re a few close ups of the walls...

hello lovers,

a few close ups of the walls at the unit/pitt gallery in vancouver, bc. by now, all this work is long gone, sanded down and repainted by Brynn, one of the coolest gallery assistants i've ever met. 

don't ask about the art, i only know Take 5 did the cool wildstyle piece and Bracken did the cool ovoid looking alien things. not sure who did the thunderbird or ocm, but i was told it was the same person. very cool stuff.

it was really amazing to paint on the walls of an art gallery. liberating. the last few shows i've curated have been all about disrupting the played out and boring gallery rules. art should be visceral. dirty. not all clean and sterile white wall gallery standard shows. so done. so lifeless. so soulless. so lame. i'm from the streets, and the underground, and i want art to move from the confines of a canvas or a frame or a project and move along the walls and into your mind. 

street art is perfect for that in galleries, and it is here today, gone tomorrow and i love and loathe that aspect of it. it takes so much time, effort and MONEY to get good at it, and then some dumb ass toy comes along and wrecks it. or some graffiti task force jackass comes along and blands it out with monkey shit green, bored suburban house wife beige, and battleship grey......

anyways, happy monday people,

cb

OCM did this i believe.

kamloops own TAKE 5

did this, a legend in the graffiti scene

nationally even.

i think david wrote stuff on the walls.

cease wyss did this stencil

from the thunderbird restaurant. 

part of the original piece i did

fire is cleansing

it represents many things

in this piece.

bracken hanuse corlett

did the circular UFO things and 

left behind these two.

keith higgins

CEO, COO, CFO

and ruler of the Unit/Pitt domain

and you get a sense of the scope

and size of these works.

that's my kyoti throwie bomb

in front of Mt. Peter and Mt. Paul

in Kamloops, BC.

the green line represents the pulse

the heartbeat

and it got slower

as it left the land and the forest

and went into the city.

most of my work has visual metaphors

so if you  know that much

you can see that much more

in my work

i like to layer things 

and make people work for it.

i did.

until next time lovers,

cb

ps: it's nice when projects come together

my whole life people said

i'd never be where i am today.

fuck you

good thing i didn't listen. 

re: final night of "crawling, betting, weeping," at the Unit/Pitt.......

Hello lovers,

how i've missed you. here are some performance flicks from the final night of the "Crawling, Weeping, Betting," exhibition, performance series, and so on. it was amazing and i bet we had about 100 people there or so. each one was wild and unpredictable, full of energy, madness and fun. i never want to do an exhibition the same way as long as i live.

and to think this all started out because david and i couldn't find a sober clown. so we figured we'd create an opportunity for a sober clown to appear but it didn't happen. so now, we focus our energy on europe. we figure there's some 500 million people on the continent, or so, and better chances of finding a sober clown. plus, you can tour canada ten times, and it gets to be the same old same old after awhile. i haven't been to europe for some time, so it is time to do some research and development for a new series of shows. wish us luck.

and thanks for coming, i missed you dearly,

cb

on the left is 

max murphy

 saxophonist extraordinaire. 

baritone sax. 

heavy metal. 

david mackintosh 

singing the blood song

to get the blood flowing

and the drinks moving

a friday night ritual

that launched the cabaret

it got better and stronger 

by the end.

and he loved it

i think. 

captain, booze enthusiast, author

raconteur, scoundrel, and a man

born at the right time

and the wrong time.

max givn'r on the sax.

there were also two drummers that night.

epic.

sommelier david mackintosh

free booze was given 

on the friday cabaret nights

based on the stories told.

veda hille was storyteller

the last night

and she's in front of dave sitting

slightly to the his left.

she told a great coming of age story

of her daughter. 

as a father of 3 or 4 girls

i can relate.

on the opening night

we had most of vancouver legends

"the sons of freedom,"

and it was rawk!!!

special thanks to david mackintosh

for inviting me to collaborate 

on this amazing project

he said it was something he's been

wanting to do since the 1980's.

and special thanks to all who participated

the dancers

the storytellers

the artists

the musicians

the people who came again and again

thank you

it was an amazing experience.

chris bose. 

re: new posts....

hello lovers,

it's been quite awhile since i've been here. many hectic things have prevented me from posting as well as a general laziness i can't cop out on. haha. i think i psych myself out more on posting than the time and effort it takes to post new stuff. plus, sometimes i feel no one reads this stuff anyway, so why bother? haha. but when i look back to stuff four or five years ago, it's interesting, to me, what the heck i was doing back then. i've got a shitty memory. i'll admit it. so i think blogging is important that at least.

well, the kids are still asleep, it's 6:45 am and i'll post a few pics from the past few months or couple months at least. i had a really big show with David Mackintosh, co-found of Battery Opera, at the Unit/Pitt galleries the past couple months, and i've been trying to kick start contracts and generally get paid. check it out here!

http://www.helenpittgallery.org/exhibitions/past/crawling-weeping/

some flicks from that show!

i sort of snuck painting on the walls

of the Unit/Pitt early one morning.

David had no idea what i was going to do

(i think!)

but i got the keys to the gallery and arrived at about 8 am

and started painting.

it's an allegorical painting. 

this part shows my throwie style

and leaving kamloops, bc

running away to vancouver, bc back in 1986

that's my little silhouette leaving the mountains/valley of kamloops, bc

with the owl pictograph watching over me

as i enter the forests.

moving through the forests i go through a charred and burning

landscape, the desert, or semi-arid desert of the interior

plateau of southern british columba. 

it's bloody hot here and kind of looks like new mexico.

i enter the blue and white mountains of the coast

hitching all the way down to vancouver, bc

and descend into the city.

which i painted gold, silver and copper to represent 

the wealth and promise it holds

but for the most part is a lie.

as the exhibition/performances/dance/music and booze

went on for 7 weeks, we invited artists and guests to attack

and paint on the wall. so all the other stuff you see

was added by guests.

it was awesome to paint on the walls of a gallery

even though i probably wasn't allowed. haha.

i also found their beer stash and drank about 8 beers

in the 4 or 5 hours it took to paint the walls. haha.

i don't think keith or brynn really cared about that. 

well, the kids are waking up and i was right

this is a pain in the ass to do

just this little part took half an hour. fuck.

i'll add more photos later. 

adios,

cb

re: review of my latest video installation!!!

hello lovers,

it's been awhile, i've been rather busy, setting up and bring art down to vancouver, bc, for 3 exhibitions, major ones. the first is at the belkin gallery out at UBC, and was reviewed in the Georgia Straight here:

http://www.straight.com/arts/425066/witnesses-makes-palpable-impact-residential-schools

the next show is at 236 Pender, which is in Chinatown, at the Unit/Pitt gallery, and i curated this show, featuring Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Byron Steele and Nigel Zsigeti. it's called "God Save the Queen," 

and here's a photo of that show.

link is here:

http://www.helenpittgallery.org/exhibitions/current-and-upcoming/bracken-hanuse-corlett-byron-steele-nigel-z-god-save-the-queen/

and finally, the last show i'm involved with is at the Malaspina Printmakers down on Granville Island and is a group show as well, regarding truth and reconciliation. a question that looms over all of us.

and weblink here:

http://www.malaspinaprintmakers.com/

so, please do go check them out, 

as always, 

cheers,

cb

re: Net-Eth: Going out of the darkness

Hello lovers,

one last post about an upcoming exhibition i'm in Vancouver for soon. come see me. read the poster below. i'll be at the malaspina printmakers location Sept 12, as well as at the Unit/Pitt "god save the queen," show at the Unit/Pitt gallery on Pender. 

come say hi! buy me a beer! haha!

until next time,

cb

ps: as my friend david mackintosh said, "it's chris bose week in vancouver!" haha! 

as always, "click" on the photo

to make it larger and legible!

re: marvin strange......

Hello lovers,

meet marvin strange, he's in the current exhibition at Arnica Artist Run Centre and will be in the upcoming Vancouver, BC, exhibition at the unit/pitt show launching September 13, with Kast and Brack Amphibian! Come check them out! I've been working as a curator on this show for a year, so it'll kick ass!!

come say why don't ya?!

until next time lovers,

CB.