Walk Down Lonsdale X Discover The Open Air Museum Follow the Biennale Banners Down Lonsdale This Public Art Walk is an initiative of the Vancouver Biennale and the Arts Office of North Vancouver with the generous support of the City of North Vancouver to raise awareness X of the great Public Art in our midst. Begin at Centennial Theatre and walk south to Rey Sargent Park at 21st, visit the Smith Gallery. Walk Down Lonsdale to City Hall at 14th. Visit the CityScape Gallery, Presentation House Gallery, the Biennale’s International Pavilion at Shipyard Square and then walk west to 2. Walking Figures, 2006 Waterfront Park. You will be amazed at what you discover! Magdalena Abakanowicz For more North Vancouver Public Art visit: www.artsoffice.ca/public_art/collection.php X For more Vancouver Biennale Public Art visit: Located: Lonsdale Avenue at www.vancouverbiennale.com 23rd, 22nd, 21st and X 13th Streets 1. Veil, 2001 X The SWON Collective A WALKENNALE TOUR X Description: Installed by the VANCOUVER BIENNALE X these 9 bold headless works were gifted to the Biennale by the artist and depict the loss of individuality in our contemporary society. They were created as part of a major 106 piece installa- tion for Chicago’s Grant Park entitled “Agora”. These sculptural Located: Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Avenue works, both inside and out show the artist’s deep concern for Description: (best viewed after dark) The artists examined humanity in a world where it is easy to be lost. She has created myths, storytelling traditions and natural elements to create a “countless” figures world-wide with the hope that we will individ- visual statement that encompassed natural, geographic and ually contemplate and fight for our unique place on this planet. cultural evolutions. The design and title inspiration were taken X from: “the wind becomes the sea becomes the land becomes Specifications: edition 125, cast bronze, 108” x 55” the veil”. “Veil” boldly illustrates that statement and draws About the Artist: Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930) is one of references to our relationship, debt and growth with the natural the most influential artists of the 21st century. A Polish national X world. The stylized light work depicts a variety of natural forms, living treasure, she is represented in major collections and mu- forces and movements and a hanging curtain, symbolic of the seums throughout Europe and North America. She has received X X evolution of human cultural expression. numerous awards and honours including the Priz Grande of the Sao Paolo Biennale in 1965. Abakanowicz’s imagery and use Specifications: hand-blown glass tubes, neon gas of materials reference nature and ancient mediums, but also About the Artists: SWON is an acclaimed Montreal art and reflect her history and survival of both Nazi and Soviet occupied design collective that creates sculptural glass and lighting Poland. installations which blur the lines between art and design. Specifications: carved red cedar, yellow cedar, copper and 3. North Shore Rhapsody, 1992 abalone laminate, Collection of Artists for Kids. 6. The Meeting, 2007 Ryszard Wojciechowski About the Artist: Xwalacktun - Ernest Richard Harry (1958) Wang Shugang is a well respected North Shore artist of Coast Salish heritage. He was born in Squamish, BC and lived there until 1978 when Located: NW corner of he moved to North Vancouver to further his art education at the Centennial Theatre, Emily Carr College of Art and Design and at Capilano College. 2300 Lonsdale Avenue In 2012 he received the prestigious Order of British Columbia for his significant cultural contributions to the region. He currently lives and works in North Vancouver. 5. Meeting At The Centre, 2004 Located: Rey Sargent Park, 2100 Lonsdale Avenue Description: A harpist plays her harp engraved with local Robert Davidson historical scenes; the first sawmill, a tramway, the ferry, the Description: Installed by the VANCOUVER BIENNALE fishing industry and musical concerts. Thereby she creates these 8 works depict group dynamics of the political process a North Shore Rhapsody. It also symbolically celebrates and were originally created for a G8 Summit in Germany in Centennial Theatre’s role in supporting the Performing Arts. 2008. The figures in Asian dress are spare, appear still and fixed. They are contemplative, show no movement but suggest Specifications: metal, concrete and paint a latent energy. Each are a striking chinese red - the glowing About the Artist: Ryszard Wojciechowski (1939-2003) was a red of communism. The placement of figures in static sitting Polish Canadian artist/teacher who lived and worked in North positions with cupped hands is not without irony - including Vancouver. He immigrated to Canada in 1990 following a long the outcast member crouched behind the group. and successful artistic and educational career in Europe. Specifications: open edition, cast bronze, oil paint Located: The Smith Gallery Plaza, 2121 Lonsdale Ave. About the Artist: Wang