July 2011
5 posts
STAG | Down with Dressing Down! Dress-Up Gang! &...
DOWN WITH DRESSING DOWN! DRESS-UP GANG!
Saturday, July 30, 3-6pm Dress-Up Gang is a proposed affinity group for liberation and the development of increasingly more and more fabulous versions of one’s self through solidarity, freak-fashion exploration, mutual aid, wardrobe and accessory sharing, emotional support, reflection and critique, photo opportunities, stylist-skill-building,...
The Gestare Art Collective | Reflections on the...
Reflections on the Womb Walk Project Artist talk with the Gestare Art Collective (Barbara Bickel, Nané Ariadne Jordan & Medwyn McConachy) Sat. July 23 at 2pm 826 East Pender St., Vancouver BC, 604 564 3261 This talk launches the Gestare Art Collective 2011 residency at the STAG which will take place July 25 - 29.
Womb Walks are labyrinth walking and sometimes labyrinth making...
Barbara Bickel | Oracular Co-Encounters | Thursday...
The STAG is honored to host Barbara Bickel, a visiting artist and educator from Illinois who has a long history in Vancouver and Calgary. She will be presenting the results of her residency - Oracular Co-Encounters - with an event at the STAG
Thursday, July 21, 7-9pm (with a brief Artist Talk at 7:30).
Additional visits to the gallery may be arranged from July21-24 by emailing the STAG at...
Sarah Foulquier & Sylvain Daval | A Dime and a...
Sarah Foulquier & Sylvain Daval
« A dime and a shoe string » Thursday, July 7
6pm-8pm
The STAG
826 E Pender St. The STAG is pleased to invite you to the launch of « A dime and a shoe string », a new publication produced by Sarah Foulquier and Sylvain Daval.
This event will end Sarah Foulquier and Sylvain Daval’s 6 month residency at the STAG...
June 2011
1 post
Guadalupe Martinez | Walk Strathcona | May/June...
The Strathcona Art Gallery is pleased to introduce it’s Artist-in-Residence for May and June of 2011, Guadalupe Martinez.
Guadalupe Martinez is an interdisciplinary Argentine artist currently based in Vancouver, B.C. Her work is a constant exploration of -and- experimenting with identity, place and materials. Informed by her native culture and her interest in language, psychology,...
April 2011
1 post
Patrick Blaeser and Emilio Rojas | On Matters of...
The STAG | Patrick Blaeser and Emilio Rojas | APR 28 ——————————————— On Matters of Sensitivity and/or How The Dripping Turned into a Flood Patrick Blaeser and Emilio Rojas Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:00 to 10:00 pm. 826 E. Pender Vancouver, BC The STAG is pleased to announce On Matters...
March 2011
4 posts
the PERCEIVERS | March 13 - 31, 2011
The STAG is proud to be host to the debut group show of the Perceivers. Formed by members of Spectrum Society for Community Living’s Graffiti program, the Perceivers are a multi-disciplinary tour-de-force. Since Graffiti’s founding in 2004 members of the group have explored mixed media collage, painting, sculpture, music and performance. Through the facilitation of Aja Rose ...
February 2011
5 posts
Crampin' Styled STAG
Nxc Hxghxs’ “debut retrospective” was an amazing success for all of us. Not only did Nxc cram every crevice of the STAG full with his amazing work, but lots of wonderful people - first timers, strangers and good friends - all came to grab a peep at what was on display. Though I’m certain some folks stayed away due to some of the content, those who came seemed very...
January 2011
10 posts
Nxc Hxghxs | Crampin' Style | Thursday, January...
The STAG presents…
Nxc Hxghxs | CRAMPIN’ STYLE | Artworks from 1999-2011
Thursday, January 20th | 7pm-8pm | Parental discretion advised
The STAG is proud to present the debut solo exhibition by Nxc Hxghxs, Crampin’ Style, a veritable onslaught of exacto-fetishism, neurotic/erotic assemblage and raw self-portraiture. For years Nxc’s artwork has defined the aesthetic of...
The Month in Review pt.3: Heather Martin
If December seemed at all quiet for the STAG it was only for lack of exhibitions but not lack of activity. Our space had its share of Think Tanks, but the gallery’s most important role was as host to our second artist-in-residence: Heather Martin.
Most folks will know Heather as a fashion designer and educator who has done amazing hybrid fashion/artworks under the moniker mono. Most...
The Month in Review pt.2: Free Art!
