March 25, 2021

Reconciliation & Transformation in Luke Parnell’s debut exhibition Indigenous History in Colour

March 25, 2021/ Atieno L.

Haida and Nisga’a carver and artist Luke Parnell explores oral histories, reconciliation, and conceptual art in his latest exhibition at the Bill Reid Gallery. In what marks his first exhibition at the Bill Reid Gallery, Parnell features 7 unique conceptual art pieces, including a still image from his film Remediation, an ethnographic response to Bill Reid’s 1959 documentary about an expedition to salvage historic totem poles from a deserted village on Haida Gwaii.

December 03, 2019

Meet December's Featured Artist: Michael Love

December 03, 2019/ Guest User

Michael Love is a photo-based artist living in Vancouver. His career spans decades and continents, where he has documented and explored the repurposing of spaces in relation to history. He is particularly interested in military history and the impacts of the Cold War.

November 12, 2019

Chronically Creative: How two creatives transform pain into beauty

November 12, 2019/ Karen Chan

“What we’ve both realized is, there is so much beauty in the world, even if it hurts to get out of bed.” A personal account of how Karen Chan and Tonye Aganaba’s art is entwined with the journey of chronic illness.

October 30, 2019

Cindy Sherman Retrospective: Unprecedented access to an elusive artist

October 30, 2019/ Angie Rico

Always exaggerated and altogether ambiguous, the characters contained within these portraits nonetheless offer a comprehensive look at a fruitful and formative 40+ years of trajectory that continues to provoke and reveal to this day.

October 06, 2019

Meet October’s Featured Artist: Lindsey Hampton

October 06, 2019/ Guest User

For this artist, graphic design came first, and ceramics came later. Lindsey Hampton took up a six-week ceramics course as a hobby, and what started as “just something to do” evolved into a business selling ceramics both online and through local and international stockists such as Vancouver Special, Easy Tiger Goods (Toronto), and Coming Soon (New York City).

September 11, 2019

Meet September's Featured Artist: Alina Senchenko

September 11, 2019/ Guest User

“My practice is really trying to de-stereotype Ukraine and Eastern European countries. I try to look at a different point of Ukrainian life and society and try to breakdown structures. A lot of photographers from the West go to any Third World country and look at it with an exploitative gaze. There are people trying to live their lives in these places. It always made me mad to see this type of artwork.”

September 01, 2019

VLAFF’s Commitment to Accountability: Curating for Diverse Audiences

September 01, 2019/ Angie Rico

“From VLAFF as a whole, I hope people take away that we as a festival, are a work-in-progress. I don’t want to perpetuate the assumption as a Latinx organization that it’s smooth sailing in any sort of way. We are very different people in our team, we don’t all hold one particular political perspective. In a way, the films we present are a lens into our conversations, differences, and similarities.”

August 20, 2019

Weaving and Resisting on the Foreshore

August 20, 2019/ Jaz Papadopoulos

The blue cabin will grace the foreshore of False Creek as of August 25, and the 2019-2020 programming year will see four residencies by Indigenous artists from Turtle Island and Australia. The theme of the year, Skeins: Weaving on the Foreshore, focuses on Coast Salish weaving practices.

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