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6 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 Feb/Mar 2012 62 Vol. 26 No.1 previews ALBERTA 10 Counterpoint in Black and White: 8 Banff, Black Diamond, Calgary 1 6 Edmonton 65 The Photography of Arthur Nishimura 17 Lethbridge & Craig Richards 18 Medicine Hat, Red Deer Museum of Contemporary Art BRITISH COLUMBIA 12 Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central 19 Abbotsford, Burnaby & Eastern Europe 20 Campbell River, Castlegar, Art Gallery of Alberta Chilliwack, Coquitlam, Courtenay, Fort Langley, Gibsons 16 Beyond Vague Terrain: The City 21 Grand Forks , Kamloops , Kaslo, and the Serial Image Kelowna 72 Surrey Art Gallery 22 Maple Ridge, Nanaimo, Nelson, 18 Diana Thorneycroft: A People’s History New Westminster , North Vancou ver The Art Gallery of Calgary 24 Osoyoos 25 Penticton, Port Moody 24 Jon Sasaki: Good Intentions 27 Prince George, Prince Rupert, 9 Southern Alberta Art Gallery Qualicum Beach, Richmond 59 30 Portable Walls: 30 Salmon Arm, Salt Spring Island Christian Nicolay and Ya-chu Kang 31 Sidney , Sooke, Squamish Elliott Louis Gallery 33 Sunshine Coast (Roberts Creek, Sechelt), Surrey 38 Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry 34 Tsawwassen, Vancouver Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 51 Vernon 40 Gary Pearson: 52 Victoria 55 West Vancouver Scenes from a ‘Smoker’s Theatre’ 57 Whistler, White Rock 65 Winsor Gallery 44 Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop &Aboriginal Art OREGON Vancouver Art Gallery 58 Cannon Beach 60 Marylhurst, Portland 46 Renée Van Halm: Cross-Cutting/Inside Out 61 Salem Burnaby Art Gallery 62 Marie Watt: Lodge WASHINGTON Hallie Ford Museum of Art 61 Bellevue, Bellingham 62 Ellensburg, Friday Harbor, La Conner 64 Mark Rothko 63 Seattle Portland Art Museum 71 Spokane, Tacoma

70 Gauguin and Polynesia: As Elusive Paradise © 1986-2012 Preview Graphics Inc. ISSN 1481-2258 Seattle Art Museum Member of Tourism Vancouver, Tourism Victoria and the Seattle’s Convention and Visitors’ Bureau. 72 Li Chen: Eternity and Commoner Reproduction in whole or in part is strictly forbidden. 70 Frye Art Museum HEAD OFFICE + CANADIAN EDITORIAL + SALES TEL 604-254-1405 FAX 604-254-1314 TOLL FREE 1-877-254-1405 E-MAIL [email protected] vignettes MAILING ADDRESS P.O. Box 549, Station A, CONTENTS Vancouver, BC Canada V6C 2N3 26 Gallery Views 9 Alberta Janice Whitehead, Publisher 32 Confessions Shirley Lum, Listings Editor 28 British Columbia Anne-Marie St-Laurent, Art Director 56 Conservator’s Co rner 68 Catalogues of Interest 59 Oregon U.S. EDITORIAL + SALES OFFICE Allyn Cantor TEL 415-971-8279 73 Art Services + Materials 65 Washington E-MAIL [email protected] 76 Gallery Index ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS $24

78 Gallery Openings + Events The views, opinions and positions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the publisher. Please note that all gallery particulars are set out Cover: Christian Nicolay and Ya-chu Kang, Safety 5 , mixed media on paper on panel as submitted by clients prior to the date of publication. [Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC, Mar 29-Apr 21]

Printed on FSA approved and recycled paper ing with Atillio Caffaro, a miner who ALBERTA worked for 50 years at the Canmore mine which was closed after 93 years CALGARY in 1979; The Bread With Honey: Pho - # The Art Gallery of Calgary tographs by Andrew Querner , the Stan 117 8th Ave SW ¥403-770-1352 BANFF Terg mine in Trepca, Kosovo is mired www.artgallerycalgary.org Whyte Museum of the in politics and economic hardship, tues-sat 10am-5pm first thurs 4pm- Canadian Rockies with little or no economic activity in the 9pm. Admission by donation. Feb 10- 111 Bear St ¥403-762-2291 region an aging crew of miners bear Apr 7 Eric Louie, Pilar Mehlis, www.whyte.org the burden of providing for their Heather Watts and Landon-Jon Fer - daily 10am-5pm. Admission: adults extended families; Through the Lens – ence , “Down The Rabbit Hole: The $8, seniors/students $5, families (2 15th Anniversary , high school stu - Whimsical World of Pop Surrealism”; adults, 2 children) $20, children 6 and dents explore their community and the Diana Thorneycroft: A People’s His - under free. Thru Mar 20 Watermedia exciting medium of visual communica - tory , controversial new exhibition in the Rockies , features the work of tion through traditional and digital exploring historic Canadian atrocities. artists who work in water-soluble photography; Mar 24-May 22 The media to portray their love and respect Rocky Mountain Photography Show , Artfirm Gallery for the Rocky Mountains and nearby group show of photoworks inspired by ¥403-471-1168 www.artfirm.ca areas; Feb 4-Mar 25 Kathleen Daly the fantastic scenery of the Rocky Online and by appt. Artfirm Gallery and the Canmore Coal Mines , art - Mountains. presents an expanding group of artists works by Daly of coal mines and min - working in a full range of media includ - ers of the 1940s while she was conva - ing painting, printmaking and innova - lescing from polio; Feb 4-Apr 1 Coal tive media, committed to the sale of Mining Stalwarts: Photographs by BLACK DIAMOND exceptional, contemporary artwork by Lawrence Chrismas , explores the cul - Bluerock Gallery Canadian and international artists. ture of Canadian miners through envi - 110 Centre Ave W ¥403-933-5047 ronmental portraits and stories start - www.bluerockgallery.ca The Collectors’ Gallery of Art wed-mon 11am-5pm. A destination 1332 9th Ave SE ¥403-245-8300 # Identifies galleries and museums for handmade, one-of-a-kind fine art www.collectorsgalleryofart.com open until 8pm on the First Thursday and craft, we are committed to repre - tues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm. of every month. Many galleries host senting regional artists – most of Feb 11-Mar 6 “Kerr & Friends”, oils opening receptions on First Thursday whom live and work within 100 miles and works on paper by Illingworth of the gallery. We stock beautiful art Kerr, Maxwell Bates, H.G. Glyde, evenings. r T for every budget. Hn elen Mackie, Margaret Shelton, to n o Trans-Canada Hwy m d NILLINGWORTH KERR, 4th Ave NE E ACAD Prince's Island 3rd Ave NE Park r l D 2nd Ariave NE o r M emve e M Ri m ow 1 or B 1st Ave NW4 ia t l 1 h D

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Dr 8 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 VIGNETTES • February/March 2012 Alberta ROBIN LAuReNCe 3 X 3 PHOTOGRAPHERS – EXPOSURE 2012 Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, Feb 4-25 As part of the Exposure 2012 Photography Fes - tival, this show spotlights work by David Burdeny, Eszter Burghardt and Toni Hafkenscheid. Their landscape photographs, although quite distinct from each other, confuse the line between the real and the unreal, the documentary and the fabricated. Hafkenscheid, especially, creates images of actual landscapes that read as artificial, evoking miniature dioramas or scale models lit - Eszter Burghardt tered with children’s toys. IAIN BAXTER&: 1N4ØRMAT1ØN Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Jan 21-Apr 9 One of Canada’s original and most important conceptu - al artists, Iain Baxter& is represented here by collaged Polaroids, multimedia installations, and over-painted TV screens, all addressing his interest in the relationship between information systems and our understanding of the natural world. Among his many pioneering accomplishments, Baxter& co-founded the Iain Baxter& N.E. Thing Company in 1966, explored the use of back-lit Cibachrome transparencies in the 1960s and 70s, and helped set the stage for Vancouver’s emergence as an international centre of photo-based practice. THE BREAD WITH HONEY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW QUERNER Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Feb 4-Apr 1 Also part of Exposure 2012, these sombre and stirring portraits, shot in an economically depressed mining town in Kosovo by Can - more-based photographer Andrew Querner, gives us insight into some of the devastating, long-term consequences of the Andrew Querner war in the Balkans. “Through the experience of the miners, their children, and the tired town at the mine’s threshold,” Querner states, “these pictures are my attempt to better under - stand the complexities of the Kosovar landscape.” ALBERTA MISTRESSES OF THE MODERN: 1935-1975 Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Mar 10-Jun 3 This survey reveals the significant but under-appreciated role women artists played in the development of modern art in Alberta. Guest curated by Mary-Beth Laviolette, it includes over 80 paintings, water - colours, prints, ceramics, sculptures and mosaics by 17 women, Annora Brown including Marion Nicoll, Janet Mitchell, Dorothy Willis, Ella May Walker, Laura Evans Reid and Annora Brown. CHARLES STANKIEVECH Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Mar 10-Apr 29 Subtitled Over the Rainbow, Under the Radar , this exhibition of “fieldworks” includes videos, sculpture, and artifacts while commenting on “the intersection of military influence and the history of communications”. The DEW Project examines the network of radar stations north of the Arctic Circle, established by the U.S. and Canada during the Cold War. Ghost Rockets World Tour matches images of military rocketry sites with rock ‘n’ roll music and special effects. Scarily engaging. Charles Stankievech

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 9 www.mocacalgary.com Counterpoint in Black and White: The Photography of Arthur Nishimura and Craig Richards MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CALGARY AB – F eb 2-2 2, 2012 Curated by Monique Westra, Counterpoint in Black and White juxtaposes the work of senior Canadian artists Arthur Nishimura and Craig Richards at the newly-named Museum of Contemporary Art - Calgary, formerly the Triangle Gallery. Arthur Nishimura is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Calgary where he started teaching photography and Art Fundamentals in 1971. His images have a poetic, nostalgic quality in keeping with his choice of content – the small prairie town, the vast skies, views framed by old windows – in hauntingly beautiful black and white photographs. Canmore artist Craig Richards has given photo - graphic workshops in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe and Africa. He is currently Curator of Photography at the Whyte Museum of the Canadi - an Rockies in Banff. Best known for his epic and dra - matic photographs of the Rockies, Richards is a superb craftsman who hand-prints his stunning selenium-toned images on silver gelatin paper. Counterpoint in Black and White is the inaugural Craig Richards, Maligne Canyon, Qu een Maligne (1985), exhibition for Exposure 2012, an International Festi - gelatin silver, selenium-toned photograph [Museum of val of Contemporary Photography with exhibits in Contemporary Art, Calgary AB, Feb 2-22] Calgary, Banff and Canmore. Artists featured in 2012 will include David Burdeny, Edward Burtynsky, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Tara Nicholson and Anthony Redpath. Mia Johnson

John Snow, Jim Nicoll and others; Wood , “February Showcase”, artwork work; Iain Baxter&: 1N4 ØRMAT1 ØN, Mar 17-Apr 18 Broomfield , oils, in oil, acrylic and watercolour; Mar 24- explores his interest in the fusion and watercolours and prints from the Apr 7 Ron Hedrick , new works featur - the confusion between natural and Broomfield Estate. ing Impressionist oil paintings of land - information landscapes in our world. scapes, gardens, beaches and figures. Diana Paul Galleries Herringer Kiss Gallery 737 2nd St SW ¥403-262-9947 # Glenbow Museum 709A 11 Ave SW ¥403-228-4889 www.dianapaul.com 130 9th Ave SE ¥403-268-4100 www.herringerkissgallery.com tues-sat 11am-5pm. Now represent - www.glenbow.org tues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm. ing sculptor Stephen Booth ; Feb-Mar mon-sat 9am-5pm sun 12-5pm. Feb 4-25 David Burdeny, Eszter Contact the gallery for exhibition Admission: adults $14, seniors $10, Burghardt and Toni Hafkenscheid , “3 information. students/youth $9, family $28, chil - x 3 Photographers – Exposure 2012”, dren under 6 free, members free. three photographs from three photog - Gainsborough Galleries Thru Apr 9 The Gray Rabbit by Laurie raphers that illustrate different 441 5th Ave SW ¥403-262-3715 Anderson , autobiographical video approaches and techniques to con - 866-425-5373 installation, revisits her memories of temporary photography; Mar 3-31 www.gainsboroughgalleries.com a pivotal childhood event, realizing Ken Webb , “Lost Identity: Stories mon-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm. that what she remembers and what Untold”, mixed-media work incorpo - Feb 11-25 Rick Bond, Merv Brandel, she recounts to people is a ‘cleansed’ rates historical and personal narrative Fred Cameron, Rod Charlesworth, version of the tale; Edward Burtynsky: photographic imagery within a post- Nathalie Chiasson, Rick Crump, Ron Encounters , work by Burtynsky will modern framework to create a feeling Hedrick, Nancy Lucas, Harold Lyon, be selected by over 20 Canadians of nostalgia and at the same time Min Ma, Paul Paquette, Ted Raftery, from diverse walks of life each bring - reveals the ‘events’ as still being rele - Tinyan, Claude Simard and Robert E. ing their own meaning to the artist’s vant in our contemporary society.

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www.youraga.ca Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON AB – Jan 28-Apr 2 9, 2012 Rearview Mirror is a co-presenta - tion of the Art Gallery of Alberta and The Power Plant, Toronto, where it was first exhibited in the summer of 2011. Curated by Canadian-born, New York-based curator Christopher Eamon, Rearview Mir - ror brings together work by 22 younger artists from the region of Europe known as the Eastern Bloc. The exhibit is intended to showcase the artistic and cultural practices of numerous artists who are becoming well-known in Europe but less so in North America. Although it is described as “thematic”, it is not political per se. It doesn’t attempt to provide a survey of Eastern A

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Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Dean Turner , “The Black Road”, pho - to the city as muse and the subject Alberta College of Art + Design tography; Mar 3-31 Billy McCarroll, matter of their art, includes works by 1407 14th Ave NW ¥403-284-7633 Carl White, Dean Turner, David Fox - George Pepper, Fred Herzog, Robert www.acad.ca croft, Elena Evanoff, Jeffrey Spald - Rauschenberg, Michael Snow, Ken tues-sat 10am-6pm. Thru Mar 3 ing, John Will and Mark Dicey , Lum, Dominique Rey and John Will François Lacasse: The Outpouring , group exhibition. and others. retrospective covering the last 20 years and brings together 30 art - # Museum of Contemporary # The New Gallery (TNG) works with a global perspective on Art – Calgary Unit 212, 100 7th Ave SW the artist’s career and the progressive 104-800 Macleod Trail SE ¥403-233-2399 transformation of his approach. ¥403-262-1737 www.thenewgallery.org www.mocacalgary.com tues-fri 11am-5pm sat 12pm-6pm. Inglewood Fine Arts tues-fri 11am-5pm sat 12-4pm. Admis- Free admission. +15 Window, The 1223B 9th Ave SE sion is free. Donations are welcome. Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, ¥403-262-5011 587-226-1415 Feb 2-22 Counterpoint in Black and 205 8th Ave SE. Feb 10-Mar 17 U of C www.inglewoodfinearts.com White: The Photography of Arthur @ ACAD vers 5.0 , new work from wed-sat 10:30am-5pm sun 12-4pm, Nishimura and Craig Richards , coun - ACAD dealing with questions of iden - mon-tues by appt. Permanent exhibi - terpoint serves as a metaphor to com - tity, curated by student curatorial tion Charles Carson, Humberto pare the unique vision of two of Alber - intern Evan Smibert; Mar 23-Apr 28 Pinochet , paintings. ta’s most accomplished contemporary Turner Prize (Jason Cawood, Blair art photographers with images of their Fornwald and John G. Hampton) , Jarvis Hall Fine Art Alberta home and other lands and peo - “Other Peoples’ Dreams”, series of 617 11th Ave SW, Lower Level ple; Mar 8-Apr 25 “Street Life”, works performative interviews where the col - ¥403-206-9942 by renowned modern and contempo - lective of artists asked volunteer par - www.jarvishallfineart.com rary Canadian and American artists ticipants to recall a dream and then tues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Feb 25 survey the range of artistic responses share it for artistic reinterpretation.

12 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS Carolyn Stockbridge Groupings FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 17, 2012 OPENING RECEPTION : Thursday, February 23, 6:30-9:00 pm ARTIST TALK : Saturday, March 3, 1:00 pm

Carolyn Stockbridge, Open Optimism, oil on canvas, 40 x 42 inches Christian Nicolay & Ya-chu Kang Portable Walls MARCH 29-APRIL 21, 2012 OPENING RECEPTION : Thursday, March 29, 6:30-9:00 pm ARTIST TALK : Saturday, March 24, 1:00 pm

Christian Nicolay, Red Tape, diptych, mixed media on panel, 15 x 23 inches ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY

258 East 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1A6 604-736-3282 [email protected] www.elliottlouis.com Stride Art Gallery Association 1004 MacLeod Trail SE ¥403-262-8507 www.stride.ab.ca tues-sat 11am-5pm. Admission is free. +15 Window, The Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, 205 8th Ave SE. MAIN SPACE Thru Feb 10 Robert Turriff , “Fictive Forests”, transforma - tive installations take the viewer to another world, moving them beyond any sense of a formal gallery space; Feb 24-Mar 30 Jaime Angelopoulos , “They Felt So Much and It Moved Me”, sculptures and drawings; PROJECT ROOM Feb 24-Mar 23 Megan Dickie , “Get the Gleamer”, both a toy and a work of art, requiring nerve, wonder and ingenuity to control it – if you dare to participate, your experience will be filmed and presented in the gallery; +15 W INDOW SPACE Feb-Mar Lydia Karpenko , “Touch Me and I Will For - get”, installation explores a dialogue between soft sculptural shapes, pro - jected imagery, light and shadow. # Swirl Fine Art & Design Unit 104-100 7th Ave SW ¥403-266-5337 www.swirlfineart.com tues-fri 10am-5pm & sat 11am-4pm first thurs 10am-9pm. Feb 2-24 Chester Lees, Tracy Proctor, Rachelle Kearl and Angie Rees , “Evoke”, new works by resident artists; Mar 1-30 Angie Rees , “Poetic License”, new paintings. TrépanierBaer 105-999 8th St SW ¥403-244-2066 www.trepanierbaer.com tues-sat 10:30am-5pm. Thru Feb 18 Evan Penny: Old Self, Young Self – A Portrait of the Artist , new works; Feb- Mar Richard Halliday (1939-2011) ; Mar-Apr DaveandJenn . Newzones Paul Kuhn Gallery Wallace Galleries 730 11th Ave SW ¥403-266-1972 724 11th Ave SW ¥403-263-1162 500 5th Ave SW ¥403-262-8050 www.newzones.com www.paulkuhngallery.com www.wallacegalleries.com tues-fri 10:30am-5:30pm sat 11am- tues-sat 10am-5:30pm and by appt. mon-sat 10am-5:30pm. Thru Feb 5pm. Feb 4-Mar 17 Joshua Jensen- Thru Feb 25 Jason Fosco , “il deserto “For the Love of ART”, celebration of Nagle , “Alpine”, fun and campy rosso”, new photographs focus on Ground Hog Day and Valentines Day process-oriented photographs which images of a plastic red pipe used in with works by Andy Petterson, Doug are altered and reshot multiple times construction sites/zones to protect Williamson, Robert Lemay, Tim leaving the final product distorted; electrical wiring; Anthony Redpath , Merrett, Gary Cody and others; Mar Dianne Bos, James Holroyd, Jesse “End of the Line”, photographs of 1-15 Group Show of Various Artists, Boles, Franco DeFrancesca, John contemporary life along the Pacific includes Gordon Lewis, William Folsom, Virginia Mak and Sarah North West coast where he resides Duma, Herald Nix, Simon Andrew, Nind , “Perception”, process-driven seem to toy with allusion and paradox Jennifer Hornyak, Linda Nardelli, and photo-based artists showcase the to create images often laced with Alain Attar and others; Mar 17-31 methods that are employed in their irony; Mar 10-Apr 7 Paul Jackson , William H. Webb , “A Brush with creative process. “New Works”. Alberta”.

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www.surrey.ca/arts Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and the Serial Image SURREY ART GALLERY, SURREY BC – J an 14-Mar 18, 2012 Beyond Vague Terrain brings together numerous works from the 1970s to 1990s when portraits of industrial dead zones were popular. “Defeatured landscapes”, as they came to be known, brought international attention to Vancouver’s conceptual art scene and the photographers who became known as the Vancouver School. In Beyond Vague Terrain , the early cinematographic images, Y R E L L

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Exhibition tour with curator Jordan Strom, Feb 9, 7-8:30pm; by donation, Surrey Art Gallery members free

The Weiss Gallery “Group Show of Gallery Artists”, new paintings, sculptures, films and pho - 1021 6th St SW ¥403-262-1880 work by Carl White, Janet Read and tographs from the Modernist move - www.theweissgallery.com others. ments beginning in the 20th century, tues-sat 10am-5pm or by appt. Feb 2- including Fauvism, Cubism, Surreal - Mar 3 Michael Levin: Continuum , Alberta Craft Council Gallery ism, Futurism, Suprematism, Con - new series of black and white photo - 10186 106 St NW ¥780-488-6611 structivism and Dadaism, from the graphs by Vancouver-based artist www.albertacraft.ab.ca collection of the National Gallery of continues his exploration into captur - mon-sat 10am-5pm. FEATURE GALLERY Canada, including works by Paul ing the essential beauty and perfec - Thru Apr 7 Thinking Big , unveiling Cézanne, Marcel Duchamp, Ferdi - tion of our world; Mar 8-Apr 7 Lee the work behind public art projects; nand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Nielsen: Modules, Modalities, Pow - DISCOVERY GALLERY Thru Feb 11 The Picasso and others; Thru Feb 20 A er , new series of richly painted and Recipients , features the recipients of Passion for Nature: Landscape highly narrative paintings shape the the 2011 Alberta Craft Awards; Feb Painting from 19th Century France , viewer’s interaction with his 18-Mar 24 Virginia Stephen , “What’s traces the development of the land - figures/architecture with the addition A Girl To Do”, felted hats by Stephen scape in French painting from the of cut-outs and layered elements explore life issues; Keith Turnbull , mid-19th to the early 20th century added atop the picture plane. “Women”, the diversity of women with examples from key movements portrayed through clay sculpture. including the Barbizon School, Real - ism, Naturalism and Impressionism; Art Gallery of Alberta State of Nature , examines nature as a eDMONTON 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq major theme in contemporary painting Agnes Bugera Gallery ¥780-422-6223 www.youraga.ca in Alberta and Saskatchewan and its 12310 Jasper Ave NW ¥780-482-2854 tues-fri 11am-7pm sat & sun 11am- connections to the art movements that www.agnesbugeragallery.com 5pm. Admission: members free, shaped the 19th century, including tues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Feb “Group adults $12.50, seniors (65+)/students Romanticism, Realism and Impres - Show of Gallery Artists”, new work by $8.50, children under 6 free, children sionism; Mar 10-Jun 3 “Alberta Mis - Scott Pattinson, David Wilson, 7-17 $8.50, family (up to 2 adults + 4 tresses of the Modern: 1935-1937”, Daniele Lemieux, Linda Nardelli, children) $26.50. Feb 11-May 21 almost 80 works by 17 Alberta women Edward Epp and others; Thru Mar “Icons of Modernism”, selection of artists who played an integral role in

16 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS the development of modern art in Alberta, innovative and experimental work in a variety of media – painting, watercolour, printmaking and ceram - ics, artists include Marion Nicoll, Janet Mitchell, Ella May Walker and Laura Evans Reid ; “Art School: Banff 1947”, works by the faculty of the Banff School of Fine Arts (now The Banff Centre) celebrate the role of edu - cational institutions in shaping artistic vision in a region, artists include H.G. Glyde, A.Y. Jackson, J.W.G. Mac - Donald Marion Nicoll and Walter J. Phillips ; Thru Apr 29 Rearview Mir - ror: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe , new generation of 22 contem - porary artists representing 11 coun - tries who engage with post-conceptu - al strategies and forms in media rang - ing from video, installation and per formance to sculpture and paint - ing; Chris Millar: The Untimely Transmogrification of the Problem , paintings dense with images and words draw us into a universe of won - drously outrageous tall tales and fan - tastical yarns. Douglas Udell Gallery 10332 124 St NW ¥780-488-4445 www.douglasudellgallery.com tues-sat 10am-5:30p.m. Mar 17-31 Mara Korkola , “Here”. West End Gallery 12308 Jasper Ave NW ¥780-488-4892 www.westendgalleryltd.com tues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Feb Con - temporary Canadian Landscapes , features various artists; Mar 17-29 Guy Roy .

