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Contemporary Art Gallery

555 Nelson Street
Vancouver, Canada
Open from Tuesday to
Sunday 12 pm → 6 pm

Admission always free
ArchiveExhibition
12 Sep 03until2 Nov 03

Dan Graham

B.C. Binning and Alvin Balkind Galleries

American artist Dan Graham is one of the most important contemporary visual artists practicing today. His work over the past four decades is widely recognized for its lead in the advent of conceptualism as an art movement. His work was also instrumental in the development of Vancouver based photo-conceptualism, and his long involvement and friend­ship with a number of locally based artists has been of enormous influence. While his work is featured in collections around the city, Graham has, surprisingly, never been afforded a solo show in Vancouver. This exhibition will provide the opportunity to view a selective survey of the artist's works over the past thirty years and assess the significant effect Graham’s practice has had on the local community.

Grey cube-shaped sculptures are installed inside a display box. On the white wall behind this box, a text-based work about a human body function is printed.
A set of three artworks are mounted on a gallery wall. Two of them are text-based works. The rest mimics an advertisement page in a newspaper.
A silver film projector is placed on a white table. It projects a film on a gallery wall. The projected blurred image depicts a hand and a green coloured large insect-like shaped object.
Two large pedestals sit in a gallery. The one in the front holds a wood and metal made sculpture that roughly resembles a record player. The one in the back holds sculptures in a display box.
Five artworks are installed on a gallery wall. A text-based work is placed in between a coloured photograph and a drawing. Two large black and white drawings are mounted in the back.
A film projector projects a moving image on a white gallery wall. The film shows a torso of a naked person holding a video camera to a person who was filming.
A closeup showing a film projector playing a video on a wall. The video shows a naked person sitting with a camera in their hands, filming.
On a large plinth placed in the middle of the gallery, six square-shaped sculptures sit. Four framed two-dimensional works are mounted on the walls around this plinth.

Documents

Essay: "Dan Graham in Vancouver," Ian Wallacepdf65kb

Publications & Editions

PublicationDan Graham$5.00
Grey cube-shaped sculptures are installed inside a display box. On the white wall behind this box, a text-based work about a human body function is printed.
A set of three artworks are mounted on a gallery wall. Two of them are text-based works. The rest mimics an advertisement page in a newspaper.
A silver film projector is placed on a white table. It projects a film on a gallery wall. The projected blurred image depicts a hand and a green coloured large insect-like shaped object.
Two large pedestals sit in a gallery. The one in the front holds a wood and metal made sculpture that roughly resembles a record player. The one in the back holds sculptures in a display box.
Five artworks are installed on a gallery wall. A text-based work is placed in between a coloured photograph and a drawing. Two large black and white drawings are mounted in the back.
A film projector projects a moving image on a white gallery wall. The film shows a torso of a naked person holding a video camera to a person who was filming.
A closeup showing a film projector playing a video on a wall. The video shows a naked person sitting with a camera in their hands, filming.
On a large plinth placed in the middle of the gallery, six square-shaped sculptures sit. Four framed two-dimensional works are mounted on the walls around this plinth.