Drawuary: Not A Day Goes By

Gallery Gachet presents
Drawuary: Not A Day Goes By

Curated by Gabrielle Hill

March 8th – April 7th, 2013
Opening night: Friday March 8th, 7 – 11pm

Vancouver, BC, This February eighteen artists converge for the fourth annual Drawuary, a project in which each contributing artist makes a drawing a day for the entire month of February. Drawuary is an exercise in limitations, abundance, ambitions, failure, and success.

Evan Sabourin, participating in the event for the 3rd time states: “the most challenging thing about participating in Drawuary isn’t the daily discipline, it’s being accepting of what the end results are. I might aspire stylistically to draw a certain way but over the 28 day period there is no faking it, no dekeing out either.”

Drawuary is a drawing project for everyone: outsiders and insiders; obsessive and compulsive drawers; developing and hesitant new drawers. However, as curator Gabrielle Hill explains: “while the artists this year come from a wide array of arts backgrounds, they share in common a drawing practice that thrives outside of elite arts institutions.”

Some of the participants create and exhibit their work in photocopied zines and comics, like Jonny Peterson, or on punk flyers, like Vancouver musician and artist Legs. Some work in Aboriginal friendship centres or artist-run collectives, like Jeska Slater, Bernadine Fox, and Quin Martins. Others, including Peter Morin and Spencer Keeton Cunningham, exhibit extensively in galleries, yet maintain alternative practices painting alley murals or beading with youth.

This year’s Drawuary artists include Ron Solonas, Jonny Peterson, Aaron Rossner, Morag Kydd, Legs, Peter Morin, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Evan Sabourin, Jeska Slater, Brennan Kelly, Gabe Hill, Jesse Corcoran, Chloe Gammon, Nizhoni Ellenwood, Syvia Munson, Bernadine Fox, Luey Mcquaid and Quin Martins.

Drawuary will culminate in an ambitious exhibition of each and every drawing made during the month. Always impressive in scope and scale, this year’s exhibit will feature close to 500 drawings by some truly awesome and driven emerging, underground artists. Drawuary: Not A Day Goes By opens at Gallery Gachet March 8th, 2013 and runs until April 7th.

http://gachet.org/

http://drawuary.tumblr.com/

For more information, please contact Curator, Gabrielle Hill
glh1@sfu.ca (778) 899-4301

This entry was posted in Events, News
  • About Gallery Gachet

    Gallery Gachet is a unique artist-run centre located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Gachet is a collectively-run exhibition and studio space built to empower participants as artists, administrators and curators.

    Read more >>

  • Donate

    Gallery Gachet is a non-profit artist run centre located in the Downtown Eastside.
    Your support will help us extend the range and quality of our programs.





  • Accessibility Info

    Front door - 32" width
    No steps

    Washroom
    Door - 35" width
    Toilet clearance:
    8'' left side
    29'' front
    Support bars on left and behind toilet

    Click here to see our full accesibility audit.

  • Subscribe to our e-newsletter

    Want to subscribe to Gallery Gachet's e-newsletters and receive updates, opportunities, and promotions?

    You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link at the bottom of our newsletters.

    * indicates required
    Provide consent to recieve gachet enews

    View previous campaigns.