Centipede crawls with queerly macabre experimental animation
With multimedia installations, 3D projections, and more, the pop-up exhibition delves into the complexity of queerness
BY GAIL JOHNSON, STIR VANCOUVER
SUM gallery and the Flavourcel Animation Collective present Centipede at the Sun Wah Centre April 7 to 9 from 12...
Spring Arts Preview: with restrictions lifted, music thrives in Vancouver
by Steve Newton, Georgia Straight on February 24th, 2022
Live music is back big-time in Vancouver this spring with a wide range of in-person performances presented by companies like the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Music on Main, the UBC School of...
Stir Q&A: Mi’gmaq photographer and mask-maker Duane Isaac explores Indigenous relationship between land and body
BY GAIL JOHNSON, STIR VANCOUVER
SUM gallery presents Sovereignty by Duane Isaac from February 17 to May 14.
MI’GMAQ ARTIST DUANE Isaac fuses photography with contemporary fantastical masks, his work informed by Indigenous...
Naoko Fukumaru at the SUM Gallery – Mass Reincarnation of Wish Fragments (VIDEO INTERVIEW)
Shaw Multicultural Channel – Nov 30, 2021
Eva Wong at the SUM Gallery – Mass Reincarnation of Wish Fragments (VIDEO INTERVIEW)
Shaw Multicultural Channel – Nov 30, 2021
Vivek Shraya – Trans artist challenges the use of trauma narratives in an era of virtue signalling
Galleries West | April 14, 2021
Trauma Clown, by Vivek Shraya, on view as part of the Capture Photography Festival at Vancouver’s SUM Gallery until July 1, is a soft but potent critique of audiences and viewing...
Le clown cathartique de Vivek Shraya
Radio-Canada | April 2, 2021
[Vivek Shraya] est une artiste canadienne très importante, son oeuvre comprend la musique, la littérature l’art visuel, le film, le théâtre, même si elle est sûrement plus connue en tant qu’écrivaine » énumère la co-fondatrice de...
Vivek Shraya’s Trauma Clown photo series probes the commodification of personal pain
Stir Vancouver | April 1, 2021
SUM Gallery presents Trauma Clownto July 1. Opening-night receptions April 1 and 2 are sold out; an online artist talk April 3 at 3 pm is still taking registration....
Five Projects to See at Vancouver’s Capture Photography Festival
Canadian Art | March 30, 2021
ZINNIA NAQVI
Public installation, Canada Line, April 2 to September 30
Each image from Zinnia Naqvi’s Yours to Discover series is a dense tapestry of meaning. Naqvi stages the immigrant dream—a washed-out, middle-class suburban bliss—and...
Artist and author Vivek Shraya to talk with Jonny Appleseed author and launch solo art show in Vancouver
Georgia Straight | March 30, 2021
Multidisciplinary Canadian artist, author, and University of Calgary professor Vivek Shraya has quite the week lined up for Vancouver audiences.
The writer, visual artist, performer, and musician will participate in a literary...
Conversations with Our Relations. Chatting with 2S Indigiqueer Art Darlings – Shane Sable
neverapart.com
Aani! Dolly Berlin ndizhinikaas.(Hello! My name is Dolly Berlin)
I am a burlesque showgirl and event-producer-on-pandemic-hiatus based in Tkaronto (Toronto).
A proud Indigiqueer/Bi+ mixed Ojibwe woman, I am very excited and honoured to collaborate with Never Apart to bring you this...
Art Scene: Different ways of seeing | Listings
Vancouver Sun | November 13, 2020
Sum Gallery
A memorial retrospective of work by Geoff McMurchy (1955-2015) features the B.C. artist’s assemblages of found materials. A quadriplegic artist, choreographer, dancer and arts administrator, McMurchy’s legacy includes mentorship of...
Art Scene: Different ways of seeing
The Province | Nov 13, 2020 |Shawn Connor
A memorial retrospective of work by Geoff McMurchy (1955-2015) features the B.C. artist’s assemblages of found materials. A quadriplegic artist, choreographer, dancer and arts administrator, McMurchy’s legacy includes mentorship...
Posthumous retrospective of groundbreaking B.C. disability artist’s work opens at Vancouver queer art gallery
Georgia Straight | October 28, 2020
A retrospective of the work of a pioneering B.C. artist will be on display at a Vancouver art gallery for the next month.
The memorial exhibit Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations—A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective...
Egg beaters to car-grill wings: SUM gallery takes viewers through the assemblages of late artist Geoff McMurchy
STIR Arts Culture Vancouver – October 28, 2020
Curators re-create the disability-arts pioneer’s metaphorical world of sculptures and collectibles
SUM gallery...
SUM gallery Welcomes Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations — A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective
Posted on October 23, 2020 by jminter
SUM gallery, Vancouver’s queer mandated visual art gallery is welcoming its newest exhibition – Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations — A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective – opening October 29th.
Running until December 1,...
Events in Vancouver: Live and virtual things to do around metro Vancouver this week
Vancouver Sun/Province | October 22, 2020
Sum GalleryWhere: #425 – 268 Keefer St.Info: sumgallery.caTime-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations – A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective. A memorial exhibition of visual art by Geoff McMurchy, a storm force fag who...
SUM gallery to open Time-Lapse retrospective for disability arts trailblazer Geoff McMurchy October 29
Stir Arts and Culture Vancouver | Oct 20, 2020
Subtitled Posthumous Conversations, the show and talks pay tribute to the late artist
SUM Gallery presents Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations—A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective from October 29 to December 1
VANCOUVER’S SUM gallery has...
SUM gallery Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations – a Geoff McMurchy Retrospective
whatsounsqueerbc.com | Oct 20, 2020
SUM gallery TIME-LAPSE: POSTHUMOUS CONVERSATIONS —A GEOFF MCMURCHY RETROSPECTIVE
Vancouver, BC, October 19, 2020 – Vancouver’s SUM gallery will be hosting select, special events surrounding their new, Autumn exhibit, Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations —...