Charles H. Scott Gallery Exhibitions

Please join us at READ where Amber Frid-Jimenez will present La Lucha Sin Fin, published by the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Frid-Jimenez’s new book investigates the aesthetics of charisma and its persuasive technologies.

From the megaphone, to the telephone, to television, to the web, virtually every technological advance has altered the transmission of persuasion. The book explores the changing role of charisma as it is decoupled from physical presence and finds its way into the mediated channels of the Internet. The book includes an eclectic set of narratives and original artworks produced from case studies of the Anonymous movement, to studies on phonology and revolutionary movements in Latin America.

The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part VI is the final chapter in an exhibition series that explores our relationship to the sea. In Part VI, we explore sea lore—pirates, sea monsters, lost islands, lost souls—the stuff of legends and tales that have ignited imaginations for centuries and are at the heart of some of the world’s great literature from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. As with the previous iterations in the Voyage series, Part VI brings together the work of local and international contemporary artists with archival materials that form linkages with the rich depths of maritime history.

Please join us for a talk by Charles H. Scott Gallery curator, Cate Rimmer.

Cate will discuss the trajectory of her multi-part exhibition series, The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea. The Voyage has spanned three years and focused on the relationship between art and the sea. The six exhibitions that make up the series have looked at subjects such as lighthouses, shipwrecks, commerce, politics and sea lore. The exhibitions feature the work of contemporary artists alongside artifacts from the historical archives of the Vancouver Maritime Museum. This talk is presented in conjunction with The Voyage or Three Years at Sea Part VI which is on exhibit at the Charles H. Scott Gallery until October 24, 2013.

Through his projects, Irish artist Sean Lynch pictures idiosyncratic moments from the past, bringing disparate threads of research together in photographic and slide-projection installations, prefabricated or found artefacts and small-scale publications. The artist is participating in the exhibition The Voyage.

For further information please contact the Charles H. Scott Gallery.

Sean Lynch Artist Talk
Thursday, September 26, 2013 | 7 - 9pm
Lecture Theatre | Room 301, South Bulding

This event is free and open to the public.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present Photography and the West Coast Modern House an exhibition that examines the relationship between photography and architecture from the 1950s to the present through the work of nine prominent photographers. The exhibition presents the work of Jim Breukelman, John Fulker, Associate Professor Arni Haraldsson, Krista Jahnke ('09), Jack Long, Selwyn Pullan, Simon Scott, Martin Tessler, and Graham Warrington.

Five artists from across Canada and Europe have interacted online for two years in Emily Carr's Low Residency Masters of Applied Arts Program developing studio research practices and engaging in mutual critique. During this time the artists have met one month each year on the Vancouver campus. This graduating exhibition represents their third meeting offline as they converge in this physical space, presenting works that speak to the technological mediation of human experience. Distance and proximity are expressed through relationships of space and place, animate and inanimate, sound and motion, digital and post-digital.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a new body of work by Vancouver artist and Emily Carr alumnus Scott Massey. The sculpture, photography and video works in the exhibition explore cosmology, quantum physics and universal constants. Linked by the physical properties of light and the paradigm-shifting potential of the ground glass lens, each work expands the notion of our collective journey through time and space.

Please join READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University and the Chinese Canadian Artists Federation for the launch of Zheng Shengtian's Collection of Essays published by The China Academy of Art Press.

This four-volume book includes a collection of his essays on visual art, cultural exchange, biennales and art fairs since the 1980s. The Collection also features a memoir of his personal story. This book contains over 500,000 words and more than 300 coloured images to provide a first hand observation of thirty years of development in contemporary Chinese art.

Collection of Essays is published in Chinese. For more information please visit the publisher's website.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design Foundation Show is a culmination of first year works from Emily Carr's newest students.

View the works of emerging artists, designer, filmmakers and animators at the very beginning of their artistic careers.

Foundation Show
April 20 to 27, 2013 | 9am - 5pm daily
Concourse Gallery and select classrooms
Opening Night | Friday, April 19,  7 - 10pm

This event is free and open to the public.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of London-based artist Zineb Sedira. The show is the only solo exhibition in the multi-part series The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea which explores our relationship to the sea.

Born in France to Algerian parents, Sedira explores themes of mobility, transmission, oral history and colonial past through sea-related narratives. The Mediterranean Sea plays a significant role in the artist’s work as the site of historical, cultural and contemporary movement between North Africa and Europe.