28th Annual Gala and Art Auction

28th Annual Gala and Art Auction

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Welcome from the PresidentDavid Brown

Cocktail reception and auction preview

Welcome from the PresidentDavid Brown

Dinner

Live Auction

Remarks and thank you

Silent Auction bidding concludes

6:30pm

7:45pm

8:00pm

9:45pm

10:45pm

Evening program

Auctioneer: Hank Bull

Welcome to the Contemporary Art Gallery’s 28th Annual Gala and Art Auction!

Thank you for being here and for your continuing support. The CAG is grateful for every dollar it receives and works hard to invest wisely and productively in the cultural wellbeing of Vancouver. By supporting CAG you are funding that investment and making your city a better place.

Tonight is an opportunity to celebrate CAG’s success in contributing to the artistic and cultural life of our communities.

It is also an opportunity to show your support – tonight’s auction is the central event in CAG’s fundraising year. Please demonstrate this by bidding high and bidding often. You are not just buying a great new piece of art; you’re investing in CAG and in the development of contemporary art in Vancouver. You are building your community.

When working out your bidding strategy, I encourage you to remember the generosity of the artists in our community who, year after year, donate their work to make the auction possible. On behalf of CAG and the Board I extend heartfelt thanks to all of them, their representing galleries and collectors who have donated work. But of course the best thank you is: “it went for more than the estimate!” So, please help me to say thank you to the contributing artists.

Our community and network of support goes well beyond the people who are able to be here this evening and we are grateful for the generous support of many, including all three levels of government. I would like to specifically thank the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver and the Province of BC (through the BC Arts Council and the BC Gaming) for providing our core funding, so vital in enabling us to achieve CAG’s objectives.

I also want to acknowledge and thank the excellent staff team who make CAG what it is and the many volunteers who contribute to its success, including making this evening possible.

I also extend my sincere thanks to Hank Bull, our auctioneer, and to Scott Massey who has produced the edition this year as a gift to you, our guests.

Thank you and have a wonderful evening.

For this year’s gala fundraiser CAG is delighted to present a new edition by Vancouver artist Scott Massey. Taking the form of five scaled-down near-Earth asteroids, these cast bronze objects have a jewel-like intimacy and intrigue. The seemingly benign presence of these small forms belies the latent power their very real referents possess and the impact these asteroids would have if one were to collide with Earth, causing unimaginable destruction.

Scott Massey combines interests in astronomy, cosmology and quantum physics. The various photographs, installation works and sculptures he produces investigate the very small and the very large, as the works urge us to ask questions about the nature of existence and the troubling duality of light as both medium and pure energy. They examine figurative and literal aspects of the seemingly unknowable, unfathomable or invisible, brought to light through sustained engagement and investigation.

The Party Crashers (99942 Apophis; 4179 Toutatis; 951 Gaspra; 1036 Ganymed; 25143 Itokawa), 2016Cast bronzeDimensions variableEdition of 250Courtesy the artist scottmassey.ca

Scott Massey

Edition

Live Auction

All prices are listed in Canadian dollars.

Please note conditions for certain auction items.

Each lot lists an estimated market value obtained from sources the Contemporary Art Gallery Gala Advisory Committee believes to be reliable. This estimated value is intended as a guide to assist attendees in their bidding. No representation or warranty as to the resale value of a work being auctioned is made or implied.

Successful bidders will be prepared to pay for their purchases in cash, credit card or by personal cheque payable to the Contemporary Art Gallery at the conclusion of the auction.

Items will not be released without payment in full.

All sales are final. No purchase can be returned, refunded or exchanged. All property is sold as exhibited.

Purchasers must collect works at the conclusion of the auction. In some cases purchasers may arrange for delivery of works. Delivery charges will be applied.

The CAG reserves the right to remove works from the auction or change the lot order without prior notice.

Please note: all dimensions are in inches and appear in order of height, width, length.

Tax Receipts for Art PurchasesPurchasers of artworks that sell for over 125% of the estimated value will be issued a charitable tax receipt for the difference between the estimate and the selling price.

Auction information

Lot #1

Sayaw ng Bulalakaw (Dance of Meteors), 2015Acrylic on canvas24 x 20 inchesEstimate: $2,000Courtesy the artistpatrickcruz.org

Through his exuberant, maximalist oeuvre Patrick Cruz examines the underlying social significance of ornament and patterning, particularly around cultural hybridity, bio-politics and the effects of globalization.

Cruz is a Filipino-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist. He is the winner of the 2015 RBC Canadian Painting Competition and his work is held in the RBC Permanent Collection, as well as private collections in Manila, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Florida.

