In a new collaboration with Kafka's Coffee, Art Rental & Sales will be showcasing a rotating selection of artwork at the Kafka's Great Northern Way location on the Emily Carr campus. For the past 10 years Kafka's has positioned itself as a community hub, proudly supporting local artists by providing them with a high-visibility venue in which to exhibit their work. This collaboration will provide a new opportunity to promote AR&S artists and our program, and to reach new audiences outside of the walls of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

On View Now

Sunny Nestler is a migrant, grateful guest, and queer, non-binary, ashkenazi person living on unceded Coast Salish territories belonging to the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. They live with and are conditionally disabled by a chronic illness, which informs their intertwined art and facilitation practices. Past work includes collaborative animation, community-led arts programming, volunteering at artist-run centres, a recent municipal commission, over a decade of managing community bike shops, and nine years of university-level teaching. 

Nestler teaches visual art and science classes, and is a Faculty Writing Associate at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. They are currently researching ways to use digital art in virtual reality to connect artists with chronic illness and disabilities in remote collaboration spaces. Despite their eagerness and passion for new technologies, Nestler's visual art practice is rooted in drawing. Through drawing, they study mechanisms of biological life using a process that mimics DNA replication and mutation. Their subject matter cross-pollinates biological processes and explores the idea of a parallel universe, using invented creatures based on familiar objects and symbols, rendered in brightly colored mixed media combinations of drawing, painting, and collage.

All works on view at Kafka's are available for purchase. Please contact us for pricing or for more information at info@artrentalandsales.com. View the work in person at Kafka's, 120-577 Great Northern Way, Vancouver.