Archive for the 'Art' Category

A Venn dia­gram of art enthu­si­asts and Bill Mur­ray lovers would have a very large over­lap indeed, con­sid­er­ing that both indis­putably make the world a bet­ter place. And while attend­ing an art show can be an intim­i­dat­ing activ­ity for those of us who would rather be at home watch­ing Ghost­busters, the folks who brought you the Steven Sea­gallery are back with Bill You Mur­ray Me, an art show that cel­e­brates the man, the leg­end, the one and only.

The show was orig­i­nally planned for Feb­ru­ary 11th, but after being over­whelmed by sub­mis­sions (any­one and every­one was invited to send in their best Bill Murray-themed work, in any artis­tic medium), the show was pushed back a week in order to find a larger space. The Fall (644 Sey­mour) will be host­ing the event, which also includes drinks and music.

Bill You Mur­ray Me: Group Art Show
The Fall (644 Sey­mour)
7:00PM-2:00AM
By dona­tion
Full details on Face­book

“Would you ever con­sider rolling with some­one who was polyamorous?”.… “No.”

By Monique Jeanne Wells. See more art by Monique here!

Lazy River by Monique Jeanne Wells

For more art by Monique, visit her web­site.

Comic by Monique Jeanne Wells

Do you miss read­ing the Sun­day comics every week­end, because you live in the 21st cen­tury and no one gets a phys­i­cal news­pa­per deliv­ered to their front door any­more, they just get all their news from Boing Boing any­way? And you don’t even have a front door, because you live in a base­ment suite, and you’re tired of being deprived of comics just because Van­cou­ver has an oppres­sive rental market.

Well, enough of that. Start­ing this week­end, Sad Mag will be bring­ing you an orig­i­nal web comic every Sunday!

This week’s web comic is by one of our very favourite illus­tra­tors, Monique Jeanne Wells! See more of her work at her web­site.

Do you know some­one whose work should be fea­tured on Web Comics for the Week­end? Tell us on Face­book or Twit­ter!

Start­ing today and run­ning for the next two weeks, Canada Line rid­ers can check out orig­i­nal art by Sad Mag Issue 5 cover star Dou­glas Cou­p­land, in the form of colour­ful QR codes. His work, enti­tled Van­cou­ver Codes, is part of the 10 Sec­ond series, one of 15 pub­lic art projects com­mis­sioned by the city as part of Van­cou­ver 125.

Accord­ing to the press release, “Van­cou­ver Codes is the eighth in the 10 Sec­onds series of com­mis­sioned works for the Canada Line video screens as part of a year­long project cel­e­brat­ing Van­cou­ver 125.” The 10 Sec­onds series was curated by Paul Wong and pre­sented in part­ner­ship with On Main and InTransitBC.

Cou­p­land cre­ated QR-code paint­ings last year, two of which (“Live Long and Pros­per” and “Every­thing Beau­ti­ful is True”) are dis­play­ing on Canada Line video screens until Jan­u­ary 31st.

Van­cou­ver Codes link to sites for var­i­ous Vancouver-related videos, art works and sites includ­ing “pho­tographs of var­i­ous sites such as Grouse Moun­tain and Van Dusen Gar­dens; pub­lic art­works includ­ing Coupland’s Dig­i­tal Orca and Terry Fox Sculp­tures” and more.

After Coupland’s tran­sit exhi­bi­tion wraps, new work will be fea­tured for the months of Feb­ru­ary and March. To see the pre­vi­ous art works exhib­ited on the Canada Line, visit the On Main website.

Van­cou­ver Codes

Jan­u­ary 16 — 31, 2012

Canada Line Stations

Free!

Note: A fab­ri­cated image from a con­struc­tion site in South Sur­rey Helma Sawatzky, The Phoenix Com­plex (2012) c-print. Cour­tesy of the artist and Elliott Luis Gallery

Art lovers: check out Beyond Vague Ter­rain: The City and the Ser­ial Image, which opens at the Sur­rey Art Gallery this Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 14th.

Show­cas­ing the way Metro Van­cou­ver is always chang­ing and simul­ta­ne­ously offer­ing “beauty and banal­ity” in its sprawl­ing sub­urbs and mer­cu­r­ial neigh­bour­hoods, the exhibit includes 13 artists and fea­tures video, pho­tog­ra­phy, paint­ing and drawing.

High­lights include “a grid of shim­mer­ing graphite rub­bings of eroded date-stamped side­walks on Vancouver’s West­side, a 109 foot long light box pre­sent­ing a panorama of Metro Van­cou­ver as seen from a mov­ing Sky­Train, and an inter­ac­tive pho­to­graphic data­base of every bus stop in Sur­rey.” A depar­ture from postcard-perfect views of down­town Van­cou­ver, much of the work focuses on “street inter­sec­tions, indus­trial dead zones, and sub­ur­ban sprawl,” to chal­lenge our ideas about urban­ity, mar­gin­al­iza­tion and history.

Beyond Vague Ter­rain: The City and the Ser­ial Image

Sur­rey Art Gallery

13750 88 Ave, Sur­rey, British Columbia

Jan­u­ary 14th– March 18th, 2012

By dona­tion

Open­ing recep­tion: Jan­u­ary 14th, 7:00PM-9:00PM