Charles H. Scott Gallery Exhibitions

Goodbye Charles
AN EXHIBITION CELEBRATING CHARLES HEPBURN SCOTT
March 1 - April 23, 2017

Opening Reception | Tuesday, February 28, 7:30PM
Charles H. Scott Gallery

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is proud to present Goodbye Charles, an exhibition that celebrates Charles Hepburn Scott, an artist, educator and our gallery’s namesake, in commemoration of the latest chapter in our history. In the fall of 2017 we will relocate to the new Emily Carr University campus on Great Northern Way in East Vancouver, where the Charles H. Scott Gallery will be renamed the Libby Leshgold Gallery.

This exhibition offers a glimpse into Scott’s creative practice through the inclusion of his paintings, drawings, sketchbooks and writings.

Join us for a free talk with curator Michele Horrigan and Seanie Barron.

Curator Michele Horrigan presents an overview of her work in Askeaton where, since 2006, artists live and work each summer while thematic exhibitions, publications and events frequently occur.

Through these methods, over eighty artists projects have been realised. With no ‘white-cube’ galleries in Askeaton, art exists in publicly throughout the town, in locations from petrol stations and pubs to a medieval castle and ruined occult building. This form of engagement focuses on the existing dynamics of the locale, intending to bring forward the diverse layers of daily life and create a rich framework for subjective encounter.

Join us for a Visual Art Forum talk with Pittsburgh-based artist John Carson.

John Carson has presented live performances, soundworks, installations as both and has been involved in many public art projects. He has exhibited drawings, photographs, prints and sculpture in such venues as The Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, The ICA in London, CCA in Glasgow, IKON Gallery in Birmingham, PS1 in New York, New Langton Arts in San Francisco and The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.

This October Emily Carr University Library and READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery present Jo Cook for our 2016 Artists’ Books Research Residency (ABRRR). Jo Cook Adore-Abhor: Writing Other Peoples Words features a two-session workshop on appropriation as text generator takes Kathy Acker as muse. Participants will combine cut-ups of magazine interviews and use Richard Foreman’s on-line notebooks to produce a new form of interview zine.

Participants may bring images and texts to collage but it is not necessary. There will be plenty of sources to choose from. All other necessary materials will be provided.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds. For the past four decades, Heap of Birds has made multidisciplinary artworks that confront the oppression of Indigenous peoples and attest to the artist’s profound bond with the landscape of his Cheyenne and Arapaho homeland.

Please join the Charles H. Scott Gallery for a panel discussion with Emily Carr University's Master of Applied Arts graduates. The select group of graduates will discuss their work in the current exhibition "see level".

Through a reflective conversation moderated by recent Emily Carr MAA graduate Christann Kennedy, the artists will discuss parallels between their disparate practices, searching for commonalities within their respective research, concepts, places, spaces and surfaces.

About the Artists

Please join us in the Charles H. Scott Gallery for readings by Lisa Robertson and Christine Stewart. It will be a reunion for the two poets who are long-time friends and who have worked together since 1986. In the early 1990s, in collaboration with poet Catriona Strang, they named themselves the Giantesses, formed the Barscheit Nation, and published Barscheit, a poetry magazine.

Experience This Live performance in the Charles H. Scott Gallery

Join us at the Charles H. Scott Gallery to mark the end of Like a Rolling Stone: An Exhibition About Rock and Rock with a performance by Experience This.

Experience This is a three-piece blues band, featuring Laura Piasta, an artist participating in Like a Rolling Stone, along with members Jen Smyth and Johan Björck. In addition to the performance, Vancouver-based artist, Katrina Niebergal will DJ.

Like a Rolling Stone conflates geology and rock music, it considers the ways in which two seemingly unrelated subjects linked by the same homograph share associations and points of contact that are both concrete and implied.

READ Books' After Hours presents The Day After Bataclan, produced in response to the attacks that took place in Paris on Friday, November 13, 2015. It is a refrain to Tom Richardson’s installation Enduring Freedom (2015).