Charles H. Scott Gallery

Cate discusses the trajectory of her multi-part exhibition series, The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea. The Voyage has spanned three years and focused on the relationship between art and the sea. The six exhibitions that make up the series have looked at subjects such as lighthouses, shipwrecks, commerce, politics and sea lore. The exhibitions feature the work of contemporary artists alongside artifacts from the historical archives of the Vancouver Maritime Museum. This talk is presented in conjunction with The Voyage or Three Years at Sea Part VI which was on exhibit at the Charles H. Scott Gallery until October 24, 2013.

Through his projects, Irish artist Sean Lynch pictures idiosyncratic moments from the past, bringing disparate threads of research together in photographic and slide-projection installations, prefabricated or found artefacts and small-scale publications. The artist is participating in the exhibition The Voyage.

Los Angeles-based artist Allan Sekula is a renowned photographer, theoretician, and critic. Using film, photography and text Sekula focuses on economic systems and the conditions of workers in the global maritime market. Allan Sekula was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1951. He studied at the University of California in San Diego from 1968 to 1972 with Herbert Marcuse, among others. He lives and works as an artist and photo theoretician in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The talk is part of the exhibition The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea at the Charles H. Scott Gallery and it is presented in collaboration with Simon Fraser University and the Contemporary Art Society.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 7:00pm - Friday, March 11, 2011 - 9:00pm - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas March 9 - 11, 2011 | 12-2pm and 3-5pm daily Opening | March 8 at 7pm | READ Books Artist Talk | March 11 at 7pm | Theatre 301, South Building - READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present Gareth Long and Derek Sullivan in residence to perform their on-going project The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas. - Seated at their Invented Desk For Copying, a desk re-imagined from the unfinished pages of Gustave Flaubert’s last novel Bouvard and Pécuchet, the artists work towards illustrating and translating every entry in Flaubert’s The Dictionary of Received Ideas. Flaubert’s satirical dictionary contains 950 biting and surprisingly contemporary entries which Long and Sullivan interpret and compile into their collected illustrations. This work forms an on-going series of bookworks titled The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas. - Long and Sullivan have performed numerous public drawing sessions to further their work on The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas at galleries and book stores including Printed Matter Inc, MoMA PS1, Mercer Union, Art Metropole, The Musée Juste Pour Rire in Montreal, Flat Time House in London, UK, and Shandy Hall in Coxwold, UK. - Gareth Long lives and works in New York. He holds a BA in Visual Studies and Classical Civilizations from the University of Toronto and an MFA from Yale University. Long has had solo exhibitions at Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, and Kate Werble Gallery, New York. - Derek Sullivan lives and works in Toronto. He holds a BFA from York University and an MFA from the University of Guelph. Sullivan has had solo exhibitions at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, White Columns, New York, and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge. - For their residency the artists will be working in the bookstore on Tuesday evening, and daily from Wednesday to Friday. On Friday evening they will give a talk beginning at 7pm in the Emily Carr Theatre, South Building, Room 301. - This iteration of the Invented Desk For Copying is made in collaboration with David McGuire.