LeTHBRIDGe Southern Alberta Art Gallery 601 Third Ave S ¥403-327-8770 ness with dry, comic delivery; Lancelot comment on the intersection of military www.saag.ca Coar , “Swarm”, the creative pressures influence and the history of communi - tues-sat 10am-5pm sun 1-5pm. that are contained in and flow through cations; Chris Kline , “Bright Limit”, Admission: general $5, students/ the SAAG are captured in a fabric and reflects on the history of painting‚ mod - seniors $4, groups $3 per person, rope tensile structure that extends and ernist abstraction in particular, while members & children under 12 free. reaches to the park on the north face of offering a unique take on the medium’s Thru Mar 4 Dominique Rey , “Erlking”, the gallery at night – coloured light is formal and material vocabulary. photographic series captures the projected from various points within artist’s desire to dive into the uncon - the gallery walls casting the shifting # University of Lethbridge scious where the self and the internal shadows of gallery visitors on to the Art Gallery ‘other’ coexist, taking on a host of per - park beyond (best viewed Wed from 5- 4401 University Dr, W600 Centre for sonas; Jon Sasaki , “Good Intentions”, 9pm); Mar 10-Apr 29 Charles the Arts ¥403-329-2666 utilizing video, objects, performance Stankievech , “Over the Rainbow, www.uleth.ca/artgallery and installation the artist takes cyni - Under the Radar”, ‘DEW Project’ and mon-fri 10am-4:30pm thurs 10am- cism, futility and tragedy as starting ‘Ghost Rockets World Tour’, videos, 8:30pm. MAIN GALLERY Thru Mar 1 The points, countering the thematic heavi - sculpture and artifacts are used to Winnipeg Alphabestiary ; Mar 9-Apr

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 17 www.artgallerycalgary.org Diana Thorneycroft: A People’s History THE ART GALLERY OF CALGARY, CALGARY AB – Feb10-Apr 7, 2012 Diana Thorneycroft is a Canadian photographer who challenges popular beliefs about Canada’s culture, history and national identity. In a previous series, she explored the “mythic” Canadian landscape as it was portrayed by painters in the Group of Seven; highlighted the use violence as entertainment in television shows and movies, and conjured up various fictionalized scenes using animals and characters commonly associated with the North. Her work has been described as “a direct play on the idiosyncrasy, anxiety, and contradictions that form Canadian identity”. Thorneycroft is active as a keynote speaker and panellist on topics of copyright and R E V

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U dolls, action figures, toy furniture, O C Diana Thorneycroft, Night Pine Island (2008), digital photograph [Art Gallery plastic animals, model trees and other of Calgary, Calgary AB, Feb 10-Apr 7] small objects, illuminated and set against backdrops. Conceived with a “slightly twisted sense of humour”, each scene in A People’s History is a fictional account that recalls shady moments in Canadian history. The provocative and controversial images are on tour during 2011-12 at The Art Gallery of Calgary, Art Mûr in Montreal, Art Gallery of Regina, and the Mann Art Gallery in Prince Albert. The Calgary exhibit is part of the Exposure 2012 Photography Festival. Photographs from A People’s History were previously included in a show at the McMichael in 2009. Mia Johnson

Artist Talk: Diana Thorneycroft will discuss the inspiration, aesthetics and politics behind her work, Feb 16, 7pm

12 Annual Curated Student Exhibi - and sale of miniature artworks in any artist; Feb 24-Apr 15 Deanna Bowen , tion ; HELEN CHRISTOU GALLERY Thru Feb medium, limited to a 4-inch maximum “Stories to pass on...”, two symboli - 24 Notebook (art + people = x size in any dimension. cally constructed video and sound series) ; Mar 2-Apr 6 Concertino . installations inspired by a road trip to Esplanade Art Gallery Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama, in 401 First St SE ¥403-502-8786 which the artist retraced her great- www.esplanade.ca grandparents’ slave roots and migra - MeDICINe HAT mon-fri 10am-5pm sat sun & holi - tion to western Canada; Thru Apr 15 # Cultural Centre Gallery days 12-5pm. Thru Feb 13 Soft 365 Collective , personal portrait 299 College Dr SE ¥403-502-9006 Geometry: The Quilts of Judith Tinkl , video works by Medicine Hat College [email protected] three decades of skill and experience Visual Communications students. daily 9am-8pm. Feb 1-27 Jessica in textile artworks are extraordinary in Plattner , “Babyscapes: New Collage”, their complex geometry, subtle pat - recent works by visiting “artist-in-res - terns and intricate detail; Out of the idence” at Medicine Hat College; Mar Vaults: Medicine Hat’s Heritage ReD DeeR 2-26 Fran Lauzon, Katy Mann, Nicole Quilts , quilts made, used and loved in Red Deer Museum + Art Riedmueller and Marnie Sorensen , Medicine Hat from as early as 1910, Gallery “Group Exhibition: LMRS”, recent safeguarded for posterity in the 4525 47A Ave ¥403-309-8405 works in pastel, oil, acrylic, water - Esplanade Museum collection; Spot - www.reddeermuseum.com colour and clay; Mar 29-Apr 1 Small light on the Art Quilts of Fran Lau - mon-fri 10am-4:30pm sat & sun 12- Arts Expo 2012 , ‘open call’ exhibition zon , by award-winning Medicine Hat 4:30pm, closed holidays except Family

18 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS Day. Thru Mar 4 Cape Dorset: Selec - ed boats and plaster salmon suspend - 1979 to the present and 3-D installa - tions from the MAG Collection ; Thru ed from the ceiling wind through the tion pieces, including collage, instal - Apr 1 Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Cele - gallery space like the flow of a river, lation, printmaking, gouache, oil and brates 50 Years of Printmaking ; Mar make reference to the Fraser and acrylic paints, explores the artist’s 14-Apr 15 @RDCVisualArt . Yangtze rivers as metaphors for hybrid interest in the role architecture plays identity and culture aligned with con - in shaping our physical and social cepts of flux and transition and the interactions. BRITISH effect of globalization; Our Communi - ties Our Stories: Policing With Pride Japanese Canadian National COLUMBIA – Abbotsford & Matsqui Police Histo - Museum ry , the fascinating history of policing in 6688 Southoaks Cres ¥604-777-7000 Abbotsford from Jan 1, 1955; GROTTO www.jcnm.ca ABBOTSFORD Charles Chappel , “Transformation”, tues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Mar 24 The Reach Gallery furniture pieces that have been painted Tenugui: Design Excellence in Museum Abbotsford with reference to famous visual artists Japanese Daily Life , tenugui means 32388 Veterans Way ¥604-864-8087 and designers; SOUTH GALLERY Robert ‘hand towel’ in Japanese, over 200 www.thereach.ca Sheridan , “A Century of Jazz”, paint - cloths in rich colours and an endless tues wed fri 10am-5pm thurs 10am- ings of musicians and vocalists from variety of patterns on display – the 9pm sat & sun 12-5pm, Admission: the beginnings of jazz in New Orleans colourful cotton cloths are also used free. Thru Mar 25 Goya: The Disasters in the early 1900s to the present. as headbands, scarves, for cleaning, of War and Los Caprichos , series of wrapping gifts and even advertising. prints, The Disasters of War , details the brutality and horror of the 19th- Simon Fraser century Peninsular War in Spain, the BuRNABY University Gallery etchings are a combination of allegory, Burnaby Art Gallery AQ 3004-8888 University Dr illustration, political commentary and 6344 Deer Lake Ave ¥604-297-4422 ¥778-782-4266 www.sfu.ca/gallery vignette; also showing a rare bound www.burnabyartgallery.ca tues-fri 10am-5pm sat 12-5pm, closed edition of Goya’s satirical prints, Los tues-fri 10am-4:30pm sat-sun 12- sat on holiday long weekends. Thru Caprichos , organized by the National 5pm. Admission is free. Feb 10-Apr 8 Feb 25 Lawrence Weiner: A Selection Gallery of Canada; Gu Xiong , “Water - Renée Van Halm: Cross-Cutting/ from the Vancouver Art Gallery scapes: Reframed”, hundreds of fold - Inside Out , works on paper from Archive of Lawrence Weiner Posters ;

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 19 Mar 3-Apr 28 Michelle Allard and Robert Baliello , “Motion-Uncon - Khan Lee , “Circulation Patterns”, an trolled”, DSLR images; Mar 1-17 ATRI - interactive and gradual discovery of UM GALLERY Benoi Deschenes , acrylic works that occupy the 3-D space of the on canvas, touring exhibition in collab - SFU Gallery in a complex and comple - oration with Festival du Bois. mentary manner.

COuRTeNAY CAMPBeLL RIVeR Comox Valley Art Gallery Campbell River Art Gallery 580 Duncan Ave ¥250-338-6211 1235 Shoppers Row ¥250-287-2261 www.comoxvalleyartgallery.com www.crartgallery.ca mon-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Mar 3 CON - tues-sat 10am-5pm. MAIN & D ISCOV - TEMPORARY GALLERY Haruko Okano, ERY GALLERIES Thru Mar 2 Stefanie Maria Whiteman and Pamela Speight , Denz , “Crawling Woman”, dreamlike Bruce Morrisseau , Untitled (2007), acrylic “In Place/Displaced”, installation, pho - figurative paintings and wallpaper- on canvas [Shandon Galleries, 1069-88 tography and drawings; COMMUNITY style works on paper exploring W Pender St, International Village Mall, GALLERY Animalmorphic , open-call themes of feminine experience, family Vancouver BC, 604-662-3132, community show on the topic of our and landscapes; Mar 16-Apr 27 30th relationship to animals and the practice 604-254-3132,www.actionframing.com] Annual Members’ Exhibition , work of attributing human qualities to them; by up to 80 regional artists, juried GEORGE SAWCHUK GALLERY Sylwia with 10 or more awards selected by a Gustyn , “Tomorrow”; Mar 10-Apr 21 panel of jurors. CONTEMPORARY GALLERY My Utopian COQuITLAM Comox Valley , CVAG and CVCAC Mem - Art Gallery at Evergreen bers juried art exhibition; COMMUNITY Evergreen Cultural Centre GALLERY Gordon Greenhough, Tony CASTLeGAR 1205 Pinetree Way ¥604-927-6550 Martin and Clive Powsey , “Diverse Kootenay Gallery www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca Approaches to Watercolours”, paint - 120 Heritage Way ¥250-365-3337 mon-sat 12-5pm. Admission is free. ings; GEORGE SAWCHUK GALLERY From the www.kootenaygallery.com Thru Feb 18 Emerging Talent 15 , annu - Treasure Box – A Look Inside Chil - Feb: gallery closed; Mar: tues-sat al juried exhibition by grade 12 students dren’s Imaginations , artwork by stu - 10am-5pm. Mar 9-Apr 21 The Lan - in School District 43 includes additional dents ages 5-12. guage of Drawing , curated selection events and projects including a docu - of drawings by artists who live and mentary film, music and more; Feb 24- The Potters Place work in the Columbia Basin. Apr 7 Bratsa Bonifacho: Inside Habitat 180B 5th St ¥250-334-4613 Pixel – A Dozen Years: Four Styles , an www.thepottersplace.ca in-depth retrospective of 23 paintings mon-sat 10am-5pm. Featuring the chosen by the artist and curator Ann largest selection of quality pottery CHILLIWACK Rosenberg as pivotal to his recent and ceramic art on Vancouver Island. Chilliwack Visual Artists development – the exhibition casts light Now available, the work of Meg Association on the meanings and processes of a Burgess and Gordon Hutchens . Art Gallery (at Chilliwack Cultural internationally renowned Vancouver- Centre): 9201 Corbould St based painter who communicates non- Museum: 45820 Spadina Ave verbal thoughts and emotions through ¥604-392-8000 604-795-5210 painted symbols and language forms. . FORT LANGLeY www.chilliwackvisualartists.ca The Fort Gallery Chilliwack Art Gallery (at Chilliwack Place des Arts 9048 Glover Rd ¥604-888-7411 Cultural Centre): wed-sat 12-5pm, 1120 Brunette Ave ¥604-664-1636 www.fortgallery.ca Phone 604-392-8000; Chilliwack www.placedesarts.ca wed-sun 12-5pm. Thru Feb 12 Trinity Museum: mon-fri 9am-4:30pm, Leonore Peyton Salon: mon-wed fri Western University Senior Studio Phone 604-795-5210 for sat hours, 9am-3pm, thurs 9am-9pm sat 9am- Class , group show of assorted art - closed except when openings are 5pm sun 1pm-5pm (call ahead to con - works; Feb 15-Mar 4 The Art of Olga scheduled. CHILLIWACK ART GALLERY firm LPS viewing availability), Atrium Khodyreva , recent works; Mar 7-25 Thru Feb 13 Fraser Valley Water - and Mezzanine Galleries: mon-fri TBA. colour Society ; Feb 19-Mar 27 Cindy 9am-9pm sat 9am-5pm sun 1-5pm. Stiffon – Digital Art ; CHILLIWACK MUSE - Thru Feb 25 LEONORE PEYTON SALON UM Thru Feb 24 Stephen Dobson , Karin Vengshoel , “Expansions”, mul - “Reflections of B.C.’s West Coast”, tiple media; Feb 2-25 ATRIUM GALLERY GIBSONS paintings; Mar 3-Apr 12 Something Maryam Mohseni , “Untitled”, mixed Landing Gallery Artists’ Co-op New – Something Special , CVAA media; MEZZANINE G ALLERY Iryna 436 Marine Dr ¥604-886-0099 members’ show in a variety of media Nikitinska , “There is Life in the [email protected] and styles. Stone”, acrylics; UPPER GALLERY wed-mon 10am-5pm. Thru Mar 31

20 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS Pigments of the Imagination , eclec - tic selection of paintings, pottery, fibre, glass, jewellery and more, cre - ated by members of this artists’ co- operative.

GRAND FORKS Gallery 2, Grand Forks and District Art and Heritage Centre 524 Central Ave ¥250-442-2211 www.gallery2grandforks.ca tues-fri 10am-4pm sat 10am-3pm. Feb 4-Apr 14 Carin Covin: Nocturnes , paintings; Lisa Rezansoff: Implied Narratives , etchings.

KAMLOOPS # Kamloops Art Gallery 101-465 Victoria St ¥250-377-2400 www.kag.bc.ca mon-wed, fri-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pm sun 12-4pm closed stat holidays. Thru Mar 10 “Bearing Wit - ness”, drawn from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, 27 artists address industrial exploitation, large-scale government action, atrocities of war - fare, history of slavery and the repre - sentation of women in society in their work, the artists include Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero and Barbara Kruger ; THE CUBE Sarah Jules , cap - tured moments of intimacy with her iPhone hint at greater narratives from her experiences and travels; Mar 24- Jun 16 Esther Shalev-Gerz , “White- Out: Between Telling and Listening”, a kind of portrait comprised of fugitive stories that exist fleetingly between the actual and the fictional, between the imagined and the experienced; THE CUBE AND BMO O PEN GALLERY Mar Leonard Frank , “Two Views”, photo - cies inviting viewers to engage in a dis - 24-Jun 9 Transart Collective , “Con - graphs of the Japanese American and course about Indigenous dream cul - necting the Dots”, video and photo - Canadian internment. ture and visions. graphic works by a group of interna - tional artists collaborating with Geert Maas Sculpture regional artists. Gardens and Gallery KeLOWNA 250 Reynolds Rd ¥250-860-7012 # Alternator Centre for www.geertmaas.org Contemporary Art irregular hours. Geert Maas , an inter - KASLO 103-421 Cawston Ave nationally acclaimed artist , invites the Langham Cultural Centre Rotary Centre for the Arts public to visit his exceptional sculp - Gallery ¥250-868-2298 ture gardens and indoor gallery with 447 A Ave ¥250-353-2661 www.alternatorgallery.com one of the largest collections of www.thelangham.ca tues, wed, sat 11am-5pm thurs & fri 1- bronze sculpture in Canada; changing thurs-sun 1-4pm. Admission by dona - 9pm. Feb 3-Mar 17 The Picto Proph - exhibitions, Maas creates distinctive, tion. Feb 12-Mar 25 Ansel Adams and esy Project , examination of prophe - rounded, semi-abstract figures, archi -

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 21 tectural structures as well as installa - 31 After Glow , a multimedia presen - tions in a wide variety of materials tation of gallery artists. including bronze, stainless steel, alu - minum, wood, stoneware and multi - Touchstones Nelson: media. The great diversity of outdoor Museum of Art and History art is complemented in the gallery by 502 Vernon St ¥250-352-9813 an overwhelming number of paint - www.touchstonesnelson.ca ings, serigraphs, medals, reliefs and wed fri sat 10am-5pm sun 12-4pm, sculpture in various media. thurs 10am-5pm, 5-8pm by donation. Feb 4-Apr 8 The History of Radio in # Kelowna Art Gallery Nelson , artifacts from the museum’s 1315 Water St ¥250-762-2226 collection; Feb 11-Apr 15 Ian Johnston, www.kelownaartgallery.com Tanya Pixie Johnson, Barbara Maye tues-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am- and Nadine Stefan , “Forest For the 9pm sun 1-4pm. Thru Feb 26 Sec - Trees”, explores the interplay between ond Nature: Work by Art Teachers nature and culture using photography, from School District No. 23 , recog - Cris Alvarez Magliano sculpture, painting and installation. nizing the artistic accomplishments www.allmarquetry.com of Kelowna’s art educators and cel - Studi o/ salon in Nanaimo ebrating their studio practices and by appt. 250-729 7415 explorations; Mar 3-Jun 17 Art in NeW WeSTMINSTeR Action 2012 , 26th annual exhibition Amelia Douglas Gallery, of over 125 works of art by students Douglas College in School District No. 23; Thru Mar 700 Royal Ave ¥604-527-5723 25 David Alexander: The Shape of NANAIMO www.douglascollege.ca/artscomm Place , works from three decades of AllMarquetry Studio Gallery mon-fri 10am-7:30pm sat 11am-4pm. the artist’s career, depicting such 5251 Hammond Bay Rd Thru Feb 17 Richard Alm , “Dappled”, varied locales as the Canadian Arc - ¥250-729-7415 paintings and sculptures; Feb 23-Apr tic, Iceland, the Canadian prairies www.allmarquetry.com 6 Louise Bunn and Mary Bennett , and the Rocky Mountains, accom - by appt only. Permanent collection of “Transmutations: Journeys through panied by a trade book published by unconventional marquetry works. Time and Space”. McGill-Queen’s University Press Call for an appt to watch a work in with texts by six writers; Mar 31- progress, learn about the technique Arts Council Gallery of Jun 17 Okanagan Print Triennial or see finished pictures. New Westminster 2012 , juried show brings together a Queens Park, 6th & McBride Blvd variety of original, contemporary Nanaimo Art Gallery ¥604-525-3244 work in printmaking, accompanied Campus Gallery: 900 Fifth St www.artscouncilnewwest.org by a full-colour catalogue, the win - 2nd location, Downtown Gallery: tues-sun 1-5pm. Feb 1-25 Art Rental ner will have a solo exhibition at the 150 Commercial St and Purchase Programme , selection Kelowna Art Gallery in 2015; SATEL - ¥250-740-6350 250-754-1750 of artists and various media; Mar 1- LITE GALLERY AT THE KELOWNA INTERNA - www.nanaimoartgallery.com 31 Eileen Fong , “Spring”, Chinese TIONAL AIRPORT Thru May 7 Jim Campus: mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 12- brush and watercolours. Kalnin: Pulse , drawing on his 4pm, Downtown: tues-sat 10am- recent travels, the artist developed 5pm. CAMPUS Thru Apr 14 Amy Loe - an awareness of the need to care for wan , “Illuminating Peace”, mixed- our planet. media installation; Deryk Houston , NORTH VANCOuVeR “Seeking Peace”, mixed-media instal - # Caroun Art Gallery lation; DOWNTOWN Thru Feb 4 Datas - 1403 Bewicke Ave ¥778-372-0765 tream 4 , “Proliferating Signs & Cul - www.Caroun.net MAPLe RIDGe tural Layers”; Feb 9-25 Sharon A. tues-sun 12-8pm. Feb 1-14 Miniature Maple Ridge Art Gallery Stone , “Sea and Sky”, paintings; Mar Paintings from 15th Century to Pres - 11944 Haney Pl 1-24 Wildlife Fundraiser and Show , ent , works from China, India and Iran; ¥604-467-5855 604-476-4240 various artists; Mar 8-24 Patricia Feb 16-29 “Group Painting/Photogra - www.theactmapleridge.org Banks , paintings. phy Exhibition”, paintings by Farzaneh tues-sat 11am-4pm. Thru Mar 17 Azar, Malahat Mohebkhah, Nafiseh Christopher Friesen , “Duplicity”, Tabari, Nasrin Eyvazian, Samira Friesen looks at the world through the Karami, Sonia Kajavi, Torang Rahimy lens of technology as he alternates NeLSON and Yalda Ahmadvand , photographs between a traditional and contempo - Craft Connection & by Mahmood Reza Ashtiany Poor, rary focus in his paintings; Mar 24- Gallery 378 Masoud Soheili and Mohammad Apr 21 Garibaldi Art Club , paintings 378 Baker St ¥250-352-3006 Reza Raeesi ; Mar 1-14 Mahmood and 3-D works with the theme of www.craftconnection.org Reza Ashtiany Poor , photography; Mar ‘cranes’ as inspiration. mon-sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Feb 1-Mar 16-29 Norouz Art & Craft Sale .

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Granville Fine Art Spring 2012 Features Artist Features will open Saturdays from 1 to 4pm

Miriam Aroeste Keith Hiscock February 4-10 March 17-23 Keith will be doing an artist demo Sat Mar 17 1-4pm

Suzanne Northcott J.G. Freedman March 24-30 March 31-April 6 Suzanne will be doing an artist demo Sat Mar 24 1-4pm

2447 Granville St. Vancouver BC • 604-266-6 010 www.granvillefineart.com | info@granvillefineart.com

CityScape Community Art tional print culture; Mar 9-Apr 7 Bold LIBRARY GALLERY , L YNN VALLEY MAIN Space, North Vancouver and Beautiful , demonstrates the LIBRARY , 1277 Lynn Valley Rd, North Community Arts Council remarkable inspiration that flowers Van Thru Feb 29 David Camisa , “Crea - 335 Lonsdale Ave ¥604-988-6844 have long held in the creation of art; ture Curiosity”, Camisa uses a graphic www.nvartscouncil.ca DISTRICT FOYER GALLERY , D ISTRICT HALL OF style that aims to emphasize a charac - Cityscape tues-sat 12-5pm, District NORTH VANCOUVER , 355 W Queens Rd, ter’s traits and personality, taking some - Foyer Gallery, District Hall of North Van - North Van Thru Feb 8 Roksan Kohen , thing real and infusing it with a taste of couver mon-fri 8am-4:30pm, District 2-D, fine, detailed line figure drawings the fantastical; Feb 29-Apr 24 Vern Library Gallery, Lynn Valley Main and paintings; Larissa Blokhuis , 3-D Montgomery , cheerful and vibrant car - Library mon-fri 9am-9pm sat 9am-5pm glass artist uses creativity to call atten - icature-like local scenes sun 12-5pm. CITYSCAPE Feb 3-Mar 3 tion to the damage being done to the Printmaking: A Contemporary Vision sea; Feb 8-Apr 3 Bill Adams , 2-D, large, Graffiti Co. Art Studio/Gallery of a Classical Tradition , artwork by 13 bold, acrylic landscapes and florals; 171 E 1st St, 2nd Flr ¥604-980-1699 members of the Art Institute of Capilano Denise Jeffrey , 3-D, distinctive porce - www.graffiticoart.com University explores a microcosm of lain vases, tile wall hangings, bowls, tues-fri 1:30-6:30pm or by appt. dynamic changes occurring in interna - mugs, wine carafes and cups; DISTRICT Small studio gallery offering original

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 23 www.saag.ca Jon Sasaki: Good Intentions SOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERY, LETHBRIDGE AB – Jan 14-Mar 4, 2012 Toronto-based artist Jon Sasaki combines video, performance and installation in a practice that unites the existential come - dies of Buster Keaton, the cultural savvy of Douglas Coupland and the self-conscious parodies of Rod - ney Graham. Good Intentions , Sasaki’s most recent project, is typically ingen - ious. Starring in a scenario entitled Crossroads , Sasaki depicts him - self as a wayfarer passing Mississippi’s Clarksdale Crossroads, where the legendary blues performer Robert Johnson “sold his soul to the devil”. Described as “disquieting dark comedy”, the video performance is intended to celebrate perseverance in the face of potential failure. Themes of aspiration, comedy/tragedy, success, failure, ambition, risk and fate cross-pollinate the work. Crossroads is the latest installment in Sasaki’s ongoing Good Inten - tions project, which includes objects, installation, performance and video works. Jon Sasaki has a BFA from Mount Allison (1996) and is repre - sented by Jessica Bradley Art+Projects (Toronto). The Leth - bridge exhibit is one stop of a touring exhibition that included the Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto in 2010 and Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon and Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in 2011. The work will tour to the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie in 2012 and the Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie and Dunlop Art Jon Sasaki, Flyguy Triggering His Own Motion Gallery, Regina in 2013. The exhibiton is accompanied by a cat - Sensor (2010), nylon, fan, motion sensor alogue with full-colour illustrations and critical essays by cura - [Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge AB, tors Ann MacDonald, Crystal Mowry and Ben Portis. Mia Johnson Jan 14-Mar 4]

fine art located on the scenic North c.1983, Part I , group exhibition inves - had a strong desire to stay connected, Shore close to Lonsdale Quay. Feb 2- tigates how artists in Vancouver featuring many printmaking tech - 24 Sian Woodward , “City Colors”, worked with camera images during niques and displays of 2-D works, abstract paintings; Mar 6-31 Meg the vital period around 1983, this zeit - scrolls and paper sculpture; Mar 6-Apr Troy , “Immediacy”, an exploration geist is invoked through still and mov - 1 Aspects of Karma: Kay Bonathan , into iPhone art. ing images in various mediums that the lotus flower explored as a reflect conceptualist and experimental metaphor for karma through porcelain North Vancouver Museum approaches to the notions of the pho - sculptures and collage-paintings. 209 W 4th St ¥604-987-5612 tographic, prevalent at that time. 604-990-3700 Ext 8016 SPACE emmarts www.northvanmuseum.ca Seymour Art Gallery 195 Pemberton Ave ¥604-375-0694 tues-sun 12-5pm. Thru May 27 4360 Gallant Ave ¥604-924-1378 www.emmarts.ca “Made in BC: Home-grown Design”, www.seymourartgallery.com wed & fri 2-5pm sun 11am-2pm. showcases the history of design in daily 10am-5pm. Thru Feb 5 Discov - Ongoing exhibition in the studios of British Columbia with individual and ery: Water , annual juried exhibition Gabriele Maurus ; contemporary mass-produced works by local showcases local emerging artists with works and photography. designers including objects created work in different media around the and/or made in North Vancouver, theme ‘water’; Feb 7-Mar 4 Intersec - designers include Brent Comber , fur - tions: Full Circle Art Collective: niture, Stuart Kerr , bicycles, Phil Heather Aston, Jocelyn Barrable OSOYOOS Nuytten , undersea technology, Xwa- Segal, Anne Gaze, Hannamari Jalo - Osoyoos Art Gallery lack-tun , Aboriginal arts and Farouk vaara, Milos Jones, Julie McIntyre, 8711 Main St Noormohamed , architecture. Wendy Morosoff Smith, Lucille Pilu - ¥250-495-2800 250-495-7968 tik, Rina Pita, Brigitte Potter-Mael, www.osoyoosarts.com Presentation House Gallery Elisabeth Sommerville , a group of tues-sat 12-4pm. Thru Feb 11 Peo - 333 Chesterfield Ave ¥604-986-1351 artists who worked in the same com - ples’ Choice Show , original art for www.presentationhousegallery.org munal printmaking studio for many show and sale, gallery visitors vote to wed-sun 12-5pm. Thru Mar 11 years found their paths diverging but select the best artworks entered; Feb

24 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 18-Mar 10 George and Megan Traicheff , painting and photography; Mar 17-Apr 14 Osoyoos Painters and Potters Show , original art for show and sale.

