2014 RECAP & WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST IN 2015!

We wanted to wish you all the best for 2015, and to give you a sneak preview of what will be coming up for 2015. 

In 2015, we will be kicking January off with three exciting events: an exhibition tour of Tom Burrows' exhibition at the Belkin Gallery, a visit to the studio of Tiziana La Melia, 2014 winner of the RBC Painting Prize and a Tour of three art spaces and exhibitions in Chinatown. We have a great couple of collection tours planned for the early spring, one collection has over 1,200 pieces, very impressive! The CASV and its members will also be going a bit further afield, visiting some inspiring spaces and collections in North Vancouver. It is going to a spring of cherry blossoms and well, ART! 

2014 was a very busy year for the CASV.   

If you ever needed reasons to convince a friend or art lover to Join the CASV just show them this list of great programming events we hosted in 2014. Proof positive that the membership is well worth the investment!

Here is a 2014 recap on what our members got up to...

The CASV successfully completed the second iteration of the CASV Emerging Artis Prize Award and Exhibition at Access Gallery. Special thanks again to CASV EAP Committee for growing the Award, and the awareness. Thanks to several fundraising initiatives, this year we were able to gift a larger amount towards supporting the winner Joseph Staples and the nominated artists: Laura Piasta, Erdem Tasdelen, Derya Akay, Byron Peters. Thanks to the jury members again as well: Grant Arnold (Audain Curator of British Columbia Art, Vancouver Art Gallery); Vanessa Kwan, artist and programmer; Sarah Macaulay (Macaulay Fine Art); Kimberly Phillips (Director/Curator of Access Gallery), and Reid Shier (Director of Presentation House Gallery).

We completed artist studio visits with: 

• Kingston Prize nominees - Fiona Ackerman and Roselina Hung
• Contemporary painter - Andy Dixon
• Sobey Art Award 2014 Longlist Nominee - Dan Starling
• Printmaker, Animator, and Teacher - Diyan Achjadi
• 2014 CASV Emerging Artist Prize Winner - Joseph Staples
• Vancouver based prolific photographer and videographer - Carol Sawyer
• 2013 Artist in Residence at Yamanashi, Japan - Derya Akay
• 2014 RBC Painting shortlisted artist - Laura Piasta

We hosted several artist talks with: 

• Candian Painter and Emily Carr Graduate - Kim Dorland
• RBC Painting Competition Winner - Colleen Heslin 
• Artist, Teacher and CASV Emerging Artist Prize Nominee - Erdem Tasdelen

We also completed some amazing tours and talks:

• The CASV Membership was invited to Canadian Art's Sarah Thornton book Tour at Van City Theatre
• The CASV was a partner with the Canadian Art Foundation on the Vancouver Art Hop
• In May the CASV hosted at the Richmond Art Gallery a reception on Collecting Contemporary Art featuring: Kate Bellringer, Director of Contemporary and Canadian Art Auctions at Maynards Fine Art and Antiques, Wil Aballe, Dealer and Owner of Wil Aballe Art Projects and Donna Partridge, private collector and Manager of Art Rental and Sales at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The talk was moderated by Gallery Director Rachel Rosenfiled Lafo.
• In June the CASV headed to Paris for a tour of several amazing art centres, galleries and studios in Paris, including: Palais de Tokyo, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Foundation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, and SAM Art Projects
• In September CASV's Programmer - Sunshine Frere - Lead the society on a tour of three fantastic new contemporary art spaces in Mount Pleasant in Vancouver: Burrard Arts Foundation, Fazakas Gallery and Field Contemporary
• In October the CASV headed to Toronto to take in Feature Art Fair, Art Toronto, studio visits, corporate collection visits, and Exhibition tours of The Power Plant, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
• In October, The National Gallery of Canada's Curator of Photography Ann Thomas gave the CASV a tour of the NGC's Flora and Fauna Tour at the Surrey Art Gallery
• The CASV also visited a private collection in West Vancouver, the Hotel Georgia's Art Collection, and The Mircea Cantor Exhibition at the Rennie Collection. 

Phew! Busy year indeed. Here is to another exciting year of 'Arting'. 

