Preview of the Visual Arts | April–May 2009

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205612contents16724022 Gallery Views36 Confessions54 Conservator’s Corner67 Catalogues of Interest74 Gallery Index76 Art Services + Materials Directory78 Gallery Openings + Eventspreviews12 Andrew Tong: So It GoesElliott Louis Gallery14 POLAROIDS: Attila Richard Lukacs& Michael MorrisArt Gallery of Alberta16 E. J. Hughes: The Man & His WorkNanaimo Art Gallery20 John Dennison: Tableaux PrintempsDiane Farris Gallery26 Ken Wallace: ReflectionsBau-Xi Gallery34 BGL: Marshmallow + Cauldron + Fire =Contemporary Art Gallery38 Raphaëlle de Groot: The Burden of ObjectsSouthern Alberta Art Gallery40 Vermeer, Rembrandt & the Golden Ageof Dutch ArtVancouver Art Gallery48 Contemporary Art From IndiaLawrence Eng Gallery52 Antonia Hirsch: AnthropometricsRepublic Gallery56 Diyan Achjadi & Brendan Tang:Sugar BombsKamloops Art Gallery60 Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers IIWinsor Gallery62 Eric Stotik: PaintingsLaura Russo Gallery66 Blackfish Gallery 30th Anniversary ShowBlackfish Gallery68 Kent Lovelace: Luberon PaintingsLisa Harris Gallery72 Michael Peterson: Evolution | RevolutionBellevue Arts MuseumCOVER: Andrew Tong, Billy Goes to War (2009), oil on canvas, detail [Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC, Apr 7-25]April/May 2009Vol. 23 No. 2ALBERTA8 Black Diamond, Calgary11 Edmonton14 Lethbridge, Medicine Hat,Red DeerBRITISH COLUMBIA14 Burnaby18 Campbell River, Castlegar19 Chilliwack, Coquitlam20 Courtenay, Delta21 Denman Island, Duncan,Fort Langley, Gabriola Island23 Grand Forks, Kamloops,Kaslo, Kelowna24 Lions Bay, Maple Ridge, Nanaimo25 Nelson, New Westminster,North Vancouver27 Osoyoos, Penticton28 Port Moody, Prince George,Prince Rupert, Quadra Island,Qualicum Beach, Richmond,Salmon Arm29 Salt Spring Island, Sidney,Sidney-North Saanich, Sooke30 Squamish, Summerland,Sunshine Coast, Surrey31 Tsawwassen, Vancouver53 Vernon55 Victoria59 West Vancouver61 White Rock, Williams LakeOREGON61 Cannon Beach62 Marylhurst, Portland64 SalemWASHINGTON64 Bellevue, Bellingham, Friday Harbor,La Conner, Longview, Port Angeles66 Seattle73 Spokane, Tacoma© 1986-2009 Preview Graphics Inc. ISSN 1481-2258Reproduction in whole or in part without writtenpermission of the publisher is strictly forbidden.HEAD OFFICE + CANADIAN EDITORIAL + SALESTEL 604-254-1405 FAX 604-254-1314TOLL FREE 1-877-254-1405E-MAIL preview@portal.caMAILING ADDRESS P.O. Box 549, Station A,Vancouver, BC Canada V6C 2N3Janice Whitehead, PublisherShirley Lum, Listings EditorAnne-Marie St-Laurent, Art DirectorU.S. EDITORIAL + SALES OFFICEAllyn Cantor TEL (503)436-2869E-MAIL allync@pacifier.comSUBSCRIPTIONS $22.05 CDN • $21 usPrinted on FSA approvedand recycled paper

VIRTUAL GALLERYQuails’ Nest Studio .Comonline only ✆(250)298-6888www.quailsneststudio.comonline available 24-7-365. Apr-MayFeaturing unique fibre art, handmadejewellery and unusual garden art forMother’s Day.ALBERTABLACK DIAMONDMaryanne’s Eden109 Centre Ave E ✆403-933-5524www.maryanneseden.comtues-sun 11am-5pm or by appt. Apr24-May 21 Maryanne Jespersen,“Retrospective”, paintings, then andnow; May 22-Jun 26 Maryanne Jespersenand Jacki Boss, “Gone Wild”,new works.★ Identifies galleries and museumsopen until 8pm on the First Thursdayof every month. Many galleries hostopening receptions on First Thursdayevenings.CALGARY★ Art Gallery of Calgary117 8th Ave SW ✆403-770-1350www.artgallerycalgary.orgtues-sat 10am-5pm first thurs 10am-9pm Admission: $5 adult, $2.50 student/youth(with valid student ID), $5senior (60+), children under 6 free.Thru Apr 4 IAIN BAXTER&, JonPylypchuk and Burnt Toast Studio,“Experimental Art + Culture”; Apr 24-Jun 27 Michael Cameron, paintings;Vincenzo Calli, “Sospesi tra Cielo eTerra - Suspended Between Heavenand Earth”, paintings.Artfirm Gallery617 11 Ave SW, Lower Level✆403-206-1344 www.artfirm.catues-sat 10am-5pm or by appt. ThruApr 18 Dale Kirschenman, “Reclamation”,paintings that refer to the landscapesand skies of Western Canada;Apr 23-May 15 Andrew McPhail, TimSchouten, Dionne Simpson andVerona Sorensen, “Poles Apart”, avariety of medium brought togetherfor the sake of art; May 21-Jun 20 CarlWhite, “Millie Fiori”, series of paintingswith a short film on the beauty ofcreation with no questions asked.Collector’s Gallery1332 9th Ave SE ✆403-245-8300www.collectorsgalleryofart.comtues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm. Thru Apr 18 John Snow, etchings,lithographs, oils and works onpaper including newly released worksby the estate; Apr 25-May 23 F.Leonard Brooks, watercolours, oilsand collages.Diana Paul Galleries737 2nd St SW ✆403-262-9947www.dianapaul.comtues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Thru AprNicholas Bott; Early May LilianeFournier; Late May Wilson Chu; Callthe gallery or visit the website forexhibition details.★ Glenbow Museum130 9th Ave SE ✆403-268-4259www.glenbow.orgdaily 9am-5pm thurs til 9pm Admission:adults $14, senior $10,student/youth $9, family $28, childrenunder 6 free, members free. Thru Apr13 Hutterite Traditions: Photographsby George Webber, photographs documentthe stark details of the Little BowHutterite Colony’s values of spirituality,discipline and simplicity; Thru May 31Joe Fafard, featuring 69 sculptures1st Ave NW10th St NWMemorial Dr NWPrince's IslandParkBow River4th Ave NE3rd Ave NE2nd Ave NEMemorial DrEdmonton Tr4th Ave SW◆DIANA PAULGALLERIESMcDougall Rd11th St SWHERRINGERKISS15th Ave SW17th Ave SW6th Ave SW8th Ave SWTREPANIERBAER◆PAUL KUHNNEWZONES ◆ ◆◆WEISSUDELL ◆ ◆ARTFIRMCONTEMPORARY9th St SW◆8th St SW16th Ave SW7th Ave SWNEW GALLERY9th Ave SW6th St SW◆13th Ave SW14th Ave SW◆ART GALLERYOF CALGARYLOCH◆◆Stephen11th Ave SW12th Ave SW1st St SWGLENBOWCentre St1st St SEMacleod Tr◆CPR tracksSTRIDESt. Patrick's Island9th Ave SEElbow River17th Ave SECOLLECTOR'SGALLERY12th St SE◆CALGARYRoyal Ave SW5th St SWElbow Dr4th St SWLindsayPark22nd AveCalgaryExhibition &StampedeParkSpiller Rd8 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009

Snapshot of Evolution, 36" × 24", oil on panel, detailAPRIL 7-25, 2009Andrew TongSo It GoesOPENING RECEPTION:Thursday, April 9, 6:30-8:30 pmMAY 5-23, 2009Barbara HellerFuture ReliquariesKilim Algorithm, 37" × 24", tapestryOPENING RECEPTION:Thursday, May 7, 6:30-8:30 pmElliott louis GallEry258 East 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1A6 604-736-3282gallery@elliottlouis.com www.elliottlouis.com

from caricatures and portraits of familyand friends to sculptures of cows andhorses; CONCOURSE WINDOW Claymates,featuring the work of five ceramicsculptors from the Glenbow Museumcollection, friends, colleagues and contemporariesof Fafard; Ongoing ModernistArt from the Glenbow Collection,showcases the modernist erafrom the early 20th century to 1980,featuring over 80 works of art in styleswhich range from realism to abstraction,representing modern artists fromall regions of Canada.Herringer Kiss Gallery709A 11 Ave SWNEW LOCATION ✆403-228-4889www.herringerkissgallery.comtues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm. Apr 4-May 2 Ken Webb, “CoolClimate”, new mixed media paintings;May 9-30 Reinhard Skoracki, “Floating”,new figurative bronze works.Loch Gallery1516 4th St SW ✆403-209-8542www.lochgallery.comtues-sat 10am-6pm. Established in1972, the gallery specializes in buildingcollections of quality Canadian,10 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009American, British and Europeanpaintings and sculpture. We representa talented group of professional contemporaryartists in addition to 19thand 20th C. artwork of historic interest.Thru Apr 11 John McKee:Foothills Landscapes; Apr 16-May 2Philip Craig, new works.The New Gallery (TNG)200 Barclay Parade SWMain Floor, Eau Claire Market✆403-233-2399www.thenewgallery.orgtues-sat 11am-5pm. Free admission.Apr 3-May 9 Kristen Ivey, “The PhallusSeries”, soft sculpture constructedfrom old prom dresses; May 15-Jun 20, Duane Linklater, NadyaKwandibens and Larry Blackhorse,new media works which examine thenomadic lifestyle.NEWZONES Gallery ofContemporary Art730 11th Ave SW ✆403-266-1972www.newzones.comtues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Thru Apr11 Cathy Daley, “New Work”, drawingsmade with black oil pastel onwhite vellum is a contemporary explorationof both body politics and culturallyaccepted images of femininity;Joseph Siddiqi, “The Night Paintings”,recent work that reflects the tension ofliving in the city while being a part ofthe natural world; Apr 18-May 16Sophie Jodoin, “Vigils”, drawings,psychological portrait series where theface is never seen; Timothy McDowell,“New Work”, landscape painting thatcontinues building on the traditionswith the inclusion of contemporary elementsand ideas; May 23-Jun 27 FrancoDeFrancesca, “New Work”, digitalimages mounted on layered plywoodsupport structures and enveloped intranslucent epoxy resin uses digitalimaging to navigate the territorybetween photography and painting;Evelyne Brader-Frank, “New Work”,new sculptures in soapstone, bronzeand steel inspired by the human body.Paul Kuhn Gallery724 11th Ave SW ✆403-263-1162www.paulkuhngallery.comtues-sat 10am-5:30pm and by appt.Apr 4-25 Guido Molinari, “Works onPaper”; May 2-23 Malcolm Rains,“New Paintings”; Mark Holliday,“Recent Works”.

Stride Art Gallery1004 MacLeod Trail SE✆403-262-8507 www.stride.ab.catues-sat 11am-5pm Admission is free.+15 WINDOW, THE EPCOR CENTRE FOR THEPERFORMING ARTS, 205 8th Ave SE. MAINSPACE Apr 3-May 9 David R. Harper,“The Last to Win”, examines differentconnotations of the term ‘branding’,inspired by the history of famous horses;+15 WINDOW SPACE Apr-May MiaRushton, “In The Hidden Places”, siteresponsivelarge-scale mixed mediainstallation seeks to align the extraordinaryhistory of the artist’s family withher daily practice of walking, findingand collecting; MAIN SPACE May 15-Jun20 Steve Gibson, Justin Love andJames Olson, “Grand Theft Bicycle”,game-art installation that uses thekinetic interface of a bike, modified withsensors, to allow users to ride througha 3-D mode of a video game.TrépanierBaer105-999 8th St SW ✆403-244-2066www.trepanierbaer.comtues-fri 10:30am-5pm sat 11am-5pm.Thru Apr 25 Chris Cran; Apr-May Evan Penny and StephanBalkenhol.Udell Contemporary725 11 Ave SW ✆403-264-4414www.douglasudellgallery.comwed-sat 10am-6pm and by appt.Thru Apr 11 Joe Fafard, sculptures,celebrating Joe Fafard’s nationaltravelling exhibition currently onview at the Glenbow Museum to theend of May.Braiding Maria’s Hair, Little Bow Colony(2000), from exhibit Hutterite Traditions:Photographs by George Webber [GlenbowMuseum, Calgary AB, thru Apr 13]COLLECTION: GLENBOW MUSEUMWeiss Gallery1021 6th St SW ✆403-262-1880www.theweissgallery.comtues-sat 10am-5pm or by appt. ThruApr 11 Jean-Louis Émond, “Sculptingthe Interior”, debut WesternCanada exhibit by Montreal artist featuringfigurative sculpture thatexplores movement and dance; Apr16-May 16 Madeleine Lamont, “InBloom”, this Toronto-based painter’senergetic and richly hued paintings offlorals diverge from traditional botanicalstill life; May 28-Jun 28 SusanCollett, Toronto-based artist’s delicatelyconstructed organic and highlyanimated ceramic sculptural vessels,also showing a series of monoprints.EDMONTONAgnes Bugera Gallery12310 Jasper Ave NW✆780-482-2854www.agnesbugeragallery.comtues-sat 10am-5pm. Representing agroup of mid-career and establishedcontemporary Canadian artists,including landscape, abstract, still lifepainting and sculpture. Apr 4-16 JaneAdams and Jamie Evrard, “PROFU-SION”; Apr 18-30 Terry Fenton,“Western Sky Vistas”, May 9-21Catherine McAvity and CatherinePerehudoff, “New Landscapes”; May23-Jun 4 Sheila Norgate, “NewWorks”.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 11

www.elliottlouis.comAndrew Tong: So It GoesELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Apr 7-25, 2009 Andrew Tong is a British-born andschooled artist whose surreal images simultaneously project innocenceand horror. With children in the foreground of the majorityof his paintings, Tong delivers suspenseful narratives of war. As heputs it, “The central characters in this body of work face hostilityand desensitization on a journey where the destination is increasinglyuncertain.”Many of the dream-like scenes are filled with child-like drawings,scribbles and splashed paint. Tong draws heavily on his personalhistory for the antique feeling they convey. Both parents wereactive in WWII – his mother at a munitions factory and his fatheras an anti-aircraft gunner in the British Navy. Old-fashioned gasmasks, toy soldiers, rockets, burning cars and weaponry figureprominently. They signal the end of innocence and an immersionin an apocalyptic future.The title So It Goes, a reference to Kurt Vonnegut’s bookSlaughterhouse Five, is intended to summon a sense of fatalism.Some of Tong's adult characters were inspired by people on thewrong side of the law, or infamous for their "careers", and someAndrew Tong, Our Day Out (2008), oil onpanel [Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC,Apr 7-25]were known personally to the artist (including family members). At the same time, the imageshave elements of hope and even humour. Painting with oil on canvas or panel in a meticulousstyle, Tong suggests that we might just arrive at our destination safely. Mia JohnsonAlberta Craft Council Gallery10186 106 St NW ✆780-488-6611www.albertacraft.ab.camon-sat 10am-5pm. FEATURE GALLERYThru Apr 18 Margie Davidson, MattGould and Mary Sullivan-Holdgrafer,“InTENSIONS”, message andmedium in fibre art; May 9-Jun 20Unity and Diversity, the westernCanadian component of the nationalexhibition heading to Cheongju,South Korea for the Cheongju InternationalCraft Biennale; THE DISCOVERYGALLERY Thru Apr 18 Dana Roman,“Drawing from Nature”, exploring lineand texture by Canmore textile artist;Apr 25-Jun 6 Coming Up Next, annualexhibition of the ACC that highlightsemerging fine craft artists.★ Art Gallery of Alberta100-10230 Jasper Ave NWEnterprise Sq ✆780-422-6223www.artgalleryalberta.common-fri 10:30am-5pm thurs 4-8pmfree sat, sun 11am-5pm Admission:members free, adults $10, seniors/students $7, children 6-12 $5, childrenunder 5 free, family (up to 2 adults + 4children) $20, thurs evenings “Paywhat you may”. Thru May 18 “LeavingOlympia” explores the continuedreemergence of the idealized nude aswell as the subversion of this practice;POLAROIDS: Attila Richard Lukacsand Michael Morris, Polaroid photographstaken by Attila Richard Lukacsover the past 20 years. Michael Morrishas sorted, selected and assembledover 3,000 Polaroid photographs totrace Lukacs’ work with the live model;Thru Jun 7 Koshashin (Japanese for‘old photography’) over 200 handcolouredalbumen photographs ofJapan from the 19th century drawnfrom The Hall Collection, an Edmontonprivate collection that is one of thelargest private collections of theseimages in the world; Hiroshige Ando:The 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road,features Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige’s(1797-1858) great masterpieceof Ukiyo-e printmaking, a large seriesof works created in 1833 and 1834;Kristy Trinier, “otherworld”, a series ofJapanese Noh theatre plays, whichTrinier has retranslated and presentedas a silent video installation with transcriptions;Thru Jun 28 Sense Sublime:19th Century Landscapes fromthe AGA Collection, features landscapepaintings produced by the‘founding fathers’ of Canadian art andother 19th century artists; May 30-Aug23 Painter as Printmaker: ImpressionistPrints from the NationalGallery of Canada, features 65 works.Douglas Udell Gallery10332 124 St NW ✆780-488-4445www.douglasudellgallery.comtues-sat 9:30am-5:30pm.Apr 4-18Spring Show, new acquisitions andnew work by gallery artists; Apr 25-May 9 Dominique Gaucher, newwork by Montreal artist.West End Gallery12308 Jasper Ave NW✆780-488-4892www.westendgalleryltd.comtues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Apr 9 W.HWebb, “An Exhibition of New Works”,large realistic landscapes reflect thebeauty, mood and endless horizons ofAlberta; Apr 18-30 “An Exhibition ofRecent Works”, Grant Leier, paintingsfeaturing luscious fruits and flowersand cozy tables set for two with wine,candles and food, using rich, vivid andsaturated colours; Nixie Barton,vibrant and opulent images drawinginspiration from Barton’s extensive12 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

www.artgalleryalberta.comPOLAROIDS: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael MorrisART GALLERY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON AB – Mar 7-May 18, 2009 Attila Richard Lukacs is wellknowninternationally for his dramatic paintings of the Berlin sub-cultures of skinheads and neo-Nazism during the late 1980s and his portraits of American military cadets during the early 1990s.His brutally explicit paintings of male skinheads, primates andAmerican military cadets shocked and provoked a generationof painters and critics.Over the past twenty years, Lukacs has taken thousands ofPolaroid photographs as studies for his work. POLAROIDSpresents more than 3,000 of these photos. They have beenselected, organized and grouped into grids by Lukacs’ longtimementor, friend and fellow artist Michael Morris. Morriswas present in Berlin for almost every photo shoot.The assembled images have a rhythmic and poetic sensibilitywell-suited to the graphic immediacy of the individual pictures.The grid structures provide a visual framework thatoffers an extraordinary view into Lukacs’ study of the humanform and his work with live models over the years.Lukacs was born in Alberta in 1962. After spending tenyears living and working in Berlin, he relocated to New York in1986. He left New York in 2001 to live and work in Hawaiibefore returning to Vancouver. POLAROIDS was previouslyexhibited at Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver in2008. Mia JohnsonAttila Richard Lukacs, Bad Dog (n.d.), 12Polaroid photographs [Art Gallery of Alberta,Edmonton AB, Mar 7-May 18]PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTISTgarden which combines plants, foundobjects and constructions; May 9-21“The French Collection”, group exhibitionfeaturing Guy Roy, Bruno Côté,Pierrette Joly, Raynald Leclerc,Andris Leimanis and Claude A.Simard, prominent Quebec landscapeartists who paint scenes from theCharlevoix region to the historic Westmountneighbourhood in Montreal,also featuring Jean-Gabriel Lambert,Elene Gamache, Joanne Gauthierand Valerie Butters, Quebec abstractand still life painters.LETHBRIDGESouthern Alberta Art Gallery324 5th St S ✆403-327-8770www.saag.catues-sat 10am-5pm sun 1-5pmAdmission: general $5, students/seniors $4, groups $3 per person,Free for members and children under12. Thru Apr 26 Samuel Roy-Bois,“Polarizer”; Thru May Raphaëlle deGroot; May 3-Jun 14 Art’s Alive andWell in the Schools; May 3-Sep 19James Graham, Annie Martin, KellyAndres, Lyla Rye, Kerri Reid, AllisonHrabluik, Rita McKeough, IngridBachmann and Doug Scholes, “Intothe Streets: Avenues for Art”.MEDICINE HAT★ Cultural Centre Gallery299 College Dr SE ✆403-529-3806sushel@medicinehat.camon-fri 9am-8pm sat sun holidays10am-5pm. Apr 6-30 Medicine HatCollege: Visual Communications,featuring second year students; May4-29 Vivian Wickwire, “Beacons ofthe Prairie”, 200 watercolour paintingsfeaturing the grain elevators ofAlberta and Saskatchewan; “PrairieCreatures”, wildlife wood sculpturesby members of the Medicine HatWoodcarvers Association.Esplanade Art Gallery401 First St SE ✆403-502-8786www.esplanade.camon-fri 10am-5pm sat, sun and holidays12-5pm. Apr 18-Jun 5 NorvalMorrisseau, RFM McInnis and ChrisBennett, “Colour Sense: New Works inthe Art Collection”, paintings; SchoolArt 2009, a huge, joyful exhibition ofhundreds of art works in all media fromkindergarten to high school students inthe Medicine Hat, Alberta area.RED DEERbilton contemporary art4B-5809 51st Ave ✆403-343-3933www.biltoncontemporaryart.comtues-sat 11am-5pm or by appt. Featuresmonthly exhibitions of innovative,multidisciplinary, contemporaryart by local, national and internationalartists.BRITISHCOLUMBIABURNABYBurnaby Art Gallery6344 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-297-4422www.burnabyartgallery.catues-fri 10am-4:30pm sat-sun 12-5pm. Admission is free. Thru Apr 1214 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