PeNTICTON The Lloyd Gallery 18 Front St ¥250-492-4484 www.lloydgallery.com Jun-Dec: mon-sat 9:30am-5:30pm, Jan-May: tues-sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Exhibiting gallery artists Irvine Adams, Yasuo Araki, Alan Boileau, Laila Campbell, Rod Charlesworth, Connor Charlesworth, Glenn Clark, Sharon Clarke-Haugli, Peter Corbett, Jan Crawford, Josette De Roussy, Serge Dubé, Valerie Eibner, Shannon Ford, Charlotte Glattstein, Jim Glenn, Perry Haddock, Julia Hargreaves, Frances Harris, Kevin Healy, Michael Her - mesh, Beverley Inkster, Therese Johnston, Bob Kebic, Dongmin Lai, Robyn Lake, Gerda Lattey, Min Ma, Debbie Milner, Dominic Modlinski, Faigee Niebow, Toni Onley, Diane Paton Peel, Graham Pettman, Lance Regan, John Revill, Bonnie Roberts, Anita Skinner, Theo Tobiasse, Olga Tomlinson, Roy Tomlinson, Marla Wilson, Nel Witteman, Annette Witte - man, Marjolein Witteman, William Watt and Robert Wood . Penticton Art Gallery 199 Marina Way ¥250-493-2928 www.pentictonartgallery.com tues-fri 10am-6pm sat & sun 12- 5pm. Thru Mar 18 MAIN GALLERY Glenn Clark: First Person Narrative , retrospective of paintings by one of Penticton’s and the Okanagan’s most celebrated artists; TONI ONLEY GALLERY Go Vees Go , combination of sport PROJECT ROOM AND EDUCATION SPACE 10am-8pm fri-sat 10am-5pm sun 12- and art in this celebration of the 1955 Penticton Secondary, Princess Mar - 4pm, closed holidays, Scotiabank Penticton Vee’s World Championship garet Secondary, and Summerland Gallery: 2501 St John St, mon-thurs victory and one of B.C.’s greatest Secondary Schools Student Exhibi - 10am-4pm, fri 10am-5pm. Thru Feb sport moments; PROJECT ROOM Caro - tion , showcasing the creative output 19 MAIN GALLERY Maegan Elise , line Anders: Chelmsford , emerging of the Visual Arts Programs of our “Goodnight Goodluck”, mixed-media artist and scholarship recipient cho - region’s three secondary schools. drawings on paper based on the recent sen to attend the 2011 Toni Onley earthquake and tsunami in Japan; 3D Artist Project at Island Mountain Arts GALLERY Chris Mackenzie , “Stones, in Wells, B.C. selected by mentors Chestnuts and Snow”, photography Harold Klunder and Libby Hague for PORT MOODY and Land Art; PLUM WALLS AND SCOTIA - an exhibition; Mar 23-May 13 MAIN Port Moody Arts Centre BANK GALLERY Rosemary Burden , GALLERY Daphne Odjig: Manitoulin 2425 St Johns St “Breeding Ground”, abstract drawings Roots , work from the collections of ¥604-931-2008 on paper; PLUM DISPLAY CAS E Angela the Kamloops Art Gallery and the Pen - www.pomoartscentre.ca Gooliaff and Tony Chu , “Cabinet of ticton Art Gallery; TONI ONLEY GALLERY , Port Moody Arts Centre: mon-thurs Curiosity Series”; Mar 1-Apr 8 MAIN www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 25 GALLERY VIEWS BY ANN ROSENBERG [email protected] Gallery Owners Have Their Eye on East Vancouver The Gallery Views article in the previous issue of Preview made reference to the expensive commer - cial taxation rates and rental costs on Vancouver’s South Granville Gallery Row. It also indicated that, with few exceptions, city by-laws prohibit the establishment of art venues in residential areas and even on industrial lands unless they were zoned C3. Exactly three months ago, during an inter - view conducted in preparation for that article, I knew that Equinox Gallery owner, Andy Sylvester, was seeking a new location in which to begin “a different future” for his gallery vision. In just that short time, he has not only found but renovated his dreamt-for premises – the Equinox Project Space, formally opens to the public on February 2nd and coincides with the 40th anniversary of Equinox Gallery in Vancouver. The inaugural exhibition, Fred Herzog: A Retro - spective will showcase some 120 works pro - duced by the artist since 1953. Equinox’s adjunct space is at 525 Great Northern Way in a former industrial building within the evolving Great Northern Way Campus site where nearby public transit routes and free parking make for relatively easy access. A sophisticated, aesthetically arresting gallery interior has been created in an unoc - cupied structure that had become derelict during years of non-use. The dangerously The 12,000 sq. ft. Equinox Project Space is open to the public at 525 uneven floors have been transformed into Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC (Thursday-Saturday, 12-6) smooth concrete ones. Pristine, white 25-foot tall wall structures and post-to-post removable panels expose the even loftier original shell of the structure that surrounds them in a manner respectful of their heritage. The ring of windows below the steel-reinforced roof structure, casts indirect lighting into the vast open gallery below. It’s easy to visualize the potential impact of this 12,000 square feet of omni-purpose space that can accommo - date any conceivable exhibition or event. This “room” is as big as the main floor of the Vancouver Art Gallery and six times larger than the ground floor exhibition area of the Equinox’s South Granville location. Perhaps more and more galleries will soon be relocating from Vancouver’s westside and per - haps new for-profit or non-profit art establishments will open in proximity of 525 Great North - ern Way. Already more than half a dozen art premises are situated close to that address in East Vancouver. In 2006 Catriona Jeffries moved eastward from South Granville Gallery Row to a converted auto parts building at 274 East 1st Avenue to work with a mandate not far removed from the aims Sylvester has set for his new endeavour. Ted Lederer relocated his Elliott Louis Gallery from a site in Granville Island’s Cascade Building (designed by Arthur Erickson) a few years ago, to make a thoughtfully designed gallery out of an edifice of a different purpose at 258 East 1st Avenue. Architect Steve Palmier is credited with the design, but Lederer did the hands- on scut-work and now has a bigger and better art gallery than most of his peers across town. The grunt gallery on East 2nd Avenue is visible from the Great Northern Way Campus. Its program concentrates on work by First Nations people and takes place in a street-level commer - cial space of a live/work building for artists. The Western Front Gallery is housed in a 1920s building on East 8th Avenue that was once owned by the Knights of Pythias. This venue which is known for multi-media, video and experimental music became Vancouver’s first artist-run centre in 1973. In addition, fairly new and vibrant art venues have opened along the bordering Main Street and Gastown neighbourhoods. The high costs of operating a gallery in central Vancouver coupled with zoning restrictions are propelling the winds of change in an easterly direction.

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pencil portraits of witnesses as they QuALICuM BeACH testified, McCall produced a series of The Old School House RICHMOND black and white photographs almost Arts Centre Richmond Art Gallery 20 years later, documenting the neg - 122 Fern Rd W ¥250-752-6133 7700 Minoru Gate lected grounds of the nursery theme www.theoldschoolhouse.org ¥604-247-8300 604-247-8312 park – McCall and Wedman have col - mon-sat 10am-4:30pm. Thru Feb 18 www.richmondartgallery.org laborated for over a decade, each Fibre Arts Exhibition , show of B.C. fab - mon-fri 10am-6pm thurs 10am-9pm working in their own speciality. ric artists in all three galleries kicks off sat & sun 10am-5pm. Thru Apr 1 Stu - TOSH’s 25th Celebration; Feb 20-Mar 16 art McCall and Neil Wedman , “Fanta - Rufus Lin Gallery of Viewpoint 25 , 25 painters interpret the sy Gardens”, artworks made years Japanese Art work of 25 photographers, as the arts apart are linked by an indelible local 415-5811 Cooney Rd centre celebrates 25 years of bringing history on the subject of Bill Vander ¥604-303-6330 the arts to mid-Vancouver Island; Mar Zalm’s, Fantasy Gardens. Wedman www.rufuslingallery.com 17-30 The Art from the Attic Sale , annu - attended the proceedings of the Van - mon-fri 10am-5pm, closed holidays. al fundraiser of second-hand paintings. der Zalm trial and made numerous Admission free. Thru Feb 10 Animal

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 27 VIGNETTES • February/March 2012 British Columbia ROBIN LAuReNCe IAN WALLACE: MASCULIN/FÉMININ Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Van - couver, Jan 13-Feb 18 Internationally acclaimed artist Ian Wallace has produced a body of mixed-media works, including photo - graphs, inkjet prints, maquettes and large-scale canvases, that draws imagery from European avant-garde cinema of the 1950s and 60s. Shooting his own “stills” from such films as Antonioni’s Ian Wallace L’Avventura and Godard’s Le Mépris as they played on his televi - sion screen, he dislodges these portraits of men and women from their original narratives and embeds them within his own ideas and compositions. AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND MEDICINE West Vancouver Museum, West Vancouver, Jan 25-Mar 10 Another glimpse into a little-known history, this show examines anatomical drawings produced by Canadian women illustrators during the 1930s and 40s. Working in pen and ink, watercolour, and even carbon dust, the artists represented took on the challenge of creating scientif - ically correct images while also expressing their aesthetic indi - Eila Hopper Ross viduality. C.1983, PART 1 Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Jan 28-Mar 11 For more than two decades, Vancouver has been rec - ognized internationally as a centre for Photoconceptualism – or, perhaps more precisely, concept-driven photo-based art. In revisiting the period around 1983, this group show reveals the kinds of experimental camera practices that led to the flowering Marian Penner Bancroft of the “Vancouver School”. Look not only for photographic prints but also for slides, video, film, artists’ books, transparen - cies, photo-silkscreens and found materials. DUPLICITY: PAINTINGS BY CHRIS FRIESEN Maple Ridge Art Gallery, Maple Ridge, Jan 14-Mar 17 “Duplicity,” painter Christopher Friesen writes, is “at the heart of every artist’s practice.” His work walks an ambivalent line between representation and abstraction, painterliness and allusions to the technological. One of his approaches plays the centuries-old painting tradition of scaling images up through the use of a grid against the way digital media break images down into pixels. Chris Friesen FANTASY GARDENS: STUART MCCALL AND NEIL WEDMAN Rich - mond Art Gallery, Richmond, Jan 27-Apr 1 This two-person show addresses a theme park and plant nursery once owned by Bill Vander Zalm, British Columbia’s last Social Credit premier. The site of a controversial land deal, which resulted in criminal charges and a much-publicized trial, Fantasy Gardens eventually fell into disrepair and has now been demolished. Neil Wedman’s 1992 courtroom drawings and Stuart McCall’s photographs, shot in the ruins of the park’s “Dutch village”, tell separate but intersecting stories of a weirdly resonant blip in the Richmond landscape. Neil Wedman

28 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 Vignettes • February/March 2012

British Columbia ROBIN LAuReNCe THROW DOWN Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Jan 27-May 6 This challenging show presents new work by Sonny Assu, Gre - gory Ball, Megan Dickie, Tyler Hodgins and Alison MacTaggart. Curated by Nicole Stanbridge, it demonstrates ways in which art can be either “a call to action” or “an invitation to play”. Employ - ing strategic doses of humour and satire through a range of media, including sculpture, video, photography, drawing and urban intervention, these artists engage a range of socio-political Megan Dickie and economic issues.

SAMUEL ROY-BOIS Artspeak, Vancouver, Feb 4-Mar 17 The title of this show speaks volumes about our postmodern lives and inequitable times: I had a great trip despite a brutal feeling of cogni - tive dissonance . Vancouver artist Samuel Roy-Bois investigates “constructed space”, often creating immersive installations that smudge the boundary between art and life. In this work, an unnamed individual will occupy the reconfigured gallery – built as a place of residence — in a way invisible (but partially audible) Samuel Roy-Bois to viewers. Expect to be unsettled. LIGHTS OUT! CANADIAN PAINTING FROM THE 1960 s Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Feb 18-Apr 29 Curated by Ian Thom from the VAG’s rich holdings, this exhibition looks at both “the diver - sity and the strength” of painting practice across Canada during the 1960s. Whether working figuratively or abstractly, artists such as Joyce Wieland, Harold Town, Michael Morris, Greg Curnoe and Jack Chambers – to name just a few – participated in Michael Morris the creation of an energetic and distinctive national painting identity. FOREST ONE BY ANNIE ROSS UBC Museum of Anthropology, Van - couver, Mar 20-May 27 Weaver Annie Ross has created an aston - ishing sculpture by tightly covering a real car, inside and out, with twined and plaited cedar bark and other materials reclaimed from “clearcut urban forests”. She has given new life and mean - ing to a 1956 Nash Metropolitan, amazing us with her skills while also stimulating questions about “colonization, urban sprawl, trash, and remediating the urban landscape through acts of salvage”. GWAAI EDENSHAW Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Mar 29-Apr Annie Ross 21 This distinguished young artist, best known for his gold, silver, and argillite jewellery, is represented here by works on paper. His drawings range from studies in innovating classic Haida design, as learned from Robert Davidson, to comic book-style art, influenced by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. Based in Masset and Vancouver, Edenshaw combines his suc - cessful art career with environmental work for the council of the Haida Nation .

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www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 29 www.elliottlouis.com Portable Walls: Christian Nicolay and Ya-chu Kang ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Mar 29-Apr 21, 2012 Portable Walls includes a number of collaborative works by Vancouver artist Christian Nicolay and Taiwanese artist Ya-chu Kang. It is difficult to characterize Nicolay’s work, which moves from illustration to conceptual art to experimental sound pieces. His collaborations with Kang have widened the sense of disparity with the incorporation of performance and video. He describes his practice as lying “somewhere in those moments of transition between the old and new, stretched between the ephemeral and the permanent, injecting the unusu - al into the familiar, documenting the present while remembering the past”. The collaborative pieces in Portable Walls have sim - ilarly incongruent conceptual boundaries and stylistic treatments. Security Blanket is a blanket hung from the ceiling over an iron bed frame made from face masks. Safety Instructions consists of 12 mixed-media drawings formatted in a grid like a quilt. Recoil is a video perform - ance piece where the two artists repetitiously pop bal - loons held close to their faces. Ya-chu Kang is a Taiwanese artist who received her MFA in textiles from Tainan National University of the Arts, and her BFA in sculpture from National Tai - wan University of Arts, Taipei. She has shown her work in Taiwan, NY, Munich, Lithuania, Syria, Nepal, Christian Nicolay (in collaboration with Ya-chu Kang), Okinawa and Vancouver, and did residency programs Recoil (2011), video stills [Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver in Taiwan, U.S., Bangladesh, Jordan and Japan. Chris - BC, Mar 29-Apr 21] tian Nicolay, who began collaborating with Kang in 2010, is an Alberta-born artist who earned his BFA at UBC Okanagan (2000). He has curated various video, performance, sound and installation projects with artists from various fields. Mia Johnson Artists’ Talk: Saturday, March 24, 1pm

Paintings from the Permanent Col - celebrating the 75th anniversary of the # Pegasus Gallery of lection , 15 works depict cats, rabbits, Arts Centre building; Mar 2-31 Icon , Canadian Art goldfish and more in a variety of historic photography exhibition with 1-104 Fulford Ganges Rd media, including the unique Japanese an interactive installation for visitors ¥250-537-2421 pigments used in ‘nihonga’; Ongoing to share stories and photographs of www.pegasusgallery.ca “Contemporary Japanese Art Collec - the Post Office/Library/Art Gallery. tues-sat 9am-6pm. Established in tion”, featuring Toshihiko Yamada, 1972, this well-known destination Emi Mizushima, Ruri Asagi, Yuichi gallery in the Gulf Islands offers a Kinugasa, Naomi Mizushima, Sayu - wide selection of investment-quality mi Kudo, Shiyou Mitarai, Ranbo, SALT SPRING historical and contemporary Canadi - Tsubaki, Sakura Yukifuji, Tsuzu - ISLAND an art as well as rare Northwest Coast rame, Nesereto, Tatsuko Uzumaki Morley Myers native carvings, artifacts and baskets. and others. Gallery & Studio Feb 2–29 Bowls and Rattles ; Mar 1– #11-315 Upper Ganges Rd 31 A.Y. Jackson, A.J. Casson and ¥250-537-4898 company. www.morleymyersgallery.com SALMON ARM 11-5pm or by appt. Gallery/studio The Porch Gallery SAGA Public Art Gallery offers an opportunity to see where 290 Fulford-Ganges Rd 70 Hudson Ave NE ¥250-832-1170 Myers expands upon the language of ¥250-537-4155 www.sagapublicartgallery.ca the Moderns and brings abstract www.mothertonguepublishing.com tues-sat 11am-4pm. Thru Feb 25 75 , human form and experience into phys - sun 12-4pm or by appt. Historical and Annual Juried Members Exhibition ical reality in a contemporary setting. Contemporary B.C. Art – original

30 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS Gerda Marschall March 1 – 15, 2012

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Kurbatoff Gallery 2435 Granville St. Vancouver BC 604-736-5444 Exhibitions on-line: www.kurbatoffgallery.com paintings and drawings, limited edi - mon-thurs 12-8pm fri-sun 10am- tion prints and Mother Tongue Pub - 4pm. Thru Feb 27 WALLS & C ASES lishing books, showing artwork by SOOKe Karen Goodfellow , “Illuminated Tap - Jack Akroyd, Gordon Caruso, South Shore Gallery estry”, mixed-media paintings, con - George Fertig, LeRoy Jensen, Irene 2046 Otter Point Rd ¥250-642-2058 temporary aboriginal gourds and Hoffar Reid, Ina D.D. Uhthoff, Peter www.sooke.org/southshoregallery metal assemblage; Feb 28–Mar 26 Haase, Jack Hardman, Wim Blom mon-sat 10am-5pm. Feb-Mar Featur - WALLS Sophie Brunet , “Mysteries and Gary Sim . ing gallery artists Ed Araquel, Andres Abound”, paintings; CASES Effie Bak - Bohaker, Jeffrey Boron, Dorothy er , “Down to Earth”, jewellery in sil - Hodgson Butler, Robert Louis ver, stone, resin and clay; Mar 27-Apr Chouinard, Sylvia Hallgren, Kathy 30 WALLS Ann Hamm , “A Walk in the SIDNeY Johannesson, Mimi Jones, Robert Park”, oil and acrylic paintings; CASES Peninsula Gallery Owen, Cheryl Parkinson, Lisa Riehl, Fundraiser – Friends of Foyer , 100-2506 Beacon Ave Joanne Thomson and Linny D. Vine , mixed media. ¥250-655-1282 877-787-1896 paintings; Leslie Speed , block prints; www.pengal.com Alison Garrett Hanneson, Jo Ludwig Squamish Arts Council mon-sat 9am-5pm. Thru Feb “Collec - and Jill Morton , fused glass; Maya 37950 Cleveland Ave tor’s Choice”, features Real Fournier , Bismanis, Stephen Cooke and Vin - 2nd location: SAC Artisan Window vivid, lively oil-on-canvas paintings, cent Fe , ceramics; Katherine Woods , Gallery, 1336 Main St Don Bastian , wood sculptures in sculpture; also wearables, jewellery ¥604-892-9838 basswood, Carol Evans , water - and cards by various South Vancou - www.squamishartscouncil.ca colours, Gail Johnson , acrylics, ver Island artists. Exhibition space is located in the Brent Cooke , bronze sculptures and Squamish Arts Council building in Robert Bateman, Carol Evans and park: visit the website for exhibition Pino , giclée prints; Thru Mar “West hours; SAC Artisan Window Gallery: Coast and More”, features Ron Park - SQuAMISH daily 24 hours. Feb-Mar SAC B UILDING er , striking, allegorical acrylic land - Foyer Gallery at the AND SAC A RTISAN WINDOW GALLERY scapes, Mickie Acierno , luminous Squamish Public Library Showcasing local and visiting artists still lifes in oil and Douglas Fisher , 37907 2nd Ave ¥604-892-3110 interpreting Squamish culture, nature inspired woodturnings (big-leaf www.squamish.bclibrary.ca/services- and history through innovative works maple). programs/foyer-gallery of art. www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 31 BY JIM FINLA Y Practical Art History or FINLAY FINE ART Confessions of a Fine Art Appraiser www.FinlayFineArt.com Chapter 30. The Case of Debatable Donations I was recently involved in appraising artworks by several well-known artists which were slated for donation to private and publicly-funded art museums and galleries. I began to wonder, albeit in hind - sight and naively, about how and why works of art are chosen by major public and private galleries. Why do contemporary artists donate their work and why do serious collectors donate their collec - tions? Why do major museums appear to have in their collections all the great works by great artists? One would like to think that reasons for donating are based on admirable philanthropic principles, generosity of spirit and a desire to “give back to the community”, but it seems obvious that there might be more agenda-driven motivations. Consider, for example, a wealthy collector and philanthropist who plans to eventually leave his important collection to a major art institution. One wonders how the collection was built and why an institution would welcome it. One also wonders if such a planned donation is linked to a purposeful shaping of an institution’s permanent collection and if contributing to the critical and financial success of a particular artist is a factor. A significant donation would also elevate the institution’s international profile and career trajectory of its curators, historians and art managers. How does all of this affect our collective cultural consciousness and form our history of art? A possible explanation for the accumulation of a specific collection could be connected to the active participation and guidance by art specialists in accordance with the directives and goals of an institution. It is not unusual to witness such col - laborations at art auctions; situations that will ensure the continual enhancement of an institution’s reputation and the elevation of personal reputations. Once an insti - tution receives a major donation, it then often markets the collection under the donor’s name to give an example of the astute collecting abilities of an art lover who has magnanimously given his valuable collection back to the community. There seems to be no mention about the enormous tax receipt given to the collector or his estate which has a direct proportional rela - tionship to personal and estate tax obligations. The donation process can also work well in reverse when a large corporation seeks to reduce its tax burden while appearing to support a city’s cultural life. Here too, a major work will often be purchased specifically for future donation in the name of the corporation and often with the advice of a gallery mandarin or a professional art advisor. A contemporary artist also benefits if he places one or several of his pieces into a major gallery. Years ago it was standard practice for an emerging artist to donate a piece to the National Gallery for no other reason than to be able to truthfully state that his work was in that collection, and to perhaps enjoy any subsequent financial benefits. The Gallery has long since discouraged this activity as it was unable to accommodate the wealth of work (good and atrocious) it received. Every artist knows that the donation process is an excellent way to bury pieces which may have a detrimental effect on current pricing structures. I have been involved with artists who refuse to acknowledge authorship of an early work because it is stylistically quite different from their current work which brings in a much higher price. A gallery owner may also actively encourage the artist to do so, for obvious reasons. This certainly doesn’t do much for collectors of early work who cannot recover the initial investment upon re-sale. Then we have contemporary artists who donate a conceptual work of questionable produc - tion cost in an attempt to secure a tax receipt and to position the work in an influential cutting-edge gallery so as to elevate his artistic stature within the international community. At times my appraisal work has been challenged by such artists as I was seen to not be sensitive to the value of the intangible, intrinsic and conceptual aspect of their work even though it is not part of my man date. Next issue: The Case of the Idiosyncratic Signature and the Indecipherable Monogram

32 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 Brandel, Ben Burnett, Rod Charles- worth, Denis Chiasson, Toller SuNSHINe COAST SuRReY Cranston, George Culley, Peter Goldmoss Gallery Arnold Mikelson Mind & Daniels, Robert Davidson, George 2840 Lower Rd, Roberts Creek Matter Art Gallery Demmer, Chantal De Serres, Marc ¥604-886-1968 13743 16th Ave ¥604-536-6460 Eliuk, Colette Falardeau, Adrienne www.goldmoss.com www.mindandmatterart.com Godbout, Curtis Golomb, Tiffany sat & sun 12-4pm or by appt. Satur - daily 12-6pm. Thru Feb Arnold Mikel - Hastie, Ron Hedrick, Amanda Jones, days 12-4pm , live drawing and paint - son , wood sculpture; Kevin Healy , Paul Jorgensen, Ken Kirkby, H.E. ing by guest artists; Feb-Mar R.B. soapstone; Richard Westwood , steel Kuckein (re-sales), David Ladmore, Wainwright, Donna Balma, Diego sculpture; Sheila Symington , mixed Louise Lauzon, Richard Long, Dennis Samper, Susan Gordon, Agnete medium; Darrel Hancock , pottery; Bob Magnusson, Sharon Mark, Andrew Newman, Jennifer Seymour, Bon Gonzales , woodturning; Val Eibner , McDermott, Greg Metz, Debbie Mil - Roberts, Ines Tancre, Heather Gatz fused glass; Millie Meerheimb , water - ner, Pieter Molenaar, Bruce Muir, Toni and Lee Grant-Roberts , contempo - colour and Teresa Hotel , ceramic; Thru Onley, Clive Powsey, Karen Rieger, rary paintings and sculpture. Mar Joseph Florian , oil; Judith Cindy Rudolph, Zoe Sava, Peter Copeland , oil; Robert Park , glassblow - Shostak, Peter Stuhlmann, Joce - Sunshine Coast Arts Council ing; Linda Morris , oil; Elmer Gunder - lyne Tremblay, Chrissandra Unger + Arts Centre son , wood carving; Teresa Wegrzyn , and Henry Xu . 5714 Medusa St, Sechelt acrylic; Jack Olive , pottery; Shirley ¥604-885-5412 Thomas , oil and Jeannette Boothby , # Kwantlen Art Gallery & www.scartscouncil.com soapstone. Arbutus Gallery at Coast wed-sat 11am-4pm sun 1-4pm. Feb Capital Savings Library 15-Mar 11 Jay Hanscom ,“The Vul - Jenkins Showle r Gallery Atrium ture, the Loot & the Anvil”; Mar 14- 101-15735 Croydon Dr Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Apr 8 Gertrude Pacific , “Wonderful The Shops @ Morgan Crossing Surrey Campus World”. ¥604-535-7445 D126-12666 72nd Ave www.jenkinsshowlergallery.com ¥604-599-2219 # Open late First Thursday of tues-sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-6pm. www.kwantlen.ca/fine-arts every month until 8pm Gallery artists Jane Armstrong, Arnt Check the website for hours. Ongoing Arntzen, Kathi Bond, Rick Bond, Merv exhibitions of student work.

