The Artist鈥檚 Studio is Her Bedroom

Opening Jan. 23, 7pm | Open Studio Jan. 25, 12-3pm | Artists' Roundtable Jan. 25, 3pm
When
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Location
Off Campus
Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG)
555 Nelson St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 6R5
Open to Public?
Yes
| Thursday, Jan. 23, 7 鈥 9pm
| Saturday, Jan. 25, 3pm
| Saturday, January 25, 12 鈥 3pm
Steven Brekelmans | Justine A. Chambers | Brady Cranfield | Maura Doyle | Claire Greenshaw | Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley) | Annie MacDonell | Erica Stocking | Damla Tamer
The Artist鈥檚 Studio is Her Bedroom begins from the premise that the patriarchal conditions we inherited from modernism have profoundly shaped assumptions about where and by what means 鈥渟erious鈥 artwork gets produced. This exhibition shares the perspectives of ten artists whose practices are attentive to these assumptions, and to the very real temporal, spatial and monetary constraints that bind and shape their work. Their contributions to the show address a multitude of labours 鈥 whether physical, emotional, reproductive or otherwise鈥攖hat are often inextricable from artistic production. Some question myths of the studio and the 鈥渕agical鈥 labour of the artist. Others explore unconventional models of authorship, including the entanglement of childcare and creative work. Each, in different ways, asks how we navigate (or resist) our artistic and political inheritances, and how we might seek out alternate role models and alliances through which to better strengthen our creative communities.