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part of Vancouver's urban landscape," reads the exhibit description. Film production companies claimed these signs as stolen property, the Vancouver police were contacted, and gallery officials were forced to take down some of the signs and replace them with photocopies. "If anything," Kliegel claimed, "the movie companies themselves practice location theft by setting a film in Vancouver and making it look like another city." Christina Ritchie, the gallery's Director, posted a letter addressed to Off-Set Rentals on the gallery's front door, telling the company's officials that she found it "sad and disappointing" that they could not appreciate Kliegel's "unique and insightful image of Vancouver."
293:. It was widely recognized for providing initial solo exhibitions and catalogues for many of Vancouver's now well-known artists. By the early 1990s, the exhibition program had expanded to include artists of national and international origin. In 1996, the Contemporary Art Gallery was transformed from an artist-run centre into an independent public art gallery, fulfilling the need for a contemporary visual arts institution with programming positioned between the vibrant experimentalism of Vancouver's artist-run centres and the more popular programs of large general-interest institutions. In May 2001, the Contemporary Art Gallery moved to a new purpose-built facility. 27: 47: 349:, which participates in an international catalogue exchange with other galleries and museums, is located on the second floor and is open to the public by appointment. The building was awarded an AIBC Architectural Award of Excellence, Lieutenant Governor Medal in 2002. The Contemporary Art Gallery operates on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm ( 307:
In 2006, Vancouver artist Christian Kliegel's exhibit, "Production Postings," featured hundreds of signs that film and television production units had used to direct their casts and crews to filming locales; "the general design and style of these brightly coloured signs are formulaic and a ubiquitous
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Gallery is 1,040 square feet (97 m) and the Alvin Balkind Gallery is 676 square feet (62.8 m). A reception area adjoins the reading room, in which visitors can access information on current and past exhibitions. The Abraham Rogatnick
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The Contemporary Art Gallery is located in the ground floor and mezzanine of a residential condominium building at 555 Nelson Street, at the corner of Nelson and Richards, just on the edge of
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Established in 1971, the Contemporary Art Gallery (originally called the Greater Vancouver Artist's Gallery) began as an outgrowth of the Social Planning Department of the City of
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society under the Societies Act of British Columbia. In 1984, the Contemporary Art Gallery became an
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and many others. International artists who have had exhibitions at the CAG include
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by Claudia Beck and John Miller. Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2005. (
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In 2018 the gallery began a five-year contract to curate art in the London
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Christopher Williams: Archäologie Beaux Arts Ethnography Théâtre-Vérité
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program, placing contemporary art on the side of Vancouver
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in one of the two galleries at the exhibition facility
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exhibit by Christian Kliegel, at the gallery in 2006
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Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) is located in Greater Vancouver Regional District
Metro Vancouver
Yaletown
Vancouver
British Columbia
Coordinates
49°16′47″N 123°07′18″W / 49.279676°N 123.121547°W / 49.279676; -123.121547
Art gallery
Kimberly Phillips
www.contemporaryartgallery.ca
contemporary art gallery
Vancouver
Canadian contemporary art
Stan Douglas
Ian Wallace
Rodney Graham
Liz Magor
Brian Jungen
Damian Moppett
Shannon Oksanen
Elspeth Pratt
Myfanwy MacLeod
Krista Belle Stewart
Dan Graham
Christopher Williams
Rachel Harrison
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Ceal Floyer
Douglas Coupland

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