Happy Holidays and see you all in January!

We hope you enjoyed this year's programming and from all members of the CASV Board, we wish you all the best in 2015!

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER ROUND UP

We had a very busy start to the fall season this year with several events in September and October. We started things off with an Art Tour to the Mount Pleasant Area visiting some new spaces and fresh faces.

Field Founder Daniel Jeffries skyped in one of the LA based artists to discuss the work on exhibit.

The tour stopped at the Burrard Arts Foundation, Field Contemporary and Fazakas Gallery. Three spaces that are doing interesting things within the realms of public art, artist residencies, collaborations with international galleries, and trips to national and international art fairs. Do your own tour of the area, everything is within a 10 minute walking reach.

The second event in September was a studio visit to Joseph Staples studio. Joseph told us about an exhibit he had up at Malaspina Printmakers as well as the studio sale he was planning in order to fund him to go on an art making trip in the US.

Joseph Staples discussing his work.

Following this, the CASV visited the Surrey Art Gallery for a Tour with The National Gallery Curator of Photography Ann Thomas. Flora and Fauna: 400 Years of Artists Inspired by Nature, is an impressive exhibition featuring the work of many great Canadian and international artists, including Shary Boyle, Jim Breukleman, Aganetha and Richard Dyck, Frederick Evans, Lucian Freud, Lorraine Gilbert, Geoffrey James and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Thanks to Jordan Strom at the Surrey Art Gallery for coordinating this special tour with Ann, and of course, thanks to Ann for giving such an insightful tour.

Curator Ann Thomas - leading a tour at the Surrey Art Gallery

of many great Canadian and international artists, including Shary Boyle, Jim Breukelman, Aganetha and Richard Dyck, Frederick Evans, Lucian Freud, Lorraine Gilbert, Geoffrey James, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. - See more at: http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/15810.aspx#sthash.SusiSd83.dpuf

October our members had the opportunity to visit the studios of artist Carol Sawyer and Derya Akay. Special thanks to both artists for hosting us.

Carol Sawyer (left) contemplating a question by one of our members.

In addition to studio visits, some members of the CASV also took off across the country to Toronto to take in Feature Art Fair and Art Toronto. We hope to post up some images from the visits to the fairs and also the extra events soon. Stay posted.

The view into Feature 2014

For the members who weren't completely exhausted by everything thus far, we closed the month with a great talk by Sarah Thornton in conjunction with the Canadian Art Foundation. Thornton was on a bit of a book tour promoting her new book entitled 33 Artists in 3 Acts. It was a great talk, and was very well attended.  Pick up the book, you won't regret it!

TOUR AT THE SURREY ART GALLERY

Thanks to everyone who came out to the tour at Surrey Art Gallery. We were lucky to have Ann Thomas give us a tour of the exhibition Flora and Fauna: 400 Years of Artists Inspired by Nature. Special thanks to Jordan Strom and the team at the Surrey Art Gallery for making us feel so welcome and for the beautiful reception post-tour. We just thought we'd share some photos of the exhibition as well as more information on all of the artists who are part of this fantastic show.

Flora and Fauna: 400 Years of artists Inspired by Nature, a touring exhibition organized by the National Gallery includes 74 extraordinary artworks from the 16th through 20th centuries, including strong representation from Great Britain with works by Lucian Freud, Charles Rennie McIntosh, William de Morgan. Postwar American photography by the likes of Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld; Extraordinary contemporary works by Canadians Aganetha and Richard Dyck, Shary Boyle, Lorraine Gilbert and Michel Campeau. Some wonderful 19^th century photography from France Hippolyte Bayard, Eugène Atget, and Jean-Gabriel Eynard. And lovely 16^th century Indian watercolour and German insect prints from the 17^th century, among many other offerings.

Also on concurrently at the Surrey Art Gallery, Cascadia: A Juried Exhibition of West Coast Flora and Fauna. Cascadia showcases the art of more than thirty artists from Surrey and the surrounding region who are exploring the biological diversity and ecology of the West Coast. Organised by the Arts Council of Surrey, view the Cascadia Brochure here: Cascadia.

