BEAT NATION: ART, HIP HOP AND ABORIGINAL CULTURE
Central Gallery
June 29 to September 7, 2013
Curated by Tania Willard, Vancouver Art Gallery, Kathleen Ritter
Beat Nation describes a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal identity to create innovative and unexpected new works—in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video—that reflect the current realities of Aboriginal peoples today.
CLAIMING SPACE
Tania Willard
Central Gallery
April 5 to May 24, 2009
As First Nations' land claims slowly grind their way through British Columbia's provincial courts, Tania Willard's art offers a more intimate and passionate probing of territorial issues. Willard's practice has been concerned with cultural displacement, transfer and translation. She uses screen-printing and stencilling processes and oral or written storytelling to probe these concerns. Willard’s grandparents were key interpreters of Secwepemc stories, and Willard’s work often emphasizes the narrative potential of picture-making. Her visual artworks characteristically revive historical elements or contexts within mechanically reproduced images.