B.C. artists honour a friend's legacy with Rodney Graham Remembered at The Polygon Gallery, December 4
Hosted by David Wisdom, evening features words and visual presentations by Neil Wedman, Carol Sawyer, Karin Bubaš, Pete Bourne, Robert Kleyn, and more
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Rodney Graham’s Oak, Kaggevinne, 1989.
On December 4 at 7 pm, The Polygon Gallery will host Rodney Graham Remembered, an evening honouring the titular artist, musician, and friend. Hosted by David Wisdom, the event will unfold with a few words and visual presentations from a group of British Columbia–based artists: Neil Wedman, Carol Sawyer, Karin Bubaš and Pete Bourne, Robert Kleyn, Tim Lee, and Kathy Slade and Brady Cranfield of The Music Appreciation Society.
Graham was an internationally admired artist who created a remarkable range of work across many disciplines, including film, painting, writing, photography, design, performance, and music. He had an astonishingly wide interest in popular culture, history, literature, food, and clothing. Graham will be remembered as much for his conversational flow and his kind, generous companionship as he will for his tremendous art.
Wisdom is best known across Canada for his 30 years on the CBC Radio network as host and producer of music programs such as Nightlines and Pearls Of Wisdom. He was a member of several bands, including The Young Winstons and UJ3RK5. Wisdom has been taking photographs since the mid 1960s, and his work has been exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Equinox Gallery, SFU’s Teck Gallery, the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, ArtSpring, and more. He has presented multi-artist slideshows at several venues throughout Canada, the U.S., and the U.K., and his events were part of the cultural programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery for nine years.
Each of the artists at the event will highlight a different part of Graham’s legacy. Bourne, for instance, is a Canadian drummer known for his work with the Rodney Graham Band from 2002 until Graham’s passing in 2022. Bourne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000 and continued to record and perform until touring became too difficult.
Kleyn, meanwhile, is an interdisciplinary artist who works across photography, video, installation, performance, and architecture. He has exhibited widely since the 1970s, when he became active in photoconceptual and projection-based art in Vancouver, including an early exhibition with Graham at Pender Street Gallery.
Learn more about the artists and RSVP for Rodney Graham Remembered through The Polygon Gallery.
Post sponsored by The Polygon Gallery.
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