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Living Room: Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Past exhibition
1 October - 13 November 2020
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Overview
Catherine Blackburn, Stay Home, 2020 NFS
Catherine Blackburn, Stay Home, 2020
NFS
Living Room
Audie Murray, Catherine Blackburn, Marcy Friesen, Carollyne Yardley, and Trace Yeomans

 

Oct 1 - Nov 13, 2020

Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver, BC


Fazakas Gallery is pleased to present this group exhibition as an active contemplation and celebration of domiciliary practices. Living Room brings together works by artists Audie Murray, Catherine Blackburn, Carollyne Yardley, Marcy Friesen, and Trace Yeomans. In the gallery-turned-living room, the exhibition considers the global shift towards living and working in simultaneous spaces following the public health guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic.


The scale of the pandemic has created the largest collective experience in modern history. Public health measures, national lockdowns, travel restrictions, new daily protocols, economic devastation. No stone is left unturned by the innumerable effects the pandemic has and will have in the future. As we witness the seismic scale of repercussions, we've been forced by our individual experiences of introspection to slow down and meditate on the more intimate details of our lives. With an increased familiarity with our domestic spaces, the ways in which we live and work have shifted to prioritize new thoughts, scales, and materialities. 


As the discourse of contemporary cultural production, art has always prioritized conversations that center relevance. The artists in this exhibition have demonstrated such pertinence as forefronted through the legacies of Indigenous crafting techniques. Reflecting on experimental materiality and social awareness to the issues of domestic violence following stay-at-home orders, the effect on global supply chains, urbanization of natural habitats as disease-harbouring, and the woes of introspection following the bleakness of self-isolation. History is being written before us, and art has always been one of the most effective tools for studying history. 

Works
  • Contagion
    Contagion
  • Zoonetics
    Zoonetics
  • Sacred Selfie
    Sacred Selfie Sold
  • Pair Of Socks: Tobacco Offering
    Pair Of Socks: Tobacco Offering Sold
  • Cleansing Tears (Depression Moccasin)
    Cleansing Tears (Depression Moccasin) Sold
  • Last Breaths
    Last Breaths Sold
  • Lovely & Lost
    Lovely & Lost Sold
  • Lost Classy Lady
    Lost Classy Lady Sold
  • Lost Innocents
    Lost Innocents Sold
  • Fur Cushion
    Fur Cushion
  • Lost in Thought
    Lost in Thought Sold
  • Eagles & Ravens
    Eagles & Ravens
  • Frog Covid Face Mask
    Frog Covid Face Mask Sold
  • Catherine Blackburn, Stay Home, 2020 NFS
    Catherine Blackburn, Stay Home, 2020
    NFS
  • Catherine Blackburn, Pineapple Weed (Aboriginal Classics Series), 2020 Sold
    Catherine Blackburn, Pineapple Weed (Aboriginal Classics Series), 2020
    Sold
  • CATHERINE BLACKBURN, TANSY RAGWORT (ABORIGINAL CLASSICS SERIES), 2020 Sold
    CATHERINE BLACKBURN, TANSY RAGWORT (ABORIGINAL CLASSICS SERIES), 2020
    Sold
  • Catherine Blackburn, Desert Sage (Aboriginal Classics Series), 2020 Sold
    Catherine Blackburn, Desert Sage (Aboriginal Classics Series), 2020
    Sold
Press
  • COVID-19 masks make meaningful, whimsical debuts at art galleries in Vancouver and Banff

    Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2020

Related artists

  • Marcy Friesen

    Marcy Friesen

  • Audie Murray

    Audie Murray

  • Trace Yeomans

    Trace Yeomans

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659 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1R2
info@fazakasgallery.com | 604-876-2729

xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Unceded Territories

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