Visual Arts

GROUP EXHIBITION 

Fazakas Gallery Grand Opening Reception
Thursday October 20, 6pm - 8pm
Fazakas Gallery, 659 E. Hastings Free
Please join the Fazakas Gallery for a group exhibition to celebrate the grand opening of their new location at 659 East Hastings Street. The show features a selection of works by Gallery artists including Beau Dick, Rande Cook, Cole Speck, Corey Bulpitt, Marcy Friesen and Trace Yeomans. Gallery Hours: Tues to Sat, 11am - 5pm.

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THE DEVIL INSIDE
Until October 29
Outsiders and Others, 716 E. Hastings
Artists have been creating depictions of the Devil or Satan or Lucifer since the beginning of time. Not really, but our fascination with good and evil is ancient. Outsiders and Others dive into the subject this month with three artists sharing their perspectives on the subject. Featuring Mary Patterson from Canada, and Andy Dykeman and Steve Moseley from the United States. Gallery Hours: Wed to Sat, 11am - 4pm.

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GENERATIONS OF WOMEN AND WATER
Honouring Our Grandmothers’ Healing Journey
Thursday October 27 to Sunday November 6
Opening Reception: Wednesday October 26, 6pm - 7:30pm
Massy Arts Gallery, 23 E. Pender  By donation
Nadine Spence’s painted chest embodies Nlaka’pamux/ Secwépemc warrior women in all their history, beauty, pain and generational bonds: from Indigenous female baby to elder matriarch.  The Generations of Women and Water exhibit shares their respectful connections to the natural world, family, traditions and spirituality; the historic impacts of genocide on their lives and the raising of life-givers – Nlaka’pamux Warrior Women – to stop the mistreatment and destruction. This is the first of thirteen bentwood cedar chests that will be created over the next year by artists from different Indigenous nations for the “Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey”. Gallery Hours: Tues to Sun, 12pm - 5pm.

WINDOW DISPLAY

BORROWED SCENERIES
Until November 7
Or Gallery, 236 E. Pender Free
Or Gallery is pleased to present Gloria Wong’s ‘borrowed sceneries’ as a public art installation in the storefront window at 236 E. Pender. Comprised of the artist’s hands recreating gestures found in family and archival photographs, the set of images aim to make visible histories of Chinese migration and labour within the area colonially known as “British Columbia.” While referencing traditional Chinese gardens through form to create a site for reprieve, the works stitch together migrant lineages of Chinese labourers in relation to diasporic futures unfolding beyond the garden walls.

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THE ROAD HOME THROUGH THE WOODLANDS IN SEARCH OF A LOST NAME
Until November 10
Massy Arts Gallery, 23 E. Pender Free
In this collection of paintings on canvas and on drums, artist James Groening (Blue Sky) both processes aspects of his Kahkewistahaw identity that are “lost in time” and the reclaimation of it in reconnecting with his Indigeneity. He is currently mentoring with Anishinaabe artist Saul Williams. Groening’s pieces use expressive colours to explore the emotions, recollections and disconnect that are all part of his experience as a 60s scoop survivor. Gallery Hours: Tues to Sun, 12pm - 5pm.

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DUPPY CONQUERORS:
BLACK HISTORIES + FUTURES IN CANADA
Until November 10
Massy Arts Gallery, 23 E. Pender Free
In a new window exhibition organized by lead artist and educator Ruby Smith Diaz, Duppy Conquerors presents light boxes made by grade eight co-op placement students at Guilford Park Secondary. All the pieces in this installation were created by students mentored by Diaz as part of the “Still Here: Black Histories & Futures in Canada" workshop series.  During an eight session arts-based workshop, students explored the histories, erasures, and resistance of Black Communities in Canada who have overcome systemic obstacles with courage, sacrifice, determination and ingenuity.  In Jamaican Patois, the word “duppy” refers to a frightening ghost or spirit. “Duppy conqueror” refers to someone fiercely courageous who has overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. 

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ED PIEN: TRACING WATER
Until November 12
Centre A, #205 - 268 Keefer
Free. Donations appreciated.
Tracing Water presents an extensive assembly of work by Toronto-based artist Ed Pien. Ranging from drawing to lithography, to prints and video, the works span over twenty years and explore and incorporate water in these artistic creations. Often collaborating with nature, Pien’s work addresses and expands on the human condition; in this exhibition, the works delve deeply into exploring the sentience of water: that water has co-agency, liveliness, and creativity. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Pien is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. He has been making art for nearly 40 years. The exhibition is curated by Henry Heng Lu. Gallery Hours: Wed to Sat, 12pm - 6pm.