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 33 # Surrey Art Gallery sale of artwork in a wide variety of 13750 88 Ave (at King George Hwy) styles, media and sizes, small month - ¥604-501-5566 www.surrey.ca/arts ly rental fees for over 1,000 artworks mon & fri 9am-5pm tues-thurs 9am- by 200 notable artists such as Angela 9pm sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm. Grossman, Gabryel Harrison, David Admission by donation. Thru Feb 12 Wilson, Jamie Evrard, Martha Stur - Surrey Photography Club , recent dy and more. Thru Apr 30 David works; Feb 19–May 29 Art by Surrey Ellingsen , photographs. Secondary School Students ; Thru Mar 18 Sylvia Grace Borda, Michael Art Works Gallery de Courcy, Chris Gergley, Jeremy 225 Smithe St ¥604-688-3301 Herndl, Bill Jeffries, Roy Kiyooka, www.artworksbc.com Owen Kydd, Khan Lee, Helma mon-fri 9am-6pm sat 10am-6pm sun Sawatzky, Susan Schuppli, Jeff Wall, 12-5pm. Thru Feb 24 Carole Arnston, Ian Wallace and Neil Wedman , Linzy Arnott, Christine Breakell-Lee, “Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and Marie Danielle Leblanc and Jean the Serial Image”, drawings, paintings, Gabriel Lambert , “Fresh”, introduces still photography and video; Thru Dec Gigi Hoeller, Red Figure [Sunshine Coast, BC our newest artists to the gallery and 16, 2012 Kristin Roos , “Open Sound [email protected], www.gigibutterfly.com, celebrates newly-finished artwork by 2012: On Air, Underground – Making 604-885-6650] our already acclaimed artists; Feb 27- the Inaudible Audible”, new sound art - Mar 30 Sharon Quirke , “Failte Abhaile” work; Ongoing REMIXX.sur.RE , youth Art Beatus (Vancouver) (‘Welcome Home’ in Gaelic), her work new media project; SURREY URBAN Consultancy Ltd. finds a timeless moment in a walk in SCREEN , EXTERIOR OF CHUCK BAILEY RECRE - 108-808 Nelson St ¥604-688-2633 the park, a stroll through the garden, or ATION CENTRE , 13458 – 107A Ave Thru www.artbeatus.com a hike through the woods that cele - Mar 31 Electric Speed , five new art - mon-fri 10am-6pm. Thru Feb 17 brate the journey, inspiration and links works contribute to the international Hiroshi Hara, Won Seok Lim, Ramón to her own roots and this vast land that McLuhan in Europe project. Singley and Toru Sugita , “Selected many of us call home. Artists Group Show”; Mar 2-Apr 27 Toni Onley and Lynn Onley , “Connect - Arts Off Main ed Landscapes”, father-daughter exhi - 216 E 28th Ave ¥604-876-2785 TSAWWASSeN bition features a selection of water - www.artsoffmain.ca Tsawwassen Longhouse colour landscape paintings. wed-sat 11:30am-5:30pm sun-11am- Gallery 5pm. An artist-run gallery with work 1710-56th St ¥604-943-3313 Art Emporium by B.C. artists offering original and www.southdeltaartistsguild.com 2928 Granville St ¥604-738-3510 affordable paintings, prints, sculpture, thurs-sun 11am-4pm. Thru Feb 15 www.theartemporium.ca photographs, jewellery and pottery. Eileen Fong, Laural Johnson and mon-sat 10am-6pm. Exceptional inven - Faith Love-Robertson , “Heart and tory of paintings by major Canadian, Artspeak Soul”; Feb 16-26 Linda Bell, Birgit American and French masters of the 233 Carrall St ¥604-688-0051 Coath, Nancy Dean and Gabrielle 20th C., featuring Emily Carr and all www.artspeak.ca Gerig , “Four Women, Four Stories”; members of the Group of Seven and tues-sat 12-5pm. Feb 4-Mar 17 Mar 1-25 Partners in Art , invitational several of their contemporaries, C. Samuel Roy-Bois: I had a great trip with other local art groups. Krieghoff, David Milne, J.W. Morrice, despite a brutal feeling of cognitive Tom Thomson ; Paintings by Karel dissonance . Appel, A. Calder, E. Cortez, Montague Dawson, Jean and Raoul Dufy, A. ArtStarts Gallery VANCOuVeR Hambourg, J. Hervé, Picasso, Utrillo, 808 Richards St ¥604-878-7144 Appleton Galleries A. Volti, Andrew Wyeth , and Canadi - www.artstarts.com 1644 W 75th Ave ¥604-685-1715 ans Max Bates, Donald Flather, H.G. tues-fri 9am-5pm. Thru Mar 31 “The www.appletongalleries.com Glyde, E.J. Hughes, F. Lansdowne, Kingsway Project”, the past and the call for hours or appt. Massive Winter John Little, Henri Masson, Rudolph present as seen through the eyes of Sale Continues! New Location Spe - Messner, Hugh Monahan, Riopelle, 120 children from two Kingsway-area cialists in Inuit and First Nations art Goodridge Roberts, Jack Shadbolt schools, in collaboration with media for over 40 years. We specialize in and Andrew Wong . artist Anne Marie Slater , celebrates Canadian Inuit stone sculpture and the rich history and significance of the Northwest Coast First Nations wood Art Rental & Sales at the place they call home. carvings (Haida, Kwakiutl, Coast Sal - Vancouver Art Gallery ish, masks, paddles, talking sticks, 750 Hornby St Audain Gallery plaques and more). 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34 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS Claims for the Future , examines the possibilities for and consequences of community-based political activity as articulated within artistic and institu - tional practices, a visual mapping of the demands and aspirations of the DEWC (Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre) community – visit the website for full schedule of events; Mar 8-24 So Crazy it Just Might Work , SFU Third-Year Undergraduate Visual Art Student Exhi - bition, visit the website for information. Baron Gallery and Studio 293 Columbia St, Gastown ¥604-682-1114 www.barongallery.ca thurs-sun 12-6 pm or by appt. Thru Apr 28 Pierre Gauvreau (1922-2011) and Janine Carreau , “Art = Libéra - tion”, selection of 47 paintings, both individually made and collaborative, demonstrate an exuberant celebration of life by Automatist Gauvreau and his wife Carreau, curated by long-time friend Ray Ellenwood. New inventory will be added to the exhibition throughout its duration. To make an appt phone or email the gallery [email protected]. Bau-Xi Gallery 3045 Granville St ¥604-733-7011 www.bau-xi.com mon-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 11am- 5:30pm. MAIN GALLERY Feb 11-25 Sylvia Tait , “Alternative Voices”, new abstract paperworks and paintings; Mar 3-17 Robert Marchessault , “Ele - ganza”, new landscape paintings. Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Art 639 Hornby St ¥604-682-3455 www.billreidgallery.ca wed-sun 11am-5pm. Admission: adults $10, seniors/students $7, youth/child 5-17 $5, kids 4 and under free, family (2 adults + 2 children) Blanket Contemporary Art 9:30am-9pm sat 9:30am-5pm sun 1- $25. Group rates and guided tours 560 Seymour St, 2nd Flr 5pm. Feb 1-Mar 2 June Slakov , available when booked in advance. ¥604-709-6100 “Memory Reframed”, mixed media Admission subject to tax. Showcas - www.blanketgallery.com artist books; Leah Schell , “Once Upon ing the permanent collection of works wed-sat 12-6pm and by appt. Thru Feb a Time ”, watercolour and acrylic ink by Bill Reid alongside changing exhi - 25 Brian Kokoska , “Beige Infinity”, drawings; Mar 7-30 Bernadine Fox , bitions of contemporary Northwest new oil paintings, garish, gloomy and “Family Px: Exploring the Personalities Coast art. Thru Feb 19 “Bill Reid and vivid, in which figures seem tied down, in a Disso ciative (DID) System”, the Haida Canoe”, conveys the pivotal trapped or forced to pose, but are mys - mixed-media assemblages. role of the canoe in Northwest Coast tifyingly true to life. art, cultures and commu nities, Catalog Gallery through vivid works of renowned Britannia Art Gallery 56 Powell St ¥604-721-4266 photographers Phil Hersee and 1661 Napier St, Britannia Library www.cataloggallery.org Robert Semeniuk , experience the ¥604-718-5800 wed-sun 1-8pm. Feb 9-26 Chris von revival of canoe building and paddling www.britanniacentre.org Szombathy and Drew Shaffer , “Love along the coast and beyond. mon, thurs, fri 9:30am-5pm tues, wed is in the Error: Pathetic Solutions to

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Feb 10, 1-5:30pm – Free Concrete Poetry Symposium at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Jan 25-Mar 3 – Satellite Gallery, 560 Seymour St. presents Letters: Palomar in conjunction with the Belkin Gallery

Pathetic Problems”, new work; Mar jing), “Yellow Signal: New Media in mon-fri 12-5pm sat-sun 10am-5pm. 8-31 Ben Tour , “New Work”. China”, guest curated by Zheng Thru Feb 26 Babak Golkar , “Grounds Shengtian. for Standing and Understanding”, Catriona Jeffries Gallery new site specific sculptural work by 274 E 1st Ave ¥604-736-1554 # Chali-Rosso Art Gallery Vancouver-based Iranian-born artist; www.catrionajeffries.com 2250 Granville St ¥604-733-3594 Mar 14-Apr 22 The Voyage or Three tues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Feb 18 Ian www.chalirosso.com Years at Sea, Part III , artwork com - Wallace: Masculin/Féminin ; Mar 11- tues-sun 11am-6pm or by appt. bined with archival objects and mate - 31 Julia Feyrer: Alternatives and Showing Pablo Picasso and Henri rials from maritime collections by Opportunities . Matisse ; original graphic works by local and international contemporary European Masters in the 20th century, artists, next installment of a multi- Centre A, Vancouver Chagall, Picasso, Miró, Dali and part exhibition series about art and International Centre for Matisse ; Ongoing Miró , “Melodie the sea. Contemporary Asian Art Acide”, Picasso , “Vollard Suite” and 2 W Hastings St ¥604-683-8326 Chagall , “Jerusalem Windows”. Choboter Fine Art www.centrea.org 23 Alexander St tues-sat 11am-6pm. Thru Feb 25 Charles H. Scott Gallery ¥604-688-0145 604-779-7050 Matilda Aslizadeh, Natalie Doonan, Emily Carr University of Art and Design www.choboter.com Gwenessa Lam and Natasha 1399 Johnston St, Granville Island mon-sat 12-6pm. Ongoing Presenta - McHardy , “waiting for”; Mar 17-Apr ¥604-844-3809 tion of recent figurative abstract 28 Wang Jianwei and Kan Xuan (Bei - www.chscott.ecuad.ca paintings by local artist Don Choboter .

38 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS Circle Craft Gallery www.coastalpeoples.com discrete works sited in the windows and 1-1666 Johnston St, Granville Island Yaletown mon-sat 10am-7pm sun & at the Canada Line sta tion, Massey ¥604-669-8021 www.circlecraft.net holidays 11am-6pm, Gastown mon-sat links both locations through two new daily 10am-7pm. Feb 3-28 Kelly Austin, 10am-6pm sun & holidays 11am-6pm. pieces dealing with shifts in notions of Donovan Hough, Idolly Schwendener GASTOWN GALLERY Opens Spring 2012 time and place and the mutable con - and Emily Hill , “Student Show – 2011 Kevin Cranmer (Kwakwaka’wakw) and nections between them; YALETOWN - Circle Craft Scholarship Recipients”, Philip Gray (Tsimshian), “Cranmer + ROUNDHOUSE STATION , CANADA LINE Feb various mediums; Mar 2-Apr 3 Diane Gray”, works illustrate their distinctive 3-Jun 30 Scott Massey , “Via Lactea Perry , “A Day in the Life of Monstery regional styles with slight variations in (above Glacier Lake)”. Things”, unique textile/plush dolls. formline and use of colour, yet they are bound together by a common cultural Craft Council of BC Gallery City of Vancouver heritage; YALETOWN GALLERY Feb-Mar 1386 Cartwright St, Granville Island Archives Gallery Works by gallery artists. ¥604-687-7270 888-687-6511 1150 Chestnut St ¥604-736-8561 www.craftcouncilbc.ca www.vancouver.ca/archives Contemporary Art Gallery Gallery: daily 10.30am-5.30pm, Office: mon-fri 9am-5pm. Thru Apr 13 555 Nelson St ¥604-681-2700 tues-thurs 10am-5pm. Thru Feb 9 Leslie Hossack , “Vancouver’s Village www.contemporaryartgallery.ca Farideh Barani, Amy Henwood and 2008-201 1”, photographs document wed-sun 12-6pm. Feb 3-Apr 15 Guo Helen Quinn , “The Mystical within the the evolution of the Olympic Village Fengyi (1942-2010), large-scale draw - Material: Poetry, Ceremony and from a flock of construction cranes to ings comprise intricate details and Inspired Observation in the Works of an avenue of shiny buildings, Hos - obsessive mark-making to articulate Three New Craft Artists”, CCBC stu - sack visits Vancouver regularly from ideas of spiritual and metaphysical sig - dent awards show; Feb 16-Mar 29 Ottawa and the work captures her per - nificance combines Chinese folk culture Mariko McCrae , “The Life and Times spective as an observer who is both with traditions of wisdom and myth; of Abigail Tackle”, McCrae merges a resident and visitor, close but distant. Frances Stark , “My Best Thing”, first fictitious elderly woman’s dreams of feature-length animation, using tran - one day visiting the oceans wide with Coastal Peoples scripts of an online relationship with two her handbuilt ceramics, resulting in Fine Arts Gallery random strangers, the video unfolds to work lifted from the annals of Christie’s 1024 Mainland St, Yaletown, build an intimate portrait of the artist and Sotheby’s auction catalogues that 2nd location: 312 Water St, Gastown and her creative process; WIN DOW are made to walk the plank of contem - ¥604-685-9298 604-684-9222 SPACES Scott Massey , “Aurorae”, with porary subversions.

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 39 www.winsorgallery.com Gary Pearson: Scenes from a ‘Smoker’s Theatre’ WINSOR GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Feb 2-26, 2012 Gary Pearson is a mixed-media artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna. As an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in painting and video, he has been exhibiting internationally since 1983. Scenes from a ‘Smoker’s Theatre’ presents new paintings and video. Inspired by German play - wright Bertolt Brecht, the work ranges in subject matter from still life and landscape to smoky bar scenes and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Pearson describes the project as “an integrated research and multi-media production approach that unites practice and discourse…deploying multi-media, mixed-technique/media documentary and the - atrical mise-en-scène”. Following the example of epic theatre, the project is episodic and construct - ed as scenes, rather than with a conventional beginning, middle and end. It includes multi- channel video and audio. Gary Pearson, The Secret (2011), oil and oil enamel on canvas Pearson earned his MA at the University of [Winsor Gallery,Vancouver BC, Feb 2-26] Saskatchewan and his BFA at the University of Victoria. He has reviewed art exhibitions for Canadian Art , Border Crossings and Sculpture Magazine among others. Since the 1980s, Pearson has been active in curating exhibitions for a number of galleries, including the Or Gallery, Kelowna Art Gallery and Artspace, Sydney, Australia. He is a recipient of an International Studio Program residency at MoMA PS1, New York, a 1991 VIVA Award, and the 2010 Okanagan Arts Award in Visual Arts. Mia Johnson

Diane Farris Gallery lished Asian and African ethnographic Douglas Udell Gallery ¥604-737-2629 gallery in Vancouver, featuring excep - 1566 W 6th Ave, 2nd Flr www.dianefarrisgallery.com tional Asian and African artifacts, stat - ¥604-736-8900 Online gallery showcasing works by ues, masks, ritual items, Buddhas, www.douglasudellgallery.com Canadian and international artists. beads, tribal jewellery, textiles and tues-sat 10am-6pm. Feb-Mar New Feb-Mar Special features include antique furniture. Currently featuring a acquisitions and new works by gallery Dale Chihuly’s Studio Editions , new rare and beautiful collection of South - artists Mary Lee and Louisiana Ben - paintings by Sara Genn and second - east Asian and Himalayan Buddhas dolph, Ann Kipling, Dorothy Knowles, ary market works by David Bierk . Vis - and ritual items. William Perehudoff, Christopher it the website for more information. Pratt, Tony Scherman, Peter Schuyff, Douglas Reynolds Gallery William Wood and others; Mar 31-Apr Doctor Vigari Gallery 2335 Granville St ¥604-731-9292 14 Natalka Husar , “Burden of Inno - 1816 Commercial Dr ¥604-255-9513 www.douglasreynoldsgallery.com cence, Trial and Banquet”, paintings – www.doctorvigarigallery.com mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm. Spe - three interwoven, unresolved narra - mon-sat 11am-6pm sun 12am-5pm. cializing in museum-quality Northwest tives in the form of a history play in More artists, going back to roots of Coast art and offering a wide selection three acts. signature designer furniture, home of works by leading Native artists accessories, jewellery, glass, pottery including Bill Reid, Robert Davidson, Dundarave Print Workshop and fine art; Wendy Berry Custom Don Yeomans and Beau Dick , featur - and Gallery Framing on the premises. ing carved wood masks, bentwood 1640 Johnston St, Granville Island boxes, totem poles, panels, handcraft - ¥604-689-1650 Dorian Rae Collection ed gold and silver jewellery and carry - www.dundaraveprintworkshop.com 410 Howe St ¥604-874-6100 ing a wide variety of prints, baskets wed-sun 11am-5pm. Thru Feb 5 www.dorianraecollection.com and bronze and glass edition works, Vahid Despak, Paul Ohannesian and mon-fri 10:30am-5:30pm sat 10:30am- showing selected works by gallery Carolyn Mount , “Relational Spaces”, 5pm and by appt. The longest estab - artists. etchings and reductive relief prints

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ART GALLERY OF ARTISTIC STATEMENT Gallery and School of Fine Art GREATER VICTORIA Artist/Instructor: Joan Hill The Enduring Arts of China | Throw Down: Sonny Assu, Gregory Ball, Megan Dickie, Tyler Hodgins, Limited edition print Alison MacTaggart | Victoria Collects: A View into by Alberta artist Jean Birnie Private Collections from the Region, also featuring the Salish Weave Collection all on now until May 6 IN THE STUDIO: Ongoing Classes/Commissions 1040 MOSS STREET 107 – 2250 OAK BAY AVENUE 250-384-4171 250-383-0566 www.aggv.ca www.artisticstatementgalleryandschool.com www.vanartgallery.bc.ca Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Feb 25-Jun 3, 2012 Beat Nation features a unique selec - tion of pieces by Aboriginal artists who combine such aspects of urban culture as hip hop, graffiti, pop art, fashion and film with traditional native styles and techniques. The engaging exhibit includes samples of work by 15 artists and one collective, with an emphasis on First Nations of the West Coast. The paintings, sculptures, installations, perform - ances and video pieces were chosen with the goal of reflecting the changing demographics of Aboriginal people. Hip hop has been a driving force of activism in the Aborig - inal community since the 1990s. As used by the artists in Beat Nation , hip hop culture and music have been transformed into artworks that reveal their current realities and act as “dynamic forums for storytelling and indigenous language, as well as new modes of political expression”. The hybrid artwork includes graffiti murals with Haida figures, sculptures carved from skateboard decks, abstract paintings E

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DUNDARAVE GALLERY, VANCOUVER, CONT’D Elliott Louis Gallery Equinox Gallery depicting and relating to our connec - 258 E 1st Ave ¥604-736-3282 2321 Granville St ¥604-736-2405 tions around built spaces; Feb 8-Mar www.elliottlouis.com www.equinoxgallery.com 4 Lone Tratt , “Cosmic Forms”, mono - tues-sat 10am-6pm. Thru Feb 11 Alan tues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Feb 4 Neil types depicting the ancient structures Fulle , “Illuminated Village”, series of Wedman: Selected Monochromatic of eroded sandstone; Mar 7-Apr 1 multi-coloured resin towers and Paintings and Works on Paper 2007- Hannamari Jalovaara , “Promises of works from the Gem Box series and 11 Part One ; Feb 10-Mar 7 Takao Tan - Life”, new etchings and aquatints. iconic Dots and Super Stripes sculp - abe ; Mar 10-Apr 7 Erin McSavaney . tures/paintings; Feb 23-Mar 17 Car - Eagle Spirit Gallery olyn Stockbridge , “Groupings”, new Equinox Project Space 1803 Maritime Mews, Granville Island ‘quietening abstract’ paintings that the 525 Great Northern Way ¥604-801-5205 artist likens to groupings or tribes of ¥604-736-2405 www.eaglespiritgallery.com colour, shape and marks reveal the www.equinoxgallery.com daily 11am-5pm or by appt. Specializ - nature of paint and of humanity; Mar thurs-sat 12-6pm. Thru Mar 17 Fred ing in Northwest Coast and Inuit First 29-Apr 21 Christian Nicolay and Ya- Herzog: A Retrospective . Nations art and features museum qual - chu Kang , “Portable Walls”, collabora - ity hand-carved masks, panels, bent - tive exhibition of new work exploring Firehall Arts Centre Gallery wood boxes, totem poles, argillite, but - contemporary narratives of safety and 280 E Cordova St ¥604-689-0691 ton blankets, glass sculpture and Inuit identity, man and woman, utilizing www.firehallartscentre.ca stone works . found materials from mixed media on wed-sat 1-5pm and before evening paper to sculptural forms and clothing. performances. Thru Mar 3 Leonard Elissa Cristall Gallery Cohen , “Prints”, self portraits and 2245 Granville St ¥604-730-9611 English Bay Gallery other illustrations by Canadian trou - www.cristallgallery.com 107-1551 Johnston St, Granville Island badour Cohen; Mar 7-Apr 28 Susan tues-fri 11am-6pm sat 11am-5:30pm. ¥604-688-3006 Gransby , “Under Construction: Van - Feb 4-25 Rebecca Chaperon , paint - www.EnglishBayGallery.com couver to Hong Kong”, multimedia ings from the series Like a Great Black daily 10am-6pm. Ongoing Yoshi work – two series of collages and Fire ; Mar 3-31 Anda Kubis , “Full Spec - Yamamoto , photography; Bill Framp - prints reflect on the outward transfor - trum”, paintings. ton , painting and photo collage. mations of these two dynamic cities.

44 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 Framagraphic Framing Gallery 1116 W Broadway ¥604-738-0017 www.framagraphic.com mon-fri 9:30am-6pm sat 10am-5pm. Bright and bold pieces by Quebec artist Marie-Claude Boucher and from Collingwood, Mark Berens and Bob Arrigo ; also showing Barb Wood, Ted Harrison, E.J. Hughes and Métis artist Michael Robinson . Gallery Gachet 88 E Cordova St ¥604-687-2468 www.gachet.org wed-sun 12-6pm. Feb 3-Mar 18 Josée Landry , “Faire Manie Workshop Series”, designed by Landry as a way for people suffering from mental health problems to express themselves by creating obsessions on paper that take the form of drawing, stamping, photo - copying and other media, presented by Folie/Culture, Quebec’s leading mental health and arts centre . Gallery Jones 1725 W 3rd Ave ¥604-714-2216 www.galleryjones.com tues-fri 11am-6pm sat 12-5pm and by appt. Thru Feb 29 “Year of the Dragon – Lu Xinjian and Chen Hangfeng”, two artists from Shanghai, Lu Xinjian , “City DNA”, utilizes satellite imagery to create paintings that explore and deci - pher a city’s overall structure and rhythm with basic shapes and marks; Chen Hangfeng , manipulates corpo - rate insignias into elaborate symmetri - cal paper cutouts that speak of a senti - ment that is leery of western infiltration and influence, reflective of the long relationship that many Chinese facto - ries have had with these branded icons and also showing ‘The Last Supper’, a video piece with KFC’s Colonel and a brood of hens.

