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Artist-led contemporary commercial art gallery.

07/30/2026

Yujia Shi — Jenny Elizabeth Shi
featured in “Pieces”
on view now

Yujia Shi
Morning Regiment, Lotus. 2025
Cochineal dye and marker on cotton organdy, silk organza and felt.
Approx. 38.1 x 44.5 cm

📸s Ryan Josey

07/17/2026

New work by Kayza DeGraff-Ford featured in “Pieces” on view now 💙

Kayza DeGraff-Ford —
Night kiss, 2026
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 121.9 cm

Documentation x

07/16/2026

Now on view 🎇

B.Brookbank — .brookbank
Stage, 2026
Silver gelatine contact print
Edition 1/3
24.9 x 30.2 cm

The Blue Building is thrilled to exhibit with artist B. Brookbank for the first time. Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Brookbank’s practice engages photography, moving image, sculpture and installation. They explore themes of longing, love, grief, decay, disarray and the erotic—often through ad hoc arrangements of familiar, found materials—often carefully framed and transformed within domestic contexts.

The care and craft of intimate works like “Stage” are best experienced in person. Visit our current exhibition, “Pieces” today!

Gallery hours:

Wednesday 12-5pm
Thursday 12-5pm
Friday 12-5pm
Saturday 12-5pm

07/09/2026

Now on view…

Pieces — featuring:

Tim Brennan
B. Brookbank (.brookbank)
Kayza DeGraff-Ford ()
Ursula Johnson ()
Yujia Shi (.is.everywhere)
Yyshan Wright ()

Shared here are installation views of works by (left to right) Yujia Shi, Ursula Johnson and B Brookbank 🤍

More soon,

06/19/2026

Summer is here…and you’re invited!

Our Summer 2026 group show: Pieces opens next Saturday 27 June with a reception at the gallery from 5:00pm - 7:30pm. All are welcome!

Featuring new and returning artists:

Tim Brennan
B. Brookbank (.brookbank)
Kayza DeGraff-Ford ()
Ursula Johnson ()
Yujia Shi (.is.everywhere)
Tyshan Wright ()

Come help us welcome and celebrate all 🤍

Image credit:
Ursula Johnson
Excavata, 2015
Sculptural Installation (Wood, Hardware, Found Object)
Photo: Chris Smith.

06/04/2026

“A person is a person through other people.” 🌀”Stop killing us.”

lucie chan’s monumental installation, “how to be…excerpts from how to be 57, 2018” remains on view through June 13th. (Next weekend!)

Come through to experience the depth and detail of this work in person.

📸s

05/29/2026

how to be…excerpts from how to be 57, 2018 is an accumulation of hundreds of hours of drawing.

Individual faces and features are densely layered. Faces often overlap and hands often hold them close.

This repeated gesture of holding echoes an attempt the work makes to hold many experiences—often grieving, sometimes conflicting experiences, together in one piece.

The work will remain on view until June 13th.

And the artist, lucie chan () will give a talk this Saturday 30 May at 1:30pm.

Please join us to learn more about this extraordinary work.

05/27/2026

Images of figures in water recur throughout “how to be…excerpts from how to be 57, 2018.”

Often they appear to be carrying things—their belongings, each other—through flooded places.

For chan, these images are connected to stories about climate change, floods and rising tides, which were (and remain) prevalent while she was producing “how to be 57.”

In conversation with the many other stories woven into “how to be 57” these images consider the intersections of displacement, migration and environmental degradation.

They depict human fragility and point to inequities. Asking us to consider who these changes affect most.

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To hear more, join us this Saturday 30 May at 1:30pm for an artist talk.

lucie chan () and gallery director, Emily Falencki will be in conversation in the gallery from 1:30-2:30pm. All are welcome, and questions are encouraged!

05/22/2026

Please join us,

next Saturday, May 30, 2026

at 1:30pm for a conversation in the gallery between

artist, lucie chan —
and gallery director, emily falencki

come for insights and bring questions
about chan’s current exhibition
“how to be…excerpts from how to be 57, 2018”

05/21/2026

detail of…

lucie chan —
how to be…excerpts from how to be 57, 2018

Open through June 13th

Wednesday 12-5pm
Thursday 12-5pm
Friday 12-5pm
Saturday 12-5pm

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Friday	12pm - 6pm
Saturday	12pm - 6pm

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