THEAVENUEGALLERYThe High Pass, 20" x 30", acrylic on canvasR O N P A R K E RPillars of the EarthPreview day April 4, 10:00 am-5:30 pmExhibition and Sale April 5-18, 2009Artist’s reception and presentation April 5, 12:00-4:00pm (artist in attendance)2184 OAK BAY AVENUE, VICTORIA 250-598-2184www.theavenuegallery.com

www.nanaimogallery.caE. J. Hughes: The Man and His WorkNANAIMO ART GALLERY, DOWNTOWN LOCATION – May 15-Jun 7, 2009 The exhibition E. J.Hughes: The Man and His Work is part of a series of events in honour of Vancouver Island artistDr. E. J. Hughes (1913-2007). Hughes was a recipient of many honours, including the Order ofCanada and numerous honourary doctorates. His engaging depictions of coastal British Columbiacharacteristically show scenes of ferries, wharves, tugboats and windswept beaches.The exhibit at the Nanaimo Art Gallery opensin conjunction with the City's dedication of therecently restored mural, Captain Malaspina Sketchingthe Galleries of Gabriola. Painted by Hughes in1938, it measures 9 by 17 feet. The mural wasremoved in six sections in 1996 from theMalaspina Hotel and 13 years later has been professionallyrestored and installed in the VancouverIsland Conference Centre.The focus of this exhibit will be on Hughes' studiopractice. Approximately 40 drawings andpaintings of the geographic area from Nanaimo tothe Cowichan Valley.At the same time as the gallery exhibit, theNanaimo Museum will present "E.J. Hughes,E. J. Hughes, Breaker Beach (1961), oil on canvas [NanaimoArt Gallery, Downtown Location, Nanaimo BC, May 15-Jun 7]Works in Progress" featuring 'cartoons', sketches and developmental work relating to some of theexhibit pieces. An Educational Symposium is also being presented by the Museum inassociation with Vancouver Island University. Following the unveiling of the mural on May 14,there will be a premiere of a documentary E.J. Hughes: The Restoration by Cinnabar VistaProductions and a preview of Hughes’ NAG downtown exhibit. Mia JohnsonAganetha Dyck: Collaborations,Winnipeg-based Dyck works closelywith honey bees and humans to createsculptural installation and mixedmedia works that explore ideas relatedto feminism, surrealism and whatshe has termed “the power of thesmall”; Apr 23-May 24 Arts Alive2009: Re:(Purpose), includes over100 pieces of artwork by BurnabyElementary school children influencedby the concept of recyclingand reusing materials.Burnaby Arts Council6584 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-298-7322www.burnabyartscouncil.orgtues-fri 11am-4pm sat-sun 1-4pm.Admission is free. Thru Apr 5 ChunHua Catherine Dong, Doug Jinkersonand Ursula Rettch, acrylic painting;Apr 18-May 17 Celebration ofSpring and B.C. Arts and CultureWeek, over 25 local artists, mixedmedia; May 23-Jun 14 Carine de Ridder,acrylic painting; Lucille Loose,watercolour paintings; Jack Yang,photography.16 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009Burnaby Village Museum6501 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-293-6501www.burnabyvillagemuseum.caMay 2-Sep 7: tues-sun & holiday mon11am-4:30pm. Admission: $6-$12.May 2-Sep 7 Fun and Games, historyof sports in Burnaby, photographs,memorabilia, trophies and uniformson exhibit in the museum’s temporarygallery, highlighting communityorganizations, teams, and athletesfrom the community’s past and present;TRAM BARN Posters of sportsevents throughout the Lower Mainlandwhere transportation was providedby the B.C. Electric Railway.Japanese CanadianNational Museum6688 Southoaks Cres✆604-777-7000604-777-7000 ext.109 www.jcnm.catue-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Apr 15“March to December, interactive websitebased on the war journal of RoyIto”, new works by Kyo Maclear, JulieTamiko Manning and Baco Ohama,individual web projects found withinthe online archive document Ito’s timeserved in the Canadian army as aJapanese Canadian during WWII,media-based work ranging fromaudio, animation and video, curatedby Cindy Mochizuki; Apr 30-May 2Showcase of Asian Canadian Artists;Opens May 12 Sea Stealth andSuzuko, history of Japanese immigrantsto the Fraser River Valley.Simon Fraser UniversityGallery and Teck GallerySIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY GALLERY: AQ3004, 8888 University Dr, BurnabyTECK GALLERY: 515 W Hastings St,Vancouver ✆778-782-4266www.sfu.ca/gallerySFU GALLERY hours: tues-fri 10am-5pmsat 12-5pm TECK GALLERY hours: opendaily during campus hours. SIMONFRASER UNIVERSITY GALLERY Apr 25-Jun27 The Insurance Man: Kafka in thePenal Colony, installation metaphoricallyconstructs Kafka’s punishmentapparatus in a room filled with Kafkaeraportraits, books, objects, soundsand related text material; TECK GALLERY

THEAVENUEGALLERYThe Return of Caelus (2009), 20" x 20", oil on panelR E N A T O M U C C I L L OApparitions of the NarrowsPreview day May 9, 10:00 am-5:30 pmExhibition and Sale May 10-23, 2009Artist’s reception and presentation May 10, 12:00-4:00pm (artist in attendance)2184 OAK BAY AVENUE, VICTORIA 250-598-2184www.theavenuegallery.com

FOR EVERYSEASON OFGIVINGMother’s DayGraduationWeddingBirthdayJust for youThru May 10 Black Communities inBritish Columbia, 1858-2008, 21posters highlighting the history of the‘Black Pioneers’ from San Franciscowho arrived in Victoria in 1858, concurrentwith the creation of the Crowncolony of British Columbia; May 17-Aug 28 David Wisdom: Vancouver1970 to 1975, prints made from thelegendary colour slides shot by a keymember of the burgeoning 1970s Vancouverart scene, depicting Vancouverto be a quirky, personality-laden townthat had nowhere to go but up.CAMPBELL RIVERCIRCLE CRAFT CO-OPERATIVESHOP & GALLERYNet Loft, Granville Island1–1666 Johnston Street Vancouver, BCOpen daily 10 am–7 pm | tel. 604.669.8021IN THE GALLERYApr 3–May 5, 2009Naoko Takenouchi:Migratory JourneysMay 8–June 2, 2009Susan Cain:Hybridsshop online at www.circlecraft.netNaoko Takenouchiphoto:Campbell River Art Gallery1235 Shoppers Row✆(250)287-2261 www.crartgallery.catues-sat 12-5pm. MAIN GALLERY ThruApr 10 Martha James, “Surface Tension”,gestural, classically inspiredceramic vessels, interwoven ceramic‘quilt blocks’ and hand-tinted photographsand photo montages ofobscured, unconsciously arrangedobjects; Apr 17-May 22 Joyce Majiski,“Transmigrations”, looks at animalmigration and the resulting intersectionsbetween human and animalbehaviour, large monoprints andpaper-based, silk-screened installations;DISCOVERY GALLERY Thru May 22Pamela Cambiazo, “...Is Never Done”,still life of Cambiazo’s daily life becamethe genesis for this series of ‘dirtydishes’ paintings resulting in a shiftfrom the domestic paradigm to a deepinvolvement with her creative process;MAIN AND DISCOVERY GALLERIES May 29-Jun 26 27th Annual Members’ Show,by members of the CR Arts Counciland CR Art Gallery, a collaborativeexhibition of regional artists showcasingthe diversity and quality of art makingpractices in the community.CASTLEGARKootenay Gallery120 Heritage Way✆(250)365-3337 (250)608-0796www.kootenaygallery.comwed-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-4pm.EAST AND WEST GALLERY Thru Apr 19Ian Johnston, “Refuse Culture”,porcelain, examines the ‘wastestream and cultural detritus that hasresulted from the consumer basedand manufacturing societies in North18 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

America, Europe/Scandinavia andChina; Apr 23-May 31 Young Visions2009, paintings and sculptures createdby Grade 8-12 students and teachersof School District 20 showingtheir visual interpretations of life andcommunity in the Kootenays.CHILLIWACKChilliwack Visual ArtistsAssociationCITY HALL LOCATION: 8550 Young RdARTISTS GALLERY: 45899 HendersonAve (Chilliwack Art Centre)MUSEUM: 45820 Spadina Ave✆604-824-0563 604-792-2069www.chilliwackvisualartists.caCHILLIWACK ART CENTRE, ARTISTSGALLERY: tues-fri 11:30am-2:30pmCHILLIWACK CITY HALL GALLERY: mon-fri8:30am-4:30pmCHILLIWACK MUSEUM: mon-fri 9am-4:30pm, Phone 604-795-5210 for sathours, closed except when openingsare scheduled. CHILLIWACK CITY HALLThru Apr 16 Fraser Valley Chapter ofthe Federation of Canadian Artists,“Colours”, a juried art show by theFraser Valley Chapter of the FederationArtists; Apr 21-Jun 4 EndaBardell, “Concord Country”, the tranquilityof a meadow, fields of corn,acres of flora dotted with the occasionalabode and open water, representsfreedom and fresh air; ARTISTSGALLERY Thru Apr 16 UFV Visual ArtsDiploma Graduation Show, creativeartwork from the University of theFraser Valley Graduation DiplomaStudents; Apr 22-May 21 ChilliwackSecondary Student Exhibition, “District33 High School Art Show”, recentartwork from the students of Chilliwack,Sardis and G.W. Graham SecondarySchools; May 26-Jul 2 CVAAMembers, “Go Green, Look to theFuture”, a project that supports the‘Green’ initiative while raising awarenesswithin the community about theneed to conserve, recycle and practicerestraint; CHILLIWACK MUSEUM ThruMay 7 Joey Nash, “About Face”, avoyage of discovery, growth andchange by award-winning Canadianartist Nash; May 16-Jul 2 Brenda andRoss Paterson, “Explorations inWood and Canvas”, a unique perspectiveunveiling the inner beauty ofturned wood, complemented by floraland landscape paintings inspired bythe natural beauty of B.C.COQUITLAMEvergreen Cultural Centre ArtGallery1205 Pinetree Way ✆604-927-6550www.evergreenculturalcentre.camon-sat 12-5pm Admission is free.Thru May 9 Coast Art Trust Society:New and Recent Works, group exhibitionof over 30 new and recent artworksfrom the Coast Art Trust membersincluding well-known and establishedartists from the Lower Mainland;May 15-Jun 27 Anna Banana,Big Dada, Circle T, The Clown,Countess Renee Snork-Snoutberger,Nancy Normal, The Scientist, M.W.Snertling and Robinson Crusoe,“Alternative Identities”, group exhibitionincludes artists who use fabricatedidentities to express their creativeideas, curated by Marci Katz and EdVarney.★ Place des Arts1120 Brunette Ave ✆604-664-1636www.placedesarts.camon-fri 9am-9pm sat 9am-5pm sun 1-5pm, call ahead for gallery availability.Thru Apr 25 ATRIUM GALLERY TraceyCostescu, “Beneath the Layers”, water-www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 19

www.dianefarrisgallery.comJohn Dennison: Tableaux PrintempsDIANE FARRIS GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – APR 2-18, 2009With his lean style, wry content and complex compositions, Vancouverartist John Dennison might be described as the DashiellHammett of the graphic arts. His impeccable technique reveals awealth of detail and texture in narrative drawings worthy of themost suspenseful mystery novel. A disembodied trench coat,impenetrable sunglasses, a coiled length of rope and a menacingSwiss army knife compete as clues along with bicycles, roses, acheerful pink poodle and topiary displays.The series Tableaux Printemps includes eight mixed-mediapieces using dry colour pastels, and four black and white ink drawings.The mixed media pictures have the playful colouring of PeterMax while the drawings are darker and more dense, with impeccablydetailed subjects of mechanical engineering and draftsmanship.A common unifying theme is Dennison’s mischievous use ofspatial relationships and optical illusions.Dennison studied fine art at the Vancouver School of Art (nowthe Emily Carr University of Art and Design) between 1968 and1971, where he majored in photography, commercial art andJohn Dennison, Le Café Marais (2009),dry colour pastel, pen and ink on paper,[Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver BC, Apr2-18]design. He worked as a freelance photographer before taking a full-time position with the advertisingdepartment of a major company. All the while he has drawn inspiration from his extensive travelsin England, Europe, and America. Tableaux Printemps is Dennison’s third solo exhibition withDiane Farris Gallery. Mia Johnsoncolour, graphite, includes artist demoduring Family Day Apr 5; LEONORE PEY-TON SALON Sarah Cavanaugh, “(re)Generate”,acrylic, graphite and pastel oncanvas; MEZZANINE GALLERY CandicePerry, “Baby Prints”, drypoint etching;LINK GALLERY Michelle McCutchon,“Soul Series”, soapstone, marble,glass, chlorite and alabaster sculpture;Apr 30-May 30 ATRIUM GALLERY TripolarGroup: Ian, Jay and Kim Freemantle,“Tripolar”, 2-D and 3-D mixed mediaand collage; LEONORE PEYTON SALONYoung D. Song, “Mystery of Faith”,collage, mixed media on paper; MEZZA-NINE GALLERY Jocelyn Beyak, “Relations& Locations”, photography, includesartist demo and workshop on FamilyDay May 10.COURTENAYBrian Scott Studio and Gallery8269 North Island Hwy✆(250)337-1941www.brianscottfineart.comdaily 11am-4pm. Brian Scott, expressionistoil paintings of westcoastthemes.20 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009Comox Valley Art Gallery100-580 Duncan Ave✆(250)338-6211www.comoxvalleyartgallery.common-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Apr 18PUBLIC GALLERY Ted Hiebert, “INCI-DENTAL SELVES”, photographicinstallation exploring the relationshipbetween darkness and the imaginationby Victoria artist and theorist;ARTS & CRAFT GALLERY Robin de Lavis(Hornby Island), “TRANSFORMA-TION: FLOWERS NOT BOMBS”, digitalimagery exploring the theme ofhuman displacement; Courtnay Powelland Niel Stoutenberg, wood as artby Comox Valley artists; GEORGE SAW-CHUK GALLERY Tracy Kobus, “BETWEENLAND AND SEA”, recent paintings;Apr 3-14 WINDOW GALLERY WearableArt; GROUND LEVEL STUDIO HUMANBODY: DEPENDANCE ON THE PHYSI-CAL, open entry; Apr 25-May 23 PUB-LIC GALLERY & WINDOW GALLERY, EmilyCarr University/North Island CollegeDegree Show; ARTS & CRAFT GALLERY“FORMATIONS OF FOCUS”, MarkRoth, award winning glass artist fromVictoria and Jade Metz, Comox Valley,photography; GEORGE SAWCHUKGALLERY AND GROUND LEVEL STUDIO MAY-WORKS, art that celebrates workingpeople by working people.Muir Gallery/Comox ValleyCommunity Arts Council440 Anderton Ave ✆(250)334-2983www.comoxvalleyarts.orgtues-sat 11am-4pm. Apr 3-25 ChanningHolland, Margaret Burns andTeresa Colby, “Ink on Paper: Transformations2009”; May 8-30 NICGraduation Exhibition.DELTADelta Arts CouncilTSAWWASSEN ARTS CENTRE: 1172- 56 St,Delta, ✆604-943-9787, mon-fri11am-4pm; ARTS CORNER (LADNER PIO-NEER LIBRARY): 4683 51 St ✆604-946-0525, mon, sat 10am-5pm tues-fri10am-9pm sun 11am-5pm; GALLERYNORTH (ND REC CENTRE): 11415 84Ave, ✆604-596-1029, daily 8am-10pm; FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE: 1148984 Ave, ✆604-596-1025, 604-943-9787, mon-fri 10am-4pm sat 10am-2pm. www.deltaartscouncil.com

TSAWWASSEN ARTS CENTRE Apr PortMetro Vancouver Calendar Artists,paintings; May Richmond CarversSociety, woodwork; ARTS CORNER AprStudents of Linda Jones Studio,acrylics; May Raine Leagh, mixedmedia; GALLERY NORTH Apr Arts West,multimedia; May Andrea Pratt, paintings;FIREHALL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS AprGary Fox, acrylics; May artSpacificB.C. wide Juried Art Show.DENMAN ISLANDStofer Gallery5305 East Rd ✆(250)335-3246www.stofergallery.comdaily 10am-5pm. Open year roundthis welcoming studio/gallery featurespaintings by Dawn Stofer andsculpture by Michael Dennis.DUNCANImagine That!Artisans’ Designs251 Craig St, City Sq ✆(250)748-6776www.imaginethatartisans.common-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Apr LARGEWINDOW Robin Millan, whimsicalpieces taking inspiration from paintingfurniture, moulding papier mache andpainting fired glassware; SMALL WINDOWColleen Freeman, whimsical sculpturesusing clay to sculpt dragons andred hat ladies, www.creativeclay.ca;Thru May LARGE WINDOW Eva Trinczek,vibrant feast of paintings, banners andbooks; SMALL WINDOW Margot Page andVictor Nadurak, recent creations incopper and steel enamelled glasswareplus fused and flamed glass jewelleryand ‘splash’ dichroic glass.FORT LANGLEYBarbara Boldt Original ArtStudio25340 84th Ave ✆604-888-5490www.barbaraboldt.comby appt or watch for “Open” sign atthe road. In-home studio gallery ofBarbara Boldt located 5 km outside ofFort Langley. Featuring local landscapes,forest and garden scenes inoil and soft pastel and her signature“EarthPatterns” paintings of sandstoneformations found on GalianoIsland. For directions see map onwebsite or call.Elaine Brewer-WhiteSculpture Studio9048 Glover Rd ✆778-882-0120www.ebrewerwhite.comby appt or by chance. Elaine Brewer-White’s studio is a riot of clay, colourand humour. Her work revolves aroundthe figure, both human and animal, andcelebrates the joyful act of living.Elaine’s work is collected world-wide,and her current focus is on commissionwork – from 3-D family portraitsto legacy sculpture for businesses.Fort Gallery9048 Glover Rd ✆604-888-7411www.fortgallery.cawed-sun 12-5pm. Thru Apr 12 AlexPernat, “Dusk to Dawn”; Apr 15-May3 Dorthe Eisenhardt, “Explorations”;May 6-24 Jo-Ann Sheen, “Fragments:Monoprints and Mixed Media”; DianaDurrand, “Where Are the Pigs? WhereAre They?”, paintings and mixedmedia; May 27-Jun 14 Bette Laughy,“Journey by Water”.GABRIOLA ISLANDGabriola Artworks9-575 North Rd2nd LOCATION: on the Bay,3415 South Rd, Gabriola Islandwww.preview-art.com PREVIEW 21

