The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of works by the current generation of Vancouver artists. Geoffrey Farmer, Myfanwy MacLeod, Damian Moppett, Steven Shearer, Ron Terada, and Kelly Wood produce engaged contemporary work in idioms that are in international circulation: photo-based conceptualism, exploration of commodity fetishism, interrogations about the status of representation. Their works represent a distinct new outlook: that of the modern menagerie.
The artists are concerned with sources in popular culture, processes of abstraction and the hybridization of media. Much of the work refers to the culture of children and teens as sites of pleasure and gratification no longer available and flirts with the politic of “slacker” culture, defeatism and indifference.
A catalogue has been produced for this exhibition.
6: New Vancouver Modern. Exhibition catalogue.
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Exhibition catalogue from 6: New Vancouver Modern at the Belkin (6 February—29 March 1998) with texts by Scott Watson, Patrik Andersson and Shannon Oksanen, Sharla Sava, Reid Shier and Michael Turner. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Kelly Wood: The Continuous Garbage Project, 1998-2003 at the Belkin (21 March—11 May 2003) with texts by Scott Watson, Peter Culley, Christina Ritchie, Ian Wallace and Kelly Wood. The exhibition marks the completion of a long project. For five years, since Vancouver’s garbage workers’ strike in spring 1998 and concluding the week before the opening of the exhibition in 2003, Wood photographed her own garbage. [more information and purchase]