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SlideNIGHT is a quarterly salon where artists and the community gather for an exciting evening of lens-based art. In the spirit of the days when a slide projector was the focal point for family gatherings, SlideNIGHT features projected work by a handful of emerging, mid-career, and established artists. Our debut April 13 was part of The Capture Photography Festival. Now we’re back again for our fourth on Saturday April 27th. Doors open at 7 p.m. and admission is $25.Here is a link to tickets: https://www.gallery881.com/tickets/p/slidenight-vol-4-with-helga-pakasaar
In honour our first anniversary we welcome one of the most distinguished curators of lens-based art in Canada, Helga Pakasar, who will both moderate and program the evening. Helga Pakasaar is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Vancouver, Canada, who has worked as Audain Chief Curator at Polygon Gallery. She has also curated exhibitions for Griffin Art and previously worked as a curator at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Walter Phillips Gallery. Taking into consideration the montage format of “slide shows”, Helga has asked our four presenters to draw from their extensive photographic archives to create a slide show. Elizabeth Zvonar constructs hand-cut collages from found images, her work has been exhibited and is in collections around the world. She is represented by the Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto, one of Canada’s most important private Galleries. John O’Brian is an art historian, writer, and curator best known for his books on modern art, including Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism which was one of the New York Times “Notable Books of the Year” in 1986; and also for his exhibitions on nuclear photography such as Camera Atomica, organized for the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2015. He currently has a show at Trapp Projects entitled “Delirium” that is currently part of the Capture Photography Festival. Robert Kleyn is an artist who works with slide and photo sequences and has exhibited his work in exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Catriona Jefferies Gallery, Centro di Roma; Modern Art Agency, Napoli and Contemporanea, Roma. Also, an architect; he has collaborated with artists including Jochen Gerz, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Fabio Mauri, and Roberto Rossellini. Roger Larry, a SlideNIGHT founder is an artist and feature filmmaker who explores the gothic landscape in his recent work. He has exhibited at PS1 MOMA and has a solo show in May at Gallery 881.
Here are links to our artists bios and work:
Elizabeth Zvonar:
https://www.elizabethzvonar.com/
https://danielfariagallery.com/artists/elizabeth-zvonar
John O’Brian:
https://ahva.ubc.ca/profile/john-obrian/
https://www.trappprojects.com/
Robert Kleyn
https://www.monicareyesgallery.com/robert-kleyn.html
https://catrionajeffries.com/exhibitions/robert-kleyn-works-1969-1983-may-20-june-25-2011
Roger Larry
https://www.instagram.com/roger_larry_art/
Bio is below in the founders section
SlideNIGHT is curated and created by Julie Lee, John Goldsmith and Roger Larry. The event takes place at Gallery 881, a photo-centric art space located in Vancouver, Canada. SlideNIGHT is a presentation of PrintMaker Studio, a fine art print and finishing studio located at 881 East Hastings, Vancouver. The evening’s presenters Relevison, SlideNIGHT, Printmaker Studio, and Gallery 881 operate on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish xʷməθkʷəyəm, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and Selílwitulh Nations (Vancouver, BC).
Sponsors: Gallery 881,
Founders/Producers
Roger Larry
www.rogerlarry.art
@roger_larry_art
Roger is a filmmaker and artist who had three film installations co-authored with Mark Lewis screen in 2013 at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) PS1 In Brooklyn. He has a large body of work made over the last twenty years but is only now attempting to exhibit them. Roger’s first solo show will be at Gallery 881 in April 2024 during Vancouver’s Capture Photography Festival. He will also be featured in a group show this December sponsored by the international art magazine, Broad Magazine. He has made four feature films and dozens of hours of TV, Cool Daddy his latest feature doc is now screening on CBC GEM.
Julie Lee
www.julielee.ca
Julie Lee is an accomplished filmmaker, curator, art-consultant and was co-founder and director of Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver’s international lens-based arts festival. She has worked at Vancouver galleries including the Winsor Gallery, as curator and manager from 2001 to 2005 and as Director of Initial Gallery in 2014 and more recently at Frank Gallery. Julie is grateful for her enduring relationships with artists and patrons throughout the world, and the joy it brings to the work. She is most proud of her social initiatives Moja Moja, Regeneration and Unite With Art. Prior to her career in visual arts, Julie was an award-winning producer of feature films and television programs in Vancouver, Toronto and Los Angeles.
John Goldsmith
www.gallery881.com
@gallery881_
John Goldsmith is a Detroit-born artist, fine art printer, and gallerist living in Vancouver, Canada. He is the owner of PrintMaker Studio, the gallerist of Gallery 881, and co-Director of 560 Gallery. John has a Master’s Degree in Chemistry from Indiana University and worked as a chemist before transitioning to the darkroom and artist. John was an invited artist for the inaugural Capture Photography Festival in 2013 and in 2016 won the festival’s public art competition. John’s artwork has been exhibited at the Format Festival (UK), Third Floor Gallery (Wales), and the Head On Photo Festival (Australia).
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Gallery 881, 874 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1R6, Canada,Vancouver, British Columbia