Mami Wata's Heritage
FINAL DAY June 25, 2022
CURRENTLY AT MACKENZIE HEIGHTS
Annie Briard | Superlucent
All the Colour You Cannot See
June 11 - July 9, 2022
Sneak Peek of our current exhibition "Superlucent"
Time-lapse of Simulated Suns III | Annie Briard
Time-lapse of the colour-changing lightbox "Simulated Suns III" by Annie Briard - currently on view at our Mackenzie Heights location.
Galleries West review of our current exhibition "Mami Wata's Heritage"
"Mami Wata’s Heritage: A swirling watery celebration of life" by Mark Mushet
The swirling, shimmering works in Mami Wata’s Heritage, a two-person show at the Mónica Reyes Gallery in Vancouver, are intended as an homage to motherhood and creativity. Featuring work by Vancouver-based artists Bernadette Phan and Valérie d. Walker, the show also evokes the travels, travails and survival of myriad diasporas, who relentlessly pursue available paths, carrying seeds to unknown shores. But as suggested by its title, which evokes a water spirit venerated in Africa and amongst its diaspora, the main unifying element of this show, on view until June 11, is the motif of flowing water. Whether you prefer to quote Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu or martial arts master Bruce Lee, the message here is seemingly to be as water.
click here to read the full review
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MRG at Mackenzie Heights
Our new outpost, located at 2895 West 33rd Avenue – at the intersection of Mackenzie Street, opened in mid February 2022 with This Must Be The Place, an exhibition by Maggee Day. This place, 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 audiences, to present new projects and to participate in curated group exhibitions.
Creators Vancouver - Interview with Gallery Founder, Mónica Reyes
i. Tell us a bit about Mónica Reyes Gallery. How long have you had your first site? What inspired you to set up there in Vancouver?
I have been working in the arts for about 20 years now in various roles, but as a gallerist for the past 8 years when I took over a space that had been operating as an artists’ studio and art gallery in Strathcona. The decision was made easy for me, as the space at the time had all the basic requirements one could need to start a project like this. I was also pregnant with my son Teo, and it was then when I decided that if I was going to have a child why not 2?
read the full interview here
i. Tell us a bit about Mónica Reyes Gallery. How long have you had your first site? What inspired you to set up there in Vancouver?
I have been working in the arts for about 20 years now in various roles, but as a gallerist for the past 8 years when I took over a space that had been operating as an artists’ studio and art gallery in Strathcona. The decision was made easy for me, as the space at the time had all the basic requirements one could need to start a project like this. I was also pregnant with my son Teo, and it was then when I decided that if I was going to have a child why not 2?
read the full interview here
Jason McLean at Gallery Stratford
"Dad Club - Jason McLean and Ross Bell"
akimbo essay by Bill Clarke
"When it comes to artists working together, the least obvious pairings can sometimes produce the most interesting results – think Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Such partnerships are about solo artists breaking away from long-held approaches to artmaking and embracing collaboration. [...]"
continue reading the essay by Bill Clarke on akimbo here
continue reading the essay by Bill Clarke on akimbo here
"We can only hint at this with words"
Group show with Andrea Taylor, M.E. Sparks and Russna Kaur
curated by Kate Henderson
Gordon Smith Foundation | April 23 - June 25, 2022
Installation view "We can only hint at this with words" at Gordon Smith Foundation (image credit: Gordon Smith Foundation) Picture here work by Russna Kaur, Andrea Taylor and M.E. Sparks
There is a slowness that happens in the body when we can’t quite name what we’re looking at. Openness and vulnerability arrive via the experience of looking without speaking, and the phrase “We can only hint at this with words” suggests that a feeling, a moment, or an experience is yearning to be named. But the exhibition’s title also points to the inadequacies of language. Our bodies hold memory, story, and trauma, and words often fail to convey the fleshy, corporeal narrative that defines a life. That is to say, words can only hint at what lies beneath the surface. Through multisurfaced experiential painting, sculpture, installation, and animation, Russna Kaur, M.E. Sparks, and Andrea Taylor aim to fill in the blanks where words cannot describe the myriad personal, historical, and cultural encounters and occurrences that make up the human experience.
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Talia Shipman | Turquoise Period
Art in the Trees | Gallery Stratford
"I fell to the bottom of the sea. All I could see was the turquoise that surrounded me. Or was it all in my head? Where did it come from and where was it going? So I followed it far and wide, across the universe. I wandered the streets amidst the grays, browns, and beiges, and asked myself: does warm mean bright and bright mean happy? It’s only a color, after all; and so began my fascination with the colour turquoise.
Turquoise is not often used in North American architecture and design and began as a project I gave myself while I traveled. Ironically, it has completely taken me over and become the eyes in which I now see the world – often to the point of obsession. In colour psychology, turquoise controls balance and stability and evokes the infinite. A combination of blue and a small amount of yellow, it fits in on the colour scale between green and blue – a neutral colour in between extremes.
