Roger Larry visual artist

06/28/2024

Is this COVID hubris at work?!? So my artist’s talk for my Covid inspired show BELOW THE SEA OF FOG is rescheduled AGAIN due to COVID, to Saturday September 21st at 2 pm. Next show will be about puppies or chocolate or a d-list celebrity, something which is unlikely to bite back. This photograph is entitled “From Ahka – Chu to Yddgrasil" (2022) Archival pigment print, finished wood frame 27" ×39.5” inches.

06/07/2024

“Where the Acheron Meets the Sto:lo” (2022) is 29” by 31” archival print taken above the Sto:lo Nation near Chilliwack at Easter end of the Fraser Valley. Sto:lo is the name of the First Nation whose unceded territory this is and it means “people of the River”. . Acheron is the river of woe from Greek mythology that runs through Hades. This image is from my show BELOW THE SEA OF FOG, on view at Gallery 881 in Vancouver until June 15th. At 2pm on that final day, I will be giving an artist’s talk moderated by the esteemed artist Marion Penner Bancroft. Please join us.

05/31/2024

This photo entitled "Under Acka-Chu" is part of my solo show BELOW THE SEA OF FOG that runs until Saturday, June 18 at Gallery 881 in Vancouver. Acka-Chu is what we settlers call "Beaver Lake" in Stanley Park and it is the location of the photograph. Before mounting this work, I went on tours with Coast Salish guides. I will not be sharing the stories the Coast Salish shared with me on those tours, that is their prerogative. However, I was advised by my Coast Salish guide, Seraphine Lewis at Talaysay Tours, that using the original Indigenous place names in the titles of the work would be a respectful way to allude to what has haunted the park long before me or COVID.

05/17/2024

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 18th my first solo art show "Below The Sea of Fog" opens at Gallery 881. It is a goal I have long had and couldn't be more excited about. The show runs till June 15th and I hope you will check it out.

GALLERY 881 881 East Hastings Street Vancouver, BC Canada V6A 3Y1 gallery881.com Below the Sea of Fog Exhibition with artist Roger Larry Exhibition May 18, 2024 - June 15, 2024 Opening Reception May 18, 2024 from 1 -5 pm Artist Talk June 15, 2024 from 2 - 3pm

05/02/2024

So after a lifetime of art making, I am finally having my first solo show at Gallery 881 entitled “Below the Sea of Fog” featuring eleven large photographs. Please join us at the opening party Saturday May 18 from 1pm to 5 pm; and the show runs to June 15th. Taken mostly in Stanley Park over the course of the pandemic. The show tells an elliptical story; it begins with a “Romantic” portrait and ends with an evocation of Armageddon. It’s the culmination of the journey from the naïve and romantic to a gothic space where doubt and devastation reign supreme – personal, political, and environmental.
Before mounting this show, I went on tours of Stanley Park with Coast Salish guides at Talaysay Tours. I will not be sharing the stories the Coast Salish shared with me on those tours, that is their prerogative. However, I was advised by my Coast Salish guides that using the original Indigenous place names in the titles of the work would be a respectful way to allude to what has haunted the park long before me or COVID. The image seen here in the poster is called “The Path back to X̱wáýx̱way”.
As some of you know, I have been primarily a feature filmmaker the last twenty years but I have always made art. I even showed some, three film installations made with Mark Lewis screen in 2013 were shown at MOMA/PS1. I was also in a group show this December curated by BROAD Magazine. So I hope you will all join me my debut at the Gallery opening on the 18th.

GALLERY 881 881 East Hastings Street Vancouver, BC Canada V6A 3Y1 gallery881.com Below the Sea of Fog Exhibition with artist Roger Larry Exhibition May 18, 2024 - June 15, 2024 Opening Reception May 18, 2024 from 1 -5 pm Artist Talk June 15, 2024 from 2 - 3pm

04/27/2024

SlideNight Vol. IV is officially SOLD OUT! Many thanks to those who were able to support lens-based art in Vancouver, including our wonderful Chairperson donors, and our sponsors including .studio and Relevision. ❤️

We excited to announce that this volume of SlideNight will be broadcasting LIVE TONIGHT via our YOUTUBE channel! 🎬 🥂 If you couldn't get tickets, please join us from the comfort of your own home!

🔴 TO WATCH: visit the link in our bio this evening for the LIVE simulcast of SlideNight Vol. IV!

Tonight's agenda features moderator Helga Pakasaar and artists Elizabeth Zvonar, John O'Brian, Robert Kleyn, and Roger Larry. SlideNight Vol. IV is a event.

If you are attending the event, please enjoy our current exhibition. The group exhibition features 7 BFA/MFA students and marks the beginning of a unique partnership between Emily Carr University and Gallery 881.

04/26/2024

In honour of our first anniversary, we welcome the distinguished Canadian curator of lens-based art, Helga Pakasaar, who had programming input and will moderate the evening. Helga Pakasaar is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Vancouver, who for many years was the Audain Chief Curator at the Polygon Gallery. In addition to working with renowned international artists, she uncovered local photographers such as Fred Herzog and many emerging media artists. She has also produced exhibitions at Griffin Art Projects and was curator at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Walter Phillips Gallery. Helga has asked our four presenters to draw from their extensive image archives and to exploit the montage effects of the slide show format in their presentations.

04/25/2024

Two sleeps to SledeNIGHTR! Robert Kleyn is an artist who works with slide and photo sequences and has exhibited his work in exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Catriona Jefferies Gallery, Centro di Roma; Modern Art Agency, Napoli and Contemporanea, Roma. HIs work is in collections around the world. Also, as an architect; he has collaborated with artists including Jochen Gerz, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Fabio Mauri, and Roberto Rossellini.
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04/24/2024

Only THREE more sleeps to SlideNight! Ticket link: https://www.gallery881.com/checkout

For our first anniversary, we welcome the distinguished art historian, writer, and curator John O’Brian, who is acclaimed for his many books on modern and contemporary art, including on Clement Greenberg and Henri Matisse, and also for his exhibition and book on nuclear photography, Camera Atomica, launched at the Art Gallery of Ontario. “Delirium”, an exhibition culled from his found photograph collection, is currently on view at Trapp Projects.
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