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Presentation H o u s e Gallery ^ ^ ^ < / ^ i n c e starting up in 1976, Nortii Vancouver's Presentation \ House Gallery has grow/n to become a cultural institution of national and international importance. The only professional art gallery on the North Shore, the curated exhibitions and educational programs have served community interests for over three decades, drawing visitors from throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond. In 1981, Presentation House Gallery began to specialize in exhibitions and publications of photography. Since then, the gallery program has expanded and grown, strengthening its mandate through a widening focus on all camera-based art forms including film, video and all types of photography--from nineteenth-century historical documents to recent experiments by contemporary artists. As early as 1983 Presentation House Gallery showcased a major exhibition by the renowned fashion photographer, Richard Avedon, and in 1987, Diane Arbus--one of the most important twentiethcentury photographers--had a solo exhibition at the gallery many call "a hidden jewel of the North Shore". Over the years. Presentation House Gallery has continued to offer groundbreaking programs that bring major figures in the history of photography to the North Shore, most of whom come to lecture on their own work and to meet local enthusiasts, artists and gallery-goers. The creative talent is impressive: Ansel Adams, Edward Burtynksy, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Seydou Keita, Lee Miller, Alexander Rodchenko, Steven Shore and Andy Warhol have all shown at Presentation House Gallery, often for the first time in Canada. The gallery's exhibitions have been consistently diverse and wide-ranging, and have included many successful themed shows on vernacular photography such as postcards, studio portraiture and medical photography. It is noteworthy that Presentation House Gallery has also been at the forefront of profiling local talent, and over the years has exhibited Vancouver's most prominent artists, including Roy Arden, Fred Herzog, and Jeff Wall, and media artists Rodney Graham and Althea Thauberger. Recently the gallery produced solo exhibitions and publications by North Vancouver's most renowned documentary photographers, Douglas Curran and Akbar Nazemi, unveiling rarely seen documents of tribal customs in Malawi and street scenes of the Iranian revolution. Presentation House Gallery has put North Vancouver on the international radar of artists and art lovers around the world, providing engaging interpretations of the camera's contribution to modern culture, and enriching our community with reflections on how the world is imagined through this quintessentially modern technology The unique mandate of Presentation House Gallery has allowed for the development of a truly distinct cultural voice, one that helps to define the diversity and vitality of North Vancouver, while contributing to a healthy vibrant environment for everyone who calls the North Shore home. 18 January|February WHAT'S ON The first c o m p r e h e n s i v e artist Anne survey York will exhibition based moke Eye o f v^ork b y N e w Collier S § ^ ^ ^ its d e b u t a t Gallery, Presentation UK i n House G a l l e r y , e n r o u t e to O p e n Liverpool M a y , 2008. Over the past decade Anne Collier has forged a rigorous body of photographs that engage in a unique dialogue with contemporary picture making. Collier produces tight, sparely formalized compositions often using a technique of re-photography. Her approach can be compared to that of artists like John Baldessari, Sherry Levine and Louise Lawler, but toward work whose themes address questions of biography and self-portraiture. Collier's interest in mass market and pop culture imagery from the 1970s is expressed in carefully staged found photographs, typically of advertisements and posters, and especially art magazines and classic 70s vinyl LP covers. Her biting, dryly humorous compositions--some subtly self-reflexive--frame recurrent tensions of power and gender. j WHAT Anne Collier WHEN: January 26 - March 2, Reception Jan 25 @ 7 pni WHERE: Presentation House Gallery, 333 Chesterfield Avenue, Norlli Vancouver HOURS: Wednesday lo Sunday, noon- 5pm, Thursday open till 8pm INFO: www.presentationhousegall.com