GALLERY ARTISTS PARTICIPATING IN CULTURAL OLYMPIAD PROJECTS

Geoffrey Farmer's project space, Every Letter In The Alphabet is now open at 1875 Powell street, Vancouver. The space is dedicated to the appreciation, production and distribution of text based works. Hours are Friday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm. Become a fan on Facebook and receive information on upcoming events.

Every Letter In The Alphabet is part in the City of Vancouver's Public Art Program Mapping and Marking. For more information visit the City of Vancouver website.


The City of Vancouver has commisioned Myfanwy MacLeod to create an artwork for the legacy component of the Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program. The Birds will be installed at Southeast False Creek Olympic Plaza after the 2010 Winter Games. For more information visit the City of Vancouver website.


Myfanwy MacLeod is taking part in an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. CUE: Artists’ Videos is a program of videos taking place during the Cultural Olympiad (January 23 - March 21 2010), coinciding with Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The work is being shown during the day and night on a large (20’ x 15’) LED screen on the Gallery’s Robson street façade.

Judy Radul is participating in Culture Shock, Video Interventions at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 22 January - 21 March 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Curated by Stephanie Rebick and organized in association with the Vancouver Art Gallery's CUE: Artists' Videos project.

Kevin Schmidt is taking part in the public poster project Endlessly Traversed Landscapes , curated by Natalie Doonan. The project is part of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad and features works by Canadian artists placed in various locations throughout Vancouver. Kevin Schmidt's billboard work is located at Expo Boulevard and Carrall Street. For more information on Endlessly Traversed Landscapes, visit the Vancouver 2010 website.

Ron Terada has been commissioned by the City of Vancouver to create an artwork for the legacy component of the Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program. The large text-based work titled The Words Don't Fit The Picture is located at the Vancouver Central Library. For more information visit the City of Vancouver website.

Jin-me Yoon is participating in Culture Shock, Video Interventions at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 22 January - 21 March 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Curated by Stephanie Rebick and organized in association with the Vancouver Art Gallery's CUE: Artists' Videos project.

Jin-me Yoon is taking part in an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. CUE: Artists’ Videos is a program of videos which will take place during the Cultural Olympiad (January 23 - March 21 2010), coinciding with Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The work will be shown during the day and night on a large (20’ x 15’) LED screen on the Gallery’s Robson street façade.

OTHER NEWS

Chris Dikeakos, Brian Jungen, Roy Kiyooka, Ian Wallace and Jin-me Yoon are taking part in the exhibition Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual at the Vancouver Art Gallery, 28 November 2009 – 18 April 2010.

Sam Durant's new website is now online. View it here.

Roy Kiyooka and Ian Wallace are participating in the group exhibition to show, to give, to make it be there: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver 1954 – 1969, at Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia, 9 January – 13 March 2010. Curated by Michael Turner.

Geoffrey Farmer is taking part in the group exhibition Conversation Pieces: A Chamber Play - Act III, Climax at Johnen Galerie in Berlin, 13 February – 13 March 2010.

Geoffrey Farmer is participating in the group exhibition Sculpture as Time: Major Works. Recent Acquisitions, 4 March – 1 August 2010 at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Ontario.

Geoffrey Farmer is taking part in the exhibition The New Paradigm: Models, Diagrams, Proposals and Provisions for the Coming Age, 4 – 27 March 2010, at The Pavillion at Langara College, Vancouver, British Columbia.

A solo exhibition of work by Geoffrey Farmer is taking place at Western Bridge in Seattle Washington, 11 – 18 March 2010.

A solo exhibition of work by Brian Jungen's is on at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Exhibition runs 16 October 2009 – 8 August 2010, curated by Paul Chaat Smith.

Brian Jungen is participating in the group exhibition Pattern ID at the Akron Art Museum, 23 January – 9 May 2010, Akron, Ohio.

Brian Jungen is taking part in the group exhibition, Hard Targets, at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, 29 January – 11 April 2010.

Brian Jungen is participating in the group exhibition First Nations / Second Nature at the Audain Gallery at SFU Woodward’s, 7 February – 20 March 2010, curated by Candice Hopkins.

Brian Jungen participating in exhibition Size DOES Matter at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York, 19 February – 27 May 2010. Curated by Shaquille O'Neal.

A solo exhibition of work by Roy Kiyooka will take place at Catriona Jeffries Gallery 26 March – 1 May 2010.

Germaine Koh is taking part in the group exhibition Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, 16 January – 18 April 2010.

Gareth Moore is participating in the group exhibition Nothing to Declare at The Power Plant, 11 December 2009 – 7 March 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

Damian Moppett has been awarded a residency at Space in London, September 2009 to March 2010.

Alex Morrison is participating in a group exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal titled Cubes, Blocks and Other Spaces, 7 November 2009 – 5 April 2010, Montreal, Quebec.

An exhibition of work by Alex Morrison is currently on show at Every Letter In The Alphabet.

Alex Morrison will have solo exhibition titled Making Beer More Expensive opening at Artspeak on 26 March – 1 May 2010.

A solo exhibition of work by Isabelle Pauwels, titled Isabelle Pauwels: Incredibly, unbelievably/The complete ordered field will take place at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, 30 January – 5 May 2010. The exhibition is the result of Isabelle Pauwels receiving the 2009 Brink Award.

The 2009 Brink Award is a new biennial award, sponsored by the Henry Art Gallery and Seattle art supporters John and Shari Behnke, and is granted to an early-career artist working in Washington, Oregon, or British Columbia. For the full press release, please click on the icon below:


Kevin Schmidt is participating in the group exhibition unfinished business at Waterside Project Space, 6 February – 4 March 2010, London, England.

Kevin Schmidt is taking part in the group exhibition Magnetic Norths at Galarie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, 25 February – 17 April 2010.

Ron Terada is taking part in the group exhibition Route 1: R for Replicant at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco, California, 19 January – 10 April 2010.

Ron Terada is participating in the exhibition Gallery, Galerie, Galleria, at Norma Mangione Gallery, 15 January – 13 March 2010, Torino, Italy. Curated by Adam Carr.

Ron Terada is also participating in Act V: Power Alone, another part of the Morality project, at the Witte de With, 9 February – 25 April 2010.

A solo exhibition of work by Ron Terada, titled Who I Think I Am, is taking place at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England, 31 March – 16 May 2010. The work will then travel to the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre and then to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto.

A solo exhibition of Ian Wallace's work is taking place at Yvon Lambert in Paris, 13 February – 14 March 2010.

The catalogue, Ian Wallace: A Literature of Images, is now available. This publication accompanies the trilogy of exhibitions that took place at the Witte de With, the Kunsthalle Zürich and the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf) in Fall 2008 / Spring 2009.

An anthology of exhibition essays published by CJ Press is now available. The collection of essays are written by various writers in response to the exhibitions at Catriona Jeffries Gallery from September 2006 to December 2007. The cost is $20 plus shipping and handling. Please contact the gallery for more information.

To view current and continuing exhibitions as well as news of additional events, please visit the menu of artists' names to the left.