JANUARY 2012

Panel Discussion
Art & Words/Words & Art with Grant Arnold,
Bill Jeffries, Kyla Mallett, Kim Nguyen and Ian Wallace.
Saturday January 7, 2–3 pm, room AQ 3003 (beside the Gallery).

Opening Reception
LAWRENCE WEINER: A Selection from the Vancouver Art Gallery
Archive of Lawrence Weiner Posters
Saturday January 7, 3 –5pm.

Six lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries:
Wednesday to Friday, January 11 to 13 12:05 & 12:35pm each day.

DECEMBER 2011

Opening Reception
Farah Nosh: Stanley Park after the Storm of December 2006
Thursday December 1, 6-8pm
Teck Gallery, SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street

illustrated talk on the history of storms in Stanley Park
Thursday December 15 at 7pm, Room 7000 at the SFU Vancouver Campus (515 West Hastings).

Join us for an illustrated talk on the history of storms in Stanley Park with York University
assistant professor of Canadian environmental history Sean Kheraj. He is completing a book
on the environmental history of Vancouver's Stanley Park that will be published by UBC Press.
The talk is presented on the occasion of Farah Nosh's exhibition Stanley Park After the Storm of 2006.
The talk is free and open to the public - there is no charge & no advance registration.

NOVEMBER 2011

Opening Reception
Jerry Pethick: Works 1968 - 2003 from Collections on Hornby Island
Saturday November 5
SFU Gallery (Burnaby): 3-5pm

Six lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries:
Jerry Pethick: Works 1968 - 2003 from Collections on Hornby Island
Tuesday to Thursday, November 8 to 10, at 12:05 and 12:35.
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

OCTOBER 2011

Talk by Paris-based artist Paul P.
Wednesday, October 19th at 7pm.
The talk is a free public event held in room 7000 at the
SFU Vancouver Campus, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver.
This talk is co-sponsored with the Contemporary Art Society Vancouver.

SEPTEMBER 2011

Opening Reception
William Wegman: Do/Redo
Saturday September 10
SFU Gallery (Burnaby): 3-5pm

Six lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries:
William Wegman: Do/Redo
Tuesday to Thursday, September 13 to 16, at 12:05 and 12:35.
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

JULY 2011

Six lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries:
Robert Young: Lacunarian Picturing
Tuesday to Thursday, July 12 to 14, 12:05 and 12:35.
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

Opening Reception
Tayu Hayward: We Don't Live Here Anymore
Wednesday July 27, 6-8pm. Artist in attendance
Teck Gallery, SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street

JUNE 2011

Opening Receptions
Robert Young: Lacunarian Picturing
Saturday June 18
Evergreen Cultural Centre (Coquitlam): 1- 3pm,
SFU Gallery (Burnaby): 3-5pm

MAY 2011

Six lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries:
Solange Fabião: Amazônia (Projecting on Black)
Tuesday to Thursday, May 17 to 19, 12:05 and 12:35.
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

APRIL 2011

Opening Reception
Solange Fabião: Amazônia (Projecting on Black)
Saturday April 30, 1–4 pm
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

MARCH 2011

Panel Discussion: Manifestos Now!
Thursday March 3, 7pm in Room 7000
SFU Vancouver, 515 W. Hastings St.
Followed by a walking tour of the exhibition in the Teck Gallery.

Speakers: Brian Ganter, Lisa Robertson, Reg Johanson,
Pierre Coupey, and Marie-Hélène Tessier

Opening Reception
JOAN BALZAR: Vancouver Orbital
Saturday March 5, 3–5 pm
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

Eight lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries:
Tuesday to Friday, March 8 to 11, 12:05 and 12:35.
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

Book Launch: The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony
Wednesday March 9, 8pm
At Mis Trucos Tapas, 1141 Davie street Vancouver
Finger food and no host bar. Contact wcl@sfu.ca

JANUARY 2011

Opening Reception
Matilda Aslizadeh: Phantom Smile
Saturday January 8, 3–5 pm
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

Artist talk with Matilda Aslizadeh
Monday January 10th, 7pm
Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Room 301 (South Building, lecture hall).
Co-sponsored by ECUAD and the SFU Gallery.

