New Adam Harrison Exhibition in YVR

Please join us tonight at Exercise, 147 Main Street, from 6-9pm for the opening of Adam Harrison's new exhibition Exposure Length: Four Hours, on display through 19 January 2013.

Alexander Bornschein, Henning Fehr & Philipp Rühr: TASTE

10 August 2012 through 30 August 2012
Opening reception Thursday, 9 August 2012, 6 - 9 pm

Curated by Graham Dalik and Adam Harrison

Alexander Bornschein, Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr are artists living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany. They will be present at the opening.

Michael Drebert: STAR HOUSE and I CARRY A PILE OF STICKS

7 January 2011 through 6 February 2011
Opening reception Thursday, 6 January 2011, 6 - 9 pm

Curated by Adam Harrison

Michael Drebert: STAR HOUSE

26 October 2010, 20:00 - 23:00h

Curated by Adam Harrison

OKTOBER
Ackerstraße 5
Düsseldorf, Germany

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).

Jay Isaac: FLOWER PAINTINGS

1 May through 1 June 2009
Opening reception Friday, 1 May 2009, 6 - 9 pm
Curated by Adam Harrison

(Images of selected paintings in the exhibition courtesy Jay Isaac)

Ian Wallace: ON SURPLUS VALUE

28 March 2009 through 26 April, 2009
Opening reception Saturday, 28 March 2009, 3 - 6 pm
Artist talk Saturday, 18 April 2009, 4 pm, in conjunction with the Canadian Art Vancouver Gallery Hop

Curated by Adam Harrison

Ian Wallace is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

On Surplus Value is based on a deconstruction of a few pages of a text by Diedrich Diederichsen titled "On (Surplus) Value in Art." Following a strategy evolved in similar works over the past several years, I have "deconstructed" this text by literally cutting into the page and flipping the cut so that the verso of the page intersects the recto with an interference in its literary logic that is in the shape of a circle formed by the template of a wine glass. The exhibition is a demonstration "concept piece" that presents all the material elements and events of this process of ironic reversals.

-Ian Wallace, 2009

Alison Yip: DRAWINGS 2002-7

February 21 2009 through March 20 2009
Opening reception Friday February 20th 6 - 9 pm
Curated by Christopher Brayshaw and Adam Harrison

Alison Yip's new exhibition records her ongoing engagement with the act of drawing. Culled from a much larger image archive, the drawings on display speak to Yip's careful observation of the world around her, the people, animals, and objects occupying it, and her sensitivity to the subtleties of dress and gesture that define her human subjects.

Alison Yip is represented by Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver.

Steven Hubert: THE SO-PATTERNISTIC

4 July through 28 July 2008
Opening reception Friday 4 July 2008, 6-9pm
Curated by Adam Harrison
Text by Angela Johnston

Rebecca Donald, Evan Lee and Ben Reeves: WORKS ON PAINTING

14 September 2007 through 14 October 2007
Reception Thursday September 13 2007, 7-9pm
Curated by Adam Harrison

Works on Painting features three artists that deal with the physical and visual aspects of paint through the utilization of three different mediums - painting, sculpture and photography.

Ben Reeves' paintings of people smoking utilize a relatively flat surface to depict the figures, while the smoke they are producing is represented by almost sculpturally thick blobs of paint, protruding from the canvas. Here the fleeting, ethereal nature of smoke is replaced by a dense, physical mass of oil paint.

Rebecca Donald's "towels" are sculptures created by thickly pouring oil paint mixed with oil onto canvas. When dried, the paint creates a tactile surface that strongly resembles terrycloth towels. Folded or strewn on the floor, the sculptures eschew the illusionistic space of painting in favour of the emulative nature of representational sculpture, albeit through the use of processes and materials inextricably linked to the medium of painting.

A Palette from the Artist's Studio by Evan Lee, shows the underside of a transparent palette used by the artist for his own paintings. "Photographed" by a desktop scanner, the picture shows the accidental traces made while mixing paints for actual paintings. Though the picture resembles an abstract painting - the paint marks recall the gestural brushwork of Robert Rauschenberg or Cy Twombly - it is indeed an accurate representation of physical traces of the painting process.

Though working is different mediums, all three artists engage with the act of applying paint to a surface, highlighting this action's relationship to depiction and considering it in relation to the
production of art in general.