Exhibitions
Urban Screen, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, daily 8 AM–9 PM
A Guerilla Seeks a More Trained Lesson
Dana Claxton
Libby Leshgold Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of Dana Claxton’s new video A Guerilla Seeks a More Trained Lesson, commissioned by the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program for Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s urban screen. The screening will commence on Friday, November 30th. A closing reception will be held in spring 2019, date to be announced.
Drawing on the ideas and writing of Antonio Gramsci, Claxton creates a new work that incorporates text, moving images, and special effects. Chance narratives emerge through Claxton’s mining of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, where Gramsci’s ideas around culture, politics and education are reworked, recontextualized and reshaped in a seemingly endless loop through Claxton’s use of various cut-up writing techniques.
Biographies
Dana Claxton (b.1959, Yorkton, Saskatchewan) is an award-winning, critically acclaimed artist and film/videomaker. Her practice investigates beauty, the body, the socio-political, and the spiritual. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), Sundance Film Festival, Eiteljorg Museum (Indianapolis), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), and is held in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery and Winnipeg Art Gallery. A major survey exhibition, Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube, is currently on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Claxton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory with the University of British Columbia. She was awarded the prestigious VIVA Award from the Doris and Jack Shadbolt Foundation in 2001.
Urban Screen
Located outdoors in the campus’ southeastern plaza, the Urban Screen is a public art initiative of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program in partnership with Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Offering 4–6 new commissions a year, the Urban Screen spotlights local and international artists and filmmakers working across diverse media disciplines of art, design, media, and technology. The screen operates daily from 8 AM–9 PM.