Aganetha Dyck and Richard Dyck, Hive Scan 14 (2001-2003) photograph.

Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada and the artists.

Shari Boyle, Untitled (the Porcelain Fantasy series).

Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada and the artist.

Photograph by Brian Giebelhaus

Photograph by Brian Giebelhaus

Photograph by Brian Giebelhaus

Photograph by Brian Giebelhaus

Cascadia showcases the art of more than thirty artists from Surrey and the surrounding region who are exploring the biological diversity and ecology of the West Coast. - See more at: http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/15814.aspx#sthash.ZCPVfAm4.dpuf

Cascadia showcases the art of more than thirty artists from Surrey and the surrounding region who are exploring the biological diversity and ecology of the West Coast.

Exhibition Details

Time	Tuesday-Thursday, 9am-9pm; Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 12noon-5pm
Date	Aug 23, 2014 - Nov 16, 2014
Location	Surrey Art Gallery
Price	By Donation

Related Events

Opening Reception for Art Exhibitions

September 20, 2014

Organized by the Arts Council of Surrey and presented in conjunction with the upcoming National Gallery exhibition Flora and Fauna: 400 Years of Artists.
- See more at: http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/15814.aspx#sthash.ZCPVfAm4.dpuf

Cascadia: a Juried Exhibition of West Coast Flora and Fauna - See more at: http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/15814.aspx#sthash.ZCPVfAm4.dpuf

Cascadia: a Juried Exhibition of West Coast Flora and Fauna - See more at: http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/15814.aspx#sthash.ZCPVfAm4.dpuf

Cascadia: a Juried Exhibition of West Coast Flora and Fauna - See more at: http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/1564.aspx#sthash.CrFWPu6D.dpuf

Cascadia: a Juried Exhibition of West Coast Flora and Fauna - See more at: http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/1564.aspx#sthash.CrFWPu6D.dpuf

Cascadia: a Juried Exhibition of West Coast Flora and Fauna - See more at: http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/1564.aspx#sthash.CrFWPu6D.dpuf

MOUNT PLEASANT ART TOUR - SEPT 14

Join us for an afternoon tour of three Mount Pleasant art spaces on Sunday September 14th. Non-CASV members are also invited on this tour. 

The tour starts at 1pm, and will last approximately 3 hours. Below are the three spaces that we will be visiting. Meet us at the Burrard Arts Foundation on Broadway for 1pm. 

See you there!


MORE INFO ON THE SPACES THAT ARE ON THE TOUR:

BAF Studio was opened in April 2014 in conjunction with the launch of the Burrard Arts Foundation.  The gallery exists to promote and exhibit innovative and engaging contemporary art in an environment that is open and accessible to all.  BAF Studio has a special focus on providing assistance to promising and qualified emerging artists through professional support and development opportunities, providing resources that may not have existed otherwise.  

Along with our formal exhibition schedule, BAF Studio also hosts public programming and events, making it a great venue for the community to come together and share in the Arts.

In 1999, LaTiesha specialized in Northwest Coast Native Art while completing her Bachelor of Western Art History at the University of British Columbia. During this time she became an Art Dealer specializing in Northwest Coast Art. It is this combination of experience that influenced the genesis of the Fazakas Gallery. A gallery that embraces cross cultural contemporary works. 

Field Contemporary was founded by Daniel Jefferies in October of 2013. Situated at 17 West Broadway, the gallery was conceived as a space to promote critical artistic thinking and understanding and where local contemporary artists are able to correspond with international artists. Committed to furthering Vancouver’s visual cultural identity, Field wishes to lend the opportunity for success to emerging artists and curators. The first exhibition Outside A Marble Palace took place from April 25th — May 24th, 2014 and featured new work by Vancouver based artists Vanessa Brown & Deirdre McAdams. This is now the gallery's fourth exhibition, featuring work from San Francisco artists David Bayus and Evan Reiser and Los Angeles artist Ben Sanders.

TWO UPCOMING SEPTEMBER EVENTS!

We will soon be updating our website with all of the upcoming events in September and October. CASV members can also expect their first event invitation via eventbrite next week. Here are a couple events planned for September, and there will be more to come soon.

