Laeh Glenn and Owen Kydd: THE FISHES

Exhibition review by Jacquelyn Ross (Decoy magazine)

Kristoff Steinruck: CRYSTAL CAVE 2

11 October 2012 through 11 November 2012
Opening reception Thursday 11 October 2012, 6-9pm

Curated by Steven Tong

Kristoff Steinruck is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Kelowna, BC. Recent exhibitions include Crystal Cave 1 at the Kelowna Art Gallery, and Free Information in collaboration with Dawn Johnston at G Gallery in Toronto. He earned a BA from the University of British Columbia (1999), and an MFA from the University of Guelph (2009). He is a part-time instructor in sculpture at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.

Some Administrative Matters

1.  We are slowly rebuilding our email list.  If you do not regularly receive CSA invitations and would like to, please send an add request to info@csaspace.ca.

2.  We're still not accepting submissions, but this is 2012, and everyone has a website.  If you are a Vancouver-based artist and would like to update us on your practice, please send your web details to info@csaspace.ca, to be circulated amongst our curatorial team.  If you are a non-Vancouver based artist, we'll be glad to look at your details too, but please be aware that we are a 100% self-funded space and have no money to ship work across town, let alone to/from the US, Europe and/or Asia.

2a.  Please send only your website details.  The idea is to spend about 30 seconds updating us on your whereabouts and your current practice.  This is not a "submission call," and there is no need for CVs, huge JPEG attachments, 1000-word statements of critical intent, essays, & etc.

2b.  We will look with interest at everything sent to us, but cannot guarantee a reply.

Thanks!  We look forward to hearing from you.

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.

Jason W. Fowler Fitzpatrick: TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS

14 June 2012 through 5 August 2012

Selected work from an ongoing series

Curated by Steven Tong

Jason Fitzpatrick present in the gallery on Saturdays between 12-4pm

Please note: no opening, at artist's request

Documentation: http://jasonfitzpatrick.ca/studio/category/twenty-eight-days

Nicole Ondre: PAINTINGS

27 April 2012 through 6 June 2012 
Opening reception Friday 27 April 2012, 6-9pm

Curated by Graham Dalik & Adam Harrison

Nicole Ondre is a Vancouver-based artist, and co-founder of the project space Exercise. She has recently exhibited at Hayaka Arti, Istanbul, and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, as well as a solo exhibition at Hunter and Cook Projects in Toronto. Nicole is the winner of the Contemporary Art Society Vancouver's Emerging Artist's Prize for 2012.

Francois Roux, MOONSTRUCK

21 February 2012 through 18 March 2012
Opening reception Thursday 8 March 2012, 6-9pm

The exhibition is open most days 10am-6pm. Evening visits should be arranged at least a day in advance by emailing info@csaspace.ca or by calling 604.876.4311

Curated by Steven Tong

Born and raised in the small town of Besançon, France, Francois arrived to Vancouver on an internship as a part of his MFA studies at l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Grenoble.

After completing his internship at the Grunt Gallery, Francois found himself working with Vancouver artists Geoffrey Farmer, Kevin Schmidt, and Hank Bull.

For the duration of the exhibition, a single channel video projection shot in Grenoble and a City of Vancouver lamppost will square off.

Johannes Bendzulla

12 January 2012 through 12 February 2012
Opening reception Wednesday 11 January 2012, 6-9pm

Curated by Adam Harrison and Graham Dalik

Johannes Bendzulla is an Italian artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. He will be present at the opening.

Christopher Brayshaw: INTO THIN AIR

24 November 2011 through 31 December 2011
Opening reception Thursday 24 November 2011, 6-9pm

Christopher Brayshaw is a Vancouver-based photographer/book-
seller/curator. This exhibition, his first, includes digital photographs made between 2005 and 2011 in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and New York.

Exhibition review by Michael Turner

Exhibition review by Robin Laurence (Georgia Straight)

Ahbyah Baker & Hannah Hughes: SHAPELY

20 October 2011 through 20 November 2011
Opening reception Thursday 20 October 2011, 6-9pm

Curated by Lilac Lang

The show’s title, “Shapely,” refers to seemingly unrelated aspects of both artists’ practices: in Hannah Hughes’ figurative work, the pleasing form of the female subjects, and in Ahbyah Baker’s abstract painting, the type of objects depicted. Each artist’s work exhibits a common theme of tension between abstraction and representation.

