Splash
About Splash
Splash is Arts Umbrella’s annual art auction with proceeds benefiting young people across Metro Vancouver in the visual and performing arts. The 42nd Annual Splash will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Splash will continue with the live broadcast experience to showcase Splash artists to audiences across Canada and beyond.
Splash will feature evening entertainment, elegant food & cocktails, Arts Umbrella student performances, and culminate in the spectacular Live Auction. The art auction and evening entertainment will be broadcast live from the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver and guests can join from anywhere across Canada and beyond.
Splash – Presented by Nicola Wealth
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
6PM PT / 9PM ET
The 2024 Splash Art Collection features over 90 artists from across Canada and beyond. The complete Splash Art Collection will be available for preview by the public at Pendulum Gallery from September 9 to October 3. Advance bidding for the Live and Online Auctions will be available at www.SplashArtAuction.com in early September.
Live Auction artworks will close by lot number during the Live Broadcast on Saturday October 5, 2024.
For a dedicated phone bidder for the Live Auction, please contact nhouston@artsumbrella.com.
Online Auction artworks will close online on Monday, October 7, 2024 at 11AM PT / 2PM ET.
For all event updates and details, including the online bidding link when available, please follow us on Instagram at @au_splash
Splash 2024 Artists
Arts Umbrella would like to recognize the extraordinary generosity of the Splash artist community, who make this important fundraiser possible.
The complete Splash Art Collection will be available for preview by the public at Pendulum Gallery from September 9 to October 3. Advance bidding for the Live and Online Auctions will be available at www.SplashArtAuction.com in early September.
Follow us on Instagram at @au_splash for updates.
Thank you to our generous supporters
Committee Members
Co-Chairs: Christie Garofalo and Bruce Munro Wright, O.B.C.
Vancouver Committee: Heather Altas, Jan Ballard, Brenda Bradshaw, Cailin Broere, Meagan Conn, Kimberly Cudney, Rachel Davies, Celia Dawson, Daniel Frankel, Mark Goodman, Brittany Grant, Harriet Guadagnuolo, Mike Howcroft, Mary Levitan, Brigitte Matheusik, Monique Mehl, Coleen Nemtin, Brent O’Connor, Chris Poseley, Natasha Ross, Ruthie Shugarman, Beverley Steinhoff, Tassan Sung, Trudy Van Dop, Timothy A. Young
Calgary Committee: Cassandra Cross, Marion Dixon, Chethan Lakshman, Michael Simmonds
Toronto Committee: Mary Jo Looby, Shonda Pierce, Danielle Skipp, Steven Wilson
Limited Edition Douglas Coupland Print
Renowned visual artist and author Douglas Coupland has generously created a new, limited edition print, Space Face (Ruth), 2022, in an edition of 40 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Splash. The subject of the portrait, Ruth, is a dance student at Arts Umbrella. The funds raised from this generous gift will significantly increase our capacity to serve children and youth through arts education.
About the piece, from Douglas Coupland:
The image I’ve created here for Splash stems from a body of work I began around 2014 which sought to determine the parameters of how much of a face could be left visible before that face became no longer recognizable by AI recognition systems. Looking back at many of those pieces, I’m amazed by how much I underestimated the speed and power of facial recognition’s approach. These days a good system can pretty much identify you by a square inch of cheekbone or by chin/earlobe/hairline proportions. I’d like to thank Ruth for ‘posing’ for this portrait as it were, and I’m curious if, in one hundred years the world can determine her identity through, say just a few pixels of this image. I wouldn’t be surprised.
Space Face (Ruth), 2022
Inkjet Print
29 × 24 in, framed | Edition of 40
Generously donated by the Artist
Courtesy of Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
Price: $4,300 (includes a $500 tax receiptable donation, plus applicable taxes)