NEIGHBOURHOOD ART TOUR SERIES

New to the CASV this year, our programming for 2014-2015 will include a series of  neighbourhood art tours to galleries and artist-run project spaces. Focussing in on four different areas of Vancouver: Downtown, Mount Pleasant, Chinatown and Granville Street, the CASV looks forward to its members discovering new artists and art spaces throughout the city. 

MOUNT PLEASANT TOUR

Estimated tour time: between 2.5 - 3 hours   /  1:00 pm start time  /  3:45 pm estimated finish time

Join the CASV in surveying a selection of dedicated commercial and not-for-profit project spaces located in the Mount Pleasant Area. At each space the gallery directors will discuss their mandate and exhibition programming, a brief artist talk will follow, and CASV members can then take in  the exhibition at each destination. 

The three spaces we will be visiting in Mount Pleasant will be Burrard Arts Foundation, Field Contemporary and Fazakas Gallery. There are a myriad of interesting contemporary art spaces in this area, during the tour we will be sure to highlight other sites for future exploration.

Full details will be found within the official Eventbrite invitation that will be sent to all members soon.

Aganetha Dyck and Richard Dyck, Hive Scan 14 (2001-2003) photograph. 

Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada and the artists.

EXHIBITION TOUR & RECEPTION

The CASV has partnered with the Surrey Art Gallery to present its members with a curator tour and reception.  Join us at the Surrey Art Gallery to take in a tour of the National Gallery of Canada's exhibition entitled Flora & Fauna. Curated by Ann Thomas and Andrea Kunard, the CASV is pleased to announce that Ann Thomas will lead the tour of this exhibition. Thomas is a curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Canada.

About the exhibition:

FLORA AND FAUNA: 400 years of artists inspired by nature

Organized by the National Gallery of Canada

At the Surrey Art Gallery

September 20 to December 14, 2014

Nature has been an enduring subject for artists across time and cultures. From the ancient garden frescoes at Pompeii to Dutch still-lifes, 19th century botanical studies and 21st century land art projects, nature has been either a simple fact of life or a source of curiosity, consolation, and spiritual regeneration. Flora and Fauna: 400 Years of Artists Inspired by Nature explores the natural world through paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and crafted objects. Responding to the richness and diversity of plant life and the creatures that occupy natural spaces, the artists in this exhibition express nature’s complexity and fragility in a variety of ways—from the epic and analytical to the detailed and intimate. This exceptionally varied exhibition, drawn mainly from the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, features 74 works dating from the 16th to the 21st centuries. Presenting a wide variety of media, scale, and style, it features the work of many great Canadian and international artists, including Shary Boyle, Jim Breukelman, Aganetha and Richard Dyck, Frederick Evans, Lucian Freud, Lorraine Gilbert, Geoffrey James, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Shary Boyle, Untitled (the Porcelain Fantasy series), 2005

Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada.

About the Surrey Art Gallery:
 

Surrey Art Gallery is the second largest public art gallery in the Metro Vancouver region. Internationally recognized, the Gallery showcases diverse artistic practices, including digital and audio art, by local, national and international artists. Gallery interpretive programs include talks, symposia, demonstrations, workshops and school programs with artists, educators and other specialists.

Surrey Art Gallery's mission is to engage the public in an ongoing dialogue about issues and ideas that affect our numerous communities, as expressed through contemporary art, and to provide opportunities for the public to interact with artists and the artistic process. It accomplishes these aims through exhibitions, programs, and publications of contemporary art. To meet its mandate, the Surrey Art Gallery also acquires, manages, researches, preserves, and exhibits work from its contemporary art collection, held in trust for present and future citizens of the City of Surrey. The Gallery focuses on contemporary art made since 1975.

Surrey Art Gallery is a municipal art gallery, supported by the Surrey Art Gallery Association and funding from individuals, organizations, and operating and project grants from the Arts Council of British Columbia and the Canada Council for the Arts.

A YEAR IN REVIEW

Having just wrapped up our AGM, we are already starting to prepare the fall studio visits, events and receptions.

