Tag Archives: art

May 25 2015

Pictures from an Exhibition

The Transience of Value

April 24th to May 31st, 2015, in the Salon Shop at Gallery Gachet, an artist-run centre in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Photo: Graeme K. Nix
Photo: courtesy Gallery Gachet
Photo: Graeme K. Nix
Photo: courtesy Gallery Gachet
Photo: courtesy Gallery Gachet
Photo: courtesy Gallery Gachet
Photo: Graeme K. Nix

Photo credits: Graeme K. Nix and Gallery Gachet.

Apr 22 2015

The Transience of Value

Gallery Gachet

Salon Shop exhibition: The Transience of Value by Lena Tan.

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Opening reception: Friday, April 24th, 7.00 – 10.00 pm
Exhibition runs: April 24th – May 31st, 2015

Lena Tan carries forward forgotten traditions into a contemporary society that leaves a trail of increasingly obvious destruction behind it. Hand-worked lace, based on the pattern work of Irish women crocheting for survival through the Great Famine of the mid-19th century, meld with the flotsam of the daily commuter. Repurposed bus tickets & crochet become micro meditations on transit and transformation. Permanence fused on to transience. Can the invalidated be made valid again through art?

Feb 12 2015

Squares

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Tiny areas under high magnification – mind machine meld – lose your self in here.

“Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees.” The Art of Colour,  Johannes Itten