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Exhibition ~ Pictures From Here
May 19 to September 4, 2017
Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver, BC Canada
Grant Arnold curator
The summer 2017 exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery was comprised primarily of work from the Gallery’s collection, and included photographs and video work made over the past twenty-five years that builds upon a conceptual framework while picturing the built environment and the vast “natural” landscape that makes up much of British Columbia. Artists in the exhibition are Roy Arden, Karin Bubas, Christos Dikeakos, Stan Douglas, Greg Girard, Rodney Graham, Mike Grill, Arni Haraldsson, Fred Herzog, Barrie Jones, Evan Lee, N.E. Thing Co., Marian Penner Bancroft, Henri Robideau, Sandra Semchuk and James Nicholas, Althea Thauberger, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Paul Wong, Cornelia Wyngaarden and Adnrea Fatona.
Henri Robideau's work in the exhibition incluldes the recently completed version of his Four Directions of the Okanagan (2000) along with six new colour narrative works (2013 to 2017).
Installation view of Four Directions of the Okanagan and two colour narrative panels.
Four Directions of the Okanagan: North
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Caption: Hub Cap Heaven, Grindrod, B.C. On its way to the Okanagan, Highway 97 hugs the front door of wheel cover adorned Gordon's New + Used, September 24, 2000.
Medium: Black and white gelatin silver fiber-base archival photograph. Matted and framed.
Size: 60 inches wide x 30 inches high (152 cm x 76 cm)
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#1 ~ North ~ It's sunrise of the Third Millennium and I'm bombing down Highway 97 on an Okanagan odyssey, my Leica in one hand, rental car steering wheel in the other. My art mission– the Valley 2000 project– is to define the true essence of turn-of-the-millennial Okanagia.
Salmon River #1
Ogopogo, Kelowna
Downtown Kelowna 500,000,000 BC, Okanagan Heritage Museum diorama
Downtown Kelowna 2000 AD, Okanagan Regional Library
Medium: Archival inkjet on paper, mounted and framed.
Size: 60 inches wide x 13 inches high (152 cm x 33 cm)
Four Directions of the Okanagan: South
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Caption: Giant Rock not far from Keremeos, B.C. Though horribly disfigured by paint wielding witless villagers, Standing Rock none the less keeps a steady vigil along side Highway 3, September 25, 2000.
Medium: Black and white gelatin silver fiber-base archival photograph. Matted and framed.
Size: 60 inches wide x 30 inches high (152 cm x 76 cm)
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#2 ~ South ~ It's a beautiful warm grape-day harvest of hitch hiking Quebec fruit pickers, roadside fruit stands and fruit, fruit, fruit, so I blast off ten rolls between Grindrod in the north and nearly out-of-bounds Keromeos in the south.
Upper Similkameen #2
Giant Peach lakeside concession stand, Penticton
Cayoosh
Industrial fruit boxes, Oyama
Medium: Archival inkjet on paper, mounted and framed.
Size: 60 inches wide x 13 inches high (152 cm x 33 cm)
Four Directions of the Okanagan: East
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Caption: The Potsy Weber Memorial Dip & Dive, Vernon, B.C. Just across the street from the mall sprawl of modern Okanagan life is the Rotary Club Five Star Skateboard Bowl- The World's Best! September 23, 2000.
Medium: Black and white gelatin silver fiber-base archival photograph. Matted and framed.
Size: 60 inches wide x 30 inches high (152 cm x 76 cm)
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#3 ~ East ~ I'm an outsider here on the skin of other peoples lives, passing their fallen down debris of pioneer farms, reservation churches, motels and malls ~ making a photographic inventory of the 20th Century for the reliquary of the 21st .
Okanagan #1
Giant Pancake Chef, Vernon
Motel
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, telescope farm
Medium: Archival inkjet on paper, mounted and framed.
Size: 60 inches wide x 13 inches high (152 cm x 33 cm)
Four Directions of the Okanagan: West
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Caption: Giant Faded Painting WESTSHORES ESTATES by L. Ruth Robertson and Mary Kieth, adds an artistic splash to the Canada Post group-box pull-off on Westside Road on the west shore of Lake Okanagan, September 24, 2000.
Medium: Black and white gelatin silver fiber-base archival photograph. Matted and framed.
Size: 60 inches wide x 30 inches high (152 cm x 76 cm)
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#4~ West ~ After three days of driving, I kiss Okanagan country goodbye, having seen the future from the fast food highway - a promised paradise prosaically clad in vinyl siding, ambitiously fulfilling the dream of itself. The Four Directions of the Okanagan is dedicated to the memory of Douglas Clark.
Osoyoos Band
Giant Golf Ball, Peachland
Apex
Summerland
Medium: Archival inkjet on paper, mounted and framed.
Size: 60 inches wide x 13 inches high (152 cm x 33 cm)
Baseball Heaven
Oppenheimer Park Homeless Summer 2014
Giant Sparrows & Olympic Village
Victory Square & Hemptown Canada
Giant Window and Two Giant W's
Last Of The Little Mountain Hold-Outs
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