Calvin Wharton
ROY ARDEN, PETER CULLEY, JEFF DERKSEN, STAN DOUGLAS, DEANNA FERGUSON, SARA LEYDON, DONNA LEISEN, KATHRYN MACLEOD, DOUG MUNDAY, CATE RIMMER, CALVIN WHARTON
September 10–October 1, 1988
“Behind the Sign” an exhibition of collaborations between writers and visual artists, will be shown at Artspeak Gallery from September 10 to October 1, 1988. Over the past eight months, five visual artists and five writers have collaborated in pairs to develop works for this exhibition. The list of participants reveals an impressive array of talent from Vancouver’s visual art and writing communities: Stan Douglas and Deanna Ferguson; Roy Arden and Jeff Derksen; Donna Leisen and Calvin Wharton; Doug Munday and Kathryn MacLeod; Sarah Leydon and Peter Culley.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with texts by Scott Watson, Cate Rimmer, and Miriam Nichols.
Roy Arden, Peter Culley, Jeff Derksen, Stan Douglas, Deanna Ferguson, Donna Leisen, Sara Leydon, Kathryn Macleod, Doug Munday, Cate Rimmer, Calvin Wharton, Behind the Sign
September 10, 1988
CALVIN WHARTON
June 1, 1988
Writers/Artists/Talks, a joint project of the Kootenay School of Writing and Artspeak Gallery, consists of a series of public talks and exhibitions by writers and artists with the intention to articulate a common theoretical and practical ground for the two disciplines.
COLIN BROWNE, JEFF DERKSEN, DAN FARRELL, KATHRYN MACLEOD, TOM WAYMAN, CALVIN WHARTON, GARY WHITEHEAD
June 13, 1987
Title: Behind The Sign
Category: Exhibition Catalogue
Artist: Roy Arden, Jeff Derksen, Donna Leisen, Calvin Wharton, Stan Douglas, Deanna Ferguson, Peter Culley, Sara Leydon, Kathryn MacLeod, Doug Munday
Writers: Cate Rimmer, Scott Watson, Miriam Nichols
Editor: Monika Gagnon, Cate Rimmer
Design: Doug Munday
Publisher: Artspeak
Printer: Benwell-Atkins Ltd.
Year published: 1988
Pages: 48pp
Cover: Paper
Binding: Perfect Bound
Process: Offset
Features: 11 b&w images, 1 colour image
Dimensions: 25.5 x 20.5 x 0.5 cm
Weight: 216 g
ISBN: 0-921394-02-0
Price: $7 CDN
Collaborative works by visual artists and writers investigating the production of meaning within a variety of systems.