Gallery of B.C. Ceramics Aroeste ; Mar 17-23 Keith Hiscock ; grunt gallery 1359 Cartwright St, Granville Island Mar 24-30 Suzanne Northcott ; Mar Unit 116-350 E 2nd Ave ¥604-669-3606 31-Apr 6 J.G. Freedman . Now selling ¥604-875-9516 www.grunt.ca www.galleryofbcceramics.com original works by Picasso, Renoir, tues-sat 12-5pm. Thru Feb 11 daily 10am-6pm. Thru Mar 25 “Best Monet, Modigliani, and more. Christoph Runné , “The Symbolic of BC”, the spirit of ocean, mountain, Meaning of Tree”, installation forest and the wonders of our envi - Greenery Gallery with multiple screen projections of a ronment are celebrated in fine ceram - 3735 W 10th Ave ¥604-688-2832 sparse virtual forest in which a solitary ic pieces by Geoff Searle, Laurie www.greenerynativeartgallery.com figure both remains rooted and circles, Rolland, Cathi Jefferson and others. mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 12-4pm or by simultaneously casting shadows as it appt. Displays the vibrant colours of passes; Feb 23-Mar 31 Charlene Vick - Granville Fine Art the woodland style of Ojibway art ers , “Ominjimendaan/to remember”, 2447 Granville St ¥604-266-6010 against a lush background of fresh carvings in wood, grasses wrapped in www.granvillefineart.com flowers and orchid plants, featuring fabric and hair, and a clan of turtles tues-fri 10am-6pm sat 10am-5pm original works by Mark Anthony become signals and searchers to sun & mon 12-5pm. Feb 4-10 Miriam Jacobson and Jim Oskineegish . remember those lost or missing. www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 45 www.burnabyartgallery.ca Renée Van Halm: Cross-Cutting/Inside Out BURNABY ART GALLERY, BURNABY BC – Feb 10-Apr 8, 2 012 Cross-Cutting/Inside Out presents the art and practice of con - temporary Vancouver artist Renée Van Halm, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Emily Carr University of Art + Design. In line with the Burnaby Art Gallery’s commitment to exhibiting works on paper, the retrospective is a chronological survey of Van Halm’s drawings and studies from 1979 to the T S I T R A present. Three-dimensional installation E H T

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The drawing survey, curated by E L L O Sophie Brodovitch, focuses on Van C Halm’s interest in the social role of Renée Van Halm, Design Interior/Gordon (2002), gouache on paper [Burnaby architecture. In her study of modernist Art Gallery, Burnaby BC, Feb 10-Apr 8] architecture, she has produced three decades’ worth of canvases and installations. Her work is described as amplifying the “ubiquity of modernist, Bauhaus-inspired design” through its deconstruction of such exterior and interior features as concrete windows, ceiling tiles, fluorescent lighting, grid-like office cells and commercial advertis - ing, in a process she describes as the “codification and decodification of familiar cultural expe riences”. Van Halm was born in the Netherlands and lives and works in Vancouver after many years in Toronto, Montreal and Berlin. In Toronto she was curator and director of the artist-run centre Mer - cer Union. Van Halm is represented by the Equinox Gallery, Vancouver. Mia Johnson Lunch BAG Days: Feb 17, noon-1pm – exhibition tour with Renée Van Halm; Mar 30, noon-1pm – exhibition tour with gallery’s public programmer. Light lunch $10, reservations: 604-297-4422, must be 16 years and up.

Havana Gallery hfa contemporary Ian Tan Gallery 1212 Commercial Dr ¥604-253-9119 320-1000 Parker St 2202 Granville St ¥604-738-1077 www.havanarestaurant.ca ¥604-876-7606 604-349-7606 www.iantangallery.com mon-thurs 11am-11pm fri 11am- www.hodnettfineart.com mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm. Feb midnight sat 10am-midnight sun by appt only. Feb-Mar Noel Hodnett , 3-29 Winter Group Show: Gallery 10am-11pm. Feb 3-15 Deb Chaney , new paintings and works on paper in Artists ; Mar 3-29 Glenn Payan . “Pure Abstraction”, paintings; Feb oil and mixed media and black ink 16-29 Carolyn Bell , “Icons, Illustra - wash drawings. International Arts Gallery tions, and Impressions”, paintings; 2083-2091-88 W Pender St Mar 1-14 Dusan Dodic , “Forests & Howe Street Gallery of International Village Mall Cities”, paintings; Mar 15-28 Olga Fine Art & The Soul of Africa ¥604-569-1886 647-296-8933 Campbell , “Urban Imprints”; Mar 29- Collection www.internationalartsgallerybc.ca Apr 11 Sophie Brunet . 555 Howe St ¥604-681-5777 mon-sat 12-6pm and by appt. A fusion www.howestreetgallery.com of classical and contemporary Chinese Heffel Fine Art Auction House daily 10am-6pm. Evguenia Ioganov arts and a cultural epicentre where East 2247 Granville St ¥604-732-6505 and her sister Ekaterina Artyushenko meets West, showcasing some of the 800-528-9608 www.heffel.com from Russia have joined the gallery. best Chinese fine arts in Vancouver. Mar mon-sat 10am-6pm. Feb 3-24 Online New work currently on display, Tanya 10-23 Johnson Su-Sing Chow at 90 , Auction Fine Canadian Art/Important Bone , traditional works, Neil Patter - Chinese ink paintings and calligraphy. Estate and Corporate Collections ; son . landscapes, Senlin Gui , Vancou - Mar 3-31 Online Auction Canadian ver boat/city scape. The gallery has Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Post-War and Contemporary Art/ the North American exclusive for 206 Cambie St, Gastown Important Works by David Black - three of the last editions available ¥604-688-7323 888-615-8399 wood/Important Estate and Corpo - world-wide of a limited edition series www.inuit.com rate Collections . of nine bronzes by Richard L. Minns . mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-5pm.

46 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 Feb Kenojuak Ashevak , “Sun’s Awak - ening”, featuring an exclusive print release of a limited edition of 25, an etching/aquatint sugar lift that is hand painted by Beatriz Sobrado Samano, a large diptych of two plates on one sheet of paper. At this time of year, the return of the sun is eagerly awaited in the Arc - tic, which has been a lifelong recurring theme in Inuit artist Ashevak’s work. # Jennifer Kostuik Gallery 1070 Homer St ¥604-737-3969 www.kostuikgallery.com mon-wed and fri-sat 10am-6pm thurs 10am-8pm sun 1-5pm. Thru Feb 19 Indigo: Group Exhibition ; Mar 8-Apr 8 David Burdeny . # Jeunesse Gallery of Fine Arts 2668 W 4th Ave ¥604-737-2438 www.jeunessegallery.com mon-sun 10am-6pm. Thru Feb Iv. Drou , “Canadian Birds and Butter - flies”, original tempera works; Thru Mar Koleto , “Myth and Reality”, bronze sculptures. Katherine McLean Studio 1-1359 Cartwright St (Rear), Granville Island, in Railspur Alley opposite Agro Cafe panels, bentwood boxes, totem poles, Monny’s Art Gallery ¥604-684-8452 604-377-6689 argillite, sculptures, paintings and limit - 2675 W 4th Ave ¥604-733-2082 www.katherinemclean.com ed edition prints. www.envisionoptical.ca sat & sun 11am-4pm or by chance. mon-sat 11am-6pm. This gallery of Feb-Mar Katherine McLean , “Playing # Marilyn S. Mylrea Gallery long-time collector Monny has a per - with Fire”, encaustic paintings and 2341 Granville St ¥604-736-2450 manent collection of artwork as well ceramic still-life sculpture. www.marilynmylrea.com as rotating exhibitions of local artists: wed-sun 12-5pm or by appt. Thru Feb Andrea Gower, Kerensa Haynes, Ted Kurbatoff Gallery 29 “Sweet Celebrations”, celebrating Hesketh, Sonia Kobrahel and Stan - 2435 Granville St ¥604-736-5444 the beauty of nature, featuring serene imir Stoylov . www.kurbatoffgallery.com landscape abstracts with soft luminos - tue-sat 10:30am-5:30pm sun 12-5pm. ity by Marilyn S. Mylrea and sublime Monte Clark Gallery Thru Feb Group exhibition of new landscapes with shimmering textures 2339 Granville St ¥604-730-5000 works by gallery artists William Allis - by Robert Jess Marshall ; Thru Mar www.monteclarkgallery.com ter, Donna Baspaly, Chris Charlebois, Artwork by gallery artists. tues-sat 10am-6pm. Feb 23-Mar 24 Eva Kolacz, Gerda Marschall, Chris Graham Gillmore , “Irreconcilable Langstorth, Marleen Vermeuelen, Marion Scott Gallery Similarities”; Mar 29-May 5 Scott Ann Zielinski and others; Mar 1-15 2423 Granville St ¥604-685-1934 McFarland , “Winter Retreating Spring Gerda Marschall , “New Works”, www.marionscottgallery.com Offence”. large-scale textured oil paintings of tues-sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-5pm. Feb Expressionistic landscapes and exu - 4-Mar 4 “Colour” examines the different Morris and Helen Belkin berant florals. ways that artists use colour, featuring Art Gallery works by Tony Anguhalluq, Arnaqu University of British Columbia Lattimer Gallery Ashevak, Kenojuak Ashevak, Jamasie 1825 Main Mall ¥604-822-2759 1590 W 2nd Ave ¥604-732-4556 Pitseolak, Kananginak Pootoogook, www.belkin.ubc.ca www.lattimergallery.com Nick Sikkuark, Jutai Toonoo and Hazel tue-fri 10am-5pm, sat & sun 12-5pm, mon-sat 10am-5pm sun 11am-5pm Wilson ; Mar 10-Apr 10 On View: Look - closed holidays. Thru Apr 8 Letters: holidays 12-5pm. Offering a compre - ing at Looking with Itee Pootoogook , Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry , hensive selection of original works of art features delicate pencil crayon drawings 8 large-scale ‘letter paintings’ and 40 by First Nations artists including gold by one of Cape Dorset’s leading contem - works including drawings, sketches, and sterling silver jewellery, masks, porary artists. photography and video by Vancouver-

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 47 streets; Opens Mar 8 Art Deco Chic , explore the glamorous women’s fash - ions of the 1920s and 1930s in a dis - play of 66 dresses, plus hats, gloves, jewellery and more; Ongoing Vancou - ver History Galleries , stories from the early 1900s to the late 1970s. Omega Gallery 4290 Dunbar St ¥604-732-6778 www.omegagallery.ca mon-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Feb 18 Johnson Wu, Kit Shing, Yuen Yen Yip and Tian Zing Li , “Winter Group Show”, oils and acrylics by artists from China who now live in Vancou - ver; Feb 29-Mar 31 Enda Bardell, Leonard Matte, Hai Tao Yin, Georgia Daughter's Mother; Mother's Daughter 48 x 72 oil on canvas Youngs and Jack Ji , “Transition”, recent works from winter to spring, February 11 - 25 Madeleine Wood from the hands and aesthetic of one Intimate Views: A mid-career retrospective artist to another . Opening reception Feb 11, 1-4 pm Artist in attendance ON MAIN ¥604-872-7713 www.onmaingallery.com ONLINE /C ANADA LINE SUBWAY VIDEO Contemporary and Historic Canadian Art SCREENS Thru Mar 31 “10 Seconds 606 View Street • Victoria, BC • 250-380-4660 Mashup” concludes the year-long www.madronagallery.com series featuring Dana Claxton, Michael Turner, James Yan, Laiwan, Jeff Chi - ba Stearns, Chelsea O’Brian, Tony based Morris who has been an impor - ‘indigenous modern’ before the term Pantages and Douglas Coupland . tant figure of the west coast art scene was invented, but preferred the and was engaged with concrete poet - descriptor ‘whittler’ or ‘doodler’ to Or Gallery ry since the 1960s; also showing 30 ‘Kwak waka’wakw artist’; Mar 20-May 555 Hamilton St ¥604-683-7395 small prints, paintings and concrete 27 Annie Ross , “Forest One”, full-size, www.orgallery.org poetry by Canadian poets bill bissett, 1956 Nash Metropolitan automobile tues-sat 12-5pm. Thru Feb 18 Anni - bpNichol and Carole Itter , and inter - wrapped, twined and plaited with cedar ka Rixen , “Sciences of Observation”. national poets/artists Ugo Carrega, bark and other reclaimed materials; Visit the website for March exhibition Henri Chopin, Lily Greenham, Jiri Thru Apr 8 A Green Dress: Objects, programming. Kolar, Ferdinand Kriwet, Arrigo Memory, and the Museum , objects Lora-Totino, Steve McCaffery and from the museum’s collection, some # Pendulum Gallery Gerhard Rühm . old, some new, some inscribed with 885 W Georgia St ¥604-250-9682 their histories, others uprooted – their www.pendulumgallery.bc.ca Museum of Anthropology origins, makers and journeys erased or mon-wed 9am-5pm thur-fri 9am-9pm University of British Columbia forgotten. sat 9am-5pm. Feb 19-Mar 3 Cana - 6393 NW Marine Dr ¥604-822-5087 da/Malaysia Aboriginal Applied Arts , www.moa.ubc.ca Museum of Vancouver bi-lateral presentation of applied arts, tues 10am-9pm wed-sun 10am-5pm. 1100 Chestnut St, Vanier Park design and craft explores similarities Admission: adults $16, students & sen - ¥604-736-4431 and differences in the creation of con - iors 65+ $14, UBC staff, students & fac - www.museumofvancouver.ca temporary applied arts from Aborigi - ulty free with ID, family $40, children 6 tues-sun 10am-5pm, thurs 10am- nal communities; Mar 4-23 Disaster and under free, tues 5-9pm $9, groups 8pm. Admission: adults $12, seniors in Japan , photographs document - included (prices do NOT include HST). & students $10, youth 5-17 $8, chil - ing the devastating earthquake and Thru Feb 12 hiroshima by Ishiuchi dren 4 and under free, family (2 adults tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, and Miyako , 48 large-scale photographs & 2 youth) $35. Thru Aug 12 Neon the rebuilding that has taken place of clothing and personal effects left Vancouver/Ugly Vancouver , Vancou - since that time, presented by the behind by victims of the 1945 Hiroshi - ver’s love/hate relationship with neon Japanese Consulate to mark the one- ma atomic bomb; Mar 17-Sep 3 Kesu’: signs – see the colour, light, and daz - year anniversary; Mar 24-Apr 14 The Art and Life of Doug Cra´nmer , zle of the 50s, 60s and 70s, and the Canstruction , features 8-10 giant understated, elegant and innovative visual purity crusade that virtually sized sculptures made entirely out of work of Cranmer who embodied banished neon signs from Vancouver canned food – “Canstruction” is a non-

48 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS profit organization that holds annual design and build competitions across North America – the gallery is Vancou - March 3 - 17 Luke Ramsey ver’s main venue and information cen - Opening reception Mar 3, 1-4 pm tre for the event, at the close of the Artist in attendance show all of the canned food will be donated to the Vancouver Food Bank. Peter Kiss Studio and Gallery 1327 Railspur Alley, Granville Island ¥604-696-0433 www.peterkiss.com tues-sun 10:30am-5:30pm. A con - 1 stantly changing collection of 2-, 2 /2- and 3-D artwork that combines social commentary, wit, humour, colour and wood. Petley Jones Gallery 1554 W 6th Ave ¥604-732-5353 www.petleyjones.com mon-sat 10am-6pm. Mar 29-Apr 21 Gwaai Edenshaw: Beyond Paper , works on paper; Ongoing rotating exhibition of contemporary and his - Alky ink on paper torical artwork. Visit the website or facebook.com/petleyjonesgallery for gallery information. Contemporary and Historic Canadian Art Queen Elizabeth Theatre 606 View Street • Victoria, BC • 250-380-4660 Mezzanine Gallery www.madronagallery.com Emily Carr University Alumni Association, Queen Elizabeth Theatre ¥604-630-4562 Thru Apr 21 Damian Moppett: Col - new political regime established dur - www.ecuad.ca/people/alumni lected Works . ing the drug war in Mexico and allows Open during theatre performances or them to reflect about the war and the by appt. Thru Mar 26 MEZZANINE LEVEL Republic Gallery resulting violence in a new, critical way Wendy Niamath , “Vibrational Intercon - 732 Richards St, 3rd Flr that unveils a more complex and global nections”, new works – large scale ¥604-632-1590 political structure. colour field, oil on canvas paintings www.republicgallery.com with an emphasis on shape, texture wed-sat 11am-5pm and by appt. Feb # Sidney and Gertrude and transparency; BALCONY LEVEL Jen 10-Mar 10 Andrea Pinheiro , “Safn”, Zack Gallery Aitken , “Vitrines”, three new works gouache paintings over photographs Jewish Community Centre created for the display cases provided taken from a 2005 visit to the Safn 950 W 41st Ave by the gallery – the artist has turned the Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland and related ¥604-638-7277 604-257-5111 structure of her recent upholstered sculptural works combining paint with www.jccgv.com/home/cultural_art.htm sculptures inside out, creating tension photographic material and/or objects; mon-thurs 9am-10:30pm fri 9am- between her crude cardboard arma - Mar-Apr Yellow Signal Vancouver , vis - Shabbat Closing (varies throughout tures and seductive illusionistic fabrics. it the website for future programming. the year) sat closed sun 9:30am-9pm. Feb 9-Mar 4 Pnina Granirer , “Imagi - Rendezvous Art Gallery Satellite Gallery nation Games”, digital photographs, 323 Howe St ¥604-687-7466 560 Seymour St, 2nd Flr manipulated photographs trans - www.rendezvousartgallery.com ¥604-681-8425 formed into abstract mysterious and mon-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 11am- www.satellitegallery.ca intriguing images; Mar 8-25 “Felt - 5pm. Featuring some of the finest wed-sat 12-6pm. Thru Mar 3 Michael works”, Claudie Azoulai , portraits contemporary paintings and sculp - Morris “Letters: Palomar”, reconstruc - and landscapes revealing a soft, sub - tures by over 40 Canadian artists. tion of a sculpture called ‘Palomar’ tle colour palette; Elana Sigal , graph - (1968), co-presentation of Presenta - ic and modern approach utilizing larg - Rennie Collection tion House Gallery and the Belkin Art er colour planes in vibrant shades. 51 E Pender St ¥604-682-2088 Gallery; Mar 10-May 5 Broken Bor - www.renniecollection.org ders: Jorge Malacón, Teresa Mar - Spirit Wrestler Gallery Reservation is required. Bookings golles, Marcos Ramírez Erre and 47 Water St, Gastown ¥604-669-8813 should be made through the form on Rosa María Robles , explores the art www.spiritwrestler.com the website. No charge for admission. practice of four Mexican artists under a mon-sat 10am-6pm sun & holidays www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 49 UNIT/PITT Projects 15 E Pender St ¥604-681-6740 www.unitpitt.ca wed-sat: 12-5pm, daily: video screen - ings 8-11pm; daily: radio 24 hrs. Feb- Mar Pause in gallery programming, visit the website for updates on special events; Ongoing Video screenings in front window every day from after sunset until 11pm, visit the website for the schedule; Ongoing 24 hours within one block of gallery UNIT/PITT Radio 89.7 FM , projects and music by artists and audio documentation. Unitarian Church of Vancouver 949 W 49th Ave ¥604-261-7204 www.vancouverunitarians.ca sun 10am-1:30pm or call 604-261- 7204 for hours. Thru Feb 27 Anne Hilton , “Taking Time”, watercolour paintings; Feb 27-Mar 25 Lucy Stains - by , “Stains by Stainsby”, acrylics and mixed media – experimenting with intu - ition, karma and the power of colour and balance, influences include Van Gogh, bold colour and the provocative aftertaste of Surrealism. Uno Langmann Limited 2117 Granville St ¥604-736-8825 800-730-8825 12-5pm. Leading contemporary fine panoramic photographs, each two www.langmann.com art gallery representing master Inuit, metres long, of Nosh’s images from tues-sat 10am-5pm or by appt. Thru Northwest Coast and Maori artists Stanley Park made on the day after Feb “Savage Beauty: Visions of Cana - with a focus on contemporary direc - the gale that rattled the city on Dec 14 da”, Canadian artists in the 19th and tions in aboriginal art. Mar 31-Apr 21 and 15 in 2006, the images of the early 20th century, includes works by Rex Homan , “Raven Dreaming”, damage were seen around the world F.M. Bell-Smith, A.Y. Jackson, sculptures by Maori artist honour the via the New York Times . John Hammond, Charles H. Scott, birds of the Pacific Northwest Coast Eric Riordon, John Innes, Henry Nes - that are revered in the stories and Toni Onley Estate bitt McEvoy, Thomas William Fripp dances by the First Nations of Canada. ¥604-324-2931 604-454-1928 and Thomas Bamford ; Thru Mar “Italy www.tonionley.com Observed: Views and Souvenirs”, Studio 13 Fine Art by appt. In Vancouver, call Lynn Onley 18th and 19th century Italian land - 1315 Railspur Alley, Granville Island at 604-324-2931 for appt to view art, scape paintings, includes works by ¥604-731-0068 or visit Granville Fine Art. In Victoria, Antoine Bouvard, Felix Francois G.P. www.studio13fineart.com Winchester Galleries Modern repre - Ziem and Edward Alfred Goodall ; www.alice-rich.com sents the Estate. For more informa - Ongoing A rotating selection of muse - thurs-mon 11am-6pm or by appt. tion, see the Estate’s website. um-quality paintings, objets d’art, and Semi-abstract landscape paintings antiques from Europe and North and mixed-media artworks by Alice Trench Contemporary Art America. Rich ; Mar 10-12 Jeanne Krabben - 102-148 Alexander St dam , “Resurfaced”. Visit the artists ¥604-681-2577 # Vancouver Art Gallery in this unique working studio and www.trenchgallery.com 750 Hornby St gallery. wed-fri 12-6pm sat 12-5pm or by ¥604-662-4719 (24-hr info line) appt. Feb 9-Mar 3 Paris White: The www.vanartgallery.bc.ca Teck Gallery Text Based Paintings of Enn Erisalu , daily 10am-5pm, tues 10am-9pm. 515 W Hastings St ¥778-782-4266 playing off abstraction both in lan - Special admission (incl tax): adults www.sfu.ca/gallery guage and painting Erisalu challenges $22.50, seniors (65+) $17, students open daily during campus hours. our perceptions of both; Mar 8-Apr 7 $16, children 5-12 $7, children 4 and Thru Mar 9 Farah Nosh , “Stanley 1964: The Early Paintings of Ron uder free, family (maximum 2 adults, 2 Park After the Storm of December Stonier , early series of smaller children) $54, members free. Reference 2006”, four large prints and two abstract oil paintings. Library wed-fri 1-5pm. Thru Feb12 An

50 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS Autobiography of Our Collection , in cel - Arts Exhibition ; Feb 24-Mar 3 Aborig - ebration of the Gallery’s 80th anniver - inal Arts Series with Talking Stick, sary, works from the permanent collec - Hip Hop Week & Electric Pow Wow ; tion that explore the Gallery’s own iden - Mar 3-10 Utopia: Second Annual tities, histories, strategies and aspira - Women in Digital Culture Festival ; tions; Feb 18-Apr 29 Greg Curnoe, Mar 12-18 DTES Small Arts Grants Michael Morris, Michael Snow, Yves Exhibition . Gaucher, Joyce Wieland and others, “Lights Out! Canadian Painting from the Western Front Gallery 1960s”, celebrates the enormous cre - 303 E 8th Ave ¥604-876-9343 ativity of Modernist painting in Canada www.front.bc.ca during the tumultuous 1960s; Feb 25- tues-sat 12-5pm. Feb 17-Mar 31 Jun 3 Sonny Assu, Skeena Reece, Jor - Instant Coffee , “Feeling So Much & dan Bennett and others, “Beat Nation: Doing So Little”, Instant Coffee will Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture”, a inhabit the nooks and crannies of the generation of artists who juxtapose Western Front with a prospective retro - urban youth culture with aboriginal iden - spective in honour of their 12 collective tity in innovative and unexpected ways, years of artistic production, includes an includes artists who use pop culture, exhibition, a residency, a publication graffiti, fashion and other aspects of and a series of talks and events. urban life in combination with more tra - ditional forms of aboriginal identity; Mar Winsor Gallery 10-Sep 9 “Emily Carr and The Theatre of 3025 Granville St ¥604-681-4870 Transcendence”, brings together works www.winsorgallery.com by Emily Carr with contemporary artists mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-5pm. in a conversation about transcendence Feb 2-26 Gary Pearson , “Scenes and the natural world, artists include from a ‘Smoker’s Theatre’”, new Karin Bubas, Stephen Shearer and paintings and video inspired by Ger - Theodore Wan ; OFFSITE (the gallery’s man playwright Bertolt Brecht range public art space at Georgia and Thurlow) in subject matter from still life to land - Feb 2-Sep 16 Kota Ezawa , a large-scale scape to smoky bar scenes to the Gulf wooden tableau titled ‘Hand Vote’. of Mexico oil spill; Mar 1-Apr 1 Fiona Ackerman , works in oil on canvas ref - Vancouver Maritime Museum erence photography by adopting an 1905 Ogden Ave, (in Vanier Park) often ‘realist’ approach to spatial vol - ¥604-257-8300 ume and are explorations of composi - www.vancouvermaritimemuseum.com tion, perception and imagination. tues-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm. Admission: $11 adults, $8.50 students, seniors, youth, $30 family, 5 and under free. HST extra. Thru Feb Marine Unit – VeRNON 10 years of the VPD on the Water , pho - Ashpa Naira Gallery & Studio tographs that tell the story of the Van - 9492 Houghton Rd ¥250-549-4249 couver Police Department Marine Unit; www.ashpanairagallery.com Thru Mar Scott Conarro , “By Sea”, pho - open May 1-Oct 15 fri-sun 10am-6pm tographic study of North America on or by appt. Located in Vernon, B.C. on the cusp of a new climate era; Thru May the west side of Okanagan Lake, this 21 Chátwilh – Craft and Culture of the contemporary art gallery and studio, Squamish Canoe , enduring story about owned by artist Carolina Sanchez de the rich culture of the aboriginal people Bustamante , features original art in a is relayed through the metaphor of the home and garden setting – discover a canoe’s journey from forest, through diverse group of emerging and estab - the hands of Squamish craftsmen, and lished Okanagan and Canadian artists throughout the Salish Sea in celebra - in painting, textiles, sculptures, ceram - tion of both the tradition and modern ics and functional art. resurgence of canoe culture among the Squamish people. Vernon Public Art Gallery 3228 31st Ave ¥250-545-3173 W2 Media Cafe www.vernonpublicartgallery.com 111 W Hastings St ¥604-689-9896 mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 11am-4pm. www.creativetechnology.org Thru Mar 22 Rhonda Neufeld and daily 8am-7pm. Feb 3-5 Young Artist Rodney Konopaki , “Drawn Passages”, Warriors ; Feb 15-19 Chinese Redress collaborative prints and mixed-media

