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Repost from @gruntgallery : All year long, we’ve

Repost from @gruntgallery : All year long, we’ve been looking back on the past 4 decades at grunt and reminiscing on the abundance of community care, rambunctiousness, and expansive perspectives we’ve been simmering in. You have been crucial in supporting grunt as a gathering place, as a home for artistry, and as an essential pillar in Vancouver’s artistic community. We are so excited to celebrate with you and for our 40th Anniversary Fundraiser to commence September 10th. Without further ado, here are a few of the artists that have shown up to show you, a slice of their life. If you end up a lucky recipient of an artist offering by bidding that is. 😉

Stay tuned for more features of artists participating in our 40th Anniversary Fundraiser as well as details on How to Bid, September 10th to 24th. ✨

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@vanartgallery Several recent acquisitions can be

@vanartgallery Several recent acquisitions can be seen in our summer exhibition “Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey,” now on view until November 3. ☀️

New acquisitions featured include #MinaTotino’s oil paintings “September” (2019) and “October” (2019); #ShannonBool’s monumental tapestry “Crimes of the Future” (2020); and #WangTiande’s intricate ink painting “Visiting the Temple in Lu Mountain
麓山问寺图” (2021). Also included in the exhibition is the never-before-exhibited series “Chinese Cafes – The Five Energies” (1997) by the groundbreaking Vancouver–based artist #PaulWong.

📍Plan you visit today at the link in our bio!

📷: Installation view (1) of Mina Totino, “September,” 2019, oil on canvas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Audain BC Art Acquisition Fund, VAG 2023.10.1, (2) Shannon Bool, “Crimes of the Future,” 2020, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisition Fund, VAG 2023.23.1, (3) Wang Tiande, “Visiting the Temple in Lu Mountain 麓山问寺图,” 2021, Ink on paper, Gift of the Artist, VAG 2023.19.1, (4) Mina Totino, “October,” 2019, oil on canvas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Audain BC Art Acquisition Fund, VAG 2023.10.2 and (5) Paul Wong, “Chinese Cafés – The Five Energies,” 1997, screenprint on paper, Gift from Rick Erickson and Donna Partridge, VAG 2023.25.34 a-e, in “Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey,” exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, June 9 to November 3, 2024

@gruntgallery 40th Anniversary Fundraiser From 8 A

@gruntgallery 40th Anniversary Fundraiser
From 8 AM, September 10 to 11:59 PM, September 24, 2024 | Online

Unveil the Unexpected by bidding on surprise artist offerings in grunt’s 40th Anniversary Fundraiser.

Launching online September 10th, join the bid for community enrichment by participating in our 40th Anniversary Fundraiser. From September 10th to 24th, grunt will resurface a fundraiser originating in 1998 (or was it 1999?). An unexpected donation to our archive of photos captured by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun some years back unearthed a wonderful idea. The original idea? Give a dozen artists disposable cameras and auction them off sight unseen. With thanks to our predecessors for the inspiration, we have remounted this campaign with a new lineup of exciting participants and a greater breadth of offerings. We have engaged four artists to create non-visual offerings to support a broader range of accessibility and platform artists with disabilities. We will be auctioning unique disposable camera prints in addition to these non-visual offerings. The contents of these auction items are unknown and we are elated for the lucky bidders to unveil these one-of-a-kind creations!

With immense gratitude, we are thrilled to announce the participating artists:

Laiwan, Cindy Mochizuki, Carmen Papalia, Rebecca Bair, Joi Arcand, Christine Taylor Fearing, Moroti George, Rebecca Belmore, Michelle Sound, Valerie Walker, Jen Yakamovich, Paul Wong, Glenn Gear, Derya Akay, and Syrus Marcus Ware.

Place your bids online from 8 AM, September 10th until 11:59 PM, September 24th. Or bid live at our 40th anniversary party on September 20th. By bidding, you not only acquire an inside look into the daily moments that inspire creativity in your favourite artists’ lives, you are also supporting grunt’s critical programming, empowering our community, and uplifting the artists who enrich it.

Stay tuned for artist features and further details on how you can bid to have the chance to make a fleeting moment from an artists’ day, a permanent part of your space.

This fundraiser was made possible with support from Beau Photo Supplies.

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@audainprize 2016 Audain Prize winner, Paul Wong,

@audainprize 2016 Audain Prize winner, Paul Wong, is known for his early experimentation with video art and turning the camera onto himself. Here, Wong turns the camera onto itself. “Art House Swirl,” commissioned by the Deer Lake Gallery/Burnaby Arts Council and completed in 2023, is Wong’s vortex design painted by muralist Col Urrutia with support from Dado Designs and Judge Painting Co. Rendered onto this 1960’s modernist style house, now home to the Deer Lake Gallery, the vortex plays to its site and rewinds to its use as an experimental technique by video artists in the 1960’s.

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“Art House Swirl” 2023
Painted mural
51.42’ x 7’
Deer Lake Gallery
Courtesy of Paul Wong Projects

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@griffinartprojects Thank you to all who attended

@griffinartprojects Thank you to all who attended our latest exhibition 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙥 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚: 𝘼 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨! It was a joy seeing our visitors engage with this singular collection. Griffin would also like to thank everyone who made this exhibition possible, including co-curator and artist Paul Wong, grunt gallery and Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, On Main Gallery, the City of Vancouver and North Vancouver recreation, the Freybe Foundation, and especially our artists: Cathy Busby, Germaine Koh, Jason Payne, Jay Senetchko, Charlene Vickers, Parvin Peivandi, Bagua Artist Association, and D.A Shaffer. Finally, we are so grateful for our wonderful collaborator Leslie Madsen and Mount Pleasant Furniture.

Griffin Art Projects will be closed from August 23 to September 27th to set up for our new exhibition: 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 (More coming soon!)

Image 1: Paul Wong, The Prop House Film, 2024, 3:30min, film, no sound. The film is commissioned by grunt gallery for the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen (MPCAS). Jason Payne, Prop House Photos, 2023. Courtesy of Jason Payne/Vancouver Sun. Photo by Byron Dauncey.

Image 2: Lisa Baldissera, Constellations, 2024, selected vintage clocks, text. Bagua Artist Association, TV Show: Concubines and Swordswomen, 2024, multimedia installation. Photo by Byron Dauncey.

Image 3: Cathy Busby, 28 Portraits, 2024, Multimedia installation. Bagua Artist Association, TV Show: Concubines and Swordswomen, 2024, multimedia installation. Photo by Byron Dauncey.

@ahvaubc The Department is pleased to announce Pau

@ahvaubc The Department is pleased to announce Paul Wong @therealpaulwong as this year’s AHVA Artist in Residence! During his residency (September 2024 to April 2025), Wong will be provided a studio in the Audain Art Centre and conduct studio and class visits. A public talk will be held on October 2, which will be introduced by Michael Dang, a PhD student in Art History, a Critical and Curatorial Studies alumnus, and recent curator of “Unit Bruises: Theodor Wan and Paul Wong” at Richmond Art Gallery.

Wong’s career spans over five decades in visual and media art. He is an award-winning artist, curator, and founder of several artist-run groups including The Mainstreeters (1972), VIVO Media Art Centre (1973), On The Cutting Edge Productions (1986).

He recently completed a year-long residency 身在唐人街/OCCUPYING CHINATOWN.

Wong is the artistic director and curator of On Main Gallery (On The Cutting Edge Productions Society) and is the co-curator of “The Prop House: A Collection of Over One Million Objects” at Griffin Art Projects. He is currently curating the photography retrospective “Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama” for the Vancouver Art Gallery opening in March 2026. Wong has been the recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art (2005), the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Visual Arts (2016), an honorary doctorate from Emily Car University of Art and Design, and the Toronto Reel Asian Fire Horse Award (2024).

Full announcement in bio.

The Artist in Residence Program in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is made possible by the generous support of an anonymous donor. Past AHVA Artists in Residence have been Beau Dick, Stan Douglas, Germaine Koh, Marianne Nicolson and Diamond Point.

Paul Wong, Toronto Reel Asian Fire Horse Award 2024. Photo: Mike Tijoe

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There is less than 1 week left to view our current

There is less than 1 week left to view our current exhibition, The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects! Come see it before it’s too late.

Here’s a closer look at one of The Prop House’s featured installations, Hell Money, The X-Files: An Homage to Graeme Murray, by Paul Wong.

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Hell Money, The X-Files: An Homage to Graeme Murray, 2024
Multimedia installation

Emmy Award-winning Art Director Graeme Murray is best known for The X-Files (1993), The Thing (1982) and Elektra (2005). The Prop House co-curator and artist Paul Wong played ‘The Wiry Man’ in Hell Money, episode 19 of The X-Files’ third season. Graeme Murray is also the uncle of Mount Pleasant Furniture owner Leslie Madsen, and has played an influential role supporting its evolution into a major prop house for film and television. Hell Money, The X-Files (season 3, episode 19) premiered on Fox in the USA on March 29, 1996. Written by Jeffrey Vlaming and directed by Tucker Gates, the episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.9, being watched by 14.86 million people in its initial broadcast.The episode contained several elaborate special effects shots, most notably the scene wherein a frog bursts out of a victim’s chest, which was created by using molds to create a fake human torso that was then placed over an actor. ‘The Wiry Man’ was played by Paul Wong. Hell Money is featured in The Prop House with one of Graeme Murray’s Emmy awards and objects from the Mount Pleasant Furniture collection used in this and other episodes.

