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Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of PhotographsSeptember 25, 2010 to January 16, 2011Over the past four decades photographer Robert Adams has come to be widely regarded as one of the most original and significant chroniclers of the western American landscape. The first large-scale exhibition of Adams’ work to be presented in Canada, The Place We Live traces his longstanding engagement with the degradation of the environment in the face of suburban development. Read more... |
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Everything EverydayOctober 2, 2010 – January 23, 2011The works in the exhibition are in a diverse range of media and are drawn primarily from the Gallery’s collection and augmented with loans from artists’ and private collections. The exhibition is organized around three themes: Everyday Actions, Everyday Objects and Everyday Encounters. Everyday Actions includes works that consider those simple, sometimes mindless tasks we perform regularly; works in Everyday Objects take ordinary items as their subjects; and Everyday Encounters examines those common interactions that occur in daily life. Read more... |
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Song Dong–Waste Not
October 2, 2010 to January 16, 2011Song Dong’s monumental installation, titled Waste Not, is a collaboration between the artist and his mother, Zhao Xiangyuan. The installation comprises the frame of his mother’s house along with all of the everyday objects she meticulously collected over the course of her lifetime—a collection of over ten thousand worn and broken objects, each one of little value. Together, the assembled materials—clothes, books, kitchen utensils, toiletries, school supplies, shopping bags, rice bowls, dolls—were used, then recycled, then hoarded. Meticulously arranged in careful groupings throughout the exhibition space, the objects form a miniature cityscape that viewers can navigate around and through. Read more... |
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Offsite: Heather and Ivan MorisonOctober 2, 2010 to March 6, 2011Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite is an outdoor public art space featuring a rotating program of innovative projects, launched in July 2009 with the photo–based work of O Zhang and followed in January 2010 with a sculptural installation by Ken Lum. The third in the series is a site–specific project by Welsh artists Heather and Ivan Morison. Read more... |
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