GALLERY VIEWSMOA is moving with the times without losing its WOW!BY ANN ROSENBERGThe Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia is one of Canada’s foremostmuseums – its reputation based, in part, on its Northwest Coast collections and decades-long collaborativeapproach in working with First Nations and other cultural communities. According toJennifer Webb, Communications Manager of the Museum of Anthropology, $55.5 million worthof improvements will have renewed and expanded the institution’s capacities for research, teaching,community outreach and public enjoyment by 2010. A new research wing has already doubledthe institution’s physical space and a unique digital network that links many diverse communitiesis in development.What changes in Vancouver Architect Arthur C.Erickson’s renowned 1976 edifice were revealed to thepublic when MOA opened its doors on March 8 afterbeing closed for six months?MOA’s Communications Manager Webb took meon a walkabout. She showed me the unfinished stairwaydown to the museum’s main entrance from theroad and the new Welcome Plaza, future locations oftwo First Nations artworks commissioned for this partof the grounds. She described one object wrapped in aprotective covering as an unfinished water feature bythe Direction 7 collective – a group comprised principallyof members of the Becker family who live nearbyat Musqueam. She also indicated where a mosaic-styleartwork by Musqueam artist Susan Point will beembedded in the concrete just outside the museum’sentrance.First Nations protocol requires that special honourbe given to the First Nation upon whose lands the Universityof British Columbia and the Museum of Anthropologyare built. Thus it is appropriate that works byJohn Marston panelMusqueam artists are the first to greet visitors when they arrive at MOA. This fact might alsoexplain why the cedar doors carved in 1976 by four master Gitxsan artists from Hazelton (whichwere present in Erickson’s original exterior) have been brought inside where they now flank theentrance to MOA’s greatly expanded shop in the west side of the foyer.Even before crossing the threshold, the view through the thick glass doors of the mainentrance entices one down the carpeted slope to The Great Hall, where the huge frontals andtotems of the original collection are ensconced. Finally, the eye yearns for release in the panoramaof the sea and distant mountains. My body always follows the space's powerful directives andthere are always new acquisitions to discover.On exhibition at the moment, is a two-sided carved sculpture (which is accompanied by aninstructive DVD) by Coast Salish artist John Marston which features a B.C. orca on one side and aPapau New Guinea crocodile on the other. TATAU: Samoan Tattooing and Global Culture an exhibitof 40 photos by New Zealand artist Mark Adams, is installed in Gallery 3 adjacent to the GreatHall. This show (like the Marston piece) is an example of the Museum’s commitment to furtheringunderstanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.I look forward to the moment in 2010 when the specially designed visible storage cases arefilled, the new exhibition rooms are in use – indeed, to the time when all aspects of the Partnershipof the Peoples Renewal Project are complete – to write a final short article on the evolution ofa progressive institution..Correction: In the Gallery Views column in the Feb/Mar 2009 issue, the Communications Manager for the Museum ofAnthroplogy was misquoted. The MOA will have increased its size by almost 50% by March 2009, not 2010.PHOTO: KEN MAYER22 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009

(250)247-7432 ✆(250)247-7412www.gabriolaartworks.common-sat 9am-5pm sun 11am-5pm. Atwo-storey treasure trove of local artfeaturing the works of over 150islanders. Apr 2-20 Doors, Gates andWindows, An International TravelingExhibition of Tapestry, featuringweavers from Las Aranas of NewMexico to TAPis of Vancouver Island;Apr 23-mid-May Roots, mixed mediagroup show with the themes Poetry,Heart, Egg, Star, Off-the-Beach,Water, Joy and Light.GRAND FORKSGrand Forks Art Gallery524 Central AveNEW LOCATION ✆(250)442-2211www.galleries.bc.ca/grandforkstues-sat 10am-4pm. Thru Apr 18Boundary Weavers and SpinnersGroup Exhibition; STUDIO WATCHSarah Scythes, recent drawings;Thru Apr 25 Artiza, “Hers”, portraits;Apr 20-May 2 Boundary District ArtsCouncil, “Boundary Showcase”; May2-Jun 6 Ian Johnston, “Refuse Culture”,ceramic sculpture installation.KAMLOOPS★ Cunliffe House Gallery,Kamloops Arts Council262 Lorne St ✆(250)372-7323www.kamloopsarts.catues-fri 10am-5pm sat 10am-4pm.Apr 2-25 Boogie Emerging ArtistShow, multimedia; May 5-27 LonnaNash, “Floral Fauvism (my way)”,mixed media.★ Kamloops Art Gallery101-465 Victoria St ✆(250)377-2400www.kag.bc.camon-wed, fri-sat 10am-5pm thurs10am-9pm sun 12-4pm closed statholidays. Apr 5-May 24 Tania Willard,“Claiming Space”, extension of previousactivist and muralist work,includes sculpture, painting, basketweaving, large-scale graphite drawingsand a panoramic mural of forms basedon territorial stone markers in theThompson-Nicola region; Diyan Achjadiand Brendan Tang, “Sugar Bombs”,an imaginative terrain where innocenceand beauty meet violence; “SomewhereBetween”, Minn Sjolseth, painter,Anthony Carter, photographs, portraitsof native elders in the act of creatingarts and crafts, and ‘village-scapes’where ancient art forms co-exist withthe structures of modern life.KASLOLangham Cultural CentreGallery447 A Ave ✆(250)353-2661www.thelangham.cathurs-sun 1-4pm. Admission bydonation. Thru Apr 26 Shashin –Japanese Canadian Photography to1942; May 1-31 Sonia Cornwall,“Cariboo Cowboy”.KELOWNAGeert Maas SculptureGardens and Gallery250 Reynolds Rd ✆(250)860-7012www.geertmaas.orgopen all year – irregular hours. Internationallyacclaimed artist GeertMaas invites the public to visit hisexceptional sculpture gardens andindoor gallery with one of the largestcollections of bronze sculpture in★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS PREVIEW 23

painting, sculpture and assemblage.Tutt Art Galleries9-3045 Tutt St ✆(250)861-4992www.tuttartgalleries.comtues-fri 10am-5pm sat 10am-4pm.Est. 1984. TAG remains the dominantgallery of contemporary fine art in theOkanagan and Interior of B.C. Thegallery represents high-calibre Canadiannational and international artistsof exceptional ability, whose artworkshave built or enhanced private, corporateand government collectionsworldwide.LIONS BAYLions Bay Art Gallery350 Centre RdLions Bay Centre ✆604-921-7865www.lionsbayartgallery.common-sat 10am-5pm sun and holidays10am-4pm and by appt. Take thespectacular scenic drive to Lions Bay,only 7 minutes north of HorseshoeBay on the Squamish/Whistler Hwy.Featuring established and emergingCanadian artists with mainly BC landscapes;Featured artists: MichaelTickner, Dan Varnals, ChrissandraUnger, Amanda Martinson, PeterHolmes, Helen Downing Hunter,Allan Dunfield, Santo DeVita,Lawrence Ruskin, Debra Bevaartand Richard Tickner. See website forupdates on our downtown shows.Canada and changing exhibitions.Maas creates distinctive, rounded,semi-abstract figures, architecturalstructures as well as installations in awide variety of materials includingbronze, stainless steel, aluminum,wood, stoneware and multimedia.The great diversity of outdoor art iscomplemented in the gallery by anoverwhelming number of paintings,serigraphs, medals, reliefs and sculpturein various media.★ Kelowna Art Gallery1315 Water St ✆(250)762-2226www.kelownaartgallery.comdaily 10am-5pm. Thru Apr 19 REELROOTz: Ninth Annual Exhibition ofIndigenous Media Arts, in collaborationwith the En’owkin Centre andULLUS; Apr 25-Jun 21 Tyler Hodgins,“Please Try Again”, installation of large‘found’ drawing made from discardedscratch crossword puzzle lottery tickets;Thru May 31 Eliza Au, Ian Johnstonand Lylian Klimek, “MODULE”,installations of repeated smaller elementsto make up a larger whole; ThruJul 26 Dysfunctional Chairs: DavidDiviney: Drift, Diviney has devised a riffon the ubiquitous picnic table.★ Sopa Fine Arts2934 S Pandosy St ✆(250)763-5088www.sopafinearts.comtues-sat 11am-5pm sun 12-4pm.Ever-changing selection of contemporaryart with a special interest inabstraction, featuring thoughtful,innovative and compelling works fromliving contemporary local, nationaland international artists in the media ofMAPLE RIDGEMaple Ridge Art Gallery11944 Haney Pl✆604-467-5855 604-476-4240www.theactmapleridge.orgtues-sat 11am-4pm. Apr 4-May 9 IreneGross, “Past to Present: A Journey”,explores the process of creation as acathartic, transitional process; May 16-Jun 27 Group Exhibit: ElementarySchool Children, “Jack & Jill”, annualpresentation of artwork created byyoung students of School District 42.NANAIMOAllMarquetry Studio Gallery5251 Hammond Bay Rd✆(250)729-7415www.allmarquetry.comby appt only. Salon meetings, demon-24 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

strations by mid-island artists, commissionsaccepted. Featuring finemarquetry pictures in exhibition andin progress; call for an appointment.Marquetry classes available uponrequest.Nanaimo Art GalleryCAMPUS GALLERY: 900 Fifth St2nd location: DOWNTOWN GALLERY,150 Commercial St✆(250)740-6350 (250)754-1750www.nanaimogallery.caCAMPUS: mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 12-4pm; DOWNTOWN: tues-fri 10:30am-4:30pm sat 10am-5pm. CAMPUSGALLERY Apr 2-14 Art 486; Apr 17-May9 PROGRESSIONS, VIU Annual VisualArt exhibition; May 15-Jun 20 LindaFaulks, “A Moment in Time”; TheLambert Collection of Ceramics;DOWNTOWN GALLERY Apr 2-18 SustainableArchitecture Exhibition; ArtRental and Sales Exhibition; Apr 23-May 8 Federation of CanadianArtists; May 15-Jun 7 The E.J. HughesCelebration, in conjunction withunveling of “lost” mural painted byHughes in 1938, includes exhibition,documentary premiere, public screeningsand educational symposium.NELSONOxygen Art Centre3-320 Vernon St ✆(250)352-6322(250)505-2072www.oxygenartcentre.orgwed-sat 1-5pm. May 29-Jun 27 BettyFahlman, “Imprisonment for Removal”,series of paintings which aredocumentary portraits of the massivestump root systems that becomeexposed with the lowering and raisingof the Arrow Lakes reservoir due tothe damming of the Columbia River.Touchstones Nelson:Museum of Art and History502 Vernon St ✆(250)352-9813www.touchstonesnelson.catues wed fri sat 10am-5pm sun 12-4pm, thurs 10am-5pm 5-8pm-bydonation. Thru Apr 19 Haruko Okano,Nicole Dextras and Julie Castonguay,“SALT – distillation of matter”,installaton exploring the relationshipbetween matter and impermanence;Apr 25-Jun 10 Brent Bukowski,“Flow”; Apr 25-Jun 28 KootenaySchool of the Arts, “YES!” graduationshow.NEW WESTMINSTERAmelia Douglas Gallery,Douglas College700 Royal Ave ✆604-527-5723www.douglascollege.ca/artscommmon-fri 10am-7:30pm sat 11am-4pm. Apr 16-May 29 Jessie Couzelisand Trena Coulter, “Naître: To beborn”, works by former Douglas Collegestudents.Arts Council Gallery of NewWestminsterQueens Park, 6th Ave & McBride Blvd✆604-525-3244www.artscouncilnewwest.orgtues-sun 1-5pm. Thru Apr 28 JudithCopland, “Impressions in Landscape”;May 1-30 Tegan Cheremkora,“The Last Frame”, photographs ofNew Westminster Lumber Division,north foot of Jardine St.NORTH VANCOUVERArtists for Kids Gallery810 W 21st St ✆604-903-3798www.artists4kids.comwww.preview-art.com PREVIEW 25

www.bau-xi.comKen Wallace: ReflectionsBAU-XI GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – May 9-23, 2009 Ken Wallace is a Vancouver painter with aconfident and assured style. His recent images of ponds and vegetation are reminiscent of thevoluptuous and rhythmic approach of Arthur Lismer, who identified closely with the uncivilizedlandscape of northern Canada. Like Lismer, who often sought the meaning of nature in the humansubconscious by painting hypnotic views of underbrush, Wallace conjures up what he describes as“representations of the idea of nature for contemplation.”In 2000-2001 Wallace began lookingmore at “foreground” than at landscape.These richly-coloured new paintingsbrilliantly convey the nuances of foliage,shrubbery, wind and reflections in dense,saturated images of imaginary pondsand inlets. The subject matter is a goodfit with his expressionistic brushwork,and the paintings are, quite literally, gorgeous.Ken Wallace attended the AlbertaKen Wallace, Vandusen Inlet #4 (2009), acrylic on canvas [Bau-Xi Gallery,Vancouver BC, May 9-23]College of Art and the Banff School of Fine Arts. He graduated with honours in animation andpainting from the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art + Design) in 1973.He has been teaching at Emily Carr University since 1980, where he is an Associate Professor inVisual Arts. His work has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions in major public and privategalleries in North America, and he has received four Canada Council Awards for painting and film.His artwork is represented in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, the National GalleryOttawa, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vancouver Art Gallery and in many other government, corporateand university collections across Canada. Mia Johnsonmon-fri 10am-5pm sat & sun 12-4pm. Admission by donation. Apr14-May 9 Gordon Smith, “SmithWORKS on Paper”, over 40 originalpaintings, photographs and prints bylegendary Canadian artist Smith.Explore the landscape through theeyes of this extraordinary artist.CityScape Community ArtSpaceNorth Vancouver Community ArtsCouncil, 335 Lonsdale Ave✆604-988-6844www.nvartscouncil.catues-sat 12-5pm. Apr 17-May 9 BarrieChadwick, Alfonso Tejada, JenniferTunner and Barry Walker,“Memories: Home and Abroad”, fouraccomplished artists that have immigratedto Canada share memories oftheir travels by capturing the beautyof their experiences through landscapesin oils, acrylics and watercolours;May 15-Jun 13 “Water Studies”,featuring Alan Maples and othersTBA, photographic artists explorewater in its fascinating and transformationalform, capturing its mysticismand how it connects with theenergy of light; Thru Apr 15, mon-fri8:30am-4:30pm DISTRICT OF NORTHVAN MUNICIPAL HALL, 355 W QUEENS RD,NORTH VAN, Louisa Leibman’s adultstudents’ ceramics work and ReyhanehBakhtiari’s adult students’ oilpaintings; Apr 15-May 13 PeterKohut, paintings and Joseph Chiang,functional porcelain art.Graffiti Co. Art Studio/Gallery171 E 1st St, 2nd Flr ✆604-980-1699www.graffiticoart.comtues-fri 1-6pm or by appt. Thru May 3“Group Exhibition of ContemporaryFine Art”, contemporary works includingceramics, drawings, mixed media,paintings, hand made jewellery andtextiles by local artists Reyhaneh Baktiari,Vange Brossard, Gordon Davis,Jacinthe Gagne, Sia Kaskas, DanielMartin, Gabriele Maurus, Danny Siggers,Deborah Stephan, Lauren Trimble,Meg Troy and Sian Woodward;May-Jun Emerging Artists Exhibition,call the studio for details.★ Presentation HouseGallery333 Chesterfield Ave ✆604-986-1351www.presentationhousegall.comGallery: wed-sun 12-5pm, thurs 12-8pm, Office: mon-fri 9:30am-5:30pm.Apr 9-Jun 7 Alan Belcher, WaleadBeshty, Gil Blank, Jennifer Bolande,Trisha Donnelly, Roe Ethridge, Guyton\Walker,Robert Heinecken, MattKeegan, Annette Kelm, LouiseLawler, Carter Mull, Torbjorn Rødland,Alex Rose, Sam Samore,Wolfgang Tillmans, Josh Tonsfeldt,Sara VanDerBeek and B. Wurtz,“Phot(o)bjects”.Seymour Art Gallery4360 Gallant Ave ✆604-924-1378www.seymourartgallery.common-fri 10am-5pm sat & sun 11am-4pm. Thru Apr 19 “Icons and Symbolism”,Alexander Koutsenko, iconsand aphorisms on wood and LeonardBrett, frescoe paintings; Apr 21-26Start With Art, an exhibition that giveskids an opportunity to collect originalart by artists from the community;26 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

Apr 28-May 3 Artists for Kids, featuringwork by students from the NorthShore ‘Artists for Kids’ program; May5-30 Capilano University TextileArts, featuring work by this year’sgraduates from the Textile Arts program.Opening events on the startdate of exhibits 7-9pm.OSOYOOSOsoyoos Art Gallery8711 Main St ✆(250)495-2800(250)495-7968www.geocities.com/osoyoosartstues-sat 12-4pm. Thru Apr 18 TerryJackson and Kae Sarich, “Clay andGlass”; Apr 19-25 Arts & CultureWeek, tours and exhibits; May 16-Sep 5 Summer Season Show andSale, a variety of original art by areaartists.PENTICTONThe Lloyd Gallery18 Front St ✆250-492-4484www.lloydgallery.comtues-sat 9:30am-5:30pm. Exhibitingworks by gallery artists: Yasuo Araki,Alan Boileau, Laila Campbell, RodCharlesworth, Glenn Clark, PeterCorbett, Josette De Roussy, JimGlenn, Ronald Glowe, Julia Hargreaves,Frances Harris, Michael Hermesh,Therese Johnston, Bob Kebic,Denis Kleine, Dongmin Lai, RobynLake, Gerda Lattey, Min Ma, DebbieMilner, Faigee Niebow, Toni Onley,Diane Paton Peel, Graham Pettman,Lance Regan, John Revill, JudyRinguette, Bonnie Roberts, TheoTobiasse, Olga Tomlinson, Roy Tomlinson,Mary Ursuliak, Marla Wilson,Nel Witteman, Annette Witteman,Marjolein Witteman, William Wattand Robert Wood.Mat & Mitre Gallery196 Eckhardt Ave W✆(250)492-5855 (250)809-0024matandmitre@gmail.comtues-sat 10am-5pm. On view at CANCOFFEE COMPANY, 301-1475 FAIRVIEWRD, PENTICTON, hours mon-thurs7:30am-8pm fri & sat 7:30am-5pmThru Apr 18 Maryanne Jespersen,“Spirit and Stone”, original oil paintings;Apr 20-May 31 Jerrlee Dika,“Glory”, new paintings.Paw Prints Studio & Gallery148 Carr CresWillowbrook Valley (off Greenlake Rdbetween Penticton and Oliver)✆(250)498-4732 1-888-256-3600www.ArtofJohnSalsnek.comopen most days – phone for timesand directions. Paw Prints Studio andGallery is nestled in the heart ofOkanagan Wine Country. Originals,giclées and limited editions showcasingrealism in nature are featured.Collectors and browsers welcome.Penticton Art Gallery199 Marina Way ✆(250)493-2928www.galleries.bc.ca/agso/tues-fri 10am-6pm sat-sun 12-5pm.Thru May 3 MAIN GALLERY LyndalOsborne, “Ornamenta”; TONI ONLEYGALLERY Bettina Somers and MurielFerley, “Recent Donations to the PermanentCollection”; THE PROJECT ROOMAaron Dickinson, “Intimate PortraitsFrom Another World: Part One”; DarrenFilipenko, “Portraits of Aaron as aVampire”; May 8-Jun 28 MAIN GALLERYSonia Cornwall, “A Retrospective”;TONI ONLEY GALLERY Penticton PleinAir; THE PROJECT ROOM Jan Little,“Meadowlark Festival Featured Artist”.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 27