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 51 drawings; Stephen Lee Scott , “Beauty Deluge Contemporary Art and Other Forms of Violence”, draw - Choboter Fine Art 636 Yates St ¥250-385-3327 ings; Benny Hannya and Cody Moyor , www.deluge.ws “While You Were Sleeping”, indoor wed-sat 12-5pm. Thru Feb 25 Greg graffiti-inspired installation; UBCO Snider , “Models for the Public Advanced Printmaking , “Proof Posi - Sphere: Tar Sands, Aircraft, Holo - tive II”, comprehensive sample of tech - causts”, scale models made for for - niques produced by advanced print - mal commission proposals for sculp - making students; Mar 29-Apr 19 Art tural projects – model-making has from the Heart , School District #22 become his conceptual tool of choice annual elementary school student for working through and physically exhibition; Mar 29-May 24 Robert preparing ideas for public art projects Truszkowski , “Penance”, printmaking, as scaled-down experimental proto - awarded solo exhibition by the jurors types; Mar 9-Apr 15 Robert Youds , of the 2009 Okanagan Print Triennial. “Room Upgrade for Pacific North West Afternoon”. eclectic VICTORIA 2170 Oak Bay Ave ¥250-590-8095 Alcheringa Gallery www.eclecticgallery.ca 665 Fort St ¥250-383-8224 23 Alexander St, Vancouver, BC, 604-779-7050 mon-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 12-4pm. www.alcheringa-gallery.com Feb 1-25 John McConnell , “A Celtic mon-sat 9:30am-5:30pm sun 12- ways in which artists ‘throw down’, be Journey”, including work from the 5pm. Thru Feb Gallery artists; Mar 10- it a struggle, a celebration of the fight, series Journey of an Ancient Soul ; Apr 17 Gijalordi , 18 works explore the a comment on what feeds the artist Feb 27-Apr 2 Deryk Houston , “Black - local Kingfisher story relating to the and art production, or what the artist birds, Stooked Wheat and Prayers”. formation of the Tully River in Queens - contributes to their local and global art land, Australia, developed from a community with their work; Ongoing Gallery at the Mac printmaking workshop at Girringun Emily Carr: On the Edge of Nowhere , 3 Centennial Sq Art Centre to provide practical support historical survey of Carr’s artwork in all McPherson Playhouse Lobby to the artists after many suffered dev - media and styles which focuses on her ¥250-361-0800 www.rmts.bc.ca astating losses in the wake of severe influences and inspirations. View during performances or by appt. tropical Cyclone Yasi in Feb 2011, par - Thru Feb 27 UPPER SPACE Dorothy tial proceeds will benefit Girringun Art Artistic Statement Gallery Haegert ; LOWER SPACE Linda Darby, Centre. and School of Fine Art Jane Storrier and Virginia Small-fry ; 107-2250 Oak Bay Ave Feb 27-Apr 2 UPPER & L OWER SPACE St. # Art Gallery of ¥250-383-0566 888-383-0566 Michael’s University School . Greater Victoria www.artisticstatementgalleryand 1040 Moss St ¥250-384-4171 school.com Gallery in the Oak Bay Village www.aggv.ca Ongoing Joan Hill , original drawing, 2223A Oak Bay Ave ¥250-598-9890 tues-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pm painting and sculpture, including West [email protected] sun 12-5pm. Thru Apr 29 FOUNDERS Coast Dreaming and her latest series mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 10am-3pm. GALLERY and Thru May 6 POLLARD Summer in Paris in acrylic stain; Featuring original artwork by leading GALLERY The Enduring Arts of China , paintings and prints by the late Alberta local artists Joan Baron, Jessie Bar - the finest Chinese art in the AGGV col - artist Jean Birnie . ron, Sid Barron, Andres Bohaker, Jef - lection features paintings, ceramics, fery Boron, Janice Bridgman, Eileen bronzes, jades and various other deco - Avenue Gallery Fong, Robert Genn, Caren Heine, rative arts, focusing on the continuing 2184 Oak Bay Ave ¥250-598-2184 Harry Heine, Jennifer Heine, Keith traditions in Chinese art from ancient www.theavenuegallery.com Hiscock, Shawn A. Jackson, Brian R. times to 1900; Thru May 6 Victoria mon-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 12-4pm, Johnson, David Ladmore, Ernest Collects: The Salish Weave Collec - open most holidays 12-4pm. Feb-Mar Marza, Joane Moran, Allan Myndzak, tion and A View into Private Art Col - Rotating exhibitions of gallery artists Paul Paquette, Nicholas Pearce, lections from the Region , exhibitions – paintings, sculpture, ceramics and Natasha Perks, Marke Simmons, explore the collecting passions of glass. Sandu Singh and Linny D. Vine . some of the region’s most interesting art collectors, delving into the unique Dales Gallery Legacy Art Gallery stories and philosophies that drive 537 Fisgard St ¥250-383-1552 630 Yates St ¥250-381-7645 them to seek out particular works of www.dalesgallery.ca www.legacygallery.ca art; Sonny Assu, Gregory Ball, Megan mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 11am-4pm. wed–sat 10am–4pm. MAIN GALLERY Dickie, Tyler Hodgins and Alison Feb 9-25 Faculty of the Western Thru Feb 26 The Emergence of MacTaggart , “Throw Down”, five B.C. Academy of Photography ; Thru Mar Architectural Modernism II , second artists whose work invites, instigates, Visit the website for future exhibition in a series of exhibitions and publica - investigates and celebrates the many information. tions exploring the relationships,

52 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS personalities and projects contribut - ing to the development of a regional Modernist aesthetic in the post-war Victoria urban landscape; Feb 29– Dusan Dodic Apr 14 Divergence: Insights into FOREST S & CITIES Studio Practices , images and objects that range through traditional and March 1 to March 14, 20 12 newer media by 19 University of Vic - toria art education instructors in the Faculty of Education; SMALL GALLERY HAVANA GALLERY Mar 1–31 Mark Laver: Shining 1212 Commercial Drive Examples , paintings of dark, wet, Vancouver BC Vancouver Island nights reveal a bat - 604-253-9119 tle between the psychological and www.havanarestaurant.ca narrative power of nocturnal imagery and the allure of oil paint itself. Madrona Gallery 606 View St ¥250-380-4660 www.madronagallery.com Giant, oil on canvas, 26 x 20 inches tues-sat 10am-6pm sun & mon 12- 5pm. Feb 11-25 Madeleine Wood , “Intimate Views”, mid-career retro - spective with works from the last 20 years; Mar 3-17 Luke Ramsey: Solo Exhibition , new works on paper. Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gallery at the McPherson Library University of Victoria 3800 Finnerty Rd ¥250-381-7645 www.uvac.uvic.ca Adjacent to Special Collections on the ground level, call 250-721-6673 for library hours. Thru Feb 2 Paint - ings by Henry Shimizu , series of paintings documenting his experi - ence as a 13-year-old internee in New Denver 1942-1946; Feb 9-Apr 2 Ted Grant , regarded as Canada’s pre - mier living photographer, Grant has a career that covers 60 years as a pho - tojournalist. Open Space Arts Society 510 Fort St ¥250-383-8833 www.openspace.ca tues-sat 12-5pm. Thru Feb 25 “intro - spective?!* √º”ç¥å?!”, a survey of work by filmmaker and artist Richard Raxlen ; Mar 16-Apr 28 Trimpin , “(CanonX+4:33=100)”, sound instal - lation; Thru Aug Peter Morin , Tahltan curator Morin continues his projects. Polychrome Fine Arts 1113 Fort St ¥250-382-2787 www.polychromefinearts.com wed-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm. Feb 5-Mar 1 Thomas Anfield, Ken Ban - ner, Sid Barron, Bill Blair, Adam Curry, Gordon Friesen, Roy Green,

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ed fields, or the ink-line of a road Susan Hall, Mong Yen, Jean Redpath C snaking through a mountain wilder - and Jongsook Lee , “Dialogue with ness; Mar 2-25 Rebekah Johnson , Nature”, watercolour, etching and egg “Trousseau”, ‘from the old French tempera; Feb 21-Mar 11 Helen Broad - (trousse, or bundle) – the posses - foot, Shirley Williams, Maria Josen - sions that a bride assembles in a hope hans, Angus Simpson and Michelle chest for her wedding, often consist - Lan , “Recent Works”, mixed media; At the Intersection ing of clothing, linens, china and jew - Mar 13-25 Niloofar Miry , “Princess of of Art and Medicine elry’, light-based sculpture examines Power”, invitational photography and JANUARY 25 TO MARCH 10, 2012 what else may have been put in the mixed media . hope chest with the linens – fear? Opening reception January 24, 7-9 pm anticipation? hope? love?. Gallery Jones WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM 1531 Marine Dr ¥604-926-2233 680 17th Street West Vancouver www.galleryjones.com westvancouvermuseum.ca tues-fri 11am-6pm sat 12-5pm and by 604-925-7295 • Tues-Sat 11 am to 5 pm WeST VANCOuVeR appt. Feb-Mar Gallery artists featuring Bellevue Gallery Peter Aspell, Michael Abraham, Cha - 2475 Bellevue Ave ¥604-922-2304 ki, Peter Krausz, Toni Hafkenscheid, www.bellevuegallery.ca George Vergette, Chris Woods, Cole tues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm Morgan, Otto Rogers and Anselmo or by appt. Feb 14-Mar 17 Galen Swan . Felde , “All: The Span of a Heart”, re- occurring theme of reconstructing Silk Purse Arts Centre memory, creating a personal document West Vancouver Community Arts Council referencing thematic elements and 1570 Argyle Ave ¥604-925-7292 www.preview-art.com visual vocabulary from the last 10 www.silkpurse.ca years of her creative process; Mar 29- tues-sun 12-5pm. Thru Feb 5 Eileen Apr 28 Wayne Eastcott , “Systems”, Fong , “A Moment of Appreciation”, new works on metal and paper address watercolour and acrylic paintings the interconnectedness of our universe through Chinese brush painting cap - and how basic forms are dictated by ture the poetry and joy she finds in her gravity, heat, light, etc, explore the rela - natural surroundings while uniting the tionships between nature and technol - artistic traditions of different cultures; ogy and how they interact and form the Feb 7-19 Jenn Williamson , “Surface human condition and environment. and Soul”, colourful Italian plaster art - work; Laurie McCallum , pottery For more of our signature Buckland Southerst Gallery inspired by the shapes, colours and blend of Previews, catalogue 2460 Marine Dr ¥604-922-1915 textures of our coastal shoreline; Feb www.bucklandsoutherst.com 21-Mar 4 North Shore Artists Guild , reviews, art conservation mon-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 12-4pm. artwork by members from Howe articles, and explorations Introducing the work of Georgina Sound, West Vancouver, North Van - of gallery spaces and the Farah, Yuan Cheng Bi and Pei Yang . couver and Deep Cove; Mar 6-18 Hajni challenges of art appraisal, Also featuring paintings by Mena Mar - Yosifov , “Torrents and Blessings”, visit us online. tini, Lynda Shalagan, Adam Noonan, acrylic paintings with rich, warm Ken Faulks and Tatjana Mirkov- colours to create fluid abstract dream - www.preview-art.com Popovicki ; still life and landscapes by scapes; Mar 20-Apr 1 Happy Birthday Alessandra Bitelli ; intimate interiors West Van! , celebrating West Vancou - by Larry Bracegirdle ; European mar - ver’s Centennial with works by West Serving the visual arts ket and garden scenes by Wilson Chu ; Vancouver artists highlighting our community since 1986 street scenes and cityscapes by Mor - community’s rich heritage.

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 55 Conservator’s Corner BY REBECCA PAVITT FINE ART CONSERVATION www.fineartconserve.com Rigid Water Gels: new treatment options for paper conservators

Before treatment During treatment After treatment Way back when in conservation school, a professorial prankster tricked my class into believing there was such a thing as “dry water” which could be used to treat water-sensitive materials. Fast forward 25 years and the idea is not as foolish as it once seemed to be. Gelzan, a material used in the food and pharmaceutical industries, has been adopted by paper conser - vators to help them control and localize water-based treatments. Paper absorbs water. Absorption can be mitigated to some degree with sizing and compression but, at the end of the day, paper is like a sponge. It is difficult, and often impossible, to control the boundaries where applied water will wick. This makes water-based conservation treatments that need to be localized (as is the case with water-sensitive media) challenging, to say the least. Enter Gelzan, from which a rigid water gel can be made. The powder is mixed in a blender with boil - ing deionized water and a small amount of calcium acetate, and poured onto a non-stick cookie sheet. The liquid gels very quickly and, even when the cookie sheet is heated, the resulting gel does not level evenly. When fully cooled, the clear gel can then be cut to the desired shape. In experimenting with this new material I found that a 1% gel was extremely fragile, and could not be picked up without falling apart so it would be most easily used right on the cookie sheet. It also wets paper very quickly which could be a useful property if one were cleaning an item too fragile for float washing. A 4% gel was impossible to make as it thickened too quickly to allow the powder to be completely mixed. For me, a 3% mixture was just right. Recently I used this 3% gel to clean the water-stained margins of seven prints from Robert Thornton’s (1768-1837) Temple of Flora series. These etchings are a technical tour de force, combining mezzotint, aquatint, multicoloured printing inks and hand-colouring. My goal with this treatment was to clean the margins only, leaving the glorious image areas untouched. The perimeter of the image area was “fixed” with a thin line of cyclododecane (a wax that evaporates from both the front and the back of the paper in a few days). This was to reduce the chances of water from the gel wicking into the image area and causing tidelines. The prints were then humidified to relax and expand the paper and laid face-up on thick blotting paper. Strips of gel were cut and laid on the margins, and strips of blotter were laid along the inside perimeter of the image. Gel and adjoining blotters were weighted, and left for about an hour. This treatment cleaned the margins very nicely, and the few result - ing tidelines were removed using heated deionized water mist generated by a Preservation Pencil. While not exactly “dry”, rigid gels do allow for greater precision when treating items on paper sup - ports and offer new treatment options for the conservation community.

NEXT ISSUE : Theatres of the World: the conservation of two murals in the Simon Fraser University Theatre, Part I by Nadine Power.

56 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 Sun Spirit Gallery 2444 Marine Dr ¥778-279-5052 www.sunspirit.ca tues-sat 10am-5pm. Sun Spirit Gallery offers a superior collection of West Coast Native and Inuit art from renowned and emerging artists alike. West Vancouver Museum 680 17th St ¥604-925-7295 www.westvancouvermuseum.ca tues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Mar 10 At the Intersection of Art and Medicine , original anatomical illustrations drawn by Canadian women illustra - tors in the late 1930s and early 1940s which were commissioned for Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy first published in 1943 and still in print.

WHISTLeR Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont Chateau 4599 Chateau Blvd ¥604-935-1862 www.mountaingalleries.com open 7 days a week. Feb 11-17 Richard Mravik ; Opens Mar dates tba, John Burrow . Contact the gallery for exhibition information

WHITe ROCK White Rock Gallery 1247 Johnston Rd ¥604-538-4452 877-974-4278 www.whiterockgallery.com tues-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 12-5pm, closed holiday long weekends. Gallery artists Mickie Acierno, Pietro Adamo, Constance Bachmann, Beverley Bin - fet, Nicholas Bott, Larry Bracegirdle, Phil Buytendorp, Claudette Cas - tonguay, Gilles Charest, Steve Coffey, Michael den Hertog, Carol Evans, Susan Flaig, Mark Fletcher, Robert Genn, Sara Genn, Terry Gilecki, Lau - ra Harris, Heather Haynes, Mark Heine, Vladan Ignatovic, H.E. Kuck - ein, Dongmin Lai, David Langevin, Raynald Leclerc, Don Li, Don Li-Leg - er, Ed Loenen, Min Ma, Ingrid Mann- Willis, Danny McBride, Angela Mor - gan, Renato Muccillo, Gabor L. Nagy, Jim Nedelak, Michael O’Toole, Niels Petersen, Bill Saunders, Issa Sho - jaei, Michael Stockdale, Mike Svob, Linda Thompson, Ray Ward, Christo - pher Walker, Alan Wylie, Peter Wyse and Donna Zhang , paintings; Marilyn Armitage, Michael Hermesh, Nicola

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58 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS VIGNETTES • February/March 2012 Oregon ALLYN CANTOR DANIELA REPAS: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY Chambers@916, Portland, Feb 2-25 As a Bosnian fleeing war-torn former Yugoslavia, Daniela Repas Daniela Repas found refuge in W. Europe before arriving in the U.S. As evidenced by this multi-channel animated installation, her tradi - tional approach to art is transformed by contemporary digital tech - nology. Hand-drawn animation is projected onto screens of ink and charcoal drawings to bring a sense of movement within the figurative work. The over-lapping sound composition further engages the viewer in a story that is charged with worldly first-hand experience.

RAE MAHAFFEY Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Mar 1-31 Formal con - siderations are foremost to Portland artist Rae Mahaffey who has said that shape and colour are her “initial vehicles of expression”. Her complex abstract compositions of interlocking geometric motifs, Rae Mahaffey repetitious patterning and concentric shapes, are saturated with unusual chromatic choices. In reflecting that which is familiar, her structural arrangements offer alternate interpretation possibilities. The visually-stimulating work speaks to the artist’s sense of convic - tion and technical skill. JOSEPH STERLING: 30 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, Jan 18-Feb 25 This exhibit of more than 25 images by Chicago photographer Joseph Sterling (1936-2010) includes sev - eral pieces from his famed series, The Age of Adolescence . Shot between 1959-1964 when Sterling was not much older than his youthful sub - jects, the images document a more-innocent era when the U.S. was Joseph Sterling on the verge of a sea change. These insightful and historically-impor - tant prints did not re-surface until the photographer’s first mono - graph was published in 2005. MANYA SHAPIRO: GRIDS Annie Meyer Artwork Gallery, Portland, Mar 1- 31 Portland artist, Manya Shapiro, weaves objects from non-tradi - tional materials such as window screen, plastic and electrical wiring. For this show of new work, she has created ethereal-like sculptures that reference grid structures used in weaving and quilt-making. Inspired by ancient textiles, she creates a dialogue on the transforma - tion of craft materials and evokes the duality of fragility and Manya Shapiro endurance; her pieces are well-placed within a broader continuum of contemporary fibre art.

ANONYMOUS The Art Gym, Marylhurst, Jan 9-Feb 15 Because the six artists invited to participate in this exhibition entered into a confi - dentiality agreement to ensure anonymity, they are known here sim - ply as Artist A through Artist F. The intent of curator Micah Malone was to relieve the artist from having to sustain their artistic persona and to provide room to create outside of current career conventions and demands. The artwork, made specifically for Anonymous , ranges from video to installation and from wall drawing to painting. Not surprisingly, the experimental project has had mixed reactions from every side and stirred philosophical discussion. Anonymous Artist E www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 59 White Bird Gallery # Elizabeth Leach Gallery 251 N Hemlock St ¥503-436-2681 417 NW 9th Ave, (at Flanders) www.whitebirdgallery.com ¥503-224-0521 Feb: fri-mon 11am-5pm, Mar: thurs- www.elizabethleach.com mon 11am-5pm. Thru Feb Group tues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm and by show by gallery artists featuring paint - appt. Feb 2-Mar 31 Joe Thurston , ings, ceramic sculpture, glass vessels “Nothing Leading Anywhere Any More and artisan jewellery; Mar 17-Apr 30 Except to Nothing”, new sculptural “The Printed Image”, group show fea - work, resembling obelisks, pyramids turing artists who use both traditional and totems, each sculpture contains and experimental printing techniques, personal ephemera entombed within etchings by Michael DiBitetto, Liza the methodically carved and con - Jones and Marsha Mello , monotypes structed surfaces; Martin Kersels , by Bill Schlegel , photo/mixed media “Charms and Devotionals”, felt ban - by Arleigh Wood , monotypes/mixed ners inspired by classic rock songs of media collages by Marcy Baker and the 1970s, and kinetic sculptures that photocollage by Julia Gardner ; “Annu - present a somber humour that is cou - al Ceramics Invitational”, sculptures by pled with personal and political issues. Jan Rentenaar , functional pottery by Cindy Searles , relief sculptures by Dirk Staschke , No Strings Attached # Froelick Gallery Larry Halvorsen , clay/metal sculpture (2011), ceramic [Bellevue Arts Museum, 714 NW Davis St ¥503-222-1142 by Robin and John Gumaelius , and Bellevue WA, Mar 1-May 27] www.froelickgallery.com introducing new artist Eric Boos , tues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm and by appt. ‘almost edible’ biomorphic vessels. Thru Feb 25 Nat Meade , “Falsetto”, # Blackfish Gallery paintings on linen and paper; Large 420 NW 9th Ave ¥503-224-2634 Inventory: Paintings of Scale ; Feb 28- www.blackfish.com Mar 31 Aithan Shapira , “Migration”; MARYLHuRST tues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Feb 25 Jim Joe Feddersen , “Role Call”. The Art Gym at Neidhardt , “Modern Screen”, paint Marylhurst University stick and acrylic on inked canvas; Feb # Laura Russo Gallery 17600 Pacific Hwy ¥503-699-6243 28-Mar 31 “New Members’ Show”, 805 NW 21st Ave ¥503-226-2754 800-634-9982 www.marylhurst.edu Rita Alves , oil painting and installa - www.laurarusso.com tues-sun 12-4pm. Admission is free. tion; Merridawn Duckler , installa - tues-fri 11am-5:30pm sat 11am- Thru Feb 15 Anonymous , paintings, tion; Amanda Stigant , ceramic – 5pm. Feb 2-25 Mel Katz , “Anodized drawings and installations by Artist A, white stoneware. Aluminum”, wall sculptures in bright Artist B, Artist C, Artist D, Artist E and colours and bold shapes; Henk Pan - Artist F, guest curated by Micah Mal - # Blue Sky Gallery der , “Worlds Apart: Plein Air Water - one; Mar 9-Apr 15 Disjecta: Port - Oregon Center for Photographic Arts colors”, rich and detailed landscapes land2012 – A Biennial of Contempo - 122 NW 8th Ave ¥503-225-0210 of harsh terrain and wild beauty; Mar rary Art , major survey of work by www.blueskygallery.org 1-31 Lucinda Parker , “New Paint - artists that are defining and advancing tues-sun 12-5pm. Thru Feb Jamey ings”, energetic abstract paintings the visual arts scene in Portland, the Stillings , “The Bridge at Hoover Dam”; depicting natural forms and forces; Portland metropolitan region and the David Rochkind , “Heavy Hand, Sunken Rae Mahaffey , “Recent Works”, play - state of Oregon, Art Gym is a biennial Spirit”; Thru Mar Andzrej Maciejews - ful and modern painted explorations partner and satellite location. ki , “Weather Report”; Stephen Vaugh - of colour, pattern and perspective. an , “Ultima Thule”. # Museum of # Chambers@916 Contemporary Craft PORTLAND 916 NW Flanders ¥503-227-9398 724 NW Davis St ¥503-223-2654 # Annie Meyer www.chambersgallery.com www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org Artwork Gallery tues-sat 11am-5:30pm. Feb 2-25 tues-sat 11am-6pm and by appt. First 102-120 NW 9th Ave ¥503-224-3150 Daniela Repas , animated video thurs 11am-8pm. Thru Feb 25 75 Gifts www.anniemeyerartwork.com installation; Mar 1-Apr 28 Allen for 75 Years , donated and promised tues-sat 11am-5:30pm sun 11am- Maertz , new works in photography. gifts to the museum’s collection; 3pm. Feb 1-25 Mia Meyer , “Recent Northwest Modern, Revisting the Work”, landcape paintings and mono - # Charles A. Hartman Annual Ceramic Exhibitions of 1950- types; Mar 1-31 Manya Shapiro: Fine Art 64 , examination of juried exhibitions Grids , wire sculpture, new work. 134 NW 8th Ave ¥503-287-3886 with a deeper look into the trends in www.hartmanfineart.net ceramics during the mid-20th century tues-sat 11am-6pm. Thru Feb 25 along with original artwork and # Open late First Thursday of Joseph Sterling: 30 Years of Photo - ephemera from the museum’s every month until 8pm graphs ; Feb 29-Mar 31 Gun: A Col - archives; Thru Mar 3 Studio H: Design. lection of Photographs . Build. Transform , artifacts from Studio

