FINAL WEEK
TIKO KERR | RESPAIR
February 11 - March 18
602 E. Hastings Street
In the News
MRG Celebrates 1st Anniversary
at Mackenzie Heights - Scout Magazine
Dawna Mueller
Unforgotten - My Journey Home
CURRENT INSTITUTION EXHIBITION
Kathy Slade
As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop
CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
VANCOUVER
Opening January 27, 2023
Kathy Slade, Sinking in the West, 2023, Jacquard-woven cotton, wool and polyester, 183.5 x 255 in (466 x 648 cm)
For over three decades, Kathy Slade has produced conceptually driven work that engages techniques of copying, repetition and reenactment, often coalescing in materially sumptuous objects. In her wide-ranging interdisciplinary practice, Slade inhabits sources from literature, art history, philosophy, and popular culture, weaving her references into absurd and frequently playful loops and voids.
At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Slade presents As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop, a new body of work rooted in a research trip to Sils Maria, Switzerland, where Friedrich Nietzsche spent the majority of his summers during the decade he wrote his most enduring works. There, Slade retraced the philosopher’s steps along the shore of Lake Silvaplana, where upon encountering a large, pyramid-shaped rock he arrived at what he called “my truly abyssal thought”: eternal recurrence, “the unconditional and infinitely repeated circulation of all things.” In the exhibition, Slade reimagines Nietzsche’s encounter in two depictions: an enormous tapestry representing the rock to scale, and a series of graphite rubbings that maps the entirety of the rock’s surface over twenty monochromes.
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At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Slade presents As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop, a new body of work rooted in a research trip to Sils Maria, Switzerland, where Friedrich Nietzsche spent the majority of his summers during the decade he wrote his most enduring works. There, Slade retraced the philosopher’s steps along the shore of Lake Silvaplana, where upon encountering a large, pyramid-shaped rock he arrived at what he called “my truly abyssal thought”: eternal recurrence, “the unconditional and infinitely repeated circulation of all things.” In the exhibition, Slade reimagines Nietzsche’s encounter in two depictions: an enormous tapestry representing the rock to scale, and a series of graphite rubbings that maps the entirety of the rock’s surface over twenty monochromes.
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April is Capture Photo Festival at MRG
We are pleased to have Dawna Mueller's Unforgotten - My Journey Home included in the Selected Program of the Festival. The exhibition which is touring and presently being shown at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts will open at our Strathcona location on Saturday, April 1st and will run until April 29. This exhibition narrates the personal journey of photographer Dawna Mueller to her ancestral homelands in Duck Bay, Camperville, and Thicket Portage, Manitoba, and it documents part of the discovery of her identity as a Sixties Scoop child who was forcibly taken from her Indigenous mother at birth in 1960.
At our second outpost in Mackenzie Heights we are delighted to present the first solo exhibition of works by Yasmeen Strang with the gallery. Yasmeen documented the Winters Hotel which was built in 1907 and during the 1960's was home to a friend's family of the photographer who had newly immigrated to Canada. The hotel in its last years was an SRO building (Single Room Occupancy) the hotel tragically burned down in the Summer of 2021 displacing everyone who lived there not before claiming the lives of two of its residents.
Winters Hotel opens on Thursday, April 13 and the exhibition continues until May 13
At our second outpost in Mackenzie Heights we are delighted to present the first solo exhibition of works by Yasmeen Strang with the gallery. Yasmeen documented the Winters Hotel which was built in 1907 and during the 1960's was home to a friend's family of the photographer who had newly immigrated to Canada. The hotel in its last years was an SRO building (Single Room Occupancy) the hotel tragically burned down in the Summer of 2021 displacing everyone who lived there not before claiming the lives of two of its residents.
Winters Hotel opens on Thursday, April 13 and the exhibition continues until May 13
TD Bank acquires works by Bernadette Phan and Mina Totino
Left: Bernadette Phan, Nocturnal Dip, 2022 Oil on canvas, 64 x 62 in. Right: Mina Totino, Indigo (Williamsburg Oil), 2019 Oil on canvas 60 x 57 x 3 inches (153 x 147 x 7 cms)
Mónica Reyes Gallery is pleased to announce that TD Bank has added to their prestigious collection two important artworks by painters Bernadette Phan and Mina Totino, their work will remain in British Columbia and we look forward to sharing more details in the Spring.
