CHRIS GERGLEY: COPY WORK AND GOBO

The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

September 7 – November 08, 2007

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 6-9pm

Chris Gergley, Apartment El Mirador, 1998. Image: monteclarkgallery.com

For Copy Work and Gobo, his ambitious solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver artist Chris Gergley continues to work with his archive of found and self-produced images and photographic paraphernalia to build a complex narrative of his relationship to photography.

Like many Vancouver photographers, he is often inspired by his immediate urban environment, whether Vancouver of the artist’s hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan. Often banal images belie fascinating stories or inconceivable sequences of events experienced by Gergley and captured on film.

An artist talk by Chris Gergley will be held on Thursday, October 25, 2007, at 7pm

Chris Gergley, Queen City, 1998. Image: monteclarkgallery.com

BGL: LA SENTEUR DE MES MAINS/THE MARKS OF MY HANDS

The Koffler Gallery, Toronto

September 6 to November 25, 2007

BGL, La senteur de mes mains / The Marks of My Hands, Installation view. Image: kofflercentre.com

Quebec-city art collective and 2006 Sobey Art Award finalists BGL presents La senteur de mes mains / The Marks of My Hands, a new site-specific installation that was shaped by the artsits’ experience of the gallery space.

The human imprint on these sculptors’ hand-made objects poignantly contrasts the generic nature of the mass-produced. Generating plays of exchange and displacement between the worlds of art and commerce, BGL prompts the viewer to slow down and see things differently.

The collective has rarely shown in Canada outside of Quebec, though they are well-known in their province and increasingly so internationally.

BGL, La Source. From the 2004 edition of the International Garden Festival. Image: mocoloco.com