UPCOMING
While we Wait: Records of Solitude
with works by Sarah Delaney, Annie Briard, Jessica Bushey,
and introducing Kriss Munsya
OPENING MARCH 6, 2021 | 11-2pm
We are pleased to announce the exhibition “While we Wait: Records of Solitude”. This group show brings together the works of four artists, Annie Briard, Sarah Delaney, Jessica Bushey and Kriss Munsya, living and working in Vancouver, BC. The works have been produced in the past year while under lockdown during the pandemic, while we are all waiting. Waiting for this pandemic to be over, waiting for borders to reopen, waiting for a vaccine, waiting to see what model or ways of living will manifest themselves once this pandemic is over.
THE BILLBOARD PROJECT
Our latest Billboard with Jessica Bushey
Google Oracle Series #4
1000 Block East Hastings Overpass near Glen Drive
The first Billboard of 2021 is featuring the striking new body of work by Jessica Bushey.
The Google-Oracle 2020 series presents a chronological progression of our global experience of COVID-19 through captures of the most popular searches from around the world. Plexiglass and "disposable-mask blue" ink recall the prominent artifacts of the period. For our Billboard Project we chose 4 out of the series of 9 unique works, as a reminder you are not alone in this pandemic.
The billboard is located in Strathcona, the same neighborhood where the gallery operates from.
The Billboard Project extends the public’s access to local artists and treats viewers to approachable, yet thought-provoking contemporary art on the billboard.
To continue reading about our Billboard Porject click HERE.
The Google-Oracle 2020 series presents a chronological progression of our global experience of COVID-19 through captures of the most popular searches from around the world. Plexiglass and "disposable-mask blue" ink recall the prominent artifacts of the period. For our Billboard Project we chose 4 out of the series of 9 unique works, as a reminder you are not alone in this pandemic.
The billboard is located in Strathcona, the same neighborhood where the gallery operates from.
The Billboard Project extends the public’s access to local artists and treats viewers to approachable, yet thought-provoking contemporary art on the billboard.
To continue reading about our Billboard Porject click HERE.
IN THE NEWS
PAST EXHIBITION
Tiko Kerr | PLEXUS
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IN THE NEWS
" [...] The exhibition’s title, Plexus, refers to an intricate network within a structure and alludes to the delicate structure of society as we work together to stay apart. Kerr’s work speaks to these collective experiences without spelling them out." "TIKO KERR - Artist reflects on pandemic with vibrant paintings on plexiglass" by Helena Wadsley for Galleries West Magazine Stir Q&A: Tiko Kerr on the artistic process behind PLEXUS The prolific and renowned artist shares insight into his current exhibition at Mónica Reyes Gallery by Gail Johnson for Stir |
Image credit: Alan Somerville
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BURRARD ARTS FOUNDATION
ANNIE BRIARD | Within the Eclipse
January 19, 2021 - March 20, 2021
Prolonged exposure creates a sense of disconnect: staring too long, repeating words, looping audio. Repeating the same word again and again, it becomes meaningless, a phenomenon known as semantic satiation. Annie Briard examines this disorientation in the realm of vision, contending with the fallibility of human senses and the malleable nature of perception through images and light-based installations that create subtle rifts in what we think we see. By encouraging us to look longer, more deeply, and from a different stance, Briard’s work creates fertile dissonance, where the concreteness of reality begins to melt away.
Continue reading HERE.
Continue reading HERE.
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
KATHY SLADE
Nov. 7, 2020 - April 5, 2021
Interview with Kathy Slade | Kunstverein Braunschweig | Film by Stark & Shakupa Kunstverein Braunschweig
The exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig brings together works by three artists from different parts of Canada: Nadia Belerique explores the relationship between object and (photographic) representation, while Jeneen Frei Njootli’s interdisciplinary practice is shaped by her cultural background as a member of the Vuntut Gwitchin Nation, and Kathy Slade focuses in her artistic practice on reading and publishing, offering meditations on the role of the artist as maker, publisher, and teacher.
