Charles H. Scott Gallery Exhibitions

READ Books presents the launch of With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form, a new book by Maria Fusco, published by New Documents.

In With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form, Fusco experiments with the form and register of contemporary art writing through the reconfiguration of the seminal artist's book/catalog When Attitudes Become Form (1969).

Please join READ Books for the launch of Steve’s Vinyl.

In 1993, music loving Steve Busby died of an AIDS-related illness, leaving an eclectic record collection to his sister, artist Cathy Busby. After 18 years of keeping the collection, Cathy organized a one-night celebration and album give away. The one-night only event is now a book, Steve’s Vinyl, with writing from Steve and Cathy, photos from the album give-away, and memories of Steve collected the night of the event. Like the event itself, the book is a tribute to Steve and his varied tastes in music, men, and identities and a way of activating the collection as music and graphics.

REDaction Aboriginal Student Art Exhibition

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The exhibt is curated by current students Lou-ann Ika'wega Neel and Richard Heikkila-Sawan.

Concourse Gallery
March 18 - 25, 2014
Opening Night Celebration | Tuesday, March 18 | 6 - 8pm

Hyperflat is a survey of Jeannie Thib’s extensive investigation into ornamental motifs.

Thib’s work borrows decorative patterns from textiles and domestic surfaces, reconstitutes them through operations of cutting and piling, and reinvents them with magnification, repetition and excision. In doing so, the artist translates historical designs into contemporary industrial materials and extends them into three-dimensional, sculptural forms.

Read Books, in collaboration with students from Emily Carr University, is pleased to present The Read Show: Reading Ceramics.

This show has been collaboratively organized by Associate Professor Julie York and Curator Kathy Slade. Showcasing the relationships between ceramics, books and text, the exhibition features work by emerging artists: Richard Chapplow, Anne Curtis, Gary Do, Tara Dwelsdorf, Nathaniel Ferguson, Jessica Mok, Parvin Peivandi, Charlotte Kennedy, Cohen Pedersen-Wood and Daniel Rubin.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery and READ Books are pleased to present a lecture, followed by a reception and book launch by Jeff Derksen.

After Euphoria is a collection of Jeff Derksen's writings on art, architecture, and globalism. The selected essays in this book focus on artistic practices and modes of cultural critique that aim their questions, research, and propositions at neoliberalism’s alliance of the economy, affect, and the present.

After Euphoria includes essays on the work of Rem Koolhaas, Brian Jungen, Sam Durant, Andrea Geyer, Jin-me Yoon, Ken Lum, Ron Terada, Stan Douglas, Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber, and Alfredo Jaar.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition featuring two new film works by Canadian-born, UK-based artist Mark Lewis.

These works, Browns Point and City Road, March 24, 2012, like Lewis’ other films currently being shown at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite, speak to the artist’s interest in the medium of film and in the way filmic devices are employed in cinematic language. However, unlike the series at Offsite, the films at the Charles H. Scott Gallery are more photographic having been composed and shot from a fixed point.

READ Books is holding their annual holiday reading sale with 20% to 70% off all books!

The Holiday Reading Sale kicks off with the launch of a new print edition by Janice Kerbel and a selection of jewelry by Jesse Gray of Gray Metal!

On December 11th READ Books will launch Revolutionaries a new print edition by London-based artist Janice Kerbel. Revolutionaries is a modified excerpt from Three Ring, a larger series by the artist.

We are also pleased to announce that Vancouver’s Jesse Gray will be presenting a selection of jewelry pieces from Gray Metal that will be available for sale at READ for a limited time.

Please join us in a traditional Coast Salish Utsám’ Witness ceremony and for the launch of Picturing Transformation: Nexw-áyantsut at READ Books. Cultural speakers, honourary guests and authors will be present.

Picturing Transformation: Nexw-áyantsut tells the remarkable story of how a First Nations chief, an artist and a mountaineer evolved a new form of environmental and cultural activism, and saved 50,000 hectares of forest in the process.

Utsám’ Witness, was a series of camping weekends held in Nexw-áyantsut (meaning place of transformation in the Squamish language) that brought together Coast Salish peoples and settlers to walk, sleep, eat, make art, have conversations and participate in ceremonies on this disputed territory.

Associate Professor, Amber Frid-Jimenez will present La Lucha Sin Fin, published by the Jan van Eyck Academie. Frid-Jimenez’s new book investigates the aesthetics of charisma and its persuasive technologies.