Saturday, July 24, 2010

Nieves Books

Order just arrived from the inimitable Nieves Books out of Zurich, Switzerland: http://www.nieves.ch/
Including:
I'm Here: a short film by Spike Jonze ($20 CDN)
Melanie Sheepwash by Mark DeLong and Jason McLean ($10 CDN)
Round the Way by Maya Hayuk ($16 CDN)
Harmony Korine: Mr. Lonely ($20 CDN)
Free Press Light Catalog 1: Cosmic Wonder ($6.00 CDN)
The Kind of Livin' by Taylor McKimens ($16 CDN)
As Above, So Below by Will Sweeney ($16 CDN)
Baku and Back by Ingo Giezandanner ($31 CDN)

Adding to our other in-stock Nieves titles:
Ffor #7 - Born A Again in DC3000 by Jonas Delaborde ($10)
Ad Rock by Ari Marcopoulos ($22)
Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol. 2 ($22) (yes the Kim Gordon!)
Blueberry Express by Misaki Kawai ($22)
I Wait Here For You Forever As Long As It Takes ($20)
Cosmic Wonder Free Press 2: Cosmic Wonder ($35)

FREE SHIPPING IN CANADA for Nieves orders over $20. Email luckys@luckys.ca to order!

Springsteen Day

aka Boss Day

Playing all Springsteen all day here in the shop today. Will update the list throughout the day, figure I'll get to 50 or so. Should you stumble upon this between noon and 6pm today, reply here or tweet @luckysonline with your faves!

So here we go, starting with:
1. Blinded by the Light
2. Growin' Up
3. For You
4. It's Hard to be a Saint in the City
5. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
6. Kitty's Back
7. Wild Billy's Circus Story
8. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
9. New York City Seranade
10. Thunder Road
11. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
12. Backstreets
13. Born to Run
14. Jungleland
15. Badlands
16. Adam Raised a Cain
17. Candy's Room
18, Racing in the Street
19. The Promised Land
20. Streets of Fire
21. Jackson Cage
22. Two Hearts
23. Independence Day
24. The River
You know what's coming...most of Nebraska:
25. Nebraska
26. Atlantic City
27. Mansion on the Hill
28. Johnny 99
Skipped into a Tom Joad lull during a busy spot:
29. The Ghost of Tom Joad
30. Straight Time
31. Highway 29
32. Youngstown
33. Sinaloa Cowboys
34. The Line
35. Lonesome Day
36. Into the Fire
37. Waitin' On a Sunny Day
38. Nothing Man
39. Streets of Philadelphia
40. American Skin (41 Shots)
41. Ain't Got You
42. Brilliant Disguise
43. Born in the USA
44. I'm On Fire
45. No Surrender
46. Old Man Tucker
47. Jesse James
48. John Henry
49. Erie Canal
50. My Oklahoma Home
51. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
52. I'll Work For Your Love
53. Darkness on the Edge of Town

...and that's all, thanks Boss!

Sunday, July 18, 2010

DAN BRODIE: Free Punches



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DANIEL BRODIE
Free Punches

July 15 – 29, 2010
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Opening reception 15 July, 7pm
Curated by Jenn Jackson

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Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition- Free Punches, by Vancouver artist Daniel Brodie. With worn out sharpies, found paper, and free paint Daniel Brodie presents a diarist mapping of quotidian association. The dailyness of daily life is comfortably occupied without excuse. In a generous offering of everywhere and nowhere Brodie indulges in the lure of the ordinary. Abstaining from pragmatic performance Brodie’s drawings, paintings, collages and sculptural installations aspire personal political tenor, a reconciliation of revolving potential. In participation of counter consciousness, an affectionate embrace towards pensive looking reverberates the poetic nature of noticing the everyday. A loop of gestures, contradictions and qualifications openly explore the material possibilities of immaterial routines and repetitious senses, validating a desire for closeness and focused understanding. 

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Amanda Lye - Miniatures: Systems, Structures and the Inane



Parting is such the sweet sorrow...only two days left to enjoy Amanda Lye's Miniatures: Systems, Structures and the Inane.

Lucky’s Gallery is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition- Miniatures: Systems, Structures and the Inane, by Vancouver artist Amanda Lye. A study of order, Lye presents a collection of acquired objects representing an affinity for the miniature. An ongoing project, her ever-shifting installation offers an engaging conversation with the contemporary condition of escalating pluralism. The collection's orientation to multiple aspects or parts disturbs symbolic representation, underscoring the oblique nature of an archive composed of recalcitrant material. The placement of each inventory within appropriate box (along walls and upon shelves and tables) proposes value distinctions and provides structuralized containment for a frenetic assemblage. Although precarious, the varied objects are arranged in a carefully maintained order of idiosyncrasy. With a utopian spirit, Lye’s anomic structures recoup failed visions, vital knowledges, and familiar narratives of what has been or what could be.