The exhibition is part of the culture program related to Canada’s Guest of Honour presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair and is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada.
ANNIE BRIARD at Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, Quebec
VIDEOTANK #22: LANDSCAPE, CUTOUT
October 1, 2020 - March 20, 2021
Landscape, Cutout emphasizes the constructedness of reality or the world surrounding us, and vision’s sometimes problematic role within this construction. In this particular work, a still image is crudely cut up to form arbitrary divisions in our view of the landscape. Using the screen’s light to brighten individual cutouts at varying intervals, the landscape can be seen to subtly change in perspective. As the moving image transforms slowly over time, only memory can reveal its lack of fixity and ever going shift.
See the full virtual tour of Foreman's current exhibitions, including Annie Briard's video work here.
See the full virtual tour of Foreman's current exhibitions, including Annie Briard's video work here.
new works by
MATTHEW BALLANTYNE
Matthew Ballantyne is an artist, poet and lapsed ironist. His work is preoccupied with birds despite their disinterest in him. His bird-focused works - from photographs to taxidermy, haiku emblazoned on flags to pieces made using found materials - reveal a search for empathy in an enchanted but tragic world.
His study elevates birds to a place in our consciousness that's greater than fluttering, chirping adornments of nature - and more than "merely ornamental objects for humans to exploit," as the artist notes. Like the birdwatcher, the artist has the capacity to see birds as feeling creatures with lives unto themselves, worthy of sustained attention. Birds may thrive for a season but the suffer, oftentimes by the hand of human negligence or cruelty. These artworks transcribe the artist's experience of seeing birds, both the quick and the dead, in urban and rural spaces, through history and culture, in image and metaphor.
His study elevates birds to a place in our consciousness that's greater than fluttering, chirping adornments of nature - and more than "merely ornamental objects for humans to exploit," as the artist notes. Like the birdwatcher, the artist has the capacity to see birds as feeling creatures with lives unto themselves, worthy of sustained attention. Birds may thrive for a season but the suffer, oftentimes by the hand of human negligence or cruelty. These artworks transcribe the artist's experience of seeing birds, both the quick and the dead, in urban and rural spaces, through history and culture, in image and metaphor.
UPCOMING
May, 2021
COMBINE: an art fair
CONVERSATION | COMMUNITY | CONVIVIALITY
A collaboration between Franc Gallery – Griffin Art Projects - Monica Reyes Gallery - Unit 17 – Wil Aballe Art Projects
Hosted by Griffin Art Projects Residency
in North Vancouver
The closure of national and international art fairs globally due to Covid-19, provides an opportunity to reconsider art economies and solidarities. This project features four young Vancouver galleries and finds within a collaborative model, ways to think together to imagine how such impacts can result in exploring the fissures and sites of opportunity that this unprecedented moment represents, to ask: How are we now working? What do proximities mean at this time? How do we express and experiment with the idea of collaboration as opposed to being in ‘competition’?
COMBINE art fair also features an online public program that explores new ecologies in gallery, artist and art fair cultures. Accompanied by an onsite exhibition at Griffin residency, Ecologies of Resilience.
We look forward to sharing more information in the coming months leading to this ground braking event we are proud to be leading
FEATURED ARTWORKS
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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.
With a commitment to advancing the cultural capital of the city the gallery has since partnered with Pattison Art in Transit to present The Strathcona Billboard Project (2014). Additionally, the gallery served as the catalyst and headquarters for the Vancouver based artist collective A.K.A and hosted its first set of projects, Diffractions of the Local I & II. MRG has built connections both nationally and internationally, reaching new markets and influencing collectors, curators and artists. The gallery will extend its influence by being represented at art fairs in Canada and USA having participated in dozens since its beginning.
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 and the Board of Latincouver. Today she sits on the Board of the Strathcona Board Improvement Assosiation. 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, spatial interventions, installation and poetry.
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opening hours: monday, tuesday and saturday 11am-2pm; and by appointment
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602 E Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1R1
T. 604.339.2096
www.monicareyesgallery.com
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