Title: LIFE IN EARTH figures, grounds
Artist: Marian Penner Bancroft
Curator: Lam Wong
Duration: Sept 7 – Oct 26, 2024
Opening: 9.7 Saturday 2-5pm
Venue: Canton-sardine, 071-268 Keefer St, Vancouver, Canada
Artist talk: Marian Penner Bancroft in conversation with Lam Wong, 9.21 Saturday 2pm
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“These photographs, video, and texts are oblique meditations on a few of the materials in which modern humans are embedded and by which we are sustained–all products of the earth. My hope is that by framing the transient visual appearances of certain resonant objects and substances I might provide prompts that remind us of what might be forgotten, or tell us something we do not already know. “ – Marian Penner Bancroft
About the artist
Marian Penner Bancroft is a Vancouver artist active since 1969, working primarily with photography, text, video, sculpture and sound. Her recent work addresses issues of landscape, material culture, public and personal histories and the construction of the visual imagination.
Bancroft was the 2009 recipient of the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for Visual Art, the 2012 Audain Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts and the 2018 Overseas Photographer Award at the Higashikawa International Photography Festival in Japan. She has taught at NSCAD University, SFU and is a Professor Emerita at Emily Carr University of Art+Design. Her National and international exhibitions include those at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Sala Uno in Rome, Italy, and the Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of The Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Gallery of Canada, The Burnaby Art Gallery, The Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, The Canada Council Art Bank and Canada House in London, UK.
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