PAST EXHIBITION
Liz Magic Laser: Kiss and Cry
20 November 2015 - 23 January 2016
Opening Reception 20 November 2015 7pm
Mercer Union is delighted to present a solo exhibition by New York based artist Liz Magic Laser. The exhibition titled Kiss and Cry will feature a new video work commissioned by the gallery and Partners in Art. There will be an artist talk at 7pm on Friday 20th November 2015, followed by the opening reception. Liz […]
PAST EXHIBITION
SPACE: Olivia Plender
12 September 2015 - 15 January 2016
Opening Reception 12 September 2015 5pm
The fourth artist to create a commissioned work for SPACE, Mercer Union’s billboard project, is Olivia Plender. Olivia Plender’s research-based practice interrogates the ideological framework around the narration of history and, more recently, changing attitudes to education and value. Her 2010 installation, titled Google Office, in the Tapei Biennial, Taiwan, interrogated the commodification of knowledge […]
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Abbas Akhavan: variations on a garden
12 September 2015 - 31 October 2015
Opening Reception 12 September 2015 5pm
Mercer Union is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Abbas Akhavan entitled variations on a garden opening on Saturday 12th September 2015. Abbas Akhavan’s practice ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing, video, sculpture and performance. The direction of his research has been deeply influenced by the specificity of the sites where he works: the […]
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Karen Kraven: Flip Flop, Punch Front
29 May 2015 - 1 August 2015
Opening Reception 29 May 2015 7pm
Mercer Union is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Montreal-based artist Karen Kraven entitled Flip Flop, Punch Front opening on Friday 29th May 2015. Karen Kraven’s works set up unexpected encounters between sculptures and images, uncanny resemblances and misleading juxtapositions. Flip Flop, Punch Front continues Kraven’s interest in sport with an exploration of adornment, performance and conceptions […]
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VSVSVS: Not together, but alongside
29 May 2015 - 1 August 2015
Opening Reception 29 May 2015 7pm
Mercer Union is delighted to present an exhibition by VSVSVS entitled Not together, but alongside opening on Friday 29th May 2015. Not together, but alongside explores the potentiality of relationships between the viewer and the artist, the collective and the individual, the gallery and the studio. In their large scale installation sprawling through the front […]
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SPACE: WALTER SCOTT
8 April 2015 - 8 August 2015
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am
The third artist to create a commissioned work for SPACE, Mercer Union’s billboard project will be Montreal and Toronto based artist Walter Scott. Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working across writing, illustration, performance and sculpture. In 2011 while living in Montreal, he began a comic book series, Wendy, exploring the narrative of a fictional young woman […]
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Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle
Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen
13 March 2015 - 25 April 2015
Opening Reception 13 March 2015 7pm
Mercer Union is delighted to present Challenge for Change/Société Nouvelle: Documents in Participatory Democracy, a project by Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen. Between 1967 and 1980 the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) spearheaded a social activist documentary initiative placing film skills into the hands of the people to tackle poverty, environmental, first nations and women’s issues. Government […]
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Seraphine, Seraphine
Krista Belle Stewart
13 March 2015 - 25 April 2015
Opening Reception 13 March 2015 7pm
Mercer Union is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Krista Belle Stewart, opening Friday 13 March 2015. Echoing the excavation of the past in her work, Krista Belle Stewart in Seraphine: Her Own Story (2014) juxtaposes two images; a docu-drama shown on CBC in 1967 portraying the first Aboriginal public health nurse in British Columbia, with […]