“Shapely” acknowledges the urge to move beyond the technical ability of mimicking representational imagery in painting, even as the desire to demonstrate these very things is fulfilled. The work is neither entirely abstract nor objective. Even if one considers Baker’s minimalist paintings without the context of her previous figurative work, the singular shapes employ a central figure/ground relationship typical of most portraiture, including the distorted and masked women of Hannah's work. Shapely suggests that the imaginary border between figurative and non-objective imagery or abstract and representational painting is a blurry or dotted line.

Ahbyah Baker received a BFA from Emily Carr Institute in 2006. Her work has been exhibited at Or Gallery and Shudder Gallery in Vancouver and she was a recent participant in the Summer Residency Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She lives and works in Vancouver.

Hannah Hughes completed her BA in Critical Fine Art Practice at the University of Brighton in 1997 and moved to Vancouver in 2008. She works principally in painting but is also responsible for co-founding The Drawing Salon, a travelling program of contemporary drawing workshops due to start this autumn.

Lilac Lang received her BFA from the University of British Columbia Okanagan in 2007. Earlier this year, she was the resident artist at Spark Box Studio in Ontario. Her work has been exhibited at The Red Head Gallery in Toronto, Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, and The Alternator in Kelowna.

Arni Haraldsson: AWAKE IN MOUNT PLEASANT

9 September 2011 through 9 October 2011
Opening reception Friday 9 September 2011, 6-9pm

Guest curated by Alex Pensato

Since the eighties Arni Haraldsson has amassed a vast collection of found imagery gathered from various religious publications such as Awake! and Plain Truth that were made available to him while out strolling in his neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant. Haraldsson clipped the photographic images from these publications and assorted them into various categories. The resulting deconstructed forms and groupings of found images simultaneously espouse the religious and utopic pedagogical intent of their publications and the personal aspirations and hopes of the local Mt. Pleasant followers who distributed them. Taken as such, Awake in Mt. Pleasant can be seen as an unorthodox portrait of the artist's neighbourhood.

Arni Haraldsson has exhibited his photographic work nationally and internationally for the past two decades. Recent exhibitions include Les Lendemains d’hier (Yesterday’s Tomorrows) at Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal; Lugar/Place festival PhotoEspana at the Museu Berardo in Lisbon; and Ze Lino (Copan Project) at Casa Vertigo in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Haraldsson has done numerous residencies, including the Canada Council studios in London and Paris. He has contributed to publications such as EXIT, Fillip, Pyramid Power and Canadian Art. Much of his work has focused on key modernist sites from around the world, often undergoing states of transition. His work generally poses the built environment as emblematic of larger social forces, instrumental in the formation of human relations.

Donato Mancini: I SMELL SOMETHING BURNING (H.K.Y.D.)

7 July 2011 through 21 August 2011
Opening reception Thursday 7 July 2011, 6-9 pm

Curated by Christopher Brayshaw and Steven Tong

The interdisciplinary practice of Donato Mancini focuses mainly on bookworks, poetry, and text-based visual art. He is the author of four books of procedural and visual writings: Ligatures (2005) and Æthel (2007), Buffet World (2011), and Fact ‘N’ Value (2011). His collaborative visual works have been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Scandinavia and Cuba. Notable exhibitions featuring Mancini’s individual works include Surveillance Sketch (Artspeak, Vancouver 2003), Untitled: Conversation Loops (Western Front, Vancouver 2004) and Angels in the Angles (Gallery Atsui, Vancouver 2009). He also co-directed the world’s first genuine in-world avatar documentary, AVATARA (Centre A, Vancouver 2003), now part of the UbuWeb international archive of experimental film and video. Long time member of the Kootenay School of Writing, he was a principal organiser of the interdisciplinary N 49 15.832 - W 123 05.921 Positions Colloquium in August 2008. His booklength critical survey of the language, ideology and aesthetic conscience of poetry reviewing in Canada is forthcoming in 2013. Mancini lives in Vancouver, where he is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in English at the University of British Columbia.