Lot #2

Off Season II, 2016Archival inkjet photographUnique22.25 x 36 inchesEstimate: $3,000Courtesy the artist and Bau-Xi Gallerybau-xi.comanthonyredpath.com

Anthony Redpath is a Vancouver-based photographer whose practice focuses on the constant transformations of contemporary life in coastal communities. Typically his work plays with themes of illusion and paradox to create images laced with irony. With his strong sense of design and knowledge of technique, Redpath expresses his interest in contemporary art, popular culture and social issues through beautifully composed, crisp and resonant imagery. Redpath’s work was recently exhibited at The Rooms, Newfoundland. He is represented by Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto.

Patrick Cruz

Anthony Redpath

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun has recently had a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology. His work has also featured in Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery and at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver. He was the recipient of the VIVA award presented by the Shadbolt Foundation in 1998. His work is held in public and private collections, including that of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Smithsonian Museum, New York and the National Gallery of Canada, among others.

Lot #4

Untitled, 2016Cedar, Acrylic32 x 15 x 19 inches Estimate: $10,000Courtesy the artist and Macaulay & Co. Fine Artmfineart.ca

Blending elements of North West Coast design, Coast Salish cosmology and traditional Western landscape painting, Yuxweluptun documents and promotes an awareness of contemporary First Nations history, myth, and culture. Often politically charged, Yuxweluptun examines a multiplicity of issues ranging from land claims to social conditions to the environment, each subject’s potency underlined by his personal approach.

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Lot #3

A pawn ahead is worth a little trouble, 2014Spray paint, ink and collage on lithograph and silkscreen print8 part work 31.8 x 51.75 x 1.5 inches Estimate: $30,000Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery, New York/Londondavidzwirner.com

Influenced by Dada and especially Duchamp, Marcel Dzama’s work is remarkable for its eclectic forms and content. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Dzama has held solo exhibitions in major museums and galleries worldwide, including a career survey at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Dzama’s work is held in many museum collections, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London and Vancouver Art Gallery. He is represented by David Zwirner Gallery, New York/London.

Marcel Dzama

Lot #5

The Cruise Ships are Here, 2016Oil on canvas30.25 x 25.5 inchesEstimate: $2,000Courtesy the artistsimonejarvis.com

Simone Jarvis’ works take their titles from moments of personal significance in her life. The Cruise Ships are Here is rich in colour and monochromatic hues revealing ambiguous forms, which range from flora to urban structures and domestic objects hinting at the autobiographical detail suggested by the title.

Jarvis has shown at a number of Vancouver galleries, including a solo exhibition at Field Contemporary and part of group exhibitions at Burrard Arts Foundation, Field Contemporary and Avenue Gallery.

Simone Jarvis

Lot #6

Stacked Simple Exes, 2015Hand applied acrylic on canvas60 x 48 inchesEstimate: $8,000Courtesy the artist and Winsor Gallery, Vancouverwinsorgallery.combradleyharms.com

Often working in series, Harms’s paintings investigate the notion of perfection. Here the uneven grid expresses the optimism yet futile attempts strewn with human errors in his striving for modernist perfection suggesting that the handmade can exist within today’s machine-driven aesthetic. 

Bradley Harms is a key figure in current Canadian abstract painting. Recent exhibitions include Winsor Gallery, Vancouver; Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary and Angell Gallery, Toronto. His work is featured in the collection of the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; The Polygon Collection, Vancouver; The Suburban, Chicago; Bank of Montreal and the Canada Council for the Arts. Harms is represented by Winsor Gallery, Vancouver.

Bradley Harms

Lot #8

Tidal Swirl, 2016Ink on paper32 x 24 inchesEstimate: $3,000Courtesy the artist, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver and Mauger Modern, Londonwinsorgallery.commaugermodern.com Influenced by the study of colour with Guido Molinari and pattern by Bridget Riley, Switzer began using a vocabulary of eye-catching simple shapes, grids, patterns and pure colour in the 1990s. This method of working has undergone complex changes over the past twenty five years. Though his practice is serialized, his works have never been inert: their complex visual relationships continue to create arresting perceptual experiences.

Switzer is represented by Winsor Gallery, Vancouver.

Allan SwitzerLot #7

Untitled 11i, 2016Archival Pigment Print on Rag PaperEdition 1/540 x 32 inchesEstimate: $2,345Courtesy the artist and Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouverwaapart.com

Patryk Stasieczek investigates the ontological relationships between photographic acts, objects and experiences.

He has exhibited across Canada, including Access Gallery, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Field Contemporary, Galerie Les Territoires, Eastern Bloc and the FOFA Gallery. His work was featured on the cover of Hong-Kong based Pipeline Magazine’s 2014 Juried Photography Issue. In 2015 he was nominated for Henry Art Gallery’s BRINK award. Stasieczek is represented by Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver and was director/co-curator of Gallery 295, focused on emerging contemporary photographic practices and dialogues.

