• Saturday, December 17: celebrate the end of 2011 with us

    Drop by 15 E Pender between noon and 5 pm on Saturday, December 17, and join us in ending the 2011 programming year. Since April 2011, when we moved in to 15 East Pender Street, we have shown about a dozen exhibitions and other types of projects. That’s a busy schedule for any gallery, let…


  • More Ill Repute this weekend: opening Saturday, talk Sunday

    Sxwchálten (Dustin Rivers): Vancouver Can’t Argue With The Dead opens Saturday December 10, 8pm Ek Rzepka artist talk Sunday December 11, 2pm This weekend, UNIT/PITT’s Ill Repute series of emerging artist commissions continues with two events: the launch of Vancouver Can’t Argue With the Dead by Sxwchálten (Dustin Rivers) on Saturday, December 10 at 8pm;…


  • Launching Saturday, Dec 10 – Vancouver Can’t Argue With the Dead

    Continuing the breakneck pace of programming this year, the Ill Repute series continues with Vancouver Can’t Argue With the Dead by Sxwchálten (Dustin Rivers). This project includes  video on the window monitor, a publication, and photo-based work in the gallery (which already houses Patrick Cruz’s Yin Yang Temple and Chun Hua Catherine Dong & Ek Rzepka’s…


  • Ministry of Casual Living moving, changing

    Back in 2010, when the Pitt had an office but no permanent gallery, we received a very nice postcard from the Ministry of Casual Living in Victoria, inviting us to bring a show there. What resulted was Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again and the book of the same title (the first of many Pitt/Publication Studio…


  • This is the shit!

    Here it is, tonight! The amazing We Give A Shit Because We Care (part of the series Ill Repute) launches tonight, Friday December 2, with a sure-to-amaze assortment of video, audio, sculptural and illustrated shit. And you can take it home, in the form of freshly-printed books. They’re full of shit, but you’ll love them…