A vernissage a day…

POP Montreal is just days away… As you’re filling your calendars and planning your venue-hopping routes to make the most of the festival, remember that along with the main music festival comes the fest-for-the-eyes known as Art POP. To get you started — and to remind you that there’s a vernissage with your name on it even when it’s not part of a festival — here are two upcoming openings, one part of Art POP and the other not.

Start your weekend off right with a vernissage on Friday 5 October: Joseph Arthur’s MOMAR in MTL. 

Where? Le Kop Shop (77 des Pins)

Vernissage: 5 October, 5pm - 7pm (show runs through 19 October)
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur will be exhibiting his artwork which has brought him a Grammy nomination for his album packaging for the 1999 release of Vacancy and led to the opening of his own gallery earlier this year in Brooklyn, NY — the MOMAR (Museum of Modern Arthur).

Continue on the next day with a vernissage in the Village: Scott Harber’s Heroes, Volvos, and Hairy Legged Ducks. 

Where? Headquarters Galerie & Boutique (1649 rue Amherst)

Vernissage: 6 October, 6pm - 11pm … with music by DJ Garry Vickers

Scott Harber uses playfulness as a sharp weapon to combat pressures of taking life too seriously. His acrylic paintings depict characters and creatures in worlds that could be impulsively imagined by a 6-year-old sitting patiently in the waiting room of a dentist’s office. Influenced by his background in graffiti, and inspired by his travels overseas, the snapshots hold a whimsical, yet thought-provoking quality. His shapes; slightly unregimented but sturdy. His lines; curious but precise. Scott Harber’s vibrant images celebrate the beauty of the simple, and value of the frivolous.