Artist Tour: Colour and Visual Perception with Annie Briard

In this artist-led meandering on colour and visual perception, Annie Briard will unveil her new artist book The Glow of One Hundred Moons (2024), which will provide a starting point for discussions around how we see and how sight affects our interpretations of art and of each other. 

Briard will guide participants through the exhibition Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey and highlight a selection of works to deepen our understanding of ideas around vision.  

Expect to have your visual senses altered, deconstructed and put back together again and to leave the Gallery with new ways of seeing.

This talk is free for Experience Members and above and ticketed at the reduced price of $5 for Ideas Members and $10 for Access Pass Holders. The ticket price for non-members is $10. 

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Please note that the Vancouver Art Gallery is closed to the public on Tuesdays. The 1st Floor will be open exclusively for this tour. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Annie Briard (BFA, MFA) is a Canadian artist known for her practice in expanded photography and digital media. She was selected to guide this activity because of the critical focus on colour perception that is central to her art practice. Briard’s works have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions, including Staring at the Sun (2022) at the Quebec Biennale; Superlucent (2022) at Monica Reyes Gallery and Within the Eclipse (2021) at the Burrard Arts Foundation in Vancouver; Second Sight (2019) at AC Institute in New York and Joyce Yahouda Gallery in Montréal, as well as group shows, festivals and fairs internationally at the Three Shadows Photography Centre (Beijing), the Lincoln Film Centre (New York), Matadero Madrid, the Switzerland Architecture Museum (Basel), among many others. Briard is a Lecturer in photography and media arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and is currently preparing a solo exhibition for Royale Projects in Los Angeles. Find out more »

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST BOOK 

An artist book-as-installation, The Glow of One Hundred Moons explores the properties of light waves and colour perception through a metaphorical moon. This artistic meditation on the processes of vision and photographic theory is experienced through the book’s 100 colour images, drawn from the thousands of colour combinations produced in the artist’s original, multi-projector, 35mm-slide installation. The visual experience is accompanied by 28 mini-essays on the moon, written by art writer, critic and curator Jayne Wilkinson. Find out more »