WORK FROM VANCOUVER
8 February - 1 March, 2002

In presenting work by Douglas Coupland, Chris Gergley, Scott McFarland and Graham Gillmore, the exhibition offers four distinct views of Vancouver. Coupland's Canada Pictures are still-life/dioramas of iconic Canadian material, from Joni Mitchell 8-tracks piled on Mistigri catfood to bacon hanging off shovels to stuffed wolves howling at pine-scented car fresheners. In Gergley's suite of Apartment Lobbies the focus shifts from coastal cliché to modernist ideals. His clean documentation of these all-too familiar buildings foreground the rampant development for which the city is known. McFarland's ongoing Gardens series meanwhile affords a glimpse into private Vancouver gardens. Although their maintenance varies from edenic to neglected the pervasive fertility of the coastal clime is everywhere in evidence. Gillmore's 1991 painting, Ship Tiles, is comprised of nine panels depicting clipper ships whose sails are adorned with women's names, suggesting Vancouver as a libidinous port-of-call. Gillmore's drawing, Instant Live Action, reads like a welcome slogan for a city whose past is either quickly buried by steel and glass or instantly overgrown by nature.

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