HOUSE OF ORACLES: A HUANG YONG PING RETROSPECTIVE
April 5 to September 16, 2007

House of Oracles is the first retrospective of one of China’s most influential contemporary artists, Huang Yong Ping. Showcasing paintings, drawings and sculptural installations that evoke the fun house, diorama and menagerie, the exhibition celebrates an artist whose work elegantly traverses the divide between East and West, tradition and the avant-garde. More.......

B.C. BINNING
January 13 to April 29, 2007

B.C. Binning will present approximately 50 works by Bertram Charles Binning, one of Canada’s foremost artists, architectural innovators, art educators and seminal figure in the arts in British Columbia. Drawn from the Vancouver Art Gallery's collection, this exhibition presents key examples of Binning's drawings and paintings and reflects his enduring interest in architecture through the inclusion of maquettes for large mural projects Binning undertook for public buildings in the Greater Vancouver area.

The exhibition will travel to Kelowna Art Gallery from June 16 to September 8, 2007 and Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George from September 27 to December 2, 2007.  

FRED HERZOG
January 25 to May 13, 2007

Born in Germany, Fred Herzog came to Vancouver in 1953. Since that time he has produced a substantial body of photographs, taking urban life in Vancouver second-hand shops, vacant lots, neon signage and the crowds of people who have populated the city’s streets over the past fifty years as his primary subject. Herzog has self-consciously drawn upon documentary traditions in photo-graphy, while incorporating an outsider’s idiosyncratic sensitivity to a new environment into his images. This exhibition, the first to examine Herzog’s overall body of work, will include more than 100 photographs and will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.  

The exhibition covers the full spectrum of Emily Carr's career, presenting the breadth and depth of the most significant aspects of the artist's practice. Through an examination of the themes of her art, place and culture, the exhibition provides a multi-layered investigation into Carr's primary significance as a producer and instigator of West Coast modernism.

Vancouver Art Gallery – 750 Hornby Street – Vancouver, BC – 604.662.4719

Now Open Late every Tuesday and Thursday until 9pm.

ACTING THE PART: PHOTOGRAPHY AS THEATRE
February 3 to May 21, 2007

The tradition of photography began with photography’s invention, as the medium took on the role of allegorical painting and portraiture, and continued into the 20th century, a century otherwise dominated by the rise of “straight” and documentary photography. While, in the 1940s and 1950s, the staged photograph became an important tool in the world of advertising, since the 1970s, several contemporary photographers have used the staged photograph to probe issues of identity or to blend advertising and art history into biting social satire.

Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre is one of the first exhibitions to explore the transformation and wide variety of staged photographs from the 19th century to the present. Among the many photographic treasures, the exhibition will include very rare prints by 19th century luminaries such as Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander, classic examples of the surrealist reveries of Man Ray, the pioneering work of Cindy Sherman, alongside Yasumasa Morimura’s later take on her historical portraits and Yinka Shonibare’s provocatively re-imagined colonial history in the five-part tableau Diary of a Victorian Dandy.