PORT MOODYPort Moody Arts Centre2425 St Johns St ✆604-931-2008www.pomoartscentre.caPORT MOODY ARTS CENTRE: mon-thurs10am-8pm fri-sat 10am-5pm sun12-4pm, closed holidays, SCOTIABANKGALLERY: 2501 St. John St, monthurs10am-4pm, fri 10am-5pm.Thru May 10 “In Celebration of AsianHeritage Month (May)” MAIN GALLERYEmily Muichu, silk painting; PLUMGALLERY (WALLS) Jai Kyung Lee,“Peaceful Moments”, watercolour;PLUM GALLERY (DISPLAY CASE) MichelleMcCutchon, “Between a Rock and aGood Place”, rock sculpture; 3DGALLERY Parvaneh Roudgar, “TheFlow of Emotions”, sculpture; SCO-TIABANK GALLERY Tian Xing Li, “Life isBeautiful”, oil.PRINCE GEORGE★ Two Rivers Gallery725 Civic Plaza ✆(250)614-7800www.tworiversgallery.camon-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pm sun 12-5pm. Thru May 10 Flux,a juried group exhibition of BCartists’ work; Brian Craig, “RecentPrints”, lush and detailed printsbased on Dadaist texts and randomsnippets of language which utilizesnew ultraviolet serigraph techniques;May 22-Aug 9 LessLIE,“Sale(ish) Culture”, Coast Salishartist Leslie Sam, known as LessLIE,explores ‘traditional’ Coast Salishimagery and the politics of iconography– paintings, prints and installationwork speak to Coast Salish historyand contribute to critical discoursearound the history of FirstNations peoples; Claire Kujundzic,“Cariboo”, work explores Kujundzic’ssocial activism.PRINCE RUPERTMuseum of Northern B.C.100 First Ave W ✆(250)624-3207www.museumofnorthernbc.common-sat 9am-5pm. Admission:adults $5, students $2, children under12 $1, children under 5 free, membersfree. Apr-May ART GALLERY Worldof Puppets, Student Explorations ofa Myriad of Cultural Traditionsexpressed through Puppetry; OngoingMUSEUM permanent exhibits ofNorthwest Coast history, art and culturein several galleries; Ongoing theCARVING HOUSE, the KWINITSA RAILWAYSTATION MUSEUM and the TSIMSHIANDANCE LONGHOUSE, exhibits, art andperformance.QUADRA ISLANDDRAW GalleryPO Box 275Village Sq ✆250-285-2008www.drawgallery.comthurs-sat 12-6pm, openings First Fridays.Representing a wide selectionof Westcoast Islands contemporaryCanadian art, including sculpture,painting, printmaking, photography,video, sound and performance bygallery artists. Apr 1-30 gallery isclosed; May 1-30 Primavera, thirdannual Spring Group Exhibition celebratesand highlights the wealth andtalent of local and regional artists ina diversity of media, styles and subjectmatter; Collectivo, collectiveoutdoor exhibit which is basedaround the nature of collaborationand the creative process.QUALICUM BEACHThe Old School HouseArts Centre122 Fern Rd W ✆(250)752-6133www.theoldschoolhouse.orgmon-sat 10am-4:30pm, sun 12-4pm.Apr 13-May 3 Oceanside PhotographersClub; Luke Downs, photographer;Brad Grigor, digital artist; May 4-17 Floral Paintings Group Exhibition,paintings in all mediums, sizes andprices; May 18-31 Martha Jablonski-Jones and Carmen Mongeau,painters; Robin Ovans, photographer.RICHMONDRichmond Art Gallery7700 Minoru Gate ✆604-247-8300www.richmondartgallery.orgmon-fri 10am-6pm sat & sun 10am-5pm. Apr 2-May 17 Brenna Maag,“Observation of Wonder”, investigatesscientific theories and includes anoctagonal dome or ‘conservatory’ offabric doilies along with a collection ofcyanotype prints documenting differentdoilies as ‘scientific’ specimens andarranged in taxonomic rank; IngridKoenig, “Navigating the UncertaintyPrinciple”, drawings and paintings representeveryday objects and activities;May 28-Jul 12 Barbara Zeigler, “HiddenSites”, links two sites that are significantyet ‘hidden’ to most BritishColumbians: Cache Creek and theBroughton Archipelago, video installationcondenses the 6-hour journey agarbage truck makes from Vancouverto the Cache Creek Landfill, followingessentially the same route as the majorFraser River salmon migrations; DiyanAchjadi, “The Further Adventures ofGirl”, print series portray a single character,‘The Girl’, as she navigates perilousdystopic landscapes informed bynews events and popular cultureimages in cartoon-like visual narratives.SALMON ARMSAGA Public Art Gallery70 Hudson Ave NE ✆(250)832-1170www.sagapublicartgallery.catues-sat 10am-4pm. Apr 4-25 WendyBrowne, “Surfacing”, paintings andoriginal quilts; May 2-30 Art andSoul, middle and senior secondarystudents of School District #83.28 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

SALT SPRINGISLANDSalt Spring Woodworks125 Churchill Rd ✆(250)537-9606www.saltspringwoodworks.comfri-mon 10am-5pm. New to the GalleryArnt Arntzen, new work, known forbrilliant combinations of scavengedmetals such as airplane wings and helicopterrotors with highly finished salvagedhardwoods. Opening end of Maythru Oct Arnt Arntzen, Brent Comberand Peter Pierobon, “INSIDE/OUT-SIDE”, sculpture and furniture.SIDNEYPeninsula Gallery100-2506 Beacon Ave✆(250)655-1282 1-877-787-1896www.pengal.common-sat 9am-5:30pm. Apr 1-25“Transformations”, Jo Ludwig and LisaSamphire, glass creations in their ownunique, award-winning style; also featuringpaintings by Philip Buytendorpand W. Allan Hancock, giclée prints byRobert Bateman, Carol Evans andPino; Apr 26-May 2 “The 100 Mile ArtShow”, new paintings and sculpturesby gallery artists living within 100 milesof the gallery including Kristina Boardman,Carol Evans, Gail Johnson, DouglasFisher, Graham Forsyth, MaryFox, Tiffany Hastie, Clement Kwan,Dennis Magnusson, Catherine Moffat,Michael O’Toole, Nancy O’Toole, JaniceRobertson, Michael Stockdale,Mike Svob, Ray Ward and Alan Wylie;Apr 30 Pino D’Angelico, “Revelations”,a modern day master, new figurativepaintings and a collection of gicléeprints on canvas; Apr 30-May 15 PinoD’Angelico, giclée prints on canvas;May 4-30 Richard Mravik and MalcolmJolly, “New Works”.SIDNEY-NORTHSAANICH★ M. Morgan Warren’sStudio2300 Canoe Cove Rd, A-FrameStudio, Canoe Cove Marina, besideB.C. Ferries Swartz Bay Terminal✆(250)655-1081www.morganwarren.comdaily 1:30-9pm or by appt. Watercolourrenditions of birds. Painter to HMQueen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Savethe Children Fund, Sierra Club and theguest of SF Museum of Fine Arts andAudubon Society. Commissionedworks in progress, prints, studies andbird lore. New release: set of 4 smallprints – “The Little Birds of VancouverIsland” (Volume 1 – Woodlands).SOOKESouth Shore Gallery2046 Otter Point Rd ✆(250)642-2058www.sooke.org/southshoregallerymon-fri 10am-6pm sat 10am-5pm.Apr 1-May 31 Exhibiting gallery artistsEd Araquel, Andres Bohaker, DorothyHodgson Butler, Robert LouisChouinard, Anne Hansen, KeithJohnson, Mimi Jones, Robert Owen,Cheryl Parkinson, Walter Riedel,Brian Simons, Anita Sinner andJoanne Thomson, paintings; StephenCooke, Sharon Bussard Grove andRoger Painter, pottery; Alison GarrettHanneson, Kiln Art Studio and JillMorton, glass; Jan Johnson, GordieLundy, Oceanstone Studio andKatherine Woods, sculpture; PatriciaCarley, Gail Erickson and BarbaraSinclair, wearable art; Norma LakeCastillo, Bonita Martin Kennedy andSue Lin Tarnowski, jewellery.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 29

SQUAMISHFoyer Gallery at theSquamish Public Library37907 2nd Ave ✆604-892-3110www.squamish.bclibrary.ca/servicesprograms/foyer-gallery/mon-thurs 12-8pm fri-sun 10am-4pm.Thru Apr 6 WALLS Dag Goering, “Capturingthe Essence”, travel photography;CASES Kim Smerek, “The Body is aTemple”, mixed media; Apr 7-May 4WALLS Stanley Mishkin, “Urban Landscapes“, oil paintings; Cases 2009Gallery Artist Show & Foyer Fundraiser3rd Annual Soirée; May 5-Jun 1WALLS & CASES Howe Sound SecondarySchool, “Ultimate”, mixed media.SUMMERLANDSummerland Art Gallery9533 Main St ✆(250)494-4494www.summerlandarts.comtues-sat 10am-4pm sun 1-4pm. ThruMay 9 Alissa Woodside, “Eh’ FORART”, acrylic and mixed media.SUNSHINE COASTGibsons Landing GalleryArtists’ Co-op436 Marine Dr ✆604-886-0099jheyer@telus.netdaily 10am-5pm. LANDING GALLERYOpening Apr 22 Summer Show, newjuried show featuring original paintings,pottery, fibre, glass, clay andjewellery created by the members ofthis artists’ cooperative.Sunshine Coast Arts Council+ Arts Centre5714 Medusa St ✆604-885-5412www.scartscouncil.comwed-sat 11am-4pm sun 1-4pm. Apr1-19 Sa Boothroyd, “Fowl Play”; WillowYamauchi, “Apocalicious”; Apr22-May 3 Young Peoples Own Show -Elementary; May 6-17 Young PeoplesOwn Show - Secondary; May 20-Jun 14 Katie Janyk, "Marking Time";John Davis, "Fire Photos Exhibition".SURREY★ Arnold Mikelson Mind &Matter Art Gallery13743 16th Ave ✆604-536-646030 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

daily 12-6pm. Apr John D. Hallam,watercolour, June MacDonald, oil,Roxanne Taylor, pottery, Bob Gonzales,woodturning, Teri White, paintingwith clay, Richard Westwood, steelsculptures, Donna Clark, oil, AnitaLindblom, ceramic and Jim Stelting,soapstone carvings; May Val Eibert,stained glass, B.B. Pruijs, oil, DavidKilpatrick, soapstone carvings, MirjaVahala, oil, Arnold Mikelson, woodsculpture, Marguerite Hail, oil, DarrelHancock, pottery, Mary Mikelson, oil★ Kwantlen Art GalleryKwantlen Polytechnic University,Surrey Campus, D126-12666 72ndAve, Library Atrium✆604-599-2219 604-599-2219www.kwantlen.ca/fine-artsmon-fri 9am-3:30pm. Apr 1-12 AtCHAPEL ARTS, 304 DUNLEVY AVE, wedsat12-6pm sun 1-4pm FreshlySqueezed, Annual Visual Arts Show;Apr-May RM D126 Thoughts inProcess, rotating exhibitions of ThirdYear students’ work.★ Surrey Art Gallery13750 88th Ave (at King George Hwy)✆604-501-5566 www.arts.surrey.camon & fri 9am-5pm tues-thurs 9am-9pm sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm.Admission by donation. Thru May 31Art by Surrey Elementary School Students;Thru Aug 30 “Heaven’s Breath”,weather driven new media installationbased on the Dance of Shiva, creativecollaboration between Chris Welsby,Brady Marks and Scheherazaad Cooper;Apr 4-Jun 14 “Pop Prints”, 42 printsby British, American and Canadian Popartists from the 1960s including AndyWarhol, Roy Lichtenstein, RichardHamilton, David Hockney, MichaelMorris and Joyce Wieland; Thru 2009Frederic Brummer, Ian Gregory, LeeHutzulak and Giorgio Magnanensi,“Open Sound: Audio Art Projects”, newworks; Ongoing REMIXX.sur.RE, youthnew media project.TSAWWASSENTsawwassen Longhouse1710-56th St ✆604-943-3313www.deltaartguild.orgthurs-sun 11am-4pm. Thru Apr 28Art in Motion, featuring works in 2-Dand 3-D by members of the SouthDelta Artists Guild; Apr 29-May 27 Artand Music as Therapy, reflects howart, both visual and audible, has thefacility to aid in healing, raise the spiritand sooth the soul.VANCOUVERAccess Gallery206 Carrall St ✆604-689-2907www.vaarc.catues-sat 12-5pm. Apr 18-Jun 6 MarkDudiak, “Time’s Museum of Shape andForm”, features high definition, digital3-D video that imagines three symbolicrepresentations of Eternity as literallyinfinite, immutable realities – title takenfrom mountaineer Fosco Maraini’s iconicdescription of the Himalayas; SueNagy, “Pull Over Parade”, Nagy recreatesobjects from her daily experiencesand represents them theatrically as a setwith props, but without willing actors.Alliance française deVancouver6161 Cambie St ✆604-327-0201.222.alliancefrancaise.camon-thurs 9am-4pm and 6-8pm, fri9am-4pm and 7-8pm, sat 1-3pm. Apr3-20 Emmanuelle Renard, "ERO-SIONS", mixed media paintings, "Mywork is a work of excavation. Iunearth those experiences, and myhand revives their forgotten voices."www.emmanuellerenard.comAppleton Galleries1451 Hornby St ✆604-685-1715www.appletongalleries.common-fri 8am-1pm sat 11am-1pm orby appt. Specialists in Inuit art forover 35 years. Featuring CanadianInuit stone sculpture, tapestries andNorthwest Coast wood carvingsincluding masks, plaques, paddlesand talking sticks with more than4,000 original carvings featuringworks by Abraham Anghik Ruben,Clifford Pettman and Jonas FaberQuarqortoq.Art Beatus (Vancouver)Consultancy108-808 Nelson St ✆604-688-2633www.artbeatus.common-fri 10am-6pm. Thru May 15Tomoyo Ihaya, “Drawings: Trees andWater”, new mixed media works featuretrees and water as recurring subjectswith a focus on the artist’s personaljourney to India, and an underlyingenvironmental theme about nottaking the fundamentals of life forgranted.Art Emporium2928 Granville St ✆604-738-3510www.theartemporium.camon-sat 10am-6pm. Exceptionalinventory of paintings by major Canadian,American and French masters ofthe 20th C., featuring all members ofthe Group of Seven and several oftheir contemporaries, Emily Carr, C.Krieghoff, David Milne, J.W. Mor-www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 31

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GilbertNo. 5 Rd.No. 4 Rd.No. 1 RdNo. 3 Rd➜TO LIONS BAY ART GALLERY(7 minutes north of Horseshoe Bayon the Whistler Hwy.)TO SQUAMISH,WHISTLER,BOWEN IS.,and theSUNSHINE COASTWestbrookSOUTH GRANVILLERussellWayQueens AveWEST VANCOUVERMUSEUMBUCKLAND ◆◆SUN SPIRITSOUTHERST◆BELLEVUERichmond StSILK PURSEFERRY BUILDING ◆ ◆Alma StDunbarArbutusGranvilleGeorgiaBurrard BridgeGranville BridgeLINDA LANDO◆41st Ave JEWISH MUSEUM & ARCHIVES◆SIDNEY & GERTRUDE ZACK GALLERY/UNITARIAN49th Ave◆ ALLIANCE FRANCAISECHURCH ◆ LANGARA COLLEGE57th AveSW Marine DrRiver Rd115th St14th StArthur Laing BridgeAlderbridge WayWestminsterHwyMarine DrMoray BridgeMinoru BlvdMINORUPARKDenmanCapilanoRoadLions GateBridgeOak StOak StBridgeRICHMOND◆ART GALLERYGarden City Rd.FellCambieGranville AveMain St99PublicMarketW. 3rdSeaBusFraser St➜ChesterfieldCommercialMaritimeMewsLonsdaleKingswayVictoria DrSteveston HwyNanaimoRiver RdBridgeport Rd.◆ ENGLISH BAYCIRCLE CRAFT ◆◆ DUNDARAVEPRINTMAKERSWOOD CO-OP◆◆MALASPINAGRANVILLE PRINTMAKERSISLAND EAGLESPIRIT ◆Sea Is.WayEdgemontDuranleau StTO DELTA ARTS COUNCIL in Delta,TO LONGHOUSE in Tsawwassen,TO JENKINS SHOWLER, WHITE ROCKGALLERY in White RockE.1stCambie Rd.Anderson St.◆ ARTISTSE. 23rd StFOR KIDS15th StPRESENTATIONHOUSE◆ ◆ CITYSCAPE◆GRAFFITI CO.EsplanadeOld Bridge StreetCartwright St1 St.Joyce RdSE Marine DrOak StBoundary RdCHARLES H. SCOTT◆Johnston St FEDERATION◆Railspur Alley◆ ◆◆STUDIO 13PETER KISSAURUM-ARGENTUM◆ GALLERY OFB.C. CERAMICS◆ CRAFT COUNCILOF B.C. GALLERYMt Seymour ParkwayDollarton HwyLougheed HwyCambieBridgeWillingdonCambie StColumbiaQuebecRoyal OakDeepcoveRdSEYMOUR◆ ART GALLERYGallant Ave.Burrard Inlet 2nd Narrows BridgeGRANVILLEBUSCHLEN STUDIO DIETER SCHLATTERISLAND◆MOWATT◆THE ART GARDENROBINSON STUDIO-◆Barnet HwyBURRARD EnglishHODNETT FINE ARTHastings St.SLOPES BayUnion St7AMARITIME MUSEUMPrior St◆Venables St.MUSEUM OFVANCOUVER ◆◆ ◆BRITANNIAART GALLERY◆ ANTHROPOLOGYMUSEUM◆HAVANA◆DR. VIGARISIMON FRASERMORRIS &◆ UNIVERSITY GALLERY,◆HELEN BELKIN 4th Ave ◆◆ JEUNESSEBREWERYBURNABYGREENERY FLORISTUniversity& GALLERY MONNY'SCREEKBlvd10th Ave ◆ Broadway12th Ave◆7NYREE HAZELTON ◆ ◆FRAMAGRAPHICEXPOSUREGrandview HwyW 16th AveGALLERY ◆Canada Way 1AT HYCROFT (on McRae)OMEGA◆King EdwardBURNABYBURNABY◆ARTS OFFART GALLERYMAINDeer Lake Ave ◆◆◆ARTS COUNCIL33rd AveBURNABY VILLAGEMUSEUMTO PORT MOODY ARTS CENTREin Port Moody,TO MAPLE RIDGEART GALLERY in Maple RidgeTO EVERGREEN➜➜CULTURAL CENTRE,PLACE DES ARTSin CoquitlamTO KWANTLEN ART GALLERY, MIND AND MATTER,SURREY ART GALLERY in Surrey; TO AMELIADOUGLAS, ARTS COUNCIL in New Westminster;TO ELAINE BREWER-WHITE, FORT GALLERYin Fort Langley, TO BARBARA BOLDT in Langley◆JAPANESE CANADIANNATIONAL MUSEUM(Burnaby)Prior StLEIGHDON STUDIO CATRIONA Georgia StFalse ELLIOTT JEFFRIESCreek LOUIS◆◆GRUNT◆◆TANYA Great SLINGSBY Northern Way◆ ◆5th AveEASTWOOD ◆WESTERN8th AveONLEY GALLERY FRONT Broadway10th AveMain StFraserClarkCommercialScotia St➜12th AveBREWERYCREEKwww.preview-art.com PREVIEW 33

