[BCMA] Richmond Art Gallery Fall Exhibition Schedule

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Subject: 	Richmond Art Gallery Fall Exhibition Schedule
Date: 	Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:21:54 -0700
From: 	Hickey, Paula <PHickey at richmond.ca>



Richmond Art Gallery Fall Exhibition Schedule

 

*Exhibition Dates: **September 18 to November 1, 2009*

Opening Reception: September 17,  7:00 -9:00 pm 
Colleen Brown, Paul Kajander, Kara Uzelman

Title:  /Black Hole is Also Supernova /

Curator: Vanessa Kwan

 

This exhibition will feature the work of Colleen Brown, Paul Kajander 
and Kara Uzelman. These artists will produce sculpture in a variety of 
media: video, photography, sculpture, found materials, and text. Their 
treatment of objects and thematics will be loosely oriented around the 
trajectory that the title implies: a treatment of objects and cultural 
product that is both vacuum-like and explosive. The shakiness with which 
objects hold meaning in our world-- art and otherwise-- speaks to a kind 
of bankruptcy of signification (one thing refers to all things, 
everything's been done before, it's all relative, and so on), and this 
"black hole" will intersect with another kind of approach: that meaning, 
in this vacuum, might explode into generative new constellations, 
narratives and associations. The work in the exhibition will be treated 
as experiments in form, concept and embodiment.

 

Berlin-based artist Kara Uzelman, whose work has recently drawn from 
early 20th century sci-fi narratives, has created a new suite of 
drawings that reference scripts from 60 science fiction radio plays. 
Through Uzelman's re-telling, the work uncovers, through physical and 
textual bricolage, a wholly new narrative. Colleen Brown's work takes 
common objects and creates formally complex new sculptures that are both 
familiar and strange in their use of assemblage, colour and texture. 
Brown's sculpture is both airy and dense, a confluence of forms whose 
relationship to one another seems nearly gravitational in itself: 
materials orbit one another, and, as they must, collide. Paul Kajander's 
new video installation gathers a cluster of universes around a single 
self, juxtaposing sci-fi-like inspired interiors with 'pre-literate' 
wilderness.  His work highlights a certain cultural absurdity---the 
weirdness of expressing oneself in a world of signs, the collective 
ridiculousness of our cultural products, an underlying sense of a world 
in flux, the anxious individual, and the importance of human connection 
amidst it all.

 

*September 18 to November 1, 2009*
Opening Reception: September 17,  7:00 -9:00 pm
Elizabeth Russell

/Title: Migration/ Immigrant Stories/

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Elizabeth Russell's  work explores the early transitional stages 
experienced by migrants and immigrants through the symbolism of everyday 
objects. Drawings, photographs and paintings portray the complexities of 
a new beginnings in Canada.  The artist used personal recollections and 
oral stories from Vancouver and Richmond-based immigrants as research 
for the exhibition.
 
Elizabeth Russell is a conceptual, interdisciplinary artist whose 
practice involves the creation of site-specific works for alternative 
spaces and galleries. Russell is a sessional art instructor at North 
Island College in Courtenay, where she resides. The artist received her 
BFA in Painting from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, 
BC (1995) and her Masters in Combined Media from Chelsea College of Art 
and Design, London, UK (1997). Russell's art has been exhibited in a 
variety of unusual spaces from a London police station (2000) to a barge 
on the river Thames, London, UK (Drift, 2008) and in group shows at 
galleries such as the Evergreen Cultural Centre (Coquitlam, BC), the Art 
Gallery of The South Okanagan (Penticton, BC), Comox Valley Art Gallery 
(Courtenay, BC), word.image.sound.House (London, UK) and Galerie Herold, 
(Bremen, Germany).
 
 

*Richmond Art Gallery ***

www.richmondartgallery.org <http://www.richmondartgallery.org/>

*7700 Minoru Gate **Richmond BC V6Y 1R9*

Tel: 604.247.8300 
Email: gallery at richmond.ca <mailto:gallery at richmond.ca>

 

*Gallery Hours:* Monday to Friday 10 am to 6 pm; weekends 10 am to 5 pm; 
closed for statutory holidays

Free admission. Wheelchair accessible.

 

 

Contact: Paula Hickey

phickey at richmond.ca <mailto:phickey at richmond.ca>

t. 604.247.8312.

e.phickey at richmond.ca <mailto:e.phickey at richmond.ca>