JOHN BURGESS
Perichute

20 May – 30 June 2011
Opening Reception: 22 May, 7pm
Upshot: 4 June, 7 pm

Curated by Jenn Jackson

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Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition Perichute by Vancouver artist John Burgess. A sculptural materialization of portable architecture, Perichute re-imagines the gallery space through the construction of a hybrid framing device, a Perichute. Considering the formal architecture of the space as a potential psychic mechanism, Burgess evacuates the gallery and induces an indirect transference of vision. This projection is materialized as a multivalent appendage extending beyond the interior margins of the gallery, offering a phantasmagorical view of discarded peripheral space.

The anamorphic objective induces an overlapping of quasi expanding fields offering indexical moments of time suspension. Both moving and still, Perichute is an illusory depiction of mental/spatial experience; a theatre of memory organized around a void. The invisible screen unravels spatial relations and reformulates an elaborate conversation amalgamated in the passage of vision from interior to exterior and back again. An ephemeral framing system, Perichute permits an eclipsed vision of observation along a displaced axis providing witness to a view of that which would otherwise be out of sight. The instrument penetrates the intervening body and extends its essential parts, a chute and a mirror, up and out towards the alternative deflected field. Inflexed towards the gallery interior, materials move mechanically from a receptacle position to one of authorized narrative. A utilization of architectural forms, Perichute magnifies emptiness, shifting the standard method of viewing to an unsealed union of spatial composition and mental projection.

Sunday

LEAH ABRAMSON
LUCIEN DUREY
TOBIN GIBSON
KATIE KOZAK
ANITA SIKMA
SEAN SIKORSKI

April 21 – May 13 2010

Opening Reception April 21, 7pm
Performance by Leah Abramson and Lucien Durey May 12, 7pm

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Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming group exhibition Sunday with Vancouver artists Leah Abramson, Lucien Durey, Tobin Gibson, Katie Kozak, Anita Sikma and Sean Sikorski. An exhibition paradoxical in character Sunday explores the shy subjectivity of sublime discourse. Situated within the here and now, the pertinent investigation offers a challenging embrace of traditional systems. A comforting pursuit of individual differentiation and development, Sunday construes the impossibility of aesthetic congruency within the paradigm of ecclesiastical belief. The commandments of values, judgements, rules and regulations are eclipsed by a language which is alive and flexible. Expressing experiences of self-transcendence, the works complicate signs, symbols, and codes of authentic individuation. A place where reason is free to find its limitations, the installation exposes safe dreams and psychic stability. Each of the contributing artists has produced a work which is representative of a personally anchored sublime translation. Drawing upon the conditions of daily life, their diverse approaches articulate the incommensurability of idiosyncratic rhetoric. A myriad of material outcomes, Sunday fragments ideological fixities and actions of ritual practice, inspiring the collective imagination and persuading an abstract journey of institutional consideration.

RAYMOND BOISJOLY & RYAN PETER
Impossible but True

2 March – 15 April 2011
Opening Reception 2 March, 7pm

Curated by Jenn Jackson

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Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition Impossible but True by Vancouver artists Raymond Boisjoly and Ryan Peter. An experimental collaboration, Impossible but True actualizes material impulse as a scrupulously spontaneous installation. Meaning and consciousness are collapsed through an intuitive process. Boisjoly and Peter sample monosyllabic characters in an improvised surrender of control.

Accessing the general and the already-there, Boisjoly and Peter invite a presupposition accelerated by infinite contradiction. In an ongoing exchange of information the nonchalant duo employs symbolic generators as active agents in the production of meaning. The implied process of being produced leaves Impossible but True durationally open in an active state of constant becoming. A continuity of unfulfillment and incompletion inspires ontological doubt.

