Vancouver Art Gallery

It’s a new year, and we’re gearing up for new exhibitions and events to inspire you over the next 12 months! Here’s a first look at what’s coming up at the Gallery in 2024. We look forward to continuing to provide a space for dialogue and connection through art, and we hope you will join us for all that is to come. Become a Gallery Member today to enjoy all that the Gallery has to offer! Find out more and choose the membership that's right for you at https://lnkd.in/d_NwpXf. #VancouverArtGallery #2024ready #ArtAndArtists #CommunityAndLearning #NewYear2024 #NewBeginnings

Today we were pleased to welcome representatives from the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce to the Gallery! Sirish Rao, Senior Director of Public Engagement & Learning and Jasmine Bradley, Senior Director of Communications & Branding met to discuss opportunities for community building through cross-border collaboration.     Our Gallery team is excited to build partnerships that will inspire local, national and international visitors to discover vibrant arts and culture across the region, creating paths to share perspectives and shape our collective future together. #VancouverArtGallery #BCTourismCounts #Tourism #TravelTrade

Do you know a student aged 13 to 15 who would love to expand their creative practice? Encourage them to apply for Art Exchange 2024/25! Applications are now open until September 20. 🔗 Apply today at https://lnkd.in/dEqrmf8 🎨 This exciting, full-scholarship visual arts program is a collaboration between Arts Umbrella and the Vancouver Art Gallery and runs from October 2024 through June 2025. Participating students receive unprecedented access to experiential learning. First, they explore, critique and observe exhibitions at the Gallery. Then, they respond to what they have seen by making their own work at Arts Umbrella. Students will have the opportunity to speak with and learn from exhibiting artists and art world professionals, as well as take part in behind-the-scenes workshops and special tours. Images: Art Exchange 2023/24, Photos: Devan Francis and Anita Bonnarens #VancouverArtGallery #TeenArtProgram #ArtsEducation

Looking for ways to keep your kids entertained this summer? Discover the exhibitions as a family every Sunday through hands-on artmaking activities in The Making Place or a guided Family Tour! 🎨 Family Programs | Every Sunday  🖌 The Making Place, 11 AM–4 PM  🖼 Family Tours, 2 PM    The Gallery’s Family Programs are designed for visitors aged 5 to 12 years old and their families, but all ages are welcome.     This Sunday, we will explore “OF & ABOUT POSTERS” through a guided tour and an activity inspired by conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner’s posters. We will also create our own monochrome paintings inspired by “A Monochrome Journey!”      Find out more at https://lnkd.in/g33zHtJr 

Last chance! The inaugural 1:1 Artists Select exhibition, on view in the Gallery’s Forecourt, closes this Sunday, July 21.     Acclaimed Vancouver artist Stan Douglas has selected a painting by Group of Seven member Lawren Harris from the collection to be shown in conversation with one of Douglas’ own photographs. Experience these works before they go back to the vault! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/d2puvcVJ   Artworks: Stan Douglas, “Walhachin,” 2006, chromogenic print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist, VAG 2007.8.3; Lawren S. Harris (1885–1970), “The Spirit of Remote Hills,” 1957–60, oil on canvas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisition Fund, VAG 85.56 

Make sure your summer includes a trip to the Gallery. Here’s how to spend the perfect evening with us: ✨ Get inspired by the current exhibitions. We’re open until 8 PM on Thursdays and Fridays! 🥂 Relax with your friends and enjoy a drink in the Lobby Lounge on Fridays between 5 and 8 PM. There are even puzzles waiting for you! 🎁 Find a memento and shop unique, art-inspired gifts at the Vancouver Art Gallery Store. Plan your visit at https://lnkd.in/gebBbXkM Image: Visitors enjoy "HORIZONS" at Art Opens, June 2024, Photo: Sheng Ho

“My goal is to produce audio/visual compositions in time using the language of experience, the sounds and images of the real world as collected on videotape [...]. In the visual sense, my video works are more related to music than the printed word. They are visual poems, allegories in language of subjective perception, open to diverse individual interpretation, yet each thematically expressing specific concepts that derive from everyday life experience.” —Bill Viola, 1981 We were saddened to learn of the passing of American video artist #BillViola (1951–2024) over the weekend. In 1981, a selection of Viola’s experimental videos, produced from 1976 to 1981, were exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery in “videospace,” a semi‑permanent gallery devoted to artists’ videos. The exhibition included the premiere of a new videotape recorded and edited in Japan in 1981, while Viola was in residence at Sony Research Labs, Atsugi. In 2007, Viola’s work was at the Gallery again in the touring exhibition "Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre" from the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was the first major history of staged photography and featured Viola’s “The Greeting” (1995). An innovator in the fields of new media, video and installation art, Viola’s impact on the history of art will not soon be forgotten. Image: Installation view of Bill Viola, “The Greeting,” 1995, in “Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre,” exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery from February 3 to May 21, 2007, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery

“Without the unknown, everything is predictable, and predictable things are boring. So, to spice up our life, there has to be something unknown all the time.” –Khan Lee    As you enter “Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey,” you are welcomed by swirls of colour that transport you to the Gallery’s past through 41 years of exhibitions at this location. Take a closer look at the making of this site-specific installation with Vancouver–based artist Khan Lee now!    Immerse yourself in “Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey” on your next visit to the Gallery. Book tickets at https://lnkd.in/gdreVBfV.

In the late 1970s, the Gallery organized a playful car wash to raise funds for an initiative aimed at preserving the works of Emily Carr for future generations. At the time, a large majority of works in the Emily Carr Trust were in poor condition and required extensive treatment for stabilization. The Gallery proposed the Emily Carr Restoration Project, a major conservation initiative to prevent further deterioration of the Carr Collection so that it could continue to be displayed and loaned. It was estimated that $100,000 was required to restore the works, a significant amount given the annual conservation budget at the time was $4,000. Eager to launch the project, in 1978, the Gallery’s staff organized “CAR(R) WASH,” a fundraising event in the parking lot adjacent to the Gallery's Georgia Street location. For $3 per car, Gallery staff, including Senior Curator Emeritus Ian Thom—outfitted in custom designed “CAR(R) WASH” t-shirts—handwashed vehicles. Proceeds from the event were used to establish the Emily Carr Restoration Fund. Visit the Gallery now through January 5, 2025, to discover how the Gallery and the Emily Carr Trust have shaped one another over the course of a century in “Emily Carr: A Room of Her Own.” Plan your visit at https://lnkd.in/gid95s9M.

We were saddened to learn of the passing of renowned artist #AlexJanvier, who will be remembered as one of Canada’s greatest painters. CEO and Executive Director Anthony Kiendl reflects: “I was honoured to work with Janvier more than once. He was a great artist whose work will live on in perpetuity. He inspired generations and will be greatly missed.” Richard Hill, the Gallery’s Smith Jarislowsky Senior Curator of Canadian Art, writes: “Alex Janvier used to carry a business card with the phrase, ‘Canada’s first Indian modernist,’ printed on it. He had earned it. As a young man in the 1950s, he had to carry a pass to leave his reserve, and he fought mightily to convince the authorities at what was then the Department of Indian Affairs to allow him to attend art school rather than a trade program. We are so lucky that he did because he went on to create a remarkable body of abstract paintings and murals inspired by his Dene Suline and Saulteaux heritages and the Northern Alberta landscape, works that pulse and swirl with the rhythms of life. Despite the odds, he opened many doors that other Indigenous artists followed him through. His inspiring art and his courage to be ‘the first’ are legacies that will live on.” Image: Alex Janvier featured in “Janvier,” Arts West, March/April 1976, Photo: J. Dow