CURRENT EXHIBITION
IN THE GARDEN
works by
Mina Totino and Maggee Day
MAY 22 - JUNE 29, 2021
We are excited to announce the upcoming exhibition “In the Garden” with works by Mina Totino and introducing Maggee Day.
“In the Garden” entwines works by well-established Vancouver artist Mina Totino and up and coming artist Maggee Day. The thought of the garden comprises and encompasses many phenomena of our daily lives. It is at this time of the year that the garden, whether it is a collection of small pots of flowers on a patio or a lavish backyard or public garden it is something that surrounds most of us daily, consciously or not.
Vibrant colors and strong brush strokes bring the semblance of a garden and nature inside the gallery space, emphasizing Maggee Day's approach for this exhibited series “Doorstep view”. In her painterly process Day depicts the view of her doorstep, a view from inside the home into the outside, into the garden inspiring bold abstract views.
Mina Totino's works presented in this exhibition are part of her most recent exploration of the monochrome resulting in monochrome works – not really being monochrome. The compositions defined by multilayers of color and tactile attributes elude any classification or predetermined associations, however, like a view in a garden, delicately evolving in front of your eyes - “[...] quiet, slow, enveloping, like a waltz; delicate, fragile, and on the verge of materiality breaking or losing thought or form. [...]”[i]
The layout of the individual works of Day and Totino throughout the gallery space is suggestive of the garden and full circle of nature, from subtle green tones in “Doorstep view 4” to “Doorstep view 7” to Totino's “Turkey Umber (Williamsburg)”, reminiscent of spring and blooming, decomposition, decay and renewal.
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“In the Garden” entwines works by well-established Vancouver artist Mina Totino and up and coming artist Maggee Day. The thought of the garden comprises and encompasses many phenomena of our daily lives. It is at this time of the year that the garden, whether it is a collection of small pots of flowers on a patio or a lavish backyard or public garden it is something that surrounds most of us daily, consciously or not.
Vibrant colors and strong brush strokes bring the semblance of a garden and nature inside the gallery space, emphasizing Maggee Day's approach for this exhibited series “Doorstep view”. In her painterly process Day depicts the view of her doorstep, a view from inside the home into the outside, into the garden inspiring bold abstract views.
Mina Totino's works presented in this exhibition are part of her most recent exploration of the monochrome resulting in monochrome works – not really being monochrome. The compositions defined by multilayers of color and tactile attributes elude any classification or predetermined associations, however, like a view in a garden, delicately evolving in front of your eyes - “[...] quiet, slow, enveloping, like a waltz; delicate, fragile, and on the verge of materiality breaking or losing thought or form. [...]”[i]
The layout of the individual works of Day and Totino throughout the gallery space is suggestive of the garden and full circle of nature, from subtle green tones in “Doorstep view 4” to “Doorstep view 7” to Totino's “Turkey Umber (Williamsburg)”, reminiscent of spring and blooming, decomposition, decay and renewal.
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PARKING LOT RECEPTION
JUNE 19, 2021 | 12-3pm
With restrictions and case numbers easing we are excited to invite you to our yearly parking lot reception for our current show.
To keep numbers safe we ask you to RSVP.
Greer Whillans and Chanel Lacasse performing a choreography for "In the Garden"
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In Possible Lands III | Annie Briard | 2020 | 34" x 34" Nicte-Ha, Dos Ojos | Javiera da Fonseca | Acrylic on Canvas | 19" x 25" included in the 17th Annual C Magazine Contemporary Art Auction online auction June 19 - June 27, 2021 |
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THE BILLBOARD PROJECT
featuring Annie Briard | In Possible Lands
East Hastings and Hawks Ave, Vancouver, BC.
In collaboration with Art Walk Strathcona which brings contemporary art to East Hastings and invites you to discover the Strathcona's gallery district where some of the most relevant spaces dedicated to Canadian art have relocated in recent years.
From Indigenous and Canadian artists to the streets through five billboards along East Hastings. Art Walk Strathcona is a self-guided experience that invites people to take a walk, discover the public billboard images, and enjoy a change of perspective until June 14, 2021.
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 Project click HERE.
