Art lovers: check out Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and the Serial Image, which opens at the Surrey Art Gallery this Saturday, January 14th.
Showcasing the way Metro Vancouver is always changing and simultaneously offering “beauty and banality” in its sprawling suburbs and mercurial neighbourhoods, the exhibit includes 13 artists and features video, photography, painting and drawing.
Highlights include “a grid of shimmering graphite rubbings of eroded date-stamped sidewalks on Vancouver’s Westside, a 109 foot long light box presenting a panorama of Metro Vancouver as seen from a moving SkyTrain, and an interactive photographic database of every bus stop in Surrey.” A departure from postcard-perfect views of downtown Vancouver, much of the work focuses on “street intersections, industrial dead zones, and suburban sprawl,” to challenge our ideas about urbanity, marginalization and history.
Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and the Serial Image
13750 88 Ave, Surrey, British Columbia
January 14th- March 18th, 2012
By donation
Opening reception: January 14th, 7:00PM-9:00PM