Laid Over To Cover: Weaving and Photography in the Salishan Landscape

October 17 - December 13, 2009

This exhibition presents key examples of historical (circa 1890-1950) and contemporary Coast Salish and Interior Salish weaving, juxtaposed with nineteenth century photographs of Aboriginal territories and terrains. The contemporary work of two prominent artists — Keith Nahanee (Squamish Nation/Coast Salish) and Melvin Williams (Lil’wat National/ Interior Salish) — will augment the vital morphology of their culturally integrated, inherently invisible craft of weaving.

Organized by Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver Curated by David Bellman and Meirion Cynog Evans.

Oliver Lutz

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 – 4 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Tickets: Free

Oliver Lutz works in video, animation, painting, and drawing, but has received recent attention for his “invisible” painting installations. Using a technique developed in the 1960s called reflectography, where infrared light allows art historians to examine hidden layers in paintings, Lutz’s seemingly black paintings reveal hidden scenes when viewed on closed-circuit monitors, while cleverly painted to draw unsuspecting gallery visitors into the painted crowds depicted.

Melanie Smith

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 – 10:30 a.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Tickets: Free

Melanie Smith’s work is informed by the legacy of modernist painting, but overlaps into photography, video, and installation. A resident of Mexico City since 1989, her past work has focused on the complexities of that city, while more recent work documents the small Mexican town of Parres in a 35mm trilogy and a series of paintings and installations which renegotiate the modernist idea of monochrome. Smith’s current project is a film about Xilitla in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, with filmmaker Rafael Ortega.

Andreas Siqueland

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 – 4 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Tickets: Free

Andreas Siqueland’s work is of a romantic conceptual nature. He works primarily as a painter, but also in other media such as drawing, sculpture, and video performance. His focus is often nature, and our ambivalent relationship with it. Together with Anders Kjellesvik, Siqueland has been working on the collaborative project, aiPotu, whose site-specific interventions, actions, and events are often in the public realm.

Melvin Williams: Cedar Bark Basket Weaving Workshop

Monday, October 19, 2009 – 6 - 9 p.m.
Walter Phillips Gallery
Tickets: $20

Create an inner cedar bark basket that can last generations, under the instruction of weaver Melvin Williams of Lil’wat descent. To register please call the Walter Phillips Gallery at 403-762-6281.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Curator’s Talk

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 – 4 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Tickets: Free

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, chief curator, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy, explores what an exhibition is, might be, and could become.

Visual Arts
Open Studios

Tuesday, November 8, 3-6 p.m.
Glyde Hall and Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Tour the studios of artists participating in the visual arts thematic and self-directed residency programs.

Joseph del Pesco

Death of the Theme Show: Cooperation, Pedagogy, and Knowledge Production in Curatorial Practice
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 – 4 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Tickets: Free

Joseph del Pesco is a curator-at-large for Artists Space, New York. In 2005, del Pesco initiated the Shotgun Review, a critical web-journal reviewing exhibitions and events in the San Francisco Bay area, and in 2007 launched his concept organization, The Collective Foundation, at the Yerba Buena Centre of the Arts. His writing has appeared in various publications including Proximity, Fillip, NUKE, Dots & Quotes, and online in the Shotgun Review.

Althea Thauberger Artist’s Talk

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 – 4 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Tickets: Free

Althea Thauberger will present her work in photography, film, video, and performance that addresses issues of self-definition, alienation, community, coercion within natural worlds, and social/political structures.

Trevor Paglen

Blank Spots on the Map
Monday, November 30, 2009 – 4 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Tickets: Free

Artist, writer, and experimental geographer Trevor Paglen will discuss his works that deliberately blur the lines between disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways of interpreting the world around us.

Visual Arts
Open Studios

Tuesday, December 8, 3-6 p.m.
Glyde Hall and Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Studios
Free

Tour the studios of artists participating in the visual arts thematic program Polymath Breakthrough, led by Joseph del Pesco, and the late fall self-directed residency.