The Transforming Image

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  • July 21, 1992 - April 4, 1993 (Gallery 5)
  • This exhibition begins as a work in progress that offers the public access to what normally occurs behind the scences in the creation of an exhibition. The exhibit, which opens in September, presents the developmental work pioneered by MOA staff to examine the complex and dynamic painting traditions of the First Peoples of the B.C. coast. The results of infared photography, raking light and computer images are used in the exhibition gallery by contemporary First Nations artists of the northern coast to recreate paintings not seen for more than a hundred years.

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Ben Houstie

File contains images of Houstie's artwork featured in the <i>Transforming Images</i> exhibit. There are also images of Houstie working on his artwork. The textual records in this file contain photocopies on images found in this file.

Exhibition books and catalogues

Series consists of books and catalogues pertaining to exhibitions and collections at the Museum of Anthropology. The following exhibitions and collection are covered by publications within the series:

  • Bodies of Enchantment: Puppets from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas
  • Charles Edenshaw
  • Chinese Art
  • Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera
  • Discerning Eye: The Walter C. Koerner Collection of European Ceramics
  • Gawa Gyani
  • Heaven, Hell, and Somewhere In Between: Portuguese Popular Art
  • ひろしま Hiroshima
  • Knowledge Within
  • Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories
  • Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures
  • Luminescence: The Silver of Peru (English)
  • Luminiscencia: La Plata del Perú (Spanish)
  • People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point
  • Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian, and Turkish Artists
  • Savage Graces
  • The H.R. MacMillan Collection
  • The Marvellous Real: Art from Mexico, 1926 - 2011
  • The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
  • The Potter's Art: Contributions to the Study of the Koerner Collection of European Ceramics
  • The Transforming Image
  • The Walter and Marianne Koerner Collection
  • Theatrum Mundi: Masks and Masquerades in Mexico and the Andes
  • Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
  • Under Different Moons: African Art in Conversation
  • Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art

PR photos and copies

File contains images of bentwood boxes used for public relations for the exhibit. In addition are correspondence with the CBC, and a copy of pages from the guest book from the exhibit.

Transforming Image

Subseries contains records directly related to the planning, development and execution of the Transforming Image exhibit at MOA. Planning for the exhibit began in 1983 when grants were obtained to begin research on Northwest Coast paintings. The exhibit itself occurred in 1993. The exhibit was the end result of research and development of a technique to view severely faded Northwest Coast First Nations paintings and painted objects through the use of infrared technology. Records include correspondence and information requests, public relations files, grant application information, budgeting information, papers, conferences and publications about the Transforming Image, files related to the publishing of the Transforming Image book and school interest in the exhibit.

Due to its large volume, The Transforming Image subseries has been broken down further into sub- subseries: Administration records; Research files; Book related; and Institutional photographs.

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Transforming image - painted board photographs

File contains images of some of the painted boards and screens featured in the <i>Transforming Images</i> Exhibit held at MOA and at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. There are also images of some of the artists featured in the exhibit working on their pieces.