The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects is presented by On Main Gallery and Griffin Art Projects, with the generous collaboration of Mount Pleasant Furniture, grunt gallery and Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen. We are grateful to North Vancouver Recreation and Culture and the City of Vancouver for its generous support of this project.

Image: Paul Wong, Hell Money, The X-Files: An Homage to Graeme Murray, 2024, multimedia installation, in “The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects,” exhibition at Griffin Art Projects from May 18 – August 18, 2024. Photo by Byron Dauncey.

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@vanartgallery #MonochromeMonday: Feeling energeti

@vanartgallery #MonochromeMonday: Feeling energetic this long weekend? 💥

💛 Discover “Chinese Cafes—The Five Energies” by local artist @therealpaulwong, shown together for the first time in “Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey.”

🌈 Chinese Cafes—The Five Energies is a series of prints that draws on the histories of Chinese café culture in Western Canada. Wong’s family owned and operated a Chinese restaurant in Prince Rupert.

🔥 These colours represent the Taoist system of five energies—wood, fire, earth, metal and water—and underline the importance of Feng shui, a practice of analyzing domestic and commercial design to establish a healthy and prosperous energy flow.

💡 We are open today, August 5 from 10 AM to 5 PM. Come on in and get inspired!

📷 Image: Installation view of “Chinese Cafes—The Five Energies,” by Paul Wong, 1997, screenprint on paper, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift from Rick Erickson & Donna Partridge, VAG 2023.25.34 a-e, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery

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@griffinartprojects Come view our current exhibiti

@griffinartprojects Come view our current exhibition, The Prop House: Collection of One Million Objects — on until August 18!

Here’s a closer look at one of The Prop House’s featured installations, She Listens for Her Voices, by Charlene Vickers.

Charlene Vickers
She Listens for Her Voices, 2024
Multimedia installation

Charlene Vickers’ mother, LJV, owns an antique Hoosier that became a portal through which those in the afterlife could speak. One afternoon in the early 1990s, LJV was busy making apple pies on her Hoosier kitchen. She paused, entered Vickers’ bedroom, and said “I do not want to freak you out–but–I just heard a voice say, ‘I am happy someone is baking pies on my Hoosier again!’”

She Listens for Her Voices presents LJV’s talent of sensitivity–she is open to hearing what she calls “Her Voices”. The first to deny any allusions to clairvoyance, LJV is an open listener. The Hoosier acts as a portal, a circuit of energy, connector to open ears and hearts.

She Listens for Her Voices is a reference to the domestic space shared by Vickers, her brother and her mother circa 1987-1990. The Hoosier also acts as a portal of memory to establish an homage to LJV, and involve her in the collaborative creation of meaning in an artwork, something she has never been involved with making before.

The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects is presented by On Main Gallery and Griffin Art Projects, with the generous collaboration of Mount Pleasant Furniture,grunt gallery and Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen. We are grateful to North Vancouver Recreation and Culture and the City of Vancouver for its generous support of this project.

Image: Charlene Vickers, She Listens for Her Voices, 2024, multimedia installation, in “The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects,” exhibition at Griffin Art Projects from May 18 – August 18, 2024. Photo by Byron Dauncey.

@griffinartprojects Take a closer look at 28 Portr

@griffinartprojects Take a closer look at 28 Portraits by Cathy Busby, in our current exhibition, The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects—on until August 18!

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28 Portraits, 2024
Multimedia installation

The portraits that comprise 28 Portraits have had lives as likenesses of individuals as well as anonymous props–their dust, gashes and touch-ups remain as evidence of their lives as props, untouched by conservators. Likely, all the sitters are no longer alive; nor their painters. To bring new meaning, Busby has paired them, finding sometimes unlikely and surprising correspondences: there’s a pair whose knees stand out; another pair hold contemplative postures and facial expressions; both the oval-framed works are damaged; two gender non-conforming sitters have distinctive feathers in their hats. The walls are colour-matched from samples of the portraits’ paint, divided into panels in colours matched from portrait details, suggesting correspondences between the pairs.

Learn more about this installation at Griffin!

The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects is presented by On Main Gallery and Griffin Art Projects, with the generous collaboration of Mount Pleasant Furniture, grunt gallery and Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen. We are grateful to North Vancouver Recreation and Culture and the City of Vancouver for its generous support of this project.

Image: Cathy Busby, 28 Portraits, 2024, multimedia installation, in “The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects,” exhibition at Griffin Art Projects from May 18 – August 18, 2024. Photo by Byron Dauncey.

