Vancouver Art Gallery Archives: Press Clippings/ Exhibition Listings

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This Place
works from the collection

This exhibition presents more than 90 significant works from the permanent collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, organized into three thematic groupings: the land, indigenous cultures and the self as place. The exhibition focuses on important contemporary and historical artworks by British Columbian artists or by artists who have visited British Columbia and addressed these themes.

The first section, on the subject of the land, presents divergent visions of the land produced from the 1880s to the present. With watercolour, printmaking, painting, photography and sculpture, these artists have created an expansive study of rural and urban landscapes of this province.

The second section addresses historical representations of indigenous cultures from the 1920s to mid-century, as well as the growing body of artworks produced by First Nations artists representing their own cultures within the contemporary world.

The third section presents a survey of artworks that examine notions of the self as formed and defined by place. In this instance, the idea of place is more than the physical geography of a region, it is the place formed by diverse histories of immigration, and within generations of beliefs and ideas, or even by historical art produced from this region.


This exhibition is curated by Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery.