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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Marc Bell - Shoe Reviews Online And Other Replacement Works
DESCRIPTION:For his solo-exhibition at Massy Books\, Vancouver based artist\, illustrator and editor Marc Bell showcases a body of works deliberately playful and confounding. Shoe Reviews Online And Other Replacement Works is the result of a creative proposition aimed at avoiding contributing to the wasteful habits of art collection practices\, while also initiating the creation of new work. Bell had donated several framed artworks to museums in Canada\, and as is often the case\, the museums did not wish to acquire the frames with the works. Bell used this refusal as an avenue to build a series of ink drawings that occupy the former homes of the works now resting in the museum collections. These “replacement” works reference their predecessor\, while inhabiting their former frame. \nUsing a visual stream of consciousness\, Bell overcrowds each ink drawing\, creating dense\, chaotic image planes reminiscent of labels and diagrams intended to be read but not followed. In his mixed media works\, Marc draws attention to seemingly random material (messy drawings other bits of paper that would normally be discarded)\, and builds these up in layers in a meditative process in an attempt to create an object of interest that is both “scrappy” and refined. \n“My process involves organizing “scrap material”\, whether it be actual scraps or ideas I have come up with and jotted down. I sometimes liken this idea to “using up what is left in the fridge”. Trying to make something interesting with what is at hand. “ – Marc Bell \nArtist Biography: \nMarc Bell is the author of ​Worn Tuff Elbow (Fantagraphics\, No World Books​)\, Stroppy\, Hot Potatoe [sic]\, Pure Pajamas (Drawn & Quarterly)\, and ​Shrimpy and Paul and Friends​ (Highwater Books)​ ​and is a co-founder of The All-Star Schnauzer Band (alongside  Jason McLean). His comics have appeared in many Canadian monthlies and weeklies\, Vice\, and LA Weekly. He has edited several books including Mark Connery’s ​Rudy (2D Cloud) and ​Nog A Dod ​(Picture Box/Conundrum). Marc’s work was recently included in ​Words In Pictures ​at Adam Baumgold Gallery (New York\, NY) and ​Exhibition Kramers Ergot ​ at Formula Bula\, (Paris\, FR). \n   \nImages:\nMarc Bell\, I Don’t Know OK?\, 2017\, ink on paper\, 10 x 8 inches (Replaces: Corkhead We Come In Peace)\, $600\nMarc Bell\, Tax Year USD Replace Art Post Art Career/Civic Hatchback\, 2016\, ink on paper\, 6.5” x 6.5”\, (Replaces: Celebrity Match-Up) $400\nMarc Bell\, Shoe Reviews Online\, 2017\, mixed media\, 11 x 9 inches\, (Replaces: That Ol’ Dull & Empty Feeling)\, $1000 \nAccessibility:\nThis exhibiition takes place upstairs in the Massy Gallery\, which is only accessible by a flight of stairs. Unfortunately\, no audio or visual tours are available at this time. \nMassy Books is easily accessible by transit! Close to the 22\, 3\, 8 and 19 bus lines at Main and Georgia/Gore and Georgia. There is metered street parking along Georgia\, or lot parking at the Sun Wah Centre around the corner (268 Keefer). \nMasks are mandatory while in Massy Books. \n————————————\nMassy Books acknowledges that we operate on the traditional\, ancestral\, unceded\, and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: Nothing You Can Carry by Susan Alexander
DESCRIPTION:Local poet Susan Alexander gives a reading from her new book of poetry 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺. This beautiful evening is accompanied by musical performance by Montreal-based folk musician Le Ren.⁣ \nMissed the event? Watch it here \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xab2X01k_2U&feature=youtu.be \nPre-order a book from Massy Books\, and receive a signed copy!\nClick here to order.  \nNothing You Can Carry  is rooted in a keen\, even holy\, sense of place within the natural world. Today that place is haunted by anxiety over a precarious present and a darker future. These poems take an honest\, sometimes ironic and sometimes broken-hearted look at how the self and society are implicated in our climate crisis and the systemic complexities surrounding it. Yet life goes on. The collection moves through environmental fears and spills into all the areas that absorb the self – memory\, story\, family\, love. These poems are vivid and vulnerable\, humorous and emotional. They summon the deeper mysteries of being human in a world that is increasingly separate from the sacred. \n\nAlexander’s poetry is specific\, local\, and universal at the same time. Her images are powerful and her language honed to the elemental common denominators of land\, water\, and sky\, and the natural forces that exist in these elements.\n\n——— \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nSusan Alexander is the author of two collections of poems\, Nothing You Can Carry\, 2020 and The Dance Floor Tilts\, 2017\, Thistledown Press. Her work received the 2019 Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry as well as the Vancouver Writers Fest and Short Grain awards. Writer Chelene Knight describes this new book as a “luxurious\, melodic dance to the loudest sounds that come in the quietest of moments.” Susan’s work has appeared in anthologies and literary magazines in Canada and the U.K.\, ridden Vancouver busses as part of Poetry in Transit and even shown up in the woods around Whistler. She lives and works on Nexwlélexm/Bowen Island which is the traditional and unceded territory of the Squamish people. \n     \n  \nABOUT LE REN \nLe Ren\, moniker of Montreal-based artist Lauren Spear\, released her debut EP Morning & Melancholia this summer with prestigious record label\, Secretly Canadian. She was introduced to US audiences last year when she opened for Orville Peck on his national tour. Lauren has studied folk and bluegrass going back to her early teens\, partaking in workshops all over North America. Growing up on Nexwlélexm/Bowen Island\, she was raised on the holy trinity of John Prine\, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Their curious\, deadpan and cosmic approach to life’s most brutal swipes feed Le Ren’s sensibilities\, and her own lyrical couplets are as simply put as they are devastating.  \nhttps://secretlycanadian.com/artist/le-ren/ \n \n———\nMassy Books acknowledges we operate on the traditional\, ancestral\, unceded\, and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.\nSusan Alexander will be broadcasting from Nexwlélexm (Bowen Island)\, which is in the territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh peoples.\nLe Ren will be broadcasting from Tiohtià:ke (Montréal)\, the land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation.\n———\nZOOM INFO \n\n\n\nSusan Alexander is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTopic: Susan Alexander “Nothing You Can Carry” Book Launch\nTime: Sep 21\, 2020 06:00 PM Vancouver\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81590817057\n\nMeeting ID: 815 9081 7057\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,81590817057# US (Houston)\n+16699006833\,\,81590817057# US (San Jose)\n\nDial by your location\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 815 9081 7057\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kenuElfrc1
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