But before we give you a sneak peak into what is coming up, we thought we would do a year in review of everywhere we have been and everything we have seen. Forward this post onto friends you think may want to Join the CASV as it gives them great insight into what the membership includes.  Here's to a great 2014-2015 season kicking off in September!


CASV A YEAR IN REVIEW:

- 10+ Studio visits including visits to: Dana Claxton, Jordy Hamilton, Roselina Hung, Fiona Ackerman, Beau Dick, Dan Starling and Diyan Achjadi, Evann Siebens and more...

- 2 public talks, one by Kim Dorland in conjunction with Emily Carr University and another by Hammad Nasar in conjunction with Centre A and SFU.

Young Girl by Kim Dorland

- 2 gallery talks one at Equinox Gallery with Adad Hannah about his Ophelia work and is upcoming exhibition and another coming up on the 6th of June with Colleen Heslin at Monte Clark gallery.

The Raft of the Medusa by Adad Hannah

- An interesting collection tour of the Hotel Georgia's collection by Farmboy Fine Arts.

Artwork at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver

- A public site visit and artist talk about the artwork with artist Vanessa Kwan

Geyser by Vanessa Kwan

- The second CASV Emerging Artist Prize and Exhibition event at Access Gallery.

Emerging Artist Prize Exhibition at Access Gallery 2014

- Two private collection tours and an amazing CASV Paris Trip.

- Art Tours of Gastown, Great Northern Way, Main Street and Chinatown with the Canadian Art Hop

- Two artist panels, one at the Richmond Art Gallery on curating and another public conversation on painting with the Vanhop at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo, Donna Partridge, Kate Bellringer and Wil Aballe at the Richmond Art Gallery

As the 2013-2014 season winds down before it gears up again in the fall, we hope you will join us for Colleen Heslin's talk at Monte Clark Gallery on the 6th of June. She will be discussing her exhibition that is opening the following day. Here is a link to the details and your invite should already be in your inbox. http://www.casv.ca/artist-talks/artist-talk-with-colleen-heslin

New work by Colleen Heslin

EMERGING ARTIST PRIZE - CONGRATULATIONS TO JOSEPH STAPLES

We are pleased to announce this year's winner of the CASV Emerging Artist's prize: JOSEPH STAPLES. Thank you to Access Gallery for hosting the exhibition this year, and to all the participating judges and submitting artists. The next iteration of the Contemporary Art Society's Emerging Artist Prize will take place in 2016. 

Emerging Artist Prize Chair - Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo and this year's Winner Joseph Staples.

CASV Emerging Artist Prize Exhibition installed at Access Gallery in Vancouver.

The winner of the second Contemporary Art Society Emerging Artist’s Prize is Joseph Staples, who was awarded $3000 at last night’s opening of the CASV Emerging Artist’s Prize Exhibition at Access Gallery. Jury members Grant Arnold, Vanessa Kwan, Sarah Macaulay, Kimberly Phillips, and Reid Shier selected Staples from a field of five finalists. The jurors recognized the quality of work of all five finalists, who were chosen from a field of 89 entries.

Staples’ work, along with that of the other four finalists, Derya Akay, Byron Peters, Laura Piasta, and Erdem Tasdelen,who each received a $500 award, is on view through May 31, 2012 at Access Gallery, 222 E. Georgia Street, Vancouver.http://accessgallery.ca/

Staples’ works with found images and photography through collage and printmaking. His project for this exhibition revolves around real estate, printmaking, failure and the unknown. The jurors noted how the work Staples submitted for the exhibition builds on his earlier work but represents an exciting new direction for the artist, demonstrating a more complex reference to the urban landscape. Staples has exhibited locally at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Equinox Gallery, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Malaspina Printmakers and abroad.

This CASV Emerging Artist’s Prize was established in 2011 to encourage and support artists within the first five years of their careers, and is the only one of its kind in Vancouver selected through an open competition.

The prize is entirely funded by donations of CASV members and supporters. The CASV is a not-for-profit membership-based organization founded in 1977 that focuses on promoting an appreciation and understanding of Contemporary Art. Members enjoy studio visits, art trips, collection visits and lectures by prominent artists, critics, collectors, designers, architects and fine art professionals. For more information about CASV visit the website: http://www.casv.ca/.