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JOHN WOOD AND PAUL HARRISON
The British art duo use tragi-comedic and
absurdist humour to reflect on the existential
riddle of human endeavour. To Apr. 3. Contem-
porary Art Gallery, 555 Nelson St., Vancouver.
EVAN LEE A serial exploration of cubic
zirconia gems reveals dazzling kaleidoscopic
effects and questions of artifice, forgery and
flawed economic and cultural appreciation.
On view through Apr. 9. Monte Clark Gallery,
105–525 Great Northern Way, Vancouver.
NANITCH Over 18,000 hand-coloured
albumen prints, cartes de visite, stereocards
and photogravures, from the 1860s to early
20th century, upend the master colonialist
narrative. To May 29. Presentation House Gal-
lery, 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.RYAN PETER For his latest Autograms,
the Vancouver artist mixes traditional dark-
room techniques with a collage of synthetic
materials, drawing uneasy links between the
history of image-making and resource
exploitation. Continues through Apr. 23.
Republic Gallery, 732 Richards St., Vancouver.LYSE LEMIEUX Sketchbook drawings are
transformed into large-scale figurative
abstractions assembled from cloth swatches,
patterned shirt collars and ink. Opens Apr.- Richmond Art Gallery, 7700 Minoru Gate.
LIZ MAGOR Through Apr 9. Catriona Jeffries
Gallery, 274 E. 1st Ave., Vancouver. ALLISON
HRABLUIK Until Apr. 22. SFU Gallery, 8888
University Dr., Burnaby. ADAD HANNAH/
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE From Mar. 19 to
Apr. 16. Equinox Gallery, 110–525 GreatNorthern Way, Vancouver. “THE ACCURSED
SHARE” Apr. 2 to May 21. Artspeak, 233 Car-
rall St., Vancouver. “LALAKENIS/ALL DIR-
ECTIONS” On view to Apr. 17. Morris and
Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1825 Main Mall,
Vancouver. CIARA PHILLIPS From Mar. 18 toApr. 30. Western Front, 303 E. 8th Ave., Van-
couver. MARK SOO/JON RAFMAN On view
from Apr. 1 to 30. Wil Aballe Art Projects,
105–1356 Frances St., Vancouver. PATRICK
STAFF/JOCHEN LEMPERT Until Apr. 3/Apr.
15 to June 12. Contemporary Art Gallery, 555Nelson St., Vancouver. “LIKE A ROLLING
STONE” On view through Apr. 17. Charles H.
Scott Gallery, 1399 Johnston St., Vancouver.
”MASHUP” Until June 12. Vancouver Art Gal-
lery, 750 Hornby St. JOHN HALL Opening on
Apr. 16. Kelowna Art Gallery, 1315 Water St.COURTESYTHEUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIALIBRARY,RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS,UNOLANGMANNFAMILYCOLLECTION OF BC PHOTOGRAPHS, UL_1001“Nanitch”: Frederick Dally From the album
“Views of British Columbia” 1867– 68AGENDA
BRITISH COLUMBIA
VIEW KAREN DUFFEK: The
show’s title refers in part to the
Museum of Anthropology’s
location on unceded
Musqueam territory. It also
refers to other unceded
territories —land, governance, the terms
of Aboriginal art and expression—and what
Yuxweluptun calls his “existential rights”
to express himself within, against, but also
apart from the legacy of colonization.
He calls some of his recent work “Native
Visionism”: representations of the land
that express an Indigenous way of seeing.
The exhibition will feature paintings
and drawings, and a 1992 experiment with
virtual reality. Many works speak to
environmental crises, global control of
resources and the landscape as animated
but suffering. The MOA has a history
of showcasing Native art as fine art, in
a modernist sense; many of the historical
objects were made and used in the colonial
period when Indigenous cultural practices
were criminalized. These are all part of the
histories that Yuxweluptun is addressing.
Karen Duffek is a curator at the Museum of Anthropology.
She is the co-curator, with Tania Willard, of “Lawrence
Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories,” on view from
May 10 at the MOA, 6393 NW Marine Dr., Vancouver.Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Just Practice 2014John Wood and Paul Harrison 10 x 10 (video still) 2011Evan Lee Fugazi 3 2015Ryan Peter Untitled (Autogram) 2015Lyse Lemieux Wall Drawing 5 and 2 2 014Agenda_BC_sp-16_14TS.indd 38 02/04/16 12:48 PM