ACQUISITIONS AND LOANS

2021-2022 Acquisitions

Purchased with funds from the Audain Art Acquisition Fund

Joan Balzer Tri-X, 1966-67 acrylic on canvas

Iain Baxter Green Landscape, 1965 vacuum-formed

Vilhelm Sundin Last Light, 2017/2022 single channel HD video installation edition 1 of 3

Vilhelm Sundin

The Ship at the Bottom of the Mountain II, 2022 single channel 4K-video installation edition 1 of 3

Purchased with funds from the Audain Foundation

Emily Carr Arbutus Trees, 1908 watercolour on paper

Emily Carr Maude Island Totem, 1912 oil on board

Liz Magor Molly’s Reach, 2005 polymerized gypsum, polyurethane foam

Gift of Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace

In the Street (Rue Turenne, Paris), 1997 photolaminate with acrylic and serigraph on canvas

Ian Wallace

My Heroes in the Street (Una), (Aileen) and (Christian), 2008 photolaminate and acrylic on canvas

Gift of Mowry Baden

Mowry Baden

Shingle Beach, 2018 aluminum, rubber, stainless steel

Funded by the Audain Foundation (Commission)

James Hart

The Three Watchmen, 2021 bronze with red ocher patina

Xwalacktun and Levi Nelson

Ti A7xa7 St’ak’ (The Great Flood), 2021 waterjet cut aluminum and concrete

Gift of Ken and Lorraine Stephens

Ian Wallace

My Heroes in the Street (Gareth), 2008 photolaminate and acrylic on canvas

Promised Gift from Martha Sturdy

Attila Richard Lukacs

Everybody Wants the Same Thing, 1993 oil, enamel, tar, polyurethane on canvas

Gift of Alan & Elizabeth Bell, in memory of Ira Swartz and Alistair & Betty Bell

Lawren Harris Mountain Sketch LXXVII (Consolation Lake), c. 1928 oil on board

2021-2022 National and International Loans

Crocker Art Museum (December 2020 – July 2023)

Lawren Stewart Harris Abstraction 119, c. 1945 oil on canvas

The Polygon Gallery (November 2021 – February 2022)

Steven Shearer Dogpile, 2019 ink, acrylic and varnish on poly canvas

Griffin Art Projects (August 2022 – December 2022)

Stan Douglas Olde Curio Shop, 2010 digital c-print mounted on dibond aluminum, edition 4 of 5

McMichael Canadian Art Collection (August 2022 – March 2024)

Dempsey Bob Northern Eagles Transformation Mask, 2011 yellow cedar and acrylic pigment

Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice

by Dempsey Bob (Author), and Sarah Milroy (Editor)

Language: English

Hardcover, 216 pages with stories by Dempsey Bob, full colour images and illustrations

10 x 9.25 inches ISBN 978-1-77327-161-3

Published by Figure 1 Publishing Inc.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wolves: The Art of Dempsey Bob by the Audain Art Museum and McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice is based on the first full-scale solo museum exhibition of this extraordinary Tahltan-Tlingit artist, one of the finest living carvers of the Northwest Coast. Drawing from extensive interviews with the artist by the exhibition’s co-curator, Sarah Milroy, the book presents the story of his life told his own way, including extensive and intimate reflections on the creation of particular works.

Gorgeous photographs of the Skeena Valley region and of the artworks – which had been gathered from key private and museum collections in Canada and the US - are supplemented with material from the artist’s scrapbooks and family archives to create a vivid portrait of the creative process.

Foreword by co-curator Sarah Milroy. In collaboration with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection & the Audain Art Museum.

Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding

by Patrik Andersson, Natalie Porter, and Kiriko Watanabe

Language: English

Hardcover, 190 pages, with essays, full colour images, and illustrations 10 x 8 inches ISBN 978-0-9950106-7-3

Published by the Audain Art Museum

Featuring essays by curator Patrik Andersson and BC writer Natalie Porter, Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding includes images of works in a contemporary group art exhibition of the same title. In this publication, Andersson and Porter examine how the world of skateboarding continues to be in generating identity, consumer culture, community, and resistance to our increasingly surveilled and controlled public spaces. Unlike most exhibitions on skateboarding, Out of Control does not offer a focus on what the general audience would typically think of “skateboard art”, such as board graphics and graffiti. Nor does it offer a sociological survey of subculture. Out of Control features works by emerging, midcareer, and established artists, who have more askance views on aesthetic, social, environmental, political, and architectural dimensions associated with the sport. Also included in the book are interviews with artists and skateboarders by the Audain Art Museum’s Gail and Stephen Jarislowsky Curator Kiriko Watanabe.

Featured artists: Raymond Boisjoly, Karin Bubaš, Andrew Dadson, Hannah Dubois, Noah Friebel, Tim Gardner, Dan Graham, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Christian Huizenga, Mikaela Kautzky, Andrew Kent, Cameron Kerr, Alex Morrison, Michelle Pezel, Samuel Roy-Bois, Ron Terada, Ian Wallace, Amir Zaki, and Raphaël Zarka.