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.
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.
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Aganetha Dyck and Richard Dyck, Hive Scan 14 (2001-2003) photograph.
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada and the artists.
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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.
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Shary Boyle, Untitled (the Porcelain Fantasy series), 2005
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada.
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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.
