2011 - 2012 PROGRAMMING — Galerie VAV Gallery

GALERIE VAV GALLERY

2011 - 2012 PROGRAMMING

TOAST

If any life is the same, all paths are different, there are however parallel ways which meets at the end of the road. Choices we make, although infinite in theory are influenced by value systems that are not personal at all. How can we take the right decision when we are under an exterior influence? By choosing a path, the individual is making a value judgement. It then becomes extremely difficult to conciliate dreams and priorities.

This exhibition regroups a series of pieces that touches from near or far these life choices. The pieces put the the individual as the principal actor of it’s life. They become moments where the individual takes consciousness of the possible control on the situation.

The exhibition is divided in three phases : dreams and aspirations, situations of control and the result of these decisions. First part refers to the comfort, the domesticity and the youngness. The second part regroups a large spectrum of pieces shooting multiple target such as, office work, location consciousness, consummation, identity and health. The final phase evokes the impact, the consequences and the outcomes of some of the decision we’ve made.

EXHIBITION: JULY 4 - 15, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

DUO
BARBARA MENDORA DENIS
ANTOINE CLOUTIER-BELISLE

N/A

[UNTITLED]

EXHIBITION: AUG 1 - 12, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

DUO
DANIELLE BOUCHARD
CASEY WATSON

N/A

[UNTITLED]

EXHIBITION: AUG 29 - SEPT 11, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

GROUP
THEA GOVORCHIN
CARRIE HENZIE
JULIE ROCH-CHERRIER

N/A

STOP/MOTION

EXHIBITION: SEPT 12 - 23, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: SEPT 13
CLOSING RECEPTION: SEPT 22

GROUP
KERRI FLANNIGAN
KANDIS FRIESEN
ANTOINE CORBEIL

Stop/Motion, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Stop/Motion, 2011.

Stop/Motion, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Stop/Motion, 2011.

[UNTITLED]

EXHIBITION: SEPT 25 - OCT 8, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

GROUP
JESSICA LEMUS-COTO
KESHA FRANK
MILO REINHARDT
MARIE-PIER MALOUINS

N/A

LINEWORK

EXHIBITION: OCT 5, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

SOLO
ALEXANDRA CÔTÉ

Alexandra Côté, Linework, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Linework, 2011.

Alexandra Côté, Linework, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Linework, 2011.

OBSTACLE-SPECTACLE

EXHIBITION: OCT 11 - 21, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

GROUP
AMERICA BLASCO
PHILIPPE LEONARD
IRENE LEPIESZA

Obstacle-Spectacle, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Obstacle-Spectacle, 2011.

Obstacle-Spectacle, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Obstacle-Spectacle, 2011.

TRAILER OBSCURA

We want to transform VAV gallery into a space which is like a camera that we would build. Inside this space the viewer can experience the process that we go through to make our images. There will be a dark room with only a pinhole illuminating in it, this sight specific pinhole camera will reveal the outside courtyard up side down and backwards. Although never being fixed to paper, people can go in and let this image slowly reveal itself to them. There will be video documentation projected to reveal the places we have turned into cameras, giving the viewer an idea of our extensive process. Throughout the gallery will be large distorted analogue pinhole black and white prints. These huge positives/negatives dominate the space with rich blacks, ranging from 4’x6’ to 5’x20’. In addition to these large prints, there will be paintings made from inside the camera utilizing the same process of under-painting and glazing as old master painters such as Vermeer and Caravaggio. Although using the same equipment, the paintings differ from the prints, in scale as well as material and approach. The show will display Huge negative and positives as well as paintings all created from being inside a large room sized camera. The aesthetic although photographic, will be much different from classic photographic space, pinholes see different lenses, and time is shown, instead of fragments of seconds our exposures are minutes to hours.

Tech Need: One Projector

EXHIBITION: NOV 6 - 15, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

DUO
BELLA KLEIN
DANIEL PATTERSON

Bella Klein and Daniel Patterson, Trailer Obscura, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Trailer Obscura, 2011.

The pinhole collective strives to use the oldest and most basic form of lens-less photography. We aim to reexamine classic photographic themes and subject matter such as landscape and portraiture through this old aesthetic, which blurs and distorts the images. Through our physical process of creating huge cameras which we are inside of during the exposure, we create an object much different from any other camera. The images have long exposure times which show time passing, we embrace accidents and marks which reveal our process. We bring photography into a more tactile and physical place, looking at the photograph as an object itself, taking it away from the common contemporary aesthetic of a pristine photographic print. Together we breathe new life into the most classic form of Photography.

Bella Klein and Daniel Patterson, Trailer Obscura, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Trailer Obscura, 2011.

COUNTER BALANCE

EXHIBITION: NOV 16, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

SOLO
ALEXANDRA CÔTÉ

Alexandra Côté, Counter Balance, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Counter Balance, 2011.

Alexandra Côté, Counter Balance, 2011. Click to expand the image and swipe for additional views

Counter Balance, 2011.

AM I STILL IN THE POWER OF THE DEMON?

EXHIBITION: NOV 21 - DEC 2, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: NOV 22

GROUP
SARA MASTON
MARGOT KLINGENDER
VERONIQUE LEBLANC
ERIN RYAN
JODI SHARP
REBECCA SMYTH

[UNTITLED]

EXHIBITION: DEC 5 - 9, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

SOLO
ALEKSANDRA WIZIMIVSKA

N/A

[UNTITLED]

EXHIBITION: DEC 12 - JAN 6, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

SOLO
JOHN GUNNER

N/A

GROUP SHOW

EXHIBITION: JAN 9 - 20, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A
GROUP
SAM FERGUSON
ALEXIS ROURVE
M. LAMONTAGNE

N/A

GROUP SHOW

EXHIBITION: JAN 16 - 19, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

DUO
THE BOYFRIENDS
REBECCA SPENCER

N/A

GROUP SHOW

EXHIBITION: JAN 20 - FEB 2, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

GROUP
MATHIEU LAMBERT
KEVIN LEUNG
LEVI BRUCE
DAN VOGT
LAURA HUDSPITH

N/A

GROUP SHOW

EXHIBITION: FEB 3 - 16, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

GROUP
RAUL AGUILAR
ANDREW MONCRIEF
ANIKA AHUJA
ALISI TELENGUT
VALERIE FRAPPIER

N/A

GROUP SHOW

EXHIBITION: FEB 17 - 26, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

GROUP
ANTONIN FISETTE
JORDANA MAGWOOD
JRS
BENITA WHYTE
SHARHZAD AMIN
LIANNE ZANNIER

N/A

GROUP SHOW

EXHIBITION: FEB 27 - MAR 2, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

DUO
SELINA DOROSHENKO
EMILY MCINTYRE

N/A

GROUP SHOW

EXHIBITION: MAR 3 - 9, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

DUO
AIDAN PONTARINI
CAROLINE STEELE

N/A

GROUP SHOW

EXHIBITION: MAR 19 - 30, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

GROUP
ROSE ATHENA
KARL DANDENAULT
OLIVIER GARIEPY
GABRIEL BARIBEAU

N/A

TENTH ANNUAL GRADUATING STUDENTS EXHIBITION

EXHIBITION: JUN, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: N/A

GROUP
MIKA GOODFRIEND
PIER-ANNE MERCIER TREMBLAY
AMANDA DUREPOS
ALEXANDER NUNES
ADA CHAN
CHRISTINE BURINA
NGOC-AN TRINH
ADRIENNE T. PRATT

N/A