Pierre Coupey

Person/ne

Person/ne
Curator, Lisa Baldiserra
Griffin Art Projects
North Vancouver
May 11 - September 2 2019

Person/ne reveals the agency of taking action through art making. Alternatively meditative, declarative, political and insistent, the artists’ works reveal acts of care, citizenship and personhood, or cognizance of its lack, through a variety of unexpected means.

The exhibition includes 41 of the extraordinary postcards Pierre Coupey's grandfather, Léon Coupey, addressed to his beloved K-K-K Katie, Pierre's grandmother, Kate Barlow Hunt Coupey, during Léon's and Kate's courtship in London and through their married life in Paris in the Belle Epoque.

Works are drawn from Griffin Art Projects Residency Artists and private collections in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Eastbourne UK. Artists in the exhibition include Sonny Assu, Stephen Balkenhol, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Léon Coupey, Stan Douglas, Duane Linklater, Yevgeniy Fiks, Sima Khourami, Shawn Hunt, Emily Jacir, Mahdyar Jamshidi, Zoe Kreye, Steve McQueen, Ann Newdigate, Ricarda Roggan, Norman Tait, Stephen Waddell, Ai Wei Wei, Janet Werner, Lam Wong and Sisleg Xhafa

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Léon Coupey Postcards
Léon Coupey Drawings

 

Manifest | Trace 

Manifest | Trace
Curator, Vanessa Black
Seymour Art Gallery
4360 Gallant Ave
North Vancouver
March – April  2019

Installation shots
North Shore News
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the poets have always preceded 
art and poetry in Vancouver
1960 - present

After Olson I (1987) Graphite on Arches paper, 30 x 22 ½ inches

the poets have always preceded
art and poetry in Vancouver
1960 - present
Curator, Lee Plested
Griffin Art Projects
1174 Welch Street
North Vancouver
January - April 2019

Marian Penner Bancroft, bill bissett, Robin Blaser, Judy Chartrand, Jess, Judith Copithorne, Pierre Coupey, Christos Dikeakos, Stan Douglas, Beau Dick, Geoffrey Farmer, Fran Herndon, Carole Itter, Roy Kiyooka, Tiziana La Melia, Al Neil, Judy Radul, Rhoda Rosenfeld, Trudy Rubenfeld, Nancy Shaw with many more.

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Review, Galleries West
Review, North Shore News

 

Transformations: Selected Work from the AFK Collection

 Untitled XXI (2016) Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 inches | Ramp (After CL) (2003) Oil on linen, 76 x 90 inches

Transformations: Selected Work from the Artists for Kids Collection
Curator, Daylen Luschinger
Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art
2121 Lonsdale Avenue
North Vancouver
September 2018 - April 2019

Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq, BC Binning, Karin Bubas, Taiga Chiba, Pierre Coupey, Leonard Epp, Gathie Falk, Graham Gillmore, Betty Goodwin, Angela Grossman, Kenojuak Ashevak, Kulisjamu Sanasimaju, Ann Kipling, Elizabeth McIntosh, Erin McSaveney, Guido Molinari, Victor John Penner, Bill Reid, Jeremy Shaw, Marianna Schmidt, Jack Shadbolt, Sylvia Tait, Kabubuwa Tunnillie, Irene F. Whittome, Etienne Zack

 

Rock Pool

Rock Pool X (2018) Oil on canvas, 90 x 90 inches | Stanza 44 (2017-2018) Oil on paper, 30 x 45 inches diptych

Rock Pool
Gallery Jones
258 East 1st Avenue
Vancouver 

October - November 2018

Also featuring sculpture by Dion Kliner
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Galleries West

 

Pierre Coupey | RCA  2018

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa May 2018

L to R: Noel Best (BC, Architecture), Anne Carrier (QC, Architecture), Pierre Coupey (BC, Painting),
Lucy Hogg (US, Painting), Katherine Knight (ON, Photography), Gary Pearson (BC, Painting),
Udo Schliemann (ON, Design) | Absent: David Alexander (BC, Painting), Shayne Dark (ON, Sculpture)

Photo © Justin Wonnacott, RCA