Andre Petterson: “Brand”

May 05 - May 23, 2018

 Sponsored by Prophecy Wine on Saturday, May 5 at reception.

    Art Dealers Association of Canada Gallery Hop on Saturday (May 5); meet the artist at 415PM

  “Advertising logos pepper tapestries of billboards, street signage and bus banners across urban landscapes in cities and rural villages all over the world.
Branding, an essential tool for marketing and identity construction in late capitalism, serves as a mode of communication rife with meaning about access, possession, and consumption. In Brand, Vancouver-based artist Andre Petterson explores themes of globalization and cultural homogenization through the dissemination of visual ephemera in the marketing campaigns of large western corporations such as Disney, Coca-Cola, and the Louis Vuitton Group.
Best known for his work blending painting and photography, Petterson exposes the breakdown of traditional distinctions between high and low, real and fake, old and new, urban and rural. Brand destabilizes the significance of recognizable cultural signifiers as they are re-contextualized and re-configured in different contexts; sometimes reinforcing wealth and status, other times receding to obscurity to the point of ironic absurdity.”   -  Raissa Alvero  2017 

ECatalogue available on-line:

https://issuu.com/wallacegalleries/docs/pettersonexhibition-brand2018-v4

Ducote & Nardelli: “SENTINENCE”

May 26 - June 13, 2018

Opening reception: May 26; 2-5PM  
 Artist talk at 3PM  

   ‘Abstraction is a language that relies upon sensory impressions over written narratives. Abstract works create a unique internal dialogue with viewers through feeling, perceiving and experiencing the works subjectively. Through this external stimulus and internal reflection, ‘Sentience’, an exhibition featuring works by Camrose Ducote and Linda 

  Nardelli, invites you to consider and experience art through the five groups that compose a sentient being; matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness. Just like the works by Ducote and Nardelli, with their hidden and exposed elements that are produced out of an exploration of the abstract and the organic, ‘Sentience’ is about being more than a just physical form; it’s about embodying spirit.’  -written by Elizabeth Carr