Mining the Archive
Mining the Archive brings together selected works by UK artists Anthony Lam and Erika Tan, who have each used collections and archives as the sources for the production of art. In “Between Cultures”, Lam has constructed a narrative from a collection of photographs (author unknown) discovered during a residency at the McKenzie Heritage Picture […]
China Trade
Centre A is pleased to present this group exhibition of installation, photography, ceramics and video, showcasing recent developments in contemporary art in China, Taiwan and Canada. Traveling to exhibitions in foreign countries and selling their work on a booming international market, Chinese contemporary artists are ideally positioned to observe the global impact of China’s […]
Banners & Banner Paintings 1969 – 1973
Centre A is honoured to host a solo exhibition by one of Canada’s greatest artists, Takao Tanabe. The exhibition features a series of over 30 banners and banner paintings. These dramatic works make full use of Centre A’s high ceiling and open space. The exhibition coincides with Tanabe’s career retrospective, opening at the Vancouver Art […]
Tract: Installation and Performance
For her solo exhibition TRACT, Jenny Ham presents a site-specific installation that questions familiar utopian notions of landscape in relation to larger socio-political concerns about private interests and public space, identity and home, everyday life and theatricality. Green space is a rarity in inner-city districts; through her exploration of the relationship between individuals and […]
Breaking the Fourth Wall – Arts of the Downtown Eastside
theatre, the fourth wall separates the actors and performers from the audience. Breaking the fourth wall is when we successfully connect with our audiences, usually when we connect with our own character, the characters of the other actors, and the character of the audience. Join June Sanders, Irwin Oostindie, and Michael Clague in a conversation […]
Neighbourhood
OPENING: Friday, September 9, 8pm Forum: Saturday, September 10, 2-5pm Film Screening: September 11, 2pm, Comrade Dad, by Karin Lee, at Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street. Free admission to all events. Co-presented by Alternator Gallery and Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC NEIGHBOURHOOD videos and documentaries by desmedia / andrea fotana & cornelia wyngaarden […]
Yesterday
Meesoo Lee Jane Lee Josh Olson Aya Takada Marlene Yuen
Champuru: Contemporary Art in Okinawa
IE Ryujin MAEDA Hiroya HANSHIRO Ikuko Presented in partnership with the Okinawa Museum of Contemporary Art Opening: Friday, June 3, 8pm Location: Tinseltown, 88 W. Pender Street Symposium: Saturday, June 4, 10 am – 5 pm featuring Okinawan food, music and dance, and sumi painting workshop Location: Vancouver Japanese Language School, 475 Alexander Street Curated […]
Charlie Don’t Surf | 4 Vietnamese American Artists
Dinh Q. LE NGUYEN Tan Hoang Ann PHONG TRAN T. Kim-Trang Opening: Saturday, April 9, 8pm (artists in attendance) Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm Curated by Viet LE 80 page full colour catalogue PANEL DISCUSSION “Charlie Don’t Surf: Art, the Politics of Identity, and the Vietnam War” Sunday, April 10, 2 – […]
Living It
Kelly Lycan Karen Ngan Peggy Ngan Etienne Zack Opening: Saturday, January 15, 8pm Artists’ Talk: Saturday, January 29, 2pm Curated by Sally Lee The group exhibition “Living It” examines the everyday by looking at how what we consider as socially dysfunctional can be recycled and re-valued through the juxtaposition of display and displacement. It […]
