Access opens its new space on Friday 16 April at 8 PM with the launch of Raymond Boisjoly’s first solo exhibition The Ever-Changing Light! Presented in partnership with the Signal and Noise Festival, The Ever-Changing Light runs 17 April – 29 May 2010. The Ever-Changing Light explores the conceptual and material understanding of communication. As
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Passage Osvaldo Yero Curated by Charo Neville Presented as part of Bright Light www.bright-light.ca by Access Gallery | www.accessgallery.ca Opening Reception:Friday 12 February 2010, 7 – 10 PM 13 February – 20 March, 2010 Access Gallery is pleased to present a new work by Osvaldo Yero as part of Bright Light: a temporary public art
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Life After Doomsday Jason de Haan Presented by Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad Access Gallery | www.accessgallery.ca Opening Reception: Friday 12 February 2010, 7 – 10 PM 206 Carrall St Vancouver 13 February – 27 March, 2010 Britannia Art Gallery | www.britanniacentre.org Opening Reception: Wednesday 3 February 2010, 6:30 – 8:30 PM Reading Group Meetings: Wednesday
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DEN KATE SANSOM Access Gallery Artist Residency 21 November 2009 – 23 January 2010 Closing Reception: Saturday 23 January 2010 at 7PM Since November 2009, Artist in Residence Kate Sansom has explored and assessed underground spaces in Vancouver that could serve as shelters in the event of a catastrophe. During her time as a resident,
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Come EAT! Holiday Feast! DRINK! mulled wine, hot apple cider with rum, and other libations! DANCE! to Weekend Leisure Club’s karaoke performance! BE MERRY! hang out at Artist-in-Residence Kate Sansom’s post-apocalyptic cocktail lounge! There will be music, Bad Santa, SURPRISE AUCTION, raffles for cool prizes! This holiday event honours and celebrates hard working artists,
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Ellipsis Roy Meuwissen 21 November 2009 – 23 January 2010 Opening Reception: 20 November 2009, 8 PM Closed for the holidays from 15 December – 5 January Continuing with our body of programming that focuses on the lives of objects, ACCESS presents Ellipsis, Toronto-based artist Roy Meuwissen’s first exhibition in Vancouver. Ellipsis, a new, site-specific
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[ ] Jen Hutton & Daniel Laskarin 12 September to 7 November, 2009 Opening 11 September 8:00 PM as part of SWARM 2009 [ ] is an exhibition that features sculptures by Toronto-based artist Jen Hutton and Victoria-based artist Daniel Laskarin. These two artists from different generations employ
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Honoré De Balzac, the nineteenth century’s master of literary realism, believed that when a photograph was taken, a spectral layer was transferred from the subject through the ether and onto the camera’s sensitized plate. The only photograph taken of the author shows him with his hand across his chest as if to retain as much of his being as possible. From a contemporary perspective Balzac’s superstition may seem anachronistic, but the concerns of this writer, whose life and practice coincided with the development of photography, point to a subject still worthy of investigation: how mimesis influences our interactions with images.
Pull Over Parade Suzanne Nagy April 18 -June 6, 2009 Opening at 8pm on Friday, April 17 Artist talk at 2pm on Saturday, April 18 In Rio, a singular firework could signal the victory of a football team, a warning for drug dealers of impending raids, or the mischievous activities of neighborhood children. That one
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Time’s Museum of Shape and Form Mark Dudiak April 18 – June 6, 2009 Opening at 8pm on Friday, April 17 Artist Talk at 2pm on Saturday, April 18 Mark Dudiak’s exhibition of new work, Time’s Museum of Shape and Form, examines how the Infinite evolved from an abstract concept to a culturally embodied truth
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Happy Belated Birthday Charles! Regards, Wallace Jesse Garbe and Sean Coggins February 21 to April 4, 2009 Opens Friday February 20, 7pm Artist talk February 21, 4pm. “I will give a proof of my zeal: one day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand; then
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F.W.T.B.T. (I Dream of Lars Ulrich Being Thrown Through the Bus Window Instead of My Master Mystikall Kliff Burton) February 21 to April 4, 2009 Opens Friday February 20, 7pm Artist’s talk February 21, 4pm. “If subcultures represent a really meaningful version of dress up, Black Metal represents the moment when the actors kind of
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— Press Release — Please join us on Friday, February the 13th for AEXCESS: Access Gallery’s annual fundraising auction. For almost twenty years, Access Gallery has been committed to facilitating new and critically engaging work by Canadian and International visual artists with a strong emphasis on work by local, emerging artists. This history is reflected
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A holiday concert fundraiser featuring: Aileen Bryant Hello Blue Roses Rough Noble Kurtis Interruptis Friday December 12, 2008 7pm until 11pm and the backroom photo booth!
