NOW BULLETIN: Artworks, Letters and Printed Matter from the Garry Neill Kennedy Collection 1968 – 2019

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Lawrence Weiner, “Portrait of Garry Neill Kennedy,” 1990

photograph with irregular matte, 28 x 35.6 cm, (Collection of Garry Neill Kennedy, photo by Rachel Topham)

Open Studio with Kelly Lycan | Online | Sunday, November 29, 2020 | 1PM

Join Griffin’s current artist-in-residence, Kelly Lycan, for an artist talk live over zoom to learn more about what she has been up to throughout her time at Griffin Art Projects!

Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who resides in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Lycan’s work investigates the way objects and images are placed and displayed in the world and the cycle of value they experience. She employs photography and sculpture in order to engage them beyond medium specificity. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, the US, Europe and the Middle East. Lycan also collaborated from 2005-2015 with the artist collective Instant Coffee, a service-oriented artist collective who have exhibited extensively. 

Lycan's residency is presented in conjunction with NOW BULLETIN, Artworks, Letters and Printed Matter from the Garry Neill Kennedy Collection 1968 – 2019 which is open to the public on Saturdays, from 12 - 5 pm at Griffin Art Projects, until December 12, 2020. Join us for the final weeks!

Registration link:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIld-6oqDwvGtP8kMhmjPX3NG9NMZ9Z_BSX

Now Bulletin is an exhibition, residency series, public art project and public program on the collection and works of eminent Vancouver artist and former NSCAD president, Garry Neill Kennedy.

Reflecting on hospitality, history, memory and the archive in relation to Kennedy and his long history at NSCAD as well as the relationships that have unfolded ever since, NOW BULLETIN asks, how do we tell the story of a community? What does it mean to create consequential provisional communities (including faculty, students & visitors)? How do proximities affect innovation and experimentation? Which relationships became formative and why? In a moment in which conviviality is at stake in the business models of many public institutions that teach art, how do we draw upon one of the most exciting and successful experiments in Canadian art, to protect and nurture current and future spaces in which experimentation and openness may take place? Including public programs and Canadian and international residencies with artists Kelly Lycan, Franklin Furnace founder Martha Wilson, Navarana Igliorte, Ann Ramsden and numerous others, this project examines Kennedy's personal archive to explore these questions.

Guest Curator: David MacWilliam