Designed by Jack Buquet, and printed by Don Atkins of Benwell-Atkins Ltd., the posters in this exhibition are drawn from the archives of Claudia Beck and the late Andrew Gruft, which includes further ephemera, correspondence, and artist files, some of which may be included in supplementary materials with permissions.
Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft opened Nova Gallery in 1976, as a photography-focused art gallery and bookstore contributing to an already vibrant and experimental city of artists, curators, and gallerists, institutions, artist-run centres, studios, and less-formal or other hybrid spaces. As collectors of photography, their interests spanned the medium’s earliest years to just yesterday, and their collection has been the focus of major exhibitions and publications at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Real Pictures, 2005) and Presentation House Gallery with The Capilano Review (Eye to Eye, 2015); much of the Beck Gruft Collection is now at the heart of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s holdings of photography.