www.contemporaryartgallery.caBGL: Marshmallow + Cauldron + Fire =CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Apr 17- Jun7, 2009 The Québec City-based art collective BGL is knownfor installations that take over gallery and public spaces.Described as “cheeky, critical and explosive”, their works usehumour and outrageousness to attract attention to social andpolitical issues. Earlier installations have featured a taxidermiedmoose on a turnstile, and a Mercedes automobile on a fauxlawn. They have created startling installations outdoors bycombining interior materials with the natural world.The three artists, Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère andNicholas Laverdière, began making a name for themselves inEastern Canada after their 1996 graduation from UniversitéLaval. They have become a cause célèbre at galleries, artist-runcentres and museums, including the National Gallery of Canada;Mercer Union and Koffler Gallery, Toronto; the Art Galleryof Alberta, Edmonton; the Royal Museum of Ontario; and theCanadian Centre in Paris.BGL has shown internationally in France, Luxembourg,Poland, Cuba, Argentina and Mexico. They participated in theMontréal Biennial, were nominated for the Sobey Art Award andhad a solo exhibition at Diaz Gallery, Toronto. As a collective,BGL has received numerous grants from Conseil des Arts et desView of BGL’s Nowhere II, a 28-foot scalemodel of a luxury cruise ship in the Don River,Toronto 2008, with their Marche avec moi legson wheels in the foreground [ContemporaryArt Gallery, Vancouver BC, Apr 17-Jun 7]Lettres du Québec, Canada Council for the Arts, and received the Videre visual arts event award inQuébec. As Bilodeau explains, “It is more easy to play with friends than play alone.” Mia Johnsonrice, Tom Thomson; Paintings byKarel Appel, A. Calder, E. Cortez,Montague Dawson, Jean and RaoulDufy, A. Hambourg, J. Hervé, Picasso,Utrillo, A. Volti, Andrew Wyeth,and Canadians Max Bates, DonaldFlather, H.G. Glyde, E.J. Hughes, F.Lansdowne, John Little, Henri Masson,Rudolph Messner, Hugh Monahan,Riopelle, Goodridge Roberts,Jack Shadbolt and Andrew Wong.★ Art Garden2567 E Hastings St ✆604-216-2524www.theartgarden.catues-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-4pm. Est.2007 Showcasing original works ofcontemporary Vancouver and internationalartists in a tranquil settingamongst indoor plants and handcraftedfurniture, décor and textiles;Discover the natural elegance of TheLeakey Collection of “Zulugrass” jewellery,versatile, resilient, environmentallyand economically sustainablehandcrafted by the MassaiTribeswomen of Kenya. Contact thegallery for upcoming solo and groupshows.Art Rental & Sales at theVancouver Art Gallery750 Hornby St✆604-662-4716 604-662-4746www.artrentalandsales.common-fri 10am-4pm. The completeresource for purchase and rental ofcontemporary original Canadian Art,representing more than 200 emergingand established artists with 1,400works to select from, covering a widerange of mediums including oil,acrylic, watercolour, mixed media,photography and sculpture with newwork arriving weekly.Art Works Gallery225 Smithe St ✆604-688-3301www.artworksbc.common-fri 9am-6pm sat 10am-6pm. Apr1-31 e-scapes, a retrospective ofwork by gallery artists depicting variousnotions of the landscape; May 2-Jun 2 Debra Van Tuinen Solo Exhibit.Arts Off Main216 E 28th Ave ✆604-876-2785www.artsoffmain.cawed-sat 11am-6pm sun-11am-5pm.Arts Off Main is an artist-run galleryrecently featured in the New YorkTimes for its affordability and quality.We offer original paintings, prints,sculpture, photographs, jewellery andpottery by B.C. artists.Artspeak233 Carrall St ✆604-688-0051www.artspeak.catues-sat 12-5pm. Apr 10-Jun 6 AaronCarpenter, Joel Herman and RoulaPartheniou, “Literally”, three artistsworking with the form of the book tomake drawings, paintings and videothat play with the representation andreferentiality of literature and knowledgein humourous ways; Sat Apr 11,2pm Artists’ Roundtable.Atelier Gallery2421 Granville St ✆604-732-3021www.ateliergallery.catues-sat 11am-6pm sun 12-5pm. Apr11-May 2 Takashi Iwasaki, “VisualDiary”, embroidered works documentingthe artist’s daily life; May 9-30 Erin McSavaney, new works,acrylic on panel.34 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

www.leighdon.caJ. Richardson, The Path, acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"Leighdon Studio Galleryinvites submissions from B.C. artistswww.leighdon.ca190 West 3rd Avenue, Vancouver BC, Canada V5Y 1E9 ■ 604-875-0029Aurora Gallery, Artists’ Co-op2035 88 W Pender St, Tinsel Town Mall✆778-889-4057 604-432-1341www.coopgallery.comtues-sun 12:30-5:30pm or by appt.Apr-May “Originals: New Work byGallery Artists”, Mike Denholm, woodburningon wood panel with images ofwolves, dogs, eagles and humans;Wakako Sekimoto, ceramics with Orientaldesign; Jeanne Sarich, functionalpottery; Jessie Childe, RaymondChiu, Eileen Fong, Roy Geronimo,Shoko Judd, Oliver Malana, Pat Sturgeonsand Pat Vickers, original paintingsin various media - oil, acrylic,watercolour, Chinese painting, silk andencaustic.Aurum-Argentum Goldsmiths1351 Railspur Alley✆604-692-2522 pernilla@telus.netwed-sun 11am-5pm or by appt. Aneclectic studio gallery where 3 artisanscreate fine jewellery and objetsd’art. The studio also features paintingsby local artists. Thru May 19John Capitano, “Encode”, latestinstallment of an ongoing series ofpaintings created by using darts torandomly select colours; May 21-Jun18 Eva Hoenig, “87 Paintings”, experimentsin a small frame.★ Autumn Brook Gallery1545 W 4th Ave ✆604-737-2363www.autumnbrook.cawed-sun 11am-5pm mon & tues byappt. Representing painters andsculptors from BC and other regions.Autumn Brook also serves as a specialevent reception venue and an artgallery. Sat and Sun brunch service.Basic InquiryGallery and Studio1011 Main St ✆604-681-2855604-417-8828 www.lifedrawing.orgtues & sat 1-4pm. Thru May 2 CherylCarpenter, “family/portrait”, exploringthe nature, meaning and implicationsof portraiture through drawing andmixed media; May 9-Jun 20 AnnualMembers Show, the gallery’s largeand talented membership display figurativework in a variety of mediums.Bau-Xi Gallery3045 Granville St ✆604-733-7011www.bau-xi.common-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 12-4pm.Apr 4-18 MAIN FLOOR Darlene Cole,loosely rendered oil paintings on canvasdepicting snapshots of passingtime and innocence; UPPER GALLERYEszter Burghardt, “Tundras Tale”,new series of oil paintings; May 9-23MAIN FLOOR Ken Wallace, recentabstracted water reflection series.Bill Reid Gallery ofNorthwest Coast Art639 Hornby St ✆604-682-3455www.billreidgallery.caWinter hours: wed-sun 11am-5pm.Admission: adults $10, seniors + students$7, children 5-17 $5, children 4and under free, family (2 adults + children)$25. Group rates and guided toursavailable when booked in advance. ThruJun Bill Reid: Master of Haida Art,takes visitors on a journey through hisart, stories and film; Opening Apr BillReid, “The Milky Way Necklace”, spectaculargold and diamond necklace,home after 4 years of extended loans tomuseums in North America; OpeningJun 20 Continuum: Vision and Creativityon the Northwest Coast, featuringcontemporary works by 23 Aboriginalartists from BC, Washington State andAlaska; Ongoing “Restoring Enchantment:Gold and Silver Masterworks bywww.preview-art.com PREVIEW 35

Practical Art History orConfessions of a Fine Art AppraiserChapter 18. The Case of the Phoney Picasso (Caveat Emptor)Recently I was asked by a client to authenticate a drawing signed by Picasso (Pablo Ruiz Picasso).My client had purchased the drawing through an on-line auction (fortunately subject to an authenticationreport) with the proviso that all funds would be refundedin full should the drawing be found not to be authentic.As an art object, the piece which was matted and framed,presented poorly and was in mediocre condition. The glasswas absent and part of the front surface of the drawing hadbeen adhered to the underside of the matting. Both of theseattributes were problematic as, in general, a framed drawing isunder glass and the artwork itself is never glued permanentlyto any other framing material.The image, executed with coloured pencil on paper, wasapproximately 7 1 ⁄8 × 9 1 ⁄8 inches with the “Picasso” signatureplaced at the top left. The drawing was rendered on standard 8½× 11-inch blank bond paper which appeared to have some agebut was not, however, of an artist’s quality. There was evidence offoxing to the lower half of the work outside of the image.Technically the work itself was poorly executed. Itappeared stiff, laboured and pedestrian, and exhibited a lackof spontaneity, inventiveness and creativity, which characterized Picasso’s drawings. The drawingwas unusually small with the image placed awkwardly in the centre of the page, and evoked asense of a hesitancy and timidity. The signature was also problematic. The letter “P” and the double“s” were not similar to other known genuine signatures of Picasso where the “ss”, for example,is usually written and not printed as in this case.Research revealed that this image was after a mirror image of a 64 × 46 cm (roughly 25 × 18inches) oil on paper painting entitled Buste de femme. It was painted by Pablo Ruiz Picasso atRoyan, France on June 11, 1940 and is, at present, in a private collection.In conclusion, the perpetrator most probably photographed the original painting, developed thenegative in reverse, and proceeded to copythat image on paper. Or, he may have simplycopied the reflection of the painting ina mirror. The draftsman has deliberatelyplaced the signature of Picasso in the samelocation as it appears in the original paintingto help create an illusion of authenticity.The perpetrator was obviously an amateuror perhaps a student as the drawing isa very poor rendering of the mirror image.Little attention was paid to modelling andthe drawing appears linear and flat. TheOriginal painting36 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009use of colour is tentative and the piecelacks the bold palette one can expect froma work by Picasso.The drawing is not a precursor to the painting. It is not listed in the catalogue raisonée ofPicasso’s drawings and since it almost exactly reproduces the image in reverse, it does not appearto be preparatory to the original painting. This drawing is not by the hand of Pablo Ruiz Picasso.Next issue: The Case of the Anabiotic Abbey.Mirror image of original paintingUntitled (drawing) after PicassoBY JIM FINLAYFINLAY FINE ARTWEALTH MANAGEMENTjim_finlay@telus.net

Bill Reid”, the monumental bronzesculpture “Mythic Messengers” and afull-scale totem pole carved by JamesHart of Haida Gwaii.Britannia Art Gallery1661 Napier St, Britannia Library✆604-718-5800 604-251-6050www.britanniacentre.orgmon, thurs, fri 8:30am-5pm tues, wed8:30am-9pm sat 9:30am-5pm sun 1-5pm Apr 1-May 1 MacDonald ElementaryGrades 6/7 with artist SusanMcCallum, “Dreams on Rocks”, studentsexplore the ancient art form ofpictographs (paintings on rocks) andpetroglyphs (etching on rocks); May6-29 Buen Provecho!, project focuseson traditional foods through storytellingand banners, part of a communityarts and intergenerational project,an extension of the Stone Soup Festivalheld at the Britannia CommunityCentre on May 9.Buschlen Mowatt Gallery1445 W Georgia St, Main Floor✆604-682-1234www.buschlenmowatt.common-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm. Apr1-May 31 Ricardo Mazal, new paintings.Catriona Jeffries Gallery274 E 1st Ave ✆604-736-1554www.catrionajeffries.comtues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Apr 25Chris Dikeakos; May 14-Jun 20 WhoWatches The Watchmen?, groupexhibition, artists TBA.Centre A, VancouverInternational Centre forContemporary Asian Art2 W Hastings St ✆604-683-8326www.centrea.orgtues-sat 11am-6pm. Thru Apr 25Masashi Ogura, Yoshihiro Suda andPaul de Guzman, “Another City”,interdisciplinary and cross-culturalcollaboration art project takes theform of a site-specific exhibition witha publication addressing architecture,transfiguration of urban environmentand the human condition. .Chali-Rosso Art Gallery2250 Granville St ✆604-733-3594www.chalirosso.comtues-sun 11am-6pm or by appt. Thegallery showcases original lithographs,graphic works by Masterartists Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall,Salvador Dali, Joan Miro,Henri Matisse, Georges Braque,Rembrandt van Rijn and AndyWarhol. Special presentations everyTues at 5 pm.Charles H. Scott Gallery,Emily Carr University of Artand Design1399 Johnston St ✆604-844-3809www.chscott.eciad.camon-fri 12-5pm sat-sun 10am-5pm.Thru Apr 24 Alejandro Cesarco,“Now and Then”, Uruguay born, NewYork-based artist Cesarco workswithin the tradition of conceptual artto produce artworks in various mediumsthat derive from popular culture,art history and literature; May 3-172009 Emily Carr University of Art +Design MAA Graduate Exhibition,work by the 2009 graduates of theMasters of Applied Arts program atEmily Carr University of Art + Design.★ Circle Craft Gallery1-1666 Johnston St, Granville Island✆604-669-8021 www.circlecraft.netdaily 10am-7pm. Apr 3-May 5 NaokoTakenouchi, “Migratory Journeys”,an exploration of the mysteriousaspects of the instincts of birds; May8-Jun 2 Susan Cain, “New Work”,mixed media figures and animals.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 37

www.saag.caRaphaëlle de Groot: The Burden of ObjectsSOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERY, LETHBRIDGE AB – Thru Apr 26, 2009 During its renovations, theSouthern Alberta Art Gallery is hosting conceptual artist Raphaëlle de Groot for a project involvingthe discarding of everyday objects from our lives versus the “burden” of their accumulation. Currentlyparticipating in the project are art students from the University of Lethbridge as well as thepublic-at-large, who have been asked to donate items no longer wanted or needed. In place of a traditionalexhibition or installation, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery has created an Open Studiowhere de Groot is meeting and interacting withstudents and the community. The Open Studio islocated in SAAG’s temporary space at 324 5thStreet South, Lethbridge.Through collective exercises of gathering,selecting, sorting, dismantling, reassembling anddisplaying, de Groot focuses not on recycling buton letting go; not on repurposing the objects buton looking at the choices and actions that surfacethrough what she calls “negativity” (what peoplediscard) or “positivity” (what they hold on to).Raphaëlle de Groot lives and works in Montréal,Canada. She holds an MA in visual andmedia arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal.She has received several grants from theCanada Council for the Arts and the Conseil desArts et des Lettres du Québec. In 2006, she wasawarded the Pierre-Ayot Prix d’excellence by theThe Burden of Objects (2009), a collaboration with Raphaëllede Groot; view of the Open Studio with objects donated by thecommunity [Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge AB, thruApr 26]City of Montréal and in 2008 she was a finalist for the 2008 Sobey Art Award. Her work has beenthe subject of several solo exhibitions in Canada and abroad. She often works within the frameworkof artist residencies, the most recent being in Italy between 2002 and 2004. Mia JohnsonPHOTO: RAPHAËLLE DE GROOTCoastal PeoplesFine Arts Gallery1024 Mainland St, Yaletown, 2ndLOCATION: 312 Water St, Gastown✆604-685-9298 604-684-9222www.coastalpeoples.comYaletown mon-sat 10am-7pm sun &holidays 11am-6pm, Gastown mon-sat10am-6pm sun & holidays 11am-5pm.Inuit Sculptures: from past to present,a composition of works from recognizedartists representing the CapeDorset and Baker Lake regions that willdemonstrate their distinctive and differentiatingstyles and mediums.Contemporary Art Gallery555 Nelson St ✆604-681-2700www.contemporaryartgallery.cawed-sun 12-6pm. Opening Apr 16Tim Gardner, solo show of watercoloursincorporating the Canadianlandscape; BGL, Jasmin Bilodeau,Sébastien Giguère and NicholasLaverdière, is an artist collectivebased in Québec City will bring the38 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009Balkind Gallery and the gallery’s streetfront windows together in a complexsculptural installation that comicallyreflects on the Canadian landscape.★ Craft Council of BC Gallery1386 Cartwright St, Granville Island✆604-687-7270 1-888-687-6511www.cabc.netGallery: daily 10:30am-5:30pm, Office:mon-fri 10am-5pm. Thru May 3 NancyAdams, Ken Gerberick, Tam Harrington,Gayle Koyanagi, Lorraine Kwan,Janet Lee, Launi Lucas, Luci Lytle,Eric Allen Montgomery, Robi Smith,Laura van der Linde, Linda Varro andDouglas Walker, “Transformation: ArtworksMade from Recycled Objects”;May 7-Jun 14 Anni Hunt, “Containment”,special vessels/containers forstoring secrets and memories.Diane Farris Gallery1590 W 7th Ave ✆604-737-2629www.dianefarrisgallery.comtues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pm.Apr 2-18 John Dennison, “TableauxPrintemps”, mixed media and pen andink on paper drawings explode withlayers of surrealist wit; Apr 23-May 9Wil Murray, “New Works”, acrylic andfoam on board, abstract multimediaassemblages thick with acrylic paint,spray foam, glitter, glazes and collagedsections of paint that extend inplaces out from the board three to fourinches; May 14-30 Fiona Ackerman,“A Harlequin Escapade”, oil on canvasand acrylic and pencil on paper, newwork exploring a world where visualcontradiction is celebrated in a controlledchaos of colour, pattern andgestural mark-making.Doctor Vigari Gallery1312 Commercial Dr✆604-255-9513mon-sat 11am-6pm sun 12am-5pm.Local and Canadian designed custom-madecontemporary furniture,home accessories, jewellery, glass,pottery and fine art.

