Offsite is the Vancouver Art Gallery's outdoor exhibition space in the heart of urban Vancouver that offers a rotating program of innovative public art projects. Launched in July 2009 with the photo-based work of O Zhang and followed in January 2010 with a sculptural installation by Ken Lum, Offsite: Heather and Ivan Morison is the third project in the series.?

Heather and Ivan Morison explore architecture as it relates to ideas of escape, shelter and refuge. A site-specific project designed for Offsite, Plaza hovers between sculpture and architecture. Rising nearly three stories high, the walls of the pavilion lean outwards...

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 Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall provides the first opportunity for North American audiences to view an important body of the Amsterdam-based video artist’s recent work. The exhibition includes six of Tan’s newest videos, as well as a selection of related drawings and photographs completed over the past four years. To accompany the exhibition, Tan has created an artist edition of 50 photographic colour prints. Titled Rapids, these prints are available for sale at the Gallery, with proceeds benefiting operations and programming.

Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall marks a new trajectory for the artist and documents an importan...

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The Vancouver Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of work by Scott McFarland, the renowned Canadian photographer whose images challenge the fundamental idea of what a photograph can be. On view from October 3, 2009 to January 3, 2010, the exhibition, Scott McFarland, is comprised of more than 60 rigorously composed large-scale photos produced over the past seven years, including 14 works presented for the first time.

"Over the past twelve years, Scott McFarland has produced a significant body of work that has been widely exhibited in North America and Europe and has positioned him as a prominent figure in the cu...

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The Vancouver Art Gallery will launch its new outdoor exhibition space, Offsite, with a site-specific installation by Chinese artist O Zhang from July 20 to November 29, 2009. Offering a rotating program of innovative public art projects by local and international contemporary artists, the new exhibition space in the downtown core will allow artists to explore and respond to Vancouver’s unique urban environment. Located at the base of the Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver near the intersection of Georgia and Thurlow streets, Offsite will present new projects organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery every six months, funded by the City of Van...

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TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945 presents a fascinating look at the artistic movement that transformed photography from a tool of documentation to one of the most exciting means of visual expression of the twentieth century. Bringing together nearly 200 photographs from major museum collections around the world, the exhibition includes a large group of works from the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York, the world’s oldest and most extensive photography museum, as well as important loans from The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art i...

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