Parallel Import: Artist in Residence Russell Gordon From November 18 to January 17 Access Gallery hosts artist in residence Russell Gordon. Gordon is a Vancouver based artist who works with design as intervention. He is perhaps best known for his performative installations at Cornershop Projects (2007) and Shudder Gallery (2008) where he used specialized counterfeiting
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Elsewhere Mathieu Fraser-Dagenais with Anke Moormann, Ziad Naccache and Alexandra Ranner This exhibition is a project initiated by Mathieu Fraser-Dagenais that is comprised of responses by 3 artists to a 1:5 scale model and a short phrase. The model is subject to series of definitions and images. One can categorize it as, on one hand,
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Manipulating Digital Documentation: The Basics, Facilitator: Peter Mintchev, November 6, 2008, 7-9 pm at Access, $25 members/ $40 non-members/ $15 membership Who Should Attend This workshop is aimed at artists with little to do no digital formatting experience, and/or those who have a mental block around digital formatting. The Workshop The workshop will discuss the
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Animal : Animus Amy Thompson Erin Perry Curated by David Khang Relationships between humans and other animals are curious and complex: we humans – as human and as animal – depend on them as companions, as food source, and as part of larger ecosystems. We sometimes love them more than other humans, for their so-called
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Michael Markowsky Errol and George: Two Sad Swashbucklers June 14 – July 26, 2008 Opening reception: June 13 @ 8 pm Access Artist Run Centre is pleased to present Errol and George: Two Sad Swashbucklers, by Michael Markowsky. Errol and George: Two Sad Swashbucklers conflates two mariners who each have an historical connection to Vancouver,
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Father Zosima Presents… Nate Wooley- Trumpet (NYC) Gust Burns- Tapes (Seattle) Friday, May 23rd, 8pm Access Artist Run Centre 206 Carrall St. By Donation Nate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace
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Vanessa Kwan The Storm and the Fall April 26 – June 7, 2008 Opening reception: April 25 @ 8pm Artist talk: May 10 @ 2PM The front gallery features a large-scale wall installation a self portrait of sorts of two dominant images relevant to the West Coast landscape: the tidal wave and the condo. Inspired
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Father Zosima Presents… Ken Roux & Pedal Decay Saturday, April 26, 8pm Access Artist Run Centre 206 Carrall Street By Donation Kenny Roux’s handmade, analogue electronics experiments reference an imagined folk history/future of electronic music, and enmesh the aural and the visual. His previous experiments include Speaker Switch Box, The New Suitcase, Tape for Two,
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Father Zosima Presents… Chandan Narayan Stefan Udell Friday, March 28, 8pm Access Artist Run CentreM 206 Carrall Street By Donation Chandan Narayan (Philadelphia) Autoharp Chandan Narayan improvises with the autoharp, a traditional American stringed instrument. He performs and records as part of the Philadelphia quintet, Benito Cereno, as well as the Vancouver trio, Glass Plates.
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Pietro Sammarco & Julia Feyrer, The Composition Kids, March 8 – April 12, 2008 Press Release from Georgia Straight Walk into the Access Artist Run Centre and you are happily assaulted by antic energy. The Composition Kids is a smile-inducing installation that melds sound, movement, sculpture, and video. Created by Vancouverites Julia Feyrer and Pietro Sammarco,
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