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April
10 – May 30, 2004
The Altered
Landscape
This
exhibition features works from the collection of the Nevada Museum
of Art, The Carol Franc Buck Collection.
Robert
Adams, Lewis Baltz, Wayne Barrar, Virginia Beahan,
Barbara Bosworth, Marilyn Bridges, Ed Burtynsky, Steve Davis,Robert
Dawson, Joe Deal, Terry Evans, Terry Falke, Geoffrey Fricker,
Frank Gohlke, Peter Goin, Emmet Gowin, Wanda Hammerbeck, Timothy
Hearsum, Avi Holtzman, Len Jenshel, Sant Khalsa, Mark Klett, Greg
MacGregor, Lawrence McFarland, Richard Misrach, Joan Myers, Patrick
Nagatani, Eric Paddock, John Pfahl,Mark Ruwedel, Jim Sanborn,
Toshio Shibata, Sharon Stewart, Martin Stupich, James Turrell,
Michelle VanParys, Catherine Wagner
image:
Richard
Misrach, Desert Fire #249, 1985, Dye Coupler print
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January
10 to February 22:
Sue Lloyd - Searchworks
This solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Sue
Lloyd will present a selection of large colour works produced
in 2000. Lloyd, who teaches photography at the University of Toronto,
explores the structural, gendered and psychologized world occupied
by swimmers and those with whom ‘swimmers’ must share
their space. The dramatic structure of her images is immediately
recognizable as one modeled after Levi-Strauss’s proposed
‘collective cosmology’. The upper and lower worlds
in Lloyd’s images are divided by the water’s surface;
women own the underworld, men the world above; the women seem
to know what they are doing, the men are looking for something.
In the gallery the viewer sees the works resting on shelves, as
if their time is temporary – which is true. This work is
a continuation of gender research that Lloyd has conducted in
work over the past decade. This exhibition is a version of a show
that was originally organized as a two-person touring exhibition
from Toronto Photographers Workshop.
image:
night/storm (2000)
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January
10 to February 22:
Tacita
Dean - Gellért
Tacita Dean is one of a large number of internationally-known
artists who have never shown in Vancouver. This film work is a
six-minute loop presented as a rear projection. The subject is
a series of selected moments in the lives of a group of women
who are using the public baths in Budapest, Hungary. This work
was shown at the National Gallery of Canada in 2000 and its message
is more vital now that it was then. The activity in the film is
set at a pace that is completely removed from that of the modern
world and the artist has emphasized this pace by slowing down
the action cinematically. As Dean has said about the work: “The
walls of the steam baths in Budapest are covered with testimonials
from people who have sought and found relief from innumerable
ailments in the sulphurous waters of the city. The complaints
are mostly of a rheumatic or asthmatic nature. I would go to the
Gellért Baths almost every day of my stay in Hungary, and
watch the old women sit together on the steps of the pool, moving
their bodies slowly and making them work again in the warm waters,
momentarily rejuvenating them in those few precious hours spent
in the baths each week.”
Tacita Dean is originally from the UK and now lives in Berlin.
Gellért is one of her most important works. The pairing
of this piece with Sue Lloyd’s photographs in separate shows
will provide viewers with an unusual opportunity to experience
two of the most elegant contemporary works incorporating the complexities
of our relation to water as a key subject. Work shown courtesy
of the Frith Street Gallery, London.
image:
still from Géllert, 1998
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