about the contributions of their forebears in the First World War. British Columbia’s War, 1914–1918 is comprised of archival photographs, fascinating stories, and historical artifacts drawn from the RBCM’s extensive collection, and expanded upon with additional content from
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