Preview – The Gallery Guide – April-May 2007

The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the
Visual Arts and the Audain Foundation are pleased
to announce the recipients of the 2007 Viva Awards
ISABELLE PAUWELS
LUANNE MARTINEAU
and the recipient of the 2007 Audain Prize for Lifetime
Achievement in the Visual Arts
GORDON SMITH
The VIVA Awards are $12,000, the Audain Prize $25,000.
The awards will be presented on Tuesday, May 15th at
7:30pm at theRocky Mountaineer Train Station,Vancouver.
Shadbolt Foundation, Box 549, Station A, Vancouver BC,V6C 2N3
CHILLIWACK
Chilliwack Visual Artists
Association
CITY HALL LOCATION: 8550 Young Rd
mon-fri 8:30am-4:30pm
ARTISTS GALLERY (CHILLIWACK ART
CENTRE): 45899 Henderson St tues-fri
11:30am-2:30pm
MUSEUM: 45820 Spadina Ave mon-fri
9am-4:30pm sat 11am-3:30pm
✆604-824-0563
www.chilliwackartists.ca
Thru Apr 13 CHILLIWACK ART CENTRE
UCFV (College of the Fraser Valley) student
art work; Apr 21-May 25 Chilliwack
Secondary School, artistic talents
of the secondary students; Thru
May 16 CITY HALL ART GALLERY Mary
Stern, “Grand Finale”, paintings; Thru
Apr 25 CHILLIWACK MUSEUM David
Maclagan, “A Watercolour World”;
May 24-Jun 22 CITY HALL ART GALLERY
Royden Josephson, “Fusion”, abstracted
structures and events taken from
nature; May 29-Jul 13 CHILLIWACK ART
CENTRE Fraser Valley Chapter of the
Federation of Canadian Artists, “From
Across the Valley”, diverse subject matter,
mediums and styles; May 5-Jun 27
18 PREVIEW
CHILLIWACK MUSEUM First Nations, Salish
Exhibition, focuses on the story of
T’ixwelatsa.
COQUITLAM
Evergreen Cultural Centre
Art Gallery
1205 Pinetree Way ✆604-927-6550
www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca
mon-sat 12-5pm Admission is free
Thru Apr 28 “Clay 2007”, annual exhibition
of highly innovative and functional
ceramic creations from the
Fraser Valley Potter’s Guild. This
year’s theme is “A Dinner Party”; May
3-Jul 7 Keith Langergraber, “Concrete
Poetry”, examines skakteboard
culture through large-scale mixed
media drawings, photographs, maps
of skate parks in the Coquitlam area
and numerous objects, such as skateboards
and skateable sculptures.
★ Place des Arts
1120 Brunette Ave 604-664-1636
www.placedesarts.ca
mon-fri 9am-10pm sat 9am-5pm sun
1-5pm Apr 3-28 ATRIUM GALLERY Suite
E, “Figurative Works”, various media;
MAIN HALL GALLERY Sandra Chapman,
“Polarizing Light”, Polaroid works;
May 1-26 ATRIUM GALLERY Galen
Hutchinson, “The Familiars”, abstract
landscapes; MAIN HALL GALLERY Trina
Ganson, “Open for Interpretation”,
prints; MEZZANINE GALLERY Art Enhancement
Workshop, “Images and Ideas”.
COURTENAY
Comox Valley Art Gallery
580-100 Duncan Ave
✆(250)338-6211
www.comoxvalleyartgallery.com
mon-sat 10am-5pm PUBLIC GALLERY
Thru May 5 Jason Gress, “Standoffish”,
installation includes wall pieces
using everyday domestic objects; ARTS
& CRAFT GALLERY Thru Apr 7 Ron
Bridge, “In Deference to Constable”,
landscape oil paintings; Apr 14-May 5
North Island College Photography,
students work; May 12-19 Emily Carr
BFA Students Grad Show, from North
Island College; May 26-Jul 21 Mi
Hyang Kim, “Sensibility, Nature & Hanji”,
works on paper; Thru Jun 23 Cedar
Wallace, “Gourds as Sculpture”; WIN-
DOW GALLERY Thru May 5 Jo Swallow,
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS