• Douglas Coupland’s new exhibition brings together works made since the early 2000s, as well as major new installations created specifically for this presentation.

  • Douglas Coupland welcomed guests to the opening of the first major survey of his work.

  • Tokyo Harbour, 2000. 106 plastic bottles. Private collection.

  • The title of the exhibition, “everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything”, speaks to the ways the omnipresence of technology has not only changed the way people think.

  • 345 Modern House, 2014. Lego resin. Courtesy of the artist and Daniel Faria Gallery.

  • As Douglas Coupland is a celebrated writer, an interplay between words are prominently featured in the show.

  • Large-scale photographs, like high school yearbook portraits, become anonymous teens behind multi-coloured splashes of paint—their identities still being shaped by external forces.

  • A meditation on Plastic & Stacking studies, 2011–2014.

  • Vancouver Art Gallery director Kathleen Bartels and Mayor Gregor Robertson stick it to Coupland’s Gumhead.

  • Douglas Coupland’s Gumhead outside the Vancouver Art Gallery. His latest exhibition “everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything” runs until September 1, 2014.

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Douglas Coupland’s latest show “everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything” at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is a colourful survey of the Vancouver writer and artist’s creative output over the past 12 years. The first major survey of his work covers a range of mixed media, from paintings and prints, to photographs, sculptures, and installations (including one built of Lego), exploring concepts of Canadian identity, art history, and pop culture.

More than 100 impressive works fill the gallery, some built from items he’s collected over decades. But Coupland’s work and imagination isn’t confined within the VAG. The designer of much public art in the city has created Gumhead, a seven-foot tall sculpture of his own head, perched next to the gallery on Howe Street. Coupland—fascinated with the idea of the defacement of public art—is encouraging passersby to stick it to him with their chewed gum.

The exhibition opened May 31, and will be on display until September 1, 2014.

Photos by Joshua McVeity.

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June 3, 2014

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September 1, 2014