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A CHRONOLOGY OF WEST COAST SURREALIST ART
 
1993 - 2018


        1993:

        Ladislav Guderna solo exhibition, Threshold Gallery, Vancouver
 
Ladislav Guderna: Lovers, oil,1982


        -Al Neil: Rene Daumal Portrait Series, solo exhibition, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver

Al Neil: Rene Daumal, Portrait Series, solo exhibition, Atelier Gallery


           Lori-ann Latremouille exhibits in Florida, Seattle, Portland, and with the Simon Patrich Gallery in Vancouver. 
   
Lori-Ann Latremouille: Bluebird, charcoal and pastel, 1993


      

        1994

        Phases of Desire, an international group exhibition, organized by Phases, Paris.includes work by L.Guderna, Michael Bullock and Gregg Simpson at
        CASE Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Michael Bullock, from the back cover of The Walled Garden, A Fantasia, 1994

        Constellations: Surrealism and its Affinities (the collection of Michel P. Christensen), Carleton University Gallery. This long time supporter of the west coast surrealists exhibited works from his
        collection by Ladislav
Guderna, Ted Kingan and Gregg Simpson with other Canadian artists such as Tony Urquhart, Leon Bellefleur, William Ronald, Jack Shadbolt and such 20th cen. masters as
        Miro, Picasso, Matta, Giacometti, Henry Moore
and others.
 
Robert Davidson: Goddess, oil on camvas,1993   
      


        1995

        Ladislav Guderna exhibited with Phases at the Galerie Lumiere Noir, Montreal.

        Dessin Automatiste 1945-95, organized by Phases (includes work by Gregg Simpson) shown at Espace Arts Plastiques, College Publique, Plouec-sur-Lié, Brittany.

Gregg Simpson: Blue Idol, oil, 1995


       
        1996

        Dessin Automatiste 1945-95 exhibited in College Camille Claudel, St.Quay-Portrieux, France

        Doctoral Thesis by Yves M. Laroque, L'Idee du Surrealisme au Canada Anglais, presented at the Sorbonne, Paris.



        1997 - 1998

         José Pierre begins work on CD ROM version of L'Univers Surrealiste and plans a comprehensive exhibition for Paris in 1999.

        Maldoror Park , Diversité Surréaliste 1935-1995  (group exhibition, including Ladislav Guderna and Gregg Simpson with Wifredo Lam, Jacques Herold, Kurt Seligmann, Pierre Alechinsky and others)
        at the Centre
d'Exposition, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Québec. Exhibition is organized by Gilles Petitclerc, utilizing works  from the collection of Edouard Jaguer, founder of the Phases Movement.



        1999

        Passing of José Pierre in May

       Continental Drift, the Surrealist Influence  Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver included: Lori-Ann Latremouille,  Martin Honisch, Ladisalv Guderna, Gregg Simpson, Edwin Varney, Martin Guderna,
       David Cochrane and Davide Pan.


Ladislav Guderna: Transcience
(exhibition invitation)  tempera, 1996

                     -Sarane Alexandrian includes Gregg Simpson's work in Superiore Inconnu, Paris.

                    -Passing of Ladislav Guderna in October. His son, Martin creates an online gallery featuring the life and work of Ladislav Guderna.




        2000:

        Gregg Simpson exhibits frottage drawings in the Salle du Couvent, Seillans, France, last home of Max Ernst. The Salle du Couvent is located next to the Max Ernst/Dorothea Tanning Archives.


        2002:

        West Coast Dreamers, Exhibition Centre, Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. included Robert Davidson, Leo Labelle, Pnina Granirer, Martin Guderna, Gregg Simpson Ricardo Spinace, and Lunar Suede.


        2003: 
Michel P. Christensen:
Mary at the Altar of the Brain-Bending Sex Hormone

        Collage from the journal,  Exile, 2001 by Michel Christensen, formerly of the National Museums of Canada is a major collector of the West Coast Surrealists
        who now makes collages for publications, such as Parrot Fever, with Joe Rosenblatt.