60 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS H, the project in rural Bertie County, North Carolina where Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller teach design think - BeLLINGHAM ing to high-school students, on display Western Gallery to illustrate how a socially engaged Fine Arts Complex, WWU design process can result in significant ¥360-650-3963 and positive solutions; Mar 15-Jul 28 www.westerngallery.wwu.edu/ Generations: Betty Feves (1918- mon-fri 10am-4pm wed 10am-8pm 1985), Feves brought rigor and a Mod - sat 12-4pm. Thru Mar 3 Gosia Wlo - ernist approach to Northwest ceram - darczak: Between Wander & Settle - ics. This retrospective connects the ment , immersive, multi-disciplinary artist’s functional and sculptural work drawing installation; Mar 27-May 12 to the community, music, mentors and Soaring Voices, Recent Ceramics by advocacy for higher education that Women from Japan , 86 ceramics by influenced and marked her career. 25 contemporary artists inspired from the natural world, dance move - Portland Art Museum Dirk Staschke , Wishing Well, Knowing ments from Noh Theater and kimono 1219 SW Park Ave ¥503-226-2811 Otherwise (detail) (2011), ceramic patterns of the Edo period; Ongoing www.portlandartmuseum.org [Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue WA, Visit the WWU Outdoor Sculpture tues, wed, sat 10am-5pm; thurs, fri Mar 1-May 27] Collection . 10am-8pm sun 12-5pm. Admission: members free, adults $15, seniors Whatcom Museum (55+) and students (18+ with ID) $12 Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St children (17 and younger) free. Thru 2nd location: Lightcatcher Building, Feb 12 The Fragrance of Orchids, SALeM 250 Flora St ¥360-778-8930 Asian Art from the Alex and Suzanne Hallie Ford Museum of Art www.whatcommuseum.org Rosenkrantz Collection , highlights 700 State St Lightcatcher: tues-sun 12-5pm, Old from the collection which include Chi - ¥503-370-6855 503-370-6856 City Hall: thurs-sun 12-5pm. Admis - nese paintings, porcelain, sculpture www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art/ sion: general $10, students (with ID) and decorative arts; Thru Feb 19 Mar - tues-sat 10am-5pm sun 1-5pm. Feb and seniors (62+) $8, children 5 and tin Kippenberger , 17 ‘Hotel Drawings’ 4-Apr 1 Marie Watt: Lodge , mid- under $4.50, members free, thurs along with a selection of paintings, career retrospective for nationally- general admission: $5. LIGHTCATCHER accentuate the artist’s sense of moral recognized Portland mixed-media BUILDING Thru Mar 4 Lesley Dill’s responsibility; Thru Mar 4 Izquierdo, artist whose work explores human Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Seven Decades Paperwork , drawings stories and ritual implicit in everyday Sister Gertrude Morgan , working at and prints celebrate the life of one of objects; Thru Mar 11 Crow’s Shadow the intersection of language and fine Oregon’s most important artists, some Institute of the Arts Biennial , prints art, her elegant sculptures, art instal - works have never been exhibited; created over the past two years by lations, mixed-media photographs, Feb 18-May 27 Mark Rothko , 45 Native American artists at the Crow’s and evocative performances draw pieces trace Rothko’s artistic path Shadow Institute of the Arts on the from both her travels abroad and pro - from the 1920s until his death, leading Umatilla Reservation in northeastern found interests in spirituality and the American artist of the 20th century; Oregon. world’s faith traditions; Thru Mar 25 John Frame: Three Fragments of a Delivered Daily: The News Photog - Lost Tale , work over the past five raphy of Jack Carver, from 1945 to years, installations of puppets, stage 1981 , Jack Carver was The Belling - sets, photographs, music and film WASHINGTON ham Herald’s staff photographer, vignettes – various mediums come images are selected from the photog - together in Frame’s ambitious project, rapher’s remarkable legacy of 50,000 ‘The Tale of the Crippled Boy’; Joseph BeLLeVue negatives and 20,000 original prints; Beuys , features his monumental work, Bellevue Arts Museum Mar 25-Jul 15 From the Melting Pot ‘Blitzschlag mit Lichtschein auf Hirsch’ 510 Bellevue Way NE into the Fire: Contemportary Ceram - (Lightning with Stag in its Glare), ¥425-519-0770 ics in Israel , studio ceramics explore along with selected others that extend www.bellevuearts.org modern life, providing new insights the installation’s conceptual frame - tues-sun 11am-5pm, free first fri into contemporary life and art in Israel work, one of the most controversial 11am-8pm. Feb 7-Jun 17 Knitted, that are not represented in the daily avant-garde artists of the postwar Knotted, Twisted & Twined: The dose of news from the Middle East, years; Thru Apr 29 APEX: Robert Han - Jewelry of Mary Lee Hu ; Thru Feb 12 makes its only west coast stop in son , drawings of female models com - George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Bellingham; OLD CITY HALL Ongoing posed of carefully made lines provid - Designer, Teacher ; Mar 1-May 27 Fashion for the Northwest Woman: ing just enough information to make Making Mends ; Dirk Staschke: 1864–1930 , three historical gowns the figures seem perfectly complete, Falling Feels a Lot Like Flying ; Thru from the museum’s permanent col - simultaneously contemporary and Jun 17 Push Play: The 2012 NCECA lection, offering a look into popular timeless . Invitational . women’s fashions of the 1860s,

www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 61 www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art/ Marie Watt: Lodge HALLIE FORD MUSEUM OF ART, SALEM OR – Feb 4-Apr 1, 2012 Marie Watt is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. Her father was the son of Wyoming ranchers and her mother a daughter of the Turtle Clan, Seneca Nation. She identifies herself as “half Cowboy and half Indian”. Watt uses her artwork to emphasize the kinds of shared human experience that defy personal bound - aries of tradition, ethnicity and heritage. She explores ele - ments of daily ritual and storytelling with everyday objects and natural materials. At its core, her artwork is about human interconnectedness and commonalities among cul - tures and their histories. Lodge , Watt’s mid-career retrospective, features a range of work from the past decade. Included are mixed-media sculptural pieces, portraits formed from reclaimed fabric, and a large, cave-like felt installation that honours the act of storytelling. Her celebrated sculptures, Blanket Stories , use M U

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1890s and 1920s; ARTIFACTual , cal effect; Study in Blue from the Per - eclectic array of artifacts from the manent Collection , selection of art - museum’s history collection provide FRIDAY HARBOR works focuses on the use of the interesting insights into what these Waterworks Gallery colour blue, reflecting artists’ rela - objects might tell us about our region, 315 Argyle St ¥360-378-3060 tionships with the water and sky of our sense of place, our shared past in www.waterworksgallery.com the Northwest. Bellingham, and ourselves. Feb 10-14 fri-tues 11am-5pm. Thru Feb 9 Gallery closed, by appt only; Feb 10-14 Valentine Week Exhibi - tion ; Feb 15-Apr 17 Gallery closed, by PORT ANGeLeS eLLeNSBuRG appt only. Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Gallery One 1203 E Lauridsen Blvd ¥360-457-3532 408 N Pearl St ¥509-925-2670 www.pafac.org www.gallery-one.org Mar-Oct: wed-sun 11am-5pm, Nov- mon-fri 11am-5pm sat 11am-4pm LA CONNeR Feb: wed-sun 10am-4pm. Webster’s sun 12-4pm. Thru Feb 26 MAIN Museum of Northwest Art Woods Art Park: open all daylight GALLERY AND MEZZANINE Jane Orleman, 121 S First St ¥360-466-4446 hours. Admission is free. Thru Mar A Moment of Forever , recent murals; www.museumofnwart.org 10 Ghost Stories: Erik Sandgren’s EVELETH GREEN GALLERY Jane Orleman, Galleries and museum store: sun- Mythic Landscapes , paintings of the Looking In, Looking Out , works from mon 12-5pm tues-sat 10am-5pm. Northwest landscape with sensitivity the 1970s; Mar 2-Apr 2 MAIN GALLERY Admission: $5 adults, $4 seniors, $2 to myth and origins using the ArtStream Artists Show ; MEZZANINE students, members and youth under palimpsest as both technique and Kittitas Valley Ceramic Artists ; 12 free. Thru Mar 14 Yesterday’s philosophy, Sandgren brings traces EVELETH GREEN GALLERY CWU Art Tomorrow , artworks blend past and of the aboriginal past to the highly Department Ceramics , curated by future in a variety of mediums to textured surfaces; Opens Mar 18 Stephen Robison. humourous, sociological and fantasti - Strait Art 2012 , annual survey of

62 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS artists from Juan de Fuca country; part display connects the museum’s # Davidson Galleries Ongoing “Art Outside”, 12th season research on 5,000 years of tribal diets to 313 Occidental Ave S, Pioneer Square of enchanting WEBSTER ’S WOODS ART current efforts to revitalize Coast Salish ¥206-624-7684 PARK , one of the most distinctive out - food traditions, created in close collabo - www.davidsongalleries.com door art experiences in the North - ration between the Burke Museum and tues-sat 10am- 5:30pm. Thru Feb 25 west, more than 100 works on five local tribal members; Ongoing Life and Tony Fitzpatrick , “Recent Etchings”, acres, artists include Shirley Wiebe, Times of Washington State , passport small etchings reveal the artist’s per - Nicole Dextras, Peter Richards, through the evolution of Washington’s sonal vocabulary of enigmatic sym - Buster Simpson, Carolyn Law, Ann geology, biology and archaeology; bols; Cooper Edens Drager , “Lin - Morris, Rebecca Cummins, Jyoti Pacific Voices , highlights art, cere - earia”, paintings – Expressionistic Duwadi, Ingrid Lahti, Carolyn Law, monies and stories of 17 different cul - depictions of chairs, vases and airy David Nechak and many more. tures from around the Pacific. fields of texture are explored; Cali - fornia as an Island , exhibtion of Canlis Glass Gallery antique maps. 329-3131 Western Ave SeATTLe ¥206-282-4428 # Foster/White Gallery Billy King Studio + Showroom www.canlisglass.com 220 3rd Ave S, Pioneer Square ¥206-340-8881 wed-fri 12-6pm sat 11am-3pm and by ¥206-622-2833 www.billyking.com appt. Nestled in the Northwest Work www.fosterwhite.com by appt. Celebrating 40+ years of art - Lofts, this 3,500 sq. ft. independent tues-sat 10am-6pm. Feb 2-25 James work. The new Billy King Mural in gallery and studio is dedicated to the Martin , “Poke in the Eye”, paintings Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market glass artwork of Jean-Pierre Canlis . with whimsical images that float in and now completed and on view at the top The gallery is currently exhibiting Can - out of his mind; Ben Darby , “Kick in of Hillclimb stairs. lis’s popular Ocean Studies series, the Pants”, paintings burst from the complemented by his large-scale canvas in 3-D form bringing his play - # B urke Museum of Natural glass bamboo installations. time to life; Mar 1-24 Alden Mason, History and Culture Artist Retrospective , the gallery hon - University of Washington, 17th Ave ours Mason’s 92 years of curiosity and NE @ NE 45th ¥206-543-5590 creativity with paintings from the www.burkemuseum.org 1980s to the present; Mar 1-31 “NCE - daily 10am-5pm. Thru Jun 10 Hungry CA Prey/Capture, Table of Content”, Planet: What the World Eats , a travel - the National Council on Education for ling exhibit that introduces families from the Ceramic Arts celebrates two 10 countries around the world through ceramic exhibitions transforming the photographs of family members at gallery into a world of creatures and home, at the market, and surrounded by machines, demonstrating the limit - a week’s worth of groceries, additional lessness of clay, featuring Beth Caven - text and displays explore topics from Erik Sandgren, Palimpsest: Forest of Signs er Stichter, Shay Church, Alessandro sustainable farming to cultural survival; at Sunset , acrylic on canvas [ Port Angeles Gallo, Myungjin Kim, Steven Young Salish Bounty: Traditional Native Fine Arts Centre, Port Angeles WA, Jan 29- Lee, Adam Shiverdecker and Evan American Foods of Puget Sound , three- Mar 10 ] Blackwell . www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 63 www.portlandartmuseum.org Mark Rothko PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, PORTLAND OR – Feb 18-May 27, 2012 Born in Russia, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) emigrated to Portland, Oregon with his family when he was 10 years old. After attending Yale University, Rothko moved to New York and became a pre-eminent mid-century artist whose philos - ophy and style played a key role in the movement towards abstract forms of art. This extensive exhibition is the first major retrospective of his work in Portland. It traces Rothko’s artistic development from the late 1920s until shortly before his death. Rothko’s aesthetic interests went through many incarnations. His early figurative work was influenced by his studies with Max Weber at the Art

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Museum in 1933-34. Moving towards R Y P O symbolic, abstract and surreal C imagery, Rothko’s paintings took on Mark Rothko, Entrance to Subway (1938), oil on canvas [Portland Art Museum, mythological or spiritual undertones Portland OR, Feb 18-May 27] during the WWII era. By the mid-1940s, biomorphic forms and luminous spaces were predominant and can be seen as predecessors to his later well-known style of non-objective compositions. Broadly simplified pictorial spaces defined Rothko’s mature signature style. His most exemplary paintings are characterized by floating fields of colour and soft applications of paint that create varying atmospheric moods among large, experiential canvases. The transcendent content and philosophical underpinnings of Rothko’s artworks significantly contributed to subsequent developments in non-repre - sentational contemporary art. Allyn Cantor

# Frye Art Museum tographs ; Mar 1-Apr 14 Gala Bent + Atkin son, curator at the Bellevue 704 Terry Ave ¥206-622-9250 Saya Moriyasu: New Work . Arts Museum; Mar 1-31 MAIN GALLERY www.fryemuseum.org Jane Kelsey-Mapel , sculptor and tues-sun 11am-5pm thurs 11am-7pm. # Gallery 110 Becky Frehse , painter, “ReConfig - Admission is free. Feb 18-Apr 8 Li 110 3rd Ave S ¥206-624-9336 ured”, assemblage sculptures that Chen: Eternity and Commoner , mon - www.gallery110.com reflect the duality inherent in their col - umental figurative sculptures informed wed-sat 12-5pm. Feb 2-25 Michael laboration process as well as the by a mixture of Buddhist philosophy Carl, Suzanne DeCuir, Joseph DiBel - metaphorical notion of ‘reinventing’ or and contemporary art practices; Feb la, Elizabeth Doherty, Richard ‘repurposing’ one’s identity at various 18-Apr 15 Susie J. Lee: Of Breath and Elaver, Julie Gaskill, Karen Hack - states of the aging process; Mar 26- Rain , Lee uses a range of new media enberg, Alex Ho, Allison Hyde, Del - 31 FRONT WINDOW Eva Funder - tools to explore the sensory richness bert Jackson, Tom Kirkendall, burgh , ceramic beast; Mar 1-31 of human existence. Yvonne Kunz, John Melvin, Daphne SMALL SPACE Monika Dalkin , “Jour - Minkoff, Stacey Neumiller, Patricia ney, Mile stones, Balance”, mul - # G. Gibson Gallery O’Connor, Jenny Riffle, Peter ti- media artist working primarily in 300 S Washington St Serko, Naomi Smith, Claire Tay - clay, investigates emotions and real - ¥206-587-4033 lor, Patrick Williams, Carletta Car - izations. Using a vessel form Dalkin www.ggibsongallery.com rington Wilson and Angela Young , reflects on the idea of being a recepta - wed-sat 11am-5pm and tues by appt. “Annual International Juried Exhi - cle for both holding on and letting go, Thru Feb 18 Looking Forward – Look - bition”, works that reflect upon the the paired garment pieces and little ing Back, Classic 20th Century Pho - times in which we live, juried by Nora suitcases are reminiscent of immi -

64 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS VIGNETTES • February/March 2012 Washington ALLYN CANTOR GOSIA WLODARCZAK: BETWEEN WANDER & SETTLEMENT Western Gallery, Bellingham, Jan 16-Mar 3 Known for her performative works and cross-disciplinary drawing installations, Australian artist Gosia Wlodarczak investigates and records properties of change and Gosia Wlodarczak movement in transitional stages of human life. Assembled during her January residency at the Gallery, the exhibit includes a new ani - mated film/sound-drawing installation, Mt. Baker , along with an animated film/sound-drawing derived from a 2007 rail journey in Poland, and a large drawing installation entitled Skin of the Wall from 2006. THOMAS WOOD: INTAGLIO PRINTS 1998-2012 Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, Jan 21-Feb 26 This show chronicles Wood’s impressive career Thomas Wood over the 15 years since his 25-year retrospective was held at the Whatcom Museum of Art in 1998. The award-winning Washington artist creates poetic, surrealistic compositions ranging from naturalis - tic landscapes to mythological figures placed in imaginative scenes. Skilled in etching, drypoint, mezzotint, chine-collé and engraving techniques, the artwork combines the artistry of Old World print - making with a unique and inventive approach to subject matter. ARIANA PAGE RUSSELL: BLOUSE Platform Gallery, Seattle, Feb 16-Mar 17 Ariana Page Russell continues using the surface of her own pale skin as a canvas on which to explore personal boundaries, adornment, Ariana Page Russell and the affects of internal physical and emotional processes on the skin. Changes to her skin, from a condition called dermatographia, are a resource for patterns, markings and mappings she “draws” for dramatic photo and video documentation. In the video Blouse , a tat - too mask is formed over her face as a skin-tight barrier and then deconstructed as the video comes to a close. BEN DARBY: KICK IN THE PANTS Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Feb 2-25 Ben Darby employs his signature mould-making technique to pro - duce unusual sculpted acrylic forms which protrude from the surface of his paintings. These joyful, intriguing works are populated with whimsical creatures and objects that float within botanical imagery. Humour and satire merge in finely-detailed and textured composi - tions on luminous backdrops. The innovative use of acrylic and dedi - cated craftsmanship cannot help but give delight to one’s imagination. Ben Darby UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 3D4M FACULTY EXHIBITION Traver Gallery, Seattle, Feb 16-Apr 1 Showcased in this exhibition are exqui - site works by five major artists who are also professors in the Univer - sity's 3-Dimensional Forum (3D4M) Department; a consortium that includes Glass, Ceramics, and Sculpture. Doug Jeck and Akio Takamori are known for their individual approaches to figurative ceramic sculpture. Jamie Walker is celebrated for his biomorphic, semi-abstract forms, while Mark Zirpel creates quasi-scientific, glass- based sculptures and Amie McNeel responds to constant changes in Akio Takamori the natural world through a variety of materials.

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a y grants arriving at Ellis Island and mov - exhibit of Geertsen’s personal ‘heart ing along. project’; Mar 1-31 Susan Balshor, Nancy Blair, Granite Calimpong, Greg Kucera Gallery Patricia Haase, Judy Hill, Jessi Li, 212 3rd Ave S ¥206-624-0770 Julie Lindell, Carol Milne, Crista www.gregkucera.com Matteson and Sue Rose , “Earth & tues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Thru Feb 18 Fire: Materials and Methods Exhibi - Sean McFarland , “New Work”; Recent tion”, works in clay and glass. Selections from ULAE ; Feb 23-Mar 31 Ben Waterman , sculpture and paint - Prographica/fine works ings; Tim Roda , small photographs. on paper 3419 E Denny Way ¥206-322-3851 # Henry Art Gallery www.prographicadrawings.com University of Washington wed-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Mar 3 ¥206-543-2281 “Landscape Part I: Urban and Rural”, www.henryart.org featuring Kimberly Clark, Michael wed 11am-4pm thurs-fri 11am-9pm Howard, Carolyn Krieg and Robert sat-sun 11am-4pm. Admission: adults Richard Elaver, Drips (2009), 3D print made Schlegel ; Mar 10-Apr 14 “Landscape $10, seniors (62 and older) $6, mem - of nylon generated with Rhino 3D CAD, Part II: Urban and Rural”, featuring bers, children under 14, UW students, Fred Birchman, Philip Govedare, 16x20x6 inches [Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, faculty, staff, high school and college Susan Wides and Andrew Yates . students with ID free, thurs 11am-8pm Feb 2-25] free. Thru Mar 4 Material and Docu - # Seattle Art Museum ment: Experiments in Photography Platform Gallery 1300 First Ave ¥206-654-3100 during the 1970s ; Thru Apr 1 Sopheap 114 Third Ave S ¥206-323-2808 www.seattleartmuseum.org Pich: Compound ; Feb 11-May 6 Wolf - www.platformgallery.com SAM hours: wed-sun 10am-5pm, gang Laib and Winslow Homer , wed-fri 11am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm. thurs & fri 10am-9pm. Suggested “Pollen and Paint: Laib, Homer, and the Thru Feb 11 Suzanne Opton , “Sol - admission: adults $15, seniors (62 and Natural World”; Flashback ; Feb 11- dier/Many Wars”, photographs of over) and military (with ID) $12, stu - May 16 Around the Bend and Over the American soldiers close up, laying their dents $9, children 12 & under free, Edge: Seattle Ceramics 1964-1977 ; heads before the camera, and portraits SAM members free. Olympic Sculpture Mar 3-Jun 30 Morning Serial: Web - of veterans from American wars over Park (2901 Western Ave) hours: open comics Come to the Table ; Mar 10- the past 70 years; Feb 16-Mar 17 Ari - daily, opens 30 min prior to sunrise, Jun 17 From Public to Private: The ana Page Russell and Jesse Burke , closes 30 min after sunset. Free to the Evolution of Portrait Photography in “New Photographs”; Mar 22-Apr 28 public. Feb 9-Apr 29 Gauguin and Everyday American Life (1850-1900) ; Lauren Grossman , “New Work”. Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise , the Mar 31-Sep 16 Gary Hill: glossodelic complex relationship between Paul attractors ; MEZZANINE Thru Feb 12 # Pratt Gallery at Tashiro Gauguin’s work and the art and culture Wolfgang Tillmans ; Thru Feb 19 Kaplan Studios of Polynesia, SAM is the only U.S. stop; Erwin Wurm , "Test Site: How to Make 312 S. Washington, Studio 1A Thru Apr 22 Adrian Paci: Video Work , a One Minute Sculpture". ¥206-328-2200 select productions dating from 1997– www.pratt.org 2007; Thru Jun 17 SAM Next: Mika # Lisa Harris Gallery wed-sat 12-5pm, 1st thurs 5-8pm and Tajima , “After the Martini Shot”, 1922 Pike Place ¥206-443-3315 by appt. Feb 2-25 Lisa Geertsen: dynamic, architectural installation; www.lisaharrisgallery.com Show of Hearts , hand-forged metal Thru Jul 1 Picturing the Artist , photo - mon-sat 10:30am-5:30pm sun 11am- sculptures based on the human heart’s graphic portraits of and by some of the 4pm, first thurs Mar. Thru Feb 26 role in our lives and language, annual 20th century’s most important and Thomas Wood: Intaglio Prints 1998- 2012 , retrospective of myths, parables and legends wherein humans and ani - mals resonate as well as timeless depictions of the Northwest landscape. A catalogue was produced for a show in 1998, a follow-up catalogue chroni - cling the works since 1998 accompa - nies the current exhibition; Mar 1-Apr 1 Joel Brock , “Recent Paintings and Drawings”, mixed-media architecture, still life and landscape native to Skagit Valley, WA; Dane Youngren , “Rem - nants”, ceramics – sculptures and drawings that reference architecture Michoacan Chest (19th C.), detail, lacquered wood, San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. devoid of life and human existence. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection [Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA, thru Feb 19] www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 67 Exhibition Catalogues of Interest FOLK TREASURES OF MEXICO: THE NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER COLLECTION is a comprehensive volume documenting more than 150 pieces from one of the most exceptional collections of Mexican folk art in the U.S. It accompanies the exhibit on view at the Tacoma Art Museum until February 19th. Along with text by author Marion Oettinger, Jr., director of the San Antonio Museum of Art, there are detailed descriptions and colour photographs of the rare objects from the 18th-20th centuries and an account of Rockefeller’s life-long fascination with Mexican culture. Hardcover, 224 pages, $39.95 USD. Available from Tacoma Art Museum, 253-272-4258 or [email protected]

FRED HERZOG: PHOTOGRAPHS prefaced with an excellent biography by Claudia Gochmann and featuring essays by Jeff Wall, Sarah Milroy and Douglas Coupland, this large-format volume showcases the extensive work of German- born Herzog who began photographing Vancouver with Kodachrome slide film in 1953. The highly pictorial and evocative images are often filled with irony, con - tradictions and alienation. Hardcover, 197 pages, list price $60 CAD. For a list of independent bookstores or a direct links to online booksellers go to http://www.dmpibooks.com/stores

LUIS CAMNITZER was published for the recent major exhibitions of his work in Zurich, New York and Vancouver. Camnitzer, born in Germany, spent his early years in Uruguay before moving to New York. A prominent conceptual artist for over 50 years, he has created a body of work rooted in the American Conceptu - alist and Minimalist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.The large hardcover book presents his installations, drawings, prints and photographs, and provides an extensive exhibition history as well as three scholarly articles about his work. Hardcover, 228 pages, $60 CAD. Available from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, 604-822-2759 or [email protected]

ISSAC LAYMAN: PARADISE was published in conjunction with the recent Frye Art Museum exhibition of Layman’s psychologically-charged photographic images based on fabricated visions of objects and spaces found in his Seattle home. Museum Director, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, surveys the artist’s complex themes of escapism, discontent and an imagined perfection in the context of dreams of utopia in suburbia, secession from the city, nostalgia for paradise, and the work of fellow artists including the late Gordon Matta-Clark. Included are 37 colour illustrations and an essay by the exceptional Seattle poet and author, Doug Nufer. Hardcover, 80 pages, $28 USD. Available from Frye Art Museum, 206-432-8201 or [email protected]

KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER: JEANS is an unusually tall, hardcover book of black and white portraits of men wearing jeans. Gay, straight, tall, short, young, old, casual or formal, friendly, erotic or defiant, their portraits were taken by Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006). A self-taught photographer, Weinberger began creating his thematic portfolios of Swiss and Italian culture in the late 1950s. The black and white images, many printed in privacy, are brilliant documentations of an era. Hardcover, 55 pages, $45 CAD. Available from Presentation House Gallery, 604-986-1351 or [email protected]

68 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 Exhibition Catalogues of Interest SHORE, FOREST AND BEYOND: ART FROM THE AUDAIN COLLECTION illus - trates work by 100 acclaimed North American artists with an emphasis on tradi - tional and contemporary First Nations art. The diverse collection includes paint - ings by Emily Carr and E.J. Hughes, Mexican modernists and contemporary artists, Roy Arden, Attila Richard Lukacs and Angela Grossmann. Incorporating essays by Ian Thom and Grant Arnold, the book was published for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s 2011 exhibit. Hardcover, 160 pages, $55 CAD. For a list of independent bookstores or a direct link to online booksellers go to http://www.dmpibooks.com/stores

BILL REID AND THE HAIDA CANOE editor Martine J. Reid shares an apprecia - tion for the most powerful and fundamental form of Northwest Coast art: the dugout cedar canoe. Published as a companion guide to the exhibit at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver, BC, the comprehensive book is filled with historical and illustrative photographs showing the physical, mythi - cal and metaphoric role of the canoe in Haida life, numerous on-site photos, and samples of Reid’s writing and drawings. Softcover, 152 pages, $29.95 CAD. Available from Bill Reid Gallery, 604-682-3455 or [email protected]

GEORGE NELSON: ARCHITECT, WRITER, DESIGNER, TEACHER celebrates the work of the seminal mid-20th century designer, George Nelson (1908-1986) whose 100th-birthday anniversary was marked by a major retrospective organ - ized by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. The retrospective is currently showing at the Bellevue Arts Museum until February 12th. This extensively illus - trated publication includes eight essays by leading design historians and many previously unpublished images of Nelson’s Modernist works. Hardcover, 352 pages, $110 USD. Available from Bellevue Arts Museum, 425-519-0722 or [email protected]

