Claude Monet, Elad Lassry and Emily Carr among many to be highlighted at the VAG this summer

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Claude Monet, "Sur la plage de Trouville," 1870-71

oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press

This summer, the Vancouver Art Gallery presents an exciting new season of art with seven diverse and engaging exhibitions. From the thirty-eight paintings by famed impressionist artist Claude Monet in Claude Monet’s Secret Garden, to the vitality and vigour of the natural world seized by Emily Carr in her Into the Forest paintings, the Gallery will showcase an extraordinary roster of art from the early 20th century to now. Included as well is the first major Canadian exhibition of work by Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry.

June 24 – October 1, 2017 | Claude Monet's Secret Garden

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Claude Monet, "Les Roses," 1925-26

oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press

The most comprehensive exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history. This exhibition will present thirty-eight paintings spanning the course of Monet’s long career from the unparalleled collection of the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. The exhibition will culminate in a major series of paintings executed in his famous gardens in the French village of Giverny, where Monet lived from 1883 to the end of his life. His distinctive renderings of weeping willows, waterlilies and the Japanese bridge in his renowned garden are among the most iconic images of Western painting. The Vancouver showing will be the only presentation of the exhibition in North America.

June 24 – October 1, 2017 | Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

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Stephen Shore, "Waterlilies," (from The Giverny Portfolio), 1977–83

chromogenic print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Donated by Aaron Milrad in memory of Bella and Joseph Milrad, VAG 2006.26.30

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny over the course of six years between 1977 and 1983. The entire series of twenty-five photographs from the Gallery’s collection are being shown for the first time in Vancouver as a complement to the exhibition Claude Monet’s Secret Garden.

June 24 – October 1, 2017 | Elad Lassry

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Elad Lassry, "Fringe," 2011

chromogenic print, painted frame, Private Collection

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images. This exhibition surveys works produced by the artist over the last decade and is Lassry’s first major exhibition in Canada.

June 24 – October 1, 2017 | Persistence

Persistence draws on recent works, largely from the Gallery’s collection, that illuminate the shifting role and unexpected endurance of technologies, physical objects and natural systems.

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Shelagh Keeley, "Notes on Obsolescence," 2014

acrylic paint, collage elements, crayon, graphite, oil stick, photo-graph on paper and plastic film, Promised Gift to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid

Key works include Shelagh Keeley’s Notes on Obsolescence, a large-scale wall drawing portraying Jacquard looms in a defunct textile mill, and a collaborative installation by Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson which incorporates a myriad of formerly used objects.

May 19 – September 4, 2017 | Pictures From Here

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Jeff Wall, "Monologue," 2013

chromogenic print, Collection of Andrea and Brian Hill

Pictures from Here showcases photographs and video works produced over the past four decades, some on display for the very first time. Capturing the urban environment of Greater Vancouver and the vast “natural” landscape of the province, these works were responsible for transforming Vancouver into a global hub for contemporary art production. Artists include: Roy Arden, Karin Bubaš, Stan Douglas, Christos Dikeakos, Rodney Graham, Mike Grill, Arni Haraldsson, Fred Herzog, Barrie Jones, Evan Lee, Marian Penner Bancroft, Henri Robideau, Sandra Semchuk/James Nicholas, Althea Thauberger, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Paul Wong and Corneila Wyngaarden/Andrea Fantona.

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Emily Carr, "Path Among Pines," c. 1930

oil on paper, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Emily Carr Trust, VAG 42.3.82, Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery

May 13, 2017 – March 4, 2018 | Emily Carr: Into the Forest

A showcase of forty-five paintings of the West Coast forest by internationally renowned artist Emily Carr, Into the Forest reflects Carr’s direct engagement with and deep affection for British Columbia’s landscape as a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry.

May 4 – October 15, 2017 | Onsite / Offsite: Tsang Kin-Wah

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Tsang Kin-Wah, "EITHER / OR, "2017 (detail)

digital rendering for site-specific installation for Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite, Courtesy of the artist.

Spread across two locations, Hong Kong artist Tsang Kin-Wah will create a site-specific text work for the Gallery’s exterior, as well for the Gallery’s Offsite location. This large-scale composition transforms English texts to form intricate floral and animal patterns. Onsite, on Howe Street, Tsang covers the building with text spiraling up the façade like vines, composed of discriminatory language found in Vancouver newspaper editorial columns from the 1980s. At Offsite, Tsang continues to use adverse rhetoric but contrasts it with voices of inclusion to compose floral patterns that form the shape of a dragon.