Eight lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries
Tuesday to Friday, January 11 to 14, 12:05 and 12:35.
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

NOVEMBER 2010

Opening Reception
Ewan McNeil: Peripheral Topographics
Thursday November 4th, 2010. 7 to 9pm
Artist in attendance
Teck Gallery, SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street

Opening Reception
Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers: an American self-portrait
Saturday November 6, 2–5 pm
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

Lunchtime talks
Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers: an American self-portrait
Tuesday and Wednesday, November 9 and 10, 12:05 and 12:35. Thursday and Friday, 18 and 19, 12:05 and 12:35.
SFU Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, SFU Burnaby Campus

OCTOBER 2010

Closing Event: BESA Exhibition
Laura Kruger: Albanian Muslims Who Saved Jews During World War II
Tuesday October 5, 7pm
Teck Gallery, SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street

In connection with the BESA exhibition at the Teck Gallery, its curator, Laura Kruger from Hebrew Union College in New York City, will present a talk which will focus on the historical situation prior to WWII in Albania; the bravery inherent in offering a safe harbor to refugees in peril, as well as discussing the content of specific Norman Gershman’s photographs.

Bill Jeffries: A Canadian in New York – Walter Tandy Murch Conquers the Big Apple
Tuesday October 12, 7pm
SFU Vancouver, 515 W, Hastings, Room 7000

The circumstances surrounding the success of a shy twenty-year old from Toronto during his forty years in New York City are explored via the evolution of Murch’s art. Bill Jeffries is the Director of the SFU Gallery.

Ernst van de Wetering, Director, Rembrandt Research Project
The Rembrandt Research Project and the Puzzle of Rembrandt¹s Self-Portraits
Saturday October 30, 7pm
Room 1600, SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street

Ernst van de Wetering has been with the Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) since 1968. In 1992 he succeeded Josua Bruyn as its chairman. From 1987 to 2001 Ernst van de Wetering was also professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam and in 2002-2003 Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford. The Rembrandt Research Project has published five volumes with the results of its investigation in A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. A concluding survey of Rembrandt’s painted oeuvre will appear in 2011. Dr. van de Wetering’s talk will outline the RRP’s work and then discuss the implications in assessing Rembrandt’s self-portraits. This free talk is sponsored by the Simon Fraser University Gallery

SEPTEMBER 2010

Walter Scott Murch: Baraka
Friday September 10, 8pm
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at SFU Woodward’s
149 West Hastings Street

Walter Tandy Murch’s son explores the extraordinary circumstances that led to his father becoming an artist; a talk illuminating
Murch’s life in art in Toronto, and then in New York. Walter Scott Murch is one of the world’s most acclaimed film editors.

Walter Tandy Murch: The Spirit of Things, Exhibition opening
Saturday September 11, 3 – 5pm
Curators’ short talks 3:30 to 4:00

Lunchtime talks at 12:05pm and 12:35pm
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 14, 15 and 16.
*Talks for classes or groups may be scheduled by appointment.

JUNE 2010

BESA: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II

Opening Event: Thursday, June 24, 2010
Opening remarks and talks 7PM
Fletcher Challenge Theatre, Room 1900
SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street.

Welcome: Besnik Konci, the Albanian Ambassador to Canada

Speakers: Dr. Zijad Delic, Executive Director, Canadian Islamic Congress: “Jewish-Muslim Relations in Islam and the Balkans” and
Dr. Steven Wasserstrom, Moe and Izetta Tonkon Professor of Judaic Studies at Reed College: “Thoughts on the Rise of the Term
Abrahamic Religions” Followed by a reception in the Teck Gallery c. 8:30pm

APRIL 2010

SOREL ETROG: the Link Paintings

Lunchtime talks on the exhibition with Bill Jeffries:
Wednesday and Thursday: April 21 and 22, 12:05. and 12:35.