CHRIS CHARLEBOIS, RECENT WORKS is a small hardcover catalogue of paintings by Quebec-born artist Chris Charlebois, represented by Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancou - ver. He has described his portraits of obscure wilderness as depicting “broken and battered branches and their struggle to survive”. Densely knit foliage and under - brush is rife with traces of impasto left by the artist’s palette knives, plastic forks and other homemade tools. The book introduces a selection of more than 80 colour reproductions of outstanding paintings created during the past three years. Hardcover, 88 pages, $55 CAD. Available from the Kurbatoff Gallery, 604-736-5444 or [email protected]

ÉCHOS D'UN AUTRE MONDE: JANINE CARREAU ET PIERRE GAUVREAU fea - tures paintings by recently-deceased Quebec artist Pierre Gauvreau (1922-2011) and his third wife Janine Carreau, a painter, photographer and Gauvreau’s agent in recent years. The 47 brightly coloured pieces in the 2011 exhibit were described as “exuberant” and a “celebration of life and of freedom from the strict cleric culture of mid-century Quebec”. The impressive hardcover catalogue contains large colour plates and essays by Ray Ellenwood, Gilles LaPointe and Charles Binamé. Hardcover, 192 pages, $50 CAD. Available from the Baron Gallery, 604-682-1114 or [email protected]

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www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 69 www.seattleartmuseum.org Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE WA – Feb 9-Apr 29 , 2012 French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most formidable artists of the late 19th century. His style of bold colouration and simplified forms had a great impact on the develop - ment of artistic movements in the early 20th century. During his life - time, Gauguin’s artistic trajectory led him to Polynesia in search of a N E

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C culture and people had a complex E L L O C and inextricable effect on his artis - Paul Gauguin, Arearea no Varua ino (Words of the Devil, or Reclining Tahitian Women) tic output. (1894), oil on canvas [Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA, Feb 9-Apr 29] Gauguin left for Tahiti in 1891 in hopes of finding an idyllic existence. Tahiti was a French territory at the time and Christian mission - aries had already had a profound effect on the local population. Their influence is evident in many of Gauguin’s depictions of island life. In his major Tahitian portrait, Vahine no te Tiare (Tahitian Woman with a Flower), 1891, for example, the model is clothed in a Western-style dress rather than the tradi - tional pareo which is more revealing. Some of Gauguin’s most important paintings were created during his time in Tahiti as well as the Marquesas Islands, where he spent the end of his life. Many of the iconic works in this exhibit were drawn from collections all over the world in order to demonstrate the integral role that the waning island culture had on Gauguin’s mature style. The exhibit includes extensive examples of Polynesian sculptures, relics and art objects to illustrate the cultural art forms Gauguin may have experienced. The exhibition, organized and curated by Art Centre Basel for the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen and for the Seattle Art Museum, is accompanied by a substantially comprehensive catalogue. Allyn Cantor

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE CONT’D in the 1930s and 1940s , a glimpse of $7, seniors (62 and over), students celebrated artists including painters, the creative forces that made the Seat - and military $5, children 12 & under sculptors, writers, dancers and pho - tle art scene so distinctive in these free, SAM members free. First Thurs tographers; Theaster Gates: The Lis - years; OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK , 2901 free admission. First Fri seniors free. tening Room , explores the ways his - Western Ave Ongoing More than 20 First Sat families free. Thru Feb 12 tory, place and performance intersect, sculptures on 9 acres including Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious recipient of the 2011–12 Gwendolyn Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Motifs in East Asian Art , work from Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellow - Mark Dion, Mark Di Suvero, the Chinese, Japanese and Korean ship; Thru Oct 1 Jenny Heishman: Ellsworth Kelly, Roy McMakin, collections include paintings, lacquer - 2011 Betty Bowen Award Winner , Richard Serra and Tony Smith ; Thru ware, jade, textiles and porcelain; approachable objects created through Mar 4 Trenton Doyle Hancock , “A Bet - Looking West, Finding East , modern the use and alteration of everyday ter Promise”, site-specific, immersive Japanese prints from the 1950s and materials; Thru Oct 21 Order and Bor - installation telling his dramatic story 60s with sculptures and paintings by der , visual analysis of how stripes through text and images including Northwest masters; Thru Feb 19 decorate and structure objects, bodies wall drawings and some sculptural Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and spaces; Ongoing Light in the elements. and Kenjiro Nomura , featured works Darkness , six paintings in the Euro - by two painters known in 1930s Seat - pean art galleries on the theme of # Seattle Asian Art Museum tle for their American realist style of luminescence; “Burden of History”, 1400 E Prospect St, Volunteer Park landscape painting; Mar 15-Aug 5 paintings by Anselm Kiefer, Elizabeth ¥206-654-3100 Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Murray and Rashid Johnson and www.seattleartmuseum.org Ikats , highlights robes rich in colour sculptures by Do Ho Suh, Katharina wed-sun 10am-5pm thurs 10am- bound by multifaceted processes, Fritsch and Jeff Koons ; American Art 9pm. Suggested admission: adults Central Asian influence, sharp graphic

70 PREVIEW I FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012 # OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS designs of rigorous abstraction, deli - $5, MAC members no charge. Camp - cate harmonies and flowing floral bell House Tours: included in admission motifs; Ongoing Artful Reproduc - price. Feb 4-Sep 22 Dig It! The Secrets tions , pairs and sets of similar art of Soil , travelling exhibition from the objects that are a result of the Chinese Smithsonian’s National Museum of ‘modular’ mode of productivity. Natural History; fine art and history exhibits from the MAC’s permanent col - # Shift Studio lections; Thru Feb 25 “Seeing Impres - 105-306 S Washington St, Tashiro sionism: Europe, America and the Kaplan Bldg [email protected] Northwest”, works by French Impres - Marion Post Wolcott, A member of the www.shiftstudio.org sionists include Auguste Renoir, Edgar fri & sat 12-5pm or by appt. 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Gibson Gallery, Seattle Maurice Prendergast ; Thru 2014 Last - the collective, to explore the theme WA, thru Feb 18] ing Heritage , the most expansive ‘shift’, featuring a variety of media by American Indian installation to date at local, regional and international artists, studio glass movement and we are the MAC; Ongoing Campbell House shifting the focus of the collective to proud to showcase emerging talent in (1898) , hourly tours wed-sat 12-3pm showcasing the work by others; Mar 1- art glass as well as production work and Carriage House Activity Center . 31 Sharon Birzer , “Folio”, series of by internationally renowned artists woodblock monoprints/paintings and such as Dale Chihuly, Martin Blank drawings inspired by observations of and Preston Singletary . Vetri repre - nature; Yun Hong Chang , “Memory”, sents the work of over 100 artists. TACOMA series of delicate sculptures created # Museum of Glass with porcelain, hair, fabric and thread Western Bridge 1801 Dock St ¥253-284-4750 to visualize the fragility of memories 3412 4th Ave S ¥206-838-7444 www.museumofglass.org and emotions. www.westernbridge.org Spring Hours: wed-sat 10am-5pm sun thurs-sat 12-6pm and by appt. 12-5pm 3rd thurs 10am-8pm (free SPAC Gallery Admission is free. Feb 17-Apr 7 Kut lug admission 5-8pm). Admission: free for Seattle Pacific University Ataman, Walead Beshty, Matt members, $12 adults, $10 seniors, 3 W Cremona ¥206-281-2079 Browning, Roger Hiorns, Euan Mac - military and students (13+ with ID), www.spu.edu/depts/viscom/page/ donald, Amanda Ross Ho, Alex $10 groups of 10+, $5 children (6-12 community/cgallery.asp Schweder La, Matt Sheridan Smith, yrs), children under 6 free, admission mon-fri 9am-5pm. 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www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 71 www.fryemuseum.org Li Chen: Eternity and Commoner FRYE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE WA – Feb 18-Apr 8, 2012 Li Chen is regarded as one of the leading sculptors working in Asia today. The Taiwanese artist creates monumental pieces that combine ele - ments of Buddhist and Taoist philosophy with contem - porary thought, yielding heartfelt works rich in both spirit and emotion. Li Chen, who is primarily self- taught, began his career creating traditional sculptures for temples dedicated to the Pure Land tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. Since the late 1990s, he has devel - oped a highly personal and distinctive iconography that moves away from the traditional aesthetics of Buddhist sculpture from the Tang and Song dynasties. Characterized by a profound understanding of the human condition, Li Chen’s work invokes feelings of loss, regret and humility, as well as childlike innocence and unambiguous joy. Blending spirituality with classic and contemporary perspectives, the sculptures honour the cyclical nature of life and have a high level of conviction. The Frye exhibit is his first U.S. museum exhibition. It includes pieces that evolved out of his explorations with clay, wood, rope and wax. Using clay moulded over wood T

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A. Rockefeller Collection from the ing more than 30 sculptures and draw - Traver Gallery San Antonio Museum of Art , learn ings; Permanent Installation Visitors 100-1821 E Dock St ¥253-383-3685 about the cultural heritage of the peo - can access the Ear for Art: Chihuly www.travergallery.com ple of Mexico through the spectacular Glass CellPhone Tour any time from wed-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm folk art from Nelson A. Rockefeller’s anywhere by calling 888-411-4220 – Open 3rd Thurs Artwalk 5-8pm. Thru collection; Thru Feb 26 At Home map of audio stops throughout down - Feb 26 Gallery Artist Group Exhibi - Across America: Scenes from the town Tacoma is available online. tion , painting and glass; John Miller , 1930s to 1950s in Prints , cross-sec - large-scale glass sculpture; Mar 3- tion of prints from Associated Ameri - Apr 15 Yours, Ours, Mine: Cappy can Artists that revisit images of daily Thompson, Dick Weiss and Jeffry life throughout the United States; Thru Mitchell , painting on ceramics. May 20 The 10th Northwest Biennial , examines the vital questions of who we Vetri Glass – Tacoma are as residents of the Pacific North - 101-1821 E Dock St ¥253-383-3692 west; Mar 17-Jun 10 Hide/Seek: Dif - www.vetriglass.com ference and Desire in American Por - wed-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm, traiture , first major exhibition to closed mon-tues. The gallery show - address the question of how gender cases emerging talent in art glass as identity and sexual orientation have well as production work by interna - dramatically shaped the creation of Laiwan, she who has scanned the flower tionally renowned artists such as modern American portraiture; Ongoing of the world... (1987), (still) mixed media Dale Chihuly, Martin Blank and Chihuly: Gifts from the Artist , perma - projection [Presentation House Gallery, Davide Salvadore . Vetri represents nent collection of Chihuly glass includ - North Vancouver BC, Jan 28-Mar 11] the work of over 100 artists.

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Agnes Bugera Gallery 15 Caroun Art Gallery 22 The Fort Gallery 20 Alberta Craft Council Gallery 16 Catalog Gallery 35 Foster/White Gallery 63 Alcheringa Gallery 52 Catriona Jeffries Gallery 38 The Foyer Gallery, Squamish Public AllMarquetry Studio Gallery 22 Centre A, Vancouver International Centre Library 31 Alternator Centre 21 for Contemporary Asian Art 38 Framagraphic Framing Gallery 45 Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College 22 Chali-Rosso Art Gallery 38 Froelick Gallery 60 Annie Meyer Artwork Gallery 60 Chambers@916 60 Frye Art Museum 64 Appleton Galleries 34 Charles A. Hartman Fine Art 60 Gainsborough Gallery 10 Arnold Mikelson Mind & Matter 33 Charles H. Scott Gallery 38 G. Gibson Gallery 64 Art Beatus 34 Chilliwack Visual Artists Association 20 Gallery 2, Grand Forks and District Art Emporium 34 Choboter Fine Art 38 Art and Heritage Centre 21 Art Gallery at Evergreen 20 Circle Craft Gallery 39 Gallery 110 64 Art Gallery of Alberta 16 City of Vancouver Archives Gallery 39 Gallery at the Mac 52 Art Gallery of Calgary 8 CityScape Community Art Space, North Gallery Gachet 45 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 52 Vancouver Community Arts Council 23 Gallery in the Oak Bay Village 52 The Art Gym at Marylhurst University 60 Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery 39 Gallery Jones, Vancouver 45 Art Rental & Sales at the Vancouver Art The Collectors’ Gallery 8 Gallery Jones, West Vancouver 55 Gallery 34 Comox Valley Art Gallery 20 Gallery of BC Ceramics 45 Art Works Gallery 34 Contemporary Art Gallery 39 Gallery One 62 Artfirm 8 Craft Connection & Gallery 378 22 Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens and Artistic Statement 52 Craft Council of BC 39 Gallery 21 Arts Council Gallery of New Westminster 22 Cultural Centre Gallery 18 Glenbow Museum 10 Arts Off Main 34 Dales Gallery 52 Goldmoss Gallery 33 Artspeak 34 Davidson Galleries 63 The Graffiti Co. Art Studio/Gallery 23 ArtStarts Gallery 34 Deluge Contemporary Art 52 Granville Fine Art 45 Ashpa Naira Gallery 51 Diana Paul Galleries 10 Greenery Gallery 45 Audain Gallery 34 Diane Farris Gallery 40 Greg Kucera Gallery 67 Avenue Gallery 52 Doctor Vigari Gallery 40 grunt gallery 45 Baron Gallery and Studio 35 Dorian Rae Collection 40 Hallie Ford Museum of Art 61 Bau-Xi Gallery 35 Douglas Reynolds Gallery 40 Havana Gallery 46 Bellevue Arts Museum 61 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton 17 Heffel Fine Art Auction House 46 Bellevue Gallery 55 Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver 40 Henry Art Gallery 67 Bill Reid Gallery 35 Dundarave Print Workshop and Gallery 40 Herringer Kiss Gallery 10 Billy King Studio & Showroom 63 Eagle Spirit Gallery 44 hfa contemporary 46 Blackfish Gallery 60 eclectic 52 Ian Tan Gallery 46 Blanket Contemporary Art 35 Elissa Cristall Gallery 44 Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College Bluerock Gallery 8 Elizabeth Leach Gallery 60 of Art + Design 12 Blue Sky Gallery 60 Elliott Louis Gallery 44 Inglewood Fine Arts 12 Britannia Art Gallery 35 English Bay Gallery 44 International Arts Gallery 46 Buckland Southerst Gallery 55 Equinox Gallery 44 Inuit Gallery of Vancouver 46 Burke Museum 63 Equinox Project Space 44 Japanese Canadian National Museum 19 Burnaby Art Gallery 16 Esplanade Art Gallery 18 Jarvis Hall Fine Art 12 Campbell River Art Gallery 20 Evergreen Cultural Centre Art Gallery Jenkins Showler Gallery 23 Canlis Glass Gallery 63 (see Art Gallery at Evergreen) 20 Jennifer Kostuik Gallery 47 Cannon Beach Gallery 58 Ferry Building Gallery 55 Jeunesse Gallery of Fine Arts 47 Cannon Beach Gallery Group 58 Firehall Arts Centre 44 Kamloops Art Gallery 21

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Katherine McLean Studio 47 Peninsula Gallery 31 Sunshine Coast Arts Council + Arts Centre 33 Kelowna Art Gallery 22 Penticton Art Gallery 25 Surrey Art Gallery 34 Kootenay Gallery 20 Peter Kiss Studio and Gallery 49 Swirl Fine Art & Design 14 Kurbatoff Art Gallery 47 Petley Jones Gallery 49 Tacoma Art Museum 71 Kwantlen Art Gallery 33 Place des Arts 20 Teck Gallery 50 Landing Gallery Artists’ Co-op 20 Platform Gallery 67 Toni Onley Estate 50 Langham Cultural Centre Gallery 21 Polychrome Fine Arts 53 Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art Lattimer Gallery 47 Porch Gallery 30 and History 22 Laura Russo Gallery 60 Port Angeles Fine Arts Center 62 Traver Gallery, Seattle 71 Legacy Art Gallery 52 Port Moody Arts Centre 25 Traver Gallery, Tacoma 72 Lisa Harris Gallery 67 Portland Art Museum 61 Trench Contemporary Art 50 The Lloyd Gallery 25 The Potters Place 20 TrépanierBaer 14 Lúz Gallery 43 Pratt Gallery at Tashiro Kaplan Studios 67 Triangle Gallery (see Museum of Madrona Gallery 53 Presentation House Gallery 24 Contemporary Art – Calgary) 12 Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gallery at Prographica/fine works on paper 67 Tsawwassen Longhouse Gallery 34 the McPherson Library 53 Queen Elizabeth Theatre Mezzanine Two Rivers Gallery 27 Maple Ridge Art Gallery 22 Gallery 49 UNIT/PITT Projects 50 Marilyn S. Mylrea Art Gallery 47 The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford 19 Unitarian Church of Vancouver 50 Marion Scott Gallery 47 Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery 18 University of Lethbridge Art Gallery 17 Monny's Art Gallery 47 Rendezvous Art Gallery 48 Uno Langmann Limited 50 Monte Clark Gallery 47 Rennie Collection 49 Vancouver Art Gallery 50 Morley Myers Gallery & Studio 30 Republic Gallery 49 Vancouver Maritime Museum 51 Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 47 Richmond Art Gallery 27 Vernon Public Art Gallery 51 Mountain Galleries 57 Royal BC Museum 54 Vetri Glass – Seattle 71 Museum of Anthropology, UBC 48 Rufus Lin Gallery of Japanese Art 27 Vetri Glass – Tacoma 72 Museum of Contemporary Art – Calgary 12 SAGA Public Art Gallery 30 W2 Media Café 51 Museum of Contemporary Craft 60 Satellite Gallery 49 Wallace Galleries 14 Museum of Glass 71 Seattle Art Museum 67 Waterworks Gallery 62 Museum of Northern BC 27 Seattle Asian Art Museum 70 The Weiss Gallery 16 Museum of Northwest Art 62 Seymour Art Gallery 24 West End Gallery, Edmonton 17 Museum of Vancouver 48 Shandon Galleries 20 West End Gallery, Victoria 54 Nanaimo Art Gallery 22 Shift Studio 71 West Vancouver Museum 57 The New Gallery (TNG) 12 Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, Jewish Western Bridge 71 Newzones 14 Community Centre 49 Western Front Gallery 51 North Vancouver Museum 24 Silk Purse Arts Centre 55 Western Gallery 61 Northwest By Northwest Gallery 58 Simon Fraser University Gallery 19 Whatcom Museum of History and Art 61 Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 71 Slide Room Gallery 54 White Bird Gallery 60 The Old School House Arts Centre 27 South Shore Gallery 31 White Rock Gallery 57 Omega Gallery 48 Southern Alberta Art Gallery 17 Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies 8 ON MAIN @ Gallery 1965 48 SPAC Gallery 71 Winchester Galleries 54 Open Space 53 SPACE emmarts 24 Winsor Gallery 51 Or Gallery 48 Spirit Wrestler Gallery 49 Xchanges Gallery 55 Osoyoos Art Gallery 24 Squamish Arts Council 31 Paul Kuhn Gallery 14 Stride Art Gallery Association 14 Pegasus Gallery of Canadian Art 30 Studio 13 Fine Art 50 Pendulum Gallery 48 Sun Spirit Gallery 57 www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 77 GALLERY OPENINGS + EVENTS

Coquitlam BC. 7F-e9bpmruOapryen 2in gT hreucrespdtioany : Printmaking: A 6:30-9pm Opening reception: Carolyn Stockbridge , Contemporary Vision of a Classical Tradition , artwork Groupings , new paintings. ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY , 258 E by 13 members of the Art Institute of Capilano 1st Ave, Vancouver BC. University. CITY SCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE , N ORTH 7-11pm Opening reception: Charlene Vickers , VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL , 335 Lonsdale Ave, Ominjimendaan/to remember , carvings in wood, North Vancouver BC. grasses wrapped in fabric and hair, and a clan of turtles become signals and searchers to remember those lost 6F-e8bpmruOapryen 7in gT ureecsepdtaioy n: Jenn Williamson , Surface or missing. GRUNT GALLERY , Unit 116-350 E 2nd Ave, and Soul , colourful Italian plaster artwork; Laurie Vancouver BC. McCallum , pottery inspired by the shapes, colours and textures of our coastal shoreline. SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 5M-9aprmchO 1pe Tnihnug rrsedceapy tion: Angie Rees , Poetic License , AT THE WEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL , 1570 new paintings. SWIRL FINE ART & D ESIGN , Unit 104-100 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver BC. 7th Ave SW, Calgary AB. 8-10pm 10 Seconds Mashup Event – concludes the 6F-e9bpmruOapryen 9in gT hreucrespdtioany : Paris White: The Text Based year-long series, curated by Paul Wong, presented in Paintings of Enn Erisalu . TRENCH CONTEMPORARY ART , partnership with InTransitBC. ON MAIN @ G ALLERY 102-148 Alexander St, Vancouver BC. 1965 , 1965 Main St, Vancouver, BC. 6:30-8:30pm Opening reception: Bill Adams , landscapes and florals; Denise Jeffrey , porcelain vases, 1Mpam rcAhrt is3t ’sS Taatluk:r dBaehy ind The Paint , Carolyn tile wall hangings, bowls, mugs, wine carafes and cups. Stockbridge ’s talk will examine the process of painting, DISTRICT FOYER GALLERY , 355 W Queens Rd, North the relationship of painter to painting and the body of Vancouver, BC. work in her show Groupings. ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY , 258 7pm Opening reception: Renée Van Halm: Cross- E 1st Ave, Vancouver BC. Cutting/Inside Out , works on paper from 1979 to the 1-4pm Opening reception: Luke Ramsey: Solo present. BURNABY ART GALLERY , 6344 Deer Lake Ave, Exhibition , new works on paper. MADRONA GALLERY , 606 Burnaby BC. View St, Victoria BC. 2-4pm Opening reception: Vern Montgomery , cheerful 1F-e3bpmruAarrtyis t1’s1 T aSlka taunrdd Daey monstration: Relief and and vibrant caricature-like local scenes. DISTRICT LIBRARY intaglio printing plates and process. To register, phone GALLERY , Lynn Valley Main Library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd, 604-988-6844 or email [email protected]. North Vancouver, BC. CITY SCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE , N ORTH VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL , 335 Lonsdale Ave, North March 6 Tuesday Vancouver BC. 6-8pm Opening reception: Hanji Yosifov , Torrents and Blessings , acrylic paintings. SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE AT 1-4pm Opening reception: Madeleine Wood , Intimate THE WEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL , 1570 Views , mid-career retrospective with works from the Argyle Ave, West Vancouver BC. last 20 years. MADRONA GALLERY , 606 View St, Victoria BC. 6M-9aprmchO 8pe Tnihnug rrsedceapy tion: 1964: The Early Paintings of Ron Stonier, smaller abstract oil paintings. TRENCH 6F-e8bpmruOapryen 2in1g Treucepstdioany : North Shore Artists Guild , CONTEMPORARY ART , 102-148 Alexander St, Vancouver artwork by members from Howe Sound, West BC. Vancouver, North Vancouver and Deep Cove. SILK PURSE 7pm Opening reception: Street Life , artistic responses ARTS CENTRE AT THE WEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS to the city as muse and subject matter of art, also COUNCIL , 1570 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver BC. includes gallery tour with curator Jeffrey Spalding . MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART – C ALGARY , 104-800 4F:e30b-r7u:3a0rpym 2O3p Tenhiungrs rdecaey ption: Louise Bunn and Macleod Trail SE, Calgary AB. Mary Bennett , Transmutations: Journeys through Time 7-9pm Opening reception: Bold and Beautiful , the and Space . AMELIA DOUGLAS GALLERY , D OUGLAS COLLEGE , inspiration that flowers have in the creation of bold and 700 Royal Ave, New Westminster BC. beautiful artwork. CITY SCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE , N ORTH 6-8pm Opening reception: Bratsa Bonifacho: Inside VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL , 335 Lonsdale Ave, Habitat Pixel , paintings. ART GALLERY AT EVERGREEN , North Vancouver BC. Evergreen Cultural Centre, 1205 Pinetree Way,

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1Mpam rcAhrt is1t0’s STaalkt:u Rrdealyism in the 21st Century, Part 4 of 1Mpam rcAhrt is2t4s’ STaalktu: Prdoartyable Walls – Christian Nicolay 6 – Jonathan Sutton will discuss the influence of non- and Ya-chu Kang will speak about their processes and representation and abstraction on realism, looking at investigations that are at the core of their exhibition. both photography and highly rendered representational ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY , 258 E 1st Ave, Vancouver BC. art responding directly to abstraction. ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY , 258 E 1st Ave, Vancouver BC. 6M-8aprmchO 2pe9n iTnhg urerscedpatiy on: Robert Truszkowski , 2-5pm Opening reception: Gijalordi , 18 works Penance , printmaking. VERNON PUBLIC ART GALLERY , 3228 developed from a printmaking workshop at Girringun 31st Ave, Vernon BC. Art Centre. ALCHERINGA GALLERY , 665 Fort St, Victoria BC. 6:30-9pm Opening reception: Christian Nicolay and Ya- chu Kang , Portable Walls , collaborative exhibition of 2M-4aprmchO 1pe7n iSnga truercdepaty ion: Mara Korkola , Here . DOUGLAS new work. ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY , 258 E 1st Ave, UDELL GALLERY , 10332 124 St NW, Edmonton AB. Vancouver BC.

6M-8aprmchO 2pe0n iTnuge rsecdeapytion: Happy Birthday West Van! , 1M-3aprmchO 3pe1n iSnga truercdepaty ion: Art from the Heart , School celebrating West Vancouver’s Centennial with works by District #22 annual elementary school student West Vancouver artists. SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE AT THE exhibition. VERNON PUBLIC ART GALLERY , 3228 31st Ave, WEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL , 1570 Argyle Vernon BC. Ave, West Vancouver BC.

ACCESS AUCTION 2012 auction.accessgallery.ca

Friday February 17th, 8 - 11pm Groove is in the Art Annual Access Auction Extravaganza

At THE WATERFALL BUILDING 1540 West 2nd Ave. The return of the MALIBU $15 entry, Free for Members A 1976 Chevy Malibu A silent and live auction of works with special artist add-ons by over 40 locally, nationally, and will be auctioned off! internationally acclaimed artists!

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