Join us this coming Friday for our next show, The Price and the Witness, an exhibition of work by Megan Hepburn and R. Meier. Open reception from 8-10pm, Friday, October 27th : 0 )

Megan Hepburn and R. Meier The Price and the Witness Duplex October 27-November 24, 2017 Opening reception Friday, October 27th, 8-10pm

Megan Hepburn and R. Meier The Price and the Witness Duplex October 27-November 24, 2017 Opening reception Friday, October 27th, 8-10pm Who the witness... What then, the price... ---- Duplex 4257 + 4277 Fraser St. (entrance in back alley) Vancouver, BC Canada Viewing by appointment. For more information please contact: recmeier@gmail.com partout.megan@gmail.com

KAMIAS in CANADA? A Gathering October 10, 8pm DUPLEX 4257 Fraser Street (entrance in back alley) Hello! We’re plotting this casual get together to discuss the progression of the Kamias Triennial. https://kamiaskamiaskamias.wordpress.com/2nd-kt/ The Kamias Triennial is a DIY art event instigated by Patrick Cruz with various collaborators. It is an ongoing series, taking place every three years in Quezon City and beyond. The 2nd Kamias Triennial focused on exchange, and has as a long term goal the building of networks for collaboration, travel, exhibition, production, and community building across the Pacific ocean between the Philippines and Canada, and following lines of diasporas, tourism, trade and other global conditions that touch our daily lives. Several Canadian artists were included in KT2, some of whom travelled in person to join us at the events, while others participated by contributing a work to a group exhibition, market, screening, discussion, music & performance event, all taking place in June 2017 in Quezon City. All KT2 artists have been invited to participate in this discussion, and so are you! We plan to show you some images from the event, and we will host a general discussion on the DIY art scene of the Philippines and we hope to probe a little into the Canadian context to get a better sense of the different approaches to supporting and showing artists. Taho will be served! And other things besides. -- Patrick Cruz and Allison Collins and Duplex and friends (KT2 artists: Hiba Abdallah, Poklong Anading, Ringo Bunoan, Lena Cobangbang, Jed Escueta, Paul de Guzman, Julia Feyrer, Stefana Fratila, Oliver Husain, Laurie Kang, Nestor Kruger, Tiziana La Melia, Julian Hou, Joee & I, Jesi Jordan, Ian Carlo Jaucian, Gino Javier, Robert Langenegger, Romeo Lee, Lou Lim, Steffanie Ling, Pow Martinez, Ella Dawn McGeough, Kat Medina, Jet Melencio, Colin Miner, Manuel Ocampo, Office of Culture and Design, Veronica Peralejo, Norberto Roldan, Totem Saa, Mark Salvatus, Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw, The Sleepy Heads, Gerry Tan, Marija Vicente, Gail Vicente, Tanya Villanueva, Christian Vistan, MM Yu, Jade Yumang & Sara Jiminez, Zebulon Zang and Jeona Zoleta).

Please join us for leftovers 1, an evening of drink/snack/music on Friday, October 6th at 8pm. Decor and cocktails courtesy of Kathleen Taylor and Kara Hansen. Snacks courtesy of Vincent Tao. Singlet ciggies for sale at the bar. Drinks awarded to dancers. Hope to see your sweet faces. Bring your friends!

