22 March—25 May 1997

New Art from Cuba
Utopian Territories

An important group exhibition of contemporary Cuban art. 23 artists comment on the richness, paradoxes and contradictions of Cuban life, politics and culture at a time when Cuba is at a crossroads in its history.

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10 January—1 March 1997

Mina Totino

A Vancouver artist whose canvases explore the demonic and libidinal energies of decoration and ornament, drawing connections between Dutch still-life emblems and 1990s tattoos and body piercing.

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25 October 1996— 21 February 1997

The Books of Edward Ruscha

An exhibition of the bookworks of conceptual artist Ed Ruscha, curated by George Wagner.

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Larry Johnson

A hybrid of photography, text, animation, graphic design and painting, Johnson’s works investigate American language by zeroing in on the bizarre epiphanies and cruel despair of a new consciousness created by the totalization of consumer culture.

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1996 Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Brynhildur Gudmundsdottir, Joy James Henley, Tessa Lamb, Tim Rattel, Mel Stidolph, and Kelly Wood

The exhibition of the graduating Masters of Fine Arts class is now an annual event at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. It is the occasion where the work of the Department of Fine Arts and Studio Division is presented to the campus and the community.

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30 August—28 September 1996

Colour Research

An exhibition from material in the Morris/Trasov Archive housed at the Belkin Art Gallery. The colour bar projects involved painting, sculpture, performance, film and conceptual art and included the hand manufacture of two thousand painted wooden colour bars which were used as modules in temporary outdoor works of art.

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30 August—28 September 1996

Recent Acquisitions

Lawren Harris, Claude Breeze, Emmett Williams, Eric Metcalfe, Attila Richard Lukacs, and Audrey Capel Doray

This first exhibition of the University of British Columbia’s collection in the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery celebrates one year in our new building by acknowledging the gifts of works of art we have received over the last several years.

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7 June—14 August 1996

Attila Richard Lukacs

The Workers Series, produced between 1989 and 1993, is six paintings distinguished by their large-scale format, parodies of murals in the official social realist style of the former Soviet-bloc.

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14 March—25 May 1996

Agnes Martin and Emily Carr
The Innocence of Trees

A small but choice selection of the works of two of the twentieth century’s greatest painters—both women, both raised in B.C. Carr became an expressionist, painting the wild forest and sky. Martin became a minimalist, painting highly refined variations on her intimations of divine order on nature. Guest curated by David Bellman.

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27 January—2 March 1996

Robert Filliou
From Political to Poetical Economy

A joint production of the Western Front and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. This project involves the production of a laser disc exhibition edition of three hours of Robert Filliou’s Canadian video work (edition of 20); a publication (edition of 1000); and an exhibition at the gallery. Co-curated by Hank Bull, Sharla Sava and Scott Watson with Rob Kozinuk.

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27 January—2 March 1996

Rodney Graham

The exhibition features Graham’s massive installation piece The School of Velocity, a twenty-four hour musical composition that plays on a Yamaha Disklavier. A poster announcing the performances was produced as a limited edition print as a fund-raiser for the gallery.

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10 November 1995 —14 January 1996

Seeing in Tongues
A Narrative of Language and Visual Arts in Quebec / Le Bout de la Langue: Les Arts Visuels et la Langue au Quebec

Gilbert Boyer, Geneviéve Cadieux, Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapoint, Raymond Gervais, André Martin, Rober Racine, Louise Robert, Barbara Steinman, Louise Viger

The exhibition is about how questions of identity are posed within or against a nationalist agenda.

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29 September—28 October 1995

Capitalizing the Scenery
Landscape, Leisure and Tourism in British Columbia 1880 - 1950

This student-organized exhibition examines the interconnectedness of landscape painting and tourist imagery in British Columbia from the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s to the introduction of “The Canadian”, a transcontinental passenger train, in the 1950s.

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20 June—16 September 1995

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at U.B.C. opens on June 20 with an exhibition of work by Salish artist, Yuxweluptun, gathering together his paintings and drawings from collections in the United States, Germany, Canada and Switzerland. As well, the exhibition will feature his virtual reality project made at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1992. Guest curated by Charlotte Townsend-Gault.

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