Marian Penner Bancroft (1947-) is a Canadian artist. Penner Bancroft’s Lost Streams of Kitsilano (1995) was gifted to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery by the artist in 2016. (2018)

Lothar Baumgarten (1944-) is a German artist born in Rheinsberg, Germany who lives and works in Berlin and New York. Working primarily in photography, film, and installation, Baumgarten’s “primary subject is the legacy of the historical encounter between the colonizers of the Americas and the indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent before them.” In 1989, however, Baumgarten “turned his attention to the vast continental railway system of the United States that enabled the settlement of the West.”[1] This attention resulted in the photographic book Carbon, and the gelatin silver print included in today’s show. Baumgarten’s Track Structure Texas & Pacific El Paso, Bassetts Mill Ave. Railroad Yard (1989) is in the Collection of John O’Brian. Baumgarten’s work can also be found in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Tate Modern, London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the National Museum of Art, Washington D.C., and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. (2018)

[1]. “Southern Pacific Transportation Co. and Amtrak’s Sunset Limited, Railroad crossing, Jefferson Davis County, Texas,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Sylvia Grace Borda (1973-) is a Canadian photographer…the eight photographs featured are from Borda’s 2005-06 EK Modernism, and are a part of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection. (2018)

Dustin Brons is a Canadian artist. Apologizing to (2013) was purchased in 2013 by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection with funds from the Ben Hill-Tout Memorial Prize. (2018)

Daniel Congdon (1957-) is a Canadian artist. Technical School (c.1990) and Drawing for ‘Monument for a Public Plaza’ (1995) were added to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection as an anonymous gift in 2005. (2018)

Barbara Crane (1928- ) is an American photographer born and currently based in Chicago, Illinois. Crane began her undergraduate studies at Mills College from 1945-1948, completing her B.A. in Art History at New York University in 1950, and her M.S. in Photography at the Institute of Design, now the Illinois Institute of Technology, in 1966. For more than fifty years, Crane has created “highly formal, often abstracted images of a wide array of subjects including people, natural objects, and the urban landscape.”[1] Crane’s exhibitions include more than six retrospective exhibitions, more than seventy-five solo exhibitions since 1966, and more than two hundred group exhibitions since 1965.[2] Crane’s works are featured in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Amon Carter Museum, George Eastman House, the High Museum. Finally, Crane has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and an Illinois Council Fellowship Award in Photography. A pioneer in a male dominated field, Crane is a member of the Chicago Women in Photography group, and has been described as the “matriarch of Chicago photography.”[3] Crane’s Bus People (1975), from the Baxter/Travenol Laboratories mural commission, is on loan to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery from the private collection of John O’Brian. (2018)

[1]. “Midwest Photographers Project: Barbara Crane,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, accessed May 10, 2017, http://www.mocp.org/collection/mpp/crane_barbara.php.

[2]. “Barbara Crane,” U.S. Derpartment of State – Art in Embassies, accessed May 10, 2017, http://art.state.gov/ArtistDetail.aspx?id=166172.

[3]. Holly Stuart Hughes, “Barbara Crane, Pioneer,” Photo District News 35(2015): 104, accessed May 09, 2017, http://ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1799900585?accountid=14656.

James Crookall (1887-1960) was a Canadian photographer. Model of the Lion’s Gate Bridge on float in the Vancouver Golden Jubilee parade (c.1936) is a part of the Marcia Crosby Research Archive of the City of Vancouver Archives. (2018)

Christos Dikeakos (1946-) is a Canadian artist. Sites and Place Names Vancouver (folio version) (1994) was added to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery as a gift from the artist in 2005. (2018)

Wendy Elliott is a Canadian artist. The Women’s Bridge (1992), Architecture (1992), and Self Portrait as News (1987) are each a part of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection. (2018)

Robert Flick (1939-) is an American artist. East of Lancaster, along Highway 14, California (1981) is from Flick’s Sequential Views series, and is a part of the Collection of John O’Brian. (2018)

Karin Geiger (1966-) is a Canadian artist. Geiger’s Untitled (Girls Waiting at Computers) (1996097) is a part of the In Between series, and is a part of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection. (2018)

Frank Gohlke (1942-) is a Canadian artist. Aerial View, Tulsa, Oklahoma (from Tulsa International Airport mural commission) (1981) is a part of the Collection of John O’Brian. (2018)

Karl Haspel (1888-1971) was a Canadian artist. A Chinese parade (c.1937) is a part of the Marcia Crosby Research Archive of the City of Vancouver Archives. (2018)

Ben Hill-Tout (1929-1954) was a Canadian artist. Untitled, Untitled, and Untitled (1957) were added to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection as a gift from Mrs. Helen M. Hill-Tout in 1965. (2018)

Roy Kiyooka (1926-1994) was a Canadian artist. Gold Windows of the Sun (1979) was gifted by Fumiko, Mariko, and Kiyo Kiyooka to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection in 1999. (2018)

Mark Klett (1952-) is an American artist. Storm Clouds over Eastern Idaho, near Craters of the Moon (1980) is in the Collection of John O’Brian. (2018)

