December 2008
Vancouver Art Gallery visitors can now take home an original artwork by multi-media artist Marianne Nicolson whose site specific light installation, The House of the Ghosts, currently emblazons the Gallery’s Georgia Street Façade.
The Dzawada’enuxw artist has created a limited edition screenprint of a central element of her glowing installation for sale in the Gallery’s Artist Editions program - a program that makes limited edition artworks by internationally renowned exhibiting artists available to the general public for purchase.
Nicolson’s work will be available in the Gallery Store in time for the holiday giving season, with all proceeds going to support Gallery programs.
For the work, Sisi’utl Crossbeam, Nicolson extracted one of the stylized Spirit figures from, The House of the Ghosts, her landmark light installation to create a two-colour screenprint.
Using compositional techniques based in the formline tradition of Northwest Coast First Nations, Nicolson has produced a highly expressive rendering of a Sisi’utl figure - a Kwakwaka’wakw Spirit represented by a double-headed serpent with an anthropomorphic head at its centre.
In both Kwakwaka’wakw and English, an elegantly embossed text stretches across the three-foot work reading, “Come, Ghosts! You, were night is day and whose day is night, in this Great House.”
The Vancouver Art Galley’s Artist Editions program also includes sculptural works by Lisbon-based German artist Gabriela Albergaria, whose work was featured in the 2007 exhibition The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, photographs by Japanese artist Kyohei Sakaguchi, who was featured in the 2006 exhibition NEXT: Kyohei Sakaguchi: Zero Yen House, and photographs by Vancouver-based artist Rodney Graham, whose work was featured in the Gallery’s 2005 exhibition Rodney Graham: A Little Thought.
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