Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)

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Contemporary Art Gallery
Metro Vancouver
Established1971
LocationYaletown in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates49°16′47″N 123°07′18″W / 49.279676°N 123.121547°W / 49.279676; -123.121547
TypeArt gallery
DirectorMatthew Hyland
CuratorKimberly Phillips
Websitewww.contemporaryartgallery.ca

The Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) is a non-profit public

Myfanwy MacLeod, Krista Belle Stewart and many others. International artists who have had exhibitions at the CAG include Dan Graham, Christopher Williams, Rachel Harrison, Hans-Peter Feldmann and Ceal Floyer. Other notable people that have curated or written for the CAG include Douglas Coupland, Beatriz Colomina, Roy Arden, and John Welchman
. The gallery offers free admission to all visitors.

History

Established in 1971, the Contemporary Art Gallery (originally called the Greater Vancouver Artist's Gallery) began as an outgrowth of the Social Planning Department of the City of

artist-run centre. It was widely recognized for providing initial solo exhibitions and catalogues for many of Vancouver's now well-known artists.[1] By the early 1990s, the exhibition program had expanded to include artists of national and international origin. In 1996, the Contemporary Art Gallery was transformed from an artist-run centre into an independent public art gallery, fulfilling the need for a contemporary visual arts institution with programming positioned between the vibrant experimentalism of Vancouver's artist-run centres and the more popular programs of large general-interest institutions. In May 2001, the Contemporary Art Gallery moved to a new purpose-built facility.[2]

Production Postings exhibit by Christian Kliegel, at the gallery in 2006

In 2006, Vancouver artist Christian Kliegel's exhibit, "Production Postings," featured hundreds of signs that film and television production units had used to direct their casts and crews to filming locales; "the general design and style of these brightly coloured signs are formulaic and a ubiquitous part of Vancouver's urban landscape," reads the exhibit description.[3] Film production companies claimed these signs as stolen property, the Vancouver police were contacted, and gallery officials were forced to take down some of the signs and replace them with photocopies. "If anything," Kliegel claimed, "the movie companies themselves practice location theft by setting a film in Vancouver and making it look like another city." Christina Ritchie, the gallery's Director, posted a letter addressed to Off-Set Rentals on the gallery's front door, telling the company's officials that she found it "sad and disappointing" that they could not appreciate Kliegel's "unique and insightful image of Vancouver."[4]

Building

Shannon Oksanen's exhibit Summerland in one of the two galleries at the exhibition facility

The Contemporary Art Gallery is located in the ground floor and mezzanine of a residential condominium building at 555 Nelson Street, at the corner of Nelson and Richards, just on the edge of

Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation.[6]

Programming

In 2018 the gallery began a five-year contract to curate art in the London

Canadian High Commission, London.[7] In 2019 the gallery launched the How far do you travel? program, placing contemporary art on the side of Vancouver Translink buses.[8][9]

Notable publications

See also

References

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  2. ^ CAG About. Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
  3. ^ CAG Exhibitions. Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  4. ^ CBC Arts (2006-06-07). Artist's use of production signs in dispute. CBC News. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  5. ^ Canadian Architect[permanent dead link] Canadian Architect. Retrieved 2017-30-06.
  6. ^ "About".
  7. ^ Kevin Griffin Updated (23 February 2018). "Contemporary Art Gallery curates new program in Canada House, London - Vancouver Sun".
  8. ^ "TransLink buses turn into rolling paintings as Contemporary Art Gallery launches How far do you travel? project". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 4 January 2019.
  9. ^ Kevin Griffin Updated (22 January 2019). "Metro Vancouver TransLink buses moving art as well as people - Vancouver Sun".

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