Preview – The Gallery Guide – April-May 2007

MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF
BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER BC – through May 20
John Massey is one of Canada's foremost conceptual
artists. He is the son of a prominent architect, the
grandson of Vincent Massey, and the descendant of a
patrician family of arts patrons. Massey became a sculptor,
filmmaker, installation artist and photographer. He was an
early adopter of digital photography and continues to
combine conventional photography with computer
manipulation.
Since the late 1970s, Massey’s work has involved
photographs of architectural interiors and the articulation
of scale models of rooms. They have been shown in major
exhibitions in Germany, the United States, France,
Australia, and Canada. In 2001, Massey was awarded the
Gershon Iskowitz Award for lifetime achievement.
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John Massey: The House That Jack Built
www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca
John Massey, Jack In Situ, #5 (1998-99) gelatin
silver print [Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, through
May 20]
The House That Jack Built is organized and circulated by the Canadian Museum of
Contemporary Photography in Ottawa. The exhibition features Massey’s work over the past two
decades, during which photography has become an increasingly important element in his art.
Taking its title from the Mother Goose nursery rhyme, it features the installation Room 202, A
Model for Johnny; photographic works from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000; as well as a recent project
produced for the touring exhibition, Phantoms of the Modern. Mia Johnson
THE BAILEY COLLECTION, TORONTO
Serra, Alexander Calder, Teresita
Fernandez, Roy McMakin, Mark
Dion, and other leading contemporary
artists.
★ Seattle Asian Art Museum
1400 E Prospect St ✆(206)654-3100
www.seattleartmuseum.org
tues-sun 10am-5pm thurs til 9pm
Admission: suggested donation $3
Ongoing SAAM TATEUCHI GALLERIES Pattern
Richness in Modern Japanese
Textiles, kimonos from the 19th-20th
C. from the permanent collection; Thru
Jul 29 SAAM FOSTER GALLERIES Of
Nature and Friendship: Modern Chinese
Paintings from the Khoan and
Michael Sullivan Collection, includes
landscape paintings and works by
Zhang Daqian, Lin Fengmian, Pang
Xunqin and Wu Zuoren; Thru Jun 30
SAAM TATEUCHI GALLERIES Discovering
Buddhist Art- Seeking the Sublime,
sculpture, painting, ritual implements
and textiles illustrate the spectacular
development of Buddhist arts from
India, China, Tibet, Korea, Thailand
and Japan; Thru Jul 1 SAAM TATEUCHI
GALLERIES Shirin Neshat, “Tooba”,
video installation and new acquisition
by Iranian-born artist.
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★ Vetri International Glass
1404 1st Ave ✆(206)667-9608
www.vetriglass.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm
Open 1st Thurs Artwalks 5-8pm Apr
Selection of emerging and established
glass artists from around the
world; May 1-27 Paul Cunningham,
blown glass.
Western Bridge
3412 4th Ave S ✆(206) 838-7444
www.westernbridge.org
thurs-sat 12-6pm Admission is free
Thru May 5 Christian Marclay, “Video
Quartet”, synchronized four-channel
video installation ; Gretchen Bennett,
Steven Brekelmans, Ryan Gander,
Carsten Holler, Paul Morrison, Steve
Roden, Ben Rubin, “Kit Bashing”, on
appropriation and archives.
★ William Traver Gallery
110 Union St, #200 ✆(206)587-6501
www.travergallery.com
tues-fri 10am-6pm sat 10am-5pm sun
12-5pm Open 1st Thurs Artwalks 5-
8pm Apr 6-29 Steffen Dam, “In Dialogue
with Nature”, blown and cast
glass; David Walters, “Once Upon a
Time”, blown and painted glass; May
4-Jun 3 Shelley-Muzylowski Allen,
painting and glass sculpture; Alan
Fulle, abstract painting.
SPOKANE
Northwest Museum of
Arts & Culture
2316 W First Ave
✆24-hr hotline: (509)363-5315
www.northwestmuseum.org
tues-sun 11am-5pm Admission
(includes visit to Campbell House):
adults $7, seniors and students $5,
children under 5 and Museum members
free, Family MACFest Days $10,
1st fridays by donation 5-8pm Thru
Apr 13 22nd Annual Works from the
Heart Contemporary Art Exhibition,
with auction Apr 14; Apr 28-Sep 2 A
T. rex Named Sue, tells the story of
the largest, most complete and best
preserved T. rex fossil yet discovered;
Thru Apr 22 Spokane Medicine: Heritage
and Highlights, artefacts and
images related to Spokane’s medical
history; Ongoing Spokane Timeline,
“Personal Voices”, over a century of
history translated into a 3-D tapestry
of personal stories.
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS