HANG UP
David Macgillivray
Christian Newby
Erin Skiffington
January 24–February 21, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 24th, 2–5pm
Location: Monte Clark Gallery, 130 – 1706 W 1st Avenue, Vancouver
Monte Clark Gallery and Trapp Projects are pleased to present HANG UP, on view at the gallery’s Armoury District location from January 24–February 21, 2026. The exhibition features work by David Macgillivray, Christian Newby, and Erin Skiffington, selected by curator Patrik Andersson for their distinctive approach to abstraction, combining historical technique with contemporary sensibility, and establishing them as compelling artists to watch.
The title for this exhibition references Eva Hesse’s 1966 work Hang Up, a sculpture she claimed was the first work in which she managed to achieve the level of “absurdity or extreme feeling” she was experiencing at the time. Beyond the idea that an artwork is hung up in a gallery, hang up can suggest a number of different things. One can hang up on a conversation; one can have a mental hang up; or if you are an artist you might be hung up on a technique or style. Living and working in what can be considered a ‘valley of disillusionment’ — that is, the uncanny space between artificial technology and the analogue — the three artists in this exhibition have each found abstraction a useful way to express this new modernity and thereby resurrecting techniques of the past into their art.