Preview â The Gallery Guide â April-May 2007
Preview â The Gallery Guide â April-May 2007
Preview â The Gallery Guide â April-May 2007
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www.whatcommuseum.org<br />
American Abstraction: Works from the Washington<br />
Art Consortium Collection<br />
WHATCOM MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART, BELLINGHAM WA – <strong>May</strong> 13-Nov 11 One of the<br />
functions of the Washington Art Consortium, an educational cooperative of seven art museums in<br />
Washington State, is the preservation of a collection of American artworks created between 1945-<br />
1975. From this collection, <strong>The</strong> Whatcom Museum, has<br />
organized American Abstraction. <strong>The</strong> exhibit presents 52<br />
works on paper by artists who have made significant<br />
contributions to the genre of abstract art. Artists include<br />
William de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, John Cage,<br />
Hans Hofmann, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Richard<br />
Serra and Frank Stella.<br />
<strong>The</strong> drawings, prints and paintings in this exhibit were<br />
created during the latter half of the 20th century when<br />
abstraction was the favoured style in America. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />
presented in groupings that aim to provide different<br />
contexts in which nonrepresentational art developed.<br />
Although most of the pieces featured are not<br />
considered the most significant works by these artists, the<br />
Robert Ryman, Yellow Drawing 35, (1963),<br />
charcoal, pencil and white pastel on ochre paper<br />
[Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham<br />
WA, <strong>May</strong> 13-Nov 11]<br />
exhibit does provide an overview of the challenges<br />
encountered by abstract artists and seeks to broaden the<br />
viewer’s understanding of the dual processes of creating<br />
and deciphering abstract art. Allyn Cantor<br />
Martin Batchelor <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
712 Cormorant St<br />
✆(250)385-7919<br />
mon-sat 10am-5pm Opening Apr 28<br />
Eva Campbell, “People”, new paintings;<br />
Opening <strong>May</strong> 26 “Elements”,<br />
with Vincent Klassen, photographs<br />
and Waine Ryzak, cast glass.<br />
On Canvas<br />
538 B Yates St ✆/fax (250)385-8090<br />
www.oncanvasartgallery.com<br />
tues-sun 12-5pm Apr-<strong>May</strong> New to the<br />
gallery, painters Kyra Crouzat and<br />
Maria Middleton; photographer Marilyn<br />
Wallace with in-house artists<br />
Karel Boruyter, Michele Miller,<br />
Karen Cooper, Karin Holdegaard and<br />
Donna Hall.<br />
★ Open Space<br />
510 Fort St ✆(250)383-8833<br />
www.openspace.ca<br />
mon-sat 12-5pm<br />
Thru Apr 5 Brendan Fernandes and<br />
Steven Rayner, “Unpacked and<br />
Reheated”, installation work; Opens<br />
Apr 11 Kika Thorne, “State of Emergency”;<br />
<strong>May</strong> 7-12 Voice ++, a festival<br />
of vocalization.<br />
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Royal British Columbia<br />
Museum<br />
675 Belleville St ✆(250)356-7226<br />
888-447-7977<br />
www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca<br />
Oct-<strong>May</strong>: daily 9am-5pm Jun-Sep:<br />
open later on fri, sat Admission:<br />
$14.00 adults, $9.50 seniors, students<br />
and youth aged 6-18, children 5 and<br />
younger are free, family tickets (2<br />
adults and 2 children) $37.50 Apr 14-<br />
Oct 14 Titanic, <strong>The</strong> Artifact Exhibition,<br />
opens 95 years to the day the great<br />
ship struck an iceberg; Apr 27-Jul 4<br />
Treasures of the Tsimshian from the<br />
Dundas Collection; THE FIRST PEOPLES<br />
GALLERY features Haida argillite carving,<br />
a traditional Big House, totem poles<br />
and masks. THE NATURAL HISTORY<br />
GALLERY includes the new “Ocean Station”<br />
exhibit, where visitors can<br />
explore British Columbia’s vibrant<br />
undersea world via a Victorian-era<br />
‘submarine’. <strong>The</strong> gallery also features<br />
the “Living Land, Living Sea” exhibit<br />
which houses the first permanent display<br />
on climate change and the story of<br />
“Kwaday Dan Ts’inchi”, a hunter<br />
trapped in glacial ice in northern B.C.<br />
550 years ago. In THE MODERN HISTORY<br />
GALLERY “Old Town”, a replica of the<br />
stern section of the HMS Discovery<br />
and a herbalist’s shop in Chinatown.<br />
West End <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
1203 Broad St ✆(250)388-0009<br />
877-388-0009<br />
www.westendgalleryltd.com<br />
mon-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm<br />
sun 11am-4pm Apr 14-27 Nixie Barton,<br />
Grant Leier, stunning floral still<br />
life encaustic works and Asian inspired<br />
imagery; <strong>May</strong> 19-Jun 1 Claudette<br />
Castonguay, “Melodie de Printemps”,<br />
harmonzies light, form and colour in<br />
paintings.<br />
Winchester Galleries<br />
2260 Oak Bay Ave<br />
2nd location: 1010 Broad St<br />
✆(250)595-2777<br />
www.winchestergalleriesltd.com<br />
tues-sat 10am-5:30pm AT 2260 OAK<br />
BAY AVE Apr 15-28 Joe Coffey, “Masquerade<br />
Ball”, oil on canvas; Rachel<br />
Berman, new mixed media; <strong>May</strong> 6-26<br />
Robert Florian, oil on canvas; Antoine<br />
Bittar, oil on panel; AT 1010 BROAD ST<br />
Apr 7-28 Ric Evans, oil on canvas; <strong>May</strong><br />
5-27 Linda Stanbridge, new work.<br />
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
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