26 October – 2 December, 2007

Luis Jacob
A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, and Other Works

Jacob’s work explores the relationship between sculpture and dance, and takes its inspiration from two seemingly disparate art historical sources—the sculpture of British artist Barbara Hepworth, and the choreography of Quebecois artist Françoise Sullivan.

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14 September — 7 October, 2007

Green
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Nicole Brabant, Paul Kajander, Marilou Lemmens,
Elizabeth Milton, Colin Miner, Kristina Lee Podesva, Sarah Turner

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01 June—19 August 2007

Glenn Ligon
Some Changes

Glenn Ligon: Some Changes surveys the breadth of the New York based artist’s oeuvre over the last seventeen years. Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late eighties on the strength of conceptually based paintings and photo-text work that investigates the social, linguistic and political construction of race, gender and sexuality. Incorporating sources as diverse as James Baldwin’s texts, photographic scrapbooks, and Richard Pryor’s stand-up comic routines, Ligon’s art is a sustained meditation on issues of quotation, the presence of the past in the present, and the representation of the self in relation to culture and history.

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23 March—20 May 2007

John Massey
The House That Jack Built

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographic works by John Massey, one of Canada’s foremost conceptual artists. Organized and circulated by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa, this exhibition features Massey’s work over the past two decades, during which photography has become an increasingly important element in his art.

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12 January—11 March 2007

The Monochromatic Field:
Works from the Collection
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The Molnar Collection:
A View Of European Art

The Monochromatic Field spans five decades and features both monochromatic works and works that use a monochromatic field. Emblematic of radical negation and a complete break with the past when it first appeared in the history of art, the monochrome remains a critical gesture with multiple and provocative implications.

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20 October—10 December 2006

Passing Through
Iain Baxter& Photographs, 1958—1983

Throughout his career, Iain Baxter& has challenged ideas about what art is and what it does. Using everyday objects and processes, Baxter& creates works that engage audiences in contemporary social, political, and environmental issues. One of Canada’s most recognized conceptual artists, Baxter& has been taking photographs since the 1950s.

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15 September—01 October 2006

Strange Bedfellows
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Abbas Akhavan, Eryne Donahue, Rebecca Donald, Derek Dunlop, Robert Niven, Michael Euyung Oh

Strange Bedfellows points to the diverse and distinct practices of the 2006 Master of Fine Arts graduates. This is an excellent opportunity to view the work of six emerging artists whose practices explore the mediums of video, sculpture, performance and drawing.

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7 April—4 June 2006

Certain Encounters
Daros-Latin America Collection

Certain Encounters: Daros-Latin America Collection presents the work of twenty-one artists who have made important contributions to visual art in Latin America.

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20 January—19 March 2006

STAN DOUGLAS
Inconsolable Memories

Stan Douglas has an international reputation for his photographs and his film and video installations. Since the late 1980s, he has been a leader in pushing the museum space toward an involvement with the projected moving image, and in blurring the boundaries between visual art, cinema, and television.

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14 October—04 December 2005

Piotr Nathan
How far do you dare to go

Piotr Nathan was born in Gdansk, Poland and lives in Berlin. He has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the USA and this is his first exhibition in Canada. Nathan works in a variety of mediums and this exhibition will focus on works from the past ten years that include painting and three forty foot murals consisting of images garnered from the genre of 19th-century gravures made for the mass market.

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16 September—02 October 2005

Horses for Courses
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Erin Coates, Leanne Coughlin, Babak Golkar, Peter Mintchev, Daria Tavoularis, and Rahel Wachs.

While the idiom derives from racetrack lingo (referring to the suitability of different horses for different courses), Horses for Courses points to the diverse practices of the Master of Fine Arts graduates presented in this exhibition. This is an excellent opportunity to view the work of six emerging artists who work in the mediums of video, sculpture, performance and drawing.

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17 June—21 August 2005

Recent Acquisitions

Stephen Andrews, Jamelie Hassan, Ray Johnson, Myfanwy MacLeod, Jerry Pethick, Peter Schuyff, and Steven Shearer

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is home to British Columbia’s third largest public collection of art. During the past few years, the collection’s reputation has gained increased attention through the acquisition of important works by artists of regional, national, and international origin. Recent Acquisitions offers an opportunity to see a number of works that have recently entered the collection.

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22 April—5 June 2005

Substance Over Spectacle
Contemporary Canadian Architecture

Curated by Andrew Gruft

Substance over Spectacle: Contemporary Canadian Architecture is an exhibition of projects by Canadian architects built in Canada since the beginning of the nineties, curated by Andrew Gruft. The exhibition is a follow up to Gruft’s survey of Canadian Architecture, A Measure of Consensus, which was organized by the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (now the Belkin) in 1986.

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01 April—10 April 2005

3 TEAMS: 3 VISIONS
University Boulevard Architectural Design Competition

The University of British Columbia is inviting architects to compete in presenting their visions for the new architecture and public spaces that will define the new University Boulevard neighbourhood.

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21 January—20 March 2005

Electrifying Art
Atsuko Tanaka 1956 – 1968

One of the most influential artists of post-war Japan, Atsuko Tanaka’s (b. 1932) installations and performances provided a benchmark position of the Japanese avant garde.

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