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Exponential Future

2008 / ISBN 978-0-88865-795-4
88 pages, b/w and colour, paperback

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Exhibition catalogue from Exponential Future at the Belkin (18 January-27 April 2008) with texts by Juan A. Gaitán, Monika Szewczyk and Scott Watson. Exponential Future features eight young Vancouver artists – Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger and Elizabeth Zvonar – and opens a window on the vitality of contemporary art in this city. Vancouver artists continue to be better known in the US and Europe than they are in their own city. Curators Juan Gaitán and Scott Watson chose artists working in different media whose work involved a wide range of issues to give an overview of the new artistic thinking of our time and place. The curators were interested in works that engaged the complex reality of urban life at the beginning of the twenty-first century. None of the work has been shown in Vancouver before and much of it is being made for the Belkin Gallery exhibition.

 

  • Juan A. Gaitán

    Curator
  • Tim Lee

    Artist

    Tim Lee is an artist based in Vancouver. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of British Columbia, his work is represented in museum collections worldwide. Recent exhibitions include New Work/New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Intertidal, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (Antwerpen, Belgium), Sliding Doors, Tate Modern (London), and Appearances, Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal). Upcoming exhibitions include solo shows at Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco), and the Contemporary Art Museum, (Houston), as well as the Sydney Biennale. He is represented by Cohan & Leslie (New York), Johnen & Schöttle (Cologne), Tracey Lawrence Gallery (Vancouver), and Lisson Gallery (London). (2008)

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  • Alex Morrison

    Artist

    Alex Morrison’s work has been featured widely in group exhibitions across North America and Europe, as well solo exhibitions at Mercer Union (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Buro Fredrich (Berlin), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) and Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt).  Morrison is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver. (2008)

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  • Isabelle Pauwels

    Artist

    Isabelle Pauwels is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles and Chigago, and at Mercer Union (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), the Or Gallery (Vancouver).  Her work will be in forthcoming exhibitions at Signal Gallery (Sweden) and Artspeak (Vancouver).  She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver.  In 2007 Pauwels was honoured with a VIVA award from the Jack and Dorris Shadbolt Foundation. (2008)

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  • Kevin Schmidt

    Artist

    Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1997, Kevin Schmidt has received considerable recognition as an important emerging artist. Select recent exhibitions include Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), ZierherSmith (New York), Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton), Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga), McKenzie Art Gallery (Regina), Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh), and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver).  Schmidt is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver. (2008)

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  • Mark Soo

    Artist

    Mark Soo is an artist and curator based in Vancouver. Since graduating from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2001, his work has been shown in exhibitions in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, New York, Brisbane, Melbourne and Manchester.  In 2004 Soo was the recipient of the Vancouver Foundation’s VADA Award, and in 2007 he received a British Columbia Arts Council Visual Arts Award. (2008)

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  • Corin Sworn

    Artist

    Vancouver artist Corin Sworn’s current body of work examines experimental philosophies of early childhood and particularly child-centered education. She completed a BFA at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2002, and is pursing a MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland.  Sworn has exhibited widely across Europe and North America, with exhibitions at Gasworks (London), the Kunstverein Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg, Germany), in Vancouver with the Contemporary Art Gallery, the Or Gallery and Artspeak Artist-Run Centre, and ZieherSmith (New York), among others. (2008)

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  • Monika Szewczyk

    Curator
  • Althea Thauberger

    Artist

    Thauberger is an artist and filmmaker and an Associate Professor of Visual Art at the University of British Columbia. Her artistic work involves collaborative research and is primarily concerned with the relationship between community narratives and geopolitical histories. Thauberger has produced and exhibited her work internationally including recent exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver and the Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania.

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  • Scott Watson

    Curator

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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  • Elizabeth Zvonar

    Artist

    Elizabeth Zvonar (Canadian, b. 1972) is an artist based in Vancouver. She makes objects and pictures that think through metaphor and the metaphysical, often using humour and referencing art history. Zvonar graduated from Emily Carr University after having studied at the Aichi Gakusen University in Toyota City, Japan and the Hokkaido University of Art and Design in Sapporo, Japan. She has had solo exhibitions at SFU Audain Gallery, Vancouver; Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver; and Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto. Her work has been exhibited at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Vancouver Art Gallery; Musee d’Art de Joliette, Quebec; and Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. Zvonar has held residencies at Malaspina Printmakers, the Banff Centre, and was a City of Vancouver Artist in Residence 2012-15. She has received awards and recognition including the 2015 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award and was a finalist for the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize in 2016. Her work was included in the 2021 Gestalten publication The Art of Protest, Political Art + Activism as well as the 2023 Phaidon publication Vitamin C+ Collage in Contemporary Art.

     

     

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    18 January 2008 – 27 April 2008

    Exponential Future

    Exponential Future features eight young Vancouver artists. The exhibition opens a window on the vitality of contemporary art in this city. Vancouver artists continue to be better known in the US and Europe than they are in their own city. Curators Juan Gaitán and Scott Watson chose artists working in different media whose work involved a wide range of issues to give an overview of the new artistic thinking of our time and place. The curators were interested in works that engaged the complex reality of urban life at the beginning of the twenty-first century. None of the work has been shown in Vancouver before and much of it is being made for the Belkin Gallery exhibition.

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