CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
PAST EXHIBITIONS
The exhibition CURRENT: Photography as Pause marks the launch of the new partnership between Gallery 881 and Emily Carr University and features seven emerging photographic artists from ECU’s BFA and MFA Programs.
Within the constant flow of images, CURRENT: Photography as Pause is an invitation to consider photography as a means of being present. Whether investigating the photographic image as an object by expanding its meaning and surface through material interventions, questioning the authority of photographic representations by using the camera to reveal gender and identity stereotypes or utilizing the photographic studio as a site to unpack and visualize the anxieties and traumas surrounding immigration, the artists ask the viewer to pause so we can once more discover photography's potential to slow down time for us.
We are taken out of the stream of endless scrolls and are faced with our assumptions–often created in the complex digitized world where the photographic medium has become our primary communication tool but frequently takes us out of the present moment.
CURRENT: Photography as Pause features artists Laura Ayres, Claudia Goulet-Blais, Julia Kerrigan, Charlie Mahoney-Volk, Paniz Mani, Maria Michopulu, and Parumveer Walia and was curated by Karen Zalamea, Vancouver artist and educator, and John Goldsmith, director of Gallery 881.
THE STUDIO Group Exhibition
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EXHIBITION
October 8 - October 31, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, October 8, 2026, 6–9pm
THE STUDIO
Where Work Begins. Art Emerges.
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
THE STUDIO begins with a simple question: where does creative work begin?
Before an artwork reaches a gallery, stage, book, screen, public space or collection, it begins somewhere. It might begin in a studio, darkroom, kitchen, garage, rehearsal room, shared workspace, classroom, print shop, bedroom or borrowed corner of the city.
THE STUDIO brings these places of practice into public view through photographs made by artists working across disciplines. Together, the images reveal the spaces, tools, materials, routines, constraints and possibilities that shape creative work.
At a time when the conditions that allow artists to remain and create in Vancouver are increasingly fragile, the exhibition is both a celebration of artistic practice and a public statement about the importance of affordable, accessible space for artists.
SPONSORS
Gallery 881 is proudly sponsored by our in-house PrintMaker Studio, a Canson-Infinity Certified Print Lab and custom picture framer dedicated to museum-quality production. When you print or frame with our sponsor, you help sustain Gallery 881’s free exhibitions, free artist talks, free and low-entry programming, and the charitable initiatives that keep our space accessible to artists and the wider community.
ABOUT PRINTMAKER STUDIO
PrintMaker Studio is a boutique, full-service fine art printing and custom picture framing studio in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood. As the only Canson Infinity Certified Print Lab on Canada’s West Coast, we work closely with artists, photographers, galleries and institutions on archival pigment printing, artwork reproduction, mounting and exhibition-ready framing, with careful attention to colour, materials and long-term presentation. PrintMaker Studio is also the principal sponsor of Gallery 881, helping sustain the gallery’s free exhibitions and public programming.