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The Flats Summer Block Party is back again this summer with a whole new itinerary of art, fun, and good vibes in the city!

Stay tuned to see more of our summer programming this July.  

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Macaulay & Co. Fine Art is pleased to present a temporary group exhibition for the Flats Block Party this Saturday July 9th which runs from 1-5pm.  The group exhibition will feature work by Judy Chartrand, Beau Dick, Tyler Bright Hilton, Shawn Hunt, Gigaemi Kukwits, Jonah Samson and Jeremy Shaw.

The exhibition will be on view until the forthcoming exhibition Neo-Totems by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun scheduled to open on July 16th. 

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Bradley Harms, The Sextant 

Winsor Gallery 

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Bradley Harms,  Towards a Conceptual Militancy 

Winsor Gallery 

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Bradley Harms,  Aldebaran

Winsor Gallery 

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The One That Got Away featuring Gwen D'Arcy and Aaron White's watercolour portraits of tattooed women open next week! In honour of that show, on Saturday July 9 from 1–5pm we're having a tattoo flash event here at HAWC featuring 3 artists from Studio Nest. Check out the flash pieces available and if you're interested, let us know! Emailinfo@hotartwetcity.com to reserve a piece and book your time for July 9. Space is limited; first come, first served.

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JOW | D) ALL OF THE ABOVE 

CFA GALLERY

OPENING SATURDAY, JULY 9, 2-5

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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Macaulay & Co. Fine Art

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Pontus Willfors, Chair

Winsor Gallery 

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Scott Plear, Cosmic Core

South Main Gallery 

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Amazing Interview with artist Aaron White and Chris Bentzen from Hot Art Wet City 

Very excited about this opening!!

Make sure to check it out Friday July 8th from 7-11PM

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Aaron White 

Hot Art Wet City 

Aaron White graduated from Sheridan’s Classical Animation Program in 2004. He spent a few years working on Saturday morning cartoons before moving on to the video game industry. Since 2007, he has been a concept artist and FX animator for Nexon, Acronym Games, and Roadhouse doing work for Disney, Fox, Activision, Tecmo and Capcom. Happily settled in Vancouver with two carts, a glowing bicycle and as much art as he can fit into the week. His personal work focuses on painted portraiture of alternative and burlesque. 

Click here to view an interview with Aaron White

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Gwen D’arcy

Hot Art Wet City

OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY JULY 8, 7–11pm ARTIST TALK on SATURDAY JULY 9, 2pm LIVE TATTOOING FROM STUDIO NEST on SATURDAY JULY 9, 1–5pm Show runs July 7–23, 2016 

Click here to view the Facebook Event

The myth of the tattooed woman is of her wildness and unpredictable nature. The idea that “innocent” untattooed woman are the “better” choice for intimate partners… it’s bullshit of course. Relationships are built out of something deeper than what’s just below the skin. Perhaps you’ve missed out on someone amazing by not looking deeper. These are portraits of all the beautiful, tattooed women that “got away.” The One That Got Away features watercolour works of tattooed female subjects from Gwen D’arcy and Aaron White.

