Vancouver Collects

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Celebrating work in private local collections, the exhibition
Vancouver Collects focuses on three areas of collecting: the
Group of Seven, photography and contemporary art. It is an opportunity to laud serious collecting in our community, to consider how
public collections are built together with private philanthropists
and to view a significant number of works by eminent artists.

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Between Passion and Logic:
Contemporary and Modern Art

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October 6, 2001-February 10, 2002

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Myfanwy MacLeod
Study for "Thought/' 1998
Vacuum-formed plexiglas. Collection of Laing and
Kathleen Brown. Photo courtesy of Catriona Jeffries Gallery

LIVE Biennial of
Performance Art opens
at VAG on Saturday,
October 13, 8:00 pm
Fourteen Vancouver arts organizations
have joined together to showcase a
challenging and truly contemporary art
form. Confirmed artists include: Robert
Ashley, Rebecca Belmore, Trolley Bus,
Diane Landry, Glenn Lewis, Louise
Moyes, Mirha Soleil Ross, Victoria
Stanton,
Alvin
Tolentino,
Josie
Tremblay, Michael Turner and Judy
Radul.

Between Passion and Logic: Contemporary and Modern Art
examines the significant holdings of works by prominent
contemporary and modern artists in private Vancouver collections.
It presents a selection of work through the following thematic
groupings: Abstraction: High and Low, The Mark of the Body, Pop
and the Culture of Everyday, and Re-Imagining Place: Nature, the
Domestic and Beyond. Examples of modern abstraction, pop art,
conceptualism and other current practices are threaded through
these themes in order to examine the interests of collectors.
Reflecting a history of art production locally, nationally and internationally, the selection situates local practices within an international context and speaks to the seriousness and breadth of
contemporary collections in this city. Vancouver's reputation for
contemporary work, cemented by a photoconceptualist dialogue,
has put this city on an international art map. Many of the
Vancouver collections highlighted reflect an international dialogue
and span a period beginning in the 1960s and continuing to the
present day. This section will include painting, prints, drawing,
photography, video and sculpture.

VANCOUVER COLLECTS
IS SPONSORED BY:

MEDIA SPONSORS:

THE VANCOUVER SUN

For more information call
604 875 9516
or visit www.livevancouver.bc.ca
Glenn Lewis and company will perform
Mondo Artie

Episode #6070

Rotunda.

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SUPPORTED BY:
BRITISH
COLUMBIA
ARTS COUNCIL

OFFICIAL AIRLINE:
AIR CANADA

David Neel
Mask of the Injustice, 1994
Wood, paint, paper
Collection of Rick Erickson

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