January 17, 2008: Trust in Me and Exponential Future
There’s great anticipation building in Vancouver about two exhibitions opening next week. The Charles H. Scott Gallery opens Trust in Me featuring the work of eight young artists including Janice Kerbel, Tim Lee on Tuesday.
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery’s Exponential Future exhibition featuring the works of eight young Vancouver artists including Mark Soo, Isabelle Pauwels and Althea Thauberger opens on Thursday, January 24th.
Tim Lee is in both exhibitions, hot on the tails of his solo exhibition Remakes, Variations (1741-2049) at Presentation House Gallery which just closed last weekend, on January 13th. The Pink Panther (2049) photographs- large life size photographs of Tim taking photographs of himself in Dan Graham sculptures- were very beautiful.
If you don’t know the work of ECIAD alumna and London artist Janice Kerbel, be sure to listen to her radio play for insomniacs: Nick Silver Can’t Sleep, an Artangel project for BBC Radio 3. Her 15 Lombard Street project of her masterplan of how to rob a London bank caused a bit of a stir over there, the BookWorks Projects book is an out of print classic. Also if you haven’t seen Janice Kerbel’s amazingly cheeky Bird Island web project from the late 90s it is still worth a visit. I hope she’s showing Deadstar.