        2004:

       Gregg Simpson exhibits with Amy Ernst in Contemporary Surrealism at Gallery Zero in Barcelona, Spain. They have subsequently  exhibited together at the Carteret Gallery, in
       Morehead City, North Carolina.          



        2005:   

        A group exhibition was held at the Fundacion/ Museo Granell in Santiago de Compostela, Spain entitled West Coast Surreal, A Canadian Perspective co-organized with director, Natalia Segarra.
       The exhibition, part of a series of surrealist groups worldwide, featured the work of Gregg Simpson, Pnina Granirer, Martin Guderna and Gordon Payne.

        Figurations Abstrait at the Maison des Artistes, Chateau Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France ( group exhibition conceived and organized by Gregg Simpson). It includes the works of
        Gregg Simpson, Pnina Granirer, Martin Guderna and with Swedish painter, Echi Aaberg and Tristan Bastit, a Breton artist, living in  Paris.



        2006:

        A second version of West Coast Surreal  is held at the Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, British Columbia with works by Gregg Simpson, Pnina Granirer, Martin Guderna and Gordon Payne.


        2007:

        Viagem a Arcturus, Um Postal Para Mario Cesariny
, Museu Vermhelho, Estremoz, Portugal includes works by Martin Guderna and Gregg Simpson.


        2008:

        Reverso Do Olhar: Exposiçâo Internacional de Surréalismo Actual, Casa da Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal  includes works by Pnina Granirer and Gregg Simpson



        2009:

        El Umbral Secreto:  Ecuentro Internacional de Surrealismo Actual, Museo Soledad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile; toured to Valpraiso and Talca, Chile. Included were works by
        Martin Guderna, Leo Labelle, Lore Ann Latremouille Gregg Simpson and Pnina Granirer. Their works are now in the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile.


  
        2010:

       Cornucopia
(collective works done by Gregg  Simpson, Rik Lina and John Welson begins.



        2012:

      
Surrealism 2012: Toward the World of the Fifth Sun   at the Goggle Art Centre, 201 Washington Street,  Reading, Pennsylvania, includes two works by Gregg Simpson. and collective works
       by Simpson, Rik Lina and John Welson.


Gregg Simpson: The Wizard, acrylic on canvas, 30" sq., 2009


        2012-2013

Gregg Simpson: The Atlantean Years, 1970-1975 
Fundacion-Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (several of Simpson's works added to their permanent collection)
2012-2013: Museu Municipal Dom Dinis, Estremoz and the Regional Museum de Beja, Portugal



          2014



        Cornucopia: collective works by Gregg Simpson with Rik Lina (Holland) and John Welson (Wales),
 Llianelli Library, Llianelli, Wales, UK




           2016


A Luz Dos Castelos Evidracados
, Collage Exhibition, Figueira da Foz, Portugal
(It Happened in Brooklyn, collage by Gregg Simpson, 2016)


                   
 Les Llaves  del Deseo, Cameleonart Foundation, San Jose, Costa Rica
Includes works by new members: Famous Empty Sky (Ilt.) and Donna May Balma (rt.)



Exquisite Corpses by Donna May Balma and Nadina Tandy
are published


Recent Publications Including the Group

2018
What Happened to the West Coast Surrealists
by Vladimir Kolosov, Download the PDF on the Group's Home Page

2015
      A Phalla,  Revista do Movimento Surrealista,
Sao Paulo, Brazil

      Il surrealismo. leri oggi, Arturo Schwarz
Skira Publishers, Milan

      

      2013
      Open Letter, Surrealism in Canada, 
Gregory Betts
 Brock University Press

     2012
     Derrame, L'edicion especial hommenage a Cruzeiro Seixas,

Santiago, Chile

     2011 
      Caleidoscopio Surrealista, Una visión del surrealismo internacional-1919/2011,
 
Miguel Corrales, Canary Islands, Spain




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