guide to galleries + museums

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guide to galleries + museums
GUIDE TO GALLERIES + MUSEUMS
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10 Intimate Impressionism from the
National Gallery of Art
Seattle Art Museum
12 Chris Cran: Inherent Virtue
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
14 Petra Malá Miller: Portraits in Light
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
22 Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge
Whatcom Museum
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26 JG Mair: Utopian Dystopia
Robert Lynds Gallery
32 Maria Eichhorn
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
38 Marcus Bowcott: Endlessly Rocking
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Pendulum Gallery
44 Jeroen Witvliet: Wayfarer
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Kelowna Art Gallery
52 Heather Talbot: Magical Worlds
Britannia Art Gallery
56 Lance Austin Olsen: Kinhin
Polychrome Fine Art
58 Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling
Around with A. Banana
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Open Space
60 Michelle Ross: Trust Falls &
Transparent Things
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Elizabeth Leach Gallery
66 BC Almanac(h) C-B
Presentation House Gallery
70 Ron Moppett: SCULPTUR(AL)
Nickle Galleries
72 Art AIDS America
Tacoma Art Museum
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Unheralded Artists
Confessions
Catalogues of Interest
Art Services + Materials
Index of Galleries
Openings + Events
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Cover: Berthe Morisot, The Artist’s Sister at a Window (1869), detail, oil on canvas
[Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA, Oct 1-Jan 10]
September/
October 2015
Vol. 29 No.4
ALBERTA
8 Banff, Black Diamond, Calgary
12 Edmonton
16 Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, St Albert
BRITISH COLUMBIA
16 Abbotsford
17 Bowen Island
18 Burnaby
20 Campbell River, Castlegar,
Chilliwack, Coquitlam
22 Courtenay, Fort Langley, Gabriola
Island, Grand Forks
23 Greenville, Kamloops, Kelowna
26 Maple Ridge
28 Nanaimo, Nelson, New Westminster
29 North Vancouver
31 Penticton, Port Alberni
32 Port Moody, Prince George,
Prince Rupert
33 Qualicum Beach, Richmond,
Salmon Arm
34 Sidney, Skidegate, Squamish,
Sunshine Coast (Gibsons), Surrey
35 Tsawwassen, Vancouver
52 Vernon
53 Victoria
59 West Vancouver
60 Whistler, White Rock
61 Williams Lake
OREGON
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64 Salem
WASHINGTON
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ALBERTA
painting the splendour of the Rocky
Mountain region; Oct 23-Jan 24 RUMMEL
ROOM Allan Harding MacKay, “Court
digitized satirical views about recurring
political buffoonery in Canada; Ongoing
HERITAGE GALLERY Gateway to the Rockies, interactive exhibition featuring the
history of the Canadian Rockies through
artifacts, artworks, archival photographs, recordings and documents.
BANFF
Whyte Museum of the
Canadian Rockies
111 Bear St
✆403-762-2291 whyte.org
daily 10am-5pm. Thru Oct 18 MAIN
GALLERY Water Eau Mînî Wasser ‫םימ‬
Acqua ‫ ناپ‬Tubig H2O, compilations of
historic and contemporary paintings,
videos and installations examining the
beauty and peculiarity of earth’s greatest resource, water; RUMMEL ROOM
Legacy in Time: Rephotography by
Henry Vaux Jr., images showing a century of change through the Vaux family's photographs of glaciers, waterfalls,
lakes and mountains; Oct 30-Jan 24
“The Bow Biennial”, creative works representing what is new in the Bow Valley,
featuring Michael Cameron, Colleen
Campbell, Jason Carter, Joan Dunkley, Allan Harding MacKay, Dan Hudson, Priscilla Janes, Karen Maiolo,
Cedar Mueller, Chrissy Nickerson,
Pascale Ouellet and Kari Woo; Bow
Biennial – From the Collection, works
by artists who were part of the long tradition of artists travelling to the Rockies
12th St NW
11A St NW
11th St NW
10A St NW
10th St NW
Bluerock Gallery
110 Centre Ave W
✆403-933-5047 bluerockgallery.ca
daily 10am-6 pm. including holidays,
thurs 10am-9pm. A destination for
handmade, one-of-a-kind fine art and
craft, we represent close to 200 artists,
most of whom live and work within 100
miles of the gallery.
The Collectors' Gallery of Art
1332 9th Ave SE ✆403-245-8300
collectorsgalleryofart.com
tues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm.
Sep 19-Oct 15 Bewabon Shilling, “New
Works”, oil paintings.
CALGARY
Alberta Printmakers Gallery
and Studio
★ Esker Foundation
444-1011 9th Ave SE
✆403-930-2490 eskerfoundation.com
tues-sun 11am-6pm thurs & fri 11am8pm. Sep 26-Dec 20 Celia Perrin
Sidarous: Interiors, Other Chambers;
4025 4th St SE ✆403-287-1056
albertaprintmakers.com
wed-sat 11am-4pm. +15 Window,
Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts,
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4th Ave NE
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EAU CLAIRE
Kensington NW
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McDougall Rd
4th Ave SW
WALLACE
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17th Ave SE
Calgary
Exhibition &
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MICHELANGELO
Centre St
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14th Ave SW
FOUNDERS’ GALLERY,
NICKLE GALLERIES
(University of Calgary)
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NEWZONES ◆ HERRINGER
KISS
10th St SW
1th St SW
15th Ave SW
16th Ave SW
17th Ave SW
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9th Ave SW
PAUL KUHN
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tues-sat 10am-5 pm or by appt. Sep 8Oct 17 Colin Smith: 76 Boler, large format photographs documenting a road
trip through Alberta and down to Utah,
capturing the landscape, flipped and
trapped in the confines of the Boler,
which Smith has transformed into a
camera obscura.
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Christine Klassen Gallery
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14th St NW
5th Ave NW
205 8TH AVE SE. MAIN GALLERY Sep 4-Oct
17 Gabriela Jolowicz, “Present Density”; +15 WINDOW Thru Sep 26 Sean
Caulfield, “Eunoe”; MAIN GALLERY Oct
21-Nov 25 Marnie Blair, “Terminal
Work”; +15 WINDOW Oct 2-Nov 27 ROBIN
Koch, “Provisionaries".
CALGARY
Dr
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TO CHRISTINE KLASSEN GALLERY,
ALBERTA PRINTMAKERS
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★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
Charlotte Moth: living images; PROJECT
SPACE Thru Oct 4 Svea Ferguson: airtime; Oct 13-Jan 3 Rebecca Loewen.
Founders' Gallery
4520 Crowchild Trail SW
✆403-410-2340
themilitarymuseums.ca/gallery-founders
mon-fri 9am-5pm sat & sun 9:30am4pm. Sep 18-Jan 17 “Barracks to
Banks: Canadian Silkscreens for War
and Peace”, featuring oil paintings and
silkscreens by Emily Carr, A.Y. Jackson, Tom Thomson and nearly 50 others; Canada’s best-known artists
showed overwhelming support to WWI
troops, a vital role in forming the Canadian national identity.
Glenbow
130 9th Ave SE ✆403-268-4100
glenbow.org
tues-sat 9am-5pm sun 12-5pm. Admission: adults $16, seniors & students $11,
youth (7-17) $10, family (2 adults & 4
youth) $40, children under 6 free, members free. Thru Sep 27 Sandra Bromley
and Wallis Kendal, “Gun Sculpture”, the
artists acquired and deactivated over
7,000 guns to build the sculpture, making a clear statement about the impact of
guns and their proliferation throughout
the globe; From Our Collection: Political Satire in Alberta, political cartoons
including 60 works from Alberta editorial
cartoonists working throughout the 20th
century; Thru Oct 4 Hooked: Fish, Water
and Angling in Art, artwork and photographs take a unique look at the art and
culture of fishing in southern Alberta and
British Columbia; Oct 17-Jan 31 David
Thauberger: Road Trips and Other Diversions, paintings, prints and ceramics – the
vernacular architecture of the Prairies
bursts with Pop Art iridescence with familiar buildings like Legion halls, grain elevators, diners and small town bungalows;
Oct 17-May 22 Kaleidoscopic Animalia:
an exhibition designed and curated by
Paul Hardy, inspired by Glenbow's
vast collection, Calgary fashion
designer Hardy's curatorial debut
examines how animal imagery and
symbolism have influenced human
creativity across time and cultures;
Oct 24-Feb 7 From Our Collection:
Recent Acquisitions, art and artifacts
added to Glenbow's collection in the
past year; Thru Jan 16 Lyndal
Osbourne: Cabinets of Curiosity,
interactive display for both children
and adults fuse the fanciful and the factual, the real and the imagined.
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Herringer Kiss Gallery
709A 11th Ave SW
✆403-228-4889
herringerkissgallery.com
tues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 11am-5. Sep
10-Oct 10 Renée Duval, “Gods and
Monsters”, Duval spent four years
painting 10 life-size large-scale Pantheon paintings of tree-creatures that
have a physical presence similar to that
of actual trees depicted in natural light;
Jason Frizzell, “And to the Garden the
Serpent Come”, a series of miniature-scale environments where the
focus of the work often portrays figures in situations where the narra-
tive is not clearly defined; Oct 15-Nov
14 Katie Ohe, “Ethos, now and then”,
including the critically acclaimed
Sculpture Prayer series and a new
series of kinetic floor sculptures called
The Chuckles.
Michelangelo Gallery of Fine
Art & Framing
112-908 17th Ave SW
✆403-475-6410
michelangelofineart.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm. Sep 11-Oct 2
Wendy Skog, “Lyrical Abstraction”, digital monoprints; Oct 9-30 Philip Mix,
“Peripeteia”, new works.
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seattleartmuseum.org
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE WA – Oct 1, 2015-Jan 10, 2016 With the East Wing of the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, closed for renovation, the nation’s premier publicly owned art
museum is sending on tour, for the first time ever,
68 paintings from the permanent French Impressionist collection.
Like so many tales of American cultural
largesse, the collection and building are family stories – those of the Mellons and the Bruces.
Andrew Mellon, treasury secretary under President Warren Harding, offered to pay for the
building to help cover some unsightly back taxes.
His daughter, Ailsa, married diplomat David
Bruce. She formed one of three family Impressionist collections, the other two being that of her
father and that of her brother, Paul Mellon
(although the latter favoured equestrian painter
George Stubbs and built the Yale Center for
British Art to house his finds).
The smaller scale of the pictures in this NGA
collection reminds us of the French artists’ upper
middle-class patrons and their smaller Paris
apartments. The diminutive size of the works is Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Carrière (1888 or 1889),
oil on canvas [Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA, Oct 1-Jan 10]
often matched by their “small,” intimate subjects of
daily life: bathing models, moody teenage girls, lazy summer lunches with friends, and ripe, wilting still
lifes of flowers and fruits.
Hot tip: Make reservations for more than one visit. Matthew Kangas
The New Gallery (TNG)
208 Centre St SE
✆403-233-2399 thenewgallery.org
tues-sat 12-6pm, +15 Window, Epcor
Centre for the Performing Arts, Arts
Commons, 205 8th Ave SE. Admission
is free. MAIN SPACE Sep 11-Oct 10 Eric
Moschopedis with Keyede Osuntokun
and Bryce Krynski, “2 works, 3 talks, 6
questions”; Oct 16-Nov 14 Surveillance/Thematic Group Show; +15 WINDOW Thru Sep 26 Zac Slams.
Newzones
730 11th Ave SW ✆403-266-1972
newzones.com
tues-fri 10:30am-5:30pm sat 11am5pm. Sept 19-Oct 17 Pat Service,
“Round About Midnight”, new paintings
exploring the landscape through instinctive, expressive and colourful brushstrokes contain some of the mystery of
jazz music from the past; Don Maynard,
“Following the Afterthought”, acrylic ink
on Mylar – visual information is intentionally obscured to create a palimpsest
of visual conversations referencing the
movement of energy; Oct 24-Nov 21
Dianne Bos, “The Sleeping Green, No
Man's Land 100 Years Later”, new pinhole photography examining how time
has changed the landscape of the historic battlegrounds of WWI; Marie Lannoo, “Kin”, paintings using the language
of colour to accumulate, connect, combine, transform and interact.
Nickle Galleries
University of Calgary, 410 University
Court NW ✆403-220-7234
nickle.ucalgary.ca
mon-fri 10am-5pm thurs 10am-8pm
sat 11am-4pm. Sep 24-Dec 19 Ron
Moppett, “Sculptur(al)”, works blur the
distinction between painting and sculpture and underscore the physical or real
presence of the painting as an object;
Oct 15-Dec 19 John Chalke, “Surface
Tension”, clay paintings are conceptual
ceramic works that dance between
sculpture and painting, inspired by the
landscape of southwestern Alberta.
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. PAUL MELLON
Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art
Paul Kuhn Gallery
724 11th Ave SW
✆403-263-1162 paulkuhngallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5:30pm and by appt.
Sep 10-Oct 10 Barbara Milne, paintings; Oct 17-Nov 14 John Hartman,
paintings.
Stride Art Gallery Association
1006 MacLeod Trail SE
✆403-262-8507 stride.ab.ca
tues-sat 11am-5pm. Admission is
free. +15 Window, Arts Commons,
205 8th Ave SE. Sep 11-Oct 26 AmCor
Inc., “Liar! Liar!”, a humorous critique of state surveillance and control,
an examination of the culture of fear
perpetuated by institutional authority,
as well as the unmitigated trust in
objective technologies; +15 WINDOW
Thru Sep Hannah Petkau, “Catching
the Ephemeral”, assemblage – a
manipulation of the artist’s hands and
previous unknowns, blurring the differentiation between human and natural actions.
VIGNETTES • September/October 2015
Alberta
ROBIN LAuReNCe
HERE AND THERE Alberta Craft Council Gallery, Edmonton, Jul 11Oct 3 This group show spotlights 17 Alberta Craft Council artists
who have not only enjoyed success at home but also developed their
careers internationally. One of the criteria here is that the work on
view has been either produced abroad or influenced by knowledge
and experience gleaned from abroad. Among the contemporary and
heritage crafts on display are Dirk van Wyk’s banner of handmade
paper stitched with polyester thread, Tyler Rock’s surreal glass sculpture, and Dawn Deterando’s ceramic “pie.”
SEAN CAULFIELD Alberta Printmakers Gallery and Studio (Art Commons +15 Window), Calgary, Aug 15-Sep 26 Through his installation of large-scale woodblock prints, Sean Caulfield continues his
interest in “blurring the boundaries between the biological and the
technological, the organic and the mechanical.” His images feature
hybrid forms that investigate ideas of mutation, metamorphosis
and the ways our understanding of science shape the ways we represent our world. Caulfield’s embrace of the woodblock also
evokes the medium’s long history and its association with early
examples of medical and scientific illustration.
KATIE OHE: ETHOS, NOW AND THEN Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary,
Oct 15-Nov 14 A pioneer of abstract sculpture in Alberta, Katie
Ohe is best known for her kinetic and interactive public art in
welded steel. Her organic and geometric forms arise, she says,
from everyday experience that serves as a “doorway” for personal
expression. Among the works on view are her critically acclaimed
series Sculpture Prayer and a new series of kinetic, floor sculptures
titled The Chuckles. Remarkably, given her distinguished history
as an influential senior artist and teacher, this is Ohe’s first exhibition in a commercial gallery.
JOHN CHALKE: SURFACE TENSION Nickle Galleries, Calgary, Oct 15Dec 19 A beloved ceramicist and teacher, the late John Chalke was
born in England in 1940 and arrived in Canada in 1968. Originally
influenced by the pottery traditions of Japan and Korea, he later
responded to the southwestern Albertan landscape with hand-built
sculptures that he called “clay paintings” sculptures. His experiments with form, colour and texture have an almost archaeological
character, suggesting excavations through layers of history and culture. As he once wrote, “My interest has remained inconveniently
multi-faceted in most things ceramic.”
LESLIE POOLE: LANDSCAPE UP CLOSE Scott Gallery, Edmonton,
Oct 17-Nov 7 Over the decades, West Coast painter Leslie Poole
has exercised his representational practice across a range of genres, including still life, self-portraiture and landscape. The latter
has compelled him again and again, even as his focus has
changed from distant wilderness views to close-ups of individual
landscape elements. Working from photographs, he paints isolated aspects of tree trunks, foliage and “ephemeral jigsaw shapes
of sky” as seen through branches.
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Dirk van Wyk
Sean Caulfield
Katie Ohe
John Chalke
Leslie Poole
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Chris Cran: Inherent Virtue
SOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERY, LETHBRIDGE AB – Sep 26-Nov 22, 2015 In a 1999 New York Times
article, Kathryn Shattuck relates an anecdote in which Christian Eckert compares the career of Chris
Cran with that of the legendary German artist Gerhard Richter. In recognition of the comparison,
Shattuck declares the Calgary-based Cran to be “nearly there.” How appropriate, then, that in his
first exhibition at the SAAG since 1987’s Inherent Vice, the self-effacing Cran should include a painting
entitled Almost There.
Although Cran’s paintings have
expanded in form and content since
the figurative “boys’ stories” realism
of Inherent Vice, humour remains a
unifying element in canvases that
employ Op, Pop and Photorealism;
the petite genres of portraiture, still life
and landscape; and, as always, the
problem of representation. On this
last topic, Cran is most serious, for it
is the viewer who is responsible for
“filling in the gap between ludicrous
proposition and apparent fact.”
In conjunction with Inherent
Virtue is Chris Cran: Sincerely Yours/ Chris Cran, Mirror (2014), acrylic on board [Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
sincerèment vôtre at the Art Gallery of AB, Sep 26-Nov 22]
Alberta (Sep 12–Jan 3). Billed as a
“comprehensive examination,” this AGA and National Gallery of Canada co-production surveys over
40 years of work by “one of the most notable painters of the last few decades.” Michael Turner
Wallace Galleries
100-500 5th Ave SW
✆403-262-8050 wallacegalleries.com
mon-sat 10am-5:30pm. Thru Sep 9
“Exploring Paint, Group Show 2015”,
works by Simon Andrew, Peter Krausz,
Linda Nardelli, Ted Godwin, Kenneth
Lochhead, Harold Town, Jennifer
Hornyak, Laurie Steen, Robert Lemay
and others; Sep 10-23 “Fall 2015”,
works by Robert Marchessault, Brent
Laycock, David More, Erin McSavaney,
Walter Bachinski, David Newkirk,
Diana Zasadny and others; Sep 17-30
Shi Le, “Stream of Light”; Oct 1-14
Brent Laycock, “Perception and Invention”; Oct 21-Nov 4 William Duma,
“Banks of the Elbow River".
eDMONTON
Alberta Craft Council Gallery
10186 106th St NW
✆780-488-6611 albertacraft.ab.ca
mon-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-6pm.
FEATURE GALLERY Thru Oct 3 Here and
There, works by 17 members produced
abroad or influenced by their international experiences, celebrating Craft Year
2015; Oct 10-Dec 24 Master Works, signature pieces by Alberta Craft Council
members; DISCOVERY GALLERY Sep 5-Oct
17 Leslie Leong, Helen O’Connor,
Shiela Alexandrovich, Jeanine Baker
and Marlene Collins, “A Second Look”,
a mixed-media exhibition where five
Yukon artists reinterpret Alberta and
Yukon landscapes originally created by
Alberta metal artist Simon Wroot of Calgary; Oct 24-Nov 28 Keith Walker,
“Blow In The Dark”, new sculptural work
by hot glass artist Walker along with
selected works by his students.
Art Gallery of Alberta
2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq
✆780-422-6223 youraga.ca
tues-sun 11am-5pm wed 11am-9pm.
Admission: Members free, adults $12.50,
seniors (65+)/students $8.50, children
under 6 free, children 7-17 $8.50, family
(up to 2 adults + 4 children) $26.50. Sep
12-Jan 3 Chris Cran, Sincerely Yours,
100 works surveying his artistic production over the last 30 years; Thru Sep 13
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The Double Bind: Conversations
between Modernism and Postmodernism, by pairing the works of high
Modernism with examples informed by
Postmodernism, the exhibition demonstrates the interrelationship of the two;
Oct 3-Jan 31 Maxwell Bates, Laura
Evans Reid, John Snow, W.L. Stevenson and Dorothy Henzell Willis, “Rough
Country: The strangely familiar in mid20th century Alberta art”, the artists are
moved by the hardships of modern life
and its contradictions; Thru Oct 4 Illuminations: Italian Baroque Masterworks in
Canadian Collections, examining a culture that was captivated by theatrical display; Wil Murray: On Invasive Species
and Infidelity, works using found photographs and books to expound an elaborate narrative; Douglas Haynes, “The
Toledo Series”, 13 large-scale canvases
painted from 1988 to 1990 inspired by
the paintings of 16th century artist El Greco; Oct 24-Feb 15 Dana Holst, “She’s All
That”, a series of oil paintings and
encaustic drawings focusing on the complexity of female identity, rites of passage
and bullying; Living Building Thinking:
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Petra Malá Miller: Portraits in Light
SOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERY, LETHBRIDGE AB – Sep 26-Nov 22, 2015 Born in the former Czechoslovakia and raised in the southern Moravian village of Blatnice, Petra Malá Miller came to Canada after
completing an MFA at Prague’s Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in 2008. Now a resident of
Lethbridge, her photo-based practice
continues to mine “the poetics of
childhood, of innocence, aging, memory and loss and raises questions surrounding cultural identity, the individual, the family and the community.”
Like that of the noted German
sculptor Martin Honert, much of
Miller’s work is drawn from her earliest experiences. Unlike Honert, however, who constructs his memories
three-dimensionally for the gallery
cube, Miller has her pictures share
space within a photographically staged
present – a method that “filters experiences, memories and reveries through
Petra Malá Miller, Portrait in Light: Annie (2013-15), digital photograph, inkjet print
an emotional process of recollection [Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge AB, Sep 26-Nov 22]
and translation.”
For her current exhibition, Miller focuses on “the intersection between the real and the imaginary,
between truth and fiction, memory and forgetting.” As is often the case with her pictures, the viewer is
treated to a range of technical processes, some of which occur inside the camera and all of which owe
something to the contingencies of artificial and natural light. Michael Turner
Art and Expressionism, almost 100
paintings, drawings, prints, books, camera work and video exploring the development and trajectories of Expressionism in
art from the early 19th century to present
day, from the McMaster Museum of Art
Collection; Thru Nov 15 “Charrette
Roulette: Language”, Kathy Slade and
Keith Higgins with Publication Studio
Vancouver, presenting Edmonton Edition,
printing and binding books onsite and
working with local artists to produce new
artists’ books.
★ Bugera Matheson Gallery
10345 124th St NW ✆780-482-2854
bugeramathesongallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5:30pm thurs 10am7pm. Sep 25-Oct 9 Scott Plear, “Double
Blind No Placebo”, new works; Oct 1630 Ernestine Tahedl, “Resonance”,
new works.
★ Daffodil Gallery
10412 124th St
✆780-760-1278 daffodilgallery.ca
tues-sat 10:30am-5pm thurs 10:30am-
8pm and by appt. Sep 9-Oct 3 Anne
McCartney, “People and Places of
Inspiration”, watercolours; Oct 14-Nov
7 Cindy Revell, “Be Your Own Bird”,
oils.
Douglas Udell Gallery
10332 124th St NW ✆780-488-4445
douglasudellgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5:30pm. Sep 19-Oct 3
Wilf Perreault, “Light to Dark”, new
series of paintings exploring themes of
home and the everyday by the Reginabased artist; Oct 10-24 “The 48th Annual
Fall Show”, showcasing new works by
gallery artists Tony Scherman, Tim
Okamura, Keith Harder, John MacDonald, Al Henderson, Jessica Korderas,
Erik Olson and others, also showing
fresh to the market works by various
Canadian historical artists; Oct 31-Nov
14 Jessica Korderas, “Dystopia”, drawings by the Halifax-based artist, the second in a series of three exhibitions
exploring the complex construction of
society by examining human desires,
goals, fears and failures, and how indi-
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vidual ideals are forced to coexist in one
society, often at odds with one another.
Scott Gallery
10411 124th St
✆780-488-3619 scottgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm. Sep 19-Oct 10 Jim
Davies, “Splinter, Wash, and Walls”;
Oct 17-Nov 7 Leslie Poole, “Landscape
Up Close".
West End Gallery
10337 124th St NW ✆780-488-4892
westendgalleryltd.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm. Sep 12-24 JeanGabriel Lambert, “12 on the 12th”, 12
new acrylic paintings inspired by Mexico, especially Puerto Vallarta's spectacular natural environment; Sep 26-Oct 8
Robert Savignac, new oil paintings of
the chaotic splendour and lush abundance of urban gardens; Oct 17-29
W.H.Webb, new acrylic works intellectually developed with the interrelated
elements of space, form, colour, line,
unity and rhythm, conveying expression
and emotion.
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
“Autumn Fanfare/Courtenay Slough”, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
brianscottfineart.com
LeTHBRIDGe
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
601 Third Ave S ✆403-327-8770
saag.ca
tues-sat 10am-5pm sun 1-5pm. Admission: general $5, students/seniors $4,
groups $3 per person, members & children under 12 free. Sep 26-Nov 22
Chris Cran, “Inherent Virtue”, paintings
referencing a variety of styles and genres, from Pop Art to Op Art, still life to
portraiture, while increasingly challenging the codes of the medium and examining the processes of its interpretation;
Petra Malá Miller, “Portraits in Light”,
photographs exploring the poetics of
childhood, innocence, ageing, memory
and loss, raising questions surrounding
cultural identity, the individual, the family and the community.
MeDICINe HAT
Esplanade Art Gallery
401 First St SE
✆403-502-8793 esplanade.ca
mon-fri 10am-5pm sat & holidays
12-5pm. Thru Oct 10 Greg Payce,
“Palimpsest”, large installations and
individual works exploring cutting edge
photographic and video techniques,
melding historical, philosophical and
critical issues with playful sophistication; Oct 21-Dec 12 Peter Johnston,
“Entanglements”, colourful resin wall
sculptures and delicate drawings influenced by Modernist linear abstraction
and contemporary ideas of the fractal
qualities of dynamic growth.
ST ALBeRT
★ Art Gallery of St Albert
19 Perron St
✆780-460-4310 artgalleryofstalbert.ca
tues-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-8pm.
