Preview – The Gallery Guide – April-May 2007

Exhibition Catalogues of Interest
FRED HERZOG: VANCOUVER PHOTOGRAPHS by Grant Arnold and Michael
Turner. This large-format volume of Herzog’s photographs was published for his
major retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the spring of 2007. The catalogue
contains lavish full-page reproductions, essays, an interview and a chronology of
work since 1953. Herzog provides a nostalgic and provocative look at the identity of
a city that has undergone profound changes over the past 50 years with his shots of
people, shops, buildings and signage in Chinatown, the Downtown Eastside, Strathcona,
Main Street and Robson Street.
152 pages, $45 CDN. Order from the Vanouver Art Gallery Store, Vancouver BC,
604-662-4706.
JOHN DIVOLA: THREE ACTS, with an essay by David Campany and interview with
Jan Tumlir, showcases the artist’s arresting photos of abandoned and vandalized
buildings. The disturbing beautiful colour photos especially of homes by the sea in
Zuma (1977-78) reveal burnt-out window frames, spray-bombed walls and junkstrewn
floors in stark contrast to the romantic sunsets and cloudscapes beyond the
windows. Other images include exterior and interior photographs of houses undergoing
removal from a neighbourhood near LAX in 1976 which Divola entered and
spray-painted before photographing.
144 pages. $50 USD. Available from the G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, (206) 587-4033 or
gail@ggibsongallery.com
TOTEMS TO TURQUOISE: NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN JEWELRY ARTS OF THE
NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST is a lavish Abrams publication with 150 gorgeous
full-page plates of exquisite first nations jewellery. An artist’s statement and description
of each piece of jewellery ranging stylistically from very traditional to contemporary,
accompanies each piece. Compiled by general editor Kari Chalker with contributions
by Lois S. Dubin, Peter M. Whitely and Martine Reid, the large book is divided
into two sections – northwest coast art and art from the southwest United States.
224 pages, $67.50 CDN hardcover, $33.95 CDN softcover. Available from Vancouver
Museum Gift Shop, 604-730-5312 or email: giftshop@vanmuseum.bc.ca or
SURVEILLANCE: SHERRY KARVER features new work by San Francisco Bay Area
artist Sherry Karver, and is published in conjunction with her exhibition at the Morris
Graves Museum. Karver’s work examines the growing phenomenon of routine surveillance
in our culture. The first part of the Surveillance series involves images
downloaded from Internet webcams then manipulated and painted by the artist. The
second features her photographs of images seen on airport screening machines. The
catalogue includes a forward by Douglas Bullis.
20 pages, softcover. $15 USD. Available from Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, (206) 443-3315
or email at staff@lisaharrisgallery.com
SELFISH is a lively introduction to the semi-autobiographic work of Toronto-based
artist Barbara McGill Balfour. Published in a small format, the catalogue surveys
work created between1998-2004 on exhibit at the Richmond Art Gallery, BC. from
January-February 2007.
Softcover, 32 pages, price $12 CDN. Order from the Richmond Art Gallery, 604-231-6454
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