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IN CONTEMPT Aiyana (Joe Wood)
Until November 25
Gallery Gachet, 9 W. Hastings Free
ᑯᐦᐹᑌᔨᑖᑯᓯᐃᐧᐣ | kohpâteyitâkosiwin – Translated from Cree as "the act of being thought of as contemptible,” this multi-media installation amplifies Aiyana (Joe Wood)’s experience of transitions, in and through child welfare documents and mental health assessments. In Contempt sheds light on the artist's experiences in the mental health and foster care systems and celebrates the artist's prerogative to take control of her narrative and rewrite her story. Gallery hours: Tues to Sat, 12pm - 6pm.

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GHOSTS FROM UNDERGROUND LOVE
Until November 26
Canton-Sardine, Unit 071, 268 Keefer Free
Lam Wong’s new solo exhibition (since spring 2020) features a series of all young female portrait paintings that Wong started in the summer of 2019. The exhibit is inspired by and based on Laura Nys’ research on Emotion Refuge and love letters of juvenile delinquents during the early 20th century in Europe. Wong’s new works depict powerful emotions of bravery, passion, love, desire, fear and hope experienced by young women and then concealed in the underground network of secret love letters during their prison times under authoritarian surveillance, Institutional oppression and unjustified punishments. Gallery Hours: Wed to Sat, 12pm - 6pm.

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THREE CASES: A LITTLE ACT OF KINDNESS
October 31 to November 29
Opening Reception: Monday October 31, 3pm - 4:30pm
Carnegie 3rd Floor Gallery, 401 Main Free 
This exhibition celebrates art in the community – the Art in the Park Project with Les Nelson and Sylvan Hamburger, and a variety of mixed media creations by Mildred Grace German and the Oppenheimer Ladies Tea Party. Now or in the past, little acts of kindness help us to mentor, and be mentored. When someone has touched our hearts, the wonderful experience of kindness ripples to many more good things. This show is dedicated to you and all of us; from the many community art and cultural events, to community kitchen gatherings, the daring ladies tea parties and struggles for safe spaces, the elders dedicating their wisdom and knowledge, the administrators creating paths for community members, the frontline workers and advocates, those with charitable givings, the art-making and gatherings in the parks, and to the artists, writers, groups, and individuals dreaming and working for a better world and healing of all souls. Gallery Hours: Mon to Sun, 9am - 9pm.

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BEYOND EXCLUSION
Until December 4
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall
Included with Garden Admission
Beyond Exclusion is Don Kwan’s first solo exhibition in Vancouver. Based in Ottawa, Kwan is a queer third-generation Chinese Canadian artist whose work is influenced by his upbringing in a family-owned restaurant in Ottawa’s Chinatown. He uses mixed media, found objects, and sourced personal text and photographs to explore questions of identity, belonging, and place, reflecting on his family history while weaving intriguing stories about the Chinese Canadian diaspora. Don Kwan: Beyond Exclusion is presented by the Pride in Art Society (SUM Gallery) in collaboration with On Main Gallery and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden as part of the Pride in Chinatown festival. Garden hours Wed to Sat, 9:30am - 4:30pm.

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STICKY EXTENSIONS: ROMI KIM IN COLLABORATION WITH QUEER BASED MEDIA
Until December 8
SUM gallery, #425 - 268 Keefer Free
SUM gallery presents sticky extensions, artist Romi Kim’s SUM gallery debut exploring relationships through drag performance and play within created space. sticky extensions hosts collaborations with fellow artists Romeo Villanueva III and Queer Based Media (Chris Reed and Kendell Yan) through a series of videos, installations, performance and workshops. The exhibit navigates the legacy, memories and precarious existence of Warehouse, an Eastside DIY event space. sticky extensions explores the transformative impact the space has for the Queer and Trans bodies that occupy it, and 擼 薑: an untranslatable word that expresses attachment, feelings of connection and warmness that provoke social reciprocity. Visit sumgallery.ca/sticky-extensions for information on workshop dates taking place during the exhibition run. Gallery hours: Tues to Sat, 12pm - 6pm.

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IT’S ABOUT TIME: DANCING BLACK IN CANADA 1900-1970 AND NOW
Until December 9
Audain Gallery and Teck Gallery, 149 W. Hastings Free
Guest-curated by Seika Boye, PhD, this archival exhibition exposes the representation of Blackness on Canadian stages, as well as audience and media reception of Black performance in Canada during this era. It’s About Time also explores legislation of leisure culture, dance lessons and the role of social dances at mid-century. Featured are individual dance artists such as Leonard Gibson (who attended Strathcona School), Ola Skanks, Ethel Bruneau, Joey Hollingsworth and Kathryn Brown. This is the fifth presentation of the archival materials in It’s About Time, and includes new commissions from dance artist Justine Chambers, visual artist Ceilidh Munroe, poet and scholar Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, with a graphic response by Adriana Contreras. Gallery hours: Tues to Sat, 12pm - 5pm.