Tegan Moore: AIR CONDITIONING

19 August 2010 - 19 September 2010
Opening reception Thursday, August 19th 2010, 6 - 9 pm

Curated by Steven Tong

Tegan Moore's website

Lisa Fedorak: RE-VIEW

9 July 2010 through 9 August 2010
Opening reception Friday, 9 July 2010, 6 – 9 p.m.

Curated by Christopher Brayshaw and Steven Tong

Aaron Carpenter: TICKING PLUME

29 May 2010 through 25 June 2010
Opening reception Friday, 28 May 2010, 6 – 9 p.m.

Guest curated by Robin Laurence

Ticking Plume, new work by Vancouver artist Aaron Carpenter, deploys an array of painting, assemblage, text, colour swatches, and found photographs. Through these means, Carpenter investigates the nature of exhibition as a behaviour, conflating the displays of exotic birds with the questionable human impulse to exhibit art.

The exhibition companion consists of the transcript of a conversation between Carpenter and art critic Robin Laurence. Both Carpenter and Laurence will be at CSA Space from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, 29 May 2010 for the citywide Canadian Art Foundation Gallery Hop.

Aaron Carpenter is an artist and writer in Vancouver. His work was recently featured in the Western Front: London Bureau as part of No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern, London UK. He has had solo exhibitions at Lawrence Eng Gallery, Helen Pitt and is currently exhibiting HYMNS, a permanent installation at Every Letter in the Alphabet. As a founding member of the Bodger's and Kludger's Co-operative, he will be co-facilitating the first International Chilliwack Biennale in Summer of 2010 in coordination with Artspeak and Or Gallery.

Robin Laurence is an independent writer, critic, and occasional curator, based in Vancouver.

THE LINE

29 April 2010 through 23 May 2010
Opening reception Thursday, 29 April, 6 - 9 pm

Curated by Adam Harrison. Featuring artworks by Sabine Dusend (Düsseldorf), Toril Johannessen (Bergen), Dominic Osterried (Düsseldorf), and Jonathan Syme (Vancouver).

Brad Phillips: COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST

18 March 2010 through 18 April 2010
Opening reception Thursday 18 March 2010, 6 - 9 pm

Guest curated by Brad Phillips. Featuring artworks by Brad Phillips, Melanie Schiff, Anthony Lapore, Slater Bradley, Laura Piasta, Andre Ethier, Aaron Carpenter, Alex Morrison, Tony Romano, Michael Lewis, Jay Isaac, & Lee Friedlander via Playboy magazine, 1982

Brad Phillips is represented by Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

Johann Groebner: FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION

10th February 2010 through 10 March 2010
Opening reception Wednesday 10th February 2010, 6 - 9 pm
Curated by Steven Tong

Sylvia Grace Borda: DEVELOPING PROCESSES

15 December 2009 through 31 January 2010
Opening reception Tuesday 15 December 2009, 6-9pm
Artist talk Thursday 7 January 2009, 7pm
Curated by Christopher Brayshaw and Steven Tong

Sylvia Grace Borda's website

CSA Space and Pulpfiction Books are raising food for the Vancouver Food Bank throughout the month of December. Donations of dried or canned food will be warmly welcomed at the opening reception.

Isabelle Pauwels: JUNE 30

22 October 2009 through 22 November 2009
Opening reception Thursday 22 October 2009, 6-9pm
Organized by Christopher Brayshaw and Steven Tong

Isabelle Pauwels is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

Thanks to Catriona Jeffries Gallery and the Charles H. Scott Gallery for their kind assistance with the production of this exhibition.

Please note special hours for this exhibition: Saturdays 10am-6pm, Sundays 11am-7pm, and by appointment. The gallery will not be available for drop-in viewing.

Mohamed Somani: NEW DRAWINGS

4 September 2009 through 4 October 2009
Opening reception Friday 4 September 2009, 6-9pm
Curated by Steven Tong and Christopher Brayshaw

Regularly scheduled exhibition programming will resume in early September.

Frank Ramirez: ENTER TIME

10 July 2009 through 9 August 2009
Opening reception Friday 10 July 2009, 6 - 9 pm
Guest curated by Jack Foster

Frank Ramirez's new photo-based works involve a unique way of seeing nature that incorporates aspects of pareidolia and the perspectives of birds and other animals.

Frank started out in neo-dada, performance, photo-art, fiction, and sonic experimentation. He moved over to music in the late 1970s, fronting the legendary rock band UJ3RK5, which included local luminaries such as Jeff Wall, Bill Gibson, Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace, and others. Frank moved to Europe in 1980, and worked at teaching, electronic music, and hosting an underground radio show featuring new and live music heard in Germany, France and Switzerland.

While on holiday at Tofino in 1991, a friend loaned him a camera to photograph natural phenomena there. The images seemed enigmatic and a little "strange" in the central European context and were compounded into tight triptychs. Further landscape works involved locations such as Cadaqués and the Balearics in Spain.

Frank returned to Vancouver a few years ago and eventually applied his vision to the Gulf Islands and the parks of Strathcona: a new kind of landscape photography influenced by the "isms" of art history and the desire to see man as a part of nature.

Alex Morrison

5 June 2009 through 5 July 2009
Opening reception Friday 5 June 2009, 6 - 9 pm
Guest curated by Brad Phillips

Alex Morrison is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

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