Journal / Journey

January 10 – February 1, 2003
Exhibition

About the Program

Journal/Journey is a group exhibition featuring Shaan Syed, Julie Fragar, and Jessica MacNeil. Fragar and MacNeil corresponded from mid-June 2002 until the time of the exhibition via a series of small painting with letters written postcard-style on the back. The paintings are derived from snapshots of their respective immediate surroundings and have been sent as both common mail and scanned attachments. Syed showed a selection from the Some People I Know series, begun in 2000 and ending in 2002. In this series of small portraits, Syed paints from memory and strives to capture that particular nuance of face or gesture that best identifies his subject. All three artists are bound together by the intimacy and immediacy of their paintings. As either postcard or portrait, they make art of the ordinary and out of their own life. This art works as diary, journal, or log reflecting day to day impressions of people, places, and events.

Artist

Julie Fragar, Jessica MacNeil, Shaan Syed

Coordinator

Daina Warren

Identifier

2003.0110 JOU

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

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