Project Rainbow at Richmond Art Gallery

Project Rainbow are Jesse Birch (01), Jade Boyd, Sydney Vermont (00), and Heidi Nutley, a group of Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artists who collaborate to explore the study of colour through photography, film, video, and movement. Their projects are research based and often derive from literature, dance, film, and art history and have included diverse sources such as Honoré de Balzac, Maya Deren, and Yvonne Rainer. Through a series of idiosyncratic steps, Project Rainbow translates their research from theoretical reference to gestural act.

The Ruby Glass, a study of the colour red, takes its name from Werner Herzog's 1976 film, Herz aus Glas in which Herzog claimed to have hypnotized his actors in the filming of a pastoral village's obsession with red glass. Motivated by the manner in which Herzog's film instigated a space of interrogation of movement that ranged from repressed or involuntary gestures to gestures of agency or control, Project Rainbow has produced a series of new works. The Ruby Glass offers a possible intervention by opening a dialogue on the relationship of media to the physical body in motion and by recognizing audience interaction as a productive resource.

Project Rainbow will speak about their exhibition, The Ruby Glass and introduce Werner Herzog's film Heart of Glass. The film will be screened with the director's commentary.

Project Rainbow's recent projects include L'Human Comedy at Artspeak Gallery (2005) and Variations on Green at East Van Studios (2006). They have been awarded a public art commission by the city of Vancouver for 2010 titled, Blue.

The Ruby Glass is curated by Vancouver artist and Charles H. Scott Gallery Assistant, Kathy Slade.

July 24 to September 6, 2009
Opening Thursday, July 23, 2009
Artist Talk/Screening Wednesday, July 29 from 7pm to 9pm
Richmond Art Gallery