The event will be broadcast LIVE via the Gallery 881 YouTube Channel!
SLIDENIGHT Vol. IV with Moderator Helga Pakasaar
WELCOME to SlideNight Vol. IV!
SlideNIGHT is a quarterly salon where artists and the community gather for an exciting evening of lens-based art. In the spirit of the days when a slide projector was the focal point for family gatherings, SlideNIGHT features projected work by a handful of emerging, mid-career, and established artists. We’re back again for our fourth on Saturday April 27. We are once again a part of The Capture Photography Festival. Doors open at 7 p.m. and admission is $25.
MODERATOR:
In honour of our first anniversary, we welcome the distinguished Canadian curator of lens-based art, Helga Pakasaar, who had programming input and will moderate the evening. Helga Pakasaar is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Vancouver, who for many years was the Audain Chief Curator at the Polygon Gallery. In addition to working with renowned international artists, she uncovered local photographers such as Fred Herzog and many emerging media artists. She has also produced exhibitions at Griffin Art Projects and was curator at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Walter Phillips Gallery. Helga has asked our four presenters to draw from their extensive image archives and to exploit the montage effects of the slide show format in their presentations.
ARTISTS:
Our four participants: Elizabeth Zvonar is an interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited internationally and is in collections around the world. Her sculptural installation and photo collages are currently on display in the exhibition, “Aporia (Notes to a Medium)” at the Belkin Art Gallery, UBC. She is represented by Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto, one of Canada’s most important private galleries and is included in the 2023 Phaidon publication “Vitamin C+ Collage in Contemporary Art.” Also joining us is John O’Brian, an art historian, writer, and curator who is acclaimed for his many books on modern and contemporary art, including on Clement Greenberg and Henri Matisse, and also for his exhibition and book on nuclear photography, Camera Atomica, launched at the Art Gallery of Ontario. “Delirium”, an exhibition culled from his found photograph collection, is currently on view at Trapp Projects. Robert Kleyn is an interdisciplinary artist who has worked with slide and photo sequences since the early 1970s. He has exhibited widely, often in Italy, was part of the “Traffic: Conceptual Art In Canada” touring exhibition, and is in private and museum collections. Roger Larry, a SlideNIGHT founder is an emerging artist and veteran feature filmmaker who explores the gothic landscape in his recent work. He has exhibited at PS1 MOMA and has a solo show in May at Gallery 881.
Elizabeth Zvonar:
https://www.elizabethzvonar.com/
https://danielfariagallery.com/artists/elizabeth-zvonar
John O’Brian:
https://ahva.ubc.ca/profile/john-obrian/
https://www.trappprojects.com/
Robert Kleyn:
https://www.monicareyesgallery.com/robert-kleyn.html
https://catrionajeffries.com/exhibitions/robert-kleyn-works-1969-1983-may-20-june-25-2011
Roger Larry:
https://www.instagram.com/roger_larry_art/
Bio is below.
COST:
$25 / $30 at the door
While we may have limited tickets available at the door, these would be limited and offered on a first come, first served basis.
DETAILS:
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 7 - 10pm
Event: Doors open at 7pm; Slideshow begins at 8pm and includes one intermission.
Venue: Gallery 881, 881 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Parking: Plenty of free street parking in front and across from the gallery
We are very grateful for our sponsors, including Gallery 881, PrintMaker Studio, and Relevision.
SlideNight CREATORS:
Roger Larry
Roger is a filmmaker and artist who has made four feature films and dozens of hours of TV, Cool Daddy his latest feature doc is now screening on CBC GEM. As an artist, Roger has had three film installations co-authored with Mark Lewis screen in 2013 at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) PS1 In Brooklyn. He has a large body of work made over the last thirty years but is only now attempting to exhibit them. Roger’s first solo show will be at Gallery 881 in May 2024.
rogerlarry.art
Julie Lee
Julie Lee is an accomplished filmmaker, curator, art-consultant and was co-founder and director of Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver’s international lens-based arts festival. She has worked at Vancouver galleries including the Winsor Gallery, as curator and manager from 2001 to 2005 and as Director of Initial Gallery in 2014 and more recently at Frank Gallery. Julie is grateful for her enduring relationships with artists and patrons throughout the world, and the joy it brings to the work. She is most proud of her social initiatives Moja Moja, Regeneration and Unite With Art. Prior to her career in visual arts, Julie was an award-winning producer of feature films and television programs in Vancouver, Toronto and Los Angeles.
julielee.ca
John Goldsmith
John Goldsmith is a Detroit-born artist, fine art printer, and gallerist living in Vancouver, Canada. He is the owner of PrintMaker Studio, the owner and director of Gallery 881, and co-creator of 560 Gallery. John has a Master’s Degree in Chemistry from Indiana University and worked as a chemist before transitioning to the darkroom and artist. John was an invited artist for the inaugural Capture Photography Festival in 2013 and in 2016 won the festival’s public art competition. John’s artwork has been exhibited at the Format Festival (UK), Third Floor Gallery (Wales), and the Head On Photo Festival (Australia). In 2018 and 2019, he served as a Juror for the Capture Photography Festival.
johngoldsmithphotography.com