Charles H. Scott Gallery Exhibitions

Please join READ for the launch of Jacqueline Turner’s The Ends of the Earth. Jacqueline will read from her new book and will be joined by students from her creative writing class who will read short works prepared especially for this event.

The Ends of the Earth moves through technological disasters, environmental nightmares, and broken relationships to find love cast away at the end of days. Its urban settings are counterbalanced with the idea of escape, deserted islands, and ocean solitudes.

Please join READ Books for the simultaneous launch of the third issue of Setup, and Setup's inaugural set of limited edition artworks. Each set features five archival inkjet prints, from nationally and internationally recognized contemporary artists. Included are works from Assistant Professor Yunhee Min, Mark Neufeld ('97), Silke Otto-Knapp, Judy Radul and Sean Weisgerber ('09), all whom have made contributions to Setup in some form.

Please Join READ Books for a launch of Group Search / Memory Palace edited by Lorna Brown and Karen Love.

This beautiful full-colour catalogue documents two curated public art programs at the Vancouver Central Library’s Central Branch, running from September 2006 to February 2010. The curators, artists and writers investigate this unique public space while addressing the organizational systems and broader philosophical and symbolic meanings of the library and the multifarious roles of the book.

In conjunction with his exhibition on now at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Selected Monochromatic Paintings and Works on Paper, Part Two of Two, artist Neil Wedman will give a talk about his work.

Over his thirty-year career Wedman has moved fluidly between painting and drawing without preferencing one practice over the other. He has rendered drawings on the monumental scale of history painting as in The Brides, an eight foot by eight foot drawing on canvas, while the monochromatic greys of his recent paintings mimic the tonality of drawing.

Made in Space in Speech, Woo Lab 1 Exhibition includes the work of both third and fourth year students: Wesley Horsfall, Songhyun Kim, Graham Landin, Eric Lowe, David Lin, Juniper Quin, Theunis Snyman, Kristine Suddaby, Michelle Tanner and Zebulon Zang.

The exhibit is curated by fourth year student Michaela Mitchell.

February 7 to 15, 2013
Opening February 7 at 6pm
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Concourse Gallery + Library Opening Party hosted by the ECU Campaigns Committee with live music by Neighbour & Red Light Quadrant, February 8 at 7 pm in the Concourse Gallery.

For more information, please visit Woo.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent monochromatic work by Vancouver artist Neil Wedman.

Over his thirty-year career Wedman has moved fluidly between painting and drawing without preferencing one practice over the other. He has rendered drawings on the monumental scale of history painting as in The Brides, an eight foot by eight foot drawing on canvas, while the monochromatic greys of his recent paintings mimic the tonality of drawing.

The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part IV is the latest installment in a multi-exhibition series about our relationship to the sea. Part IV looks at the business and politics of shipping and features the work of three internationally renowned artists: Stan Douglas, Uriel Orlow and Allan Sekula.

In Journey into Fear, Stan Douglas ('82) conflates Herman Melville's The Confidence Man with two film versions of Eric Ambler's espionage novel Journey Into Fear. Each film version one from 1942, the other from 1975, were adapted to suit the political intrigues of their day. Douglas' version is open ended and fraught with uncertainty, which is heightened through his use of looping and repetition.

The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part IV is the latest installment in a multi-exhibition series about our relationship to the sea curated by Cate Rimmer ('86). Part IV looks at the business and politics of shipping and features the work of three internationally renowned artists – Stan Douglas, Uriel Orlow and Allan Sekula.

In Journey into Fear, Stan Douglas conflates Herman Melville's The Confidence Man with two film versions of Eric Ambler's espionage novel Journey Into Fear. Each film version one from 1942, the other from 1975, is adapted to suit the political intrigues of their day. Douglas' version is open ended and fraught with uncertainty which is heightened through his use of looping and repetition.

READ is pleased to present a talk by Garry Neill Kennedy and to launch his two new books, The Last Art College (MIT Press) and Printed Matter 1971-2009 (National Gallery of Canada).

The Last Art College traces the experimental and conceptual activities at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from 1968 to 1978. Under the leadership of Kennedy NSCAD became the epicenter of art education.

Visiting artists and faculty members included artists such as Joseph Beuys, Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham, Gerhard Richter, Yvonne Rainer, Lucy Lippard, John Baldessari, Vito Acconci and more. During this period the NSCAD Press was established and run by Benjamin Buchloh and Kasper Koenig who published books by leading minimalist and conceptual artists.

Please join us at the Vancouver Art/Book Fair this Saturday, October 6 at 2pm for the Launch of Germaine Koh's new book Fallow.

Hot off the press from the Charles H. Scott Gallery and ECU Press, Fallow focuses on a monumental work by the artist in which a fallow field is dug up and replanted in the gallery. The book contains essays by Cate Rimmer, Lisa Robertson and the artist. We will also be launching our brand new artist edition book bags by Aaron Carpenter and The Office for Soft Architecture!

Come and check them out at our table! Vancouver Art/Book Fair takes place on October 6, from 12 – 7pm at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.