The Mar Poles
Curator Susan Rowley This work plays on the name of Marpole, the Vancouver neighbourhood built on top of the ancient city of c̓әsnaʔәm. Instead of the …
Past Art Installations
Urban Living
Everyday photographic images and drawn images of a biker, a digital clock, a bridge, an iPod, a sign on the bridge, and a computer chip resembling a city m…
Placebo 4.9
Placebo 4.9 prompts discussion about the ideas of lifestyle and the coping mechanisms and habits that come with the constant migration to and fro in the ur…
Karin Bubas Statement for Canada Line
Studies in Desolation continues Karin Bubaš’s study of women in landscapes, however this series gets its inspiration from apocalyptic visions of ear…
Monument to Piazza Italia
Curator Jordan Wilson Monument to Piazza Italia (2014) is a work by Vancouver-based, Cree/Métis artist Gabe Hill. The photograph documents an evening of e…
Histoire d’O
Histoire d’O was the first large sculptural piece created by artist, Marie Khouri, upon her arrival in Vancouver in 2006. It was hand-sculpted in cla…
A Stable World that will Last Forever
It is the designer who must attempt to re-evaluate his role in the nightmare he helped to conceive, to retread the historical process which inverted the ho…
Untitled
Contemporary Art Gallery presents Toronto-based artist Jérôme Havre’s first presentation in Vancouver. Of Caribbean descent and originally from France,…
JERI
We wear our past and it is the basis of our interpretation of the world. “Jeri’s” surface has been heavily abstracted in such a way to emote symbols …
Flight of the Medici Mamluk
Shannon Bool is an artist who typically references a wide variety of historical and monumental objects in her work, commenting on the role of decorative ar…
Brand New View (Vancouver), 2014
This is the first solo exhibition in Canada by Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg comprising two interrelated large-scale commissions. Klingberg’s practice…
G7
This sculptural installation is based on the English phrase “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” It deals with the concepts of desire, greed, ris…
The March Sweater Project, 2016
LEE SNELGAR – Photographer RUSSELL ALTON – Geometry The March Sweater Project is a platform designed to promote awareness in support of Vancouver&#…
Then, Now, When
These drawings are based on my life and interests in modern architecture, urban landscapes, grids, and the density of cities. While based on real cities, m…
Tight City (2014)
With the real-estate bubble expanding and gentrification in full swing, affordable housing in Vancouver has become scarce. In TIGHT CITY, the youth art col…
Boulevard
March 28 to September 7, 2014 Off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, Canada Line For this new commission, a sequence of photographs of winter trees are g…