Patryk Stasieczek

Lot #9

Untitled, 2016Oil on canvas42 x 32 inchesEstimate: $2,800Courtesy the artist imaginationmarket.squarespace.com

Hepburn’s work is concerned with the aesthetic and political conditions of late nineteenth century painting and how these factors influence art practice today. Untitled is part of a series of works created in response to Matisse’s window paintings.

Megan Hepburn was a finalist in the 2015 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, her work shown in the accompanying exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Additionally she has been included in exhibitions at Field Contemporary and Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, as well as work held in private collections across Canada.

Megan Hepburn

Taken from the series that uses the tenth page of a book as its starting point, Kleyn’s project selects novels, treatises, poetry, philosophy, technical manuals, illustrated stories and various histories as a means to create a compendium of thought, a portrait that is at once as personal as it is political or a social depiction.

Robert Kleyn began his varied career working as part of Vancouver’s early photo-conceptual and video art scene. His practice developed over years in Rome and New York, where he was associated with the interdisciplinary groups Colab Projects and Machine Language with Willoughby Sharp and Wolfgang Staehle. Since returning to Vancouver in 2003, he has practiced as Robert Kleyn Architect, specializing in art-related projects. Kleyn has collaborated with artists including Jochen Gerz, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Fabio Mauri, Stan Douglas, among others. Recent exhibitions include Printed Matter, NYC; Vancouver Art Gallery; the Apartment, Vancouver and New Museum, New York.

Lot #10

Mallone, 2015Inkjet on canvas with collageUnique28 x 18 inchesEstimate: $6,000Courtesy the artist and Back Gallery Projectbackgalleryproject.com

Robert Kleyn

Chris Cran has been described in The New York Times as a painter who “… has built a career on tampering with people’s perceptions.” Widely exhibited across Canada and internationally recognized, Cran has become known for turning nothing into something, with the slightest push. Typical of all of Cran’s paintings, this work contains his key perceptual proposition and visual tricks, images that appear one way but have been made another way.

Cran’s work may be found in numerous private and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Glenbow Museum, the Nickle Arts Museum and the Art Gallery of Alberta. He is represented by TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto and Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles.

Lot #11

Untitled, 2011Oil and ink on canvas40 x 30 inchesEstimate: $13,500Private donation from the collection of David Allison and Chris Nicholson

Chris Cran

Lot #12

Le Cadeau (The Gift), 1921/1974Cast iron, brass tacksEdition 3043/50006.25 x 3.24 x 4.5 inchesEstimate: $3,500 USDLaing & Kathleen Brown, Courtesy BrownArtConsulting, Inc.

Much like Oppenheim’s Object, Le Cadeau (The Gift) is a conjunction of two alien objects. One represents domesticity and possibly femininity; the other represents carpentry and hence masculinity. This piece was made in 1921 yet disappeared, the same day and was meant to be a gift for the owner of the gallery it was being exhibited in. In 1974, Ray made a new version of Gift as a limited edition, copies of which are held in major museum collections worldwide. This work is complete with: its original packing, the Certificate of Authenticity card, and a pamphlet, numbered (3043/5000) and signed by the publisher in 1974, Arturo Schwarz.

Man Ray was an American avant-garde artist closely linked to the Surrealist movement. With a background in technical illustration, he moved from New York City to Paris in 1921. Influenced by Duchamp and Dada, he would spend the majority of his career in France, where he was best known for his photographs, both artistic and commercial, as well as the camera-less photographs he called “Rayographs.”

Man Ray

Lot #13

Ms. Wisdom and Old’ Shameful Ass, 2016Acrylic and coloured pencil on paper18 x 14 inchesEstimate: $1,000Courtesy the artist and Macaulay & Co. Fine Artmfineart.cawwalterscott.com

Evolving out from Scott’s recent two panel installation for CAG at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, the image connects with a new volume of his comic book series, Wendy: A Home Underground (2015). Evoking the malaise of urban Vancouver life the work depicts the newly arrived Wendy moving around the city, navigating on her smart phone, and the various characters she meets along the way.

Scott currently lives and works between Toronto and Montréal. For the Images Festival 2015, Scott produced Wendy Live! where a cast of English, Japanese and Mohawk-speaking performers enacted the newest Wendy book before its 2016 North American English-language release. Alongside his comic work, Scott produces work involving printmaking and sculpture and is represented by Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver. He recently completed a residency at the Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan.

