www.orgallery.orgStudies in DecayOR GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Oct 29-Dec 10, <strong>2011</strong> Studies in Decay is a new group exhibit at theOr Gallery curated by UBC Critical and Curatorial Studies’ candidate Jonah Gray. Dark and intense,the images propose to examine realities of contemporary experience in the spirit of Walter Benjamin’stheorem that the world continuously moves towards decay.Raymond Boisjoly is an Aboriginal artist livingand working in Vancouver. His most recentseries of images, The Writing Lesson, uses visualconventions associated with black metal music tocreate logos for indigenous place names likeChilliwack, Massett, Skidegate and Nanaimo.Scolling and thorny, the Nordic-inspired logosrepresent a vernacular mode of indigenous wordmarkings, while stressing text and writing aspolitical tools. Boisjoly earned his MFA at UBCin 2008 and has since exhibited in Ottawa, Seattle,San Francisco, and Chongqing, China.Jordy Hamilton (UBC, MFA 2010) is anOntario-born Vancouver-based artist known forconceptual installations as well as for paintingscopied from images in National Geographic. HisJordy Hamilton, Freedom Machine (<strong>2011</strong>), mixed media [Or Gallery,Vancouver BC, Oct 29-Dec 10]contribution to Studies in Decay consists of a series of 4 ¥ 6 inch prints and two videos documenting anannual barbeque and trap-shooting event at the artist’s family home, which culminates in a shoot-up ofa motorcycle.Laura Piasta, a Vancouver artist currently living in Sweden and Berlin, presents Crystallized JeanJacket, a denim jacket hardened from saltwater soaking . Pinned to the wall, the jacket evokes an absentbody. Piasta is currently working towards her Master’s of Fine Arts at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts inSweden. She has shown in Berlin and Vancouver, and in 2007 received a VADA award. Mia JohnsonCOLLECTION OF THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ACQUISITION FUND★ Jeunesse Galleryof Fine Arts2668 W 4th Ave ✆604-737-2438www.jeunessegallery.common-sun 10am-6pm. Thru <strong>Nov</strong> Withoutthe Wall, guest exhibition of Europeansculptors working in bronze;Thru Dec The single rose that madethe difference, small works of floraand fauna by gallery artists; Thru JanStefan Zeissa, “Journey in the Southof Italy”, oil paintings.Joyce Williams AntiquePrints & Maps114-1118 Homer St, Yaletown,✆604-688-7434www.jwprintsandmaps.comtues-sat 11am-5pm. Offering a largeselection of antique maps, Japanesewoodblock prints, botanical, architectural,natural history, decorativeand fine art prints from the 16th-20th centuries, ephemera and featuringCharles van Sandwyk, etchings,books and cards.Katherine McLean Studio1-1359 Cartwright St (Rear),Granville Island, in Railspur Alleyopposite Agro Cafe✆604-684-8452 604-377-6689www.katherinemclean.comthurs-sun 11am-4pm or by chance.<strong>Nov</strong>-Jan Katherine McLean, “Playingwith Fire”, encaustic paintingsand ceramic still-life sculpture.Kurbatoff Gallery2435 Granville St ✆604-736-5444www.kurbatoffgallery.comtue-sat 10:30am-5:30pm sun 12-5pm. <strong>Nov</strong> 17-Dec 1 Chris Charlebois,New Works, luxurious large-scale oilpaintings evolving into a nature-basedabstraction, inspired by the WestCoast environment; Dec-Jan “HolidaySeason Group Shows by GalleryArtists”, selection of new works byWilliam Allister, Donna Baspaly,Chris Charlebois, Elisabetta Fantone,Geoff Farnsworth, Eva Kolacz,Chris Langstroth, Gerda Marschall,Marleen Vermeulen, Ann Zielinskiand more; new bronze sculpture byAndrew Benyei, Stephen Booth,Renhard Skoracki and Trinita Waller.Lattimer Gallery1590 W 2nd Ave ✆604-732-4556www.lattimergallery.common-sat 10am-5pm sun 11am-5pmholidays 12-5pm. Offering a comprehensiveselection of original works ofart by First Nations artists including,gold and sterling silver jewellery,masks, panels, bentwood boxes,totem poles, argillite, sculptures,paintings and limited edition prints.