Marleen VermeulenMay 27 - June 11, 2009"Energy", oil on canvas, 48" x 72", 2009Kurbatoff Gallery2427 Granville St. Vancouver BC 604-736-5444Exhibitions on-line: www.kurbatoffgallery.comDorian Rae Collection410 Howe St ✆604-874-6100www.dorianraecollection.common-sat 10am-6pm sun by appt. Thelongest established Asian and Africanethnographic gallery in Vancouver, featuringexceptional artefacts, statues,masks, ritual items, Buddhas, beads,tribal jewellery, textiles and antique furniture.Currently featuring a rare collectionof 14th to 19th centuries bronzeand wooden Buddha Images from Thailandand Myanmar.Douglas Reynolds Gallery2335 Granville St ✆604-731-9292www.douglasreynoldsgallery.common-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm. Specializingin museum quality NorthwestCoast art offering works by leadingNative artists including Bill Reid,Robert Davidson, Don Yeomans andBeau Dick, featuring carved woodmasks, bentwood boxes, totem poles,panels and hand crafted gold and silverjewellery, prints, baskets andbronze and glass edition works.★ Open late First Thursday ofevery month until 8pmDouglas Udell Gallery1558 W 6th Ave ✆604-736-8900www.douglasudellgallery.comtues-sat 10am-6pm. Thru Apr 11Michael Batty, “New Work”, newabstract paintings; Apr 18-May 2Spring Show, new acquisitions andnew work by gallery artists.Dundarave PrintWorkshop and Gallery1640 Johnston St, Granville Island✆604-689-1650 604-261-0402www.dundaraveprintworkshop.cawed-sun 11am-5pm. Thru Apr 19Marijke Nap, “small sins”, silkscreenedimages; Apr 20-May 17Paula Grasdal, monotypes and collagraphsexploring the intricate structuresof ancient sea life; May 18-Jun14 Andrea Taylor, “Characterizations”,new dry points, etchings andrelief prints.Eagle Spirit Gallery1803 Maritime Mews, Granville Island✆604-801-5205www.eaglespiritgallery.comdaily 11am-5pm, closed tues. Specializingin Northwest Coast and InuitFirst Nations art and featuring museumquality hand-carved masks, panels,bentwood boxes, totem poles,argillite, button blankets, glass sculptureand Inuit stone works.Eastwood Onley Gallery2075 Alberta St ✆604-739-0429web.mac.com/petereastwood/yukikoonley-gallerysee hours below and by appt. Apr 3-912-6pm Mariko Ando Spencer, “RabbitGravity”, collection of etchings;May 8-15 12-6pm Andrew Mark Firestone,“Vancouver: City of Neon &Glass”, digital fine art photography.★ Elissa Cristall Gallery2245 Granville St ✆604-730-9611www.CristallGallery.comtues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm, mon byappt. Thru Apr 4 Marcia Harris,“Kingdom”; Apr 16-May 10 JeroenWitvliet, “And All the King’s Men...”.Elliott Louis Gallery258 E 1st Ave ✆604-736-3282www.elliottlouis.comtues-sat 10am-6pm. Apr 7-25Andrew Tong, “So It Goes”, childrenfacing hostility, deception and desensitizationon a journey where the deswww.preview-art.comPREVIEW 39

© RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAMwww.vanartgallery.bc.caVermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art:Masterpieces from the RijksmuseumVANCOUVER ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – May 10-Sep 13, 2009 Vermeer, Rembrandt and theGolden Age of Dutch Art highlights the extraordinary works of art made by Dutch masters of the 17thcentury, a period known as the “Golden Age of the Netherlands”.The exhibit was organized by the Vancouver Art Galleryin collaboration with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. TheFrans Hals, Portrait of a Man, Possibly NicolaesHasselaer (1593-1635), Brewer and Captain-Major of a Military Body in Amsterdam, (c.1633-35), oil on canvas [Vancouver Art Gallery,May 10-Sep 13]Rijksmuseum is known for having the finest collection of 17thcentury Dutch art in the world.During this period, the emerging Dutch Republic quicklyreached unprecedented economic, political and culturalheights. The arts flourished as the Dutch people became infectedwith a devotion to personal objects of glamour and décor. Anew kind of civil society emerged, one largely run by and for itsProtestant mercantile burghers. The era saw an explosion ofportraiture for the middle class. Artists competed to create themost realistic still lifes, celebrated naturalism, used dramaticchiaroscuro and developed rich new painting techniques.The exhibition will feature major paintings and drawingsby all of the celebrated masters of the period such as AelbertCuyp, Gerard Dou, Franz Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacobvan Ruisdael, Gerard ter Borch and Johannes Vermeer, as wellas an extraordinary selection of decorative arts, including furniture,silver, glassware, porcelain and textiles. From Rembrandt’sdark and moody portraits to the popular blue-and-white china of the region, the exhibitshowcases a wealth of crafts as well as fine arts.tination in an adult world is increasinglyuncertain; May 5-23 BarbaraHeller, “Future Reliquaries”, eminenttapestry artist interprets sacred relics.Emily Carr UniversityAlumni Society600 Block Hamilton StQueen Elizabeth Theatre (betweenGeorgia and Dunsmuir)✆604-665-3050 604-418-1466www.ecuad.ca/about/alumni/activitiesOpen during theatre performances.THE MEZZANINE ART GALLERY Thru May 7Frances Ho (recent Emily Carr Universitygraduate), acrylic paintings oflandscapes inspired by her passionfor the Canadian West Coast, evolvedthrough a process of experimentationwithin the medium and play with theidea of what is real and unreal.★ English Bay Gallery101-1551 Johnston St✆604-688-3006 778-330-5000www.EnglishBayGallery.com11am-5pm. Ongoing Yoshi Yamamoto,photography; Bill Frampton, paintingand photo collage; other artistsTBA.Equinox Gallery2321 Granville St ✆604-736-2405www.equinoxgallery.comtues-sat 10am-5pm. Thru Apr 25Gathie Falk: You Are Here; Apr 28-May 16 The Estate of Jack Shadbolt.Exposure Gallery754 E Broadway✆604-688-9501 604-836-1412www.exposuregallery.cathurs-sun 12-5 pm. Apr 18-May 3Nocturne, group show on photographyafter dark; May 22-Jun 14Streets, group show on street photography.Federation Gallery1241 Cartwright St, Granville Island✆604-681-8534www.artists.catues-sun 10am-4pm. Apr 7-19 FCAMember Group Show, eclectic collectionof work from six established FCAartists ranging from figurative toabstract; Apr 21-May 3 Still Life,intriguing show comprised of purposefulcompositions capturing theinanimate off-guard; May 5-17Abstract Show, exploring abstractionfrom all angles and interests; May 19-Jun 7 Open Print Show, collection oforiginal prints ranging from etchings,intaglio, relief and serigraphs to handpulledlithographs.Framagraphic FramingGallery1116 W Broadway ✆604-738-0017www.framagraphic.common-fri 9:30am-6pm sat 10am-5pm.Specializing in contemporary Canadianand international limited editionprints and posters. Works availableby Alvar, Boulanger, Clarke,Delacroix, Dojer, Forsythe, Harrison,Hiscock, Isaac, Klar, Lively,McKnight, Munoz, Otsuka, Pradzynski,Michael Robinson, Sugiura,Tickner and Barb Wood.40 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

Gallery at HycroftUniversity Women’s Club of Vancouver1489 McRae Ave ✆604-731-4661www.uwcvancouver.caGallery viewing by appt. Apr 4-29 VernMontgomery, narrative paintings ofcheerful westcoast scenes both historicand everyday; Donna Polos,“Painted Threads”, watercolour-paintedcotton embellished with machineand hand stitching; Karen Paul, chainmailledesign jewellery in sterling silverand copper; May 2-27, Ellen Scobie,explores composition in photomontagesby reshaping landscapesusing pixels as she would ink or paint;Richard Scheib, one-of-a kind wearableart glass pendants and hand-firedbeads set in sterling silver.Gallery Gachet88 E Cordova St ✆604-687-2468www.gachet.orgwed-sun 12-6pm. Apr 3-26 SylviaKind, “wood wrap stone”, combiningphotographs, multiple wrapped andfelted natural objects, and groupings ofliving stones with seeds and growinggrass, this body of work plays with theprocesses of bereavement, loss,renewal and regeneration; May 8-31Jordan Massengale, “Sub-UrbanCommentaries”, figurative painting anddrawing by Florida-based artist considersnatural phenomenon such as lightand atmosphere as well as man-madefeatures in order to create narrative picturesthat oscillate between reality andfiction; Bryce Rasmussen, “GutterPunk Space Opera”, based on thethemes of the outsider, epic personalmyths populated with monsters,spaceships and bedraggled heroesfrom the alleys around town are filteredthrough a wonky lens.★ Gallery Jones1725 W 3rd Ave ✆604-714-2216www.galleryjones.comtues-fri 11am-6pm sat 12-5pm. Apr 2-25 Otto Rogers, “Recent Works”,abstract paintings which draw from avariety of influences from the landscape,to art history, to spiritual cognition;May 5-30 George Vergette, “NewWorks”.Gallery of B.C. Ceramics1359 Cartwright St, Granville Island✆604-669-3606www.galleryofbcceramics.comdaily 10am-5pm. Apr 4-30 Tam Irving,“Colour Fields”, continues toexplore the use of colour throughabstract and geometric progressions,drawing attention to the dynamics ofcolour, pattern and form; May 2-25Vincent Massey, “Families”, largescalepieces reflect Massey’s diverseinfluences with his passion for glazesbeing evident in every creation, earthyneutrals are juxtaposed with vibrantshades to stunning effect, while theelongated and distorted forms challengethe viewer.grace-gallery1898 Main St ✆604-839-5780www.grace-gallery.comwed-sat 1-5pm. An interdisciplinaryexhibition and performance spaceoffering a lab-like setting assistingartists in the development and presentationof new visual, performing,literary and media art by hostingexhibitions, workshops, lectures,performances and screenings aswell as publishing and disseminatingmaterials relevant toward thisaim; will strive to present an excitingschedule of contemporary art whilealso allowing space for communitybased events.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 41

I lend up to $500,000on Canadian fine art.Michael604 526 9725Greenery Florist & Gallery3735 W 10th Ave ✆604-688-2832www.greeneryflorist.common-fri 10am-5pm sat 11am-5pm.On display are the vibrant colours ofthe woodland style of Ojibway artagainst a lush background of freshflowers and orchid plants, featuringoriginal works by Mark AnthonyJacobson, Jim Oskineegish, BruceMorrisseau, Donald Peters andAndrew Bainbridge.grunt gallery116-350 E 2nd Ave ✆604-875-9516www.grunt.bc.cawed-sat 12-6pm. Apr 3-May 9 DmitryStrakovsky, “...as if a forest”, theinstallation will begin with a performanceon Apr 3 at 8pm. with a performanceof Strakovsky reading an IKEAlike10-step assembly set of instructionsto generate an aural experienceof a forest. Each step is “performed”and sampled via custom multi-channelsoftware, remixed and looped, thesounds will play through speakershung on vine-like cords throughoutthe exhibition space. A video of theperformance will be added for theduration of the exhibition.Havana Gallery1212 Commercial Dr ✆604-253-9119www.havanarestaurant.camon-thurs 11am-11pm fri 11am-midnightsat 10am-midnight sun 10am-11pm. Thru Apr 11 Bill Noy, “Breathe”,paintings and prints; Apr 12-25 ArleneByrne, “Coastal Blues”, oil on canvas;Apr 26-May 9 Richard Alm; May 10-23June Jocelyn, “Pandora’s Box”, oil oncanvas; May 24-Jun 6 Wendy Skroce,“Becoming Again”, oil paintings.Heffel Fine Art Auction House2247 Granville St ✆604-732-65051-800-528-9608 www.heffel.common-sat 10am-6pm. Apr 2-30 OnlineAuction, fine international art; May 7-28 Online Auction, fine Canadian art.Helen Pitt Gallery102-148 Alexander St ✆604-681-6740www.helenpittgallery.orgtues, thurs-sat 12-5pm, wed 1-7pm.Thru Apr 10 Claire Greenshaw, “AreYou Getting Smart With Me?”; WHOSEMUSEUM, ECUAD student exhibition;Apr 18-May 29 Raymond Boisjoly,Steve Hubert, Sara Mameni, IsabellePauwels and Ron Tran, “TranscontinentalDivide”.Hodnett Fine Art StudioGallery320-1000 Parker St✆604-876-7606 604-618-0824www.noelhodnett.com`mon-fri 10am-4pm or by special appt.Apr 2-May 29 “spring”, group exhibitionfeaturing work by Noel Hodnett,Thomasin Dewhurst, Richard Bond,Anton Chapman, Margie Britz, CarlBecker, Jonathan Cook and LaszloGeorge.Howe Street Gallery of FineArt + The Soul of AfricaCollection555 Howe St ✆604-681-5777www.howestreetgallery.common-sat 10:30am-6pm sun 12-6pm.Apr-May Coplu, “New Paintings”;Edgardo Lantin, Kindrie Grove andXu Min, “New Paintings”; Soul ofAfrica Collection, Zimbabwe sculpture,new rare verdite busts.Ian Tan Gallery2202 Granville St ✆604-738-1077www.iantangallery.common-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm.Thru Apr 9 Glenn Payan, “for all ofus”, paintings; Apr 18-May 7 John42 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

ROBERT JESS MARSHALLNorthern Beauty, 36" x 48", acrylic on canvasSoft WindsApril 1 to May 31, 2009MARILYN S. MYLREA ART GALLERY2341 Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6H 3G4 • 604-736-2450 • www.marilynmylrea.com • mmylrea@telus.netBeder, paintings; Madeleine Wood,“Tropicana”, paintings; May 23-Jun 11Erika Toliusis, “Inner light”, paintings.Inuit Gallery of Vancouver206 Cambie St, Gastown✆604-688-7323 1-888-615-8399www.inuit.common-sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-5pm.Thru Apr 10 Arctic Wildlife, over 30stone sculptures by Inuit artists fromCape Dorset, Baker Lake, Arviat andArctic Quebec illustrating the abundantwildlife that shares the land with theInuit; Apr 25-May 15 Baker LakePrints and Sculpture, special collectionof colourful Inuit prints producedfrom1972-1990 in Baker Lake whichno longer produces an annual collection,also showing a collection of stonesculptures by many of the wellknownartists of the region.JACANA Gallery2435 Granville St ✆604-879-9306www.jacanagallery.comtues-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm. Apr2-26 Veronica Plewman, “Cycle”,coastal rivers and the cyclical journey ofsalmon explored in a series of canvasesthat push toward abstraction; Apr 30-May 24 Stev’nn Hall, “Transformation”,photo-based mixed media worksconsider the connection between landscapeand memory; May 28-Jun 21Cybele Ironside, “Gateway”, ethereallandscapes.Jennifer Kostuik Gallery1070 Homer St ✆604-737-3969www.kostuikgallery.comtues wed sat 10am-6pm, thurs fri10am-8pm sun 1-5pm. Apr 2-26Dianne Bos, “Light Older than Wine”,pin-hole photograph; Apr 4 2-4pm“Artists’ Talk”.★ Jeunesse Galleryof Fine Arts2668 W 4th Ave ✆604-737-2438www.jeunessegallery.common-sun 10am-6pm. Thru Apr IrinaAza, “Whimsical tales”, oil paintings;Thru May Peter Daniels, new watercolourand oil works.Jewish Museum & Archivesof British Columbia300-950 W 41st Ave ✆604-257-5199www.jewishmuseum.casun-thurs 10am-5pm. Ongoing TheTies That Bind, a history of the JewishCommunity of B.C. from 1858 tothe present; May 6-Jan 2010 Vancouver:Bridging its History.Joyce Williams AntiquePrints & Maps114-1118 Homer St, Yaletown✆604-688-7434www.jwprintsandmaps.comtues-sat 11am-5pm. Offering a largeselection of antique maps, Japanesewoodblock prints, botanical, architectural,natural history, decorative andfine art prints from the 16th-20th centuries;Featuring Charles van Sandwyk,etchings and watercolours andLionel Thomas, etchings.Kurbatoff Gallery2427 Granville St ✆604-736-5444www.kurbatoffgallery.comtue-sat 10:30am-5:30pm sun 12-5pm. Thru Apr “New Works byGallery Artists”, William Allister,Donna Baspaly, Verne Busby, ChrisCharlebois, Katherine Jeans, BrittaniFaulkes, Jutta Kaiser, EvaKolacz, Chris Langstroth, JoelMasewich, Bella Totino, Ian Varney,Marleen Vermeulen, Verna Vogel,Kathleen Weich, Bill West (photogwww.preview-art.comPREVIEW 43

Fiona Ackerman Wil Murray John DennisonJohn Dennison: Tableaux PrintempsApril 2 - 18Wil Murray: New WorksApril 23 - May 9Fiona Ackerman: A Harlequin EscapadeMay 14 - 30View exhibitions online atdianefarrisgallery.com1590 W. 7th AvenueVancouver, B.C.Canada V6J 1S2Tel. 604-737-2629Fax 604-737-2675www.dianefarrisgallery.comart@dianefarrisgallery.com

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aphy), Ann Zielinski, sculpture byStephen Booth, Andrew Benyei andReinhard Skoracki; May 28-Jun 11Marleen Vermeulen, textured oil oncanvas of impressionistic landscapesdepicting the natural beauty of theWest Coast.Langara CollegeFine Arts Department100 W 49th Ave, Main Foyer✆604-323-5316 www.langara.bc.camon-fri 8am-9pm sat & sun 9am-7pm. Apr 24-30 2009 Fine Arts Students’Exhibition, new generation ofartists in painting, sculpture, drawing,design, ceramics, printmaking andnew media.Lattimer Gallery1590 W 2nd Ave ✆604-732-4556www.lattimergallery.common-sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-5pmholidays 12-5pm. Celebrating 23years as a gallery specializing inNorthwest Coast Native Art. May 23-Jun 13 Contemporary CoastalReflections II, graduation exhibitionfeaturing works by 19 students of theNEC Northwest Coast Jewellery ArtsProgram. A catalogue is available.Lawrence Eng1531 W 4th Ave ✆604-730-2875www.lawrenceeng.comtues-sat 12-5pm and by appt. ThruMay 2 Bani Abidi, Srinivasa Prasad,Sreshta Premnath and AvinashVeeraraghavan, “Contemporary ArtFrom India”; May 9-Jun 20 AaronCarpenter.Leighdon Studio Gallery190 W 3rd Ave✆604-875-0029 604-926-8477www.leighdon.catues-sat 10am-2pm sun & mon byappt. Apr 1-30 Pauulet Hohn, LawrieDignan, Alex Walton, Aimee Perez,Karen Moe, Sacha Santillana, BrianRomer, Sarah Groves, Nancy Lord,Patrick Sullivan and Jane Richardson;May 5-30 Kat Cruickshank, NicolaMorgan, Cecile vanWoensel, JenniferLee and Christy MacDougall.LI-ZHI Gallery1091 Hornby St ✆604-683-9656www.lizhigallery.common-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 12-5pmand by appt. Apr 6-25 Li-Zhi Luo, oilon canvas series; Apr 27-May 9 HaiJiang, oil on canvas series; May 11-31 Li-Zhi Luo, ink on paper series.LindaLando Fine Art2001 W 41st Ave ✆604-266-6010www.lindalandofineart.comtues-sat 10am-5pm. Apr 9-25Leonard Cohen Artworks, available atat the gallery for the next two years,limited edition permanent pigment inkprints by poet, songwriter and novelistLeonard Cohen – a visual record of 40years from his archive of drawingsand journals, including self-portraits,portraits of various women and stilllifes; Thru May Showing gallery artistsCoral Barclay, Ann-Marie Brown,Joe Coffey, Diana Zoe Coop, PeterCorbett, Jan Crawford, MarciaDevicque, Katherine Farris, TomGale, Elene Gamache, Robert Genn,Graham Herbert, Susan Hetherington,David Ladmore, Lori-AnnLatremouille, Lissi Legge, CatherineMoffat, Suzanne Northcott, Neil Patterson,Ron Parker, Janice Robertson,Yves Schmidt, Marni Sheppardand Deborah Worsfold, also available,paintings by historical Canadian masters,Group of Seven, Canadian Groupof Painters and others.Malaspina Printmakers1555 Duranleau St, Granville Island✆604-688-1724www.malaspinaprintmakers.comtues-fri 10am-5pm sat-sun 11am-5pm. Thru May 3 Aysegul Izer andEmre Senan; May 5-Jun 14 JadeYumang, “Hard Candy”.★ Marilyn S. Mylrea Gallery2341 Granville St ✆604-736-2450www.marilynmylrea.comwed-sun 12-5pm or by appt. ThruMay 31 “Soft Winds”, a contemporarygroup exhibition featuring the wonderof nature and spirituality with tranquilabstract landscapes by Marilyn S.Mylrea, shimmering textural landscapesby Robert Jess Marshall, sensualabstracts and flowers by DaleKeys, and exquisite white Italianalabaster sculptures by Kurt Stachow.Marion Scott Gallery308 Water St, Gastown✆604-685-1934www.marionscottgallery.comtues-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 11am-5pm.Thru Apr 26 Edward Epp, “MysticNorth: Paintings from Northern British46 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

