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Greetings Vancouver is Awesome readers! We here at Artsy-Dartsy are proud to be new contributors to VIA.A brief background on us: We are Linus and Denise. So pleased to meet you! We love art and design, hence we started a website called Artsy-Dartsy.com to help people like us find out about art and design events in our awesome city of Vancouver!This week there are tons of great events happening. For the full listing please head to Artsy-Dartsy.com. |
This week artist Damian Moppett has a show entitled The Sculptor's Studio is a Painting at the Catriona Jeffries Gallery. Opening Reception is Thursday, May 20, 7-9pm. Working in an expanded field of production that includes painting, sculpture, photography, drawing and collage, this new body of work continues the evolving trajectory of Moppett’s studio-based practice.
The paintings, sculptures and ink drawings which form the exhibition function as formal exercises where recognizable motifs from past works by the artist depart, through their process of making, into the realm of abstraction for the first time. Materially methodical in their production, the works mark a departure for Moppett in their intentional disguising of art historical references. Rather than explicitly incorporating his usual nods to art-historical figures such as Guston, Brancusi, Moore and Caro, Moppett considers tropes of display which function to support the process of referral which takes the site of Moppet’s own practice as a scene of origin from which to draw from, thus creating a private and esoteric language of form. Continuing to add to the heterogeneous visual library from which he persistently extrapolates, the inclusion of a pair of framed ink drawings made during a recent residency in London, UK, are one of the myriad points from which the work began.
Other notables: A public forum is being held on the future of the Vancouver Art Gallery this Thursday, at Robson Square, UBC.
221A Artist Run Centre presents an industrial design show Hook-ness Hook-ness: a collaborative exhibition featuring the work of seven Vancouver-based designers who explore the complexities of ‘hook’. Each designer questions the conventions and assumptions of hooks – offering an array of new findings, interpretations and narratives.
Image: Joji Fukushima
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