Walter Scott

Lot #14

Gingko, 2014Silver gelatin photograph18.5 x 15.4 inchesUnique AP Estimate: $5,500Courtesy the artist; BQ, Berlin and ProjecteSD, Barcelonaprojectesd.combqberlin.de

Jochen Lempert is a German photographer whose work is focused on the world of nature and animals. Lempert studied as a biologist before turning to photography in the early 1990s. With a restless capacity for observation, research and artistic perception, Lempert´s encyclopedic work questions the way we perceive our environment.

His work has been shown in recent solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Cincinnati Art Museum and ProjecteSD, Barcelona. He was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2014 and was the 2005 winner of the Edwin Scharff Prize. His work is held in numerous European museum collections, including that of the German state.

Jochen LempertLot #15

Holding, 2014Acrylic on canvas20 x 16 inchesEstimate: $4,000Courtesy the artist, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver and Birch Libralato, Torontoequinoxgallery.combirchlibralato.com

Cultural history and how we represent and inhabit architecture is fundamental to Van Halm’s work. Using images culled from mainstream fashion and decor magazines, these are collaged, manipulated and juxtaposed to form new compositions as the basis for paintings. Her work expresses an interest in how we as individuals define and negotiate our private experiences in the spaces where we live.

Renée Van Halm has exhibited internationally, recent exhibitions including Cut and Paste at the Equinox Project Space, Short Cuts at Birch Libralato, Toronto, and Cross-cutting/Inside Out at Burnaby Art Gallery. Her work is held in many public and private collections throughout Canada.

Renée Van Halm

Lot #16

Untitled, 2016Acrylic and charcoal on canvas13 x 17 inchesEstimate: $2,000Courtesy the artist davidmacwilliam.ca

In this recent painting by MacWilliam, he investigates pictorial space through minimal means as part of his ongoing artistic proposition, that of the possibilities of painting, a re-evaluation and a re-thinking of abstraction. The hand drawn graphite form juxtaposed with carefully modulated colour ground evokes ideas of architectural structure, thresholds and frames as a device to draw attention to surface and edge.

David MacWilliam is an artist living in Vancouver. Since 1988, he has been teaching painting and visual arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where he is currently Associate Professor in the Audain School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited extensively over the past thirty-five years, including the Paris Biennale and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

David MacWilliam

Lot #17

Untitled, 2016Hand woven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas38 x 39 inchesEstimate: $20,000Courtesy the artist and Peres Projects, Berlin; Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York; Pace Gallery, London/New York; Almine Rech Gallery, Paris/Brusselsbrentwadden.comperesprojects.com miandn.compacegallery.com alminerech.com

Brent Wadden creates his paintings by weaving geometric forms that he then stretches over raw canvas, accumulating individual fragments into complete works that balance positive and negative space, textures and the materiality of the canvas with the artist’s woven forms. Influenced by First Nation, folk and Bauhaus textiles as well as painting movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Wadden complicates hierarchies of media and disciplines with his work, throwing the distinction between high and low into flux.

Brent Wadden lives and works between Vancouver and Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Peres Projects, Berlin; Almine Rech Gallery, Paris; Pace Gallery, London and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Recent group exhibitions include Abstract America Today, Saatchi Gallery, London (2014); Be Mysterious, Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre; Frauen, die Ausstellung, Autocenter, Berlin; With Small Words, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna.

Brent Wadden

Beau Dick is one of the Northwest Coast’s most versatile and talented carvers. For more than three decades, he has actively perpetuated the ceremonial traditions of his people, the Kwakwaka’wakw. He began carving at a very early age, studying under his father Benjamin Dick, his grandfather James Dick, and later under renowned artists Henry Hunt and Doug Cranmer. Beau has also worked alongside such artists as Robert Davidson, Tony Hunt and the late Bill Reid.

A carver who takes much of his inspiration and technique from traditional Kwakwaka’wakw art, Beau’s work has been particularly noted for its embrace of contemporary influences, often incorporating European and Asian styles into his creations. His masks in particular have been lauded for their rough yet realistic presentation, representing a piece that is both austere yet incredibly life-like. His work has most recently been shown in Lalakenis/All Directions: A Journey of Truth and Unity, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver.

Lot #18

Untitled, 2016White spirit mask, feathers Approx. 10 inches diameterEstimate: $6,000Courtesy the artist

Installation view, Supernatural, Contemporary Art Gallery, 2004From left: Pookmis Mask, 2001; Dzunu_wa Mask, 1986; Bak’was Mask, c. 1990; Pookmis Mask, 2003

Beau Dick

Silent Auction

Lot #19

Buttertubs Marsh Study #4, 2014Watercolour12 x 9 inchesEstimate: $850Courtesy the artiststephanieaitken.ca

Stephanie Aitken is known for her abstract work referencing landscape. Produced at the Miners Cabin Residency, Buttertubs Marsh Study #4 is a study of the non-native oak, arbutus trees and snags that ring Buttertubs Marsh. The residency was organized in conjunction with the exhibition Black Diamond Dust at the Nanaimo Art Gallery.