Impossible but True utilizes the gallery as vehicle of exploration—balancing skill and slapstick treatment— in negotiating a space between the established and emerging. Editing shapes on the wall Boisjoly and Peter disrupt certain conventions. Absurd from the start the two complicate the straightforward and disperse finality onto a constantly shifting horizon. Their collaborative efforts are based upon a sequence of loosely intertwined parameters which evoke a participatory situation of communal experience. With infinite potentialities Impossible but True inhabits a periphery accessible to individual, emotional and ineffable approach.

TIFFIN BREEN
Life Since 1961

February 10 – 28 2011
Opening Reception February 10, 7pm

Curated by Jenn Jackson

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Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition Life Since 1961 by Vancouver artist Tiffin Breen. Derived from a combination of difference, Life Since 1961 dislocates explanation. Through a conscious installation process Breen’s paintings occupy the site of exhibition in such a way that they reside within the space. Defined by their relationship to each other and their inhabitation of the site her paintings infer a material objecthood. Nothing within the installation means anything except in relation to all other things. Absent is an XY plane of coordination leading to a positive answer of logic. Breen offers a meandering of personal conception rooted in intention, process, and interpretation, fielding a yin yang relationship to meaning. Experience is an expected starting point, a specific set of relationships is provided collectively for reception, the ‘meaning’ arrives at an indefinite future time. Origination is undermined through poetic gestures corresponding to painterly pleasure. The works only allude to this, that, and the other thing without stopping to say, “Hi, I am _____”. A personal anecdote, Breen upturns distinction by unraveling the discursive, dispersed, and non-unified nature of experience. Initial impact is deliberately available and the rest is left to dip into, decipher or decenter. The possibility of collaboratively arriving at meaning as a place somewhere in time, whether it is in the past, present or future is imaginative and open ended, extending relationships of what could be in place of what is. The experience may or may not be fragmented; there are no rules, rather a sincere proposal of subjective approach.

PATRICK CRUZ
Forecast Situation

13 January – 3 February 2011
Opening Reception 13 January, 7pm

Curated by Jenn Jackson

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Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition Forecast Situation by Vancouver artist Patrick Cruz. Walking from fiction to reality, Forecast Situation materializes a virtual dérive. In conversation with the prospect of condition, a digital choreography blurs the past with present and transcribes a flipping of time. Drifting through a re-presentation of geographical space, Cruz employs Google Earth street view to depict his navigation of an urban landscape. Engaged with a sense of familiarity, the captured image references a space capable of divergent potential. An index of location, the fantastical stand-in occupies a transcendental knowledge independent of corporeal experience. His gesture presents itself as a cognitive activity absent of physical labour. Determined by a set of preconceived conditions, each meandering acts to confirm previous memories and validate those yet unknown. Under the guise of progressive democracy, visibility is made public and contextualized by intuitive spatial relationships. The online structure allows for effortless navigation. Cruz exhibits this access with comfortable anticipation, investing an eyewitness account of virtual visual language. A cross section of continuity, Forecast Situation extends the surveying device into a conversation located somewhere in the future.

The Gift

PATRICK CRUZ
RAYMOND BOISJOLY
TIFFIN BREEN
JOHN BURGESS
LUCIEN DUREY
ERIK HOOD
MONIQUE LEVESQUE
ANDREA LUKIC
LES RAMSAY
BENJAMIN RAYMER
KURTIS WILSON

December 9 – 30 2010
Curated by Jenn Jackson

Opening Reception December 11, 7pm

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Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming group exhibition The Gift with Vancouver artists Patrick Cruz, Raymond Boisjolly, Tiffin Breen, John Burgess, Lucien Durey, Erik Hood, Monique Levesque, Andrea Lukic, Les Ramsay, Benjamin Raymer, and Kurtis Wilson. For The Gift, eleven artists have been invited to produce new works as donations, responding to the idea of gift giving. The various materializations inhabit mental, social, and physical space, presenting themselves to a multitude of expectations. Given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future reward, the exchange is left incomplete. A desire for outcome lingers within each voluntary exchange, and reciprocity, a customary character of the gift, is challenged. A multitude of potential intents are instinctively assumed: charity, contribution, obligation, and sacrifice, among others. The gallery becomes a recipient, exploring the act of exhibition as an occasion of presentation within a set of traditional customs, the artist as donor and the artwork as gift. The conventions of gift giving are enforced by a variety of social structures, supported through a complicated network of public critique and value judgment. Postulating a variety of possibilities for contemporary exchange, The Gift positions the analogous relationships between creation/production, sharing/distribution, and reception/consumption.

