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Free Preview March 3 7-9 @ Western Front: 303 East 8th Avenue

This is the preview site where you can see works that will be on auction at the Western Front’s 37th Annual Gala and Art Auction on March 6th, 2010.

Tickets are $150 and include dinner and beverages. To reserve a seat call 604-876-9343 or email admin@front.bc.ca.

The theme of the auction is “The New Deal”.

Among the participating artists are: Sonja Ahlers, Sonny Assu, Heremy Hof, Khan Lee, Damian Moppett, Judy Radul,Marina Roy, Erin Shirreff, Ian Skedd, Reece Terris, Elizabeth Zvonar, Donato Mancini, and others.

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Curatorial Talk: Michael Turner

March 7th @ W2 Perel Gallery: 112 West Hastings

Michael Turner will be giving a curatorial talk and slide presentation about the show “to show, to give, to make it be there” of Vancouver art in the 1960s. If we can get the mimeograph machine working, the talk will conclude with a hands-on broadside editioning of a new poem by Maxine Gadd. Michael Turner is a Vancouver-based writer of fiction, criticism and song. His books includeHard Core Logo, The Pornographer’s Poem and 8×10. As a collaborator, he has written scripts with Stan Douglas, co-authored public artworks with Geoffrey Farmer and composed with Andrea Young. Over the years, Turner has instigated in a numerous curatorial projects, including the Reading Railroad reading series, the Malcolm Lowry Room, film programmes at the Pacific Cinematheque, and most recently, the exhibition “to show, to give, to make it be there”: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver, 1954-1969 at SFU Gallery (Burnaby), which he will discuss on March 7th. Turner is this year’s Ellen and Warren Tallman SFU Writer-in-Residence.

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Photogenic – Abstract Photography

March 5 – April 10, 2010 @ Blanket Gallery: 2414 Main Street

Opening Reception Friday March 5, 2010 6-9 pm

Blanket is pleased to present a group exhibition of works by Markus Amm, Walead Beshty, Liz Deschenes, Lorna Macintyre, László Moholy-Nagy, Mark Soo, and James Welling. The exhibition aims to look at diverse conceptual inquiries driving artists to investigate the application of abstraction in photography today. Beyond a set of formal similarities, the artists share prevailing interest in materiality and process as concrete manifestations of a specific set of conditions offering unique visual energies and questioning the assumptions about photography. With a selection of photographic works first produced in the 1920s, Moholy-Nagy holds a historical position in the exhibition: a pioneer of experimentation with photography, the artist forms a central argument and invites contemporary counterparts to re-interpret and further his project, questioning the meaning of making abstract images and the possibilities of the medium. Markus Amm, Walead Beshty, Liz Deschenes and James Welling present a selection of photograms – images that incorporate the camera-less, negative-less photographic process, while Lorna Macintyre and Mark Soo invite us to look at their photographic practice as simultaneously abstract and representational constructions that have undergone translations, interpretations and manipulations. Photogenic marks particularly fertile moment in recent contemporary photography and invites the viewer to experience the exhibition considering individual works within the context of the group.

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Friday, February 26 @ Chapel Arts : 304 Dunlevy at Cordova

HERE IS NOW is a series of “pop-up” exhibitions that features the work of contemporary Vancouver artists shown within the unconventional space. The intention of Here Is Now is to view the exhibits themselves as an overall installation, through the exploration of time and space, creating an aesthetic that varies in participation, duration and negotiates and reconfigures the use of the unconventional space. Through this approach we wish to create a movement that focuses on what Is Here Now.

Come join us for our final second installment show at The Chapel. This Friday we will complete our month long project, where we introduced new artists into the space each week starting with a group of thirteen. This Friday, February 26th we introduce 5 more artists to make a total of 35 artists. 8pm – 3am.

Giant Human

Friday, February 26 @ Antisocial : 2337 Main Street

Both an Edmontonian and Vancouverite, the multi-talented and positive-natured Nathan Matthews was taken from us on February 13th at far too young an age. A skateboarder, photographer, graphic designer, son, brother, fiancee and friend to many, Nathan truly was, and still is, a Giant Human. A celebration of his life and photography will take place at Antisocial (2337 Main St.) Friday February 26th at 8pm. Beverages will be served, and the photographs will be sold by silent auction throughout the evening and the following week with all proceeds going towards Nathan’s family.

Instant Coffee Light Bar

Saturday, February 27 | Instant Coffee Light Bar: 33 West Cordova St.

Karaoke and Authenticity: Seattle curator ERIC FREDERICKSEN will host a night of karaoke interwoven with an illustrated lecture. Malcolm McLaren recently wrote, “Today there are two words that sum up the culture: ‘authenticity’ is one, and the other … ‘karaoke’! With Vancouver’s karaoke experts, WEEKEND LEISURE, http://www.weekendleisure.ca/stuff.html.

Lecture at 9pm. Guest bartender: Ron Tran

The official launch party and artist selections announcement party! Details coming soon..

For now, get yourself on the list, it’s going to fill up fast, and RSVP will be required. Throw your name  on the list by filling in the form above.

What you’re seeing today is first phase of our vision for thecheapershow.com, and in many ways will be the central pillar of this website. It’s our goal to use this platform to showcase the amazing across all mediums: art, music, video, photography, performance, food, city, and life in general. The Cheaper Show Blog will be the place to find out what you should do this weekend, where you should eat, and who you should be paying attention to. The same level of curation, attention and care we take with The Cheaper Show will be applied to everything we post. We want to bring our readers value every time they visit the site.

This year also marks the first year of a proper archive of artists that have graced the show with their talent. In the years to come it will be a place to look back at the lineage of emerging artists in your city, a yearbook of sorts.

In the next few months, we’ll be launching our Online Store, featuring incredible artwork, Cheaper Show artist edition apparel and other items from around the world.

This will of course also be the place to find out what’s happening with the show and our crew leading up to and after the big event in June 2010.

It’s an exciting time, I look forward to hearing your reactions and ideas going forward.

Peace,
Steve Rio | Exectutive Director, Director of Web & IT

Find me: www.briteweb.com | www.twitter.com/steverio

Photos by Pete Thorne

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