Catriona Jeffries is pleased to announce a provocative shift in situation with its forthcoming relocation to 274 East 1st Avenue in Vancouver. Well-defined new facilities for installation, exhibition, inventory and administration will occupy the ground floor and mezzanine of a renovated warehouse, opening in June 2006.

Since the gallery first moved into its two-level storefront in Vancouver's South Granville area in 1994, a series of projects by artists have periodically lanced its structure. The building was punctured through the roof to accommodate an accumulated stack from Geoffrey Farmer's Every surface in some way decorated, altered, or changed forever (except the float), and opened via the front glass window facing to make part of the gallery street-accessible 24 hours a day in Germaine Koh's Shell. It has hosted a raven-haired doppelganger who continuously fabricated and modified a parallel architecture throughout the space during a 62 day process-based installation in Geoffrey Farmer's Catriona Jeffries Catriona; annexed the city by enclosing Ron Terada's Entering City of Vancouver sculptural sign work, advised us to Stay Away from Lonely Places (Ron Terada) and instructed that we Don't Stop Dreaming (Myfanwy MacLeod).

Catriona Jeffries gallery's working practice strives to reflect the ambition of its artists' projects, through an ongoing commitment to selected international art fairs, curatorial collaborations, invitations to writers and visiting artists, and off-site projects and screenings. Such activities contribute to a myriad of connections, references and overlappings that have instigated the gallery's relocation and configuration as a civic site of production. This practice now turns away from the one-way mirror-power retail context of South Granville and transforms eastward into an industrially zoned mix of warehouses, auto body shops, alternative galleries and artist live/work studios.

If the city is envisioned as a series of spatial complexes that interlace and interact, then as an intermediary focal point the forthcoming new practice at Catriona Jeffries presents a unique perspective on, and compelling commitment to artists' representation in the city and the larger world.


Jessie Caryl