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LIQUIDATE Art Book Sale

Vancouver galleries and publishers Fillip, New Documents, Presentation House, Or Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, Access Gallery and The Western Front are joining forces for a single day art book sale.

Liquidate will take place at Access Gallery (222 East Georgia Street, Vancouver) from 5 to 9pm on Thursday May 28th.

Below is a list of sample titles that will be discounted anywhere from 15 to 80% off.


Every building on 100 West Hastings – Stan Douglas
DONKY@NINJA@WITCH – FASTWÜRMS
You are my sunshine/You are my nebula – Euan MacDonald
Brian Jungen
Cabin Photographs – Scott McFarland
Unsuitable as an Institution: The Tenacity of Access Gallery 1992—2014
Far Away So Close, Part I
Far Away So Close, Part II
Ian Johnston: Reinventing Consumption
Encyclonospace Iranica
Life After Doomsday: Jason de Haan
The Ever-Changing Light: Raymond Boisjoly
Downing Street
Yes, But Is It Edible?
Culture Industry
Fillip 19
Institutions by Artists
12 Sun Songs, Cranfield & Slade
Ten Shows, Barb Choit
Exercises in Kinesthetic Drawing and Other Drawing, Aaron Carpenter
Vancouver Anthology, ed. Stan Douglas
Food for Thought
Notes on Collaboration
Explorations in Psychic Geography
Goin’ Solo
Active Process: Artist’s Books Photographic & Contemporary, 28 U.S. & Canadian Artists
Death and the Family, Gisele Amantea, Marian Penner Bancroft, Wyn Geleynse, etc.
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver
Judy Radul: People Things Enter Exit
Attila Richard Lukacs / POLAROIDS / Michael Morris
Ritual In Contemporary Performance
Eternal Network: Videos from the Western Front Archive
Recipes For An Encounter
The F Word
Marian Penner Bancroft: Two Places at Once: Transfigured Wood Part IV


The evening is sponsored by Jameson Whiskey, who will be providing a special cocktail called The Librarian.

For more information, visit the CAG website, here.

Holiday Recommendations Guest Post #1: Jason De Haan

Matthew Buckingham,
Mount Rushmore in 500,000 Years
New York City, USA: Cabinet Magazine, 2002
17 x 23" poster
Open edition

Working with a geologist, artist Matthew Buckingham conjured a fantastical moment far in the future, when the contours of one of the United States' most recognizable—and controversial—monuments have eroded to a point pitched uncannily between the familiar and the unfamiliar.
Originally included in Cabinet no. 7, the Failure issue.

Available here, for $15.00. 

Jason de Haan (1981) is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist. He received his MFA (Sculpture) from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2014. Recent solo exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (2014); Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto (2014); Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2014); Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2012) Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro (2012); with Miruna Dragan at The Khyber, Halifax (2011); ODD Gallery, Dawson City (2010) and Access Gallery, Vancouver (2010). His work has been presented in a number of group exhibitions including Scrap Metal, Toronto (2014); Bond House Projects, London (2013): Century City, East St. Arts, London (2013); Oakville Galleries (2012); with Miruna Dragan at 98 Weeks Research Project at the Thessaloniki Biennale (2011); Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2011); MOLAF, Bergen (2011); Art Gallery of Alberta (2013 & 2010); OK Quoi?, Sackville (2010) and Galleri Kling & Bang, Reykjavik (2009). de Haan participated in the Arctic Circle 2012 residency, the residency “The Soiree Retreat: A bit of a Chekhovian Situation” at the Banff Centre (2011) and is a founding member of the Corbin Union Residency in Corbin, BC, a ghost town in the East Kootenays. Upcoming exhibitions include MASS MoCA, North Adams in 2016. de Haan is the recipient of grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canada council for the Arts and in 2012 he was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, representing the Prairies and the North. His work has been reviewed in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star and in Canadian Art Magazine, Art in America and Art Forum. He is represented in Canada by Clint Roenisch Gallery.

Jason De Haan | Noghwhere Bodili is Everywhere Goostly

[Jason De Haan]
Noghwhere Bodili is Everywhere Goostly
Halifax/Lethbridge, Kitchener, Canada: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 2014
176 pp., 24.9 x 17.3 x 2.3 cm., hardcover

Edition size unknown

A comprehensive and beautifully designed monograph on the work of Calgary-based artist Jason de Haan.

The publication’s title is the Middle English version of the phrase “Nowhere Bodily is Everywhere Ghostly” and is drawn from The Cloude of Unknowyng, an anonymous 14th century text of theological mysticism whose main proposition is to surrender one’s mind to a realm of “unknowingness”. The book featuring contributions by Nicholas Brown, David Diviney, Ryan Doherty, Candice Hopkins, Crystal Mowry, Richard Rhodes, and Gustaf Sobin

The travelling exhibition is currently on view at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, where it remains until January 4th, 2015. 

Jason de Haan | Cannonball

Jason de Haan's excellent Year One exhibition at Clint Roenisch Gallery (944 Queen St. W.,Toronto) closes this Saturday, April 21.

The highlight of the show, Cannon Ball, consists of a coin from every active currency in the world, melted down into a single heavy sphere. It's a satisfying work to contemplate and a fascinating one to pick up and hold, but it was a line in the sales list that compelled me to include it here. The work was offered either as an edition of three, or as a unique work (with prices varying accordingly) and the phrase "first buyer decides". The various methods of pricing editions is a big part of the forthcoming book I co-edited on Artists' Multiples (excessive promotional entries to follow, trust me) but this approach was new to me.

I'm pleased to report that the first buyer opted against owning a unique work. She explained that her decision was based on the best option for the artist, who would ultimately earn more selling the work thrice.

For more information, visit the gallery website here, or the artist's site here.

Jason de Haan | Life After Doomsday

Beer coasters produced in an open edition (5000 so far) and distributed freely.

Visit the artist's website at www.jasondehaan.net