Libby Leshgold Gallery
520 East 1st Avenue V5T 0H2 Vancouver, BC, Canada

For the next 7 days, we are excited to bring you a preview of several works from the excellent collection of publications in the 'Publishing the Present' online archive organized by Wendy's Subway. Each publication addresses, explores, or interrogates a range of topical issues related to current global crises. 'Publishing the Present: An Archive of Mutual Care and Action' is an ongoing archival project collecting independent publications that respond to this contemporary mome...nt of international urgency. Produced as part of Wendy’s Subway’s online residency at READ Books and the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the archive gathers these publications as an incomplete document of the present, that attests to ongoing histories of struggle for justice, and the current international crisis which informs our collective imagination of radically better futures. Learn more about the project here ---> http://libby.ecuad.ca/exhibit//publishing-the-present.html Stay tuned.

Some stills from our October 29th online discussion with Laura Daviña and Darío Marroche: "Publishing (with) Communities: Social Care and Network Building Experiences in South America" What capacities do artist-publishers have to aid their communities? How can we coordinate social care collectively across our networks? What are our obligations when it comes to exercising an ethic of care in our communities and beyond? If you weren't able to make it to the talk, it is now available to stream online on vimeo or on our website! ---> http://libby.ecuad.ca//publishing-with-communities-oct29.h

On the theme of outdoor, socially-distant art viewing, Cole Pauls' new animated short 'K'näthät (Thinking)' continues to be screened on the Urban Screen at Wilson Plaza until February 28, 2021. Cole Pauls is a Tahltan comic artist, illustrator, and printmaker from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory). With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from Emily Carr University, Pauls is currently based in Vancouver, where he focuses on two comic series, Pizza Punks, a self-contained comic strip about punks eating pizza, and Dakwäkãda Warriors. In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II. Images courtesy of the artist

Thank you to everyone who made it to our outdoor opening this past Saturday for Dana Qaddah's work 'Vessel(s) through which' in our new Glass Corner exhibition space. Glass Corner is a new exhibition space created in part as a response to conditions of the covid-19 pandemic. It is located at the South-Eastern most corner of the Emily Carr University building, and can be viewed from outside both day and night. We are so pleased to have Qaddah as our first exhibited artist, and... invite you to come and view their work anytime until January 17, 2021. 'Vessel(s) through which' is a textile work overlaid with a graphic pattern sampled from Islamic geometric designs located on a box of cookies from Dana’s relatives in Syria. Qaddah has subverted the precision embedded within the art form and rendered it asymmetrical. In doing so, the pattern is interrupted, such as personal lineage might be through the distancing from one’s origins by generational displacement. PS - Scan the barcode for a playlist compiled by Qaddah to accompany their work. Images courtesy of the artist.

CORRECTION: We put this out a few weeks ago, but realized the sign up page was broken! ---> http://libby.ecuad.ca/gallery_mailing_list.html We've fixed it, and would love for you to sign up to our mailing list for updates and info on our programming; including talks, publications, Glass Corner exhibitions and more.

We are pleased to announce the presentation of a new work by Vancouver-based Lebanese artist Dana Qaddah, 'Vessel(s) through which'. This is the inaugural work in our NEW exhibition space Glass Corner: The Window at Libby Leshgold Gallery. Opens this Saturday, Nov 7 @ 2PM OUTSIDE *please wear a mask*