Contemporary Art Spotlight: Catriona Jeffries Gallery

 

“1970,” by Brian Jungen

Golf bags, cardboard tubes151 x 30 x 35 inches

“Greater Vancouver,” by Brian Jungen

18 Baltic plywood cutouts, wool fabric126 x 131 7/8 x 3 inches

“Modern Sculpture (for Iceland),” by Brian Jungen

6 sculptural forms of lava rock and soccer balls Dimensions variable

“For a spring abrim with songs of love is constantly reborn,” by Gareth Moore

Wooden barrel, 1 copper-plated hoop, interior coated with bees wax, wooden spigot, filled with water from an unnamed spring, found glass cupInstalled within the fr

“Into the Water (In his Leather Breeches),” by Gareth Moore

Fish leather, cotton thread, maple buttons

“Recollection of a Path…” by Gareth Moore

Various components

“The Surgeon and the Photographer,” by Geoffrey Farmer

Three hundred and sixty-five puppet figures, fabric, found images, metal stands

“The Surgeon and the Photographer,” by Geoffrey Farmer

Three hundred and sixty-five puppet figures, fabric, found images, metal stands

“The Surgeon and the Photographer,” by Geoffrey Farmer

Three hundred and sixty-five puppet figures, fabric, found images, metal stands

“The Last Two Million Years,” by Geoffrey Farmer

Foamcore plinths, perspex frames and cutouts from selected pages of the history book The Last Two Million Years

“The Last Two Million Years,” by Geoffrey Farmer

Foamcore plinths, perspex frames and cutouts from selected pages of the history book The Last Two Million Years

“The Last Two Million Years,” by Geoffrey Farmer

Foamcore plinths, perspex frames and cutouts from selected pages of the history book The Last Two Million Years

“Burning Bush,” by Kevin Schmidt

HD DVD5 hr. 3 min. 15 sec.

“Epic Journey,” by Kevin Schmidt

Single channel HD video with stereo sound11 hr. 30 min.Epic Journey is an eleven-and-a-half-hour film documenting the boat ride Schmidt took down the Fraser River while filming the entire Lord of the Rings tr

“Epic Journey,” by Kevin Schmidt

InstallationSingle channel HD video with stereo sound11 hr. 30 min.Epic Journey is an eleven-and-a-half-hour film documenting the boat ride Schmidt took down the Fraser River while filming the entire Lord of

“Wild Signals,” by Kevin Schmidt

HD video9 min. 42 sec.

“A Sign in the Northwest Passage,” by Kevin Schmidt

LightJet print, cedar frame64 1/4 x 49 inchesPassages from the Book of Revelation rendered on a cedar sign, fixed in ice in the Northwest Passage.

 

From a UBC art student to the owner of Vancouver’s foremost contemporary art gallery, Catriona Jeffries finds and nurtures the best in B.C. art. “Wheeler Dealer,” from the December issue of BCBusiness examines the success of Catriona Jeffries and her eponymous Vancouver art gallery. Jeffries has been credited with “changing the game in Vancouver,” finding the young B.C. artists who will pick up where Carr and Shadbolt left off.