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Exhibition ~ Gallery In Transit ~ Vancouver

The exhibition poster for the Vancouver edition of Gallery In Transit, printed on card stock as a pop-out fold-up model BC Transit bus which can be easily assembled into an amusing keepsake and toy.

June 8 - 27, 1985

Contemporary Art Gallery

555 Hamilton Street

Vancouver BC

Opening 1 PM, June 8, 1985

At the False Creek Transit Centre

95 East 1st Avenue

Appearing on bus routes:

#1    Beach – Gastown

#22 McDonald – Knight

#10 UBC – #14 Hastings

Sponsors

• Government of Canada, Department of Communications, Cultural Initiatives Program under Honourable Minister Marcel Masse.

•Kodak Canada

•Trans Ad, Toronto

• BC Transit

• Government of British Columbia Cultural Services Branch

• City of Vancouver Social Planning Department

• Summerfest Edmonton

• Photo Communique magazine, Toronto

A commuter gallery?? An exhibition that rolls?? That's 'Gallery in Transit,' three Vancouver buses on their regular routes carrying the work of Western Canadian photographers instead of advertising.

 

The Exhibitions

A group exhibition from the Winnipeg Photographers Group, curated by Henri Robideau. The photographs on this bus are by Joanne Jackson Johnson, Bruce Barr, James Lam, Michael Klein, Glen Lehman, Ernie Kroeger, Robert Barrow and Peter Tittenberger.

Since October 1977 Edmonton photographer Douglas Curran has traveled over 125,000 miles to gather the images for 'In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space.' This work documents UFO cults, both personal and collective, from across North America; their rituals artifacts and mythologies are present throughout the work.

The third bus carries photographs from Henri Robideau's 'Pancanadienne Gianthropological Survey.' Although Robideau is based in Vancouver, his panoramic photos documenting the folk culture of 'giant things' are drawn from every region of Canada.

Canadian Art magazine, Winter 1985, page 13. Photo of crazy artists Doug Clark and Henri Robideau.

Doug Clark was without a doubt one of the major animators and promoters of Canadian photography. He was an eastern guy, originally from Burlington, Ontario, who after attending Ryerson began his series of photography projects which brought him out to western Canada in the 1970's. He worked as the curator of photography at the Edmonton Art Gallery and generated numerous extra-institutional photography projects in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba up into the 1980's.

Doug's energy, enthusiasm and sense of humor were infectious and only outweighed by his love of photography. We made this photograph of ourselves in 1985 when he lived on East Georgia Street in Vancouver's Strathcona neighbourhood. Canadian Art magazine wanted a photo of him for their winter edition to chronicle his latest project, Gallery In Transit, and Doug wanted to emphasize his projects involved the talents of many people and served to bring people together. We used Doug's camera as he was a

 colour film guy but we used my panorama technique to build a sextet out of two guys and three frames of film. The caption is filled with Doug personal references, especially "Neurosis as a Hobby,"  one of his favourites.

Douglas Clark 1952-1999.