Media + Concourse Gallery Exhibitions

License to Ill is Emily Carr's first showcase of the wide spectrum of illustration work that students are creating. Drawing, painting, digital, print media, collage -- many mediums converge in this field. A variety of illustration in a range of mediums and styles will be shown including editorial, posters, comics, product labels, books, t-shirts and more!

License to Ill
February 14 – 20, 2011
Opening | Monday, February 14, 7pm
Emily Carr Concourse Gallery, North Building

Chad & Larry is an exhibit of new work from the collaborative duo of MAA students Vanessa + Kristina (Vanessa Arnold and Kristina Fiedrich).

At the core of the exhibition is a published work: an open edition book. The narrative deals with issues of identity, community, safety, ownership and media coercion. The books, supported by interactive portraiture and an immersive environment, contain detailed anthropological aspects of these two characters, and allow for multiple entry points into the dialogue. This narrative is loosely based on recent events at the Granville Island campus of Emily Carr.

Don't Call it a Comeback, a group exhibition featuring the work of Emily Carr students, is not a "big statement" exhibition. It does not have a focused mandate, or purpose. Rather, it can be thought of as a biased snapshot, or sampler collection, of the work of a group of artists whose sensibility allows aesthetic experience to arrive ahead of linguistic meaning.

Communicative-Connotative; An Exploration of Borrowed Insight exhibits the creative habitats of six artists from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Each habitat looks to an artist’s process and aesthetic that is ultimately created from surrounding insight and documented through their practice. Audio and video work, from both Emily Carr and UBC students, will be showing at the front of the Concourse Gallery for the viewers to indulge in a collaboration of their creative processes.

Participation is welcome: touching and exploring the habitats and objects in the gallery are encouraged. Current students exhibiting in the show include:

Black Holes and Other Transformations is an exhibition by students and alumni from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and Berlin University of the Arts, which investigates contemporary art practice that is informed, inspired and mystified by areas of science such as physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology.

"Science is used as a lens through which one can look at and speak about the world, the invisible forces of the known universe, and other theoretical dimensions." Associate Professor, Ingrid Koenig

Go East investigates the challenges and opportunities inherent in the proposed new Emily Carr University of Art + Design campus at Great Northern Way.

Rather than present designs for specific buildings, the research focused on the Great Northern Way site, its history, ecology, and its urban and cultural context within the city. A series of maps illustrate the site’s past and present conditions.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design is pleased to present Sensory Maps (The Originals), an exhibition of work by Anna Ruth.

The exhibition features original drawings, along with accompanying posters, which were commissioned by the City of Vancouver through its Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program as part of Mapping and Marking: Artist Initiated Public Art Projects for Vancouver 2010.

Emily Carr University Press will be publishing an artist's book of the original drawings.

Dean David MacWilliam provides an introduction to the exhibition. 

An annual exhibition, The Exchange Show showcases works created by Emily Carr students during their participation in the Exchange Program.

Emily Carr's dynamic Exchange Program features agreements with art and design schools across North America, Europe, and Australia. Students can apply to study for one term of their third year. 

Works featured in the show have drawn influences from other cultures, artists and educators.

Featured artists:

Second year Design, Media Art and Visual Art students from the Emily Carr’s graduate program present an interim exhibition of current work.

These preliminary experiments make evident the spurious and the genuine within the discipline of applied art.

Featuring:

Twenty + Change: Emerging Canadian Design Practices features twenty-one emerging firms from across Canada working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. These projects rethink urban infrastructure, propose new models for public space and housing, and examine the unique relationship between the single-family house and landscape.