Kriss Munsya
featured in the fiction column of the New Yorker
"Children of God"
by J.M. Holmes
In the New Yorker Print Edition of May 17, 2021
featured in the fiction column of the New Yorker
"Children of God"
by J.M. Holmes
In the New Yorker Print Edition of May 17, 2021
ANNIE BRIARD
"MIRAGE"
at DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ART
Victoria, BC
May 29 - June 26, 2021
Mirage is an exhibition taking a particular look at wonder in landscape. In these times of lockup and barred travel, landscape exploration takes on new meaning and importance. With Mirage, Deluge Contemporary offers works representing the "natural" surrounding world and putting into question our visual perception. Various immersive and pictorial forms utilizing both new and obsolete technologies, the exhibition includes Briard's digitally constructed stereoscopic photographs, subtly changing images and large-scale video projections.
KRISS MUNSYA
at BURRARD ARTS FOUNDATION
April 22 - June 19, 2021
Munsya’s new series, Monolithic Introspection, applies his use of vivid imagery to draw the viewer into critical reflections of humanity to engage audiences with questions about peoples, lands, resources and power. Created in collaboration with local environmental justice activists, the project weaves together a cautionary tale while centering the strength of those at furthest proximity to power.
The conceptual choices supporting Monolithic Introspection are framed by three pillars: Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, the Great Chain of Being, and Environmental Justice. The Vitruvian Man represents man as perfect and implies nature gifted human perfection.The Great Chain of Being depicts a hierarchical structure descending from godliness to man, animals, plants, and minerals. Over centuries, both have been leveraged to justify white Christian man’s supremacy and dominion over peoples, lands, and resources. Munsya includes Environmental Justice as a response to this legacy. It calls for the disruption and reconstruction of how peoples, lands, and resources are valued.
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The conceptual choices supporting Monolithic Introspection are framed by three pillars: Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, the Great Chain of Being, and Environmental Justice. The Vitruvian Man represents man as perfect and implies nature gifted human perfection.The Great Chain of Being depicts a hierarchical structure descending from godliness to man, animals, plants, and minerals. Over centuries, both have been leveraged to justify white Christian man’s supremacy and dominion over peoples, lands, and resources. Munsya includes Environmental Justice as a response to this legacy. It calls for the disruption and reconstruction of how peoples, lands, and resources are valued.
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UPCOMING
NOVEMBER 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’?
At this particular moment of COVID-19, within the Vancouver art ecosystem, there are many interdependent parts: artists, collectors, galleries, non-profits and institutions. All of them are relevant. We need each other to thrive to keep the ecosystem healthy. Galleries are important in the nurturing phase for artists, as well as the nurturing of young collectors. The four galleries featured in COMBINE art fair provide an access point for great new art that is being made on the West Coast while keeping the conversation going with the more seasoned collectors who want to continue learning about new voices in the local scene (and beyond).
COMBINE, held at Griffin Art Projects—an important collector-driven institution on the West Coast—is an event where galleries combine in support of collectors of contemporary art by coming together in the same space at the same time. At a moment when traveling to separate spaces to see work may be challenging, we offer a new collaborative experiment and model.
The long-term aim of this initiative and our work as collaborators, is to foster the development of confident collectors in the city, who use their own instincts and insights as they navigate the art works they encounter and acquire, and are aware of the importance of their patronage in supporting artists (and their galleries) in Vancouver. Although all galleries represent artists at every stage of their career, both artists and gallerists also benefit from such support at the early stages in their career. Ultimately, we are all here, collectors and galleries, to support artists who serve our community.
Griffin will host four progressive Vancouver gallerists onsite throughout the residency spaces in May 2021, for a collaborative venture. Wil Aballe Art Projects, Unit 17, Monica Reyes Gallery and Franc Gallery will work with Griffin to create an Art Fair, developed to support younger galleries who have been impacted by Covid-19 through the suspension of art fairs globally. The project also provides a ‘cross-fertilization’ with new audiences for all. Griffin will work with the galleries to promote the event and develop a safe onsite plan that follows COVID-19 protocols. The galleries will be located in the two studio areas while Griffin will curate an exhibition of gallery artists in the ‘bedroom’ space that will be transformed into a small gallery for this occasion. The overall project, which will be held in the residency area, is intended to create an exciting new alternative event that supports our local art community during these challenging times.
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 neighborhood 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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T. 604.339.2096
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