Alumni news

Cheaper than a One Night Stand, or The Cheaper Show as it is now known, was launched in 2000 as a new format to promote talented and underexposed artists. The concept - to host a one-night art show with dozens of multi-disciplined artists and hundreds of pieces of art, all for sale at one affordable price. Now in its eighth year, the show has grown to become an institution that is now the largest recurring one-night art show in the history of Vancouver.

Babak Golkar (03), Erica Stocking (04), Brandon Thiessen (98), Hadley Howes (98) and Maxwell Stephens (98), known as Hadley+Maxwell, are exhibiting in a group show entitled Interior of Design at Republic Gallery. Other artists exhibiting in the show include Hadley+Maxwell, Yedda Morrison, Natasha McHardy and Marina Roy, Samuel Roy-Bois and Nicole+Ryan.

Design for Development will be visiting Vancity's Kitsilano 4th Avenue branch, Saturday, June 14th, to hold all-day presentations about their Bambulance, Bicycle Ambulance and other projects.

Revolutions - Forms That Turn: Canada at the 16th Biennale of Sydney

Six Canadian artists, including Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, Geoffrey Farmer (92), Rodney Graham, Brian Jungen (92), Tim Lee and Michael Snow will be exhibiting in the 16th Biennale of Sydney from June 18 to September 7, 2008.

P. Roch Smith (97) will be exhibiting Endgame at the Comox Valley Art Gallery.

An interest in the construction of male identity drives Smith’s work. Moving between sculpture and painting, Smith employs images of athletes, including hockey players and boxers, to reflect critically on the nature of masculinity. Using images of men in their most typically male moments, he challenges stereotypically masculine identities by overlapping images of aggression with subtexts of tenderness.

Georgie Russell (03 ), is the featured artist of the month for our online store, studioshop. Read the interview here.

Find out more about studioshop by clicking here.

Dental Drawings by David Khang (00) in collaboration with Cheto Castellano includes a guest appearance by Coco Rico.

CANADIAN PREMIERE: Curtis’s Landmark 1914 Silent Film of Pacific Northwest First Nations Culture—restored, re-evaluated, and framed with a live orchestral arrangement of the original score by the Turning Point Ensemble, and a performance by the Gwa'wina Dancers, descendents of the Indigenous cast.

New Work by Adam Dodd (06) is highly influenced by the current 'controlled' chaos of the Vancouver landscape. The constant hammer of construction, the media flooded environment, the hum of human lives... 'I feel my eyes and ears can't go anywhere without detecting this noise...' Caught in all this traffic of buildings, people, troubles, cars, ads and excitement, Dodd senses a dialogue in the space between.

At the grace-gallery May 30-June 16, 2008

1898 Main Street @ 3rd Avenue

Opening Reception - Friday May 30, 2008 8-10pm

Terence Koh (02) along with four other up-and-coming Canadian artists, has made it onto the short list for the $50,000 Sobey Art Award. The Sobey prize will be handed out during a gala event at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on October 1. Selected work from the shortlisted artists will be featured in an exhibition hosted by the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum running from August 30 to October 13. For more information, please visit Sobey Art Award.