After being raised on the ocean, and leaving home at seventeen years old, turquoise is the balance and consistency that I have carried with me throughout the ups and downs and that life has taken me on – the different tones and shades, like crashing waves. Over the time span of eight year, fifteen apartments, twelve countries, and fifty cities, it has become my religion, my sanity, my reality and escape; the recurrent emptiness and intimacy of the images calming, evoking the notion of absence and solitude as possibility." (Talia Shipman)
Turquoise is not often used in North American architecture and design and began as a project I gave myself while I traveled. Ironically, it has completely taken me over and become the eyes in which I now see the world – often to the point of obsession. In colour psychology, turquoise controls balance and stability and evokes the infinite. A combination of blue and a small amount of yellow, it fits in on the colour scale between green and blue – a neutral colour in between extremes.
After being raised on the ocean, and leaving home at seventeen years old, turquoise is the balance and consistency that I have carried with me throughout the ups and downs and that life has taken me on – the different tones and shades, like crashing waves. Over the time span of eight year, fifteen apartments, twelve countries, and fifty cities, it has become my religion, my sanity, my reality and escape; the recurrent emptiness and intimacy of the images calming, evoking the notion of absence and solitude as possibility." (Talia Shipman)
Gallery Stratford’s new outdoor exhibition venue extending the gallery experience into the physical and natural environment. Positioned in the trees between Upper Queens Park, home of The Stratford Festival’s Festival Theatre, and Gallery Stratford, Art in the Trees provides opportunities for artists working in lens based or digital media to take their work outside the gallery space, interacting with new audiences and animating public space in a four season 24/7 outdoor environment.
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Amber Frid-Jimenez
"The Imitation Game: Visual Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
at the Vancouver Art Gallery
March 5 - October 23, 2022
The Imitation Game surveys the extraordinary uses (and abuses) of artificial intelligence (AI) in the production of modern and contemporary visual culture around the world. The exhibition follows a chronological narrative that first examines the development of artificial intelligence, from the 1950s to the present, through a precise historical lens. Building on this foundation, it emphasizes the explosive growth of AI across disciplines, including animation, architecture, art, fashion, graphic design, urban design and video games, over the past decade. Revolving around the important roles of machine learning and computer vision in AI research and experimentation, The Imitation Game reveals the complex nature of this new tool and demonstrates its importance for cultural production.
Featured artists, designers and architects include *airegan, Stafford Beer, BIG, Ben Bogart, Gui Bonsiepe, Sougwen Chung, Muriel Cooper, DeepDream, Stephanie Dinkins, Scott Eaton, Epic Games, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Neri Oxman, Patrick Pennefather and WETA, among others.
The show is featuring Amber Frid-Jimenez' two-channel video Après Ballet mécanique (2018), which is part of the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator and Glenn Entis, Guest Curator.
Featured artists, designers and architects include *airegan, Stafford Beer, BIG, Ben Bogart, Gui Bonsiepe, Sougwen Chung, Muriel Cooper, DeepDream, Stephanie Dinkins, Scott Eaton, Epic Games, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Neri Oxman, Patrick Pennefather and WETA, among others.
The show is featuring Amber Frid-Jimenez' two-channel video Après Ballet mécanique (2018), which is part of the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator and Glenn Entis, Guest Curator.
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 audiences, to present new projects and to participate in curated group exhibitions.
With a commitment to advancing the cultural capital of the city the gallery has since partnered with Pattison to present The Billboard Project (2020-2021), extending the public’s access to local artists and treats viewers to approachable, yet thought-provoking contemporary art on the billboard. Featuring Kathy Slade, Annie Briard, Jack Chapman, Jessica Bushey and Robert Kleyn, during a time when an in-person visit at galleries or museums was less possible due to the pandemic.
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.
Founder and director Mónica Reyes has been a longstanding figure in the Vancouver art scene having served as Vice President of the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, the Board of Latincouver. Today she sits on the Board of the Strathcona Board Improvement Association. Reyes is committed to investing in art that gives voice to the cultural diversity of the Pacific Northwest.
MRG's regular exhibition program and special events provide artists with opportunities for artists 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 audiences, to present new projects and to participate in curated group exhibitions.
With a commitment to advancing the cultural capital of the city the gallery has since partnered with Pattison to present The Billboard Project (2020-2021), extending the public’s access to local artists and treats viewers to approachable, yet thought-provoking contemporary art on the billboard. Featuring Kathy Slade, Annie Briard, Jack Chapman, Jessica Bushey and Robert Kleyn, during a time when an in-person visit at galleries or museums was less possible due to the pandemic.
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.
Founder and director Mónica Reyes has been a longstanding figure in the Vancouver art scene having served as Vice President of the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, the Board of Latincouver. Today she sits on the Board of the Strathcona Board Improvement Association. Reyes is committed to investing in art that gives voice to the cultural diversity of the Pacific Northwest.
MRG's regular exhibition program and special events provide artists with opportunities for artists 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.
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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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