Alison Yip's site-specific mural Gazebo will be part of "Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures," opening December 3 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist and Monte Clark Gallery. Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery.
The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced the 40 participating artists in its new triennial Vancouver Special.
The exhibition intends to offer a comprehensive survey of the city’s contemporary art scene and its shifts since the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The inaugural edition, “Ambivalent Pleasures,” is co-curated by Daina Augaitis, Vancouver Art Gallery’s chief curator/associate director, and guest curator Jesse McKee, head of strategy at 221A.
Featuring artworks ranging from painting, drawing, animation, ceramics, textiles, audio and installation, the exhibition will be on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery from December 3, 2016 to April 17, 2017.
“Vancouver Special echoes the archetypal housing style that was popular in Vancouver between the 1960s and 80s, and has been embraced again as an iconic symbol of the city,” said co-curators Daina Augaitis and Jesse McKee in a release. “The title of the inaugural exhibition within this new triennial format, Ambivalent Pleasures, points to the ever-present gap between where we are and where we’d like to be. The artworks in the exhibition offer many possibilities for visitors to negotiate today’s complex world and these works remind us to locate the pleasures in our own experiences of encountering, considering and navigating the pluralistic conditions of today’s city.”
Here are the 40 artists participating in the new triennial:
Derya Akay
Maya Beaudry
Raymond Boisjoly
Eli Bornowsky
Rebecca Brewer
Colleen Brown
Matt Browning
Mark Delong
Kim Dorland
Barry Doupé
Michael Drebert
Julia Feyrer
Jeneen Frei Njootli
Tamara Henderson
Colleen Heslin
Julian Hou
Allison Hrabluik
Gareth James
Garry Neill Kennedy
Tiziana La Melia
Khan Lee
Arvo Leo
Lyse Lemieux
Glenn Lewis
Anne Low
Elizabeth McIntosh
Jordan Milner
Antoni Oko
Ryan Peter
Sylvain Sailly
Rachelle Sawatsky
Walter Scott
Krista Belle Stewart
Angela Teng
Mina Totino
Ron Tran
Tristan Unrau
Charlene Vickers
Brent Wadden
Alison Yip