Thru Sep 26 Pat Coulter and Donna
Marchyshyn-Shymko, “Verve”, largescale acrylic works. Coulter, soft graceful waves of poured paint create a hypnotic effect; Marchyshyn-Shymko,
intricate pieces portraying complex
journeys with colour and line; Sep 28Nov 28 Tony Stallard, “Frozen Asset”,
mixed media, sand and neon site-specific installation in the vault address and
reference the gallery's history as a bank
building; Oct 1-31 Pierre Bataillard,
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“The Winter that Was”, enigmatic
abstract works decode the isolation and
starkness of the Alberta winter with
expressive mark-making.
BRITISH
COLUMBIA
ABBOTSFORD
Kariton Art Gallery & Boutique
2387 Ware St ✆604-852-9358
abbotsfordartscouncil.org
tues-fri 12-5pm sat & sun 9:30am4:30pm. Thru Sep 15 Abbotsford Photo
Arts Club, photographs; Sep 19-Oct 13
Bill Stewart and Myriame Gabay,
“Coalesco & Encausticus”, encaustic,
wax and sculpture; Oct 17-Nov 10 Tracie Stewart and Len Jellicoe, mixed
media and photography.
The Reach Gallery
Museum Abbotsford
32388 Veterans Way
✆604-864-8087 thereach.ca
tues wed fri 10am-5pm thurs 10am9pm sat & sun 12-5pm. Admission:
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
DAVID HAUGHTON NOCTURNES III
NEW PAINTINGS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
VIEW PAINTINGS AT WWW.HAUGHTON-ART.CA
free. Thru Oct 4 Heinz Klassen, “Drawing and Colouring: A Visual Diary”, small
drawings capturing Klassen’s explorations and reflections of the world
around him; Heinz Klassen and Ted
Driediger, “Shape and Form”, works by
longtime friends, visual artist Klassen
and ceramicist Driediger, are complimentary in line, form and subject matter;
Sep 25-Oct 4 3rd Fraser Valley Biennale – Walking Distance, works produced over the past two years by regional artists; creatiValley, celebration of
culture in the Fraser Valley including
dance, music, literary arts, theatre and
performing arts. Visit the website for
information; Oct 29-Jan 3 Sarindar
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Dhaliwal, “The Radcliffe Line and Other
Geographies”, works reflecting on the
dissonance of the immigrant experience, with a focus on childhood experiences and perceptions of Eastern and
Western customs; Suvi Bains, “Kesh”,
new body of work exploring the outer
boundaries of a personal article of faith
among Sikh men – the defining and
most visible part of a religious and cultural ethos.
Greer, “Reflections”, recent paintings;
Sep 29-Oct 20 (Mis)Interpretation:
Sikh Feminisms in representations,
texts and lived realities; Oct 27-Nov 16
Jean Brundrit, Nina Mangalanayagam
and Sarah Ciurysek, “Home/Land”, new
artworks on women, identity and place.
BOWeN ISLAND
The Gallery @ Artisan Square
S'eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery
University of the Fraser Valley
33844 King Rd ✆604-504-7441 ext
4405 ufv.ca/ufv_visual_arts
mon-fri 10am-6pm. Sep 1-22 Dennis
589 Artisan Sq
✆604-947-2454 biac.ca
fri-sun 12-4pm. Thru Sep 13 Janet
Esseiva, Marc Baur and Georgina
Farah, “Vanishing”, impressions of our
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Albert St 604-299-8955 Thru Oct 5
“From the Collections: Maps & Mapping”, works by artists Les McKinnon,
Anna Wong, Daniel Laskarin, Marianna
Schmidt, Jason McLean and others,
current or former residents of the Lower
Mainland who have utilized maps in the
making of their work.
Deer Lake Gallery
Burnaby Arts Council
6584 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-298-7322
burnabyartscouncil.org
tues-sat 12-4pm. Admission is free.
Thru Sep 19 Sharon Norman, Stephen
Dittberner and Alice Rich, “Ardent
Impressions”, oil and watercolour paintings featuring three disparate investigations of the legacy of Modernist abstraction, gestural expressionism, photorealist painting and collage; Sep 26-Oct
21 Roderick Brown, Peter Gutmanis
and John Haig, “Water’s Edge”, 2-D and
3-D mixed media with sculpture from
three distinct practices that engage the
ocean’s edge, where human industry
and marine life collide; Oct 24-Nov 21
Luciana Alvarez and Joy Hanser,
“Urban Rambles”, oil and acrylic paintings of urban environments.
Nikkei National Museum
vanishing coastal legacy; Sep 18-Oct 11
Out of the Attic, valuable finds created
by established artists; Oct 17-Nov 8
Aileen Vantomme, mixed media.
BuRNABY
Burnaby Art Gallery
6344 Deer Lake Ave
✆604-297-4422 burnabyartgallery.ca
tues-fri 10am-4:30pm sat & sun 125pm. Admission by donation. Sep 4-Nov
8 Alex Morrison: Phantoms of a Utopian
Will/Like Most Follies, More Than a
Joke and More Than a Whim, collaborative endeavour between SFU Gallery and
the Burnaby Art Gallery, including two
newly commissioned projects and works
selected by the artist from the institutions’ collections. Morrison’s practice
investigates built environments and their
often countercultural inhabitation; concurrent exhibition at SFU Gallery Sep 5Dec 11; OFFSITE BOB PRITTIE LIBRARY
(METROTOWN), 6100 Willingdon Ave 604436-5400 Thru Oct 4 “Selections from
the Image Bank Postcard Show”, postcards by pioneering artists of the mail art
medium, including Ray Johnson, General Idea, Dana Atchley, Gary Lee Nova
and others, from the holdings of the
archives of the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection; MCGILL LIBRARY, 4595
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6688 Southoaks Cres
✆604-777-7000 nikkeiplace.org
tues-sun 11am-5pm. Thru Oct 11
Mingei: Japan’s Enduring Folk Arts,
over 100 works of hand-crafted ordinary
utilitarian objects made of wood, bamboo, paper, straw, shell, lacquers, clay,
metal, stone and other materials, often
created by unknown craftsmen; Oct 24Jan 31 Revitalizing Japantown? A multi-layered exhibition looks at the contradictions, co-optation, commemoration,
heritage and redress that have shaped
the Downtown Eastside as unearthed by
a three-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded
research project; Ongoing UPPER LEVEL
Taiken – Japanese Canadians Since
1877, photographs and artifacts – from
the hardships of pioneers to the struggles of the war years to the Nikkei community today.
Simon Fraser University Gallery
AQ 3004-8888 University Dr
✆778-782-4266 sfu.ca/gallery
tues-fri 12-5pm. Sep 5-Dec 11 Alex
Morrison: Phantoms of a Utopian
Will/Like Most Follies, More Than a
Joke and More Than a Whim, co-presented with the Burnaby Art Gallery,
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CAMPBeLL RIVeR
Campbell River Art Gallery
1235 Shoppers Row ✆250-287-2261
crartgallery.ca
mon-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Sep 25 MAIN
GALLERY Suzo Hickey, “Like the Back of
My Hand”, paintings of the West Coast
urban landscape, the streets of Prince
Rupert where she grew up, and the
neighbourhood of East Vancouver where
she now lives; DISCOVERY GALLERY Terra
Poirier, “Are You Sure?" new assemblage works composed from Poirier’s
real and fictional memories, and personal and communal stories; Oct 1-Nov 6
MAIN GALLERY Shyra de Souza, “Phantom
Limb”, porcelain installation – a corporeal representation of found objects is at
once familiar and alien; D ISCOVERY
GALLERY Twyla Exner, “Structure of a
Substance: Cluster”, immersive installation – works engaging current social,
political and environmental issues are
also whimsical imaginings of an alternative ending for the electronic evolution.
CASTLeGAR
Kootenay Gallery
120 Heritage Way ✆250-365-3337
kootenaygallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Sep 19 Mag-
gie Shirley, “Peacing: Sacred Circle of
Life”, a paper installation exploring her
personal experience of loss and healing;
Sep 25-Nov 7 Jo Brown and Tom
Bradley, “Exchanging Views”, photographs presenting two perspectives,
one story; Frontline Forestry Fire Fighters, “Fireline”, photographs taken with
cell phones, reflecting their experiences.
CHILLIWACK
Chilliwack Visual Artists Association, Chilliwack Art Gallery
Chilliwack Cultural Centre
9201 Corbould St ✆604-392-8000
chilliwackvisualartists.ca
wed-sat 12-5pm. Sep 3-Oct 10
Ephemeral – CVAA Group Show, from
the Greek word ephomeros, referring
to the quality of existing only briefly,
interpreted by the artists through various media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, textile art, glass and photography; Oct 15-21 Wednesday Life
Drawing Group, “‘The Nude’ Posed and
Gunda Förster, Circle (2004), from the
exhibition 5600K: Temperature of White
[New Media Gallery, New Westminster BC,
thru Oct 18]
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Exposed”, group exhibition of figure
drawings, personal interpretations of
the undraped figure.
COQuITLAM
Art Gallery at Evergreen
Cultural Centre
1205 Pinetree Way ✆604-927-6550
evergreenculturalcentre.ca
mon-sat 12-5pm. Admission is free.
Thru Oct 18 Seth: Dominion, work-inprogress of the renowned Canadian
cartoonist; Oct 31-Jan 3 Laurie Papou:
Perfect Geometry, oil paintings on
wood.
Place des Arts
1120 Brunette Ave ✆604-664-1636
placedesarts.ca
Leonore Peyton Salon: mon-thurs 9am2pm fri 9am-9pm sat 3:30-5pm sun 15pm (call to confirm viewing availability); Atrium and Mezzanine Galleries:
mon-fri 9am-9pm sat 9am-5pm sun 15pm. Sep 11-Oct 3 ATRIUM GALLERY
Jeannette Sirois, “Beyond Real – Overexposed, Underexposed”, pencil and
coloured pencil drawings; LEONORE PEYTON SALON Joseph Therrien, “Landscape Photography”; MEZZANINE GALLERY
Place des Arts Teachers and Staff, “Art
Feats”, various media; Oct 9-Nov 7 ATRIUM GALLERY Federation of Canadian
Artists, Fraser Valley Chapter, “Juried
Arts Exhibition”, various media; LEONORE
PEYTON SALON Vanessa Lam, “Scrapyard Chronicles”, mixed media; MEZZANINE GALLERY Sensors Group, “Moments
of Love”, photography.
whatcommuseum.org
WHATCOM MUSEUM, BELLINGHAM WA – Sep 27,2015-Jan 3, 2016 This diverse exhibit of over 60
artists working in the field of book art is a complex and comprehensive view of the book as an artistic
medium. The survey highlights the medium’s potential with an international roster that includes
artists from Australia, Great Britain,
Canada and the U.S.
With the rise of digital media, the
importance of physical books for communication and knowledge has drastically
changed. Yet artists have long used the
altered book as a new means of expression. This exhibition encapsulates the
varied ways in which books have launched
methods of artistic practice. Artists who
create handmade books, those who
reconfigure and repurpose books using
ancient formats of the scroll and codex,
those who create accordion and pop-up
books, and others are featured.
Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge Mike Stilkey, Faces in the City 1 & 2 (2013), acrylic on discarded books
also explores a range of subjects, from [Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA, Sep 27-Jan 3]
metaphysical ideas and political statements
to environmental concerns and matters of human justice and identity. Mixed-media pieces combine
book pages with natural and fabricated materials, and involve extreme altering such as carving, drilling,
grinding and disassembling, which pushes the book medium into the sculptural realm. Artworks intimate in scale, as well as larger installations, provide a fascinating glimpse into the physicality of books
and their power as a vessel for communication.
Veteran artists Doug Beube and Ann Hamilton are included, along with several Washington State
artists and those renowned in the field, such as Guy Laramée, Long-bin Chen and Brian Dettmer.
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge
Allyn Cantor
COuRTeNAY
Brian Scott Studio and Gallery
8269 North Island Hwy
✆250-337-1941 brianscottfineart.com
daily 11am-3pm or by appt. Expressionist oil and acylic paintings of West Coast
themes; contemporary abstract paintings inspired by Riopelle and others.
FORT LANGLeY
Barbara Boldt Original Art Studio
25340 84th Ave
✆604-888-5490 barbaraboldt.com
please call ahead. In-home studio
gallery of Barbara Boldt, located 5 km
outside of Fort Langley, featuring local
landscapes, forest and garden scenes
in oils and soft pastels and her signature EarthPatterns paintings of sand-
stone formations found on Galiano
Island. Copies of biography Places of
Her Heart: The Art and Life of Barbara
Boldt, by Barbara Boldt with K. Jane
Watt, available at the studio and various bookstores; visit the website. For
directions to the studio, see map on
website or call.
★ The Fort Gallery
9048 Glover Rd
✆604-888-7411 fortgallery.ca
wed-sun 12-5pm. Thru Sep 13 Nikol
Haskova; Sep 16-Oct 4 Don Portelance
and Richard Bond; Oct 7-25 Zuzana
Vasko.
GABRIOLA ISLAND
Gabriola Arts Council
476 South Rd ✆250-247-7409
studiotour.artsgabriola.ca
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sat-mon 10am-5pm, free admission.
Oct 10-12 Gabriola Thanksgiving
Artist Studio Tour, 70 artists including
painters, potters, photographers, fabric artists, glass artists, jewellers and
more open their workshops and studios to visitors. For a list of artists, a
tour map and other details visit the
website.
GRAND FORKS
Gallery 2, Grand Forks and District Art and Heritage Centre
524 Central Ave
✆250-442-2211 gallery2grandforks.ca
tues-fri 10am-4pm sat 10am-3pm.
Thru Nov 14 Jordan Bennett: Billy
Jacking; Thru Nov 15 Susan Andrews
Grace: Underwritten; Sonja Gartner:
Studio Watch; Tom Thomson and the
Grey Canoe.
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
GReeNVILLe
Nisga'a Museum
810 Highway Dr ✆250-633-3050
nisgaamuseum.ca
Sep 1-Oct 25: mon-thurs by appt
including group and school tours, fri &
sat 11am-5pm. Admission (+GST):
adults 19-59 $8, children 6-18 $5, preschool, senior & Nisga'a citizens free,
families (2 adults with up to 4 children)
$22. Anhooya’ahl Ga’angigatgum’ –
The Ancestors' Collection, featuring
Nisga'a masks, bentwood boxes,
charms, headdresses, regalia, rattles
and other treasures.
Macdonald, “Rivers Run”, ceramics;
Oct 10-Nov 27 William Anthony, Jen
Dyck, William Frymire, Jamie Rauchman, Samira Zamani and Tricia Sellmer, “Heads Up".
★ Kamloops Art Gallery
101-465 Victoria St ✆250-377-2400
kag.bc.ca
mon-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pm
closed stat holidays. Sep 18-Oct 31 Lea
Bucknell: Inherit, Revise, Repeat, new
body of work observes, dissects and
recognizes people's attachment to
place; Oct 3-Jan 2 Kevin Schmidt: The
Commons, a survey of work charting
KAMLOOPS
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KeLOWNA
★ Alternator Centre for
Contemporary Art
103-421 Cawston Ave, Rotary Centre
for the Arts ✆250-868-2298
alternatorcentre.com
tues, wed, sat 11am-5pm thurs & fri 18pm. Thru Sep 5 Shyra De Souza,
“Phantom Limb”; Sep 18-Oct 31 Ann
Nicholson, “Chilcotin War".
★ ARTE funktional
Chazou Contemporary
Art Gallery
791 Victoria St
✆250-374-0488 250-572-6333
chazou.com
usually open wed-fri 1-4:30pm and by
appt. Sep 19-Oct 3 Plein Air, works by
20 artists produced during a workshop
with New York artist Jayne Holsinger on
the South Thompson River; Sheila
key projects over the past decade, tracing the artist’s consistent engagement
with significant aspects of the modern
condition and the dominant question
about how we define the commons.
Colin Smith, Motel Boler (2015), archival
fibre print [Christine Klassen Gallery,
Calgary AB, Sep 8-Oct 17]
1302 St Paul St ✆250-549-4249
250-540-4249 artefunktional.com
mon-sat 10am-4pm. Dealer on premises thurs-sat. Thru Oct 17 Ann Kipling,
David T. Alexander, Robert Bigelow
and Malcolm Mooney, “Heads Up”,
group exhibition of portraits; Ongoing
Paintings, textiles, sculptures, ceramics
and functional art by a diverse group of
emerging and established Okanagan
and Canadian artists.
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VIGNETTES • September/October 2015
British Columbia
ROBIN LAuReNCe
SETH: DOMINION Art Gallery at Evergreen Cultural Centre,
Coquitlam, Jul 25-Oct 18 Canadian artist Seth (the pen name of
Gregory Gallant) is an acclaimed cartoonist and graphic novelist
and creator of the comic book series Palookaville. He is also the
maker of model buildings, which he has assembled into an installation representing the fictional city Dominion. Dominion conflates aspects of several small Canadian cities in the mid-20th
century as it examines civic politics, business, development, boosterism and social engagement – all with Seth’s characteristic
blend of cynicism and nostalgia.
SILVA: O HORIZON Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Sep 4-Oct 31 Silva, the scientific name for the forest floor, is also the name of an
ambitious project that includes two exhibitions, a publication and
a series of artist talks, tours, readings and performances. The first
of its two exhibitions, O Horizon, uses large-scale sculptural
installations to reflect on holistic ecosystems and the relationship
between language, culture and the natural environment. Site-specific works by Duane Linklater, Gareth Moore, Kika Thorne and
Elias Wakan employ a range of materials, from natural to manufactured.
RECEIPT Hot Art Wet City, Vancouver, Sep 10-25 This happily lowbrow gallery declares its interest in art that is “fun, weird and
accessible.” HAWC’s exhibition, Receipt, takes that playful mandate and seriously runs with it, addressing our society’s everexpanding expenditures on food, booze and drugs. Included with
each work in this group show is a receipt for a meal out or a weekend bender, shining a spotlight on the gap between what we value
as having lasting importance (art) and what we spend our money
on (ephemeral pleasures and sensations).
RYAN GANDER Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Sep 11-Nov 1
If it’s difficult to get a bead on what UK artist Ryan Gander does;
that may be because his practice is so diverse. His media range
from photography, film, installation, drawing and performance to
paperweights, maps and custom-designed sportswear. Subtitled
“Make every show like it’s your last,” this CAG show of Gander’s
work features an off-site poster project, a video work and sculptures incorporating elements of both playfulness and intellectual
rigour.
JOHN HALL AND ALEXANDRA HAESEKER: PENDULUM/PENDULA
Touchstones Nelson, Nelson, Sep 12-Nov 15 Realist artists John
Hall and Alexandra Haeseker both work from photographs, and
have spent prolonged periods of time in Mexico. Between 1992
and 1998, they collaborated in the production of a series of paintings exploring contemporary Mexican culture, drawing on elements of that country’s festivals, marketplaces and preColumbian and folk art. Their surreal compositions convey the
contrasts of life and death, beauty and grotesquerie, peacefulness
and violence, all of which exist side by side in Mexico.
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Seth
Duane Linklater
Jeff Wilson
Ryan Gander
John Hall and Alexandra Haeseker
Vignettes • September/October 2015
British Columbia
COLIN GRAHAM: SELECTED WORKS Petley-Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Sep 17-Oct 1 After a distinguished career in arts administration, including the directorship of the Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria from 1951 to 1973, the late Colin Graham began to
make art. He took up painting and became a member of the Limners, a distinguished painters group whose members included
Maxwell Bates, Richard Ciccimarra and others. This exhibition
focuses on the appealing landscapes Graham created in an understated, post-Impressionist style.
REALM OF POSSIBILITIES Chinese Cultural Centre Museum,
Vancouver, Sep 19-Oct 25 This three-person exhibition explores
shifting ways of addressing the meaning of life, the nature of
emotion and our interface with the natural world. Wai Yee Chiu
uses Chinese watercolour in roundel format, sometimes covering
her imagery with resin, to convey passing seasons. Hailien Tam
challenges our perceptions with her close-up colour photographs
of natural forms such as fruits and mushrooms. Synn Kune Loh
creates painting installations that juxtapose human experience
with the vastness of the cosmos.
JAY SENETCHKO: THE BEST OF LIFE Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, Sep 24-Oct 31 Working from photographs found in Life
magazines from the 1960s, Jay Senetchko has created figurative
paintings and collages that pose questions about memory, nostalgia
and “the pathological nature of the North American dream.” Many
of his reconfigured images depict enigmatic and unsettling situations that challenge facile interpretation. He asks us to consider the
persistence of war, drugs, racial tension, the nuclear family and dissembling politicians, from the mid-20th century to the present day.
ELIZABETH D’AGOSTINO: MAKESHIFT Kelowna Art Gallery,
Kelowna, Sep 26-Jan 10 The Toronto-based Elizabeth D’Agostino is an educator, arts administrator and accomplished printmaker. In this exhibition, she wraps the KAG’s Reynolds Gallery with
prints that encompass a range of techniques, such as etching,
serigraphy and collage. Her installation, which also includes
sculptures created out of paper clay and printed Japanese paper,
explores themes and forms derived from the natural world. A fictional narrative is woven through the work’s alternately similar
and disparate elements.
ALEX MORRISON Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Sep 4-Nov 8, and SFU
Art Gallery, Burnaby, Sep 5-Dec 11 This duo-venue exhibition,
titled Phantoms of a Utopian Will/Like Most Follies, More Than a Joke
and More Than a Whim, presents new and recent work by Canadian
artist Alex Morrison. Morrison investigates built environments as
they reflect the social conditions that bring them into being and
inflect their eventual use. His newly commissioned installations at
the BAG and SFU respond to their widely diverse architectural settings – the Arts and Crafts mansion and the Arthur Ericksondesigned Modernist university complex, respectively.
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Colin Graham
Wai Yee Chiu
Jay Senetchko
Elizabeth D’Agostino
Alex Morrison
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robertlyndsgallery.com
JG Mair: Utopian Dystopia
ROBERT LYNDS GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Sep 10-Oct 10, 2015 Coined by Thomas More in 1516 to
describe an imaginary Atlantic Ocean society, the word “utopia” has remained in the lexicon and is
used to denote a desire for, and the maintenance of, an ideal place or situation. So present is this word in our culture that it has
spawned an antonym – “dystopia” – to
describe a frightening and undesirable place.
Taken together (as an exhibition title), one
can only imagine how perfectly nasty things
can be.
JG Mair has, for some time now, combined
digital and traditional media to pursue
“themes of control and the management of
information, data and resources” in the production of his work. His current exhibition
features a range of objects and materials, from
machine-shredded documents to layered
paint to terracotta flower pots, presented in an
eerily minimalistic setting. What is not materially present – fear – is represented through
suggestion.
JG Mair, Dystopian Vessel: Plant Pot (Helianthus) (2015), mixed
Never one to leave things on the downer
media [Robert Lynds Gallery, Vancouver BC, Sep 10-Oct 10]
side, Mair opens up an especially generous
space for misery’s enemy – humour. We see this in his upended yet still operational flower pot, but
we also sense it in the darkness that is humour’s home away from home. Michael Turner
250 Reynolds Rd ✆250-860-7012
geertmaas.org
mon-sat 10am-5pm, sun by chance.
Internationally acclaimed artist Geert
Maas invites the public to visit his
exceptional sculpture gardens and
indoor gallery, with one of the largest
collections of bronze sculpture in Canada; changing exhibitions, Maas creates
distinctive, rounded, semi-abstract figures, architectural structures and installations in a wide variety of materials,
including bronze, stainless steel, aluminum, wood and stoneware. The great
diversity of outdoor art is complemented
in the gallery by an overwhelming number of paintings, serigraphs, medals,
reliefs and sculptures in various media.
Thurs free. Thru Sep 20 Wally Dion,
“One on One: Mapping Me In…”,
works produced in 2013 and 2014 that
are made from smaller, identical components involving tracks filled with
paint; Sep 26-Jan 10 Elizabeth
D’Agostino: Makeshift, installation of
mixed-media prints and sculptures
exploring themes and structures from
the natural world; Thru Oct 18 Jeroen
Witvliet: Wayfarer, recent paintings –
including Day/Night/Day Stadium
paintings and small works depicting
human hands; Oct 24-Jan 17 Landon
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The ACT Art Gallery
Kelowna Art Gallery
1315 Water St ✆250-762-2226
kelownaartgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pm
sun 1-4pm. Admission: adults $5, seniors & students $4, family $10, group
of 10 or more $40, members free,
Mackenzie: Parallel Journey: Works
on Paper (1975-2015), wide variety of
paper works; Thru Spring 2016 Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante and
Maxwell Sterry, “Pieces of What”,
artists' garden project focussing on the
environment; SATELLITE SPACE AT THE
KELOWNA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Thru
Nov 9 Valerie Rogers: Lift Off and
Soar, an installation of wildlife art
depicting Canada geese.
PHOTO COURTESY OF YURI AKUNEY, DIGITAL PERFECTIONS
Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens
and Gallery
Landon Mackenzie, Untitled (Berlin) (2007),
watercolour on paper [Kelowna Art Gallery,
Kelowna BC, Oct 24-Jan 17]
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(formerly Maple Ridge Art Gallery)
11944 Haney Pl ✆604-476-4240
theactmapleridge.org
tues-sat 11am-4pm. Sep 12-Oct 10 The
Fibre Art Network (FAN), “Abstracted”,
works by accomplished fibre artists
from western Canada working in pairs to
create both representational work and
abstract works on themes of their
choice; Oct 17-Nov 14 Alexandra
Edmonds, “Iceland Unbound”, paintings
– Edmonds renders every sky, surface
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and crevice with a straightforward honesty that belies any attempt to romanticize the starkly majestic terrain; artist
residency was in Siglufjördur, a small
fishing town in northern Iceland.
NANAIMO
Nanaimo Art Gallery
150 Commercial St ✆250-754-1750
nanaimoartgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm. Sep
4-Oct 31 Duane Linklater, Gareth
Moore, Kika Thorne and Elias Wakan,
“Silva Part I: O Horizon”, an exhibit
titled after the scientific name for the
forest floor, featuring sculptural
installations and poetry reflecting on
the powerful roles language and culture play in the ways we understand
the natural environment; Sep 4-Nov
21 A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr, photographs produced between 1983 and
2013, from an early series of homestead photographs shot in British
Columbia in the early 1980s to a new,
groundbreaking project exploring
water's fundamental place in the
world ecology.
