SPOKED! VIFF Show @ Grace Gallery – 8/14
21 Aug 2010
Posted by Merple Sugar at 1:48pm on Saturday, August 21, 2010
Join the Holy Cult of Puppyteeth
7 May 2010
If you have not yet been enlightened by the testaments of Reverend Puppyteeth, you are lacking a perverse wisdom that you can only acquire within the affectionate embrace of the Holy Cult. The following is growing at an alarming pace, filling their religious void with comics that give them a tingling in their loins and that bad taste in the back of their throats. Created by Vancouver’s own Jaik Olson (as depicted above), the Holy Cult is on it’s way to becoming more than a hilarious and intriguing web comic, but an entity in itself. With the release of Issue #1 now available and double-feature movie nights at Parking Lot hosted by the Reverend, the seduction has only just begun. Parties, graphic novels and merchandise are just on the horizon. With the recent acquisition of a Fluvog Artist Grant, the congregation of the Holy Cult is becoming evermore present.
We praise the Reverened for this exclusive comic he has blessed us with.
If you would like to read more comics, join the following or buy Issue #1, visit
The Holy Cult of Puppyteeth
Posted by libertinah at 11:16am on Friday, May 7, 2010
A face with no nose, and hands that can not lift.
22 Feb 2010
Upon entering Catriona Jeffries Gallery recently I could not decide whether I was being greeted, accosted, or simply ignored by what one might describe as “a colourful cast of characters,” created by Geoffrey Farmer for a solo exhibition entitled “The surgeon and the photographer.”
Almost the entire warehouse space is given over to the display of 365 cloth and paper figurines, clumped together on seamlessly white plinths. Their paper features are collaged images pulled from magazines, and are occasionally extended and distorted by additions to their wire frames. The expressions on this multitude of faces are confused by uncanny juxtapositions of eyes-mouths-noses-hands, not all of them human, or even animate. Here and there above the crowd float birds, protest signs, and even a celery-garnished Caesar, all glue-gunned to precariously balanced heights of wire.
In place of any didactic panels (the likes of which are normally eschewed at Catriona anyways) there are two sheets of plain white paper hinged invisibly to the walls; the first at the entrance, and the other at the far end of the room. Each proffers an enigma set in clear 12 point Times New Roman: poetic presentations of Zeno’s Paradox and the problem of time.
And time ticks away, audibly, as the soundtrack to a slide show presented in the smaller room, but also without notice. Foolishly I only gave myself an hour, and I never really managed to cross the room.
Geoffrey Farmer is, obviously, represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery. Enter on the back lane at 274 East 1 Avenue between 11 and 5, Tuesday to Saturday. If you’re late, or early, just look up: a piece by Ron Terada is permanently installed on the outside of the gallery. The surgeon and the photographer closes on March 6, so make time.
Geoffrey Farmer has another ambitious project open this year, called Every Letter in the Alphabet. Something of a studio/event/theatre/hairdressing place at 1875 Powell Street, just down the block from the LES Gallery. Kill two birds with one stone on the weekends, or just visit Every Letter between 11 and 5, Tuesday to Sunday.
Posted by bernstein at 6:31pm on Monday, February 22, 2010
It’s funny because field sounds like a wrong past tense of feeling.
21 Jan 2010
The current exhibition at Lucky’s Comics brings together four Vancouver-based artists working through expanded practices of sculpture and photography within a shared practice of documentation, exploring urban landscapes and architectures and creating narrative structures through static representations.
Lucky's Comics front of shop has enough art on the walls to be mistaken for the gallery.
Hartbraker came out to the opening on Friday, January 15, and was kind enough to document the event.
Posted by bernstein at 3:37am on Thursday, January 21, 2010
Some buzz.
10 Sep 2009
Swarm, tonight.
Posted by bernstein at 4:54pm on Thursday, September 10, 2009
Instant Coffee: you asked for it?
29 Jul 2009
After a weekend of being away and thinking about the vandalism of Instant Coffee’s public art project on Main street, I came home to find that the piece at the intersection of Kingsway and Main has been completely painted over in white, with black painted cartoon characters on either side. Before this drastic alteration, it already looked like this:
A quick walk over to some other sites of public art assured me that the very physical engagement with Instant Coffee’s sandwich boards is disproportionate to the general reception of public art works in Vancouver. Is it instead proportionate to their “asking for it?” (more…)
Posted by bernstein at 9:23pm on Wednesday, July 29, 2009
A and B and RGB.
1 Jul 2009
It’s summertime, which means that there is a whole alliteration of excuses to leave the house: beaches, beers, bikes, babes. But there’s another good reason to leave the house this summer (in fact, I once read that it is the best reason to leave your house in any season) and that is to see some art.
If you decide to use this excuse only once this season then do yourself a favour and make sure to go see Variables, a selection of recent photographic works by Jessica Eaton (a Toronto-based former Vancouverite), up at the LES Gallery on Powell Street until July 12th.
- 108_6 isn’t exactly a white wall.
Eaton is a photographer who has not forgotten that photography is the representation of light, and that it is through interpretation that images receive their conceptual consideration. An image like 108_6 is quite simply a photograph of a white wall. Re-visioned through a complex photographic process of multiple exposures on differently sensitive films and through custom-made laser-cut dark slides, the white wall is interrupted by a seeming intrusion of colour blocks of cyan, magenta, and yellow, and red, green and blue. This interruption is in fact only a transformation arrested at different stages of exposure: white light is in fact made of all the colours. Each of the twenty-three deceptively simple images on display are reminders of the construction of photography, from physical process to conceptual conclusion, but while they can be explained by science, they’re much closer to magic.
The LES Gallery is at 1879 Powell Street. Open hours are on Fridays from 1 to 6 and Saturdays from 12 to 5. If you can’t make it call (778-370-1999) or e-mail (lisa@lesgallery.ca) to make an appointment.
For the next best thing, and more information, Jessica Eaton can be found here, here, and here.
Posted by bernstein at 11:53am on Wednesday, July 1, 2009