Aitken’s work has been exhibited across Canada, most recently at Museum London, Ontario; Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria; Field Contemporary, Vancouver and Nanaimo Art Gallery. In 2012 she completed a thematic residency, Studio Time: Work of the Living Watch, at the Banff Centre with Geoffrey Farmer.

Lot #20

Scan 108, 2011/2016Inkjet on paper, wood, paint, pigment, magnets, ceramics Unique19.75 x 14.5 inchesEstimate: $1,500Courtesy the artist deryaakay.com

Derya Akay’s work analyzes the way art is made — is it an action or an event? How is art integrated with the day to day? Scan 108 is part of an ongoing body of work, started in 2011 where photographic scans are created directly with objects immediately to hand, from flowers to lenticular paper.

Akay received the 2016 Portfolio Prize Emerging Artist Award as well as being shortlisted for the 2015 RBC Emerging Artists People’s Choice Award. Recent exhibitions include Kunstverein, Toronto; Terasaki Gallery, Kofu-shi and Access Gallery and Centre A, Vancouver.

Lot #21

Inner Worlds, 2006Lithograph Edition 34/5027.25 x 22.25 inchesEstimate: $1,200Courtesy the artist and Marion Scott Gallery/Kardosh Projects, Vancouvermarionscottgallery.com

Typical of recent work that evokes a surreal take on our world, Ashoona’s images contain naturalistic imagery combined with a darker atmosphere. Rooted in her imagination rather than on observation of the physical world, they suggest a strong inner vision; Ashoona’s drawings creating a psychologically charged body of work that is densely and sometimes obsessively drawn.

Shuvinai Ashoona was born in 1961 in Cape Dorset on Baffin Island. She is the daughter of the well-known sculptor Kiawak Ashoona and granddaughter of the late Pitseolak Ashoona, the great graphic artist. Her own career started in the mid-1990s when she began making drawings for the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative. Often startlingly different from other Cape Dorset graphic expression, her works have not always been readily accepted by collectors of Inuit art.

Stephanie Aitken Derya Akay

Shuvinai Ashoona

Lot #22

Construction 4 (Ruby’s Mirage): from the series Constructions, 2015Archival digital C-printUnique28 x 28 inchesEstimate: $1,650Courtesy the artist, Back Gallery Project and Joyce Yahouda Gallerybackgalleryproject.comjoyceyahoudagallery.comanniebriard.com

Annie Briard is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work deconstructs and challenges the scientific, psychological and existentialist perceptions of vision. Here a geometric form hovers above a desert landscape, the 3D effect of the printing process heightening both the physical, visual and conceptual sense of oddity and strangeness.

Exhibitions of Briard’s work have been presented at Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montreal; Back Gallery Project, Access Gallery, Gallery 295, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver. She has worked in residence at the Banff Centre, in Halifax and in Spain. She is represented by Joyce Yahouda Gallery and Back Gallery Project.

Lot #23

Visitors (1), 2015Archival C-printEdition 2/316 x 12 inchesEstimate: $950Courtesy the artist and Wil Aballe Art Projectswaapart.comvanessa-brown.com

Vanessa Brown is interested in notions of the heroic, the monumental and the macho within the history of twentieth century sculpture. The Visitors series combine images of natural landscapes — in this case a photo taken in Waimea Canyon, Kaui — with shapes redolent of Modernist sculpture often referencing the female form in order to draw attention to the gendered nature of this history.

Brown was the recipient of the John C. Kerr Chancellor’s Award at Emily Carr University and has exhibited at Erin Stump Projects, Toronto; Hardscrabble Gallery and Field Contemporary, Vancouver. Her work is displayed at the YVR Vancouver Airport and in the TD Art Collection. Brown is represented by Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver.

Lot #24

Half Quadruped, 2016Silkscreen Artist proof26 x 40 inchesEstimate: $2,000Courtesy the artist amberfj.com

Amber Frid-Jimenez explores the role of design and technology in contemporary society producing work which is at once humorous and unsettling. She is the Canada Research Chair in art and design technology, and an associate professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Frid-Jimenez has presented her work internationally at institutions including the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Casco Office for Art Design and Theory, Utrecht; Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris; A Foundation, Liverpool; Banff New Media Institute; Media Lab Prado, Madrid.

