THE POETICS OF SPACE

Barbara Astman // Maxwell Bates // Rebecca Belmore // B.C. Binning // Lee Bontecou // Bertram Brooker // Karin Bubaš // Arabella Campbell // Emily Carr // Ian Carr-Harris // Share Corsault // Christos Dikeakos // Michael Drebert // Lawren Harris // Owen Kydd // Beatrice Lennie // Landon MacKenzie // Myfanwy MacLeod // Scott McFarland // Jason McLean // Alex Morrison // Ben Nicholson // James Nizam // Dennis A. Oppenheim // Annie Pootoogook // Richard Prince // Pudlo Pudlat // Abraham Rattner // Kyohei Sakaguchi // Reece Terris // Ron Tran // Renée Van Halm // William Vazan

Central Gallery
April 14 to June 30, 2018

Curated by Daina Augaitis, Chief Curator Emerita and Emmy Lee Wall, Assistant Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery

Much art of the last several centuries has been preoccupied with the creation of space, from the illusionistic space of Renaissance art to the presence of depth that can exist even within pure abstraction. Divided into three sections, this exhibition presents a range of historical and contemporary artworks by more than 30 artists that together communicate some of the countless ways artists have contemplated space – from its optical perceptions, to its emotional impact and finally, to its geographical or topographical limits.