@baguabagua “TV Show: Concubines and Swordswomen

@baguabagua “TV Show: Concubines and Swordswomen,” 2024, multimedia installation, by Bagua Artist Association, in “The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects,” exhibition @griffinartprojects from May 18 – August 18, 2024. Curated by @therealpaulwong and Lisa Baldissera.
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TV Show: Concubines and Swordswomen (2024) is a multimedia installation that draws upon Mount Pleasant Furniture/MPF’s vast array of East Asian, particularly Chinese antiques, replicas and miscellaneous smalls. These items resonate with familiarity, frequently depicted in palace-harem dramas and Wuxia-themed TV shows. Reflecting on the shared immigrant experience, the work contemplates the act of watching culturally-specific television dramas at home, often through the means of acquired DVD sets - a retreat into solitary entertainment devoid of the need for social and cultural integration. More so, it is a cost-effective way to practice and maintain cultural ties and heritage.

TV Show: Concubines and Swordswomen expands beyond the intended use of the objects as television props and conceptualizes them as conduits for one to immerse in the worlds behind the television screen. The mundane act of watching TV is reimagined as an excursion that transcends time and geographical restraints. It gives the viewer agency to momentarily dissociate from present anxieties from cultural and social barriers as experienced in the daily lives of the contemporary Chinese diaspora, to seek comfort and enchantment in alternative extratemporal and fictional realms that paradoxically feel intimately known.

Installation view of artwork
Images 1-4: Photo courtesy of the artist.
Images 5-7: Photo by Byron Dauncey.
Images 8-9: Video stills, reappropriated found footage, courtesy of the artist.

“Light is everything… I am drawing with my bod

“Light is everything… I am drawing with my body…”Paul Wong In Motion’ work-in-progress Director: Philippe Hamelin @lapinhamelin . Commissioned by @periculum.art Go to website for 5:30 min videoclip . Filmed in Retiro Park Lake, class=

Satellite Video Exchange Society est. 1973 50+ Ann

Satellite Video Exchange Society est. 1973
50+ Anniversary celebration @vivomediaarts
Picture with several of the
Co-founders : Annastacia McDonald @queenannastacia Jeanette Reinhardt @jeanette.reinhardt.7
#cristadahlmedialibraryandarchive Shawn Preus

Join us on site at Mount Pleasant Furniture (MPF)

Join us on site at Mount Pleasant Furniture (MPF) for tours of Vancouver’s famous prop house! Three simultaneous group tours will be conducted onsite at Mount Pleasant Furniture on July 21st and August 4th at 1:00, 1:30, or 2:00. Each tour will accommodate eight participants and include introductions and exploration of the space. RSVPs are required, tickets are $20 per person. Please register for the tours through linktree in bio.

MPF operates exclusively by appointment. Secreted behind a closed door, this hidden gem is known primarily to film and stage art directors. MPF has been a prop house wonderland for the film, television, stage and art communities for decades. It is a family owned and operated business in the heart of the Mount Pleasant warehouse district, a neighbourhood that in just a few short years has transformed into the city’s technology hub. MPF is an astounding and diverse collection of over one million antique and vintage objects. It is stored in two multi-level buildings, a labyrinth of 35,000 square feet, crammed from floor ceiling with furnishings, objects of art, paintings, textiles, sculpture, figurines.

These tours are in conjunction with Griffin Art Projects’ exhibition, The Prop House: A Collection of Over One Million Objects, curated by Lisa Baldissera and Paul Wong. The Prop House offers an opportunity to celebrate and explore this extraordinary collection with the public for the first time. The objects were sourced everywhere, from second hand stores to garage to estate sales deepening in complexity and materiality.

This exhibition features a film project by Paul Wong, presented at the Mount Pleasant Community Screen and window installation and window project at Mount Pleasant Furniture.

Image 1: Leslie Madsen at MPF, photo Jason Payne
Image 2: Paul Wong at MPF, courtesy of Paul Wong
Image 3: L and D (2024) D.A Shaffer, installation at MPF
Image 4: - 4: Jason Payne/Vancouver Sun

The Prop House: A Collection of Over One Million Objects is presented in collaboration with grunt gallery, Mount Pleasant Community Screen, Mount Pleasant Furniture and On Main Gallery.

The film is commissioned by grunt gallery for @mpcas.vancouver

@vivomediaarts Proud to be part of the co-founders

@vivomediaarts Proud to be part of the co-founders of this groundbreaking organization . see you at the party .
Saturday, July 20, 2024 7pm- late
Join us to celebrate 50+ Years of Media Arts!
It will be an evening full of fun, food, friends and creators, guests from across the globe, highlights from the vault, and so much more! Live music, installations, retrospective, featuring artists from across 50 years of Video History. Has VIVO contributed to your practice? Have you seen an event or volunteered at VIVO? Did the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive support your research? We want to welcome you into the space to celebrate 50 years of impact in video art and beyond.

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