Kate Craigslist: occurs and reoccurs
Hatch Art Gallery–Second Floor of The Nest, The University of British Columbia
Opening Reception: April 8, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Enjoy chocolate chip cookies, à la Kate Craig’s recipe, and pear juice in honour of Roy Kiyooka.
Exhibition: April 9–12, 12:00–4:00 p.m.
Responding to a collection of photographic works in the archives of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery by Vancouver artists working between art, activism and photography from the 1970s to the 1990s, this exhibition is articulated and arranged by senior undergraduate students enrolled in VISA 440: Advanced Photography in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. Focussing on the intimacy and power of photography and documentation, the artists in the exhibition draw inspiration from works by Kate Craig and Roy Kiyooka and include additional responses to projects by Melinda Mollineaux, and Hank Bull and Patrick Ready.
The exhibition unfolds the themes of passing time and inhabiting place and history through performative and process-based photographs. Each artist in the show approaches their work by blending art and life, highlighting the mundane and the everyday as something worthy to be captured.
The works have been developed and presented in collaboration with course instructor Associate Professor Althea Thauberger and workshop leader Shelly Rosenblum, Curator of Academic Programs at the Belkin. The artists would like to thank Teresa Sudeyko, Registrar at the Belkin; Anna Tidlund, Archivist at the Belkin and Western Front; and Susan Gibb, Executive Director of Western Front, for their additional guidance and research support.
Artists:
Jasmine Almeida
Luke Brown
Steven Chu
Dan Driedger
Emma Grove
Amy Gu
Sirui Lai
Wenji Li
Yuewen Lyu
Oren Mathews
Yin Mei
Quynh Nguyen
Erin Olmstead
Vivi Piao
Marcus Rahal
Elno Saung
Gill Sticks
Alex Vido
Jeidn Winkler
Naiyue Boki Zhao