Take Your Time Book Launch
Wednesday March 21, 8pm
Ouisi, 3014 Granville St

Please join us for the launch of our latest exhibition catalogue, Take Your Time. The book of the exhibition that
was at the SFU Gallery in November and December 2009.
Cash bar.

March 2010

Saturday March 20, 2010
SOREL ETROG: the Link Paintings

Opening Reception: Saturday March 20, 2 –5pm

Lunchtime talks on the exhibition with Bill Jeffries:
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23 and 24, 12:05. Thursday and Friday, March 25 and 26, 12:35.

January 2010

Saturday January 9, 2010
to show, to give, to make it be there. Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver: 1954-1969

Opening Reception: Saturday January 9, 2 –5pm Walking Tour with Michael Turner, 3pm.

Lunchtime talks on the exhibition with Bill Jeffries: January 12 and 13 at 12:05 and January 14 at 12:35

Guided Tour with Michael Turner January 13th at 2pm. Join us for a chance to view the show and discuss collagist
cultural practices from Vancouver ’s interdisciplinary past.

November 2009

Taking a Deep Breath: A panel discussion with four of the artists in the Take Your Time exhibition.
Tuesday November 17, 7pm. Room 1600, SFU Vancouver. 515 west Hastings.

October 2009

Take Your Time
Opening Reception: Friday October 30, 7-9pm, SFU Burnaby.
Artists: Rebecca Brewer, Ron den Daas, Colleen Heslin, Damian Moppett, Heather Passmore, Gary Pearson, Ben Reeves, Neil Wedman.

Film Screenings:
In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias. A film by Sandow Birk
Friday October 2nd, 7PM. SFU Vancouver Campus, 515 W. Hastings, Room 1600.
Wednesday October 14, 7PM. SFU Vancouver Campus, 515 W. Hastings, Room 1600.

The film is constructed from pans of the 100+ ‘history paintings’ that Birk created ‘documenting’ the ‘recent’ war between San Francisco and Los Angeles; it is in the style of the documentaries that Ken Burns has done for PBS, with the serious narration that one expects from a documentary reporting on such an important event. 45 minutes.

September 2009

Artist talk & film screening:
Saturday September 12, 2pm. SFU Burnaby Campus.
Followed by an opening reception from 3 to 5pm.
Screening Birk’s legendary film In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias.

A Talk with Dr. Richard T. Gray
The Fourth Wall: Illusion and the Theater of Narrative in Franz Kafka’s 'A Report to an Academy'
Thursday September 17, 7PM. SFU Vancouver campus, 515 W. Hastings, Room 7000.
This event is free and open to the public. This is the final event associated with the SFU Gallery’s recent exhibition
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony.
The talk is co-sponsored by the SFU Gallery and the SFU Institute of the Humanities.
Richard T. Gray is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle.

August 2009

Slide Show at McLean Park, Strathcona (Corner of Keefer & Hawks)
Friday August 28, Dusk
To mark the end of David Wisdom's Teck Gallery exhibition Vancouver 1970-1975, the SFU Gallery presents a slide projection event that captures the spirit of the legendary 1970s Point Grey slide festivals, with slide show by some of our best photographers/artists.
David Wisdom, Ian Wallace, James O'Mara, Carol Sawyer, Michael O'Connel, Robert Kleyn, Michael Turner, Stuart McCall,
Neil Wedman and Fred Herzog.

June 2009

Slide Show/Talks with David Wisdom
David Wisdom: Vancouver 1970 -1975
Friday June 5, 7pm. Room 1600, followed by an Opening Reception in the Teck Gallery Space, Vancouver Campus
Friday June 12, 7pm. Room 1900. Vancouver Campus

Lunchtime Talks - Burnaby Campus
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony
Saturday June 13, 1:00, with Jerry Zaslove
Thursday, June 25, 12:35, with Jerry Zaslove
(Talks for classes/groups at other times by arrangement.)

