1. Two Half Reasons – One Night Only: A special event with Oliver Husain

TONIGHT: Thursday October 18th, at 8pm

Gallery TPW, Toronto

A work by Oliver Husain. Image: husain.de

Two Half Reasons – One Night Only is a participatory event with German artist Oliver Husain. It’s a social cabaret/art opening/exhibition experiment on wobbly stilts.

Click HERE for Husain’s website.

For one night only audiences will encounter each other through the lens of film, decoys, sweet decoration, eclectic hats, and an abundance of potential.

For more information about tonight’s event, please click HERE.

2. Major Survey of work by Roy Arden at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Intertidal, Roy Arden, d’Elegance #1, 2000. Image: exporevue.com

The exhibition runs from October 20, 2007 to January 20, 2008.

The exhibition includes more than 120 photographs, five video works and a recent Internet project. The work covers Arden’s career the early 1980s to the present.

Roy Arden presents four distinct phases of the artist’s career: the evocative colour portraits and urban details from the series Fragments, produced in the early 1980s; the multipart works incorporating archival images that first brought Arden widespread acclaim during the late 1980s; his photographs produced since the early 1990s that trace the social and economic history of Vancouver and its suburbs; and his recent video and Internet-based projects.

One of Roy Arden’s Fragments, Kevin Hatt (#1). Image: presentationhousegall.com

Fragments, composed of a series richly-coloured cibachrome images, is considered Arden’s first mature body of work. Taken with a twin-lens Rolleiflex camera between 1981 and 1985, the series navigates the somewhat romantic world of the young artist in Vancouver–his friends and travels, as well as various corners of Vancouver’s urban landscape.

Click HERE for Roy Arden’s website, where you can watch his video piece The World as Will and Representation.

Roy Arden, Solar, 2005. Image: monteclarkgallery.com

Arden is represented by the Monte Clark Gallery. Please click HERE.