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CURRENT EXHIBITION
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Enrique Manchon is a photographer surveying scenic layers, and an educator examining language patterns, Enrique is a long-time resident of Vancouver. He studied Fine Arts and Hispanic Literature at the University of British Columbia, where he taught for many years. His initiation in photography and the visual arts was influenced by the work and teaching of Fred Herzog and the group of photo based conceptualists that were evolving in the city, and within the university, at the time. His images tend to reflect the external effects of modernization: global consumerism, urban evolution with its contrasting cycles of growth and decay, social marginalization and disconnection. He conceives the photographic act as the suggestive fragmentation of space and is interested in the narrative and expressive dimensions generated by sets of inter-referential photographs.
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On going
THE BILLBOARD PROJECT
Next billboard by Robert Kleyn and image by Manuel Piña
launches September 22 at E 1st and Clark Ave
When Monica first asked me to be part of her pandemic-year billboard project, the structure rising from the parking lot right behind the gallery was really like an extension of the gallery itself, like an exterior gallery wall. Once that location was out of the picture and we settled on the 'trivision' board at E1 St and Clark, that connection vanished leaving no support from any immediate artistic context.
Freed of that association, the billboard project offered a new chance to think about strategies of public address, also a primary concern of my architectural work. While in architecture this is usually a matter of typology and style, the impact of the billboard relies on the fertile relationship between text and image, between the different forms of communication they can encode. The visual use of text has long been a part of my work, starting with the slide sequence projections of the early 1970’s, continuing with the found text assemblages included in the Naufragio show at the Monica Reyes Gallery in 2017, and with the series of posters responding to the Covid pandemic shown in the gallery's storefront window while the city was in lock-down, not to mention the recent book, 'Page 10' which treats entire pages of text as image. To continue reading click HERE.
Freed of that association, the billboard project offered a new chance to think about strategies of public address, also a primary concern of my architectural work. While in architecture this is usually a matter of typology and style, the impact of the billboard relies on the fertile relationship between text and image, between the different forms of communication they can encode. The visual use of text has long been a part of my work, starting with the slide sequence projections of the early 1970’s, continuing with the found text assemblages included in the Naufragio show at the Monica Reyes Gallery in 2017, and with the series of posters responding to the Covid pandemic shown in the gallery's storefront window while the city was in lock-down, not to mention the recent book, 'Page 10' which treats entire pages of text as image. To continue reading click HERE.
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Kathy Slade Wherever you go, you will be a city Billboard at Princess and Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC. Mónica Reyes Gallery is pleased to present Wherever you go, you will be a city., a billboard project by Kathy Slade. The billboard depicts a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds that are partially framed by various shades from the green foliage of treetops. While Slade’s billboard is site-specific, the image it depicts could be from anywhere in the city, a suburb, or the countryside. It is a cinematic-like scene that suggests daydreaming, of looking up at the sky on a summer’s day. |
The Billboard Project extends the public’s access to local artists and treats viewers to approachable, yet thought-provoking contemporary art on the billboard adjacent to the Mónica Reyes Gallery on Princess Avenue just south of East Hastings Street in the historic and diverse neighbourhood of Strathcona.
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we are pleased to announce new works by
KATHERINE DUCLOS
now available at the gallery
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.
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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