NeLSON
Oxygen Art Centre
3-320 Vernon St (Alley Entrance)
✆250-352-6322 oxygenartcentre.org
wed-sat 1-5pm. Thru Oct 3 (Exhibition)
Aug 16-28 (Residency) José Luis Torres – Mutations, sculptural installations
made from material and objects found
at his worksite celebrate the idea of
materials and objects as receptacles of
stories and reservoirs of memory.
Touchstones Nelson:
Museum of Art and History
502 Vernon St
✆250-352-9813 touchstonesnelson.ca
mon-wed, fri & sat 10am-5pm, sun
11am-4pm, thurs 10am-8pm, 5-8pm by
donation. GALLERY A Sep 12-Nov 15 John
Hall and Alexandra Haeseker, “Pendulum/Pendula”, a series of collaborative
paintings with colourful subject matter
drawn from contemporary Mexican culture, rendered in photorealistic style;
GALLERY B Sep 5-Nov 22 Lost Orchards: A
History of Fruit Farming in the West
Kootenays. From the early 1900s many
orchards grew and thrived, but by the
1940s only a few remained, and today,
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long neglected fruit trees in overgrown
fields are almost all that remain of a once
thriving industry.
NeW WeSTMINSTeR
Amelia Douglas Gallery
Douglas College
700 Royal Ave ✆604-527-5723
douglascollege.ca/about-douglas/groupsand-organizations/art-gallery
mon-fri 10am-7:30pm sat 11am-4pm.
Thru Sep 12 Kathryn Gibson, Sande
Waters and Dorothy Doherty, “Cross
Currents: Investigations into abstraction and collaboration”; Sep 17-Oct 23
Linda MacCannell, “Thunder in Our
Voices", contemporary portraits of the
Berger Inquiry; Oct 29-Dec 11 Avocations, mixed-media works by Douglas
College students, faculty and staff.
The Gallery at Queen's Park
(formerly Arts Council Gallery of
New Westminster)
Centennial Lodge, Queen's Park
✆604-525-3244
artscouncilnewwest.org
tues-sun 1-5pm.Thru Sep 11 Century
House Artists Group Exhibition,
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
paintings and pottery; Sep 12-13 New
Westminster Artists, “Potpourri”; Sep
15-Oct 9 Bill Edmonds, “Catfish:
Images of Deceit and Misrepresentation”; Oct 11-12 Artists in the Boro; Oct
13-Nov 6 Adam Gibbs, “Land of Light".
★ New Media Gallery
Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St, 3rd Flr
✆778-833-1864 604-875-1865
newmediagallery.ca
tues-sun 10am-5pm, thurs 10am-8pm.
Thru Oct 18 Carsten Höller (Belgium),
Gunda Förster (Germany) and Elizabeth McAlpine (UK), “5600K: Temperature of White" refers to the standard
colour temperature used in cinema to
replicate white light at the brightest time
of day. The artists manipulate the measurement and meaning of white light and
technology in visceral and poetic ways
and challenge our understanding of narrative, boundary, technology and perception itself.
NORTH VANCOUVER
Portugal Cove in Winter, Jean Claude Roy, oil on canvas, 36x36 in
Artemis Gallery
104C-4390 Gallant Ave
✆778-233-9805 artemisgallery.ca
tues-sun 12-5pm thurs 12-3pm. Oct 225 Clancy Gibson, “Headwaters:
Recent Landscapes”, new acrylic paintings portraying the vital, natural elements of Vancouver’s North Shore.
Jean Claude Roy
OCTOBER 15 – NOVEMBER 28, 2015
ARTIST IN AT TENDANCE
OCT 15 (OPENING) , 16 & 17
★ Caroun Art Gallery
1403 Bewicke Ave
✆778-372-0765 caroun.net
tues-sat 12-8pm. Sep 1-9 Miniature
Painting Exhibition, a collection of Chinese, Indian and Iranian miniature
paintings from 15th century to the present; Sep 15-26 Behshid Farhangian
and Ronak Farhangian, paintings; Oct
1-14 “Fall Group Exhibition”, paintings,
photographs, calligraphy, jewellery and
illustrations by Afsoon Montazeri,
Bahman Doustdar, Faranak Mohebbi,
Farhad Varasteh, Fereshteh Shahani, Homa Naeli, Iraj Roshani, Leyla Mohammadi, Mina Zakeri, Sahar
Seyedi, Venus Arastoo Nejad and
Zohreh Hamraz; Oct 17-30 Mona Zand
Kiany and Shabnam Tolou, paintings.
Cityscape Community Art Space
North Vancouver Community Arts
Council, 335 Lonsdale Ave
✆604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca
Cityscape: mon-wed & fri noon-5pm
thurs noon-8pm sat noon-5pm, District
preview-art.com
604.563.2717
ROOFTOP 403 & 404 – 1529 W. 6TH VANCOUVER, BC
Foyer Gallery, North Vancouver District
Hall: mon-fri 8am-4:30pm, District
Library Gallery, Lynn Valley Main
Library: mon-fri 9am-9pm sat 9am5pm, City Atrium Gallery: mon-fri
8:30am-5pm. CITYSCAPE Sep 17-Oct 3
Art Rental Show, featuring affordable
artworks for rent or purchase; Oct 9Nov 14 Pushing Boundaries, biannual
exhibition of contemporary works by
emerging and professional First Nations
artists; DISTRICT FOYER GALLERY, DISTRICT
HALL OF NORTH VANCOUVER, 355 W
Queens Rd Sep 16-Nov 3 Jules Stirling,
photographs capturing the little
moments, those instant, unforced slices
of unpredictable life; Christine Hood,
works using metal, ceramic, textiles and
found objects; Hood takes inspiration
from her personal life, environment and
surroundings; DISTRICT LIBRARY GALLERY,
LYNN VALLEY MAIN LIBRARY, 1277 Lynn
Valley Rd Thru Sep 29 Janet Strayer,
“Huaca: Spirit of Place”, huaca is a
South American term that refers to a
location or object that is revered, featuring works focusing on moments of
physical and psychological transformation; Sep 30-Dec 1 Lorn Curry, still life
paintings representing an ongoing
exploration of the constants of life and
the human connection; CITY ATRIUM
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Unheralded Artists
BY MONIKA ULLMANN
monikasonyaullmann.com
The Life and Art of David Marshall
DAN FAIRCHILD PHOTOGRAPHY
Vancouver sculptor David Marshall wanted everybody to understand, enjoy and touch sculpture. And
because two of his major works – the 2.4 metre (8-foot), semi-abstract marble carvings Three Carrara
are now permanently on display in VanDusen Botanical
Gardens, joining Three Forms, carved onsite during the
1975 Vancouver International Stone Sculpture Symposium – he is a little closer to getting his wish. As his friend
and biographer, I am delighted that people having a light
lunch at the garden’s café can marvel at the newly
installed Three Carrara and perhaps wonder who carved
it and how it got there.
These two Marshall sculptures are still the only ones
the public can admire in Vancouver. For more of Marshall’s work, they have to cross the border and go to
Bellingham.
Marshall (1928–2006) was born on a farm in Alberta,
grew up in Toronto and arrived in Vancouver in the winter of 1948, penniless but determined to become an
artist. He went on to become a founding member of the
Sculptors’ Society of British Columbia, forming lifelong
friendships with other Vancouver sculptors, such as Elek
Imredy, Peter Paul Ochs and Gerhard Class. His life was
about obsessively serving his muse in stone, ceramic,
wood and bronze, but he always felt that the Vancouver
public really didn’t care about his work.
Beginning in 1990, he carved Three Carrara at CapiDavid Marshall, Three Carrara, 1997-98, Carrara marble,
lano College (now Capilano University), after retiring
2.4 m (8 ft) high, VanDusen Botanical Gardens, Vancouver BC
from several decades of teaching there. For two years, he
and his assistant, German Galdamez from El Salvador, carved and polished the white stone. Marshall
only briefly commented on the third piece, reminiscent of a whale, calling it “an animal figure.” The
other two pieces are highly stylized, one angular, the other rounded. Together, they reprise recurring
themes in Marshall’s work: relationships between man, woman and Nature.
When I wrote The Life and Art of David Marshall, the first book in the acclaimed series Unheralded
Artists of BC, I knew Marshall considered touch the key to sculpture’s power to communicate in a preverbal, visceral manner. He felt that the secret to experiencing sculpture is sensual as well as visual and
intellectual. “You can fool the eye, but not the hand,” he used to say. Marshall admired the Inuit, who
carved some of their work specifically for the sense of touch, the first sense humans develop in the
womb. He saw the Inuit integration of art into everyday life as the ideal.
But Marshall was no Inuit carver; he spent most of his life doggedly pursuing perfection in his
backyard studio while his admirers, a group of fellow artists and serious collectors scattered across the
globe, pushed for the international recognition they felt he deserved. Even while ill, he was planning
new bronze castings and sketching new works as friends and fellow artists came to say goodbye. Marshall died at age 78.
This article is based on the book of the same name, the first book in the Unheralded Artists of British Columbia
series (Mother Tongue Publishing), which illustrates and explores the lives and art of important but previously undocumented BC artists from the 1900s through the 1960s. The books are available at the Vancouver Art Gallery Shop
and other venues, as well as from mothertonguepublishing.com.
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GALLERY, 141 W 14th St Thru Sep 21
Rebecca Graham, “Walk on the Land”,
using materials donated by gardeners
and invasive species programs, Graham
uses creative ways to connect with the
land; Mark Ollinger, “Perceptually Uniform”, optical and graffiti art through
sculpture and painting.
Gordon Smith Gallery
of Canadian Art
2121 Lonsdale Ave ✆604-998-8563
gordonsmithgallery.ca
tues-sat 12-5pm closed holidays.
Admission: Adults by donation, children
& youth free. Thru Sep 15 Gallery
closed; Oct 1-Apr 18 At What Cost:
Artists for Kids Teaching Exhibition,
works exploring the many ways artists
reflect their environments, natural or
fabricated, from the Artists for Kids
Teaching Collection; M EZZANINE &
PROCESS GALLERIES Oct 3-Dec 18 Phantoms in the Front Yard, “Over the Counter Culture”, works exploring the evolving
complexities circling the perceptions
and uses of drugs in cultures past and
present make reference to propaganda
posters, contemporary advertising, fictional and technical literature and historical printing and painting styles.
Graffiti Co. Art Studio/Gallery
171 E 1st St, 2nd Flr ✆604-980-1699
graffiticoart.com
wed-fri 1:30-6:00pm or by appt. A working studio/gallery exhibiting contemporary fine art by resident artist Sian
Woodward and local guest artists; current guest artists include Lucy Godwin,
Gabriele Maurus, Meg Troy and Marina
Yanen. Visit the website for updates.
Presentation House Gallery
333 Chesterfield Ave ✆604-986-1351
presentationhousegallery.org
wed-sun 12-5pm. Sep 30-Nov 8 “BC
Almanac(h) C-B”, featuring a remounted exhibition and reprinted book, originally commissioned by the Stills Division of the National Film Board of Canada in 1970, 15 West Coast artists were
invited to produce photographic booklets that were compiled into an anthology. Participants included Christos
Dikeakos, Judith Eglington, Gerry
Gilbert, Roy Kiyooka, Glenn Lewis,
NE Thing Co., Michael Morris, Jone
Pane, Timothy Porter, Vincent Trasov
and others; also showing a related exhibition of photographs, film, mixedmedia works and related ephemera featuring BC Almanac(h) C-B artists.
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Skinner, Theo Tobiasse, Marla Wilson, Nel Witteman, Marjolein Witteman, William Watt and Robert Wood.
Penticton Art Gallery
Robyn Lake, The Beauty of it All, 30" x 48"
[The Lloyd Gallery, Penticton BC, Oct 1-21,
lloydgallery.com]
Seymour Art Gallery
4360 Gallant Ave ✆604-924-1378
seymourartgallery.com
daily 10am-5pm. Thru Sep 12 Nancy
Bleck, “Children of Tomorrow: TsleilWaututh Nation”, large-scale panoramic
photographs; Sep 16-Oct 24 “30
Years”, works in various media by Unity
Bainbridge, Judson Beaumont, Alistair Bell, Taiga Chiba, Lil Chrzan,
Pierre Coupey, Wayne Eastcott, Tania
Gleave, Eleanor Hannan, Cathi Jefferson, Peter Kiss, Ben Lim, Anthea
Mallinson, Barb Matthews, Sally
Michener, Ross Munro, Luke Parnell,
James Picard, Vjeko Sager, Ruth
Scheuing, Arnold Shives, Danny
Singer, Gordon Smith, m.a.tateishi,
Jason Turner, Charles van Sandwyk,
Liane McLaren Varnam, Natalia
Vetrova, Janet Wang and Xwalacktun.
PeNTICTON
The Lloyd Gallery
18 Front St ✆250-492-4484
lloydgallery.com
mon-sat 10am-5:30pm. Oct 1-21
Robyn Lake, “'The Beauty of it All: Our
Splendid Okanagan”, new paintings;
Nov 5-25 Shannon Ford, “Our Enriching Bond with Animals”, new works.
Also representing Aunaray, Irvine
Adams, Laila Campbell, Rod Charlesworth, Connor Charlesworth, Glenn
Clark, Peter Corbett, Kelly Corbett,
Jan Crawford, Les Dunlop, Serge
Dubé, Valerie Eibner, Shannon Ford,
Jim Glenn, Perry Haddock, Julia Hargreaves, Frances Harris, Anne-Marie
Harvey, Erika Hawkes, Kevin Healy,
Michael Hermesh, Beverly Inkster,
Bob Kebic, Dongmin Lai, Robyn Lake,
Viv McElgunn Lieskovski, Angie Roth
McIntosh, Min Ma, Julie Mai, Ingrid
Mann-Willis, Greg Metz, Debbie Milner-Lively, Toni Onley, Diane Paton
Peel, Graham Pettman, Lance Regan,
John Revill, Bonnie Roberts, Anita
199 Marina Way ✆250-493-2928
pentictonartgallery.com
tues-fri 10am-5pm sat & sun 11am4pm. Thru Sep 13 MAIN GALLERY Kabul
Art Project, featuring close to 100 works
of art by 24 contemporary artists living
and working in Afghanistan; Allan Harding MacKay: Afghanistan Through the
Lens of a Canadian War Artist, photography, video and 2-D works documenting Afghanistan as seen through the
eyes and scopes of the Canadian Armed
Forces; TONI ONLEY GALLERY Allan Harding MacKay: Gift of Conscience, works
based on a protest against Canada's military involvement in Somalia and
Afghanistan that the artist held on Parliament Hlll in Ottawa in 2012; PROJECT
ROOM Patrick Hughes: Reverspective,
paintings – works are concerned with
optical and visual illusions, the science
of perception and the nature of artistic
representation; Sep 18-Nov 8 John
Schoonderwoert (1930-2012), paintings of Okanagan scenery by the Dutchborn painter and photographer; What
Words Can Say, annual Psychiatric Art
Show, an open exhibition organized by
the Penticton Art Gallery and South
Okanagan Mental Health and Addictions
Coalition to give a voice to these otherwise voiceless feelings; Alexandra
Goodall: MicrocosmoSoma, products
of meditations, this work grew out of the
artist's desire to experiment with phenomenology within an artistic process.
Tumbleweed Gallery
and Framing
452 Main St ✆250-492-7701
tumbleweedgallery.ca
tues-sat 10am-5pm sun & mon by appt.
Artist in attendance Fridays 10am-5pm.
Thru Nov Liz Marshall, Susan McCarrell, Jill Leir-Salter, W.L. Hibberd,
Jenny Long and Carol Munro, “N.E.W.”,
new works by gallery artists.
PORT ALBeRNI
DRAW Gallery
4529 Melrose St
✆250-724-2056 1-855-755-0566
drawgallery.com
May to Dec: thurs-fri 12-5 pm or by
appt. Our Gallery Beyond Walls offers
contemporary Canadian West Coast art
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belkin.ubc.ca
Maria Eichhorn
in an intimate setting, celebrating the
diversity and talent of local and regional
artists – can be viewed and purchased
online or on location. Sep 3-Nov 27 Fall
In Love With Art, works by local artists
in glass, wood, paint, metal and photography, featuring works from this year's
Annual Plein Air Paint Out participants.
PORT MOODY
★ Port Moody Arts Centre
2425 St Johns St ✆604-931-2008
pomoarts.ca
mon-fri 10am-8pm sat-sun 10am-5pm
closed holidays. Thru Sep 24 Nancy
Cramer, Paddi McGrath, Anna Milton
and Marianne Phillips, “Messengers”,
mixed media, ceramics and paintings
revealing the symbols and nature of the
messengers that inspire these artists;
Andre J. Prevost, “Journeying with the
Totems”, paintings marking a journey of
change and rediscovery based on tradition and symbolic language; Katherine
Neilsen and Carlyn Yandle, “Inheri-
PHOTO: MARKUS TRETTER
MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Sep 11-Dec 13, 2015 Now in her fourth
decade of exhibiting, the Berlin-based Maria Eichhorn is renowned for combining conceptual operations, relational engagements and institutional critiques in the production of works that manifest as
photographs, films and appropriated images. Central
to her practice is an examination of power and its distribution throughout our variant, and at times
abstract, economies.
For Eichhorn’s first exhibition in Vancouver, the
Belkin has mounted two ongoing pieces: Prohibited
Imports (2003/2008 and 2015) and Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices (1999/2005/2008/2014/2015).
First realized for an exhibition in Tokyo in 2003,
Prohibited Imports began when Eichhorn mailed several books to the gallery hoping they would be intercepted and censored by customs officials. The result
is a series of within-the-lines white-out redactions of
images from a Robert Mapplethorpe catalogue, which
the artist displays in a vitrine.
In Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices – a cumulative
work that grows with each showing – a list of threeminute activity-titled films is made available to gallery
patrons who, in choosing one, are met by its projectionist. Michael Turner
Maria Eichhorn, Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices
(1999/2005/2008/2015), 16mm colour film screening,
exhibition view [Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
BC, Sep 11-Dec 13]
tance”, button quilts, paintings and recycled sculptures examining traditions and
beliefs passed from one generation to
the next; Oct 4-29 Art 4 Life, making art
a lifelong journey, visual, performing
and literary arts by artists of all ages;
works are geared towards children.
PRINCe GeORGe
Two Rivers Gallery
725 Canada Games Way
✆250-614-7800 tworiversgallery.ca
mon-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pm
sun 12-5pm. Thru Oct 11 Scott Bertram,
“A Piece of the Ground, A Piece of the
Sky”, abstract paintings blending painterly exuberance with measured control borrow from Gothic traditions of painting;
Sara Robichaud, “Unapologetic –
Romantic Notions of a Modern Woman”,
using vintage lace and objects drawn
from her own home, the artist explores
her experience of being a new mother,
expanding the reach of her enquiry to
consider the historic role of women in
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general; Thru Oct 25 Jean Chisholm and
Janine Merkl, “The Hometown Project” a
large-scale, interactive and participatory
project that seeks to investigate why residents of Prince George love their city; Oct
29-Nov 29 Andrea Fredeen, “Storytellers”, paintings – a different approach
to portraiture, focusing on hands in order
to examine what they reveal about people’s lives.
PRINCe RuPeRT
Museum of Northern BC
100 First Ave W ✆250-624-3207
museumofnorthernbc.com
daily 9am-5pm. Admission: adults $6,
teens 13-19 $3, children 6-12 $2, children under 5 $1, members free. Sep
Nicole Rudderham, Pauline Best,
Ruth Harvey, Ekaterina Mayenfels and
Peter Harnisch, “Celebrating Our Land:
Contemporary Northwest Coast
Artists”, works in various media – linoprints, embossed photo etchings,
impressions, photographs, and paint-
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
ings in watercolours, oils and acrylics;
Oct-Nov In Plain Sight: Recent Northwest Coast Archaeology, exploring the
role of Northwest Coast oral history in
predicting and explaining key archaeological sites; Ongoing Permanent
exhibits of Northwest Coast history, art
and culture; the KWINITSA RAILWAY STATION
MUSEUM and the TSIMSHIAN DANCE LONGHOUSE, exhibits, art and performances.
QuALICuM BeACH
The Old School House
Arts Centre
122 Fern Rd W ✆250-752-6133
theoldschoolhouse.org
mon-sat 10am-4:30pm. Thru Sep 5
Jacques De Backer and Chris Stusek,
paintings; Sep 8-Oct 3 Judy Farrow,
Kathy and Seby Saluke, fabric art; Oct 524 Uli Ostermann and Patt Scrivener,
abstract paintings; Oct 26-Nov 21 Randy
Hall and Wayne Buhr, photography.
RICHMOND
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate
✆604-247-8300 604-247-8312
richmondartgallery.org
mon-fri 10am-6pm thurs 10am-9pm
sat & sun 10am-5pm. Sep 12-Jan 3 jasna guy, “not by chance alone”, installation exploring the subjects of bee ecology and history, using small hand-cut
blocks to print several hundred silk tissue sheets dipped in beeswax;
Cameron Cartiere and the chART Collective, “For All Is For Yourself”, installation highlighting decreasing bee populations that are being threatened by
factors such as disease and parasites,
pesticide use and loss of habitat. The
project involves three phases of community engagement.
SALMON ARM
Salmon Arm Art Gallery
70 Hudson Ave NE ✆250-832-1170
salmonarmartscentre.ca
tues-sat 11am-4pm. Thru Sep 19 Janet
Cardiff and George Bures-Miller,
“Experiment in F# Minor" and “The
Muriel Lake Incident”, mixed-media
sound installations; Oct 3-Nov 7 The
Knitted Tree, large-scale sculptural
installation created by 200+ knitters
from our community and abroad.
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SIDNeY
Peninsula Gallery
100-2506 Beacon Ave
✆250-655-1282 1-877-787-1896
pengal.com
mon-sat 9am-5pm sun 11am-4pm.
Sep-Oct Showing works by gallery
artists Gaye Adams, Don Bastian,
Robert Bateman, Kristina Boardman,
Lindsay Branson, Philip Buytendorp,
Stephen Man-Fai Cheng, Elynne Chudnovsky, Brent Cooke, Carol Evans,
Douglas Fisher, Real Fournier, Tim
Hall, Tom Hamer, W. Allan Hancock,
Tiffany Hastie, Mark Hobson, IceBear,
Gail Johnson, Malcolm Jolly, Jack
Kreutzer, Clement Kwan, Sheena Lott,
Dennis Magnusson, Jerry Markham,
Sheila Mather, Richard McDiarmid,
Glen Melville, Catherine Moffat,
Pieter Molenaar, Murray Phillips,
Clive Powsey, Michael O'Toole, Nancy
O'Toole, Jim Park, Janice Robertson,
Gail Sibley, Sandhu Singh, Blu Smith,
Michael Stockdale, Erika Toliusis, Ray
Ward and Alan Wylie.
SKIDeGATe
Haida Gwaii Museum
2 Second Beach Rd
✆250-559-4643 ext 245
haidaheritagecentre.com
daily 10am-6pm. Admission: adults
$16, seniors $15, students $10, children 6-12 $5, children under 5 free. Sep
19-Jan 3 Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas,
"A musing of Manga (in the museum)";
Sep 25-Jan 3 Farrah Nosh.
SQuAMISH
Foyer Gallery at the
Squamish Public Library
37907 2nd Ave
✆604-892-3110 604-815-3629
squamish.bc.libraries.coop/servicesprograms/our-services/foyer-gallery/
mon-thurs 12-8pm fri-sun 10am-4pm.
Thru Sep 7 WALLS & CASES Elizabeth Harris, “Relevant Western Spaghetti”, oil
paintings and ceramics; Sep 8-Oct 5
WALLS Marion Lindsay, “Artistic Expression through Textured Impression”,
acrylic and mixed-media paintings; CASES
Carole O’Brennan, “Dish & Spoon”,
repurposed silverware; Oct 6-Nov 2 4
Women, “Nature Inspired”; W ALLS
Angela Mueller, oil paintings; Vicky Earle, watercolours; Helen Habgood, photography; CASES Ailsa Brown, pottery.
SuNSHINe COAST
Gibsons Public Art Gallery
431 Marine Dr, Gibsons
✆604-886-0531 gpag.ca
thurs-mon 11am-4pm. Thru Sep 13
Kristjana Gunnars, “River Rain”,
acrylic/watercolour paintings – the play
of light filtered through clouds; Dean
Jones, “The Art of the Story”, pencil and
ink drawings; Sep 17-Oct 11 De Beer
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Family, “Paradigm”, pottery, paintings
and photographs showing a series of
altered landscapes; Gina Miller, “Interior Geography”, abstract paintings that
reference the natural world; Oct 15- Nov
8 Colin Righton, “Dichotomy”, acrylics
with bold colours and dynamic lines;
Ruth Rodgers, “Cross Country”, pastels
inspired by the natural landscape.
Landing Gallery Artists' Co-op
436 Marine Dr, Gibsons
✆604-886-0099 landinggallery.ca
daily 10am-5pm. Sep 11-27 Plein Air
Festival Exhibition, showing works by
co-op members from the festival; Oct 131 Sunshine Coast Art Crawl Exhibition, showing works by co-op members
inspired by Persephone Brewing Company; Oct 16-18 Random Acts of Art,
works produced within 24 hours of
opening a sealed envelope with a random phrase or word, collaboration
between the Arts Building Society and
Landing Gallery; OFFSITE PERSEPHONE
BREWING COMPANY, 1053 Stewart Rd,
778-462-3007 Oct 16-18 Showing
works by co-op members from the Sunshine Coast Art Crawl.
SuRReY
Arnold Mikelson
Mind & Matter Art Gallery
13743 16th Ave ✆604-536-6460
mindandmatterart.com
daily 12-6pm. Sep Pauline Dutkowsky,
Ashley Jackson and Elizabeth Care-
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
foot, “Outside the Box”, fascinating fabulous fibre, from fine art, to funky, to
functional; Oct Arnold Mikelson, wood
sculpture; Darrel Hancock, pottery;
Shirley Thomas, acrylics; Linda Morris, acrylics; Bob Gonzales, woodturning; Val Eibner, fused glass; Gunilla
Lindgren, acrylics and Bette Hurd,
acrylics.
Kwantlen Art Gallery &
Arbutus Gallery at
Coast Capital Savings Library
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
D126-12666 72nd Ave
✆604-599-2219 kpu.ca/arts/fine-arts
Arbutus Gallery: mon-thurs 7:30am11pm fri 7:30am-9pm sat 10am-4pm
sun 12-7pm, Kwantlen Art Gallery:
check the website for hours. ARBUTUS
GALLERY AT COAST CAPITAL SAVINGS LIBRARY
Sep-Oct Works by Kwantlen fine arts
students; KWANTLEN ART GALLERY SepOct Third year student exhibitions. Visit
the website for exhibition information.
★ Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave (at King George Blvd)
✆604-501-5566 surrey.ca/artgallery
Sep 7-Jul 3: tue-thurs 9am-9pm fri
9am-5pm sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm
(closed mon & holidays). Sep 19-Dec
13 Views from the Southbank III: Information, Objects, Mappings, third and
final part of exhibitions celebrating the
gallery’s 40th anniversary with art from
Surrey and the surrounding area; Jim
Adams, Polly Gibbons, Cora Li-Leger,
Haruko Okano and Mandeep Wirk,
"Re:Source - A Living Archive 1975–
2015, Part 4", four decades of the
gallery's archives brought to life
through an ever-revolving installation in
celebration of our 40th anniversary;
Carmen Papalia, Phinder Dulai and
Andrew Lee, “The Grove: A Spatial Narrative”, exploring the community use of
a transient forest in Newton through
sound and visual narrative, part of Open
Sound 2015: Polyphonic Cartograph;
Thru Oct 6 South Surrey and White
Rock Art Society, recent works in a variety of media; Oct 10-Nov 29 West Coast
Calligraphy Society, recent works
based on the theme of dreams; Thru Oct
Robert Davidson: Supernatural Eye;
Thru Feb 21, 2016 Tony Westman:
Becoming Surrey – Journey Through
the Invisible City, a digital photographic mural exploring the transformation of
Surrey’s suburban landscape into a built
urban environment; OFFSITE SURREY'S
URBANSCREEN, EXTERIOR OF CHUCK BAILEY
preview-art.com
RECREATION CENTRE, 13458-107A Ave
surrey.ca/urbanscreen Oct-Jan Julie
Andreyev and Simon Overstall,
“Salmon People”, a video-sound installation exploring the shared ecologies of
salmon and humans.
TSAWWASSeN
VANCOuVeR
221A
100-221 E Georgia St
✆604-568-0812 221a.ca
tues-fri 10am-5pm sat 12-5pm. Thru
Sep 30 Rebecca Bayer and Matthew
Soules, “City Fabric”, installation.
Gallery 1710
Access Gallery
1710 56th St ✆604-943-3313
southdeltaartistsguild.com
thurs-sun 11am-4pm. Sep 10-27 Back
to Work, paintings by gallery members;
Oct Visit the website for information.
222 E Georgia St ✆604-689-2907
accessgallery.ca
tues-sat 12-5pm. Sep 12-Oct 31 Alana
Bartol, Mike Bourscheid and David
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pendulumgallery.bc.ca
Marcus Bowcott: Endlessly Rocking
PENDULUM GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Aug 25-Sep 18, 2015 Those who frequent the Science World
stretch of Vancouver’s Quebec Street will have noticed a stack of five multi-coloured cars placed atop
a nearly 7-metre (20-foot) old-growth cedar tree. Entitled Trans Am Totem (2015), the work is the
brainchild of Vancouver’s Marcus Bowcott, an
artist long fascinated with the “complex relationship between natural and industrial landscapes,”
a relationship in which the automobile figures
largely.
Included in Bowcott’s current exhibition are
paintings, maquettes and photographs that relate
to our culture’s often-outsized carbon footprint.
Many of these are attuned to the cruelties of consumption as well as to a topic that has driven
many Lower Mainlanders crazy of late: mass
transportation. For those viewers interested in
variations on Bowcott’s totem, the exhibition
includes a series of oil-on-Mylar paintings that
feature the cars, sans cedar and scenery.
Most notable in the show is the debut of a
new work by Bowcott: a stripped-down, full-scale
Trans-Am designed to respond both visually and
kinetically to Alan Storey’s equally rocking Broken Column (1987) – a work so resonant to Vancouverites that they named the gallery after its Marcus Bowcott, Trans Am Totem (Yellow/Orange & Red) (2015), oil
on Mylar [Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver BC, Aug 25-Sep 18]
pendulous actions. Michael Turner
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 35
Semeniuk, “Far Away So Close: Part
III”, photography, media, ceramics,
workshop, sculpture and installation.
★ The Archer & The Horseman
Art Gallery Vancouver
208 E 16th Ave ✆604-336-7773
artgalleryvancouver.ca
tues-sun 11am-6pm. Under German
ownership and management, exhibiting
1,000 pieces of artwork as original or
Giclée on canvas by Vancouver’s
renowned artist Raymond Chow, also
featuring works by Darlene Kokotailo,
Thomas Lehmann, Ning Liu, Frances
Sky and Wayne Wong, and art from
Afghanistan. Offering a variety of affordable artwork.
Art Beatus (Vancouver)
Consultancy Ltd.
108-808 Nelson St ✆604-688-2633
artbeatus.com
mon-fri 10am-6pm. Thru Sep 4 Taiga
Chiba, “The Life in Bhubaneswar”, new
mixed-media works; Sep 18-Nov 13
June Yun, “Cloud Dreams”, new oil
paintings on canvas are mnemonic of
her return to China, where she reunited
with former classmates and her professor from the University of Anhui to paint
the same Huizhou landscape they had
painted as students 20 years ago.
The Art Emporium
2928 Granville St ✆604-738-3510
theartemporium.ca
by appt mon-sat 10am-6pm. Exceptional inventory of paintings by Canadian, American and French masters of
the 20th century, featuring Emily Carr
and all members of the Group of Seven
and several of their contemporaries,
David Milne, J.W. Morrice, Tom
Thomson; paintings by Karel Appel,
A. Calder, E. Cortès, Montague Dawson, Jean and Raoul Dufy, A. Hambourg, J. Hervé, Picasso, Utrillo, A.
Volti, Andrew Wyeth and Canadians
Max Bates, Donald Flather, H.G.
Glyde, E.J. Hughes, C. Krieghoff, F.
Lansdowne, John Little, Henri Masson, Rudolph Messner, Hugh Monahan, Riopelle, Goodridge Roberts,
Jack Shadbolt and Andrew Wong.
38 PREVIEW ■ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015
Art Works Gallery
225 Smithe St ✆604-688-3301
artworksbc.com
mon-fri 9am-6pm sat 10am-6pm sun
12-5pm. Thru Sep 26 Leonard, Dallyn, Lambert, Lee, Clark, Sendra and
Blackstock, “Go For It!”, paintings
inspired by the gallery's collection of
abstract art; Sep 28-Nov 20 Vertical
Visions, a group show with artworks
for the feature wall – in contemporary
homes, there are big windows that
bring in natural light, showcasing the
views, leaving small walls that sometimes end up being the feature walls.
Arts Off Main Gallery
216 E 28th Ave ✆604-876-2785
artsoffmain.ca
wed-sun 11:30am-5:30pm. An artistrun gallery with work exclusively by BC
artists, offering original and affordable
paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, jewellery, pottery and professional framing. Showing new artists
Marina Crawford, photography, CindyWynne Kolding, acrylics, and Chardon
Labrie, mixed media. Also works by
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
Linda Read, Eileen Mosca, Sabine
Simons, Lee Sanger and Jennifer Mitton. Featured artists: Sep Tim Morris;
Oct Eric Fisher.
Artspeak
233 Carrall St ✆604-688-0051
artspeak.ca
tues-sat 12-5pm. Sep 12-Oct 31 Lisa
Radon, “[ ]".
ArtStarts Gallery
808 Richards St
✆604-336-0626 ext 105
artstarts.com/gallery
wed-fri 10am-4:30pm sun 10am4:30pm. Thru Sep 27 At the Intersection: Where Art and Education Meet,
featuring the Infusion Cohort Program,
in which six professional artists collaborated with a team of educators in six elementary schools across BC to discover
and develop ways to bring arts integration-based practices into the classroom.
Audain Gallery
149 W Hastings St, SFU Woodward's
✆778-782-9102 sfugalleries.ca
tues-sat 12-5pm. Sep 11-26 “SFU Visual Art MFA Graduating Exhibition”,
Lucien Durey, “A single rope, tossed
over a high, sturdy branch”, painted
works addressing the auratic nature of
painting and art through a defamiliarization of found supports and substrates;
Curtis Grahauer, “As far upriver as you
can go before having to switch to a
pole”, a 16mm film installation documenting the anthropogenically influenced landscape of Chilliwack, to build a
discourse between what is natural and
what is naturalized; Jaime Williams and
collaborators, “Let it be as it is”, a multimedia installation exploring the potential
for improvised movement to understand the specific vibrational energies of
place; Oct 22-Dec 12 Lili ReynaudDewar, “My Epidemic (Teaching Bjarne
Melgaard’s Class)”, an iteration of artworks, texts, seminars and exhibitions
in which she quotes and edits numerous
authors and texts influenced by AIDS
and its impact on bodies and culture.
BAF Studio
(Burrard Arts Foundation)
108 E Broadway burrardarts.org
tues-sat 12-5pm. Sep 24-Oct 31 Jay
Senetchko, “The Best of Life: The
Pathological Nature of the North American Dream”, photo collages and paintings examining the parallels between
1950s and '60s North America and
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contemporary Western life, and how
our memories distort our perceptions
of both.
Bau-Xi Gallery
3045 Granville St ✆604-733-7011
bau-xi.com
mon-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 11am5:30pm. Sep 12-26 Sheri Bakes,
“Bramwell’s Garden”, paintings
inspired by the work of several composers, musicians, artists and writers
who know the experience of seeing
colour in the hearing of sound,
Bramwell Tovey, his garden and the
VSO; Oct 3-17 Bratsa Bonifacho, “Hid-
den Messages: A Survey of the Last 40
Years”, a body of work bringing together historical paintings from groundbreaking series exhibited over the past
four decades, also showing new works
inspired by the way intellectual property
regulates sociopolitical ideas, representing a continued interest in the stylistic techniques established in the
Habitat Pixel series of the late 2000s;
Oct 24-Nov 7 Andre Petterson, “To and
Fro”, new works with a continued interest in subject matter and stylistic techniques synonymous with his later
career, representing a new interest in
colour and colour theory.
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Beaty Biodiversity Museum
University of British Columbia
2212 Main Mall ✆604-827-4955
beatymuseum.ubc.ca
tues-sun 10am-5pm. Thru Sep 6 Ian
Lane, “ShutterBUG”, photographs of
insects – showcasing how Lane's pastime became his passion and how his
images have contributed to science; Oct
1-Feb 14 Colleen McLaughlin Barlow,
"Whale Dreams", paintings and crystal
sculptures of whale bones.
Bill Reid Gallery
of Northwest Coast Art
639 Hornby St ✆604-682-3455
billreidgallery.ca
daily 10am-5pm, After Sept 7: wed-sun
11am-5pm. Admission (+GST): adults
$10, seniors/students $7, youth/child
5-17 $5, kids 4 and under free, family
(2 adults + 2 children) $25. Group rates
and guided tours available when
booked in advance. Showcasing the
permanent collection of Bill Reid
works and changing exhibitions of
contemporary Northwest Coast art.
Thru Sep 27 Gwaai Edenshaw,
“Godanxee’wat: Stone Ribs”, an eightand-a-half-foot bronze totem pole;
“The Box of Treasures: Gifts from the
Supernatural”, a collection of sacred
masks and regalia revealing beings
from the forest, sea and supernatural
realm, created for Kwakwaka'wakw
potlatches by artist and traditional
Chief Beau Dick, Gigame Walis
Gyiyam (Gray Whale) and other master carvers; Oct 14-Mar 27 Gwaii
Haanas: Land Sea People, telling the
story of Gwaii Haanas in the southern
part of Haida Gwaii using contemporary art by indigenous and non-indigenous artists.
Britannia Art Gallery
1661 Napier St, Britannia Community
Services Centre
✆604-718-5800 604-874-5916
britanniacentre.org
mon thurs fri 8:30am-5pm tues-wed
8:30am-9pm sat 9:30am-5pm sun 15pm. Sep 2-Oct 2 “On a Limb”, Linda
Lewis, ceramics; Andree Minardi,
acrylic paintings; Oct 7-30 Heather Talbot, mixed-media fibre arts.
Catriona Jeffries Gallery
274 E 1st Ave ✆604-736-1554
catrionajeffries.com
tues-sat 11am-5pm. Sep 12-Oct 24
Janice Kerbel, “Score".
42 PREVIEW ■ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015
Centre A, Vancouver
International Centre for
Contemporary Asian Art
229 E Georgia St
✆604-683-8326 centrea.org
tues-sat 11am-6pm. Sep 11-Oct 15 Le
Brothers, “Underlying”, 3-channel video
installation by twin Vietnamese artists
told via an imaginary war taking place in
the water. Presented in association with
LIVE! Performance Art Biennale.
★ Chali-Rosso Art Gallery
NEW LOCATION 549 Howe St
✆604-733-3594 chalirosso.com
mon-sun 10am-7pm. Salvador Dalí,
Divine Comedy, 100 original woodcuts.
Also featuring works by Pablo Picasso,
Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Henri
Matisse, Rembrandt, Max Ernst,
Kandinsky, Motherwell and Renoir.
Charles H. Scott Gallery
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
1399 Johnston St, Granville Island
✆604-844-3809 chscott.ecuad.ca
daily 12-5pm. Sep 9-Nov 1 Colleen
Heslin: Treading Buoylines, new
works exploring abstraction, materiality, experimentation and causality.
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum
555 Columbia St ✆604-658-8880
604-658-8883 cccvan.com
tue-sun 11am-5pm. Admission: adults
$3, seniors & students $2, groups 50+
$2/each, members free. Sep 5-13 A
Chorus of Songs, Chinese calligraphy
and seal engravings; Sep 19-Oct 25
Synn Kune Loh, Wai Yee Chiu and
Hailien Tam, “Realm of Possibilities –
Between Imagination and Actuality”;
Ongoing Generation to Generation –
History of Chinese Immigrants in
British Columbia, photographs from
the 1800s and 1900s.
Choboter Fine Art
23 Alexander St ✆604-688-0145
604-779-7050 choboter.com
mon-sat 12-8pm. Ongoing presentation
of recent and older figurative abstract
paintings by local artist Don Choboter.
Circle Craft Gallery
1-1666 Johnston St, Granville Island
✆604-669-8021 circlecraft.net
daily 10am-7pm. Thru Oct 4 Let's Face
It, ceramics, jewellery and textiles by 10
Canadian and American artists united
by the theme of the human face, curated
by Barbara Cohen; Oct 8-Nov 8 Market
preview-art.com
Pre-view Show, samples of work by
new exhibitors at the Circle Craft Christmas Market (Nov 11-15 at the Vancouver Convention Centre West).
Coastal Peoples
Fine Arts Gallery
312 Water St, Gastown
✆604-684-9222 coastalpeoples.com
daily 10am-6pm. Ongoing North by
Northwest: An Exploration from the
Arctic to the Pacific, featuring artists
from the Canadian Arctic and the Pacific
Northwest. The two groups share an
artistic commonality in depicting mythological figures and their lifestyles, utilizing media indigenous to their regions,
illustrating how two distinctive communities can embrace their differences and
similarities.
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson St ✆604-681-2700
contemporaryartgallery.ca
tues-sun 12-6pm. Free admission. Sep
11-Nov 1 Ryan Gander, “Make every
show like it’s your last”, a shifting selection of new and recent works centred on
the artist’s ongoing conceptual investigations and playful cultural cross-references.
Craft Council of BC Gallery
1386 Cartwright St, Granville Island
✆604-687-7270 604-687-6511
craftcouncilbc.ca
daily 10:30am-5:30pm. Thru Oct 1
Shannon Butler, “Buffalo Rose”, a clay
exploration of the contradiction and juxtaposition inherent in the creation of a
more authentic type of beauty; OFFSITE
VANDUSEN BOTANICAL GARDEN, DISCOVERY
GALLERY, 5251 Oak St Oct 1-31 Botanically Inspired, mixed-media group
exhibition.
CSA Space
5-2414 Main St ✆604-876-4311
csaspace.ca
Enquire about admission at Pulpfiction
Books (2422 Main St) during regular
business hours: mon-wed 10am-8pm,
thurs-sat 10am-9pm, sun 11am-7pm.
Sep 3-Oct 4 Ron Terada, “Today It’s Me,
Tomorrow It’s You”.
Doctor Vigari Gallery
1816 Commercial Dr ✆604-255-9513
doctorvigarigallery.com
mon-sat 11am-6pm sun 12am-5pm.
Signature designer furniture, home
accessories, jewellery, glass, pottery
and fine art.
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kelownaartgallery.com
Jeroen Witvliet: Wayfarer
KELOWNA ART GALLERY, KELOWNA BC – Jul 25-Oct 18, 2015 This exhibition draws its name from
the title of a 16th-century oil-on-panel painting by Hieronymus Bosch, which hangs on the walls of the
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Jeroen Witvliet’s hometown of Rotterdam. That Bosch’s The
Wayfarer (1510) is believed to be a fragment of a larger work provides an imaginative entrance to an exhibition billed by
the KAG as “a complete experience, an
installation, rather than a gathering of
discrete works.”
Like Bosch, Witvliet is interested in
the fantastic, particularly as it extends to
the darker side of life. In illustrative
paintings such as The Path (2015), The
Raft, Part 1 (2015) and The Tower (2015),
Witvliet employs a recurrent motif based
on the loose arrangement of sticks. This
formal device brings to mind the forest
paintings of Jack Shadbolt or, more
recently, the tangled underbrushes of
Gordon Smith.
In addition to the Wayfarer works,
Witvliet’s exhibition includes a series of
paintings focused on relationships
between human hands. Whether these Jeroen Witvliet, Toad (2015), oil on canvas [Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC,
hands are clasping or grasping at one Jul 25-Oct 18]
another is at times uncertain. What is
clear, though, is that the behaviour of these hands and the arrangement of sticks in the Wayfarer paintings are not unrelated. Michael Turner
Douglas Reynolds Gallery
2335 Granville St ✆604-731-9292
douglasreynoldsgallery.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm. Specializing in contemporary and historic
Northwest Coast Native art and offering
a wide selection of works by leading
First Nations artists, including Bill Reid,
Robert Davidson, Don Yeomans and
Phil Gray; artwork includes carved
wood masks, cedar bentwood boxes,
totem poles, bronze and glass works,
baskets, prints and handcrafted gold
and silver jewellery.
digital images and more; Sep 8-Oct 4
Vintage Show, original handmade
prints by gallery members of a past
era that depict older classic treasures
of enduring appeal; Oct 7-Nov 1 Helsa
Ahmadi, Paula Grasdal and Rosalind
Rorke, “Patterns”, works inspired by
graphic patterns in paper-based visuals and textiles using a variety of printmaking techniques; the artists investigate the compositional challenge of
making repeating patterns from
scratch.
1640 Johnston St, Granville Island
✆604-689-1650
dundaraveprintworkshop.com
Sep 1-Oct 1: daily 11am-5pm, Oct 231: wed-sun 11am-5pm. Thru Sep 7
Members Group Summer Show,
rotating salon-style show of original
etchings, relief prints, monotypes,
2239 Granville St
✆604-730-9611 cristallgallery.com
tues-sat 11am-6pm. Sep 12-Oct 3
Amanda Reeves, “New Paintings”,
works not intended to be read and
understood, but to elicit a response, to
draw out the sensation of a memory; Oct
15-Nov 14 Paul Bernhardt, “A Question
of Faith”, paintings focusing on machines,
both historic and contemporary, derived
from a variety of photographic sources.
Emily Carr Alumni Gallery
Eagle Spirit Gallery
Dundarave Print
Workshop + Gallery
Elissa Cristall Gallery
1803 Maritime Mews, Granville Island
✆604-801-5277 1-888-801-5277
eaglespiritgallery.com
daily 11am-5pm or by appt. Specializing
in Northwest Coast First Nations and
Inuit art, featuring museum quality
hand-carved masks, panels, bentwood
boxes, totem poles, argillite carvings,
button blankets, glass sculptures and
Inuit stoneworks.
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Queen Elizabeth Theatre
630 Hamilton St
✆604-630-4562 ecuaa.ca
Open during theatre performances or by
appt. Thru Sep 24 MEZZANINE Fiona
Tang, “Creatures from Dust”, charcoal
drawings addressing our outer world
and those that live in it; UPPER BALCONY
Kathleen McGivern, ceramics – celebrating its traditions and finding inspiration in the world of kitsch figurines;
Opens Sep 28 MEZZANINE & UPPER BALCONY Moving Forward Looking Back,
celebrating 25+ years of gallery programming at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and Emily Carr University's 90th
Anniversary, exhibition archives coming
soon to ecuaa.ca.
English Bay Gallery
103-1535 Johnston St,
Granville Island ✆604-688-3006
EnglishBayGallery.com
daily 10am-6pm. Ongoing Exhibiting
paintings by Ted Seeberg, photo collages by Bill Frampton and photography by Yoshi Yamamoto.
Equinox Gallery
525 Great Northern Way
✆604-736-2405 equinoxgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm. Sep 19-Oct 24
Gordon Smith: Enigma Variations.
Federation Gallery
1241 Cartwright St, Granville Island
✆604-681-8534 artists.ca
tues-sun 10am-4pm. Sep 8-20 Autumn
Salon, artworks by active and senior
members; Sep 22-Oct 4 Scenes from
Western Canada, works by gallery
artists; Oct 6-25 (AIRS), an Annual
International Representational Show,
exhibit of artists working in the representational style for the FCA's annual
international competition.
Firehall Arts Centre Gallery
280 E Cordova St
✆604-689-0691 firehallartscentre.ca
wed-sat 1-5pm and before evening performances. Sep 9-Oct 10 “inside out”,
Shelley Rothenburger, paintings exposing our consumer culture with irony and
humour; Harold Coego, paintings translating reality through an abstract cinematographic kaleidoscope.
The Fazakas Gallery
145 W 6th Ave ✆604-876-2729
fazakasgallery.com
tues-sat 11am-5pm. Sep 1-30 Rande
Cook, works in various media, including
wood, bronze, copper and print; Oct
Beau Dick, “Drama”. Visit the website
for exhibition dates.
preview-art.com
Gallery Gachet
88 E Cordova St ✆604-687-2468
gachet.org
wed-sun 12-6pm. Sep 11-Oct 25 The 8th
Annual Oppenheimer Park Community
Art Show: In Between! works by 30
artists including paintings, drawings,
prints, sculptures, carvings, mixed
media and videos with diverse interpretations of what it means to be In Between
in the Downtown Eastside.
Gallery Jones
1725 W 3rd Ave ✆604-714-2216
galleryjones.com
tues-fri 11am-6pm sat 12-5pm and by
appt. Sep 1-26 Group show featuring
works by James Nizam, Danny Singer,
Brendan Tang, Paul Morstad, Peter
Aspell and George Vergette; Oct 1-31
Chaki, “Landscape in Colours”, new
paintings by Montreal artist Yehouda
Chaki.
Gallery of BC Ceramics
1359 Cartwright St, Granville Island
✆604-669-3606 bcpotters.com
daily 10:30am-5:30pm. Sep 3-27 Potters Guild of British Columbia Members, “Teabowls + Yunomi”, ceramic
works; Oct 1-Nov 1 Ron Vallis and Martin Peters, “Traditions”, new works.
grunt gallery
Unit 116-350 E 2nd Ave
✆604-875-9516 grunt.ca
tues-sat 12-5pm. Sep 10-Oct 10 Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, “Catastrophe,
PREVIEW 45
Practical Art History or
Confessions of a Fine Art Appraiser
BY JIM FINLAY
FINLAY FINE ART
FinlayFineArt.com
Chapter 48. The Case of the M.S. Nov 1910
I remember it was a Sunday afternoon, about 1964. My dad took my younger brother and me to an old,
abandoned farmhouse not far from where we lived in Castlereagh, Northern Ireland. The building had
not been occupied for many years. Inside, remnants of past habitation were strewn about and, amid the
debris, I found a small unframed
oil-on-canvas painting with a large
scratch across its surface. I can’t
remember why we were there, other than to perform some nostalgic
homage to a place that had meaning for my dad. Only later did I discover it had been his boyhood
home.
I asked my dad if I could keep
the painting, and he said yes. I also
asked if he knew who painted it,
and he said he didn’t, but he
thought it was done by a relative. It
was initialled and dated in the lower right, “M.S. Nov 1910.”
When I got home later that
Untitled, M.S. Nov 1910
afternoon, I took out my oil paints
and tried to cover up the scratch
with what I thought was the right shade of colour. My attempts were unsuccessful, and the scratch
became a noticable slash of viridian green across a modulated sky. I decided to keep the painting anyway, because I liked the imagery: fishermen in two rowboats out on a seemingly calm sea or lake, at
dawn or dusk, as evidenced by a beautifully painted rising or setting sun.
On the stretcher at the back of the piece was written, in pencil, what appeared to be a name and
address. However, try as I might, I was unable to read these.
More than a decade later, about 1977, I had the painting restored by a qualified restorer who did an
excellent job. I also had it framed, and hung it on my living room wall.
As a budding amateur art historian, I tried from time to time to research the signature and date and
identify the artist. All I had to go on, from my dad, was that the artist was a relative with the initials M.S.
and that he or she had painted the piece in 1910.
Over many years, my efforts were in vain. I did discover a relative, my grandfather’s sister Mabel,
whose married initials were M.S. However, she was born in 1898, and would have been 12 years old in
1910 – and unmarried, so her initials would still have been M.F.
Fortunately, several members of my family had an active interest in geneology, and I was therefore
aware of many ancestors dating back to 1770. Although for a time I lost contact with those instrumental
in creating and updating our family tree, I recently reconnected with its makers by accident, on the
Internet, and discovered that the tree had been expanded with new information.
And so at last, more than 50 years later, I think I’ve solved the mystery of the identity of the artist.
A brief review of the updated family tree suggests that the artist was probably my third cousin, Minnie
Somerset, born about 1876.
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Next Issue: The Case of Clarence’s Chateau-Gaillard
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Memory, Reconciliation”, mixedmedia drawings exploring issues
around collective memory, historical
trauma and cultural identity in relation
to the violence that occurred against
civilians during the 12-year civil war in
El Salvador; Oct 22-Nov 28 Sayeh Sarfaraz, “On Rejoue?”, drawings exploring political events connected to the
artist’s country of birth, Iran.
Havana Gallery
1212 Commercial Dr
✆604-253-9119 havanarestaurant.ca
mon-thurs 11am-11pm fri 11am-midnight sat 10am-midnight sun 10am11pm. Sep 3-16 Sue Ann Alderson,
“Woman Rising”, mixed media; Sep 1730 James Roney, paintings; Oct 1-14
Famous Empty Sky, “On the Horizon”,
mixed media; Oct 15-28 Vicki Oates,
“Widdershins”, paintings.
Heffel Fine Art Auction House
paintings, drawings, photographs and
sculptures.
★ Hill's Native Art
165 Water St, Gastown
✆604-685-5422 hillsnativeart.com
daily 9am-9pm. THIRD FLOOR GALLERY
Sep-Oct There will be carving demonstrations throughout the fall, as artists
frequently use our gallery as a studio
space. Please call or visit the website for
information.
Hot Art Wet City Gallery
2206 Main St
✆604-764-2266 hotartwetcity.com
wed-sat 12-5pm or by appt. Sep 10-25
Receipt, a group show using restaurant
and bar receipts as the price for the art
(to show how people actually can afford
art); Oct 2-24 3rd Annual Boobies &
Wieners, group show featuring nudes;
Oct 29-Nov 14 Shwa Keirstead and Mia
Dungeon, “Scare-city".
2247 Granville St ✆604-732-6505
1-800-528-9608 heffel.com
mon-fri 9am-5pm sat 10am-5pm.
Online Auction Sep 3-24 Postwar and
Contemporary Canadian Art; HO2
Online Auction Sep 2-16 Preview in Calgary (#34015-237 4th Ave SW) by appt;
Online Auction Oct 1-29 Fine Internatiional Art/Pop Art Prints; Canadian
Landscapes: A Collection of Works by
the Group of Seven; Live Auction in Calgary UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY DOWNTOWN
CAMPUS (906 8th St SW) Oct 24 Imperial Oil Collection Charity Auction for the
Benefit of the United Way.
hfa contemporary
320-1000 Parker St
✆604-876-7606 604-349-7606
hodnettfineart.com
daily by appt. Sep-Oct Noel Hodnett,
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
Ian Tan Gallery
2321 Granville St ✆604-738-1077
iantangallery.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm. Sep 1-30 Fall
Group Exhibition, works by gallery
artists; Oct 3-30 Glenn Payan, “Another
Time and Place”, stylized Canadian
landscape paintings.
Il Museo
Il Centro, Italian Culture Centre
3075 Slocan St
✆604-430-3337 ext 230
italianculturalcentre.ca
tues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Oct 30 Performigrations: People are the Territory, documents, photos and historical
objects tracing the history of Italian
immigration in Vancouver from the personal archive of author and historian
Ray Culos; also showing an art installations documenting the culture shock,
alienation and isolation of immigrant
experience through spoken word and
interactive video by seven artists chosen for the European Union Project.
Initial Gallery
2339 Granville St ✆604-428-4248
initialgallery.com
tues-sat 12-6pm. Sep 1-Oct 10 Eli
Bornstein, “A New Awareness of Beauty”, sculptures; Oct 15-21 Jessica Bell,
“Should we stop here?” mixed media.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Gigi Hoeller, Balance, mixed media, 30"x36"
[604-885-6650, [email protected],
gigibutterfly.com. See new work at Ukama
Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver BC]
206 Cambie St, Gastown
✆604-688-7323 1-888-615-8399
inuit.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 11-5pm. Sep
25-Oct 15 Jennifer Walden, “Into the
Light”, acrylic paintings on canvas
depicting images of Northern wildlife
and landscapes; Oct 16-Nov 6 Cape
Dorset Print Release 2015.
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★ Jennifer Kostuik Gallery
Miriam Aroeste Fine Art
1070 Homer St ✆604-737-3969
kostuikgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-6pm sun 1-5pm. Sep
10-27 “Non-Existing Reality”, works by
gallery artists Philip Jarmain, Jim
Kazanjian and Catherine Nelson, also
introducing new artists Georg Küttinger
and Beth Moon; Oct 1-25 David Burdeny, “A Bright Future”, new photographs
from Russia, featuring 20 metro stations, various museums, palaces and
theatre interiors.
215-1000 Parker St ✆604-716-8485
miriamaroeste.com
by appt only. Contemporary abstract
paintings by international artist Miriam
Aroeste, showing new oil and acrylic
paintings and a wide selection of original works on paper, featuring the new
series Seeing Beyond. Sep-Oct Contact
us to book private studio visits.
Monny's Art Gallery
Joyce Williams
Antique Prints & Maps
Amanda Reeves, Untitled 12 (2015), acrylic
on canvas [Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
BC, Sep 10-Oct 3]
114-1118 Homer St, Yaletown
✆604-688-7434 jwprintsandmaps.com
wed-sat 11am-4pm. Antique maps,
Japanese woodblock prints, architectural views, prints of flora and fauna,
legal documents and English, American, French, German and Canadian
etchings, featuring Charles van Sandwyk books, etchings and cards.
Floor: Jewellery Inspired by the Land,
Northwest Coast First Nations jewellery
exploring rarely seen flora and fauna,
featuring pieces that are predominantly
hand-carved and sculpted in silver by
several prominent artists; online preview begins Sep 19.
★ Kafka's Coffee & Tea
Lookout Gallery
2525 Main St ✆604-569-2967
kafkascoffee.ca
mon-fri 7am-9pm sat & sun 8am-8pm.
Sep 17-Nov 2 Sandy and Steve Pell,
"West Coast Wildlife", illustrations, with
partial proceeds to support OWL, the
Orphan Wildlife Rehabilitation Society.
5800 University Blvd, Regent College
✆604-224-3245 lookoutgallery.ca
mon-fri 8:30am-5pm sat 12-4pm. Sep
17-Oct 15 “Through the Eyes of the
Beholder”, gospel portrayals in acrylic
paintings by Christopher Kasongo and
prints by Sadao Watanabe; Oct 22-Nov
19 Dan Law, “Visions from the Slash:
Sculptural Meditations on Heaven &
Hell”, exploring eternal themes through
an eclectic array of wood and charcoal
installations.
Katherine McLean Studio
1-1359 Cartwright St (rear), in
Railspur Alley opposite Agro Cafe,
Granville Island ✆604-684-8452
604-377-6689 katherinemclean.com
wed-sun 11am-5pm or by chance. SepOct Katherine McLean, “September
Changes”, new ceramics and encaustic
paintings as summer ends and autumn
begins, with notions of warm, hazy days,
ripe, deep colours and breezy afternoons.
Kimoto Gallery
1525 W 6th Ave ✆604-428-0903
604-230-5287 kimotogallery.com
tues-sat 10am-6pm. Thru Sep 12
Veronica Plewman, “Forests, Passages
and Boreal Light”, new works; Sep 18Oct 10 David Wilson, “Light and
Colour”, new paintings; Oct 16-Nov 7
Jim Park, “Encounters: Sight on Site”,
new paintings.
Lattimer Gallery
1590 W 2nd Ave ✆604-732-4556
lattimergallery.com
mon-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 11am-5pm
holidays 12-5pm. Sep 26-Oct 10 Forest
Marion Scott Gallery/
Kardosh Projects
2423 Granville St ✆604-685-1934
marionscottgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-6pm. Sep 10-Oct 10
Vicky Marshall: New Works, new oil,
acrylic and charcoal works; Oct 15-Nov
17 Kavavaow Mannomee and Nick
Sikkuark, new works on paper by Cape
Dorset graphic artist Mannomee and
the late Netsilik artist Sikkuark.
Masters Gallery
2245 Granville St ✆604-558-4244
vancouver-mastersgalleryltd.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm. Specializing in
historical Canadian art: Canadian
Impressionism, The Group of Seven
and their contemporaries, Canadian
Group of Painters, Tom Thomson,
Emily Carr and 19th and 20th century
BC and western Canadian artists and
historical photographers.
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2675 W 4th Ave ✆604-733-2082
envisionoptical.ca
mon-sat 11am-6pm. Long-time collector Monny's permanent collection of
artwork, as well as rotating exhibitions
of works by local artists Andrea Gower,
Kerensa Haynes, Ted Hesketh, Sonia
Kobrahel and Stanimir Stoylov.
Morris and Helen Belkin
Art Gallery
University of British Columbia
1825 Main Mall ✆604-822-2759
belkin.ubc.ca
tue-fri 10am-5pm, sat & sun 12-5pm,
closed holidays. Sep 11-Dec 13 Maria
Eichhorn, two ongoing projects, Prohibited Imports and Film Lexicon of Sexual
Practices, augmented with newly commissioned works added to each series;
the works involve interrogations of how
power is distributed and unveil the
abstract aspect of economies.
Museum of Anthropology
University of British Columbia
6393 NW Marine Dr ✆604-822-5087
moa.ubc.ca
wed-mon 10am-5pm tues 10am-9pm.
Admission: adults $16.75, students &
seniors 65+ $14.50, UBC staff, students
& faculty free with ID, family $44.75,
children 6 and under free, tues 5-9pm
$9. Thru Oct 12 Heaven, Hell and
Somewhere In Between: Portuguese
Popular Art, a collection of Portuguese
folk art, the largest in North America;
Thru Jan 2016 c̓əsnaʔəm, the city
before the city, a groundbreaking
exploration of Musqueam's ancient
landscape and living culture, focusing
on identity and worldview, language,
oral history and the community’s recent
actions to protect c̓əsnaʔəm.
★ Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut St, Vanier Park
✆604-736-4431
museumofvancouver.ca
tues-sun 10am-5pm, thurs 10am-8pm.
Admission: adults $14, seniors & stu-
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
dents $11, youth 5-17 $9, children 4 and
under free, family (2 adults & 2 youth)
$35. Oct 8-Dec 13 Arctic Adaptations:
Nunavut at 15, commemorating the
establishment of Canada’s newest territory with an investigation into the
region's 25 communities; Ongoing c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city, exploring Musqueam’s ancient landscape and
living culture with displays of belongings, video storytelling and a comprehensive timeline; Vancouver History
Galleries, stories from the early 1900s
to the late 1970s; Neon Vancouver | Ugly
Vancouver, the museum's collection of
neon signs and the tale of a war of aesthetics that resulted in a transition of the
very way Vancouver imagines itself.
Musqueam Cultural
Centre Gallery
4000 Musqueam Ave
✆604-263-3261 1-866-282-3261
musqueam.bc.ca/musqueam-cultural
centre-gallery
tues-sat 12-4pm. Admission: $5. Thru
Jan 2016 c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before
the city, focusing on the sophistication
of Musqueam knowledge and technology, past and present, and featuring
soundscapes, oral histories and community interviews; curated by Leona M.
Sparrow, co-curated by Terry Point and
Jason Woolman.
Omega Gallery
4290 Dunbar St ✆604-732-6778
omegagallery.ca
mon-sat 10am-5pm. Sep-Oct Group
Exhibition: At a Glance.
Or Gallery
555 Hamilton St ✆604-683-7395
orgallery.org
tues-sat 12-5pm. Sep 12-Oct 24 Steven
Brekelmans, “Flesh and Blood”; Oct 31Jan 9 Myfanwy MacLeod, “The Private
Life of the Rabbit".
Pacific Wave Glass Art
1560 W 6th Ave ✆604-566-9889
pacificwaveglassart.com
mon & sat 10am-5pm, tues-fri 10am6pm. Featuring mouth-blown glass collections from local and international glass
artists, and Murano glass collections by
Italian glass masters such as Oscar
Zanetti, Luca Vidal, Andrea Tagliapietra, Mario Gambaro and Arnaldo
Zanella. Sep Chad Balster, new glass art
pieces from the American artist; Ongoing
“New Glass Collection”, African glass
baskets by Luca Vidal, Murano, Italy.
preview-art.com
★ Pendulum Gallery
885 W Georgia St (HSBC Building)
✆604-250-9682 pendulumgallery.bc.ca
mon-wed 9am-5pm thur-fri 9am-9pm
sat 9am-5pm. Thru Sep 18 Marcus Bowcott, “Endlessly Rocking”, sculptural
works exploring the impact of consumption and mass transportation on our
society and ecology, utilizing the form of
the automobile as his central motif; also
paintings, maquettes and photos related
to work produced over the past decade
and a new sculptural piece incorporating
a full-size, stripped-down Trans Am in
response to Alan Storey’s iconic Pendulum sculpture; Sep 21-Oct 3 Splash
2015: Arts Umbrella, 12th annual exhibit
held in conjunction with the Splash Auction to raise funds for Arts Umbrella; Oct
12-31 Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture – And I Shall Be Happy, works
exploring the nature of happiness, featuring artists who engage with the layers of
social meanings and experience the day
to day challenges of the disabled.
Petley Jones Gallery
1554 W 6th Ave ✆604-732-5353
petleyjones.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm. Sep 17-Oct 1 Colin
Graham (1915-2010), selected works;
Oct 29-Nov 19 Blake Ward, “Depth and
Perception”, new sculptures from the
Spirits Collection.
Pousette Gallery
403 & 404-1529 W 6th Ave, Rooftop,
4th Flr ✆604-563-2717 604-837-2716
pousettegallery.com
tues-sat 12-5pm. Rooftop destination
showcasing original works from French
and English Canada, featuring Jean
Claude Roy, Nicole St-Pierre, Denis
Chiasson, Roger Ricard, Réal Fournier,
Martine Ouellet, Janeth Rodriguez,
Michael Tickner and Lianne Christie.
Oct 15-Nov 28 Jean Claude Roy.
Rennie Collection
51 E Pender St ✆604-682-2088
renniecollection.org
Reservations are required. Thru Oct 3
Lara Favaretto: Collected Works.
Republic Gallery
732 Richards St, 3rd Flr
✆604-632-1590 republicgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm and by appt. Sep 12Oct 10 Hossein Amanat, Jim Breukelman and Holly Ward, “Utopias Constructed II”; Oct 15-Nov 14 Lyse Lemieux,
“Black is the size of my new skirt".
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Robert Lynds Gallery
1639 W 3rd Ave ✆604-558-3806
robertlyndsgallery.com
tues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm.
Sep 10-Oct 10 JG Mair, “Utopian
Dystopia”, shredded documents, painting substrata and vessels.
★ Sidney and Gertrude Zack
Gallery
Jewish Community Centre
950 W 41st Ave ✆604-638-7277
jccgv.com/content/jcc-cultural-arts
mon-thurs 8:30am-10:30pm fri 8:30amShabbat closing (varies throughout the
year) sat closed sun 9am-9pm. Sep 10Oct 11 Ian Penn, “Pole”, an installation
using drawing, video and sculpture to
respond to the inner experience of visiting his homeland, Poland; Oct 15-Nov 8
Lori Goldberg, “Urban Forest”, paintings
exploring the relationship between the
urban dweller and the natural world of
the BC forest, from a Jewish perspective.
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Weber, “Through a Window: Visual Art
and SFU 1965-2015 – The Templeton
Five Affair, March 1967”, exploring tensions between academic freedom, education and collective agency.
Toni Onley Estate
✆604-263-8980 604-454-1928
tonionley.com onleyprints.com
Representing the Estate: in Victoria,
Winchester Galleries; in Vancouver, Art
Beatus; in Calgary, Wallace Galleries.
Ukama Gallery
1802 Maritime Mews, Granville Island
✆778-379-0666 ukama.ca
daily 10am-6pm. Exhibiting an unparalleled collection of contemporary
stone sculpture by world-renowned
and up-and-coming African artists.
Also showing vivid naturescapes by
local and international artists, including new additions from contemporary
Yukon painter Halin de Repentigny.
Ongoing “Masters of Stone”, works by
Dominic Benhura, Eddie Masaya,
Sylvester Mubayi and others.
47 Water St, Gastown ✆604-669-8813
1-888-669-8813 spiritwrestler.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm sun & holidays 125pm. Sep 26-Oct 17 Mini-Masterworks
VI – Cross-Cultural Group Exhibition, a
biennial exhibit of inspired artworks with
the criteria of small scale, new techniques and directions, and rare finds,
from existing collections from three cultural groups represented by the gallery –
Maori of Aotearoa (New Zealand), First
Nations of the Pacific Northwest Coast,
and Inuit of Alaska and Arctic Canada.
236 E Pender St ✆604-681-6740
unitpitt.ca
tue-sat 12-5pm. Sep 11-Oct 24 Joel
Doyle: It's A Long Way From the Backbone to the Wishbone, large-scale
sculptures and assemblages of found
materials; Ongoing within one block of
the gallery UNIT/PITT Radio 89.7 FM,
projects and music by artists, and audio
documentation.
Teck Gallery
Unitarian Church of Vancouver
515 W Hastings St ✆778-782-4266
sfu.ca/gallery
open daily during campus hours. Thru
Apr 30, 2016 Sabine Bitter and Helmut
949 W 49th Ave ✆604-261-7204
vancouverunitarians.ca
sun 10am-1:30pm or phone for hours.
SANCTUARY Sep 2-Oct 31 and FIRESIDE
UNIT/PITT Projects
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ROOM Sep 2-Oct 24 Gail Stephan,
“Dhristi”, Sanskrit for focal point, showing photographs that include landscapes,
nature and abstracts; FIRESIDE ROOM Oct
25-Dec 31 Jane Kinegal, “How I see it”,
mixed-media paintings and photo collages expressing experiences on the
West Coast of Haida Gwaii, Cuba, Ireland,
the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and
other travels in space and time.
Uno Langmann Limited
2117 Granville St ✆604-736-8825
1-800-730-8825 langmann.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm or by appt. Sep “At
Play”, paintings of portraits and daily
activities of children in the 19th century,
including works by Gustave De Jonghe,
Francis Coates Jones, Charles Bertrand
D’Entraygues, Luplau Janssen and
Sylvius Paoletti; Oct 24-Nov Eric
Mogens Vantore (1895-1977), “Mogens
Vantore – A Vibrant Light”, a retrospective of Mogens Vantore's artistic career
with works reminiscent of Van Gogh and
Cézanne, clearly demonstrating the influence of the Post-Impressionist school;
Ongoing A selection of fine antiques and
objets d’art.
Urban Aboriginal
Fair Trade Gallery
29 W Pender St ✆604-558-3589
urbanaboriginal.org
mon-fri 9am-5pm sat & sun 10am-6pm.
Part of the Authentic Indigenous Arts
Initiative, designed to identify and protect authentic indigenous art by selling
original carvings, paintings, limited
edition prints, bentwood boxes, jewellery, etc., in support of local artists. The
gallery is located on the first floor of
Skwachays Lodge, an Aboriginal themed
hotel, with the proceeds to support social
housing.
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby St ✆604-662-4719
(24-hr info line) vanartgallery.bc.ca
daily 10am-5pm, tues 10am-9pm.
Admission: adults $20, seniors (65+)
$15, students $15, children 5-12 $6,
children 4 and under free, family (maximum 2 adults, 2 children) $50, members free. Reference Library mon-thurs
1-5pm. Thru Sep 27 Residue: The Persistence of the Real, works drawing
upon a documentary impulse and pursuing the real as something that cannot
be entirely reduced to representation,
while at the same time acknowledging
the mediating character of the mechanisms that shape perception; Thru Oct 4
“Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums”,
Italian art from the religious paintings of
the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to
the secular neoclassical and genre paintings of the 19th century, including works
by Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli,
Domenichino, Francesco Guardi and
Titian; Material Future: The Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron and the
Vancouver Art Gallery, presenting Herzog & de Meuron's design philosophy
through a selection of projects from
museums and galleries around the
world; Oct 24-Jan 17 Jerry Pethick:
Shooting the Sun/Splitting the Pie, the
first comprehensive overview of his
amalgamations of found objects, drawings, photography and optical devices
resembles no other artist's work;
Oct 30-Jan 17 Embracing Canada:
Landscapes from Krieghoff to the the
Group of Seven, examples of Canadian
landscape paintings from the mid-19th
to mid-20th centuries; OFFSITE 1100 W
Georgia St Thru Oct 12 Reena Saini
Kallat, sculpture symbolizing migration routes across the world through
a symbolic web of human and cultural
movement and exchange.
★ Vancouver Maritime Museum
1905 Ogden Ave ✆604-257-8300
vancouvermaritimemuseum.com
mon-sat 10am-5pm sun 12pm-5pm
thurs: 5-8pm by donation. Admission
(+GST): $11 adults, $8.50 students,
seniors, youth, $30 family, 5 and under
free. The museum has extensive galleries of model ships, a CHILDREN'S
MARITIME DISCOVERY CENTRE, a recreation
of the fo'c'sle (forecastle) of Vancouver's ship Discovery, an extensive collection of maritime art and a large
library and archives. St. Roch is one
of the world's great Arctic explorer
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Heather Talbot: Magical Worlds
BRITANNIA ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Oct 7-30, 2015 Heather Talbot’s interest in Eastern
philosophy and quantum theory was in place long before her move to Vancouver from the U.K.
four years ago. Coming to the West Coast only
enriched this interest and allowed for a more extensive “exploration into concepts of interdependence,
interconnectedness and the transient nature of reality.” In Magical Worlds, Talbot charts her exploration through the patterned and recurrent behaviour of bees.
At first glance, Talbot’s bee pictures could be
mistaken for photographic prints. However, as one
moves closer to them, their surfaces rise up like
goose bumps, turning from paper to fabric covered
in what turns out to be stitches, which Talbot sees as
“allegorical to atoms.” When taken together with
their pictorial content, these stitches can also be
seen as akin to honeycombs inside a hive or to the
pollen deposits held within them.
Embroidery on photo transfer is by no means a
groundbreaking artistic process. However, what
makes Talbot’s project resonant and gives her pictures their overtone is the relationship of form
(tapestry) to content (the work of honeybees). It’s
Heather Talbot, Fungi on rotting stump (detail) (2015),
one thing to see each stitch as an instance of atomic
embroidery on photo transfer [Britannia Art Gallery,
activity; it’s something else to feel it. Michael Turner
Vancouver BC, Oct 7-30]
vessels. Thru Oct Salt Mist Seasons:
Watercolours by Rosemary Hanna,
prints and original paintings inspired
by the fishing boat Salt Mist; Thru
Autumn 2016 Across the Top of the
World, chronicling the quest for the
Northwest Passage, the exhibit culminates with the search for Franklin (both
historical and modern) and the ultimate discovery of HMS Erebus by
Parks Canada.
Viridian Gallery
1570 Coal Harbour Quay
✆604-568-3377 viridiangallery.ca
dailly 10am-6pm. Sep 12-Oct 31 Sara
Tse, “Clay Play II – Recent Series”, featuring new ceramic sculptures.
Wendel Gallery
1490 Johnston St, Granville Island
✆604-722-6987 wendelgallery.com
mon-sat 9am-6pm sun by appt. Featuring paintings and fine jewellery by
renowned local and international artists.
Oct 15-Nov 1 Bob Leier, Mena Martini
and Natalia Vetrova, “Three Rooms”,
paintings and photography.
Wil Aballe Art Projects/WAAP
105-1356 Frances St
✆778-229-3458 waapart.com
thurs-sat 12-5pm or by appt. Sept 17
7pm David Roth, “Set for Life or What's
Worth a While?” performance; Sept 24Oct 24 Jason Gowans, photographs;
Jeff Ladouceur, drawings with small
Inuit sculptures.
Okanagan Lake, this contemporary art
gallery, owned by artist Carolina
Sanchez de Bustamante, features original art in a home and garden setting.
Discover a diverse group of emerging
and established Okanagan and Canadian artists in paintings, textiles, sculptures, ceramics and functional art. SepOct Progression, a group exhibition by
Okanagan and Canadian artists.
Winsor Gallery
258 E 1st Ave ✆604-681-4870
winsorgallery.com
tues-fri 10am-6pm sat 10am-5pm sun
by appt. Sep 10-Oct 10 Bradley Harms,
“Halberd's Army”, abstract paintings;
Oct 15-Nov 14 Angela Grossman, collages; Drew Shaffer, sculptures.
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and Ashpa Naira Studio
9492 Houghton Rd ✆250-549-4249
artefunktional.com
Open May 1-Oct 15 – sun 10am-6pm or
by appt. Located on the west side of
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Vernon Public Art Gallery
3228 31st Ave ✆250-545-3173
vernonpublicartgallery.com
mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 11am-4pm.
Thru Oct 8 Briar Craig, Mark Bovey and
Ericka Walker, “Pro-con-textual”,
works by Canadian print artists invoke a
discussion about the use of text in contemporary artmaking and where their
works fit into that tradition; Mariel
Belanger and Dean Louis, “Pulling
Threads”, a large format printed digital
art and video installation of locationbased performative exercises; Oct 8Dec 23 Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante, “Self Similarity”, addressing the
issues connected to the interpretation of
the human condition in general; Kama?
Aboriginal Arts Collective; Thru Nov 4
Laura Widmer, “Threshold”, works
exploring the in-between places of daily
existence and the constant negotiation
between the environments we inhabit
and our personal experiences; Catherine Bennington, “Border Line”, UV
screen prints utilizing previous notions
about the role of the viewer while simultaneously challenging the conventional
ways of looking at works of art.
VICTORIA
Alcheringa Gallery
621 Fort St ✆250-383-8224
alcheringa-gallery.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm or by
appt Sep 10-Oct 8 “Form and Function
Reconstructed”, works by artists using
traditional methods like weaving, beading, carving and use of the formline to
create new forms – woven cedar bark,
recreation of photographs using intricate beadwork, representation of current symbols within traditional graphic
formline, carved and abstracted wood
and paper representing fabric and fibre,
and more, featuring Paul LaPier, Mark
Preston, Alison Bremner, Catherine
Blackburn, Jerard Ake and others.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1040 Moss St ✆250-384-4171
aggv.ca
mon-sat 10am-5pm; thurs 10am-9pm;
sun 12-5pm. Thru Sep 7 Jock Macdonald: Evolving Form, paintings – the first
major retrospective in over 30 years of
this pioneer of abstraction in Canada;
Sep 19-Jan 3 Anna Banana: 45 Years
of Fooling Around with A. Banana, a
retrospective of the work by this distinctive voice in the fields of conceptual,
performance and mail-art, who pioneered participatory art practices, starting in 1971 when she declared herself
Victoria’s Town Fool and organized a
variety of events to engage the public in
creative endeavours; Thru Sep 20 Buddhist Arts of Asia, tracing Buddhist art
through various countries of Asia, with
over 100 paintings, sculptures and ritual objects from the gallery's permanent
collection; Oct 1-Jan 3 The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists. Expanding the
genre’s definition by moving beyond the
human face to propose other forms of
self-representation, from both settler
and indigenous perspectives. Spanning
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pre-Confederation colonialism to the
cusp of second-wave feminism, the
exhibit brings to light a rich but underexplored aspect of Canadian culture;
Thru Oct 25 From the Collection: David
Milne, 17 works in oil, watercolour and
drypoint – distinctive for his stark, modernist style, Milne was more interested
in the formal properties of paint on canvas than on his relationship to the land;
Thru Nov 22 Circumference: Gwen
MacGregor, installation, video and photography related to developing a project
in response to Jock Macdonald: Evolving Form. Using the diary Macdonald
kept in 1935-36 after moving to the
isolation of Nootka Sound, MacGregor travelled there in the summer of
2014 to experience the landscape that
inspired MacDonald; Ongoing Emily
Carr and the Young Generation, a new
vision of the iconic Victoria artist as
both mentor and teacher.
★ Avenue Gallery
2184 Oak Bay Ave ✆250-598-2184
theavenuegallery.com
mon-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 11am-5pm,
open most holidays 12-4pm. Oct 1-9
Brent Lynch, Susie Cipolla, Ron Parker, Rob Elphinstone, Mary-Jean Butler, Linzy Arnott, Bi Yuan Cheng, Crystal Heath and Blu Smith, “Coastal Inspirations”, new paintings capturing the
essence of the West Coast; Oct 22-29
Blu Smith, Joan Skeet, Corre Alice,
Dawn Stofer, Patty Ripley, Laurie
Skantzos and Susie Cipolla, “Fractured”, new abstract paintings exploring
semi and non-representational relationships of structure.
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Deluge Contemporary Art
636 Yates St ✆250-385-3327
deluge.ws
wed-sat 12-5pm. Sep 11-Oct 10 “25:
Multiples Toward a Past and Future”, celebrating 25 years of artistic innovation,
showing works by 25 artists who have
previously been exhibited through
DelugeAntimatter, Stephanie Aitken,
Mowry Baden, Christina Battle & Adán
De La Garza, Blue Republic, Tamsin
Clark, Adam Davis, Todd A Davis,
Michael Doerksen, Michelle Forsyth,
Kevin Haas, Patrick Howlett, Jessica
Karuhanga, Daniel Laskarin, Alex
MacKenzie, Mike Andrew McLean,
Sandra Meigs, Erik Moskowitz & Amanda Trager, Tara Nicholson, Steven
Rayner, Jennet Thomas, Matt Trahan,
Paul Walde, Kendra Wallace, Jess
Willa Wheaton and Robert Youds. As a
fundraiser, each artist will offer an exclusive edition of three large-format multiples that will be available to the public for
advance online purchase; Oct 16-31
Antimatter (Media Art), screenings,
installations and performances of international media art and experimental cinema; visit antimatter.ca for information.
Gage Gallery Arts Collective
2031 Oak Bay Ave ✆250-592-2760
gagegallery.ca
tue-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Sep 12 Marilyn Chapman and Linda Darby, “Betwixt
and Between”, paintings that promise a
dynamic dimension, creating subtle
plays on perceptual and imaginary
space; Sep 15-Oct 3 Margo Cooper,
“Open to Interpretation”, bold paintings with ambiguous abstract imagery;
Oct 6-24 Kenna Barradell, “Social
Commentary”, colourful and fanciful
depiction or insinuation of people in
social situations that began as an
experiment in canvas recovery; Oct 27Nov 14 Anna Curtin, Samantha Dickie
and Carole Thompson, “Intersection”,
paintings and sculptures exploring the
interplay between nature, geometry
and technology.
Gallery in the Oak Bay Village
2223A Oak Bay Ave ✆250-598-9890
theoakbaygallery.com
mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 10am-3pm.
Featuring original artwork by leading
local artists Kathryn Amisson, Joan
Baron, Sid Barron, Andres Bohaker,
Jeffery Boron, Janice Bridgman,
Robert Genn, Caren Heine, Harry
Heine, Jennifer Heine, Mark Heine,
Keith Hiscock, Evguenia Ioganov,
Shawn A. Jackson, Brian R. Johnson, David Ladmore, Ernest Marza,
Joane Moran, Allan Myndzak, Paul
Paquette, Nicholas Pearce, Natasha
Perk and Sandu Singh.
Legacy Art Gallery Downtown,
University of Victoria
630 Yates St ✆250-721-6562
2nd location: Legacy Maltwood (at the
Mearns Centre and McPherson
Library), 3800 Finnerty Rd
250-721-6673 legacy.uvic.ca
Legacy Downtown: wed-sat 10am-4pm,
Legacy Maltwood: library hours. LEGACY
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Coast, Woodlands and Inuit artists, with
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Contemporary paintings, sculpture,
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Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana
OPEN SPACE, VICTORIA BC – Sep 19-Oct 24, 2015
ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA, VICTORIA BC – Sep 19, 2015-Jan 3, 2016 With over 1,000
works displayed in two venues, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and Open Space, this exhibition
provides an incredible opportunity to experience the Anna Banana phenomenon. Co-curated by
Michelle Jacques and Helen Marzolf, this show includes an almost endless array of collages, artistamps, magazines, posters,
trading cards and videos, all
generated over the course of
Banana’s long career, beginning
in the early 1970s.
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Banana’s career was not usually
apparent to the mainstream art
world. Yet, because of her commitment to collaboration and
interactivity, and her participation in the mail art network, she
has been hugely influential
around the world. It’s wonderful
to be able to be telling her story
here in Victoria, the city where
Anna Banana, But, is it Art?, 2009 installation at Weserberg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen,
she was born.”
Germany [Open Space, Sep 19-Oct 24 / Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Sep 19-Jan 3]
In true Banana style, there
will also be participatory events to attend, one of which takes place at Open Space. At this event,
called Regifting the Bananas, the artist will be in residence and will invite visitors to choose from the
multitude of banana items she has received through the mail art network: toys, kitchen gadgets,
clothes, jewellery, accessories and more. She is giving the whole collection away, and all one has to do
in exchange for a selected item is complete a cataloguing form for it. Christine Clark
ARTIST’S TALK (Open Space): September 26, 2 pm
MAIL ART WORKSHOPS (AGGV): October 14, 2 pm; October 22, 7 pm; November 8, 2 pm
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a focus on printmaking from the 1950s
to 1970s, looking at how Aboriginal and
Inuit artists represent a drive to preserve,
portray and popularize oral histories and
address social inequities through printmaking; Oct 3-Jan 9 Magna Mater:
Katharine Maltwood and the Arts &
Crafts, investigating the role of the Arts
and Crafts movement in late 19th century
Britain in Maltwood’s art, her research
and discovery of the Glastonbury Zodiac,
and how the bequest of her collection
defined the collecting priorities of the
University of Victoria for the next decade;
LEGACY MALTWOOD Thru Jan 18 Celebrating W.B. Yeats at 150 – 2015 marks 150
years since the birth of Irish poet and
Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats. The
exhibit explores Yeats’s work as a poet
and playwright with artwork, rare books
and printed ephemera, and features
unique items documenting the artistry of
his family, including father John Butler
Yeats, brother Jack Butler Yeats and sisters Susan Mary Yeats and Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (Lollie).
Madrona Gallery
606 View St ✆250-380-4660
madronagallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5:30pm. sun & mon
11am-5pm Thru Sep 11 Morgana Wallace: The Elemental, mixed-media collages; Sep 19-Oct 3 Karel Doruyter: Old
Growth, New Beginnings, acrylics; Oct
10-24 Meghan Hildebrand: Giants,
acrylics and watercolours; Oct 29-Nov 12
Sean Yelland: Homeless Romantic, oils.
Open Space Arts Society
506 Fort St ✆250-383-8833
openspace.ca
tues-sat 12-5pm. Admission by dona-
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tion. Sep 19-Oct 24 Anna Banana: 45
Years of Fooling Around with A.
Banana, a retrospective of the internationally acclaimed, Victoria-born artist as
she regifts her banana collection to
gallery visitors; Sep 29 James Luna and
Guillermo Gómez Peña, “Stories from
the Edge”, showcasing two internationally renowned artists as part of a week of
events exploring performance art and its
relationship to identity, storytelling, theatre, activism, politics and archives; Thru
Nov “2015 Indigenous Youth Arts Program”, young artists will be offered the
opportunity to explore interdisciplinary
practices, including the many facets of
media arts, with the guidance of established artists/mentors such as Jackson
2Bears, Peter Morin, Janet Rogers,
Doug Jarvis and curator-in-residence
France Trépanier, in partnership with
MediaNet.
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
WeST VANCOuVeR
Polychrome Fine Art
977-A Fort St ✆250-382-2787
polychromefinearts.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Sep 10 Hobnob 7, summer group exhibition of
paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics; Oct 15-29 Lance Austin Olsen,
“Kinhin”, recent abstract mixed-media
works on paper.
Buckland Southerst Gallery
2460 Marine Dr ✆604-922-1915
bucklandsoutherst.com
mon-sat 10am-5 pm. Introducing the
work of Christine Breakell-Lee, Brian
Eby, Maria Josenhans, Shirley
Williams, Elizabeth Topham and Yuan
Cheng Bi. Also featuring paintings by
Andrea Padovani, Adam Noonan and
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki; still lifes
and landscapes by Alessandra Bitelli;
European market and garden scenes
by Wilson Chu; street scenes and
cityscapes by Morgan Dunnet; still
lifes and street scenes by Brian Harvey; landscapes by Iola Scott; world
scenes by Henry Huai Xu and glimpses
of life by Lorena Ziraldo.
★ Red Art Gallery
2249 Oak Bay Ave ✆250-881-0462
redartgallery.ca
tues-sat 11am-5pm. Sep 15-19 The
Fourth Annual Mystery Show, 40
works, 10 x 10 inches, by 40 artists, all
$295; tickets must be purchased for the
Sep 19 draw; the name of the artists will
be revealed when works are bought; Oct
1-30 Hourglass, paintings and sculptures addressing the concept of the passage of time.
Slide Room Gallery
Vancouver Island School of Art, 2549
Quadra St ✆250-380-3500
slideroomgallery.com
mon-fri 9am-5pm or by appt. Thru Sep
7 Natalie Baillaut, Sarah Cowan, Joyce
Luna, Ester Parker, Nan Phillips and
Diana Sharp, “it’s a saturday thing”,
drawings, paintings, sculptures and textiles by the VISA Saturday Afternoon Art
Studio group; Sep 18-Oct 26 Rory Dean
(Ottawa), Maude Deslauriers (Montreal), Tegan Forbes (Vancouver), Tamiya
Leung (Victoria), Jenny Sharaf (San
Francisco) and Ben Van Netten (Victoria), “Consumed”, examining contemporary intersections and interrelationships between consumption and popular culture, featuring painting, photography, sculpture and video art.
West End Gallery
1203 Broad St
✆250-388-0009 1-877-388-0009
westendgalleryltd.com
mon-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm
sun 11am-4pm. Sep 19-Oct 1 Steven
Armstrong, paintings capturing the
essence of the West Coast landscape;
Oct 3-15 Rod Charlesworth, paintings
with strong Canadian imagery inspired
by the Group of Seven, along with
images of snowy rinks and children at
play capture the cultural influences of
living in the Great White North.
Winchester Galleries
2260 Oak Bay Ave ✆250-595-2777
winchestergalleriesltd.com
tues-sat 10am-5pm. Reopening Sep
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15; Sep 15-Oct 8 Alan Collier, “The
Canadian Landscape”, landscape paintings from the late 1950s to the early
1990s from the artist's estate; “International Prints from a Private Collection”, international prints that were collected by a Canadian couple over the
past five decades, including works by
Karel Appel, Mary Cassat, Edgar
Degas, Raoul Dufy, Sam Francis,
George Grosz, Robert Indiana,
Willem de Kooning, Aristide Maillol,
Henri Matisse, Man Ray, Karl
Schmidt-Rottluff, Henri de ToulouseLautrec, Victor Vasarely and Andy
Warhol; Oct 14-31 Deon Venter,
“Mythos/Logos”, figurative paintings
exploring imagination and subject, and
the conflicting, symbiotic relationship
between those two elements in art;
Kathy Venter, sculptures; Deirdre
Roberts, “Journeys Near and Far”,
paintings.
Xchanges Gallery
6E-2333 Government St
✆250-382-0442
changesgallery.org
sat & sun 12-4pm. Sep 4-20 Christopher Savage, “Breaking Point”, recent
drawings and objects convey, through a
decorative aesthetic, a feeling of anxiety
towards our relationship with the environment; Oct 3-18 Hollis Roberts,
“Assumed Permanence” – through the
manipulation of everyday objects the
work asks the viewers to reflect their
own notions of vulnerability, intimacy
and passive relationships with the
objects that surround them.
Ferry Building Gallery, West
Vancouver Cultural Services
1414 Argyle Ave, Ambleside Landing
✆604-925-7290
ferrybuildinggallery.com
tues-sun 11am-5pm. Thru Sep 6 Lee
Roberts, “Corvus & Wolf”, sculptures
in wire, rubber, wood and other materials; Sep 8-27 Jytte Kiss, Peter Kiss
and Zoltan Kiss, “3 Kisses”, paintings,
ceramics and sculptures; Oct 1-18
Karl H. Stittgen, “Song of the Earth”,
sculptured ceramics; artist in attendance Oct 2-3 12-2pm; Oct 20-Nov 8
Juror’s Choice, mixed-media works by
21 artists and 3 jurors.
Silk Purse Arts Centre at the
West Vancouver Community
Arts Council
1570 Argyle Ave ✆604-925-7292
silkpurse.ca
tues-sun 12-5pm. Sep 1-20 Steve
Rayner, “For the Love of Animals”,
acrylic paintings of animals, a percentage of sales to be donated to the SPCA;
Sep 22-Oct 11 Hajni Yosifov, “The
Dream Keeper”, expressive and textured
dreamlike abstract acrylic paintings; Oct
13-Nov 1 Sanaz Busink, bold and
colourful abstract acrylic ink paintings.
West Vancouver Museum
680 17th St ✆604-925-7295
westvancouvermuseum.ca
tues-sat 11am-5pm. Admission by
donation Thru Sep 19 “From the Inside
Out: Integrating Art and Architecture
on the West Coast”, architectural projects from the late 1940s to the early
1980s by Ned Pratt, B.C. Binning, Fred
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elizabethleach.com
ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY, PORTLAND OR – Sept 3-26, 2015 Portland artist Michelle Ross is known
for formal abstractions that mirror universal themes. While creating new conceptual and aesthetic
relationships, her material-based compositions focus
on specific arrangements and the experiences evoked
by simple associations made between form, colour
and space.
Ross is the recipient of a Hallie Ford Fellowship,
a Portland Art Museum Contemporary Northwest
Art Award, a McDowell Fellowship and numerous
other grants and awards. Her artistic oeuvre is
grounded in a solid vision of abstraction, while her
choices in media vary from digital collage and deconstructed “paintings” based in fabric to mixed-media
oil paintings that employ materials like paper, plaster,
linen, graphite, chalk and house paint.
For this new exhibition, Ross demonstrates a freedom and looseness in her brushwork and painting.
Her focus turns to layered hues and textured surfaces
that reference similar abstract forms from earlier
bodies of work. In these quiet, contemplative compositions, Ross rejuvenates space with an expressive take
on geometric shapes and shifting planes of colour that
push depth and spatial perceptions and evoke mutable physical responses that are beyond language. Michelle Ross, A moon moth moved (2014-15), oil, paper,
Through saturation and lightness, placement and plaster and graphite on birch panel [Elizabeth Leach Gallery,
effect, Ross brings forth a transformative element Portland OR, Sep 3-26]
that makes her tonal abstractions feel as equally balanced in the poetic sense as they do in the formal
realm. Allyn Cantor
Hollingsworth, Arthur Erickson, Bruno
Freschi, and Zoltan Kiss, as well as
works by Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith,
Bill Reid, Len Norris, Egon Eppich,
Wayne Ngan, Kawai Kanjiro and Shoji
Hamada, and furniture designed by Ned
Pratt, Fred Hollingsworth and Francisco Kripacz; Oct 14-Dec 5 Finding a
Voice: The Art of Norman Tait. Nisga'a
artist Tait has a deep connection to
his heritage and family, using his
artistic gifts and transcending the
ordinary to create the extraordinary,
his first comprehensive exhibition
since 1977.
WHISTLeR
Pacific Railway's tradition, begun in the
early 1900s, of bringing in artists to use
artwork to tell the story of the hotel and
its setting to the travelling public. Sep
19-23 Gail Johnson, painter and artistin-residence, will be painting in the hotel
lobby from 10am to 4pm.
WHITe ROCK
Golden Cactus Studio/Gallery
1455 Johnston Rd ✆604-839-3049
604-536-3049 chrismacclure.com
mon-sat 11am-4pm sun 11am-3pm.
The working studio of artists Chris
MacClure and Marilyn Hurst features
paintings, prints, guest artist demonstrations and events.
Mountain Galleries at the
Fairmont Chateau
White Rock Gallery
4599 Chateau Blvd ✆604-935-1862
mountaingalleries.com
open 7 days a week. The Artist-in-Residence Program continues the Canadian
1247 Johnston Rd ✆604-538-4452
1-877-974-4278 whiterockgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5:30pm, closed long
weekends Rotating exhibitions of gallery
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IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY
Michelle Ross: Trust Falls & Transparent Things
artists, including Mickie Acierno, Beverley Binfet, Nicholas Bott, Merv Brandel, Phil Buytendorp, Claudette Castonguay, Rod Charlesworth, Steve Coffey, Susan Flaig, Mark Fletcher, Robert
Genn, Sara Genn, Terry Gilecki, W.
Allan Hancock, Laura Harris, Paul
Healey, Debbie Hebert, Keith Hiscock,
H.E. Kuckein, Dongmin Lai, David
Langevin, Louise Lauzon, Raynald
Leclerc, Don Li, Don Li-Leger, Min Ma,
Ingrid Mann-Willis, Danny McBride,
Peter McConville, Renato Muccillo,
Jim Nedelak, Michael O'Toole, Angie
Rees, Alejandro Rosemberg, Robert P.
Roy, Bill Saunders, Graeme Shaw,
Michael Stockdale, Mike Svob, Linda
Thompson, Christopher Walker, Ray
Ward, Alan Wylie, Peter Wyse and
Donna Zhang, paintings; Marilyn
Armitage, Michael Hermesh, Helene
Labrie and Nicola Prinsen, sculpture;
Bill Boyd, Laurie Rolland and Geoff
Searle, pottery. Oct Artist in Focus:
Graeme Shaw, new paintings.
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WILLIAMS LAKe
CANNON BeACH
★ Station House Gallery
Cannon Beach Gallery
1 N MacKenzie Ave ✆250-392-6113
stationhousegallery.com
mon-sat 10am-5pm. Sep 4-26 “Cloth
and Clay: an oxidized collaboration”, fibre
artist Marilyn Dickson and potter Christy
Richardson are drawn to the power of
nature and the strength of humanity; Oct
1-24 “Into the Wind”, a celebration of
motorcycle culture featuring Kurt
Williams, Brian Garten, John Wellburn,
Jana Roller and others, showcasing photography, paintings and the original work
of local fabricators and bike builders.
1064 S Hemlock ✆503-436-0744
cannonbeacharts.org
thurs-mon 10am-4pm. Thru Sep 28
Stan Peterson and Jeanne Henry, nontraditional works – carved and painted
wood animals by Peterson and ceramics and bas relief sculptures of landscapes and cityscapes by Henry; Oct 2Nov 1 Richard Rowland, “Honoring the
Life of Earthen Materials”, ceramics.
OREGON
ASTORIA
Imogen Gallery
240 11th St ✆503-468-0620
imogengallery.com
Gallery: mon-sat 11am-5pm sun 11am4pm, Carruthers Building: sat 11am5pm sun 11am-4pm or by appt. Sep 12Oct 6 Gin Laughery, “Home Ground”,
monotypes; Oct 10-Nov 10 Laura
Hamje, “Edge of The World”, oil paintings; OFFSITE CARRUTHERS BUILDING, 1198
Commercial St, Sep 12-Oct 6 Christos
Koutsouras, “Accessible To All”, oil and
acrylic paintings.
★ Identifies galleries and museums
open until 8pm on the First Thursdays.
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Cannon Beach Gallery Group
✆503-436-1055 cbgallerygroup.com
Cannon Beach, Oregon, has been called
“One of America's 100 Best Art Towns"
and National Geographic has listed it as
“One of the World's 100 Most Beautiful
Places”. Nov 6-8 The 28th Annual
Stormy Weather Arts Festival, celebrating artists, authors, poets, musicians, photographers and more at 13
galleries. The Art in Action dinner event
on Friday features artists demonstrating their techniques and the weekend
includes gallery receptions and a concert on Saturday night.
Catch”; Don Stasny, “Stories of Our
Ancestors”; Tim Timmerman, “Assemblage”; Oct Christopher Burkett, fine art
photographs; Jeff White, oil paintings;
Hazel Schlesinger, plein air oil paintings; Cristina Acosta, contemporary
wildlife paintings.
White Bird Gallery
251 N Hemlock St ✆503-436-2681
whitebirdgallery.com
daily 11am-5pm. Thru Oct 5 Ken Grant,
new oil paintings.
PORTLAND
★ Blackfish Gallery
420 NW 9th Ave ✆503-224-2634
blackfish.com
tues-sat 11am-5pm. Sep 1-26 Roya
Motamedi, “Impromptu in Gray”, oil
paintings; LeBrie Rich (guest artist),
“Inklings”, paper collages and Italian
glass mosaics; Sep 29-Oct 31 “Class
Aves”, Christopher Shotola-Hardt,
acrylic paintings and mixed media; Merridawn Duckler, conceptual installations and text.
★ Blue Sky Gallery
★ Northwest By Northwest
Gallery
232 N Spruce (downtown, across
from city park and info centre)
✆503-436-0741 1-800-494-0741
nwbynwgallery.com
daily 11am-6pm and by appt. Sep
“Focus on Bronze Sculptures”, by artists
Georgia Gerber, Carlos Acevedo, Ivan
McLean, Douglas Granum, “The Big
Oregon Center for Photographic Arts
122 NW 8th Ave ✆503-225-0210
blueskygallery.org
tues-sun 12-5pm, first thurs 6-9pm.
Sep 2-27 Kent Rogowski, “Love =
Love”; Peter Rock, “Spells”; Oct
Thomas Alleman, “Mongolia”; 40th
Anniversary Exhibition: 4040; Thru
Mar 2016 2015 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers.
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134 NW 8th Ave ✆503-287-3886
hartmanfineart.net
wed-sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Sep 2-Oct
17 Rachel Davis: A Trace History.
805 NW 21st AveDrake
✆503-226-2754
St
laurarusso.com
tues-fri 11am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm.
Sep 3-26 Rae Mahaffey, “So-and-So”,
new works; Jack Portland, “New Paintings”; Oct 1-31 Pacific
Eric StStotik, “New
Work”; James Allen, “Book Excavations", new work.
to downtown Vancouver
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724 NW Davis St ✆503-223-2654
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ty, George Johanson, C.E.S. Wood,
abstracted surfaces; Oct 1-31 Willy
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Heeks, “New Philosophies”, recent Carey, William Givler, Milton Wilson,
paintings; Lee Kelly,"Observatory at Amanda Snyder and others; Oct Visit
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★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
VIGNETTES • September/October 2015
Oregon
ALLYN CANTOR
RAE MAHAFFEY: SO-AND-SO Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Sep 3-26
Rae Mahaffey investigates the possibilities of colour, pattern and repetition in vibrant and stimulating oil paintings created on woodgrain
panels. The artist is most concerned with formal considerations, which
she calls the “semantics and syntax of visual art.” Her fresh contemporary works utilize systematic compositions and layers of organic and
geometric motifs rendered through a saturated palette. Drama and
luminosity result from the push and pull between structured forms and
chromic textures that echo the woodgrain of her panels.
Rae Mahaffey
HEATHER WATKINS: THIS IS THE ONLY ONE PDX Contemporary Art,
Portland, Sep 1-26 Portland artist Heather Watkins uses experimental
forms of drawing, printmaking, book arts, installation and sculpture
in her studio practice. Her new exhibit includes interrelated bodies of
work that are primarily concerned with their own making over any
singular images. One series begins with the same gesture for each
work, created with vibrant blue ink on linen; the totality is a meditation on variation and movement. In other pieces, Watkins’s ink drawings are records of touch and transmission, describing objects that are
no longer there.
Heather Watkins
EYEBEAM IN OBJECTS Upfor, Portland, Sep 3-Oct 10 Eyebeam is a New
York-based nonprofit that promotes and supports the creative use of
new technologies and provides exposure for engaging new media
projects. For this exhibition, director and curator Roddy Schrock
asked alumni of Eyebeam’s residency program, who work in a myriad
of tech-related forms, to render their work into objects. The exhibit
features Chloë Bass, Zach Blas, James Bridle, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Zach Gage, Brian House and Addie Wagenknecht, some of
Eyebeam’s most forward-looking and adventurous artists.
Addie Wagenknecht
STILLEVEN: CONTEMPORARY STILL LIFE Hallie Ford Museum of Art,
Salem, Sep 12-Dec 20 This exhibit brings together 27 artists from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia who work in
both traditional and challenging notions of still life. Stilleven: Contemporary Still Life highlights works that range from explorations of atmosphere and light to wildly fanciful and improbable compositions to those
that express social, political or environmental considerations. Noteworthy artists include Henk Pander, Norman Lundin, Sherrie Wolf,
Katherine Ace and Whiting Tennis.
Katherine Ace
SEEING NATURE: LANDSCAPE MASTERWORKS FROM THE PAUL G.
ALLEN FAMILY COLLECTION Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oct 10-Jan
10 This major exhibition presents five centuries of masterworks that
trace the evolution of European and American landscape painting. Never before exhibited together, exquisite pieces by William Turner and
Paul Cézanne provide glimpses into some of the genre’s innovators,
while paintings by Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe provide an American perspective. A rare Gustav Klimt landscape
and five canvases by French Impressionist Claude Monet are highlights
of this exhibit, which will travel after its première at PAM.
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tive; “Model Friends”, photographs of
Chaim Gross and Jacques Lipchitz by
Arnold Newman and a drawing of
Jacques Lipchitz by Chaim Gross.
PDX Contemporary Art
925 NW Flanders St ✆503-222-0063
pdxcontemporaryart.com
tues-sat 11am-6pm. Sep 1-26 Heather
Watkins, “This Is The Only One".
Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave ✆503-226-2811
portlandartmuseum.org
tues, wed, sat, sun 10am-5pm, thurs
& fri 10am-8pm. Admission: members
free, adults $15, seniors (55+) and
students (18+ with ID) $12, children
(17 and under) free. Thru Sep 13 Gods
and Heroes: Masterpieces from the
École des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Ai Weiwei, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads:
Gold; Oct 10-Jan 10 Seeing Nature:
Landscape Masterworks from the
Paul G. Allen Family Collection; Thru
Oct 18 Hand and Wheel: Contemporary Japanese Clay; Thru Oct 25
Anish Kapoor: Prints from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer; Thru Nov
15 APEX: Margie Livingston; Thru
Dec 13 Now on View: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings Spanning 500 Years; Thru Jan 3 Fotofolio:
Adams, Strand, Weston, Weston,
White.
★ Upfor
929 NW Flanders St ✆503-227-5111
upforgallery.com
tues-sat 11am-6pm and by appt. Sep 3Oct 10 Chloë Bass, Zach Blas, James
Bridle, Heather Dewey-Hagborg,
Zach Gage, Brian House and Addie
Wagenknecht, “Eyebeam in Objects”,
works rendered into objects; Oct 13Nov 25 Julie Green, “My New Blue
Friends”, paintings.
SALeM
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
700 State St ✆503-370-6855
willamette.edu/arts/hfma/
tues-sat 10am-5pm sun 1-5pm. Sep 12Dec 20 Stilleven: Contemporary Still
Life, paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photography, glass and mixed
media by artists from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia, who focus on still-life themes in their
work; Thru Oct 25 Sherrie Wolf: Object
Lessons, paintings, drawings and prints
by a Portland painter and printmaker
whose work juxtaposes traditional stilllife subjects with Old Master themes.
WASHINGTON
BAINBRIDGe ISLAND
Bainbridge Island
Museum of Art
550 Winslow Way E ✆206-842-4451
1-855-613-1342 biartmuseum.org
daily 10am-6pm. Admission is free.
Thru Sep 20 Horst Gottschalk Retrospective; David Eisenhour: Swarm;
Thru Sep 27 Artists' Books: Women
Now and Then; Pierr Morgan: Imagine;
Open Oct 10 Steven Maslach: New
Light; Caroline Cooley Browne: Goings
and Comings; A Selection of Artists'
Books from the Collection of Cynthia
Sears, BIMA Founder.
BeLLeVue
Bellevue Arts Museum
510 Bellevue Way NE ✆425-519-0770
bellevuearts.org
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8pm. Sep 4-Jan 10 Counter-Couture:
Fashioning Identity in the American
Counterculture, celebrating the handmade fashion and style of the 1960s
and 1970s, often referred to as the hippie movement, which swept away the
conformism of the previous decade and
promoted an alternative lifestyle whose
effects still resonate today; Thru Oct 18
Nathan Vincent: Let's Play War!
Reimagining the ubiquitous plastic soldiers that the artist played with as a
child as crocheted, half-life-sized figures, two battling armies challenge gender norms and explore the implications
of war as play; In The Realm of Nature:
Bob Stocksdale & Kay Sekimachi,
examining the parallel paths of two of
America’s foremost craft pioneers, with
an inspirational selection of 50 years of
their work.
BeLLINGHAM
Allied Arts of Whatcom County
1418 Cornwall Ave ✆360-676-8548
alliedarts.org
mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 12-5pm. Sep 426 Tore Ofteness, Kenni Merritt, John
D’Onofrio and Stephen Malshuk, “Mystic Mountains”, photographs; Oct 2-31
Helen Dorn, Christen Mattix, Ellen
Clark, Brian Simpson and Nathan
Waterstreet, “Whimsey”, paintings.
Western Gallery
Fine Arts Complex, WWU
✆360-650-3963
westerngallery.wwu.edu
mon-fri 10am-4pm wed 10am-8pm sat
12-4pm. Sep 23-Dec 11 “The Art of
Seating”, a survey of exceptional American chair design from the early 19th
century to the present day, 40 chairs
designed by John Henry Belter, George
Hunzinger, Herter Brothers, Stickley
Brothers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles
and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Isamu
Noguchi, Frank Gehry and others, from
the Jacobsen Collection of American
Art. Also showing patent drawings, documented upholstery, artist renderings
and multimedia presentations.
Whatcom Museum
Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St
Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St
✆360-778-8930
whatcommuseum.org
Lightcatcher: wed-sun 12-5pm thur 128pm sat 10am-5pm. Old City Hall:
thurs-sun 12-5pm. Admission: adults
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
$10, students, military, seniors $8, children 2-5 $4.50, under 2 free, thurs $5.
LIGHTCATCHER BUILDING Thru Sep 6
Bellingham National Art Exhibition
and Awards, a multimedia juried exhibition featuring more than 60 artists from
around the nation; Sep 27-Jan 3
Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting
Edge, works by 60 artists exploring the
limitless potential of the book as an
independent, creative medium, through
intimately scaled pieces and large
installations; Thru Oct 11 Helmi Juvonen (1903-1985), “Helmi's World:
Symbol, Myth, Fantasy”, works influenced by the Native coastal tribes of the
Pacific Northwest, from the museum's
collection; Oct 24-Feb 14 Chipping the
Block, Painting the Silk: The Color
Prints of Norma Bassett Hall (18891957), more than 60 colour block prints
and serigraphs by the Oregon-born
printmaker; OLD CITY HALL Thru Oct 25
The Owl and the Woodpecker:
Photographs by Paul Bannick; Ongoing Photo Archives Sampler, Clock and
Watch Collection and Antique Toys.
eVeReTT
Schack Art Center
2921 Hoyt Ave ✆425-259-5050
schack.org
mon-fri 10am-6pm sat 10am-5pm sun
12-5pm. Thru Sep 19 “Artists of the
Year”, James Arrabito, photographs,
and Verena Schwippert, sculptures;
Oct 8-Nov 7 All Natural, contemporary
glass exhibit guest curated by Kait
Rhoads.
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FRIDAY HARBOR
WaterWorks Gallery
315 Argyle Ave ✆360-378-3060
waterworksgallery.com
mon, wed-sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Sep 526 Catherine Eaton Skinner, “Vestiges”, mixed-media encaustic; Oct 324 Tom Small, sculptures in wood and
stone.
LA CONNeR
Museum of Northwest Art
121 S First St ✆360-466-4446
museumofnwart.org
Galleries and Museum Store: sun-mon
12-5pm tues-sat 10am-5pm. Admission is free. Thru Sep 24 “From the
Artist's Eye”, works on paper by Russell Chatham, Julie Gaskill, Keiko
Hara, Patrick Hasket, Stephen Hazel,
Gesine Janzen, Thomas Johnston,
Jeffry Mitchell, Ben Moreau, Tatjana
Pavicevic, Katherine Rabel, Dennis
Raines, Charles Spitzack, Bradley
Taylor, Efram Wolff and Allyce Wood;
“Pilchuck Print Shop”, painted glass
prints by Hank Adams + Class, Ric Bartow, Miyoshi Barosh, Kaitlin Becker,
Megan Biddle, John Buck, Judy Chicago, Joe David, Dan Clayman, Nancy
Davidson, Erick and Martin Demaine,
Lauren Grossman, Walter Lieberman
+ Dick Weiss, Maya Lin, Ginny Ruffner, Kiki Smith, Italo Scanga, Lino
Tagliapietra, Cappy Thompson, Oida
Toika and John Torreano; Richard Fairbanks, “Potter/Poet”, ceramics
and poetry; ALL GALLERIES Oct 10-Jan 3
Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977-2015,
examining the evolution of the contemporary Native American arts movement
and the works of indigenous artists living in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
southern British Columbia.
PORT ANGeLeS
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
1203 E Lauridsen Blvd
✆360-457-3532 pafac.org
thurs-sun 11am-5pm, Webster's Woods
Art Park: open daily sunrise to sunset.
Admission is free. Sep 7-19 Paint The
Peninsula Plein Air Group Exhibit; Sep
24-Jan 10 Eve Deisher, Ann Chadwick
Reid and Lanny Bergner, “Dual Nature:
Draw, Cut, Burn”; Ongoing Art Outside,
a new one-year installation of sculptures in one of the most distinctive outdoor art experiences in the Northwest,
with more than 100 works on five acres
with many woodland trails.
SeATTLe
★ Asian Art Museum
1400 E Prospect St, Volunteer Park
✆206-654-3100
seattleartmuseum.org
wed 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pm fri-sun
10am-5pm. Suggested admission: adults
$9, seniors (62 and over) and military
(with ID) $6; students (with ID) and teens
(13-19) $5; children 12 & under free,
SAM members free. First Thurs free
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BC Almanac(h) C-B
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY
PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY, NORTH VANCOUVER BC – Sep 30-Nov 8, 2015 The title of this exhibition comes from a 1970 book and touring exhibition organized by Vancouver artist/editor/curators
Michael de Courcy and Jack Dale.
Both works were originally commissioned by the Stills Division of
the National Film Board of Canada. Presentation House has now
republished the book and reoriented the initial exhibition to include
new elements.
Those unfamiliar with the
original book will be struck by its
composition and design – a portfolio-style publication that contains within it 15 booklets. Among
the photographic subjects taken
up by its contributors, particular
attention was paid to landscapes, Tim Porter, Cadillac, Montreal (1971), silver gelatin photograph [Presentation House Gallery,
motorways, totem poles, nudity, North Vancouver BC, Sep 30-Nov 8]
pregnancy and clothing.
Most remarkable about de Courcy and Dale’s project is how close it comes to capturing the full range
of artistic activities that emerged in Vancouver in the 1960s. Represented here are Judith Eglington, early
intermedia artist Roy Kiyooka, photo-conceptualists Christos Dikeakos and N.E. Thing Co., and the
Fluxus-influenced art-as-life practitioners Glenn Lewis and Michael Morris. Michael Turner
★ Davidson Galleries
admission. First Fri seniors free. First Sat
families free. Oct 3-Mar 13 Yeondoo
Jung, Lim Minouk, Noh Suntag,
Haegue Yang, Yeesookyung and Lee
Yongbaek, “Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art”, representative works
by six leading-edge artists, in collaboration with Choi Eunju, former chief curator
of the National Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art Korea; Thru Oct 4 Chiho Aoshima: Rebirth of the World, photography, drawings and animated video
installation influenced by anime and
manga, exploring the dark currents lying
beneath Japanese Pop imagery; Calligraphic Abstraction, nearly a thousand
years of the history of calligraphy, from
the 11th C. to the present; Ongoing Ai
Weiwei: Colored Vases, installation of
earthenware vases that were dipped into
buckets of industrial paint and then drip
dried so that what is underneath, like history itself, is no longer visible, but is still
there.
313 Occidental Ave S, Pioneer Square
✆206-624-7684
davidsongalleries.com
tues-sat 10am-5:30pm. Call for hours during the holidays. Sep 3-26 Max Steele:
Photographs; Azumi Takeda: Observer;
Mio Asahi: Gods and Monsters; Don
Fels: Collages from Kochi; Sep 17 5-9pm
Live and Silent Auction, modern, antique
and contemporary works. Visit the website for details; Oct 1-31 Eunice Kim 20052015: Ten Year Survey, the internationally
known and celebrated printmaker’s practice is marked by a singular commitment
to a safer, sustainable approach to printmaking; Works on Paper by Jose
Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) – Posada was a Mexican printmaker whose work
commented on political injustices and
human folly through satire and social acuity. His work had profound influence on
renowned artists Diego Rivera and Jose
Clemente Orozco.
Billy King
★ Foster/White Gallery
✆206-340-8881 billyking.com
by appt. A pop-up gallery coming this
fall art season, location TBA.
100-220 3rd Ave S, Pioneer Square
✆206-622-2833 fosterwhite.com
tues-sat 10am-6pm. Sep 3-26 Paul
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Vexler, “Twisted”, bands of wooden ribbons seamlessly float on suspended
cables or project vertically from a solid
base; Sarah McRae Morton, wildly
romanticized imaginary landscapes of
memories, dreams and spirits; Oct 1-24
Eric Zener, “Voyagers”, paintings in resin
portraying small, single figures travelling
through the vastness of the primordial
oceanic spaces, quiet expanses, infiltrated by occasional rays of sunshine.
★ Frye Art Museum
704 Terry Ave ✆206-622-9250
fryemuseum.org
tues-sun 11am-5pm thurs 11am-7pm.
Admission is free. Sep 4-Jan 31
Favorites: The Frye Founding Collection, featuring 11 beloved paintings
from the Founding Collection of Charles
and Emma Frye; Sep 26-Jan 10 Genius
/ 21 Century / Seattle, an unprecedented, large-scale celebration of exceptional multidisciplinary and collaborative
artistic practice in Seattle in the 21st
century, featuring over 70 visual artists,
performance groups, choreographers,
dancers, composers, musicians, filmmakers, writers, theatre artists and arts
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
organizations; Thru Sep 13 Andy
Warhol: Little Red Book #178 (June
1970), 19 Polaroids of friends and
celebrities, many of whom were
involved in the production of Warhol's
film L'Amour (1973), which was filmed
in Paris in September 1970.
★ G. Gibson Gallery
300 S Washington St ✆206-587-4033
ggibsongallery.com
wed-sat 11am-5pm, tues by appt. Sep
3-Oct 10 Robert C. Jones, “New + Early
Work”, paintings; Oct 16-Nov 21 Mary
Iverson, “You and Me in the Aftermath”,
new paintings.
★ Gallery 110
110 3rd Ave S ✆206-624-9336
gallery110.com
wed-sat 12-5pm. Sep 2-26 Susan Gans
and David Traylor, “Unfolding”, photographs and drawings – a visual chronicle of Union Street, exploring the idea of
place and mapping how this urban landscape reflects Seattle’s social, cultural
and economic changes, from Elliott Bay
to Lake Washington; Sep 30-Oct 31
FRONT GALLERY Ray Schutte, “Lichen”,
exploring and challenging minimalist
concepts, also showing a series of oneline poems by Mary Kay Tipton; BACK
GALLERY Li Turner, “Mostly Women”,
works that speak to the many facets of
women’s lives, depicting solitary women
and fearful, angry women.
★ Greg Kucera Gallery
212 3rd Ave S ✆206-624-0770
gregkucera.com
tues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Sep 3-Oct
31 Peter Millett, “Non-congruent”;
Jody Isaacson, “Collections: Continuum (Part One)".
★ Henry Art Gallery
University of Washington
✆206-543-2280 henryart.org
wed sat & sun 11am-4pm thurs & fri
11am-9pm. Thru Sep 27 Martin Creed:
Work No. 360: Half the air in a given
space, a monochromatic and formless
sea of silver balloons that offers visitors
an opportunity to navigate the work
from within, while challenging them to
consider the location of art to be found
somewhere between physical experience and sculptural construct; Thru Oct
4 Canvas Constructions: Karen Carson
and Allan McCollum, two large-scale
works from the early 1970s that abandon the canvas as a surface for picture
making; Thru Oct 11 Michelle Handelpreview-art.com
man, “Irma Vep, The Last Breath”, West
Coast première of the multichannel
video installation – within a dislocating
space of multiple, starkly illuminated
projections and a dramatic music score,
Handelman invites us into a world of
criminal anxiety, queer identity and
desire and the complicated relationship
between an artist and her creation; Thru
Oct 18 Ilse Bing: Modern Photographer (1899-1998), presenting 25
images celebrating the gift to the Henry
of more than 44 photographs by Bing, a
self-taught photographer recognized as
a key contributor to the development of
modern photography; Oct 24-Jan 24
Pae White, an installation that engages
the open volume of the large, lower-level gallery; Oct 31-Mar 6 Franz Erhard
Walther, an exhibit looks at the critical
role drawing has played in Walther's
sculptural practice from the 1950s to
the present; the first major exhibition of
the artist's work in the United States.
★ Lisa Harris Gallery
1922 Pike Place ✆206-443-3315
lisaharrisgallery.com
mon-sat 10:30am-5:30pm sun 11am4pm. Sep 3-27 Jeffrey Palladini,
“On Infinite Repeat”, oil and charcoal
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ASIAN ART MUSEUM Presents
Sat, Oct 17, 2015
9:30am - 11:00am
HUMANITARIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND JAPAN’S ATOMIC PAIN, a
lecture by Julia Adeney Thomas, associate professor of history,
Asian Art Museum University of Notre Dame. One in a series of nine speakers exploring
Individual tickets
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at the door only:
$10, members $5
distance and intimacy, reportage, advocacy and aesthetics.
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NOT VANISHING: CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS IN INDIGENOUS ART,
1977-2015 Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Oct 10, 2015-Jan 3,
2016 Some time ago, living Native American and First Nations
artists stopped waiting for Anglo curators to recognize them and discourse with them. So, people like Gail Tremblay of Evergreen State
College organized shows of their own. Her big survey, Not Vanishing,
brings the record up-to-date on how individual indigenous artists
confront traditional materials and various aspects of cultural baggage.
British Columbia artists are included here, as well as Puget Sound
and Plateau tribal members.
FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle, Oct 31, 2015-Mar 6, 2016 Following up on his knockout
debut last year of German artist Katinka Bock’s Katinka Bock: A & I,
Henry Gallery deputy-director Luis Croquer scores another coup
with the first U.S. show of Franz Erhard Walther. Active since the
1960s and included in the important Spaces exhibit at MOMA, NY,
in 1970 with Michael Asher, Robert Morris and Dan Flavin,
Walther continues with their site-based sculptures and installations
for the Henry.
Z.Z. WEI Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, Sep 3-28 For all their serenity,
Z.Z. Wei’s eastern Washington landscape scenes have an eerie lifelessness that has been underappreciated. Are his people in pastoral paradise hiding from authorities, or are they all in church on a Sunday
morning? Wei’s perfect achievement of intentional ambiguity is part
of his staying power and enduring appeal. With stylized effects firmly
in place, the pictures resemble a created, formerly bucolic world that
looks increasingly haunted, yet typically consoling.
PAUL VEXLER: TWISTED Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Sep 3-26, and
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, Jun 20, 2015-May 8, 2016 For his fifth
solo show at Foster/White Gallery, sculptor Paul Vexler continues
in his vein of twisted and turned, fused and laminated wooden ribbons and strips. This new work of Vexler, who is a recipient of two
recent commissions in Taipei, Taiwan, coincides with a major installation at Boise Art Museum. Mechanically kinetic, interlocking jigsaw-form wall sculptures are also on view, along with suspended and
freestanding works. Reclaimed and recycled plywood has never
looked so good.
Ryan Fedderson
Franz Erhard Walther
Z.Z. Wei
Paul Vexler
RIK ALLEN: NEW WORKS Traver Gallery, Seattle, Oct 1-31 Is there such
a thing as Sci-Fi Goth or Goth Sci-Fi? If so, its avatar in mixed-media
glass sculpture must be Rik Allen. As if huge honours at the Science
Fiction Museum in Seattle were not enough, the Spark Museum of
Electrical Invention in Bellingham acquired one of Allen’s unusual
sentinels. Boeing Co., Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry and Amazon
head, Jeff Bezos, have as well. The Blue Origin aerospace company of
Kent, WA, has made inquiries to procure one also.
Rik Allen
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Ron Moppett: SCULPTUR(AL)
NICKLE GALLERIES, CALGARY AB – Sep 24-Dec 19, 2015 The melding of painting and sculpture
has as many origin stories as Modernism itself. For some, it begins with Kurt Schwitters’s collages;
for others, with Robert Rauschenberg’s “combine” paintings or with Lucio Fontana’s slashed monochromes. Judging from Ron Moppett’s recent works, the question of “origin” might lie not in what
painting can do for sculpture, but in what sculpture can do for painting.
Among the more notable works in SCULPTUR(AL) is DawnLightningField (2014). Here we see
the presence, if not the influence,
of Rauschenberg, of hard-edge
painting and documentary photography, as well as of Duchamp and
indeed of sculpture’s arguable successor – installation. Leave it to the
physical imperatives of sculptural
viewing to get us looking ever
harder at what stands – and hangs –
as painting.
A respected colourist and visual
art educator, Moppett has, over his
50-year career, produced a body of
work that teaches as much as it
pleases. What viewers might take
Ron Moppett, DawnLightningField (2014), mixed-media installation [Nickle Galleries,
away from SCULPTUR(AL) is an
Calgary AB, Sep 24-Dec 19]
artist’s ongoing interrogation of the
“real” thing versus – or perhaps in relation to – the representation of the thing. Of course the real
thing, in this instance, can only include the painting. Michael Turner
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★ Platform Gallery
compositions on wood, embracing a
graphic, minimalist quality and tracing
the enigmatic movements of anonymous figures; John Lysak, “Summer
Blues (and other colors)”, ink and
watercolour paintings conveying
everyday drama with expressionist
images of women, men and animals in
interiors or landscapes that are alternately pensive, brooding and whimsical; Oct 1-Nov 1 Richard Hutter,
“Dream Conservatory: Flowers, Fruit
& Ginger Jars”, a distinctive visual
vocabulary of idiosyncratic forms
revealing his sensibility toward Minimalism and Pop, while incorporating
principles of repetition, found imagery
and organic shapes contrasted with
architecturally derived forms.
114 Third Ave S ✆206-323-2808
platformgallery.com
wed-sat 11am-5pm. Sep 3-Oct 9 Jaq
Chartier, Erin O'Keefe, Melissa Pokorny and Robert Yoder, “My Darkest
Light Will Shine”; Oct 15-Dec 5 Ariana
Page Russell.
Prographica Gallery
★ Seattle Art Museum
Michelle Handelman, Irma Vep, The Last
Breath (2013), 4-channel HD video
installation [Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA,
Jul 18-Oct 18]
1300 First Ave ✆206-654-3100
seattleartmuseum.org
wed 10am-5pm, thurs 10am-9pm, frisun 10am-5pm. Suggested admission:
adults $19.50, seniors (62 and over) and
military (with ID) $17.50, students (with
ID) $12.50, children 12 & under free,
SAM members free. Olympic Sculpture
Park (2901 Western Ave) hours: open
daily, opens 30 minutes prior to sunrise,
closes 30 minutes after sunset. Free to
the public. Thru Sep 7 Disguise: Masks
and Global African Art, celebrating 21st
century evolution of the mask and
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
3419 E Denny Way ✆206-322-3851
prographicadrawings.com
wed-sat 11am-5pm, tues by appt. Sep
12-Oct 31 “Observing Observing: A
★ Patricia Rovzar Gallery
1225 Second Ave ✆206-223-0273
rovzargallery.com
daily 11am-5pm. Sep 3-28 Z.Z. Wei,
“Passages”, new works in oil on canvas;
Oct 1-31 Joyce Gehl, “Seeds”, new
works in encaustic with mixed media.
White Cup”, works with the theme of a
white cup, allowing the artist to emphasize observation over content, featuring
Fred Birchman, Sarah Bixler, Brian
Blackham, David Campbell, Kimberly
Clark, Dean Fisher, Cable Griffith,
Laura Hamje, Kenny Harris, Amy Huddleston, Caroline Kapp, Matt Klos,
Kathy Liao, Judy Nimtz, Elizabeth Ockwell, Anne Petty, Robert Schlegel, Bill
Sharp, Graham Shutt, Laura Swytak,
Jordan Wolfson and Evelyn Woods.
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★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
Exhibition Catalogues of Interest
LEO SAUL BERK: STRUCTURE AND ORNAMENT was published by the Frye Art
Museum for Berk’s recent exhibition and for The Uncertainty of Enclosure exhibition at the University of Wisconsin’s INOVA. This publication contains lavish
colour illustrations of the works featured in these exhibits, which draw from
Berk’s experience growing up in the unconventional Ford House, designed by
architect Bruce Goff. Scholarly essays and a conversation between Berk and Scott
Lawrimore provide insight into Berk’s vision of “the transformative potential of
exceptional architecture.”
Hardcover, 84 pp., $28 USD. Available online at Frye Art Museum Store, 206-432-8201
or [email protected].
WAYFARER: JEROEN WITVLIET is the catalogue for the Kelowna Art Gallery exhibition of the same name (on until Oct 18) of recent paintings by this Netherlandsborn, Victoria-based artist. Witvliet’s subjects, from shipwrecks to complex piles
of debris, communicate an eerie, dystopian mood. Working in shades of black
and grey with occasional ribbons of colour, he conjures images of destruction
and collapse (and alludes to a painting by the 15th-century Dutch painter
Hieronymus Bosch).
Softcover, 45 pp., $12 CAD. Available at the Kelowna Art Gallery, 250-762-2226.
THE LIFE AND ART OF JACK AKROYD accompanied a recent retrospective at the
Burnaby Art Gallery. Well researched and richly illustrated, the book is a critical
biography written by Peter Busby (the author, not the architect) about a largely
overlooked artist. Akroyd immigrated to Canada from England in 1948 and, after
studying art in Toronto, moved to Vancouver, where he drew and painted detailed
and often surreal figurative scenes and landscapes. Published by Mother Tongue
as part of its Unheralded Artists of BC series.
