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Place for Everyone, celebrate Cana- National Park; Jul 14-25 2nd Annual da’s diversity with four unique exhibits Banff Centre Alumni Exhibition, work Diana Paul Galleries that showcase Canada’s multicultural- by artists who have participated in the 737 2nd St SW ✆(403)262-9947 ism; Invitation: Quilt of Belonging, is Banff Centre’s visual arts residency www.dianapaul.com a 120-foot long textile comprised of programs; Aug 4-25 Ron Smid, tues-sat 11am-5pm Opening Jun 9 263 blocks representing every immi- “Canada: The Light on Our Land”, Wilson Chu, "Impressions: Light and grant and First Nations group in Cana- photographs of light, colour and land. Shadow"; Opening Jun 23 Ingrid Har- da; A Joyful Harvest, photographic rison, "Premiere Showing"; Jul-Aug exhibit celebrating 100 years of Jew- # Identifies galleries and Contact the gallery for exhibition ish life in Alberta; Celebrating Prairie museums open until 8pm on the information. 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By combining elements of still life, landscape and portraiture, she creates compositions that evoke a quiet, clandestine sense of place. In Viola, for example, strange vestiges hang unnoticed beside a figure whose gaze is moody and gently contemplative. Overall, the new paintings have a more object-based reality than Siems' previous work, where she placed her introspective figures and dress forms against textured and painterly backgrounds with no apparent reference to real spaces. The female figures and landscape formations have a pseudo-historic feeling. Garments, personal possessions and hairstyles are reminiscent of our ancestors. Her European folk-art style of painting, the nostalgic objects and the incongruent narratives allude to a romanticized dreamscape where mementos of frivolous beauty are combined with vibrant flowers, Anne Siems, Viola (2007), mixed media [Laura Russo animals and mysterious relics. A bizarre, otherworldly Gallery, Portland OR, Jun 7-30] tone in Siems' work recalls daydreams, memorabilia and connections to history. Anne Siems was born in Berlin and received her MFA from Hochschule der Kunste. She has exhibited in galleries throughout the United States, since 1987 when she was a Fulbright Scholar. Her work is represented in prominent collections, including the Tacoma Art Museum. Allyn Cantor Harrison Galleries Group Show”, introducing Benjamin zen apathy and engagement and geo- 709A 11th Ave SW ✆(403)229-4088 Evans and Scott Pattinson.