Another intriguing show from one of the more adventurous art galleries in one of the least expected places:
Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and the Serial Image
Surrey Art Gallery
January 14 – March 18 | Opening Reception: January 14, 7-9pm
A city offers both beauty and banality. It is repetitious and dynamic; it can appear to stay the same, yet change drastically over a short period of time. Surrey Art Galley’s newest exhibition, Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and the Serial Image, shows many sides to cities, especially Metro Vancouver’s.
The ambitious, and in many cases large-scale, artworks include a grid of shimmering graphite rubbings of eroded date-stamped sidewalks on Vancouver’s Westside, a 109 foot long light box presenting a panorama of Metro Vancouver as seen from a moving SkyTrain, and an interactive photographic database of every bus stop in Surrey.
Through photography, painting, drawing, and video, artists have used the strategy of multiple images to create compelling ways of representing experiences of the city. The artists in the exhibition are Sylvia Grace Borda, Michael de Courcy, Chris Gergley, Jeremy Herndl, Bill Jeffries, Roy Kiyooka, Owen Kydd, Khan Lee, Helma Sawatzky, Susan Schuppli, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace (with Paul Arbez), and Neil Wedman.
Beyond Vague Terrain launches on January 14 with an opening reception from 7 to 9pm, and continues to March 18. Admission to this exhibition is by donation.
