WOO GALLERY IS LOCATED IN ROOM 145, AT EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY
1399 JOHNSTON STREET, GRANVILLE ISLAND,
VANCOUVER, BC, V6H 3R9, CANADA.
WOO GALLERY IS OPEN 1PM TO 3PM SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.
WOO 2009 - 2010 RETROSPECTIVE
NICOLAS SASSOON / HOME STUDIES
DOUBLEDECK, PYRAMIDES, GEODES
KRISDY SHINDLER
THROUGH PLAYING WITH TRADITIONAL ARCHETYPES IN PAINTING--SUCH AS ICONOGRAPHY, AND THE RECORDING OF LIGHT AND MOVEMENT--KRISDY SHINDLER’S WORK CRITIQUES THE ABILITY OF THE MEDIUM TO STAY CURRENT, WHILE SUGGESTING ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO VIEW THE PRACTICE.
INSTEAD OF CONVENTIONALLY WORKING ON CANVAS, SHINDLER HAS SHIFTED TO PAINTING ON VELLUM--A TRANSLUCENT MATERIAL OFTEN USED IN COMBINATION WITH A LIGHT BOX. THE POTENTIAL AND RELATIVE EASE IN WHICH THE VELLUM CAN FILTER LIGHT AND BECOME ILLUMINATED WHEN BACK LIT, CONTRASTS SHARPLY WITH THE SKILLED AND DIFFICULT TALENT OF THE PAINTER NEEDED TO RENDER LUMINOSITY ONTO CANVAS. THE EASE OF THE VELLUM PAINTINGS TO BE BACK LIT IS THUS TELLING OF THE COMPETITION PAINTING HAS BETWEEN OTHER MEDIUMS WHICH—TECHNICALLY SPEAKING—MAY SHINE MUCH BRIGHTER.
IN OTHER WORKS SUCH AS A RECIPROCAL PROCESS OF BECOMING, SHINDLER HAS CREATED A SIMPLE STOP MOTION ANIMATION THAT CHARTS THE PROCESS AND DECISION MAKING THAT GOES INTO THE PRODUCTION OF A PAINTING. THE FILMS ARE PRESENTED AS PAINTINGS AND ESTABLISH A HISTORICAL NARRATIVE BETWEEN THE TWO MEDIUMS. STARTING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY PAINTERS—INFLUENCED BY CINEMA—ATTEMPTED TO REPRESENT MOVEMENT WITHIN THE STATIC MEDIUM. SCHINDLER PARODIES THIS STRUGGLE TO RENDER MOTION THROUGH EDITING TOGETHER THE PHOTOGRAPHS WHICH DOCUMENT THE PROCESS OF MAKING AN IMAGE—INHERENTLY EVERY PAINTING IS THE END RESULT OF THE ACTIONS TOOK TO MOVE PAINT ACROSS A SURFACE.
SHINDLER’S WORK SEEMS SKEPTICAL OF PAINTING'S ABILITY TO CREATE NEW SYMBOLS AS THE DISCIPLINE HAS HISTORICALLY DONE. ALTHOUGH THE IMAGERY IN HER PAINTINGS MAY HAVE AT ONE POINT HELD GREATER MEANING, THEY NOW BORDER ON KITSCH STATUS. ONCE POLITICALLY CHARGED SYMBOLS SUCH AS RIOTS AND RAINBOWS HAVE BEEN MADE NEUTRAL BY THEIR OVER USE AND SATURATION INTO MAIN STREAM MEDIA. THIS IS DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT FROM HOW PAINTINGS USED TO BE VIEWED, BUT PARTICULARLY TELLING OF OUR TIME WHICH HAS SEEN A GREAT INFLUX IN EXPOSURE TO IMAGES BUT A GENERAL DEVALUATION IN THEIR MEANING. FOR EXAMPLE SLOGANS SUCH AS RIOT2010 WERE COMMON PLACE ON VANCOUVER STREETS PRE-OLYMPICS BUT THE EFFECT WAS MARGINAL—THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT RIOTS. SHINDLER HAS THUS REDUCED THESE WOULD BE RHETORICAL IMAGES TO MERE FORMAL COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS. WITHIN THIS CRITIQUE HOWEVER IS THE NOTION THAT LIKE THE VELLUM THE PAINTINGS ARE PAINTED ON, THE USE OF A PROPER SUPPORTING DEVICE MAY TO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ILLUMINATE THESE DORMANT SYMBOLS ONCE AGAIN. JUST AS CERTAIN MOMENTS ALLOW FOR THE SYMBOL OF THE "RAINBOW" TO BECOME SIGNIFICANT POTENTIALLY IN THE FUTURE AND IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT, IT COULD BECOME SIGNIFICANT AGAIN.