<strong>Nov</strong> 19-Dec 3 Annual Charity BentwoodBoxes, constructed by Métisartist James Michels and designed,painted and/or carved by variousartists who generously donated theirtime and talent, each box availablethrough silent auction ending Dec 3,100% of the proceeds donated toUrban Native Youth Association; Dec3 5-8pm Annual Open House.54 PREVIEW ■ NOVEMBER/DECEMBER/JANUARY <strong>2011</strong>/12 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
★ Marilyn S. Mylrea Gallery2341 Granville St ✆604-736-2450www.marilynmylrea.comwed-sun 12-5pm or by appt. Thru<strong>Nov</strong> 17 Rich Moments, group show;<strong>Nov</strong> 18-Jan 20 “Nature’s Song”, Acontemporary exhibition featuringthe beauty of the West Coast’s sky,water and lush mountains with tranquillandscape abstracts by MarilynS. Mylrea, magnificent trees byRobert Jess Marshall and artworkby gallery artists.Marion Scott Gallery2423 Granville St ✆604-685-1934www.marionscottgallery.comtues-sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-5pm.Memorial Exhibition: KananginakPootoogook (1935 – 2010), featuresa selection of the Cape Dorset-basedartist’s last drawings. Contact thegallery for dates and information.Monny’s Art Gallery2675 W 4th Ave ✆604-733-2082www.envisionoptical.camon-sat 11am-6pm. This gallery oflong-time collector Monny has apermanent collection of artwork aswell as rotating exhibitions of localartists: Andrea Gower, KerensaHaynes, Ted Hesketh, Sonia Kobraheland Stanimir Stoylov.Monte Clark Gallery2339 Granville St ✆604-730-5000www.monteclarkgallery.comtues-sat 10am-6pm. <strong>Nov</strong> 24-Jan 7Roy Arden, “Vox”.Morris and Helen BelkinArt GalleryUniversity of British Columbia1825 Main Mall ✆604-822-2759www.belkin.ubc.catues-fri 10am-5pm sat & sun 12-5pm closed holidays. Thru Dec 4Luis Camnitzer, features 70 drawings,etchings, installations andphotoworks created between 1966and the present by Uruguayan conceptualartist who may be consideredone of the art world’s key figuresin the second half of the 20thcentury; Jan 13-Apr 15 “Letters:Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry”,features 50 paintings, concretepoetry works by Michael Morris,and photographs and archival materialsfrom the gallery’s collection,also includes 30 small prints, collages,paintings and prints by UgoCarrega, Henri Chopin, Lily Greenham,Jiri Kolar, Ferdinand Kriwet,Arrigo Lora-Totino, Steve McCafferyand Gerhard Rühm, artists whowere part of the 1969 exhibition atthe UBC Fine Arts Gallery, the worksare markers in time and a way to situateMorris and Vancouver’s links tothe international movement. Morrishas been a key figure of the WestCoast art scene and was engagedwith concrete poetry in the 1960s.Museum of Anthropology6393 NW Marine Dr ✆604-822-5087www.moa.ubc.catues 10am-9pm wed-sun 10am-5pm. Admission: adults $14, students& seniors 65+ $12, UBC staff,students & faculty free with ID, family$35, children under 6 free, tues 5-9pm $7, groups included. Thru Feb12 Ishiuchi Miyako, “ひ ろ し まhiroshima”, 48 large-scale photographsof clothing and personaleffects left behind by victims of the1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb; ThruApr 8 A Green Dress: Objects, Memory,and the Museum, objects fromthe museum’s collection, some old,www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 55
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