Shugang (1960) is an internationally Description: This sculptural work depicts the artist’s contem- recognized Chinese sculptor. After receiving a BA in 3D studies 4. Inchult Snaam, 2012 porary exploration of traditional Northwest Coast Haida design from the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, he spent ten Xwalacktun elements in an elegant three dimensional form. It plays with years establishing his career in Ruhr, Germany (1989-1999) symmetry, iconography and sight lines. The title describes the and now lives and works in his native Beijing. His work is nature of the two planes which meet at the centre of the radiant widely exhibited and collected in Europe, the USA, in Canada Located: The Smith Gallery, visual force field. and in China. SD44 Education Services Centre, Specifications: edition 4/7, cast aluminum, powder coat 2121 Lonsdale Avenue epoxy, Collection of Artists for Kids About the Artist: Robert Davidson (1946) is one of the most The VANCOUVER BIENNALE respected First Nations artists working in Canada today. Eagle is a showcase of spectacular of the Dawn/Guud Sans Glans (his Haida name) lived on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) until 1965 when he moved to international art and artists taking Vancouver to complete his education. He apprenticed with Bill place in the Metro Vancouver Reid and proceeded to launch his career as an artist. He is a Description: These elegantly carved 10’ doors to the Gordon region 2014 through 2016. master carver of totems and masks and works in a variety of Smith Gallery of Canadian Art celebrate “place” and are carved other media as a printmaker, painter and jeweler. He is also a in Coast Salish style. The doors depict the first work in the ac- Engage yourself in the magic of leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture. An claimed Artists for Kids Collection collection: Bill Reid’s “Haida impeccable craftsman, his creative and personal interpretation great contemporary public art. Grizzly Drum”. It also shows the Thunderbird (the spirit guide) of traditional Haida form is unparalleled. In 2010 he received protecting the Drum, the Sisters; mountain peaks known to the prestigious Governor General’s Award for Visual Art in www.vancouverbiennale.com locals as the Lions and his wolf clan cousins, the neighbouring recognition of his enormous contributions to Canadian culture. Tsleil Waututh people; all integrated in rhythmic harmony. sea otters reached their lowest population, nearing extinction due to the fur trade which 7. Locate, 2013 9. Continuum, 2007 had brought Europeans to the BC coast. Douglas Senft Katherine Kerr 1929 is the date that B.C.’s First Nations reached their lowest population due to epidemics brought by European traders. Located: 1400 Lonsdale Avenue These are also the dates these populations started to recover, signifying survival, revitalization and hope for the future. Specifications: etched glass, paint About the Artist: Marianne Nicolson is a Kwakwaka’wakw Located: 17 East 17th Street artist based in Victoria, BC. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and a MFA in Visual Art from the Uni- Description: The work “Locate” abstractly speaks to the land- Description: Commemorating the City of North Vancouver’s centennial anniversary in 2007, “Continuum” is a geometric versity of Victoria. She works in a variety of media to express scape of the North Shore as well as the idea of how a house first nation concepts, both in traditional forms and in mixed me- informs our sense of home. Reflecting on the archetypal house mobius inscribed with a timeline recalling significant moments and memories from the past one hundred years that can read dia works and installations for public spaces and art institutions. form, these work’s varying heights mimic the mountains, while Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally. linear elements create a dynamic visual puzzle with an implied in one continuous direction. The form is a physical expression of the endless flow between time and events. reference to how urban environments are drawn and defined. Specifications: steel, posthumously completed by Catherine Lavele Specifications: stainless steel About the Artist: Douglas Senft (1950-2012) graduated with About the Artist: Katherine Kerr is a internationally awarded 11. Fallen Tree, 2012 honours from the Vancouver School of Art in 1972. His work is artist, designer and poet with backgrounds in the visual arts Brent Comber in numerous private and public collections including the City of and architecture. In the past ten years Katherine has designed, Vancouver Municipal Collection, the Art Bank of Canada and fabricated and installed site integrated artworks in prominent the Washington State Arts Public Place Collection. interior and exterior public spaces. 8. Circulus Vitae, 2005 10. My People Will Rise, 2009 Luke Blackstone Marianne Nicolson Located: NV City Hall Foyer, 141 West 14th Street Description: Like a community of people, a forest is com- posed of many different parts.