VICTORIA GALLERIESALCHERINGA GALLERYContemporary Aboriginal Art:Canadian Northwest Coast,Papua New Guinea, Australia,Torres Strait665 FORT STREET250-383-8224OPEN 7 DAYSwww.alcheringa-gallery.comVIEW ART GALLERY"Interface"An exhibition of paintingsby Elizabeth BarnesApril 17 – May 16Artist Reception April 24104-860 VIEW STREET250-213-1162www.viewartgallery.caPETER MORINSILAS HALUAIJACK SHADBOLT ELIZABETH BARNESOPEN SPACEPeter Morin: 12 Making ObjectsInstallation & Performance Piecesat various locationsMay 16 – June 25, 2009510 FORT STREET250-383-8833www.openspace.caWINCHESTERGALLERIESJack Shadbolt: Selected Works on PaperApril 5-25, 20092260 OAK BAY AVENUE250-595-2777 • TOLL-FREE 1-888-591-2777TUES-SAT 10-5:30PMwww.winchestergalleriesltd.com

www.lawrenceeng.comBani Abidi, Srinivasa Prasad, Sreshta Premnath andAvinash Veeraraghavan: Contemporary Art From IndiaLAWRENCE ENG GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Mar 27-May 2, 2009 Lawrence Eng introduces fourartists represented by Gallery Ske in Bangalore. Their work with new media emphasizes contemporaryartmaking as a global activity with a global audience.Pakistani artist Bani Abidi uses video to examineissues of identity and how identity forms alonglinguistic and cultural lines. Her videos are inspiredby her background as a Muslim woman, the historyof Pakistan and India's partition, global politics,and the influence of international film. Abidiearned her MA at the Art Institute of Chicago. Sherecently participated in the Third Fukuoka AsianArt Triennial at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum,Japan. Bani Abidi lives in Karachi and New Delhi.Bangalore-based artist Srinivasa Prasad’s Payanais an installation of objects covered with gunnySrinivasa Prasad, Untitled (Payana) (2009), ink-jet onarchival lustre paper [Lawrence Eng Gallery, Vancouver BC,Mar 27-May 2]sack and photographs of the artist with a large bullockcart. The work is based on an earlier performancepiece that used the antique two-wheel carriageladen with old household chattel as a metaphor forthe artist’s travels between locations. Prasad holds a BFA and MFA in sculpture, and has participatedin numerous artists’ residencies and workshops internationally.Sreshta Premnath creates collages of Internet imagery that emphasize the perception of the Eastby people living in the West. His works illuminate our longing for the “exotic” even though, as heputs it, we are simultaneously crippled by our fear of it. In addition to digital photo-prints, Premnath’swork has included multi- channel video installations, 16 mm film, performance art and siteinstallations. He has exhibited in India, Scotland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Oregonamong other numerous locations.In Gate Crash, Avinash Veeraraghavan has created heavily collaged images that conjure up differentrealities in their layers. They provide tantalizing glimpses of their themes, yet remain visuallyelusive. They are described as “psychic shimmers devoid of narrative, but derived from the images ofthe flotsam and jetsam of everyday lives.” A video piece entitled Hurricane provides backgroundlaughter in combination with snippets of Bach. Veeraraghavan’s artwork has become progressivelymore complex in the past five years. Mia JohnsonColumbia”, landscape paintings evocativeof BC’s majestic northwest; May 2-31 Arnaqu Ashevak, Kenojuak Ashevak,Shuvinai Ashoona, KavavaowMannomee, Annie Pootoogook andTim Pitsiulak, “Narrative: ContemporaryInuit Prints from Cape Dorset”, 20prints explore the narrative impulsebehind much of contemporary Inuit art.Monny’s Art Gallery2675 W 4th Ave ✆604-733-2082monny@shaw.camon-sat 11am-6pm. This gallery oflong-time collector, Monny, has a permanentcollection of artwork, as wellas rotating exhibitions of local artists:Andrea Gower, Kerensa Haynes, TedHesketh, Sonia Kobrahel and StanimirStoylov.Monte Clark Gallery2339 Granville St ✆604-730-5000www.monteclarkgallery.comtues-sat 10am-6pm. Apr 9-May 2Douglas Coupland, “Mom and Dad”;May 7-Jun 6 Derek Root, “Curtainsfor the Bunker”.Morris and Helen Belkin ArtGalleryUniversity of British Columbia1825 Main Mall ✆604-822-2759www.belkin.ubc.catues-fri 10am-5pm sat & sun 12-5pmclosed holidays. Thru Apr 19 “ACTION– CAMERA: BEIJING PERFORMANCEPHOTOGRAPHY”, featuring Ai Weiwei,Cang Xin, Dai Guangyu, the GaoBrothers (Gao Zheng and Gao Qiang),Han Bing, He Yunchang, HeChengyao, Hong Hao, Li Wei, MaLiuming, RongRong, Wang Qingsong,Xing Danwen, Zhang Huan andZhu Ming, 60 photographs that delveinto the trajectory of performance photography,from its beginnings documentingunderground, live performancesto the present that involves stagingactions specifically for the camera,an aspect of performance art that is48 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

prominent in mainland China and inparticular Beijing’s ‘East Village’; May1-Jun 21 Jack Shadbolt – Underpinnings.Works from the Collection,over 100 drawings, sketches andarchival materials from the 1930s tothe1980s reveal Shadbolt’s technicalapproach to large-scale work; WALTERC. KOERNER LIBRARY, UBC, MAIN FLOOR,1958 MAIN MALL, mon-fri 8am-11pmsat & sun 10am-11pm Thru May 10Lorna Brown: Threshold (Cont.d),video installation, part of an ongoinginquiry she began in 2000, placed inthe context of a university library.Museum of AnthropologyUniversity of British Columbia6393 NW Marine Dr✆604-822-3825 604-822-2974www.moa.ubc.caWinter Mar 8-May 14: tues 10am-9pmwed-sun 10am-5pm, Summer May 15-Oct 12: daily 10am-5pm tues 10am-9pm. Admission: adults $12 students +seniors 65+ $10 UBC staff, students +faculty free with ID, family $30, childrenunder 6 free. tues 5-9pm $6, groupsincluded. Book in advance for grouprates & guided tours. Thru Sep GALLERY3 Mark Adams, “TATAU: Samoan Tattooingand Global Culture”, contemporarysignificance of Samoan tattoo traditionsfeaturing over 40 photographsby distinguished New Zealand artistAdams; John Marston (Coast Salish),“ehhwe’p syuth (To Share History)”,panel installation accompanied byexcerpts from ‘Killer Whale and Crocodile’,documentary about Marston’sjourney to Papua, New Guinea where hemet and was inspired by Sepik carverTeddy Balangu to carve this work.Numen Gallery120-1058 Mainland St, Yaletown✆604-630-6927www.numengallery.comtues-sat 11am-6pm or by appt. ThruApr 25 Marie Bartolotto, stone sculpturesby new gallery artist; Eva Hönig,new paintings; Apr 28-Jun 20 DarrellOike, “Reassembling the Sacred”, aninstallation of pit-fired clay spheres andmandalas inspired by Hindu and Buddhistsacred geometry and patterns.★ Nyree Hazelton Arts2652 Arbutus St ✆604-742-1335www.nyreehazeltonarts.catues-fri 11am-5pm sat 12-5pm sun byappt. May 6-27 “Pre-Auction Sale”, awide range of original museum qualityartworks by Emily Carr, A.Y. Jackson,Laura Muntz, Jack Shadbolt andmany more.Omega Gallery4290 Dunbar St ✆604-732-6778www.omegagallery.catues-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-4pm.Thru Apr 12 Debi MacKinnon, "TheColourist", acrylic on canvas, anexploration of colour and its emotionalimpact on the individual; Apr 16-May 14 Stuart Clugston, "Endurance",black and white photography; May17-31 There is an Artist in EveryChild, paintings, drawings and printsfrom Grades 1-7 students of St.George's School in Vancouver.On The Rise ArtistCollective2231 Granville St www.ontheriseac.catues-sat 10am-6pm. Apr 2-18 ZoePawlak, “Art Market”, recent landscapeand abstract paintings byemerging Canadian painter; Apr 23-26Group Exhibition, “I’m Fine, You’reFine”, 15 artists respond to climatechange focusing on global warming,displaced people, loss of habitat andwww.preview-art.com PREVIEW 49

other topics related to our changingenvironment. Events throughout theweekend include talks by artists andexperts in the field.Or Gallery555 Hamilton St ✆604-683-7395www.orgallery.orgtues-sat 12-5pm. Thru Apr 18 LutzBacher, Drakkar Sauna, Heather andIvan Morison, Oscar Tuazon and JordanWolfson, “Of vagrant dwellers inthe houseless woods “, internationalartists dealing with the politics oflandscape and subject matter pertainingto the notion of Vancouver as‘lotusland’; Apr 25-May 30 TacitaDean, Leslie Grant and Al Bersch,David Horvitz and Donald Lawrence,“The Wild So Close”, part 3 in a seriesreflecting critically on notions ofnature and landscape.★ Pendulum Galleryin the Atrium885 W Georgia St, HSBC Building✆604-879-7714www.pendulumgallery.bc.camon-wed 9am-5pm thur-fri 9am-9pm sat 9am-5pm. Thru Apr 4 Japanin Canada, historical and documentaryphotographs examine the Japanese/Canadianrelationship over thepast 80 years; May 10-23 MilanBasic, graffiti-inspired painting incorporatingelements of portraiture, anime,photo-realism and surrealism.Peter Kiss Studio and Gallery1327 Railspur Alley, Granville Island✆604-696-0433 www.peterkiss.comtues-sun 10:30am-6pm. A constantlychanging collection of 2-, 2 1 /2- and 3-Dartwork that combines social commentary,wit, humour, colour and wood.Petley Jones Gallery2235 Granville St✆604-732-5353 1-888-732-5353www.petleyjones.common-sat 10am-6pm. Apr 4-25 DarrellUnderschultz and Lynda Kirby,“Arcadia Revisited”, acrylic on canvas;May 2-23 Duncan Regehr,“Helm”, sculpture.Rendezvous Art Gallery323 Howe St ✆604-687-7466www.rendezvousartgallery.common-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 11am-5pm. Ongoing Featuring the work ofgallery painters and sculptors includingCraig Yeats, Ron Hedrick, BergeChristos Dikeakos, Window View, OlympicVillage, Main Street (2009), photograph[Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC,thru Apr 25]Missakian, Paul Paquette, DanutaRogula, Patrick Chi-Ming Leung,Rick Bond, Nancy Lucas, PeterHolmes, Angelica Montero, GretaGuzek, Sharon Danhelka, ShirleyThompson, Jane Armstrong, AmandaJones, David Edwards, MaruoCelotti, Rod Charlesworth, MaryTouhey and Dale Dumas as well asseveral Quebec artists. Sculptorsinclude David Clancy, Greg Metz, LyleSopel, Betty Sager, Shannon Ravenhall,Michael Lord and Gerda Lattey.Also showing Inuit sculptures.Republic Gallery732 Richards St, 3rd Flr✆604-632-1590www.republicgallery.comthurs-sat 11am-4pm and by appt.Thru Apr 23 Hamed Teymouri; Apr24-May 28 Antonia Hirsch; May 29-Jul 3 Gwenessa Lam.Robinson Studio Gallery440-1000 Parker St ✆604-254-8744www.robinsonstudio.comtues & fri 10am-5pm and by appt. Thegallery will be an ongoing local venueby which consultants, art dealers andindividual collectors may view thework of Canadian sculptor DavidRobinson. The gallery is also availablefor artwork and location rental.★ Sidney and Gertrude ZackGalleryJewish Community Centre950 W 41st Ave ✆604-638-7277604-257-5111 ext. 244www.jccgv.com/home/cultural_art.htmmon-thurs 8:30am-10:30pm fri8:30am-6pm sun 9am-9pm. Thru Apr19 Shelley Freedman, “Revelations”,paintings where abstract shapes graduallyresolve into meaningful objects;Apr 23-May 17 Kris Borowski: A Retrospective,paintings include landscapesand seascapes inspired by the beauty ofthe west coast of B.C., figurative workand abstract compositions which highlightbrilliant colour combinations andlarge uninhibited brush strokes; May21-Jun 14 Jocelyne Hallé, “Up Closeand Personal”, photographs inspire theviewer to observe nature more closelyand with a sense of awe.Spirit Wrestler Gallery47 Water St, Gastown✆604-669-8813www.spiritwrestler.common-sat 10am-6pm sun & holidays12-5pm. Thru Apr 11 Woven andSewn in Time: Traditional Containersin a Modern World, group exhibitionof more than 30 contemporary artistsfeaturing baskets, bowls and sculpturalcontainers from Northwest Coast,Alaskan, Inuit and Maori artists; OngoingFeaturing museum-quality artworkfrom three cultures: First Nations ofthe Pacific Northwest Coast, Inuit ofthe Canadian Arctic and Maori ofAotearoa (New Zealand).Studio 13 Fine Art1315 Railspur Alley, Granville Island✆604-731-0068www.studio13fineart.comthurs-mon 11am-5pm or by appt.Contemporary and West Coast paintingsby Alice Rich and Sandy Kay.Visit the artists in their unique workingstudio and gallery.Studio Dieter Schlatter304-1701 Powell St ✆604-215-0416www.dieter-schlatter.comby appt. Mixed media paintings/barbed wire and steel sculptures.Tanya SlingsbyGallery Atelier117 E 2nd Ave✆604-874-1274 604-782-6604www.tanyaslingsby.comby appt. Tanya Slingsby Atelier is a2,000 square foot studio galleryexhibiting abstract works by theartist. Exhibitions, receptions and artrelated events are by invitation, contactthe Atelier for more information.Teck Gallery and SimonFraser University GalleryTECK GALLERY: 515 W Hastings St,SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY GALLERY:AQ 3004, 8888 University Dr, Burnaby✆604-291-426 www.sfu.ca/gallerySFU GALLERY hours: tues-fri 10am-50 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

5pm sat 12-5pm, TECK GALLERY hours:open daily during campus hours.SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY GALLERY Apr25-Jun 27 The Insurance Man: Kafkain the Penal Colony, an installationthat metaphorically constructs Kafka’spunishment apparatus in a roomfilled with Kafka-era portraits, books,objects, sounds and related textmaterial; TECK GALLERY Thru May 10Black Communities in BritishColumbia, 1858-2008, 21 postershighlighting the history of the ‘BlackPioneers’ from San Francisco whoarrived in Victoria in 1858, concurrentwith the creation of the Crown colonyof British Columbia; May 17-Aug 28David Wisdom: Vancouver 1970 to1975, prints made from the legendarycolour slides shot by a key member ofthe burgeoning 1970s Vancouver artscene, depicting Vancouver to be aquirky, personality-laden town thathad nowhere to go but up.Toni Onley Archive105-1529 W 6th Ave✆604-261-8557 604-324-2931www.tonionley.comby appt. Toni Onley (1928-2004),landscape watercolours, oil paintings,abstract collages and mixed mediaworks from the Estate collection. Thedocumentary “Landscape Revealed,The Art of Toni Onley” can now beviewed on the website.Unitarian Church ofVancouver949 W 49th Ave ✆604-261-7204www.vcn.bc.ca/unitarian/Call 604-261-7204 for hours. ThruApr 5 Judy Villett, “Cherry BlossomSuite”, fabric art creations; Apr 5-May3 Althea Rowe, landscapes in oil;May 4-Jun 7 Youth Art Show, mixedmedia.Uno Langmann Limited2117 Granville St✆604-736-8825 1-800-730-8825www.langmann.comtues-sat 10am-5pm or by appt. Apr“Les Animaux”, sporting picturesfrom the 19th century, cast in bronzeor painted on canvas, the detaileddepiction of animals captured a newsense of realism and veracity, artistsinclude François van Severdonck,Pierre Jules Mene, Paul E. Delabrierre,Charles Jones, Frederick Vernerand Eugene Verboeckhoven; May“Identity through Nature”, 19th andearly 20th Century Canadian artistsused their medium to unify the vastnation by creating an identity basedon the overwhelming influence of thenatural surroundings, artists includeJohn A. Hammond, Manly MacDonald,Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith,Peleg Franklin Brownell, Charles E.de Belle and Berth des Clayes;Ongoing Rotating selection of museumquality paintings, objets d’art andantiques from Europe and NorthAmerica.★ Vancouver Art Gallery750 Hornby St ✆604-662-4719(24-hr info line) 604-662-4700www.vanartgallery.bc.cadaily 10am-5:30pm, tues & thurs10am-9pm. SPECIAL ADMISSION PRICESMAY 9-SEP 30: Adults $20.50, seniors$16, students $15, children 5-12 $7,children 4 and under free, family(maximum 2 adults, 2 children) $50(incl tax): REGULAR ADMISSION PRICESAdults $17.50, seniors $13, students$12, children 5-12 $7, children 4 andunder free, family (maximum 2adults, 2 children) $47, tues pay whatyou can. Thru Apr 19 Legacies ofwww.preview-art.com PREVIEW 51

www.republicgallery.comAntonia Hirsch: AnthropometricsREPUBLIC GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Apr 24-May 28, 2009 A new exhibit of work by Germanbornartist Antonia Hirsch features her Anthropometrics Volume I & Volume II (2004-2009) comprisedof photographs with a book on the series.Hirsch is known for conceptual pieces that examine ourmental models of the world (for example, through maps) andour beliefs about units of measurement. Her work is neitherscientific nor commercial, although she adopts the visual languageof both.For Anthropometrics, she photographed primitive gesturesof communication made by her subjects with their hands,arms and bodies to indicate the size or length of variousmeasurements. Her intent is to catalogue the informal butconventional gestures we use in common. The suite of lifesizecolour photographs in Volume I was reproduced as sixscreen-printed posters that appeared across Vancouver inofficial and unofficial locations for three months in 2006. Thedisplay on the windows of the Vancouver Public LibraryView of posters on Hastings Street, Vancouver BCfor Anthropometrics I [Republic Gallery,Vancouver BC, Apr 24-May 28]emphasized notions of public ownership, free speech andassembly.Hirsch has lived in Canada since 1994. Since 1997, shehas participated in numerous group exhibitions from London,Glasgow and Lisbon to Germany, Turkey and Taiwan, and she has done residencies in Banff,Winnipeg, Finland, Paris and Berlin. Her works are in the collections of such institutions as the ArtBank, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery; New York Public Library; Yale University Collection of RareBooks; V&A National Art Library; and the Tate Galley Library. Mia JohnsonImpressionism in Canada: 3 Exhibitions,paintings, with a focus on Quebecartist Maurice Cullen and his fellowQuebec painters; Thru May 3 HowSoon is Now: Contemporary ArtFrom Here, a survey of new work currentlybeing produced in the provinceof B.C.; Thru May 10 EnactingAbstraction, considers the ideas andformal strategies of abstract art fromthe early 20th century to its most contemporaryforms, revealing the principletenets of abstraction; Thru May18 Western Landscapes: Emily Carr,E.J. Hughes, Ann Kipling, GordonSmith, works that take B.C.’s landscapeas their subject using remarkablydifferent approaches; May 6-Sep20 Reece Terris, “Ought Apartment”,Terris will create a more than 60-fthigh architecture installation for theGallery’s rotunda, focusing on theevolution of domestic space in Vancouverover the last six decades; May10-Sep 13 Vermeer, Rembrandt andthe Golden Age of Dutch Art: Masterpiecesfrom the Rijksmuseum,works by Dutch Masters of the 17thcentury, featuring major paintingsand drawings by all of the celebratedmasters; May 30-Sep 20 AndreasGursky, “WerkeWorks 80-08”, overviewof work including more than 150photographs drawn from all periodsof Gursky’s practice including sevenlarge scale new works; May 30-Sep 7Anthony Hernandez, approximately40 early black-and-white imagesalong with colour works from themid-1980s capturing the spaces,people and streets of LA by celebratedLos Angeles-based photographer;May 30-Sep 13 Stan Douglas, “Klatsassin”,video and photo installationpresents a non-linear narrative of theevents that initiated the Chilcotin War,included are location photographs aswell as a black and white portrait photographsof the video’s principal characters;Two Visions: Emily Carr andJack Shadbolt, paintings and workson paper from the Gallery’s collectionon the occasion of the 100th anniversaryof Jack Shadbolt’s birthday,compares and contrasts artwork byCarr and Shadbolt.Vancouver Maritime Museum1905 Ogden Ave (in Vanier Park)✆604-257-8300www.vancouvermaritimemuseum.comtues-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm.Admission: $10 adults, $7.50 studentsand seniors, $25 family, 5 andunder free. Meltdown: Oceans Reactto Global Warming, provides a new“oceans” perspective that offers afresh look at climate change. Visitorswill better understand the fundamentalsof global warming, explore itsimpact on the oceans, the Arctic andland environments and will findmeaningful solutions to encouragechange; Chart Attack!, Stories ofB.C.’s coast and beyond as told by therare and antique nautical charts that‘map out’ the history of B.C. with afocus on the maritime community inand around Metro Vancouver.★ Vancouver Museum1100 Chestnut St ✆604-736-4431www.vanmuseum.bc.catues-sun 10am-5pm thurs 10am-7pm.Admission: adults $11, seniors & stu-52 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

