Charles H. Scott Gallery Exhibitions

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Toronto artist Michelle Gay.

Gay investigates relationships of language, the body and memory and the way in which they are mediated through machine technologies via a multi-disciplinary practice that includes computer projections, animations and drawing. Poemitron is a software program Gay developed in collaboration with her brother and particle physicist Colin Gay. The program randomly selects a word in a text and replaces it with a synonym from the program’s database. This process takes place in real time.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a shipwreck themed walking tour at Mountain View Cemetery. We will tell the story of the SS Princess Sophia disaster, which took place on October 25, 1918 while sailing from Skagway to Vancouver.

In this tragedy all were lost except an oil-soaked dog that managed to swim to shore despite the frigid water. The walking tour will visit the graves of the shipwreck’s victims and tell their story through news accounts and letters of the day. The tour will be conducted by John Atkin, a civic historian and author who has written a book and articles on the history of Vancouver.

Shipwreck Cemetery Walk SS Princess Sophia Disaster with John Atkin
Sunday October 30, 2011 | 4pm

A talk presented by the Charles H. Scott Gallery and the Vancouver Maritime Museum in conjunction with The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part II

Join The Music Appreciation Society for an afternoon devoted to the legendary Vancouver art band UJ3RK5. Former UJ3RK5, and CBC Radio personality, David Wisdom will present images and give an oral history of the band. Wisdom will be joined by a panel of other band members including Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace and Colin Griffiths.

Saturday, September 17| 2pm
Emily Carr Lecture Theatre | Room 301, South Building

UJ3RK5: An Oral History with Music and Pictures is presented by the Charles H. Scott Gallery in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Projects as part of WRONG WAVE 2: ART ROCK IS DEAD/LONG LIVE ART ROCK - a four-day festival with: UJ3RK5 (Panel), Mathew Sawyer, Eli Bornowsky, Flash Palace, Andrea Lukic, B-Lines and Cowards.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part II featuring the work of Bas Jan Ader, Matthew Benedict, Karl Haendel, Nina Katchadourian, and Slave Pianos.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition that will bring together work by Vancouver artist Myfanwy MacLeod and 18th century prints by William Hogarth. This playful pairing highlights the social satire that dominates the work of both artists as they document the pitfalls of human folly from vice and wantonness to ambition and indolence.

Miscreants and Reprobates features a number of new works by Myfanwy MacLeod made specifically for this exhibition as well as earlier prints and drawings such as The Drunkard’s Walk, or How Randomness Rules Our Lives and Anecdotes of Modern Art. The exhibition situates these works in dialogue with William Hogarth’s iconic Gin Lane and Beer Street, A Harlot’s Progress and Industry and Idleness.

Emily Carr Concourse Gallery

The experimental and dimensional letterforms created in Continuing Studies' Spatial Typography Workshops will be on display in the Concourse Gallery from June 18 - 24.  These imaginative letterforms and typographic installations use an unconventional palette of modular materials.  Led by Vancouver design studio Working Format. 

This event is presented as a part of Design in the Field. 

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by local Vancouver artist Ron Tran.

In conjunction with the exhibition The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part I, the Charles H. Scott Gallery presents a screening of the film Deep Water (2006), a historical documentary that chronicles one of the most infamous nautical tragedies of the past several decades.

Donald Crowhurst (1932–1969) was a British businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Encountering difficulty early in the voyage, Crowhurst secretly abandoned the race while reporting false positions, in an attempt to appear to have completed a circumnavigation without actually circling the world. Evidence found after his disappearance indicates that this attempt ended in insanity and suicide.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design is pleased to present The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part I, -- an exhibition featuring the work of Rodney Graham and Tacita Dean.

Taking the lighthouse as its subject matter, Part I includes Tacita Dean’s film Disappearance at Sea and Rodney Graham’s large photographic work, The Lighthouse Keeper with Lighthouse Model 1955, as well as a selection of historic objects and materials from the Vancouver Maritime Museum, the BC Maritime Museum and the Vancouver Archives.