Preview – The Gallery Guide – April-May 2007

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Centre A, Vancouver
International Centre for
Contemporary Asian Art
2 W Hastings St ✆604-683-8326
www.centrea.org
tues-sat 11am-6pm Apr 7-May 5
Shen Yuan, “Recent Works”, installa[VANCOUVER
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tions focus on everyday objects,
examining the metaphorical meanings
behind them and conceptually
shifting the physical relationships
between them. Her works and subjects
are also related deeply within
childhood memories; May 18-Jun 23
Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing
Multicultural State Policy, selected
artworks produced in Vancouver from
1987-1995, and archival materials
reflecting its socio-cultural climate,
this exhibition aims to re-insert cultural
race politics in the larger framework
of art history.
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery
2250 Granville St ✆604-733-3594
www.chalirosso.com
tues-sun 11am-6pm or by appt The
gallery acquires original graphic
works by Marc Chagall, Salvador
Dali, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso,
Henri Matisse and Rembrandt van
Rijn from private collections in
Europe. Come and see our on-going
fundraiser silent auctions. A great
chance to bid on a master piece. May
3 6:30pm “Fine Art Live Auction”.
Contact us for more details.
Charles H. Scott Gallery
Emily Carr Institute
1399 Johnston St ✆604-844-3809
chscott.eciad.bc.ca
mon-fri 12-5pm sat-sun 10am-5pm
Thru Apr 22 Kota Ezawa, “The History
of History”; May Contact the gallery
for exhibition information.
★ Circle Craft Gallery
#1-1666 Johnston St, Granville Island
✆604-669-8021
www.circlecraft.net
daily 10am-6pm Apr 6-May 1 Fiona
MacLeod and Christine Lawrance,
“April Fools!”, everday materials are
used to create a parade of life’s
clowns, jesters, buffoons and outcasts;
May 4-Jun 5 Gillian McMillan,
“Rara Avis”, an aviary of unusual clay
birds used as functional objects or to
supervise in the kitchen.
Cris Alvarez Magliano
www.allmarquetry.com
Studio-Gallery in Nanaimo by
appointment
(250) 729-7415
Coastal Peoples
Fine Arts Gallery
1024 Mainland St, Yaletown
✆604-685-9298
www.coastalpeoples.com
mon-sat 10am-7pm sun and holidays
11am-6pm Apr-May Totems to
Turquoise, satellite exhibition on now.
Visit us in person or online for more
details.
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson St ✆604-681-2700
www.contemporaryartgallery.ca
wed-sat 12-6pm Thru Jun 10 Robin
Peck, "A Shallow Flight of Stairs",
sculpture using Plexiglas sheets;
Pavel Pepperstein, "Landscapes of
Future", paintings and drawings consider
the future as abstraction; Derek
Brunen, "Blind", composed of secondhand
curtains.
★ Crafthouse Gallery
1386 Cartwright St, Granville Island
✆604-687-7270 888-687-6511
www.cabc.net
Gallery: daily 10:30am-5:30pm Office:
mon-fri 10am-5pm Apr 5-29 Julie
McIntyre, “Ending Bedtime”, final
chapter to “Bedtime Stories”, quilted
book of nursery rhymes made entirely
with thead, ink and paper; May 3-Jun 3
Jean Kuwabara, “Random Pattern”,
based on West Coast imagery, the
nature of random pattern is investigated.
Random pattern is both the subject
of these works, and the method by
which they are produced. Call for Entry
for gallery exhibits 2008-2009; Deadline
May 31, 2007.
Creekhouse Gallery
#3-1551 Johnston St, Granville Island
✆604-681-5016
creekhousegallery@telus.net
daily 9:30am-6pm Located right in
the heart of Granville Island, Creekhouse
Gallery offers a truly unique
blend of fine Canadian art and crafts.
Diane Farris Gallery
1590 W 7th Ave ✆604-737-2629
www.dianefarrisgallery.com
tues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm
Apr 5-28 Chris Woods, “The Magic
Hour - Part Two”, large-scale oil
paintings focus on the lighter side of
car advertising – a sword-wielding
consumer triumphs over an SUV and
drivers are shown confidently possessing
powers that their cars have
granted them; May 3-Jun 2 Amy
Huestis and Elzbieta Krawecka.
Doctor Vigari Gallery
1312 Commercial Dr ✆604-255-9513
mon-sat 11am-6pm sun 12am-5pm.
Offering locally designed custommade
contemporary furniture, accessories
and fine art.
Dorian Rae Collection
410 Howe St ✆604-874-6100
www.dorianraecollection.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm sun by appt The
longest established Asian and African
ethnographic gallery in Vancouver,
featuring exceptional Asian and
African artefacts, statues, masks, ritual
items, Buddhas, beads, tribal jewellery,
textiles and antique furniture.
Currently featuring a rare collection of
13th-17th C. bronze Buddha images
from Thailand and Laos.
Douglas Reynolds Gallery
2335 Granville St ✆604-731-9292
www.douglasreynoldsgallery.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm The
gallery offers a wide selection of
museum quality Northwest Coast art
in a variety of media by today’s leading
native artists.
Douglas Udell Gallery
1558 W 6th Ave ✆604-736-8900
www.douglasudellgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-6pm Apr 19-May 5
Graham Fowler, “Experiences of the
Liquid World”, paintings that represent
water as a visual phenomenarevealing
what is beneath it, reflecting
what is above it and defining its constantly
moving surface.
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