C A G L A EN L D L A ER R Y O I F N O D P EX E - N P IN G G 8 S 2 - P G 8 6 THE GALLERY GUIDE ALBERT A I BRITISH COLUMBI A I OREGO N I WASHINGTON November/December/January 2008/09 www.preview-art.com Serving the visual arts community Celebrating since 1986 22 years www.preview-art.com 6 PREVIEW previews Vol. 22 No. 5 ALBERTA 10 David Hoffos 8 CalgarY 10 Southern Alberta Art Gallery 14 Edmonton Esplanade Art Gallery 15 Lethbridge 16 Medicine Hat, Red Deer 12 John Hartman: Cities BRITISH COLUMBIA Paul Kuhn Gallery 16 BurnabY 17 Campbell RiVer, Castlegar 16 Wanda Lock: Stacks and Piles 18 ChilliWack, Coquitlam Kelowna Art Gallery 22 CourtenaY 23 Delta, Denman Island, Duncan, 18 Juliette and Friends Fort LangleY, Gabriola Island Presentation House Gallery 25 Galiano Island, Grand Forks , Kamloops 22 Marie Watt 26 Kaslo, KeloWna Greg Kucera Gallery 27 Lions BaY, Maple Ridge, Nanaimo 18 28 Nanoose BaY, Nelson, 36 26 Cole Morgan NeW Westminster Gallery Jones 29 North Vancou Ver 30 OsoYoos, Penticton 28 Hiro Yamagata: TRANSIENT 31 Port MoodY Hodnett Fine Art 32 Prince George, Prince Rupert, Quadra Island, Qualicum Beach, 34 Adaptation: Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, Richmond and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation 33 Salmon Arm, Salt Spring Island, Henry Art Gallery SidneY 34 SidneY-North Saanich, SilVer 36 Alan Wood: Dreams and Memories Star Mountain, Sooke Winsor Gallery 35 Squamish, Summerland, Sunshine Coast 42 Edward Burtynsky: Uneasy Beauty 36 SurreY 70 Surrey Art Gallery 37 TsaWWassen, VancouVer 8 59 Vernon, Victoria 7 48 Chris Langstroth: New Works 65 West VancouVer Kurbatoff Gallery 66 White Rock, Williams Lake OREGON 54 David Claerbout 67 Cannon Beach, MarYlhurst, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery McMinnVille 68 Portland 70 Leonard Cohen Artworks 70 Salem Linda Lando Fine Art WASHINGTON 72 Liz Magor 70 BelleVue 71 Bellingham , FridaY Harbor, Henry Art Gallery La Conner, LongVieW, Monroe, Simon Fraser University Gallery Port Angeles 74 Making Merry: The Circus and Carnival 72 Seattle 80 79 Spokane, Tacoma in Graphic Art 80 TWisp Portland Art Museum © 1986-2008 PreVieW Graphics Inc. 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The piece has been the focus of his pro - D N A T duction for the past five years and now includes 25 dream scenes. S I T R A Hoffos' mesmerizing work has employed such theatre-based E H T F O symbology as stage curtains and lighting effects; interior rooms with Y S E T avant-garde furniture; exterior views of cityscapes at night; and space R U O C craft at night. His two-dimensional people and props appear to be D N A N O taken from photos or video stills combined with 3-D animation and I T C E L video effects. Figures are indistinct, almost existential in presenta - L O C E T tion, often exhibiting symbolic gestures and bizarre dancing. A V I R Scenes from the House Dream , curated by Shirley Madill, is orga - P nized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in partner - David Hoffos, Another City (1999), five ship with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Because of the nature of channel video, audio and mixed media installation [From Esplanade Art Hoffos' work, a limited number of people are permitted in each Gallery, Medicine Hat exhibition – thru gallery space at a given time. Nov 30; other works are on view at the A concurrent show entitled Disaster and Desire is on exhibit at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, October 14 to November Lethbridge AB – thru Nov 20] 30, 2008. Two companion pieces, Catastrophe and Another City , com - bine motifs and devices from disaster films and television shows with personal themes to create par - ticipatory environments where the underlying subject is one of illusion.