Christy Nyiri, Robert Pedersen, and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora
Doric, Ironic, Corinthian
February 2025

Thanks to all who came out to toast the artists at the mid-exhibition celebration on February 12, and thanks to all who visited the exhibition in February, and thanks to all who took one or three artists’ books home, and thanks to the artists, most of all, ;)

Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

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A floorplan and list of works can now be downloaded as a PDF, with a text for the occasion to follow.

Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

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Christy Nyiri has lived in New York since 2014, and has worked as a self-taught designer and web developer since 2007. Christy graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2005 with a degree in Integrated Media. She was a founding member of Norma, with Vanessa Kwan, Diana Lopez-Soto, Josh Neelands, Pietro Sammarco, Erica Stocking, Ron Tran, and Kara Uzelman, an artist collective active from 2001 to 2014—Norma was awarded a 2011 Mayor’s Arts Award for recognition as an Emerging Artist in Public Art, nominated by Barbara Cole. In 2006 Christy co-founded Weekend Leisure, a self-described "art/karaoke/comedy/video collective", with Erich Gerl, Curtis Grahauer, and Pietro Sammarco. In collaboration with Khan Lee, she produced the artist’s book Korean Phrasebook: 200 Ways to Speak in Song! Christy’s solo practice has long included drawing, and in the mid-2000s, she created several self-portraits as twins—I previously exhibited the drawing in this exhibition at Lucky’s Comics in 2009.

Robert Pedersen lives and works in Vancouver and on Quadra Island, primarily doing fencing work and outdoor building projects. Rob previously owned and operated the bookstore Chroma Books (4458 Main St, 2001–08), and Solder and Sons (247 Main St, 2008–13—RIP $2 Americanos), a bookstore-as-café, opened in partnership with David Grove, initially as a means to collaborate with other artists to build electronic instruments, and to perform in mixed groupings and settings around the lower mainland, indoors and out. Rob’s earliest efforts at book publishing resulted in the booklet Preamble (2007), for the Perro Verlag series Hell Passport. Recent bookworks include Tusks (2024), and a new publication created for this exhibition, available post-exhibition at The Paper Hound. His recent art practice consists of a series of hurried, blunt sculptures that suggest a bewildered approach to architecture and contemporary design—documented @doubles_as on Instagram. His temporary public sculptures can sometimes be found along road verges in East Vancouver.

Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora lives between the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ and the K'ómoks First Nation, where she works as a writer and critic, as a studio assistant for Tom Burrows, and in archives for artists and artist-run organizations. Over the last year, Yasmine has been working on experimental audio pieces under the mentorship of Brady Ciel Marks, including recent collaborations with her sister, Derya Whaley-Kalaora, for split-lip-glue-seam at Boombox, and with Chipo Chipaziwa and Hannah Sofia Eriksson for Tomato Gossip at What Lab. She holds a BA Art History from the University of British Columbia, where she was a curator for the Hatch Art Gallery (2019–20). Since 2022, she has been curating C.L.A.M., an intermittent series pairing short films with performance art, readings, and the occasional supper club. Yasmine’s solo practice includes sculptures and time-based visual and audio works, mostly created alone, and—as I see it—with an underlying sense of both humour and pathos, centred on slippage/s of language/s, the porousness of self/ves, and the passing of time.

Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

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