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“My work stems from an experience of an increasing lack of compassion amongst...”
– From Colleen Wolstenholmes’ Artist Statement for the Pills exhibition. 1998.
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November 2011
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Har-Prakash Khalsa, The Hole Project, 1999
The Hole Project is a meditation on the orifices of the human body. Comprising a series of 39 photographs, each of which fixes upon a single bodily “hole”—the eye, the penis, the ear, the vagina, the nipple, the anus, the nostril, the mouth—Ontario-based artist Har-Prakash Khalsa’s work, exhibited at grunt gallery in the summer of 1999, reflects upon the fundamental role...
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Styles Beyond Compare
In 1988 the very first exhibition of hip hop murals took place in Vancouver at grunt gallery featuring the work of artists Rip, Scene, and Risk-E. This came at a time when graffiti art was exploding onto the scene in places like New York. The exhibition featured the seminal hip hop/graffiti documentary Style Wars playing in the gallery space which was spray painted with graffiti. The press...
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Spectacles of Intimacy, 2007
Next Stop, Jamie Drouin and Lance Olsen multimedia installation, 1999 + 2001
The work exhibited in Spectacles of Intimacy shows us worlds that are both intimate and public. This binary can be present in our everyday lives, from riding a packed bus next to a couple having an intimate conversation (Lance Olsen and Jamie Drouin’s Next Stop) to observing how tools of a trade will be used to...
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2400 Indian Odyssey : kohkum are we there yet?
“2400 Indian Odyssey is about surviving the wait.”* In 2003 Secwepemc artist Tania Willard, Kwakwaka’wakw artist Gord Hill and Tsimshian/Cree artist Skeena Reece envisioned a space where Aboriginal voice could be safely be heard. Willard’s large scale paintings tell stories of political struggles from a Aboriginal perspective while referencing western style painting. The paintings are proof...
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October 2011
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Nadia Myre, Indian Act, 2002
“Each page is pierced by a needle and like a scar bears the stitch, a reminder of its path across the page…”* In the fall of 2002, an annotated version of the Indian Act, each of its 56 pages woven with beads, mounted on black felt, and encased in individual shadow boxes, lined the walls of grunt gallery. Entitled Indian Act, the exhibition represented the culmination of a...
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Reona Brass, Burn, 2001
“I see innocence scorched, hanging from her limbs
I smell desire and think about the pain…
I hear dignity cry out and no one does a thing…
Their ways empty sweet without humility”*
Reona Brass is a contemporary Peepeekisis First Nations performance and installation artist who, in 2001, performed a piece called “Burn” at the Grunt Gallery.
In this piece she explored the shifting nature of female...
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July 2011
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Dan Pon
Dan Pon is from Vancouver but grew up in the States. He is working in the media lab on the Activating the Archive project digitizing material for curatorial websites and archives. He studies library and information science at UBC where his interests lie in public library outreach, library services to marginalized populations, and libraries and archives in community and arts based organizations...