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Mark Delong

Monte Clark 

Jay Isaac And Mark DeLong: Thoughts On The Rocks

                Opening reception: Saturday July 9, 2pm to 4pm

Both Jay Isaac and Mark DeLong are engaged in expressions that reside outside of current aesthetic canons, using formal and narrative absurdities that embrace the personal and the everyday. Although in practice very distinct, Isaac and DeLong’s approaches are similar in that humour and resourcefulness are present in what could be called their own versions of process-based abstraction. Both artists make use of what is at hand, pushing their choices of material to extremes while at the same time playing with and challenging aesthetic and material expectations. Jay Isaac’s overtly acrylic paintings further his interest in personal abstraction, this new body of work stemming from a process of psychotherapy that metaphorically depicts thought process as form. Isaac simultaneously embraces the sincere aspects of the personal while distancing himself with a self-conscious awareness of the implications and weight of using the personal as subject. The time-based paintings mimic and echo the psychological process of problem solving, while also playing with language and communication. Repeated geometric shapes become avatars for individual thoughts. Through abstractions of the letter “I”—mixed with intangible hints of brains, testicles, and other organic body forms— Isaac builds a plastic language and repeating narrative throughout the works; together, they hint at language and representation, but resolution and understanding are never completely tangible. Mark DeLong is a self-taught artist that transitions between various mediums including ceramics, painting, tapestries, drawing and collage. The works presented in Thoughts on the Rocks are made by collecting found materials from his neighbourhood and manipulating them into abstract collages. Fruit and vegetable boxes are disassembled and reassembled in such a way that their previous utilitarian purposes are still recognizable, but through the artist’s process a new Frankenstein aesthetic emerges. Sewn coloured string decorates the surfaces, pushing the works past their source material into colourful formal abstractions. The urban paintings of Stuart Davis are recalled, as text and familiar shapes coalesce and collapse into one another. Similar to Isaac’s use of the personal, DeLong uses what is at hand, creating a type of realism that is based in materiality, humour and social critique. Jay Isaac has exhibited at CUE Foundation (New York), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Night Gallery (Los Angeles), White Columns (New York), CSA Space (Vancouver), and at numerous other venues. His work is collected by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Glenbow Museum (Calgary), and numerous other public and private institutions. Mark DeLong has exhibited at Abel Neue Kunst Gallery (Berlin), ACME (Los Angeles), Colette (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), Perugi Art Contemporana (Padova, Italy), Spencer-Brownstone Gallery (New York), and at numerous other venues. Both artists are originally from New Brunswick.

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Jay Isaac, Beta Blocker #2, 2016, acrylic on canvas 

Monte Clark 

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Renowned local galleries Monte Clark Gallery, Winsor Gallery, Gallery Jones, Macaulay & Co, and Gallery 295 will play host to crowds of local collectors and art-goers as exhibitions are launched, artist talks are given, bands play, and the city is brought together to celebrate the district’s success as a cultural cornerstone. Visitors are free to tour exhibition openings or to follow the scheduled programming of talks from the city’s most eminent creative figures.  

Come on down to The Flats this Saturday, July 9th from 1-5pm to see what’s good in the ‘hood, have a summer drink, feast your eyes on some art, and meet fellow art enthusiasts.

More to come.....

Stay Tuned!

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Have you heard? We are throwing another party!

Renowned local galleries Monte Clark Gallery, Winsor Gallery, Gallery Jones, Macaulay & Co, and Gallery 295 will play host to crowds of local collectors and art-goers as exhibitions are launched, artist talks are given, bands play, and the city is brought together to celebrate the district’s success as a cultural cornerstone. Visitors are free to tour exhibition openings or to follow the scheduled programming of talks from the city’s most eminent creative figures.   

Come on down to The Flats this Saturday, July 9th from 1-5pm to see what's good in the 'hood, have a summer drink, feast your eyes on some art, and meet fellow art enthusiasts.

+Monte Clark Gallery opens a two-person exhibition by abstract painters Jay Isaac and Mark Delong titled,  “Thoughts on the Rocks”.  

+Macaulay & Co. Fine Art exhibits “Ovoidism”, a series of abstract ovoid sculptures by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.  Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun explores traditional iconography with representations of the environment and the history of colonization, resulting in his powerful, contemporary imagery.   

+Winsor Gallery opens a summer group show featuring new paintings by Bradley Harms and Allan Switzer alongside an exhibition of abstract sculptures by Alexander Caldwell and Pontus Willfors.  

+Gallery Jones  presents a summer group exhibition of works featuring artists Peter Aspell, James Nizam, Brendan Tang and others.

+Hot Art Wet City presents works of tattooed female subjects from artists Gwen D’arcy and Aaron White.  Live tattooing will be performed throughout the day. 

+Chernoff Fine Art opens the day with an exhibit by works from L.A based artist JOW

+SOMA exhibits works by various artists for the summer including abstract painter Scott Plear.

+Gallery 295   Exhibits  INDEX 2016, featuring works by 6 emerging artists who will be giving a series of quick informal artist talks between 3-4 PM.  INDEX 2016 is the Gallery 295′s fourth annual juried exhibition of emerging artists working within photography. This exhibition sets out to explore current trends and practices in contemporary photography and also to act as a platform for younger artists to have their work recognized in a professional context. In addition, artist Gerri York will be giving a talk regarding her large-scale work housed within Gallery 295's Light Box Project Space for a full one hour session from 1-2 PM.