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Vancouver Art Gallery’s Fourth Offsite Installation Features Artist Elspeth Pratt

VANCOUVER.- For the fourth installation at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite, artist Elspeth Pratt draws on architectural forms as inspiration for her investigation of how the built environment circumscribes public space. Opened on June 29th, Pratt’s work, titled Second Date, proposes an architecture that is variable and unpredictable, presenting new possibilities for imagining space within the urban fabric of Vancouver . Offsite, the Gallery’s outdoor exhibition space near Georgia and Thurlow in downtown Vancouver, is dedicated to newly commissioned, innovative public art projects. Featuring work by acclaimed contemporary artists, the first three exhibitions were: the photo-based work of O Zhang in July 2009, a sculptural installation by Ken Lum in January 2010, and a large-scale sculptural pavilion by artists Heather and Ivan Morison in October 2010. In this latest installation, Pratt transforms Offsite throug