MONIQUE LEVESQUE
Remembering Days

11 November – 2 December 2010
Curated by Jenn Jackson

Opening Reception 11 November, 7-10pm
Presentation by the artist, 8pm

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Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition Remembering Days by Vancouver artist Monique Levesque. Years are filled with months, months with weeks, weeks with days, and days with hours. Time is transformed by varying degrees of perception, it can drag on or it can fly by. We all fill our own time differently and our experiences emphasize the plurality and mutability of individual practices. Articulating episodic moments in television history, Levesque abstracts and refines the hourly intervals that once filled her weekdays. A reflection on her past routine, Remembering Days develops a re-presentation of the fictionalized daily television drama Days of Our Lives. Through idiosyncratic transformations, Levesque has developed her own narrative to form an extraordinary portrait of time. Abstaining from a canonical overview, Levesque describes the drama’s continuity based on her own organic encounter with it’s histrionic plot twists. Hinged upon a penchant for dramatics Remembering Days observes the invested presence and repression of desire in daily life, whereby symptomatic action lurks just beneath the surface of ordinary conduct. Studying the accruement of behavior that deviates from a standard of acceptance, Levesque presents the obsessed, entranced and narcissistic, history of the everyday.

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives

BEN RAYMER
Wobably

14 October – 4 November 2010
Opening Reception 14 October, 7pm

Curated by Jenn Jackson

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Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition Wobably by Vancouver artist Ben Raymer. An equation of abstract annunciations, Wobably indulges in the re-presentation of feelings: those thoughts, in/tangible things and in-betweens. Thematically extracted from a memoir of everyday experience, Raymer’s punctuations insist on illuminating the imaginative quality of viewership. Balanced between variables of installation, sculpture and painting, the display of abstractive compositions repeal notions of absolute totality. Encouraging a playful drift away from succinct historical and acute archival desire, Raymer affords a platform for interpretative folly. French fries, fingers, fabric folds and phallic formations simultaneously occupy a linear periphery, flip-flopping from one form to another. Between wobbly definition and a probable assumption, Wobably suggests a departure from square systems and level logic, formally materializing a semblance of fictional facts.

LUCIEN DUREY
Leavin’ Again

17 September – 7 October, 2010
Opening reception 17 September, 7pm

Curated by Jenn Jackson

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ERIK HOOD
Model Citizen

26 August – 11 September, 2010
Closing reception 10 September, 7pm

Curated by Jenn Jackson

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Every night I tell myself I am the cosmos. I am the wind. I am the dying stars converting energy into denser and denser elements until the weight of gravity collapses my cores. I turn into a red giant, a white dwarf, a black hole, then supernova. In my death throes I create the brightest lights in the universe. Time turns into infinity, matter turns into darkness. Below oboes and trumpets turn notes into measures, measures into melody, melody into a canon of man. It is captured on a record of gold and sent into space like a message in a bottle. I bounce and refract; I split light into spectral colors. I am syzygy of celestial bodies in undeviating lines. I am just a body among bodies a star among stars. I am the stolen ideas from the pages of philosophers. I cobble together scraps of information from bits of memories. I am the combination of bad eyesight and curiosity that propels man to exploration. The constant quest for answers is a squinting philosopher with his neck craned upwards, digit pointing at blackness, breathing, “There. Look there.”
-Julia Marshburn