While we know that this happened a bit more than a month ago, it is important (for us anyways) to revisit our Free Art! event. It was quite a success. A steady stream of friends, strangers and neighbors came through our door with their hands full of art to give and to take home with them. For some this was a very strange idea, and for others it made perfect sense. The politics behind what we...
December 2010
7 posts
The Month in Review pt.1: The STAG in the Tin Can...
The STAG’s first residency was a huge success. The guts of the STAG were displaced and replaced within the cozy (though freezing) confines of the Tin Can Studios. In what was dubiously called an “Art world Turducken”, Sylvain Daval and Sarah Foulquier began their residency in the STAG while the STAG did a residency inside the Tin Can, while the Tin Can was participating in...
Think Tank #3: Towards a Micro-Gallery Symposium
The STAG presents: THINK TANK #3: Towards a Micro-Gallery Symposium Monday, December 13th, 7pm
Here at The STAG we have become very interested in other artist and curators who are working through similar kinds of ideas. These projects may be called artist run initiatives, or lumped into a general category of Social Practices or Relational Aesthetics, but in considering these works, we...
Toque & Tin Can Studio
The STAG is actually leaving the STAG for a temporary residency in the Tin Can Studios!
The Western Front will be hosting its annual arts and craft sale, Toque. This year’s theme is a focus on books, text and printed material and there will be vendors ranging from Collage Collage to Arsenal Pulp Press. Our friends the Tin Can Studio were invited to participate and they in turn invited The...
November 2010
8 posts
Think Tank #2: The Lower Mainland Painting Co Job...
The STAG presents: THINK TANK #2: The Lower Mainland Painting Co. Job Fair Wednesday, December 1rst, 7pm The Lower Mainland Painting Co.(LMPC) is a new initiative forming around art, labor and art laborers. The LMPC is in fact a independent painting company that is pursuing paid work in the lower mainland, offering painting and low skilled carpentry services. It is also a conceptual...
Free Art! | Saturday, November 27th | 12-7pm
On Saturday, November 27, from 12-7pm
FREE ART!
The STAG is inviting everyone to give art, to receive art & to free art. From noon to seven in the evening folks are encouraged to visit the STAG. Any works in the gallery that they like they can walk right up to it, take it off the wall, and bring it home. They’re encouraged to bring art to hang in exchange - their own art, art by ...
Ora Cogan | Hard Times, Vast Feelings | Saturday,...
Saturday, November 13th
7pm - 10pm
Hard Times, Vast Feelings
Closing event featuring live music by
MAEVE (Aja Bond & Ora Cogan)
Fun times, vast drones...
The opening of Ora Cogan’s Hard Times, Vast Feelings was a great success. The space filled with folks steadily through the night, with kids and elders rubbing elbows with neighbors and strangers. Ora’s father Uri held court while celebrating his 70th birthday, and the ambient drone-music of first Fieldhead and later Mongst added to the intimacy of the night.
Thanks to everyone for...
October 2010
8 posts
Ora Cogan | Hard Times, Vast Feelings | Friday,...
The STAG will be presenting Vancouver based musician and songwriter Ora Cogan’s first ever solo exhibition. Hard Times, Vast Feelings features a collection of recent drawings, paintings and other works on paper.
Having recently returned from a European tour, Ora turned to visual work to reflect and develop images, myths and dreams that more commonly occupy a place in her songwriting....
Think Tank#1: Heidi Nagtegaal pt. 1
Think Tank #1: Heidi Nagtegaal
Our first Think Tank was also the grand finale of our first Residency. Heidi Nagtegaal sat with a dozen other folks in the STAG Library (and in the Smoke RIngs) discussing the project, craft, feminism, modernism, Claus Oldenberg, labor, the burden of social engagement, sculpture as relational aesthetics and more. Heidi was going to introduce the Think Tank with unresolved questions relating to...
Think Tank #1: Heidi Nagtegaal pt.2
Think Tank #1: Heidi Nagtegaal pt.3
Think Tank #1: Heidi Nagtegaal pt.4
Think Tank #1: Heidi Nagtegaal
Hello everyone,
A quick reminder that Heidi Nagtegaal will be hosting a THINK TANK tonight at the STAG.
Think Tank brings together Creators and a Public to engage in an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, problem solving and mutual aid. A visiting presenter - perhaps an artist, an educator, a community organizer - meets with a room full of guests and poses a question, presents a work...
September 2010
8 posts
A sneak-peek at the Smoke Rings up-close and in...
Come see and experience this installation/sculpture by Heidi Nagtegaal yourself. Contact us to arrange a private viewing or join us for open gallery hours…
Thursday | October 7th | 7-11pm