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THIS Gallery 268 Keefer Street (Sun Wah Centre, Lower Ground Level, #30E), Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1X5
THIS Gallery, "Unsettled," 2021
Unsettled – Online And In-Person Exhibition
Like particles suspended in liquid, we float—restless and bodiless in these murky times. Heat and drought push animals and humans in wide swaths from their homes. Politics and viruses cross our boundaries. Floods make us nomads.
We are in suspense—what will happen next? We are “left hanging.”
THIS, a previously online-only art gallery, announced today that they have opened a brick-and-mortar gallery location in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
The gallery is celebrating its opening with a new exhibition entitled Unsettled, which includes both international and local artists. Unsettled began as an online show, but upon securing a new physical location, THIS Gallery’s artistic director, Shannon Pawliw, chose to also include an in-person event.
The gallery invited artists to respond to the prompt ‘Unsettled’ and features work by artists from as far afield as Buenos Aires, New York, UK, and Italy as well as five local Vancouver artists.
The physical exhibition features work by:
Gillian Richards - Vancouver CANADA
Jen Candela – Vancouver CANADA
Leon Phillips – Vancouver CANADA
Amanda Wood – Vancouver CANADA
Francisco Berlanga – Vancouver CANADA
Andrea Robin – Vancouver CANADA
The online exhibition also includes work by:
Kimberley English – Asheville USA
Luba Zygarewicz – New Orleans USA
Gary Duehr – Boston USA
Dominika Karc – London UK
Inês Miguel Oliveira – London UK
Ana Loureiro – Vienna AUSTRIA
Citron | Lunardi – Padua ITALY
Kelsey Skordal – Connecticut USA
Ciro Fagioli – Buenos Aires ARGENTINA
Chelsea Stewart – San Mateo USA
Sylvain Souklaye – Brooklyn USA
James Betts – Philadelphia USA
Ryan Sarah Murphy – New York City USA
The opening reception will be held Saturday, November 6 from 1 pm - 5 pm at 475 Main Street, Vancouver. Upon arrival, guests will be given further instructions for entry.
THIS Gallery is a Vancouver-based art space dedicated to the creation and exhibition of both commercial and non-commercial art. The gallery was started online by Shannon Pawliw (Vancouver, Canada) and Barbara Bryn Klare (Columbus, OH) in 2020 during the pandemic. The two artists/gallerists were paired through a project called Arts Territory Exchange by artist Gudrun Filipska and have never met in person. Unsettled is the gallery’s third exhibition.