Annie Briard Vanessa Brown Amber Frid-Jimenez

Lot #25

T5 Side Table, 2015White oak, brass, glass20 x 20 x 20 inchesEstimate: $1,200Courtesy Gamla Studiogamla.ca

Gamla’s T5 Side Table finds a delicate balance between form and function. All unnecessary elements are stripped away, leaving a simple, yet contemporary form.

Founded by Brent Freedman in 2013, Gamla is an object design studio, workshop and concept retail store located on Bowen Island, BC. Gamla was a Western Living Designer of the Year finalist in 2014 with designs sought after by residential and commercial clients from Vancouver to New York to Hong Kong. Most notably, their S2 Dining Chair design was selected for the newly refurbished Canada House in London, UK. 

Lot #26

Working Drawing (warp/weft), 2016Ink, pencil7.5 x 5.32 inchesEstimate: $800Courtesy the artistlyndlhall.com

Working Drawing (warp/weft) is part of an ongoing series of drawings made which act as abstract studies illustrating the graphic nature of geometry, mapping out the intersection of a warp and a weft in weaving.

Lyndl Hall has exhibited at the Western Front, CSA Space and Access Gallery, Vancouver; Burnaby Art Gallery and Sanatorium Project Space, Istanbul. Upcoming solo exhibitions include: Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver; The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford and Arnica Artist Run Centre, Kamloops.

Lot #27

Jiggly, 2016Oil on linen13 x 11 inchesEstimate: $1,200Courtesy the artist and Wil Aballe Art Projectswaapart.comjeffhallbauer.com

Jiggly is one of a series of recent idiosyncratic pattern paintings. Shapes abstracted from sources as diverse as cartoons and commercial packaging coalesce to depict invented narratives, here a fictional character who aspires to be a great singer, though she can only sing her own name. To her dismay, everyone who hears her song falls into a deep sleep. Enraged on discovering her comatose audience, she uses a black marker to draw on their unconscious faces. This story may read as a metaphor for certain aspects of art making. 

Jeff Hallbauer lives and works in Vancouver, exhibitions have been held at Burrard Arts Foundation; Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, along with exhibitions in Los Angeles and Toronto.

Gamla Studio

Lyndl Hall

Jeffrey HallbauerLot #28

Quince Folly, 2016Copper plate etching with artist’s frameUnique8.5 x 6.5 inchesEstimate: $1,400Courtesy the artist annelow.ca

Typical of Low’s work this new print combines historical with contemporary reference points within its form and content. Pattern is used to evoke particular times and places, drawing out moments whereby motif and function become embroiled in creating new meaning.

Anne Low is an artist working primarily in textiles. Recent solo exhibitions include Belvedere Project Space, Vancouver; Hex Projects, London and Associates Gallery, London. She has participated in a number of collaborative projects including: ISSUE Project Room, NYC; Centre A, Vancouver and dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel.

Anne Low

Lot #29

Dinnerware, 2015–16CeramicDimensions varyEstimate: $500Courtesy the artists

Matriarchal Roll Call is the name adopted by a collective of women in the arts to refer to their e-mail correspondence, meetings and exchanges. The group has gathered periodically since late 2014 to discuss visual art, poetry, theory and essays made by or about other female practitioners.

MRC member Fabiola Carranza was in residence at the Contemporary Art Gallery’s Burrard Marina Field House Studio from 2015–16. A ceramics workshop led by Nathalee Paolinelli was one of many activities programmed. Interested in exploring the history of women’s labour, Matriarchal Roll Call built a set of ceramic dinnerware for ongoing use by other Field House residents and events. The five ceramic works donated to this auction represent the overall collaborative spirit of their project.

Matriarchal Roll Call is an open group and has included, but is not limited to: Amy Nugent, Anyse Ducharme, Barb Choit, Casey Wei, Charlotte Matthews, Denise Ryner, Erica Stocking, Fabiola Carranza, Francesca Szuszkiewicz, Guadalupe Martinez, Jamey Braden, Jen Weih, Jessica Gnyp, Julie Morstad, Kalli Niedoba, Kate Moss, Kelly Lycan, Laura Piasta, Lauren Rice, Luciana D’Anunciação, Maegan Hill-Carroll, Megan Hepburn, Meghann Hubert, Michele di Menna, Nathalee Paolinelli, Ryley O’Byrne, Setareh Yasan, Sydney Hermant, Tammy Lawrence, Tasha Brotherton, Tess Rafael, Vivienne Bessette, and Zoe Kreye.

