Charles H. Scott Gallery Exhibitions

Please join READ Books for the launch of David MacWilliam's Unfolding.

Unfolding documents the artist's on going research into Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostik Inkblot Test. The book contains reproductions of forty inkblot paintings and essays by Jeanne Randolph and Robert Linsley. Jeanne Randolph and David MacWilliam will be in attendance.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present John Armleder and Ecart. The exhibition focuses on Swiss artist John Armleder’s early Fluxus-related works with Ecart, a group Armleder founded with Patrick Lucchini and Claude Rychner in Geneva in the late 1960s.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design is pleased to present HERE + THERE, an exhibition of work by the inaugural cohort of the Low Residency stream of the Master of Applied Arts program. The exhbit showcases work reflective of over two years of research and production.Students exhibiting their work include: Ric Beairsto, Jan Beringer, Bruce Emmett, G. Funo O'Kain, Greg Klassen, Galia Kwetny, Nathalie Lavoie, Joyce Lindemulder and David M.C. Miller.

We are in the epoch of simultaneity; we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of near and far, side-by-side, of the dispersed.
-- Michel Foucault

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present Virtual Voices, an exhibition of Chinese artists who utilize social media as a platform for their art practices. The internet has become the people’s cyber discipline committee in China because it encourages members of socially excluded communities to use their virtual voices. Dissidence and public critique has become more covert pushing citizens to become “netizens” expressing their opinions via the internet.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part III featuring the work of Dorothy Cross, David Zink Yi, Fiona Bowie, Sonia Hedstrand, Troy Morgan, Terry Kerby, Zarh Pritchard, and The Laboratory of Marine Obscuriosity and Spectaculars. The exhibition is the third in a multi-part series about the sea. While the first two exhibitions focused on lighthouses and ill-fated voyages, this instalment is about what is below the water’s surface.

READ Books at Charles H. Scott Gallery and Arsenal Pulp Press invite you to the official launch of the new art book Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971.

Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, an art book on the politics of urban conflict, is based on the work of Stan Douglas ('82), one of Canada's most revered contemporary artists. His film and video installations, photographs, and other works use the conventions of cinema, music, and literature to construct historical and cultural narratives, many of which are grounded in the story of Vancouver, his hometown.

READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery and the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, invite you to the launch of Brian Jungen: Carapace.

The book and limited edition document, Carapace, one of Brian Jungen’s largest works, was initially created in early 2009 for the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France. Jungen then completely reconfigured Carapace for his solo exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, in the summer of 2010.

 The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present Grounds for Standing and Understanding, a solo exhibition by Vancouver artist and alumnus Babak Golkar ('03).

Please join READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery for the launch of A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics edited by Judy Radul and Marit Paasche and published by Sternberg Press (Berlin) and Henie Onstad Art Centre (Norway). Contributing editor and artist Judy Radul will be in attendance and will present a talk.

Pre-Holiday Sale at READ Books - this weekend only!

Friday from 12pm to Sunday at 5pm

Plays, novels and selected books $10 and under
Everything else in the store (except magazines and textbooks) 20% off

Come by Granville Island and check out the Student Art Sale in the Concourse Gallery and pick up some books at READ in the Charles H. Scott Gallery!