Portraits of the Punishable – Miniatures Vol. 2

at Hot Art Wet City on March 2-17.

Opening: Friday the 3rd.

In our fantasies and our phobias. Onto our streets and into our mirrors. Down our alleys and our angers, under our bridges and our skins. In the prisons we fear and the cells we can’t escape.

Bad people.

Celebrating the final exhibition of Hot Art Wet City, Phantoms In The Front Yard reveal their dirty little pictures.

Come see the worst, the naughtiest, the darkest, the damnedest, the shady, the skittish, the last and the least, yourself. We know you’ll take a thing or two away. With miniature pieces and their miniature prices, it may even be some art.

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SPACE: How We Live Together

Exhibition dates: March 9 – April 2, 2016
Reception: Saturday March 19, 2 – 5 p.m.
Artist Panel: Saturday March 26, 1 p.m.

Seymour Art Gallery

4360 Gallant Ave, North Vancouver, British Columbia V7G 1L2

Guest curator Pennylane Shen hosts an artist panel with the members of the artist collective Phantoms in the Front Yard: Jeremiah Birnbaum, James Knight, Paul Morstad, Jay Senetchko, Jonathan Sutton, with guest David Vegt as they discuss their new work, the idea of space, and the role of the figure in contemporary art.

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SPACE

March 9 – April 2, 2016
Reception: Saturday March 19, 2 – 5 p.m.
Artist Panel: Saturday March 26, 1 p.m.SPACE: How We Live Together

Seymour Art Gallery

4360 Gallant Ave, North Vancouver, British Columbia V7G 1L2
Founded in 2010, Phantoms in the Front Yard is a Vancouver-based touring art collective with the mandate to challenge the contemporary Canadian art scene, reviving the human subject as muse. Figurative art has become the phantom of the fine art world, haunting both Modernism and Postmodernism with its ties to a classical tradition, refusing to be dismissed, ignored or forgotten.

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Over the Counter Culture

For their 10th biannual themed exhibition, Vancouver-based figurative collective Phantoms in the Front Yard explores drug culture and its impact. Whether legal, illegal, pharmaceutical, naturopathic, synthetic, or cultivated, drugs have an ever more varied presence on our media, conversations, and society in general. From their use and misuse to their purpose, promise and prominence, they are tied to still wider spectrum of societal issues.

Over the Counter Culture makes reference to propaganda posters, contemporary advertising, fictional and technical literature, and historical print and painting styles, to explore the evolving complexities circling the perceptions and uses of drugs in cultures past and present.

Featuring Artists: Michael Abraham, Jeremiah Birnbaum, Jay Senetchko, Paul Morstad, Bruce Pashak, Jonathan Sutton, and Caroline Weaver, in collaboration with curator Pennylane Shen, and guest artist James Knight.

Opening Night: Saturday, 3 October 2015 from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM (PDT)

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Phantoms in the Front Yard is proud to have this exhibition be a portion of
Scene and Unseen – an Arts Encounter at the Gordon Smith Gallery.
2121 Lonsdale Ave,North Vancouver, British Columbia V7M 2K6
Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm

Show runs until December 16th, 2015
For further Gallery information
contact 604-998-8563 or Click.

Link to the ‘North Shore News’ article here.

Presented alongside rEvolver Festival, May 22 – June 22, 2015 at #‎TheCultch

A group exhibiton with artists Michael Abraham, Jeremiah Birnbaum, Paul Morstad, Bruce Pashak, Jay Senetchko, Jonathan Sutton
and Pennylane Shen (curator).

MAY 22 – JUNE 22, 2015
THE CULTCH GALLERY
1895 Venebles Street

Opening reception:
Friday, May 22nd 6 – 8pm

After party location:
THE WISE HALL LOUNGE,
1882 Adanac Street

Images and words inform and deceive. The interplay of text and visuals may be both penetrating and perplexing; actions may move fluidly within stationary pages, and round figures are revealed from the depths of flat surfaces. Unreliable Narrator invites you to a combined theatre and gallery space to see plays combined with paintings. Each artist has chosen a play whose words – and pages themselves – are incorporated into our figurative tradition.

Both theatrical and figurative art engage bodies. We feel a natural affinity with plays as they reflect a character and a moment; as they prompt gatherings of people around a singular experience. In Unreliable Narrator the notions of theatre, painting, plays, the artist and the audience collapse into the affinity of experience.

Playwrights referenced include Dylan Thomas, Harold Pinter, William Butler Yeats, and William Shakespeare.
There will be no small parts, only small artworks.

CULTCH GALLERY HOURS:
Monday – Friday 12pm – 6pm, Saturday 12pm – 4pm, Sunday – Closed