KRISDY SHINDLER HOLDS A BFA FROM EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY AND A MFA FROM GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, HER WORK HAS BEEN EXHIBITED IN CANADA, ISRAEL, DENMARK, SWEDEN, SPAIN, NEW YORK, AND ACROSS THE UK, WALES, AND SCOTLAND. CURATED BY ROBIN SELK
FLOWER INSTALLATION BY DERYA AKAY & JOSHUA BARTHOLOMEW
MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES
WORKS BY PATRICK CRUZ
BY AMALGAMATING PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, PATRICK CRUZ BORN AND RAISED IN MANILA (197) INTERROGATES COLOUR AND FORM AS A MEANS TO DEPLOY WORKS ABOUT MIGRATION, CULTURAL DISPLACEMENT AND ALIENATION.
CURATED BY DERYA AKAY
JOHN BURGESS /// MODELS OF REPETITION
WOO IS PLEASED TO PRESENT:
JOHN BURGESS /// MODELS OF REPETITION
INDEXING ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEMS VANCOUVER ARTIST JOHN BURGESS HAS PRODUCED A RE-CONSTRUCTION OF THE LOCAL FOUNDATIONS WHICH POPULATE THE CITY AND ITS MARGINS. INVESTIGATING MODELS OF REPETITION BURGESS SCULPTURAL AND INSTALLATION WORKS INFORM A MEDITATIVE FOCUS ON ARCHITECTURES FUNCTIONAL FORM. REPRODUCING MINIATURE MODELS OF TRACK HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED BURGESS RECONFIGURES THE MODELS ORIGINAL DEFINING ROLE AND MOBILIZES A REINTERPRETATION OF THE BASIC SCHEMATICS INVOLVED IN PRODUCING SERIAL ARCHITECTURE.
CURATED BY JENN JACKSON
PHOTOS BY LES RAMSAY
NO PLATEAU: A NEW DECADE IN PAINTING
THE EXHIBITION SPANS TWO SPACES: THE VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY AND THE WOO GALLERY.
CURATED BY: VAN & Associates
ARTISTS IN BOTH EXHIBITIONS:
TIFFAN BREEN
MARK BUTLER
IAN EDMONDS
LIZ JACKSON
BRIAN KOKOSKA
RUPERT NUTTLE
MITCH SPEED
ANGELA TANG
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RUPERT NUTTLE - Study of a Seated Figure
ANGELA TENG - Untitled
BRIAN KOKOSKA - Fairy Dust
ANGELA TENG - Untitled
FLOWER INSTALLATION BY DERYA AKAY & JOSHUA BARTHOLOMEW.
NO PLATEAU: A NEW DECADE IN PAINTING CATALOG PUBLISHED BY WOO PUBLISHING, DESIGNED BY VAN & Associates.
FAVORITES
TWO CHAINS OF FLICKR FAVORITES, ONE STARTING AND THE OTHER ENDING WITH THE SAME ARTIST.
SCOTT SMITH
IGNACIO BAS / ERRORE zine
ANDREAS BANDERAS
BRENNAAA
REBECCA CARLISLE-HEALY
MORGAN ALEXANDRA RITTER
JACK HILLIE the third
ISRAEL LUND
ROSARIA STONI
JONATHAN RYAN STORM
SEAN PARKER
BETHAN MOONAN-HOWARD & FRANCES MALTHOUSE
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DERYA AKAY
ALL WORKS © THE ARTISTS AND REPRODUCED WITH THEIR PERMISSION.
WHERE PERMISSION WAS NOT OBTAINABLE, EVERY EFFORT WAS MADE TO OBTAIN SUCH PERMISSION.
IF THE WORLD WAS ONE BUILDING I WOULD HAVE ONE WINDOW
JEN AITKEN
VANESSA DISLER
TIM HELMUTH
ANDREA LUKIC
MITCH SPEED
ALEX TURGEON
Curated by Joshua Bartholomew as the first of a larger series of WOO exhibitions spanning the 2009-2010 school year, IF THE WORLD WAS ONE BUILDING I WOULD HAVE ONE WINDOW asks six artists to exhibit any work of their choosing as long as it enters the gallery through a 2.25in x 11.25in 'window' in the door. Accompanying the opening will be a publication launch for the first of our in-house publishings by WOO.
MITCH SPEED - You Can Live Forever
ALEX TURGEON - Lever
VANESSA DISLER - Please Remember to Take Off Your Shoes
JEN AITKEN - Double Over
ANDREA LUKIC - G.H.O.A.T.
TIM HELMUTH - (Width) Here to the Sun, (Height) Here to Voyager I