Emily Hill It is Hard to Tape a Fish Opening: Friday, September 15, 8:00 PM Exhibition Dates: September 15 to September 24 Cut a wedge from a head of cabbage, and the marbled ridges arch like a bridge. Pretend this bridge is a model to rethink the gap between anticipation and understanding. The top layer is for crossing, and the spilt juice from this morning is a river flowing the opposite way. Peel the layers beneath the surface of the cabbage and there is a core. Pry out the core and there is a tunnel. On top of the bridge, vision cannot see this tunnel. Last year artist Emily Hill was living in Montreal. The cabbage materialized in response to the knowledge that Champlain Bridge, previously known as Nuns Bridge, is falling down. In 1962 the bridge opened and has continued to be a major thoroughfare connecting land separated by the Saint Lawrence River. Recently when cracks were sighted in a critical part of the structure, the city merely closed a small portion and allowed traffic to continue around it. More cracks appeared and more cars were rerouted. The poor conditions and unquantifiable risks involved with its continued use were met with little solace. To fill the gap from one language to another Hill was teaching ESL to students at a development corporation, who happened to be bidding for the new Champlain Bridge. The students drove across the bridge each day, to reach their workplace at SNC Lavalin despite their close knowledge of the state of disrepair. One day the class received news SNC won the bid, setting in motion one of North America’s biggest work sites. The new Champlain Bridge is slated to be completed at the end of next year. The bridge that is forever with us is called the arch of the foot. Between the ball and the heel of the foot, or between our bodies and the ground, the arch supports our balance or imbalance. High arches can be hard on the body. Determined by bone or shoe, the reach of one's arches can cause pain. In a video of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass,” Debbie Harry’s gold high heels glint as brightly as the metallic instruments bobbing in her shadow. Underneath her pointy heels the glass top of the stage looks thin and fragile, while the exposed steel beams that support it have the same shape as a bridge truss face down. For the exhibition It is Hard to Tape a Fish Hill has scored one song to the tune of another, through adapting the nursery rhyme “London Bridge is Falling Down” with “Nun’s Bridge,” (i.e. Champlain Bridge) to the melodies of “Heart of Glass.” Spaced out, Blondie’s persona seems in line with the derogatory term cabbage-head. She sings about heartbreak, then walks away intact when love gets shitty. Hills melodious pairing of tunes takes us through a material process that keeps butting into failure although to an upbeat disco rhythm. It is Hard to Tape a Fish also includes Emily Hill’s most recent rug paintings hung overlapping rented velvet backdrops. Through pouring and smudging liquid dye, she seeps gestures into the plush fibers of wool shag-rugs. On horizontal planes she dribbles, streams, and smears compositions throughout. When permeated with rich amounts of pigment, the rugs are rinsed and washed until they are left to dry. After teasing out knots and ambitious combing, hairspray is intimately applied to the rugs, though in grotesque proportion to personal domestic rituals. Through this process, Hill leaves spacious room for chance to occur. How the temperature of a color will dry, if a mark will stick around, or if tones will flood the composition are coaxed surprises. If Hill describes painting as a bridge, or a structure that connects things that didn’t touch before, it seems her paintings occur to let go. Duplex is an independent project space and studio collective in Vancouver. DUPLEX 4257 + 4277 Fraser St. (entrance in back alley) Vancouver, BC Canada Viewing by appointment. Please contact us at: email --- hello@projectduplex.ca instagram --- @duplexduplex_ facebook --- @projectduplex --- You have been sent this invitation because we anticipate your interest and enjoy your company. If you prefer not to receive exhibition announcements etcetera, just let us know and we will take you off the mailing list. We appreciate your support.

Hey friends! Anyone know any art friendly notaries in town? Need one asap! happy SWARM :P XO

Duplex Biennial/Yard Sale/Silent Auction/BBQ/Bouncy Castle/Talent Show/Funraiser/Fundraiser/Family-friendly Event, Sunday August 13th 1-9pm. Please join us in celebrating 2 years of Duplex, and cheers to 2 more years of artistic production, exhibition and events. Feel free to come by with old clothing or belongings you wish to sell! Guess how many candies are in the giant mason jar! Sshh! Come inside the gallery for a silent auction of works from artists at the studios! Bravo! Talent show comprised of local artists and community members! Yummers! BBQ and refreshments! Boing! Bouncy Castle! Donations welcomed, all proceeds will go towards safety upgrades so we can continue doing what we do. Everybody, and every body! 4257 Fraser St Vancouver, British Columbia http://projectduplex.ca

Last week to see Loving-Kindness, Derek Brunen 's show at Duplex, send us a message by Thursday to come by! Also, thank you Steff Ling for the review: http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=1251 and Canadian Art for the wee s/o: http://canadianart.ca/must-sees/must-sees-this-week-may-11-to-17-2017/

Some shout outs from Canadian Art, one for Derek Brunen 's Loving-Kindness which opened last Friday... http://canadianart.ca/must-sees/must-sees-this-week-may-11-to-17-2017/ and one written about Jeff Downer's show Handsome Rewards, curated by Kara Ditte Hansen by Lucien Dury in his Vancouver Report: Behind the Screen http://canadianart.ca/reviews/vancouver-report-behind-the-screen/ thank you!!!