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| Art by Surrey Secondary Students:
Me and My World
January 4 - March 21
Exhibition Reception: January 23, 2pm
 Presenting more than a thousand works by students from Surrey secondary schools, this screen-based exhibition reveals a "fingerprint" of this time and place. |
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 How do Surrey's youth see their community?
The REMIXX.sur.RE exhibit uses 700 digital photos, 60 digital video and animation clips, text in five languages and 260 audio clips created by Surrey youth. Its software engine produces hundreds of thousands of compositions from this database. These "remixes" are interactive, generated live-on the fly by the movement of visitors in the gallery. REMIXX.sur.RE personalizes every visitor's visual and audio experience. The result is an extraordinary expression of diverse youth visions of the people and places of Surrey. It is an example of youth's engagement with technology, and shows how technology is affecting perceptions of the world.
REMIXX was youth led and youth driven, supported by a team of mentors. Over 100 youth from all of Surrey's communities contributed digital content to the project.Over the summer the Gallery's TechLab became a hub of computers, conversation, emails, animating and coding, as the youth worked as artists in residence. The production team includes digital art interns Maimoona Ahmed and David Chen; mentoring artists Sylvia Grace Borda, M. Simon Levin; Leonard Paul, and Henry Tsang; program coder Jer Thorp; project coordinator, Fiona Lemon; and many youth volunteers from Surrey.
Funding for this project was made possible by: City of Surrey, ArtsNow, Spirit of BC Opportunities Program, Young Canada Works, Cultural Human Resource Council, Canadian Museums Association, The Vancouver Foundation, BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Surrey Art Gallery Association.
Project partners include: Surrey School Board, Surrey Art Teachers Association, and Surrey Archives. |
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| Quilt of Belonging
January 23 - April 4
Exhibition Reception: January 23, 2pm Appliquéd butterfly wings, beaded silk, African mud cloth and Salish weaving are a few of the materials and techniques used to make this 36 metre tapestry a masterpiece of textile artistry. The Quilt of Belonging's 263 squares, made by representatives of all Aboriginal peoples and immigrant nationalities in Canada, reflect the unique beauty of each culture's heritage. The quilt's enormous scale wraps visitors in its message of harmony and compassion.
Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
Quilt of Belonging Teachers Guide
A guide for elementary teachers with information and activities that will help you prepare for and follow-up your visit to the Surrey Art Gallery to see Quilt of Belonging. To access the guide please launch the pdf below.
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| Frank Shebageget: Model Life
January 23 - April 4
Exhibition Reception: January 23, 2pm This exhibition presents a series of objects and drawings that raise questions about how models and modelling inform our contemporary culture. Shebageget understands that the model can be both anticipatory–looking ahead into what the future might look like–and preservational–seeking to save elements of the real world from disappearing. Shebageget’s art seeks to collapse this distinction in order that we might consider the model’s many effects. While each artwork is created by the artist’s own hand, he uses the process of copying and repeating forms to comment on the generic and industrially manufactured objects that have fundamentally affected First Nations and Non-First Nations life today. The artist’s stripped-down, miniaturized, and multiplied forms create elegant clusters of shape and line, all the while connecting these objects and pictures to their administered origins. |
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 | Ruth Scheuing: Silkroads
January 23 - April 4 Ruth Scheuing’s residency and exhibition project Silkroads, examines the myths and metaphors of the Silk Road. Working with digital maps and images, ancient textile patterns, and a programmable loom, Scheuing creates intricately designed woven blankets. For each tapestry, she merges the patterns and geography of this important historic trade route with key historical textile designs that were instrumental in bridging the cultures and economies of East and West. This corridor across Asia known as the Silk Road moved commodities, people, and ideas, including those connected with art and design. The Silk Road transformed societies in fundamental ways — from the growth of urban trading centres to the spread of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. We can think of the impact of the Silk Road as comparable to the profound economic, social, environmental and political impacts the Internet is having on global culture today. Working on one of only six computerized Jacquard looms in Canada, Scheuing will unite hand techniques and computer-aided technologies to create her Jacquard woven tapestries. Scheuing has arranged the TechLab so that it functions simultaneously as a shop window, contemporary gallery display, artist’s studio and factory floor. Artist’s Residency with Ruth Scheuing
Drop in and talk with the artist:
Thursdays, 9am – Noon, Saturdays, 1 – 5pm
January 28–April 3 Free admission |
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| Surrey Urban Screen
February 11
Exhibition Reception: Thursday, February 11, 6-8 pm 
Surrey Urban Screen presents Glocal, a digital artwork that reconfigures the exterior architecture of the newly completed Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre into a generative façade. Glocal draws from a database of over 50,000 images contributed by people from all over the world. Surrey Urban Screen is a new outdoor projection venue, hosting outreach exhibition programs of the Surrey Art Gallery. Exhibitions will appear 30 minutes after sunset, and conclude at midnight. Surrey Urban Screen and Glocal, this venue’s premier exhibition, have been made possible as a partnership between the Surrey Art Gallery and the City of Surrey’s Public Art Program. Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. |
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