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.
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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. |
We've walked by the new CBC building a few times but now we're starting to hang out there more. Brutus really likes the grass and we really love the little J.J. Bean coffee shack! Vancouver needs more coffee shacks! This one is perfect for hanging out with your dog in the sun while sipping your coffee.
While at the coffee shack you also can enjoy Eric Deis' photo "Last Chance". It's huge and it's on the CBC Wall (700 block of Hamilton Street). The original photograph "Last Chance", on which the project is based, and other works by Eric Deis will be on exhibit at Elissa Cristall Gallery April 15 - May 15, 2010. Opening reception is today, Thursday, Apr 15, 6-8pm at the CBC Plaza.
THE WALL is an exciting new artists' platform made possible through a unique partnership between the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, JJ Bean, and the CBC. THE WALL will feature a changing program of artworks that respond to and reflect upon Vancouver's built environment. Other Sights is pleased to be involved in this collaborative initiative as the curator of the inaugural project, Last Chance.
In Eric Deis' architecturally-scaled photograph, the image of a small house is framed by a large cedar tree on one side and condominium sales office on the other. In the background, the presence of a residential tower suggests a similar fate for the little house at 1062 Richards Street. The photograph was taken just months before the owner ended her resolute stand off and sold her home of 45 years to make way for advancing development.
Echoing the current rapid migration of construction sites from one street to the next throughout Vancouver's downtown core, Deis has transplanted Last Chance to the 700 block of Hamilton Street. Using a printing medium commonly associated with full colour advertising and real estate marketing, Last Chance asserts a distinctly quiet, black and white presence. Its scale suggests a distant view yet focuses upon a recent past. Compressing into one image the last house, the last tree, and the last chance for preconstruction pricing, Deis' photograph captures a somber and familiar moment of transition in Vancouver's built environment.
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Eric Deis is a Vancouver-based artist who has exhibited in North America and Europe. His minutely detailed large-format photographs expose extraordinary moments hidden within regular circumstances.
Last Chance was curated by Barbara Cole
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Emily Carr University presents their Foundation Student Show, Diane Faris Gallery presents How is Social Media changing the Practice of Visual Art? lecture and discussion, and Chapel Arts presents Slivers Shivers & Snakeskins. More and more on the list! Check Artsy!Dartsy! for details.
Future Masters & Spare the Change UPDATE!!!
The deadlines (June 1) are approaching for this awesome chance to be a part of the IDSWest 2010 Show in October. Spare the Change: Design for $2 has been opened up to ALL designers residing in Canada. Future Masters has been opened to design students & recents grads (max. graduated one year ago 2009). Entry is free.
Also until Friday, purchase tickets to the Long Table Social fundraiser for Heritage Vancouver by Fri, Apr 16 & have a VERY very good chance to win $150 of Nuba GC! That's a lot of dinners for you and your date!