Softcover, 156 pp., $35.95 CAD. Available at the Burnaby Art Gallery, 604-297-4422.
UNSCROLLED: REFRAMING TRADITION IN CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART,
co-published by the VAG and Black Dog Publishing, is the companion book to
last spring’s exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibit explored the
formal, aesthetic and philosophical influences of past cultural expressions on
present-day art practice in China. The 10 contemporary artists surveyed, including internationally renowned Ai Weiwei, work across a range of form, medium
and scale, from small ink-wash drawings on rice paper to room-filling, mixedmedia installations.
Hardcover, 159 pp., $29.95 CAD. Available at the Vancouver Art Gallery Store,
604-662-4706.
DANA LYNN LOUIS: CLEARING recalls the exhibition held recently at Lewis &
Clark College’s Hoffman Gallery in Portland. This full-colour catalogue documents
the artist’s immersive exhibition, which transformed the Hoffman gallery into an
ethereal environment that explored the meaning of “clearing” through drawings,
sculpture, photography, projection and sound. Essays by gallery director Linda
Tesner and author David James Duncan provide insight into Louis’s work and
studio practice. A poem by Jennifer Boyden adds another layer of meaning to
Louis’s thoughtful exhibition.
Hardcover, 48 pp., $20 USD. Available at Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College,
503-768-7687 or www.lclark.edu/hoffman_gallery.
Prices may be subject to additional charges for postage, handling and taxes.
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COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS
Art AIDS America
TACOMA ART MUSEUM, TACOMA WA – Oct 3, 2015-Jan 10, 2016 Following on the success of their
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, curatorial partners Rock Hushka (Tacoma Art
Museum chief curator) and Dr.
Jonathan D. Katz are opening Art
AIDS America before a national
tour. Dubbed art made “pre-cocktail” and “post-cocktail” (referring
to the medicine that slowed the disease), this huge 30-year survey of
AIDS art is another lively free-forall mixture of celebration and
grief, defiance and subversion,
anger and joy.
The art is also split between
AIDS-specific art and AIDS-subtle
or symbolic art. Another
equitable split is between wellJohn Arsenault and Adrian Gilliland, Eden #31 (2012), chromogenic colour print
known and unknown artists.
[Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA, Oct 3-Jan 10]
Keith Haring, Nayland Blake and
Judy Chicago meet Pacifico Silano and Hugh Steers. Pacific Northwest artists Charles LeDray, Michael
Ehle, Jim Hodges, Keith Lewis, Steven Miller and Martin Wong more than hold up their end of
regional representation.
Photographers Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe and Duane Michals cover the seedy underside
of AIDS, while Haring’s prints and limited-edition bronzes look surprisingly fresh. One must admit
how deep and wide AIDS’s influence has been as an instigator of political action through artistic practice. Every imaginable genre is included in this exhibition, highlighting the mélange of high and low,
class and sleaze that typified the AIDS crisis. Matthew Kangas
exploring contemporary forms of disguise, including 50 masks and 10 costumes from SAM’s African art collection and about 100 objects on loan;
Sep 16-Jan 10 Samuel F. B. Morse’s
Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of
Invention, a monumental 6- by-9foot painting begun in Paris in 1831,
the culmination of the artist’s study
among the works in the princely galleries of Europe. Morse (1791-1872),
primarily known for inventing the
electromagnetic telegraph and Morse
code, began his career as a painter;
Oct 1-Jan 10 “Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art”,
including 68 paintings from the
National Gallery of Art in Washington,
D.C., featuring a selection of intimately scaled Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist still lifes, portraits and landscapes by 19th-century painters Claude Monet, PierreAuguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne,
Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh;
Thru Dec 13 Rebel, Rebel, installation
featuring gender issues – most of the
works are a recent gift by Seattle artist
Matthew Offenbacher and his wife Jennifer Nemhauser; Thru Mar 6, 2016
Sam Vernon: How Ghosts Sleep, a wall
drawing conceived for the Seattle Art
Museum; Ongoing OLYMPIC SCULPTURE
PARK, 2901 Western Ave Jaume Plensa,
“Echo”, a monumental head of the
mountain nymph of Greek mythology,
situated on the shoreline of the park,
looking out over Puget Sound in the
direction of Mount Olympus; Doug
Aitken, “Mirror”, an installation for the
facade of SAM, an urban earthwork that
changes in real time in response to the
movements and life around it.
★ Shift Gallery
312 S Washington St
Tashiro Kaplan Building
shiftgalleryseattle.org
fri & sat 12-5pm or by appt. Sep 3-26
Crista Matteson, “Finding Humor in
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the Dark”, narrative sculptures and
installations combining glass, ceramic
and bronze in figurative and botanical
works; Oct 1-31 Patrice Donohue,
“Verge”, works exploring the edge
toward something else, through surface textures created with paper, wax,
cloth and ink.
SPAC Gallery
Seattle Pacific University
3 W Cremona ✆206-281-2079
spu.edu/depts/viscom
mon-fri 9am-5pm. Oct 5-Nov 27 Julie
Alpert, Paul Komada, Nicholas Sistler
and Kate Sweeney, “Color Forms".
★ Traver Gallery
200-110 Union St ✆206-587-6501
travergallery.com
tues-fri 10am-6pm sat 10am-5pm,
Thru Sep 6: sun 12-5pm, Sep 7 on:
sun by appt. Sep 3-26 Lino Tagliapietra, “Lino”; Oct 1-31 Rik Allen, “New
Works”; Dante Marioni, “New Works".
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
SPOKANe
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5-8pm. Admission: adults $10, seniors
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5 and under and MAC members no
charge. Campbell House Tours: included in admission price. Thru Sep 20
Saranac Art Projects, works by 16
emerging artists from this local nonprofit artist co-operative, designed to
support and educate artists and their
communities; Thru Oct 31 100 Stories:
A Centennial Exhibition, objects from
museum collections that tell the stories
of 100 years of Spokane and eastern
Washington history; Ongoing Campbell House Tours, hourly: wed-sun 124pm, beginning at Campbell House
Activity Center, located in the Carriage
House.
TACOMA
PHOTO: DUNCAN PRICE
Northwest Museum
of Arts & Culture
Shirley Klinghoffer, CRT Revisited (2015),
slumped glass installation [Museum of
Glass, Tacoma WA, thru Oct 11]
$5 (under 6 are free), every 3rd thurs 58pm free. Thru Sep 7 Treasures from
Glass Collectors; Tools of the Trade;
Sep 23-May 15 Joey Kirkpatrick and
Flora C. Mace, “Every Soil Bears Not
Everything”; Thru Oct 11 Shirley Klinghoffer: CRT Revisited (Conformal Radiation Therapy), 18 sculptures inspired
by hospital forms used to support
women's bodies during radiation therapy; Thru Jan 4 Chihuly's Venetians,
Wild and whimsical Chihuly originals
based on Italian Art Deco; Ongoing MAIN
PLAZA REFLECTING POOL Martin Blank:
Fluent Steps, a monumental glass
sculpture that spans the entire length of
the 210-foot-long reflecting pool.
Museum of Glass
1801 Dock St ✆253-284-4750
museumofglass.org
mon-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm 3rd
thurs 10am-8pm. Admission: members
free, adults $15, seniors (62+), military
and students (13+) $12, groups of 20+
$12, groups of 50+ $10, children 6-12
Tacoma Art Museum
1701 Pacific Ave ✆253-272-4258
tacomaartmuseum.org
tues-sun 10am-5pm thurs 10am-8pm,
free every 3rd thurs from 5-8pm. Thru
Sep 13 Roger Shimomura: An American Knockoff, 53 paintings and prints
combining a childhood interest in comic
books with an interest in Pop Art and
Japanese woodblock prints, containing
messages about Asian-American identities and experiences; Partners in Northwest Art: Selections from the Aloha
Club Collection at Tacoma Art Museum,
works by Northwest artists from traditional to avant-garde and historical to
contemporary, gifted in 1971 to the Tacoma Art Museum by the Aloha Club, a
women’s community group originally
organized in 1892 as a study club; Oct 3Jan 10 Art AIDS America, a groundbreaking exhibition with works from the
early 1980s to the present, exploring
the whole spectrum of artistic responses to AIDS, from the politically outspoken to the quietly mournful; Thru Mar
27 Northwest in the West: Exploring
Our Roots, showing how the complex
and ever-evolving character of the West
has shaped regional artistic responses;
Thru Fall 2015 Art of the American
West: The Haub Family Collection,
140 works exploring themes of the
West, both real and imagined; Ongoing
Richard Rhodes’ Stone Wave, a sculpture made from 500-year-old pavers that
came from a village slated to be engulfed
by the Three Gorges Dam reservoir in
China; Dale Chihuly at Tacoma Art
Museum, a permanent collection of Chihuly glass, including more than 30
sculptures. Visitors can access the Ear
for Art: Chihuly Glass Tour anytime from
anywhere by downloading the STQRY
app on their phones. ■
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Alpha listing of galleries in this issue
221A 35
Access Gallery 35
The ACT Art Gallery (formerly Maple Ridge
Art Gallery) 26
Alberta Craft Council Gallery 12
Alberta Printmakers Gallery and Studio 8
Alcheringa Gallery 53
Allied Arts of Whatcom County 64
Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art 23
Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College 28
The Archer & The Horseman Art Gallery 38
Arnold Mikelson Mind & Matter Gallery 34
Art Beatus 38
The Art Emporium 38
Art Gallery at Evergreen Cultural Centre 20
Art Gallery of Alberta 12
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 53
Art Gallery of St. Albert 16
Art Works Gallery 38
ARTE funktional – Kelowna 23
ARTE funktional and Ashpa Naira
Studio – Vernon 52
Artemis Gallery 29
Arts Council Gallery of New Westminster (see
The Gallery at Queen’s Park) 28
Arts Off Main 38
Artspeak 39
ArtStarts Gallery 39
Ashpa Naira Gallery (see ARTE
funktional – Vernon) 52
Asian Art Museum 65
Audain Gallery 39
Avenue Gallery 55
BAF Studio (Jay Sentencho exhibition) 39
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art 64
Barbara Boldt Original Art Studio 22
Bau-Xi Gallery 39
Beaty Biodiversity Museum 42
Bellevue Arts Museum 64
Bill Reid Gallery 42
Billy King 66
Blackfish Gallery 61
Blue Sky Gallery 61
Bluerock Gallery 8
Brian Scott Studio and Gallery 22
Britannia Art Gallery 42
Buckland Southerst Gallery 59
Bugera Matheson Gallery 14
Burnaby Art Gallery 18
Burnaby Arts Council (Deer Lake Gallery) 18
Campbell River Art Gallery 20
Cannon Beach Gallery 61
Cannon Beach Gallery Group 61
Caroun Art Gallery 29
Catriona Jeffries Gallery 42
Centre A 42
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery 42
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art 62
Charles H. Scott Gallery 42
Chazou Contemporary Art Gallery 23
Chilliwack Visual Artists Association 20
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and
Archives 43
Choboter Fine Art 43
Christine Klassen Gallery 8
Circle Craft Gallery 43
CityScape Community Art Space, North
Vancouver Community Arts Council 29
Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery 43
The Collectors’ Gallery of Art 8
Contemporary Art Gallery 43
Craft Council of BC Gallery 43
CSA Space 43
Daffodil Gallery 14
Davidson Galleries 66
Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby Arts Council 18
Deluge Contemporary Art 55
Doctor Vigari Gallery 43
Douglas Reynolds Gallery 44
Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton 14
DRAW Gallery 31
Dundarave Print Workshop and Gallery 44
Eagle Spirit Gallery 44
Elissa Cristall Gallery 44
Elizabeth Leach Gallery 62
Emily Carr Alumni Gallery 44
English Bay Gallery 45
Equinox Gallery 45
Esker Foundation 8
Esplanade Art Gallery 16
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The Fazakas Gallery 45
Federation Gallery 45
Ferry Building Gallery 59
Firehall Arts Centre Gallery 45
The Fort Gallery 22
Foster/White Gallery 66
Founders’ Gallery 9
The Foyer Gallery, Squamish Public
Library 34
Frye Art Museum 66
G. Gibson Gallery 67
Gabriola Arts Council 22
Gage Gallery Arts Collective 55
The Gallery @ Artisan Square 17
Gallery 2, Grand Forks and District
Art and Heritage Centre 22
Gallery 110 67
Gallery 1710 35
The Gallery at Queen’s Park (formerly Arts
Council Gallery of New Westminster) 28
Gallery Gachet 45
Gallery in the Oak Bay Village 55
Gallery Jones 45
Gallery of BC Ceramics 45
Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens & Gallery 26
Gibsons Public Art Gallery 34
Glenbow 9
Golden Cactus Studio/Gallery 60
Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art 31
Graffiti Co. Art Studio/Gallery 31
Greg Kucera Gallery 67
grunt gallery 45
Haida Gwaii Museum 34
Hallie Ford Museum of Art 64
Havana Gallery 47
Heffel Fine Art Auction House 47
Henry Art Gallery 67
Herringer Kiss Gallery 9
hfa contemporary 47
Hill’s Native Art 47
Hot Art Wet City Gallery 47
Ian Tan Gallery 47
Il Museo, Il Centro, Italian Cultural Centre 47
Imogen Gallery 61
Initial Gallery 47
Alpha listing of galleries in this issue
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver 47
Jay Senetchko (at Burrard Arts
Foundation) 39
Jennifer Kostuik Gallery 48
Joyce Williams Antique Prints & Maps 48
Kafka’s Coffee & Tea 48
Kamloops Art Gallery 23
Kariton Art Gallery & Boutique 16
Katherine McLean Studio 48
Kelowna Art Gallery 26
Kimoto Gallery 48
Kootenay Gallery 20
Kwantlen Art Gallery 35
Landing Gallery Artists’ Co-op 34
Lattimer Gallery 48
Laura Russo Gallery 62
Legacy Art Gallery Downtown and Legacy
Maltwood (at the Mearns Centre
& McPherson Library) 55
Lisa Harris Gallery 67
The Lloyd Gallery 31
Lookout Gallery 48
Madrona Gallery 58
Maple Ridge Art Gallery(see The ACT Art
Gallery) 26
Marion Scott Gallery/Kardosh Projects 48
Masters Gallery 48
Michael Parsons Fine Art 62
Michelangelo Gallery of Fine Art
& Framing 9
Miriam Aroeste Fine Art 48
Monny's Art Gallery 48
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 48
Mountain Galleries at Fairmont Chateau 60
Museum of Anthropology, UBC 48
Museum of Contemporary Craft 62
Museum of Glass 73
Museum of Northern BC 32
Museum of Northwest Art 65
Museum of Vancouver 48
Musqueam Cultural Centre Gallery 49
Nanaimo Art Gallery 28
The New Gallery (TNG) 10
New Media Gallery 29
Newzones 10
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Nickle Galleries 10
Nikkei National Museum 18
Nisga’a Museum 23
Northwest By Northwest Gallery 61
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 73
The Old School House Arts Centre 33
Omega Gallery 49
Open Space Arts Society 58
Or Gallery 49
Oregon Jewish Museum 62
Oxygen Art Centre 28
Pacific Wave Glass Art 49
Patricia Rovzar Gallery 70
Paul Kuhn Gallery 10
PDX Contemporary Art 64
Pendulum Gallery 49
Peninsula Gallery 34
Penticton Art Gallery 31
Petley Jones Gallery 49
Place des Arts 20
Platform Gallery 70
Polychrome Fine Art 59
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center 65
Port Moody Arts Centre 32
Portland Art Museum 64
Pousette Gallery 49
Presentation House Gallery 31
Prographica Gallery 70
The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford 16
Red Art Gallery 59
Rennie Collection 49
Republic Gallery 50
Richmond Art Gallery 33
Robert Lynds Gallery 50
Salmon Arm Art Gallery 33
Schack Art Center 65
Scott Gallery 14
Seattle Art Museum 70
S’eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery 17
Seymour Art Gallery 31
Shift Gallery 72
Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, Jewish
Community Centre 50
Silk Purse Arts Centre 59
Simon Fraser University Gallery 18
Slide Room Gallery 59
Southern Alberta Art Gallery 16
SPAC Gallery 72
Spirit Wrestler Gallery 50
Station House Gallery 61
Stride Art Gallery Association 10
Surrey Art Gallery 35
Tacoma Art Museum 73
Teck Gallery 50
Toni Onley Estate 50
Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art
and History 28
Traver Gallery 72
Tumbleweed Gallery and Framing 31
Two Rivers Gallery 32
Ukama Gallery 50
UNIT/PITT Projects 50
Unitarian Church of Vancouver 50
Uno Langmann 50
Upfor 64
Urban Aboriginal Fair Trade Gallery 50
Vancouver Art Gallery 51
Vancouver Maritime Museum 51
Vernon Public Art Gallery 52
Viridian Gallery 52
Wallace Galleries 12
WaterWorks Gallery 65
Wendel Gallery 52
West End Gallery, Edmonton 14
West End Gallery, Victoria 59
West Vancouver Museum 59
Western Gallery 64
Whatcom Museum 64
White Bird Gallery 61
White Rock Gallery 60
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies 8
Wil Aballe Art Projects 52
Winchester Galleries 59
Winsor Gallery 52
Xchanges Gallery 59
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GALLERY OPENINGS + EVENTS
September 11 Friday
7-10pm Opening reception: The 8th Annual
Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show: In
Between! Works by 30 artists. GALLERY GACHET, 88 E
Cordova St, Vancouver BC.
September 12 Saturday
1-3pm Opening reception: Ephemeral - CVAA
Group Show, works in various media, including
painting, sculpture, drawing, textile art, glass and
photography. CHILLIWACK VISUAL ARTISTS ASSOCIATION,
CHILLIWACK ART GALLERY, Chilliwack Cultural Centre,
9201 Corbould St, Chilliwack BC.
1:30pm Artist's talk: The Berlin-based artist Maria
Eichhorn will discuss her practice. MORRIS AND HELEN
BELKIN ART GALLERY, University of British Columbia,
1825 Main Mall, Vancouver BC.
2pm Artists' talk: Shinobu Akimoto and Matthew
Evans will discuss Residency for Artists on
Hiatus. WIL ABALLE ART PROJECTS/WAAP, 105-1356
Frances St, Vancouver BC.
2-4pm Opening reception: Amanda Reeves, New
Paintings. ELISSA CRISTALL GALLERY, 2239 Granville St,
Vancouver BC.
6:30-9:30pm Event: Artists' panel 6:30-7:30pm,
Opening reception 7:30-9:30pm (remarks at
7:45pm): Views from the Southbank III:
Information, Objects, Mappings, Re:Source–A
Living Archive 1975-2015, Part 4 and The Grove:
A Spatial Narrative. SURREY ART GALLERY, 13750 88
Ave, Surrey BC.
7-9pm Opening reception: Alan Collier, The
Canadian Landscape, paintings; International
Prints from a Private Collection. WINCHESTER
GALLERIES, 2260 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria BC.
September 24 Thursday
7-11pm Opening reception: Jay Senetchko, The
Best of Life: The Pathological Nature of the North
American Dream, photo collages and paintings.
BAF STUDIO (BURRARD ARTS FOUNDATION), 108 E
Broadway, Vancouver BC.
September 25 Friday
6-10pm Opening reception: Celia Perrin
Sidarous: Interiors, Other Chambers; Charlotte
Moth: living images. ESKER FOUNDATION, 444-1011
9th Ave SE, Calgary AB.
September 26 Saturday
2-4pm Opening reception: The Fibre Art Network
(FAN), Abstracted, works by accomplished fibre
artists from western Canada working in pairs. THE
ACT ART GALLERY (FORMERLY MAPLE RIDGE ART GALLERY), 11944
Haney Pl, Maple Ridge BC.
2pm Curator's talk: Tania Willard (Secwepemc),
Aboriginal curator in residence, Kamloops Art
Gallery, will discuss the exhibition unlimited
edition. Free and open to the public. LEGACY ART
GALLERY DOWNTOWN, University of Victoria, 630 Yates
St, Victoria BC.
7pm Opening reception: Sean Caulfield, Eunoe.
ALBERTA PRINTMAKERS GALLERY AND STUDIO, 4025 4th St
SE, Calgary AB.
7-11pm Event: 12th Annual Hot One Inch Action,
art by 50 artists reproduced on one inch
buttons – an interactive art party! HOT ART WET CITY
GALLERY, 2206 Main St, Vancouver BC.
September 15 Tuesday
September 18 Friday
6-9pm Opening reception: David Wilson, Light
and Colour, new paintings. KIMOTO GALLERY, 1525 W
6th Ave, Vancouver BC.
7-9:30pm Opening reception: jasna guy, not by
chance alone, installation; Cameron Cartiere and
the chART Collective, For All Is For Yourself,
installation. RICHMOND ART GALLERY, 7700 Minoru
Gate, Richmond BC.
September 19 Saturday
6-9pm Opening reception: Plein Air, works by 20
artists produced during a workshop with Jayne
Holsinger; Sheila Macdonald, Rivers Run,
ceramics. CHAZOU CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, 791
Victoria St, Kamloops BC.
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September 29 Tuesday
12:15-12:45pm Artist's talk: Mark Ollinger will
share the inspiraton behind his sculptural work in
Perceptually Uniform. CITY ATRIUM GALLERY, 141 W
14th St, North Vancouver BC.
October 1 Thursday
7-9pm Opening reception: Robyn Lake, Our
Splendid Okanagan, new paintings. THE LLOYD
GALLERY, 18 Front St, Penticton BC.
October 2 Friday
7-10pm Opening reception: Clancy Gibson,
Headwaters: Recent Landscapes, new acrylic
paintings portraying the vital, natural elements of
Vancouver’s North Shore. ARTEMIS GALLERY, 104C4390 Gallant Ave, North Vancouver BC.
GALLERY OPENINGS + EVENTS
October 3 Saturday
2-4pm Opening reception: Lorn Curry, still life
paintings that remind us of the constants of life.
DISTRICT LIBRARY GALLERY, LYNN VALLEY MAIN LIBRARY, 1277
Lynn Valley Rd, North Vancouver BC.
6-11pm Opening reception: Phantoms in the
Front Yard, Over the Counter Culture; Scene and
Unseen: Arts Encounter where contemporary
dance, opera, ballet, aerialists and other
performing and visual artists interact with
audiences to expand notions of Over the Counter
Culture and the Scene and Unseen within the art
world. GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART, 2121
Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver BC.
October 5 Monday
7-9pm Book signing and reception: Ralph White,
co-founder and creative director of the New York
Open Center, America's leading urban organization
for holistic learning, will present his recently
published memoir. ARTEMIS GALLERY, 104C-4390
Gallant Ave, North Vancouver BC.
October 8 Thursday
5-7pm Opening reception: Julie Alpert, Paul
Komada, Nicholas Sistler and Kate Sweeney,
Color Forms. SPAC GALLERY, Seattle Pacific
University, 3 W Cremona, Seattle WA.
5-8pm Opening reception: Chaki, Landscape in
Colours, new paintings. GALLERY JONES, 1725 W 3rd
Ave, Vancouver BC.
7-9pm Opening reception: Pushing Boundaries,
highlighting works by emerging and professional
First Nations artists. CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE,
NORTH VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL, 335
Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver BC.
October 10 Saturday
11am-4pm Event: The Eighth Annual Blue Bridge
Repertory Theatre Art Sale, featuring 40 works by
internationally and nationally renowned artists.
WINCHESTER GALLERIES, 2260 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria BC.
2-5pm Opening reception: Steven Maslach: New
Light; Caroline Cooley Browne: Goings and
Comings; A Selection of Artists’ Books from the
Collection of Cynthia Sears, BIMA Founder.
Artists in attendance. BAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF
ART, 550 Winslow Way E, Bainbridge Island WA.
6-9pm Opening receptiion: William Anthony, Jen
Dyck, William Frymire, Jamie Rauchman,
Samira Zamani and Tricia Sellmer, Heads Up.
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CHAZOU CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, 791 Victoria St,
Kamloops BC.
October 13 Tuesday
7-9pm Opening reception: Finding a Voice: The
Art of Norman Tait. WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM, 680
17th St, West Vancouver BC.
October 16 Friday
6-9pm Opening reception: Jim Park, Encounters:
Sight on Site, new paintings. KIMOTO GALLERY, 1525
W 6th Ave, Vancouver BC.
6-9pm Opening reception: Philip Mix, Peripeteia,
new works. MICHELANGELO GALLERY OF FINE ART &
FRAMING, 112-908 17th Ave SW, Calgary AB.
October 17 Saturday
1-3pm Opening reception: Wednesday Life
Drawing Group, "The Nude" Posed and Exposed,
figure drawings. CHILLIWACK VISUAL ARTISTS ASSOCIATION,
CHILLIWACK ART GALLERY, Chilliwack Cultural Centre,
9201 Corbould St, Chilliwack BC.
1-4pm Opening reception: Deon Venter,
Mythos/Logos, figurative paintings; Kathy Venter,
sculptures; Deirdre Roberts, Journeys Near and
Far, paintings. Artists in attendance. WINCHESTER
GALLERIES, 2260 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria BC.
6-9pm Opening reception: Bob Leier, Mena
Martini and Natalia Vetrova, Three Rooms,
paintings and photography. WENDEL GALLERY, 1490
Johnston St, Vancouver BC.
October 29 Thursday
7pm Lecture: Charles Hill, former National
Gallery of Canada curator of Canadian art, will
discuss Artists, Architects and Artisans: Canadian
Art 1890-1918. Free and open to the public.
Seating is limited. LEGACY ART GALLERY DOWNTOWN,
University of Victoria, 630 Yates St, Victoria BC.
November 5 Thursday
5-8pm Opening reception: Shannon Ford, Our
Enriching Bond with Animals, new works. THE
LLOYD GALLERY, 18 Front St, Penticton BC.
November 7-8 Saturday and Sunday
10am-5pm Cowichan Artisans Open Studio
Weekend Tour: Visit 300 studios and galleries and
discover woodturners, furniture makers, potters,
painters, jewellers and glass artists, and makers
of the best wines and balsamic vinegars.
Brochures available at all Island visitor centres
and downloadable at cowichanartisans.com.
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