Dan Starling: Exhibition Reception

Join us for a public reception of Dan Starling: Unsettled Histories at the Burnaby Art Gallery on Thursday, March 31, 2022, 7:00pm - 9:00pm. 

Western art history is typically presented as timeless and unchanging. By moving Rembrandt’s work through a process of erasure and superimposition, Starling aims to highlight the instability of occupation. Unsettled Histories takes as its starting point Rembrandt’s renowned work Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves: The Three Crosses (1653). Beginning with his replica of Rembrandt’s work, Starling created 40 drypoint prints, working from the original to embellish and erase parts of the image, creating a shifting narrative through time on the hills outside the walls of Jerusalem.

Accompanying Starling’s Unsettled Histories series are 3 original Rembrandt pieces from the City of Burnaby Permanent Collection. A cloth-bound hardcover publication featuring essays by Daniel Adleman, Sanem Güvenç, and the artist has been published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Proof of vaccination (Age 12+) is required to attend.

Cash bar available.

Image: From Dan Starling, Unsettled Histories, 2019-2021, 40 drypoint prints on Hahnemüle Copperplate paper, 38.8 cm x 45.5 cm, courtesy the artist.