Salar Mameni (Canadian, b.1977) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and art historian specializing in transnational visual culture in the Arab/Muslim world. Their research areas include racial discourses, feminism and gender politics, militarism, extractive economies, oil cultures and the anthropocene. Mameni’s newspaper drawings replicate the everyday, an acknowledgement of the mass consumption of media but also of the tedious labour involved in the manual reproduction of mass media. Mameni received a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in Art History from the University of California, San Diego. They have written for Signs, Women & Performance, Al-Raida Journal, Fuse Magazine, Fillip Review and Canadian Art Journal. Their work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at Atelier Gallery, Vancouver (2003); the Vancouver Art Gallery (2003, 2012); YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto (2008) and Western Front, Vancouver (2008). Mameni is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. They are currently working on their first book, Crude: The Art of Living in the Terracene.

Philippe Raphanel (1956-) is a Paris-born artist who lives and works in Vancouver, BC. Raphanel received a B.F.A. in Sculpture and a Diploma in Fine Arts from L’Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art Applique, Paris, in 1978. Raphanel’s recent solo exhibitions include Philippe Raphanel: Islands (2017) and Philippe Raphanel: Ascending World (2015), both at the Equinox Gallery, Vancouver. Raphanel’s recent group exhibitions include Paint (2008) at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and as a part of the Paul Kuhn Gallery’s showing at the 2007 South Beach Fair. Raphanel’s Poisons/Phobia #15-18 (1994) are a part of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection, and were a gift from the artist in 2001. (2018)

Mark Ruwedel (1954-) is an American-born photographer. Ruwedel has spent more than thirty years documenting the abandoned byways of the west, making “pictures of a landscape marked by human endeavor and its creeping impermanence” that sits somewhere between Ansel Adams’ “heroic wilderness bathed in silvery tones of beatific light” and Edward Burtynsky’s revelations of the violence of industry.[1] Ruwedel completed his B.F.A. at Kutztown State College, Kutztown, in 1978, and his M.F.A. at Concordia University, Montreal, in 1983. He is currently Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach. Recent awards and fellowships include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography and the Scotiabank Photography Award, both awarded in 2014. Ruwedel’s Untitled (2012), from We All Loved Ruscha (15 Apts.) is on loan to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery from the Collection of John O’Brian. (2018)

[1]. Murray Whyte,  “Mark Ruwedel: The lonesome, crowded west,” The Toronto Star, May 06, 2015, accessed May 09, 2017, https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2015/05/06/mark-ruwedel-the-lonesomecrowded-west.html.

Robert Smithson (1938-1973) was an American artist. Torn photograph from the second stop (rubble). Second mountain of 6 stops on a section. (1970) is a part of the Collection of John O’Brian. (2018)

Grazia Toderi (1963-) is an Italian artist born in Padua and currently based in Milan and Turin. Toderi works primarily in the medium of video art, and trained as a painter at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. Toderi’s recent solo exhibitions include Directions: Grazia Toderi (2011) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Museum, Grazia Toderi: Mirabilia Urbis (2012) at Italy’s MAXXI (Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo), and Grazia Toderi (2013) at the John Curtin Gallery, Perth, as a part of the Perth International Arts Festival. Recent group exhibitions include Words and Stars (2013-2016), a joint project with Orhan Pamuk which has shown at the Palazzo Madama, Turin, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, and at the Planetarium of Turin. Toderi’s Random (2001) was gifted to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in 2009 by Christina M. McQuarrie. (2018)

Hiromitsu Toyosaki is a Japanese artist. Untitled (2014) and Roxby Downs, Australia (1983) are part of the Collection of John O’Brian. (2018)

Lorna Brown is a Vancouver-based visual artist, curator, writer and editor. Brown is a founding member of Other Sights for Artists’ Projects, and is an ongoing member of the Other Sights Producer team. She was the Director/Curator of Artspeak Gallery from 1999 to 2004, an artist-run centre focusing on the relationship between visual art and writing. Between 2015 and 2022, she was Acting Director/Curator at the Belkin, curating exhibition series such as Beginning With the Seventies that explored the relationship between art, archives and activism. Brown has exhibited her work internationally since 1984, and has taught at Simon Fraser University and Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she received an honorary doctorate of letters in 2015. Awards include the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts Award (1996) and the Canada Council Paris Studio Award (2000). Her work is in the collections of the Belkin, SFU Galleries, the National Gallery of Canada, the BC Arts Council, the Surrey Art Gallery and the Canada Council Art Bank.

Gabrielle Moser is a writer and independent curator. Her writing has appeared in venues including Artforum.com, Art in America, ARTnews, Canadian Art, Fillip, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, n paradoxa, Photography & Culture, and Prefix Photo. She has organized exhibitions for Access Gallery, Gallery TPW, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries and Vtape. Moser has held fellowships at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art, Ryerson Image Centre, the University of British Columbia and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University in 2017. She holds a PhD in art history and visual culture from York University and is a member of the Toronto Photography Seminar, and a founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA feminist working group. (2018)