Matriarchal Roll CallLot #30

Intermix, 2006Ceramic7 x 8.5 x 14 inchesEstimate: $600Courtesy the artistccca.ca

Abstract geometric forms and the aesthetics of functionality form the basis of Michener’s practice. Through these methods she focuses on the human body and the relation between its interior and exterior aspects. Her installation work often features architectural referents such as columns or gardens, integrating and altering the environment.

Sally Michener was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota and is now based in West Vancouver. She studied at the University of Cincinnati with Roy Cartwright. She has had over one hundred exhibitions nationally and internationally since the 1970s, including Galerie A, Montreal; Museo Poblano De Arte Virreinal, Mexico; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Museum of Anthropology and Vancouver Art Gallery. Michener is the former Dean of Studio Division at Emily Carr University.

Sally Michener

Lot #31

Die Welt In Farben - Tafel 14: Palermo, 2014Hand-coloured silver gelatin print mounted to original card stock from Johannes Emmer’s 1910 book Die Welt In FarbenUnique14 x 17 inchesEstimate: $2,100Courtesy the artist, Back Gallery Project and Vitrine Gallerybackgalleryproject.comvitrinegallery.comwilmurray.com

Wil Murray’s Die Welt In Farben series comes out of his Berlin discovery of an early twentieth century European tourist souvenir album. In this nostalgic collage, he disrupts a pastoral view of Palermo with sculptural brushstrokes and shapes, playing with the definition between background and foreground, a theme that resonates throughout much of his work.

Murray’s work has been shown across North America and Europe, including the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Vitrine Gallery, London; P/M Gallery, Toronto and Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. In 2015, Murray received an honourable mention in the prestigious RBC Canadian Painting Competition. He is represented by Vitrine Gallery and Back Gallery Project.

Wil Murray

Lot #32

Postcards, 2016Double-sided archival inkjet print on paperArtist proof16 x 5 inches, eachEstimate: $1,000Courtesy the artistkatrinaniebergal.com

Katrina Niebergal’s practice is concerned with how feeling is communicated or whether it can be communicated at all. She is concerned with how meaning is translated between the concrete and the abstract. Through installation, sculpture, video and print she considers how experiences can be distilled into affective works.

Katrina Niebergal lives and works in Vancouver, in 2014 participating in a residency at the Banff Centre. Her work has been shown at a wide range of Vancouver galleries, including Avenue, Sunset Terrace, Winsor Gallery and Amazing Gallery.

Katrina NiebergalLot #33

Black Lighter, 2015Gesso, oil, enamel8 x 3 x 5 inchesEstimate: $2,000Courtesy the artist and Wil Aballe Art Projectswaapart.com

Ryan Quast builds sculptures of everyday objects out of paint, layering, sanding and molding to create familiar silhouettes. Citing Duchamp and the readymade as a key touchstone, Quast strives to eliminate the artist’s hand from his pieces, a sense of the uncanny being present as they are crafted to look like the real thing.

Quast has exhibited at Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver and most recently had a first solo exhibition with Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver. He will be presenting a solo booth at Art Toronto 2016.

Ryan Patrick QuastLot #34

Tomato Plant, 2006Archival giclee print from 35mm film negativeEdition 3/330 x 20 inchesEstimate: $1,500Courtesy the artist postprojects.com/dan-siney

Dan Siney makes photo-based works, and seeks viewing experiences that are not defined by genre.

Since 2000, Siney has exhibited throughout North America, Europe and Japan. Galleries and exhibitions include: Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York; Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver and the 1st Annual NY Photography Festival, New York. Siney was nominated for the AIMA Art Gallery of Ontario Photography Prize in 2013. His work is held in private collections across Canada.

Dan SineyLot #35

Renovation in Orange and Blue, 2015Archival lightjet on plexiglass facemount, white frameArtist proof40 x 50 inchesEstimate: $2,000Courtesy the artistcargocollective.com/peterullstrom

Renovation in Orange and Blue was released as special edition for the LA Art Book Fair in 2015. Depicting an empty minimalist interior with fresh tiles and new paint, it suggests manual labour while evoking a pictorial harmony.

Peter Ullstrom was a finalist in the 2016 Capture Photography Festival Canada Line Competition and has exhibited across various Vancouver galleries including Concourse Gallery, Gallery 295 and Gropp’s Gallery.

Peter Ullstrom

Lot #36

Sign, 2016Egg tempera on panel17.78 x 15.75 inchesEstimate: $1,000Courtesy the artist avukovich.com

Anna-Sophia Vukovich is interested in images that allude to spaces beyond language, but are comprehensible in their own way. She begins a painting by building washes of colour with egg tempera. Scratching away layers, surfaces are developed with new colours as the piece moves toward resolution. Vukovich is interested in the notion of “negative capability”, of knowing more what is not the image, rather than what it is going to be.

