Welcome back to the Cultch Gallery for our new 2012/2013 season. We’re kicking off our launch with a show and book launch by Cloudscape Comics Society and Suzy Stroet!
Cirrus – Cloudscape Comics
July 31st, 2012 – September 3rd, 2012
Opening August 1st, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
“Vancouver has demonstrated time and time again that its many cartoonists have a voice–one that is unique from cartoonists elsewhere in Canada–and Cloudscape has given them the opportunity to showcase their talents in the best way possible….”
The Cloudscape Comics Society is a coalition of indie comic book artists centered in Metro Vancouver who publish yearly anthologies and foster a community where BC comic creators can network with each other while developing their craft and continuing to push the boundaries of the comic book medium. The Collective’s books range in topic from themes of history and travel to cybernetics and humour. It’s most recent anthology, Giants of Main Street, is going to be launched at the Cultch gallery opening. The show Cirrus is a display of comic pages presented as art when removed from sequential order.
Audience Portraits – Suzy Stroet
July 31st, 2012 – September 3rd, 2012
Opening August 1st, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
“This series of paintings portrays audience members as an examination of a collective experience. Looking back at the audience, the viewer is positioned at the front of the theatre and so the spectator becomes the spectacle.”
Suzy Stroet was born and raised in Vancouver and continues to live and work on the west coast. She is an emerging artist whose work focuses on people and how they interact with, and inhabit the spaces they create. Her figurative work focuses on how people present and view themselves within their communities and the larger communities that they are a part of. Her art also addresses the ever-evolving nature of human manufactured environments and the tension between physical, digital, social and emotional spaces. Her body of work Audience Portraits is an examination of the cyclical relationship between performers and their audience.
And here are some other shows to look forward for the whole year:
Leef Evans – Manifestations of an Arbitrary Aesthetic
Bernadine Fox – Home
October 2nd, 2012- October 21st, 2012
Opening October 3rd, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Esther Rausenberg – Landscapes of Memories
Sarah Mulder – Vancouver: A lifetime of Changes
October 23rd, 2012 – November 11th, 2012
Opening October 24th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
East Side Culture Crawl
November 13th, 2012 – December 2nd, 2012
Opening November 14th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Skai Fowler – Slipstream
Hans Breur – Forest2Shore
December 4th, 2012 – January 1st, 2012
Opening December 5th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Kevin Godsoe – Below All This
Kyle Tonkins – 100 Billion sUns&daughters
January 3rd, 2012 – January 20th, 2013
Opening January 4th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Hinda Avery – The Rozen Sisterrrz
Harold Ceogo – Transaction of the Eye & Sound Memories
January 22nd, 2013 – February 17th, 2013
Opening January 23rd, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Niklas Bergman – Action Figure Expo
Robin Ripley – Book Bytes
Alan Robbins
February 19th, 2013 – March 17th, 2013
Opening February 20th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Sande Waters – Goddess Series
Shey Fen-Tsai – Dialogue
March 19th, 2013 – April 7th, 2013
Opening March 20th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
SD Holman – Butch: Not Like the Other Girls
Madeleine Wynne – A Tradigital Experiment in World Building
April 9th, 2013 – April 25th, 2013
Opening April 10th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Highgate Exhibit
April 30th, 2013 – May 4th, 2013
Ignite!
May 6th, 2013 – May 26th, 2013
DTES Small Arts Grants
May 28th, 2013 – June 9th, 2013
Opening May 29th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Our hours are Monday – Friday, 12-6pm and Saturday, 12 -4pm
For more information, email Oliver McTavish-Wisden at gallery@thecultch.com
We look forward to seeing you this season!
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