June 22- 25, 2009- Kafka Film Festival
KAFKA IN THE DARK: The strange and sinister cinema of Franz K.

Monday June 22
CLASS RELATIONS. 6.30pm. FREE SCREENING
Directors: Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet // France-West Germany // 1984 // 126 min // DVD
Professor Jerry Zaslove introduces our Kafka in the Dark program, followed by Straub-Huillet’s acclaimed film of the first, unfinished novel, Amerika. Preceded by the short film: The Metamorphosis of Mr Samsa Directed by Caroline Leaf // Canada // 1977 // 10 min.

Tuesday June 23
THE CASTLE (DAS SCHLOSS) 6.30pm Director Michael Haneke // Austria // 1997 // 123 mins
Preceded by THE MAN WHO WAITED Director: Theodore Ushev // Canada // 2006 // 8 min
K 8.45pm Director: Shoja Azari // US/Morocco // 2002 // 85 min // 35mm

Wednesday June 24
KAFKA 6.30pm Director: Steven Soderbergh // USA // 1991 // 98 mins // DVD
THE TRIAL 8.15pm Director: Orson Welles // Fr- Italy-West Germany // 1962 // 118 min // 35mm

Thursday June 25
THE CASTLE (DAS SCHLOSS) 8:45 Director Michael Haneke // Austria // 1997 // 123 mins
THE TRIAL 6.30 pm Director: Orson Welles // Fr- Italy-West Germany // 1962 // 118 min // 35mm

May 2009

Wednesday May 6, 7pm
Public talk: The Search for Kafka’s Literary Legacy by renowned Kafka scholar Kathi Diamant. Room 7000 SFU Vancouver Campus.

Lunchtime Talks - Burnaby Campus
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony
Tuesday May 26, 12:05, with Bill Jeffries
Wednesday May 27, 12:35, with Bill Jeffries
Thursday, May 28, 12:35, with Jerry Zaslove
(Talks for classes/groups at other times by arrangement.)

April 2009

Saturday April 25
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony
Curators’ talk: 2pm, on the origins and implications of the exhibition, in AQ 3003, the lecture hall adjacent to the SFU Gallery.
Opening reception in the Gallery, from 3pm to 5pm.

Lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries - Burnaby Campus
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 28, 29, 30 at 12:05pm and 12:35pm


December 2008

Saturday December 12 from 3pm to 5pm
Last day of Less is More: The Poetics of Erasure
SFU Gallery, Burnaby Campus

The SFU Gallery will be closed to the public from December 13, 2008 to January 9, 2009 for the Christmas break.
We will reopen with an exhibition by Liz Magor on Saturday, January 10, 2009.

November 2008

Saturday November 1 from 2pm to 5pm
Panel discussion, exhibition opening, and book launch of Less is More: The Poetics of Erasure
SFU Gallery, Burnaby Campus
Please join us for a panel discussion on "The Poetics and Politics of Erasure" with Derek Beaulieu, Clint Burnham, Kristina Lee Podesva,
and Nick Thurston. The discussion will take place in room AQ3003, just west of the SFU Gallery. Starting at 2pm, followed by reception.
*Please note that the panel was originally advertised as starting at 1pm, but has been moved to 2pm.

Thursday November 27 from 7pm to 9pm
Artist talk by Nick Danziger SFU Vancouver Campus, room 7000
Please join us for a talk by Monaco-based photojournalist Nick Danziger about his recent photographic assignment in Afghanistan. This talk is co-produced with the SFU Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures.

Saturday November 29 at 3pm
Artist tour and opening of Nick Danziger: Blair at War
Teck Gallery, SFU Vancouver Campus