13 Ways to Summon Ghosts

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Lyse Lemieux, "Bundled Drawings for an Odradek (numbers 9, 6, 3, 1, 10, 2, 11, 8, 7, 4, 5) (detail)," 2018

stuffed toy animals, found fabric, wool felt, artist’s mother’s 1956 handmade Mexican cowhide high heel shoe, velvet, ink on paper, raccoon fur, buttons, dimensions various Photo credit: SITE Photography

Opening Reception and Book Launch13 Ways to Summon Ghosts 

Saturday, June 23, 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Exhibition walkthrough begins at 2:30 pm

Please join guest curator Kimberly Phillips and exhibiting artists Brenda Draney, Brady Cranfield, Vanessa Kwan, Lyse Lemieux, Cindy Mochizuki, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, and Kathleen Ritter to celebrate the exhibition and launch of its accompanying publication, designed by Information Office and featuring commissioned texts by UBC literary scholar Adam Frank, as well as artists Vanessa Kwan and Tanya Lukin Linklater. The artists and curator will lead an informal walkthrough of the exhibition and discuss both its works and thematic concerns.

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13 Ways to Summon Ghosts is the summer exhibition at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art. It is on view from May 16^th to September 1^st, 2018. The exhibition is guest-curated by Kimberly Phillips of the Contemporary Art Gallery. Participating artists are Abbas Akhavan, Brady Cranfield, Brenda Draney, Betty Goodwin, Vanessa Kwan, Lyse Lemieux, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Cindy Mochizuki, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Ryan Peter, Kathleen Ritter, Carol Sawyer, and Jin-me Yoon. 

This exhibition considers the work of 13 Canadian artists of diverse origins and experience for whom haunting, it might be argued, is an artistic strategy. Through works of sound, sculpture, installation, painting, garments, print and video, these artists alter our experience of being in time and challenge the ways we separate the past, present and future. The work of each of these artists is remarkable because like haunting, it produces 'a something to be done.' It demands our rapt attention, begs a reconsideration of presumed positions, calls up histories with which we are complicit, and makes matter of that which is otherwise invisible.