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Following my conversation with designer John Holdsworth, of Vancouver-based integrated creative agency Pike, I was looking forward to checking out “The Artist Poster Show” exhibit at the Burnaby Art Gallery. With an enlightened mind, I set to study these posters through a fresh new lens. Continue reading →

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The latest exhibit at the SFU Art Gallery explores the relations between the surroundings of the urban and the wild within contemporary art.

Through a series of exhibitions, outdoor works, performances, and workshops, Wild New Territories incorporates different mediums in order to express these relations. There are installations set up at the SFU Gallery in Burnaby, the Teck Gallery in Vancouver, as well as outdoor installations that can be found at Coal Harbour as well as Stanley Park. In addition to the Lower Mainland-wide participation of the gallery, the project has an international connection, as it originated in London. Continue reading →

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“The Artist Poster Show”, coming to the Burnaby Art Gallery on February 8th, is sure to set the imaginations of emerging artists, designers and creatives on fire. Drawn primarily from the Burnaby Art Gallery’s permanent collection, the exhibition explores the didactic evolution of artist exhibition posters. The showcase spotlights the artist’s ability to communicate time, place, symbolism or space through an exhibition poster.
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The current exhibit at the SFU Art Gallery, Allan Sekula: This Ain’t China, not only combines performance, photo, and text elements, but also acts as a commentary on labour relations in an unidentified fast-food restaurant. The exhibit, originally created in 1974, consists of thirty-eight photographs, a diagram, and an accompanying text-story. Continue reading →

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The current exhibit at the Nikkei National Museum, Ryoshi – Nikkei Fisherman of the BC Coast, is the first exhibit on the history and importance of Japanese Canadians in the BC fishing industry. Upon entering the exhibit, my attention was immediately captured by the visually dynamic use of the space. In addition to artifacts, the museum has paid much attention to detail and created displays that fully bring you into the world of the Nikkei fishermen – including a replica of what their dining space would look like. Throughout the exhibit, the quotes of those whose lives revolved around the fishing community are present, and are integrated to provide a powerful commentary. Continue reading →

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What does it mean to be human? The answer to this question is explored in the current exhibit at the SFU Art Gallery, Reflexive Animals.

Composed of two individual bodies of work by Heather Passmore and Carrie Walker, the two artists place animals within their pieces in contexts outside of the expected. Passmore’s component, Form Letters, features actual correspondence from various art galleries she previously submitted her work to whereas Walker’s Adapation plays with perception and proportion. Though the collections were not created as a collaborated effort, the intersection of the two is indeed reflexive. Continue reading →

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Some 30 years in the making, Working as a Drawing – the current exhibit at the Burnaby Art Gallery (BAG) – details the working history and process of Michael Lexier’s work from the early 1980s to present day, and includes 470 letter-sized pages that have been meticulously culled from Lexier’s files and archives. Continue reading →

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Create outdoor art installations.  Glaze and raku fire a tea bowl.  Paint a picture.  Become a culture vulture for Burnaby’s Culture Days!

For the last three days of September, Burnaby – along with cities from coast to coast – will participate in the annual Culture Days event which aims to celebrate and increase the awareness and participation of Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. Continue reading →

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It was another banner year for the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival that just passed its 13th year anniversary last Saturday at Deer Lake Park. The day was met with gorgeous sunny weather, perfect for festival enjoyment. As ever, the day was filled with an abundance of fun activities and a variety of the best blues, roots and folk music acts in North America. Continue reading →

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Last night, the Burnaby Art Gallery was completely transformed by Elizabeth MacKenzie’s drawing installation in the exhibit The Gaze of History: Portraits from the Collection.

In an earlier conversation, MacKenzie mentioned how she worked with the show’s curator and director, Darrin Martens, on representing “the gaze” – the concept of perspective, seeing and how that’s all represented through art and through history. Even a statement framed on the gallery walls encouraged the viewer to “consider the physical act of looking at a portrait and what that means historically, culturally, politically and socially.” Martens’ statement also encouraged the viewer to “think about the process of observing and being observed”. Continue reading →

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