Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)
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Established | 1971 |
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Location | Yaletown in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Coordinates | 49°16′47″N 123°07′18″W / 49.279676°N 123.121547°W |
Type | Art gallery |
Director | Matthew Hyland |
Curator | Kimberly Phillips |
Website | www |
The Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) is a non-profit public
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
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
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
Programming
In 2018 the gallery began a five-year contract to curate art in the London
Notable publications
- Christopher Williams: Archäologie Beaux Arts Ethnography Théâtre-Vérité by Claudia Beck and John Miller. Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2005. (ISBN 0-920751-96-2)
See also
- Canadian contemporary art
- Centre A
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
- Vancouver Art Gallery
- Western Front Society
References
- ISBN 0-920751-10-5)
- ^ CAG About. Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
- ^ CAG Exhibitions. Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- ^ CBC Arts (2006-06-07). Artist's use of production signs in dispute. CBC News. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- ^ Canadian Architect[permanent dead link] Canadian Architect. Retrieved 2017-30-06.
- ^ "About".
- ^ Kevin Griffin Updated (23 February 2018). "Contemporary Art Gallery curates new program in Canada House, London - Vancouver Sun".
- ^ "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.
- ^ Kevin Griffin Updated (22 January 2019). "Metro Vancouver TransLink buses moving art as well as people - Vancouver Sun".