Global Affairs Canada acquires works by Jan Wade
MRG is pleased to announce that Global Affairs Canada has acquired four iconic works by Jan Wade to be exhibited in Canadian diplomatic missions abroad from the series Breathe (2004-202march 0). We still have a few works available from this series that was first introduced at Jan's solo exhibition titled Soul Power which took place at the Vancouver Art Gallery from July 10, 2021 until March 13, 2022. To view these and other available works go here
Canadian Art Bank acquires work by Annie Briard
The Canada Council Art Bank with a dedicated purchase budget of $600,000, it has acquired 72 works by emerging and established artists from Canada. Introduced as part of the Art Bank's 50th anniversary celebrations, this milestone purchase of permanent pieces by artists who are predominantly new to the collection has enabled the changing face of contemporary art in Canada to be celebrated. The Art Bank received an impressive 1,748 eligible submissions in response to the call for purchases that it launched as part of commemorating this milestone anniversary and selected 72 works one of those by Annie Briard In Possible Lands I, 2020 . Congratulations Annie!
Jayce Salloum latest film premieres at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
Landscape images of Bamiyan in Afghanistan – including the giant rock cavities in which the magnificent Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 once stood – are alternated with delightful footage of children telling stories. It was only years later, upon receiving the translation, that Salloum realised these were the very same tales of Mulla Nasrudin, fantastical and comical, that he had enjoyed in his youth. An allusive chronicle of cultural displacement.– Adrian Martin
FEATURED ARTWORKS
ABOUT THE GALLERY
Mónica Reyes Gallery (MRG) has been backing the growth and development of emerging and mid-career artists at its current location since 2013. Serving the local and international art scene, MRG promotes artist initiatives invested in shaping the economies of art and culture. Located in the heart of Strathcona, the gallery is uniquely positioned to create dialogues with the artists and cultural engineers who call the neighbourhood home.
Our new outpost, located at 2895 West 33rd Avenue – at the intersection of Mackenzie Street, opened in February 2022. This new location in the very heart of Vancouver's west side, will provide a unique opportunity for the gallery’s roster of artists to connect with a new audience, to present new projects and to participate in curated group exhibitions.
Mónica Reyes Gallery is committed to presenting the work of artists who reflect the diversity of the visual arts community in Vancouver, BC. In particular, we are committed to providing space for artists to present narratives that are often underrepresented in many art galleries. MRG acknowledges it’s role as a commercial gallery in the Vancouver art community and recognizes the importance of continually reflecting on this position in relation to the ongoing impacts of colonialism within our institutional systems. We strive to centre the gallery’s programming around equity, diversity and inclusion and invite our community to engage with us to create a more just and sustainable future for the visual arts.
A project that was inspired by the pandemic and its need to return to the local and foster the community around us, Monica Reyes was one of the founding galleries of a new art fair, called COMBINE. It's purpose is to serve as a platform for new and aspiring art collectors to learn about the West Coast art scene and as an opportunity for seasoned collectors to discover the latest local talents. The predominant concept of collaboration is visible in the make-up of the fair, consisting of five Vancouver galleries and the emphasis of interconnected elements of artists, collectors, galleries, and institutions of this inaugural fair.
MRG's regular exhibition program and special events provide artists with opportunities to show work that includes range of practices from more traditional forms of painting, sculpture and photography to experimental video, durational performance and installation.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
Our new outpost, located at 2895 West 33rd Avenue – at the intersection of Mackenzie Street, opened in February 2022. This new location in the very heart of Vancouver's west side, will provide a unique opportunity for the gallery’s roster of artists to connect with a new audience, to present new projects and to participate in curated group exhibitions.
Mónica Reyes Gallery is committed to presenting the work of artists who reflect the diversity of the visual arts community in Vancouver, BC. In particular, we are committed to providing space for artists to present narratives that are often underrepresented in many art galleries. MRG acknowledges it’s role as a commercial gallery in the Vancouver art community and recognizes the importance of continually reflecting on this position in relation to the ongoing impacts of colonialism within our institutional systems. We strive to centre the gallery’s programming around equity, diversity and inclusion and invite our community to engage with us to create a more just and sustainable future for the visual arts.
A project that was inspired by the pandemic and its need to return to the local and foster the community around us, Monica Reyes was one of the founding galleries of a new art fair, called COMBINE. It's purpose is to serve as a platform for new and aspiring art collectors to learn about the West Coast art scene and as an opportunity for seasoned collectors to discover the latest local talents. The predominant concept of collaboration is visible in the make-up of the fair, consisting of five Vancouver galleries and the emphasis of interconnected elements of artists, collectors, galleries, and institutions of this inaugural fair.
MRG's regular exhibition program and special events provide artists with opportunities to show work that includes range of practices from more traditional forms of painting, sculpture and photography to experimental video, durational performance and installation.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
CONTACT US
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602 E Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6A 1R1 T. 604.339.2096 www.monicareyesgallery.com mr@monicareyesgallery.com opening hours: Monday and Tuesday 11am-2pm; Saturday 12-4pm; and by appointment
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2895 W. 33rd Avenue Vancouver, BC V6N 2G3 T. 604.339.2096 www.monicareyesgallery.com mr@monicareyesgallery.com opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12-5pm; and by appointment
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