Western Front 37th Annual Auction

Free Preview March 3 7-9 @ Western Front: 303 East 8th Avenue

This is the preview site where you can see works that will be on auction at the Western Front’s 37th Annual Gala and Art Auction on March 6th, 2010.

Tickets are $150 and include dinner and beverages. To reserve a seat call 604-876-9343 or email admin@front.bc.ca.

The theme of the auction is “The New Deal”.

Among the participating artists are: Sonja Ahlers, Sonny Assu, Heremy Hof, Khan Lee, Damian Moppett, Judy Radul,Marina Roy, Erin Shirreff, Ian Skedd, Reece Terris, Elizabeth Zvonar, Donato Mancini, and others.

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Curatorial Talk: Michael Turner

March 7th @ W2 Perel Gallery: 112 West Hastings

Michael Turner will be giving a curatorial talk and slide presentation about the show “to show, to give, to make it be there” of Vancouver art in the 1960s. If we can get the mimeograph machine working, the talk will conclude with a hands-on broadside editioning of a new poem by Maxine Gadd. Michael Turner is a Vancouver-based writer of fiction, criticism and song. His books includeHard Core Logo, The Pornographer’s Poem and 8×10. As a collaborator, he has written scripts with Stan Douglas, co-authored public artworks with Geoffrey Farmer and composed with Andrea Young. Over the years, Turner has instigated in a numerous curatorial projects, including the Reading Railroad reading series, the Malcolm Lowry Room, film programmes at the Pacific Cinematheque, and most recently, the exhibition “to show, to give, to make it be there”: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver, 1954-1969 at SFU Gallery (Burnaby), which he will discuss on March 7th. Turner is this year’s Ellen and Warren Tallman SFU Writer-in-Residence.

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Photogenic – Abstract Photography

March 5 – April 10, 2010 @ Blanket Gallery: 2414 Main Street

Opening Reception Friday March 5, 2010 6-9 pm

Blanket is pleased to present a group exhibition of works by Markus Amm, Walead Beshty, Liz Deschenes, Lorna Macintyre, László Moholy-Nagy, Mark Soo, and James Welling. The exhibition aims to look at diverse conceptual inquiries driving artists to investigate the application of abstraction in photography today. Beyond a set of formal similarities, the artists share prevailing interest in materiality and process as concrete manifestations of a specific set of conditions offering unique visual energies and questioning the assumptions about photography. With a selection of photographic works first produced in the 1920s, Moholy-Nagy holds a historical position in the exhibition: a pioneer of experimentation with photography, the artist forms a central argument and invites contemporary counterparts to re-interpret and further his project, questioning the meaning of making abstract images and the possibilities of the medium. Markus Amm, Walead Beshty, Liz Deschenes and James Welling present a selection of photograms – images that incorporate the camera-less, negative-less photographic process, while Lorna Macintyre and Mark Soo invite us to look at their photographic practice as simultaneously abstract and representational constructions that have undergone translations, interpretations and manipulations. Photogenic marks particularly fertile moment in recent contemporary photography and invites the viewer to experience the exhibition considering individual works within the context of the group.

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