Four Vancouver artists welcome the New Year by collaborating to exhibit work for two weeks at the site of the old A&B Sound at 556 Seymour Street in downtown Vancouver.
Opening Tuesday January 6th @ 6-9pm
Michael Morris i s a senior Canadian artist known for his dynamic paintings of the 1960s and subsequent work in video\, performance\, photography and conceptual projec ts. The exhibition features a suite of ravishing gouaches realized in the last year that continue the artist's life long project\, "Colour Bar Resear ch."
Attila Richard Lukacs rose to international fame in the 1980s wi th his large\, daringly painted figurative paintings. For "NEW WORK" he s hows his series of seven paintings called "In the House of...". These lar ge scale works have as their subject Vancouver and Maui\, where the artist has painted for the last several years. In a haunting style one might call "hallucinatory realism\," Lukacs catches the atmosphere\, the light\, the a rchitecture and the glitz and the underbelly of our nervous pre-Olympic cit y in works of astonishing painterly insight. The Hawaii paintings\, execute d on urethane soaked paper\, are of a rich tropic dreamworld punctured by s ocial unrest.
Paul Wong is Canada's preeminent video artist. He hand les video the way Velasquez handles paint. He has recently being producing new works\, portraits\, abstracts and social narratives from his home turf\ , Vancouver's East Side. Five of the dazzling new works are included in "N EW WORK."
Since closing his gallery/boutique\, DADABASE in 2008\, Ign acio Corral has been painting highly realistic watercolour studies of the h eads of world leaders\, such as Evo Morales\, Hugo Chavez\, Kim Jong-il\, a nd Barrack Obama. These refreshing works are infused with humour and erotic ism.
The exhibition was conceived and curated by Attila Lukacs on the model of the wildly successful "Basement Show" of 2004. In "New Work" the four noteworthy Vancouver artists reanimate a once busy downtown retail bus iness on the eve of its conversion into a Graceland style nightclub/art gal lery/performance venue that will go some way to revitalizing the downtown c ore. The idea is to show new work to a public\, free of charge\, in an impo rtant downtown space outside the art institutions.
The exhibition is generously sponsored by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\, Universit y of British Columbia\; Steiner Properties\; Becker Galleries\; The Georgia Straight\; Farmstead Wines\; Heineken\; Molson\; and Edible Planet.
For information and images contact Kevin Greisch at
The exhibition is open to public from January 7th to January 23rd every day from 1 to 7 p.m. and is free of charge.
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