Vukovich has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States and has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Centre, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Virginia Centre for Creative Arts. She has won several awards including the Diney Goldsmith Fellowship and the Frank P. and Lilly A. Novak Scholarship.

Anna-Sophia VukovichLot #37

atlas-project (Vancouver), 2015Archival inkjet printUnique10 x 13 inchesEstimate: $1,200Courtesy the artist wolfgangweileder.com

The atlas-project is an ongoing photographic series of central public places worldwide. Special digital cameras take one-pixel high recordings in regular intervals of selected spaces. These slice-recordings are then conflated into single photographic images with the time progressing from bottom to top. A legend on the right side is part of the final image and includes the title, a short description of the events during the recording and all relevant technical data. This image was made during a research visit to Vancouver last year.

Weileder is primarily concerned with the critical deconstruction of architecture, public spaces and the interactions we have with the urban environment. His works are investigations into the relationship between time and space. He is currently Professor in Contemporary Sculpture at the University of Newcastle, UK. His work has been exhibited extensively across Europe, most recently with solo shows at Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Milton Keynes Gallery, UK; and a site-specific installation at Canary Wharf London, UK. He is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead/London, UK.

Wolfgang Weileder

Lot #38

Alley 10 (501 Powell St.), 2015Archival digital inkjet printEdition 2/318 x 24 inchesEstimate: $900Courtesy the artist and Malaspina Printmakersmalaspinaprintmakers.comgerriyork.com

In the photographic Alley series, York spills ink on clear film haphazardly, examining the ambiguities of chance and circumstance. This pooling of pigment onto a banal street photograph transforms the image into a mise en scène for a juxtaposition of form.

Gerri York lives and works in Vancouver and has exhibited and taught internationally, including an artist residency at Grafisch Atelier, Utrecht. Work from the Alley series was featured in the 2016 Capture Photography Festival in Vancouver and her work is represented in public and private collections in Canada and internationally. She is represented by Malaspina Printmakers.

Gerri YorkLot #39

Reikai Tokyo #5, 2015Archival inkjet print mounted on dibondEdition 1/324 x 36 inchesEstimate: $1,250Courtesy the artist and Back Gallery Projectbackgalleryproject.comjosemazamorano.com

Josema Zamorano’s work reconfigures the photographic process in order to question our definitions of reality. Reikai Tokyo #5 is part of a series of cubist street photographs made in Japan, based around the principles of Japanese Shinto. According to this tradition, the Utsushiyo (visible or material world) and Reikai (invisible world of spirits) are part of one another. Events in both realms have consequences over reality as a whole.

Zamorano is a Mexican-Canadian artist based in Vancouver. After a number of years of scientific work, he began artistic practice in 2004. He has had solo exhibitions at Back Gallery Project and Capture Photography Festival, among others. Zamorano has also participated in group shows at VIVO, Back Gallery Project and Latin American Art as part of the A.K.A. Collective, of which he is a member.

Josema Zamorano

Contemporary Art Gallery Gala CommitteeJan BallardAmanda BurrowsNeil CampbellKristin CheungNancy HayAnthony McDougallElizabeth McIntoshMarian Penner Bancroft Nigel PrinceNada Vuksic

Board of DirectorsJan BallardDavid Brown, PresidentAmanda BurrowsNeil CampbellJavier Campos, Vice PresidentMyfanwy MacLeodAnthony McDougall, SecretaryJonathan O’ConnorMarian Penner BancroftGuy PottingerKulwant Sidhu, TreasurerNada Vuksic, Honorary Director

StaffRachel Buchholtzer, Events/Marketing AssistantKristin Cheung, Development OfficerShaun Dacey, CuratorAnna D’Avignon, Finance OfficerPhilip Dion, PreparatorJill Henderson, Communications and MarketingJas Lally, Assistant CuratorNigel Prince, Executive DirectorMackenzie Reid Rostad, Learning AssistantHolly Schmidt, Assistant CuratorJocelyn Statia, Visitor Coordinator: PublicationsMaddy Tranter, Visitor Coordinator: Events

CatalogueText: Rachel BuchholtzerDesign: James LangdonPrinting: Generation Printing Photography: SITE Photography, Edition plus lots: 4,5,8,11,12,14,15,16, 19, 20, 29, 30, 33, 36.All other images courtesy of the artists and their galleries

AcknowledgementsWe express our sincere gratitude to all of the artists, their representing galleries, donors, individuals and sponsors who have made this event possible.

Core fundersThe Contemporary Art Gallery is financially supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver and the Province of BC through the BC Arts Council and the BC Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch. We are grateful for this support and that ongoing from the Vancouver Foundation, our members, donors and volunteers.

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