Monte Clark

08/08/2026

Vancouver Art Gallery Interim Co-CEO & Curator at Large Eva Respini in conversation with Emily Hermant, Visual Artist on CTV about Vancouver Now!, the Gallery’s new exhibition series, inaugurated with a solo presentation of Hermant’s work, on view through November 22, 2026.

🔗 Link in bio to watch the full interview.

08/06/2026

Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant, Visual Artist presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery opens this Friday!

Since arriving in Vancouver in 2016, Hermant has steadily built a reputation as an artist to watch. The exhibition will highlight her weavings, which are laboriously crafted from the wires and data cables of the technologies that envelop us, thoughtfully shifting the speed and focus of our attention. They invite viewers to move from the frenetic virtual experiences that increasingly characterize our daily lives to an unhurried and surprisingly aesthetically satisfying consideration of the material basis of that simulated world.

Although the works are beautiful in reproduction, their full effect can be experienced only in person. As they are approached, each work, which initially appears like an abstract or highly stylized painting or textile, transforms to reveal its materiality as a structure of coloured, insulated wires and data cables.

Featured:
Emily Hermant, photographed in her studio, 2024.

07/24/2026

Built through accumulation, response, and revision, Jonathan Syme paintings emerge through dense layers of pigment. Communities of colour gather, disperse, intersect, and collide, suggesting flowers, root systems, weather, horizons, and imagined landscapes. Suspended between becoming and undoing, the works invite reflection on our interconnectedness, where the microscopic and the cosmic echo one another.

If you haven’t yet had the chance to view Jonathan Syme’s ‘Field Conditions’, you’re in luck—we’re extending the exhibition through early August.

Featured images: Jonathan Syme Field Conditions, Installation views, Monte Clark Gallery, 2026

07/24/2026

‘Night Pollinator’ unfolds like something encountered after dusk—drawn by instinct rather than light. Layers of pigment gather and dissolve, suggesting a hidden ecology where forms dance in the dark. 🐞

Jonathan Syme
Night Pollinator, 2026
Oil on canvas
20 x 17 in
50.8 x 43.2 cm

Jonathan Syme, Field Conditions, on view at Monte Clark Gallery through July 25, 2026.

07/15/2026

New sculptures by Alex Tedlie-Stursberg
Currently on view at LIVINGSPACE

Alex Tedlie-Stursberg’s basalt stone sculpture series transforms naturally occurring volcanic rock through a meticulous process of cutting, honing, and airbrushing with layers of automotive paint, metal flake, and clear coat. Contrasting the stone’s rough exterior with a luminous, highly finished interior, the works draw attention to questions of value, materiality, and transformation. Resembling split geodes or enigmatic monuments, they foreground the overlooked beauty and cultural significance of basalt—a material long associated with both geological processes and sacred forms.

Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, studio view, 2026
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, Polylith 7 (Green-Yellow), 2026, basalt stone with automotive paint, 42 x 7 1/2 x 16 in (each)
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, Monolith 5 (Red), 2026, basalt stone with automotive paint, 41 x 11 x 16 in
Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, Polylith 5 (Purple), 2026, basalt stone with automotive paint, 42 x 7 x 15 in (each)

07/12/2026

Portraits, especially self-portraits, are elusive at best. Yet, every painting is, in some way, just that.
These paintings are made with the intention of reflection. They present as a version of portrait, a locating of the self within a greater context. Jonathan Syme’s exhibition, Field Conditions, reflects on a state of relation. The field is not a place but a condition — a living continuum in which every element exists through its connection to another.

Jonathan Syme
Dream Stem, 2026
oil and acrylic on canvas
57 x 44 5/8 in
144.8 x 113.3 cm

Jonathan Syme, Field Conditions, on view through July 25, 2026.

07/10/2026

Congratulations Greg Girard and The Polygon Gallery 🥂

07/09/2026

07/09/2026

Opening tomorrow: Greg Girard at The Polygon Gallery
July 10–October 25, 2026

Acclaimed Canadian photographer Greg Girard receives his first-ever career survey this summer. Girard gained recognition working for media outlets while also developing independent projects focused on the social and physical transformations of urban centres, especially in Asia. Travelling extensively, he spent considerable time in Hong Kong from 1982 through 1998, where he photographed the Kowloon Walled City for what became the influential publication City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City (1993), later reissued as City of Darkness Revisited (2014). Girard was based in Shanghai between 1998 and 2011, and is renowned for his images of that city’s rapid, and at times violent, metamorphosis through the beginning of the 21st century. Girard has also produced a number of photobooks, including Phantom Shanghai (2007), which The Independent newspaper cited as one the top 10 photographic books ever produced, as well as Under Vancouver, 1972 - 1982 (2017), which is now in its fourth printing. His photographs have appeared in a wide range of internationally circulating publications, such as National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, and the Sunday Times Magazine (UK).

07/02/2026

News: Emily Hermant, Visual Artist has been longlisted for the 2026 Hnatyshyn Foundation The Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Awards for Excellence in Visual Arts.

The Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Mid-Career Awards are awarded annually to Canadian artists and curators in recognition of their outstanding work in their respective fields and in anticipation of their future contributions to the legacy of Canadian art.

Working with recycled communication wires and data cables, Hermant creates intricately woven works derived from glitch-altered digital imagery, transforming ephemeral information systems into tactile, luminous surfaces and forms that evoke a soft collapse of communications technologies. A recipient of funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, her practice examines the materiality and afterlives of communications technologies.

Emily Hermant has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery this summer as the inaugural artist in the museum’s new Vancouver Now! series, which highlights Canadian artists to watch. Her exhibition will run August 7–November 22, 2026.

Featured images:
Portrait of artist Emily Hermant
Installation view, Emily Hermant: In the Soft Collapse, 2024, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Emily Hermant, Reflections on Leonid (No. 1), 2015, collected and stripped telecommunication cables on canvas, 12 x 14 x 2 in