dents $9, youth 5-17 $7, children 4and under free, family (2 adults & 2youth) $32. Ongoing Vancouver HistoryGalleries, tell Vancouver’s storiesfrom the early 1900s to the late ‘70s.Vancouver’s young, confident andaffluent golden years that ended with abust and a major war are showcased inGateway to the Pacific and Boom,Bust and War, followed by The 50’sGallery and You Say You Want a RevolutionGallery depicting the prosperousand tumultuous post-war era.Western Front Gallery303 E 8th Ave ✆604-876-9343www.front.bc.catues-sat 12-5pm. Apr 11-May 16 ElizabethZvonar, “There Are No Rules”,sculptures made out of clusters of fingers,using compositions found in a1972 edition of HW Jansen’s ‘ArtThrough The Ages’, oscillate betweenfigurative and abstraction, the sculpturesresemble both, resulting inorganic, baroque aesthetic objetsd’art; May 23-Jun 27 Ian Skedd, “SignSinging: Love Will Tear Us Apart, JoyDivision 1979, Deaf Choir, 2008”,commissioned project features a collaborationwith a deaf choir to create asigned interpretation of British postpunkband Joy Division’s “Love WillTear Us Apart” (1979), an anthem forthe post-punk generation, a threechannelvideo installation.★ Winsor Gallery3025 Granville St ✆604-681-4870www.winsorgallery.common-sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-5pm.Apr 8-May 3 Tiko Kerr, “You AreHere”, landscape and figurative worksdrawing attention to Vancouver’shousing crisis; Patrick Hughes,“Reverspectives”, illusory and evermorphinglandscapes challenge theviewer; May 7-31 Gary Pearson, newworks in oil; Chris Jordan, “Runningthe Numbers”, photographs of newworks from ongoing series by Seattle-basedJordan.The Wood Co-op Gallery11-1666 Johnston StNEW LOCATION ✆604-408-2553www.thewoodco-op.comdaily 10am-7pm. Reopened in a newlocation in the Net Loft, The Wood CoopGallery is Vancouver’s premiershowcase for quality hand-craftedwooden objects - from jewellery tobowls to furniture. We feature theunique work of over 150 of B.C.’smost celebrated wood artisans anddesigners.Yaletown Gallery123-1208 Homer St ✆604-687-2787778-808-2627www.yaletowngallery.comwed-sat 1-9pm sun 1-6pm. Apr Jabbaral Janabi, painting; May DanDriediger, photography.VERNONAshpa Naira Gallery &Studio9492 Houghton Rd ✆(250)549-4249www.ashpanairagallery.comopen May 1-Oct 15 fri-sun 10am-6pmor by appt. Located in Killiney on thewest side of Okanagan Lake, this contemporaryart gallery and studio,owned by artist Carolina Sanchez deBustamante, features original art in ahome and garden setting. Discover adiverse group of emerging and establishedOkanagan and Canadian artistsin painting, textiles, sculptures andceramics.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 53

Conservator’s CornerI can see clearly now – or can I?BY REBECCA PAVITTWWW.FINEARTCONSERVE.COMYou've got the art, it's fit to be framed, you've chosen the moulding and matting to set it offperfectly – you're good to go. Hold on, back up the bus, you've forgotten the glass!Not so long ago, there were limited choices for picture frame glazing: float glass, non-glarefloat glass, and acrylic. The choices were pretty straightforward. Times have changed, and there isnow a variety of options available. The purpose of this article is to help consumers sort throughthe many products on the market, so that they can make the right choice for the right reasons. Inthis, first of a two-part article, glass options will beexplored.Float glass often has a green tinge caused by ironimpurities, blocks less than half of ultraviolet lightand, depending on the location of the light source,reflects about 8% of visible light back at you as glare.Non-glare glass is etched on one side so thatreflected light is scattered in different directionsrather than bouncing directly back at the viewer.Etching, however, gives the glass a foggy appearanceTru Vue glass sampleswhich can obscure the underlying artwork.In the 1980s a new, very exciting line of glassmade just for artworks was marketed by Denglas. Its products included clear float glass which didnot distort colour, anti-reflective coating to reduce glare without obscuring the art, and UV filteringcoating. Denglas is no longer produced; Tru Vue now makes almost all of the high-end pictureframing glass.TRU VUE GLASS PRODUCTS• All of their glass is clear float (no coloured tinges).• Their UV filtering coatings block 99% UV rays between 300 and 380 nm.• Anti-reflective coatings on float glass increase UV filtration to 78% (not considered"conservation grade")• Anti-reflective coatings show fingerprints easily, so are best handled with gloves and cleanedwith microfibre cloths spritzed with rubbing alcohol.• Available in sheets up to 40 x 60 inches.Museum Glass: UV filtering coating on one side, and glare reduction coating on both sides.AR Reflection-Free: Glare reduction coating on both sides.Conservation Clear: UV filtering coating on one side.Premium Clear: No coatings. 45% UV blocked, as with regular float glass.Conservation Reflection Control: UV filtering coating and etched surface on one side.Reflection Control: Etched surface on one side.Almost everyone agrees that Museum Glass is a lovely product that is virtually invisible.When cost is not a consideration, it is the product of choice. Its appearance (or lack of thereof!)is so good, that many museums and art galleries use it to frame oils and acrylics to protect themfrom environmental damage without compromising aesthetics. For situations where glare is aproblem and budget a concern, Tru Vue makes etched glass. The characteristic fogged appearanceincreases the further the glass is from the art, so this etched glass is not a good choice for deeplymatted items, or shadowboxes.Conservator’s Corner articles are archived on-line at: www.preview-art.com.NEXT ISSUE: Acrylic Picture Framing Products.54 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009

Vernon Public Art Gallery3228 31st Ave ✆(250)545-3173www.galleries.bc.ca/vernonmon-fri 10am-5pm sat 11am-4pm.Thru May 1 Okanagan Print Triennial,National Exhibition of Prints, featuringthe best and most innovativeprints being made by artists workingacross Canada; UBCO Prints, StateProof, produced by students in theprintmaking program at the Universityof British Columbia Okanagan.VICTORIA★ Open late First Thursday ofevery month until 8pm★ Alcheringa Gallery665 Fort St ✆(250)383-8224www.alcheringa-gallery.common-sat 9:30am-5:30pm sun 12-5pm.Apr 2-20 Spirits of the Forest, mastercarvers from the rain forests of Palembeiand Yamok in Papua New Guineahave captured with warmth and whimsythe intrinsic essence of the forestspirits; Also featuring fine art of theNorthwest Coast of Canada and AboriginalAustralia – exhibition catalogueonline.★ Art Gallery ofGreater Victoria1040 Moss St ✆(250)384-4101www.aggv.bc.catues, wed, fri-sun 10am-5pm, thurs10am-9pm. Thru May 24 AssumeNothing: New Social Practice, 115days of art including sculpture, videodocumentation,drawings, films, performances,actions, networks, soundworks and a theatrical performanceexploring socially engaged art practices;Apr 3-Aug 2 Edo: Art of Japan’sLast Shogun Period, a wide variety ofart of the Edo period (1603-1868)from the AGGV’s Japanese collection,including paintings, Ukiyo-e prints,ceramics, lacquerware, metalware,textiles and clothing accessories, religiousart and samurai paraphernalia –Edo is the name for old Tokyo wherethe arts and crafts and entertainmentbusiness flourished; Ongoing EmilyCarr and her Contemporaries, paintingsfrom the permanent collection ofthe AGGV set in context with the workof artists who inspired her and theartists who were inspired by her.Avenue Gallery2184 Oak Bay Ave ✆(250)598-2184www.theavenuegallery.common-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 12-5pm,open most holidays 12-4pm. Apr 5-18 Ron Parker, “Pillars of the Earth”,preview Apr 4; May 10-23 RenatoMuccillo, “Apparitions of the Narrows”,preview May 9.Collective Works Gallery1311 Gladstone Ave✆(250)590-1345 (250)995-1697www.collectiveworks.catues-thurs 11am-6pm fri & sat 11am-8pm sun 1-5pm. Thru Apr 9 LiaCrossley, “Kroma”, recent work; Apr10-23 Jennifer Waelti-Walters andJan Johnson, “Telling Stories”, paintingand sculpture; Apr 24-May 7 JasonGrondin, “Subconscious Download”,new paintings; May 8-21 Dan Sali andLinda Jane Schmid, “EssentialSpaces – Paintings and Poetry”; May22-Jun 5 Cindy Shin Min Wang,“Salmon Run”, new work.Community Arts Council ofGreater VictoriaG6-1001 Douglas St ✆(250)381-G6-1001 Douglas St ✆(250)381-2787www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 55

www.kag.bc.caDiyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang: Sugar BombsKAMLOOPS ART GALLERY, KAMLOOPS, BC – Apr 5-May 24, 2009 Curated by Kristen Lambertson, SugarBombs invites us into a candy-coloured world where innocence and beauty meet images of war andviolence. The exhibit combines prints by Vancouver artist Diyan Achjadi with ceramic pieces byKamloops artist Brendan Tang that explore militarizedconflict in the guise of pop culture.Indonesia-born artist Diyan Achjadi has beenusing a character called “The Girl” for several years inher digital prints, video, Web project and mixedmediainstallations. Achjadi uses "Girl" like her personalavatar to explore themes of patriotism andnational identity, militarism and political unrest. Thefigure appears in numerous guises, from a single, larger-thanlife, slightly menacing version to a paper dolllikemotif used for massed groups of identical girlswho march, wave flags, stand at attention or salute.Achjadi spent her formative years in IndonesiaDiyan Achjadi, Reaching the City (2007), digital print[Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, Apr 5-May 24]and her family subsequently moved to Hong Kong, London, back to Jakarta and Washington, DCbefore settling in New York for ten years. In July 2005, Achjadi moved to Vancouver where she is anassistant professor of printmaking and critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University.Brendan Tang was born in Dublin and holds an MFA from the Southern Illinois University.Tang’s vividly coloured ceramics are meticulously crafted and inspired by 18th century Frenchporcelains, although his labour-intensive ornamentation unexpectedly incorporates robotic andcyborg forms. His traditional forms with decorative details borrowed from consumer culture oftentake the shape of vessels and have implied functionality. A self-described “ceramic fabricator”, Tangis interested in the potential of clay to mimic other materials. Mia Johnsonwww.cacgv.camon-fri 10am-5pm. Apr 2-8 AdvancedVisual Communications, WesternAcademy of Photography; Apr 11-22Federation of Canadian Artists,Spring Show 2009; Apr 23-29, sat &sun 11am-4pm, “Fresh! (The SpokenImage)”, Arts in Education, studentand professional artists and poets withPoet Laureate Linda Rogers and artistCarol Rae; Apr 30-May 6 SecondarySchools Art Exhibition, Arts in Educationcurated by Lily Wallace; May 7-13Light Sensitive, Western Academy ofPhotography; May 15-27, sat & sun12-4pm “The Art of Nature”, groupshow with Bryony Wynne-Jones andher students; May 28-Jun 3 MiddleSchools Art Exhibition, Arts in Education,curated by Lily Wallace.Dales Gallery537 Fisgard St ✆ (250)383-1552www.dalesgallery.camon-fri 10am-5pm sat 11am-4pm.Apr 2-8 5th Annual Youth Art Showand Sale, 36 students displaying theirartwork; Apr 9-May 4 Paul Fletcher,“Incidents in Time”, photography ofimages from 5 years of wandering;May 7-Jun 2 Dag Goering, “Man-ElephantEnigma”, photographer and veterinarianexplores and reveals theastonishing, compelling and sometimescruel bond between humans andthe world’s largest land mammals.Deluge Contemporary Art636 Yates St ✆/fax: (250)385-3327www.deluge.wswed-sat 12-5pm. Thru Apr 4 TedHiebert, “Aurora Textualis”, Hieberthas electrocuted 18 pages from booksabout werewolves, speaking intongues and Atlantis, as well as philosophytexts by Roland Barthes,Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud andJulian Jaynes, has employed Kirlianphotography that results in a coronalelectric discharge (also called “biofield”or “aura”) from the object,which is documented using large-formatcolour film; Apr 10-25 RPM: TheLost Art of LP Covers, art of the recordsleeve, remixed and remastered bymore than 50 artists; May 1-9 KatieLyle, “It Girls”, investigation into theevolution of portraiture and girlnessreflected in fashion, hairstyles, poseand gaze; May 15-Jun 13 SandraDoore, “Primal Sense”, sculpturescomposed of pre-fabricated clothingsuggest working organs and growingmalignancies co-exist in the realm offashion and embellishment.Gallery at the Mac3 Centennial Sq, McPherson Playhouse(250) 361-0800 www.rmts.bc.caView during performances or by appt.Thru May 4 UPPER SPACE JaneBaigent, “Rockface Drawings”; LOW-ER SPACE Karna Bonwick, “CelestialGround”.Gallery in theOak Bay Village2223A Oak Bay Ave ✆(250)598-9890mon-fri 10am-5pm sat 10am-3pm.Featuring original artwork by leadinglocal artists Kathryn Amisson, JoanBaron, Andres Bohaker, Janice Bridgman,Ardath Davis, Eileen Fong,Robert Genn, Caren Heine, Harry56 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

Heine, Keith Hiscock, EvgueniaIoganov, Shawn A. Jackson, Brian R.Johnson, David Ladmore, ErnstMarza, Joane Moran, Allan Myndzak,Nicholas Pearce, Natasha Perks andMarke Simmons.Legacy Gallery and Café630 Yates St ✆(250)721-6562www.legacygallery.ca/wed-sun 10am-5pm. Thru May 3 TakingFlight: The Art of J. FenwickLansdowne (1937-2008), featuringwatercolour paintings, drawings andprints. Lansdowne was one of Canada’sforemost avian artists.Maltwood Art Museum andGallery and McPhersonLibrary GalleryUniversity of Victoria, UniversityCentre Bldg, Rm B115✆(250)721-6562www.maltwood.uvic.caMALTWOOD ART MUSEUM AND GALLERY:mon-fri 10am-4pm. Free admission.MCPHERSON LIBRARY GALLERY: phone(250)721-6313 for hours. Free admission.MALTWOOD ART MUSEUM ANDGALLERY Thru May 29 “Rebels andRealists: 100 Years of the VictoriaSketch Club”, Western Canada’s oldestarts organization celebrates itscentennial featuring work by over 50 ofthe club’s best-known artists includingEmily Carr, Josephine Crease,Sophie Pemberton, W.P Weston,Thomas Fripp, Max Maynard, JackShadbolt, Ina Uhthoff. KatharineMaltwood, Stella Langdale andEdythe Hembroff. Catalogue and bookavailable; Thru May 15 CommunityProjects – Beginnings: The Sun NeverSets on the British Empire, objectscollected by two British immigrantfamilies in the early 1900s: Katharineand John Maltwood and Richard Carr,father of artist Emily Carr; MCPHERSONLIBRARY GALLERY Apr 1-May 28 TheLion and The Fox: Art and LiteraryWorks by Wyndham Lewis from theC.J. Fox Collection, two exhibits: theMcPherson Gallery exhibit of artworksby Wyndham Lewis and others, and adisplay of Wyndham Lewis books andmaterials from the Cyril James Foxfonds, held in the Archives and SpecialCollections Reading Room (A005).Martin Batchelor Gallery712 Cormorant St ✆(250)385-7919mon-sat 10am-5pm. Opening Apr 25redkettle.com, artwork; Opening May23 Gretchen Markle, new paintings.Mercurio Gallery602 Courtney St ✆(250)388-5158www.mercurio.caPhone or check website. Thru Apr 25Jack Wise, Lin Chien-Shih, JackShadbolt, Lionel Thomas, Gary LeeNova and others, “Surreal Estate:West Coast Art”; May 1-10 KenFaulks, paintings.Morris Gallery428 Burnside Rd E(on Alpha St) ✆(250)388-6652www.morrisgallery.catues-sat 9:30am-5:30pm sun 10am-4pm. Thru Apr 3 “Spring Equinox”,new works by Desiree Bond, JeffreyBoron, D.F. Gray, Keith Hiscock,Marlene Howell, Jim McFarland,Bob McPartlin, Marie Nagel, MiriamNelken, Joanne Thomson, Linny D.Vine and Ron Wilson.★ Open Space Arts Society510 Fort St ✆(250)383-8833www.openspace.ca/web/tues-sat 12-5pm. Apr 3-May 2 MartineDolbec, “Terres rouges: Red Earths”,www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 57

➜Moss StE. Broadway➜FreewayKinginstallation of micro-territories composedof monticules of sand, red wool,wire, balsa wood as well as other natu-6th Ave5th Ave4th Averal and human-made material createdOLYMPICduring SCULPTURE her residency at Open Spacefrom PARK Mar 25-Apr 2. Dolbec’s intensiveand intimate process responds to theinterior architecture of Open Space;May 16-Jun 25 Peter Morin, “12 Making-Objects:12 indigenous interventions”,Artist in Residence Morin willborrow from the actions (and playfulness)of early 20th century European◆and American Dadaists. Morin’s art isbased in Tahltan culture, but its stagingground is nomadic. His actions circulatewithin and through contemporaryart, social networks, literary and educationalsettings.Broad StWestern AveElliotWall StBell1st Ave2nd Ave9th Ave11th AveKen Faulks, Hector Road Sky (West)LISA (2008), HARRIS oil on board, from the exhibitionKen Faulks: Going Places [Mercurio May 1-Sep 30 Treasures: The World’sGallery, Victoria BC, May 1-10]Cultures from the British Museum,◆celebrates the objects that defineRoyal BC MuseumWILLIAMhuman culture, travelling across hundredsof thousands of years andTRAVER675 Belleville St SEATTLE✆(250)356-7226 ◆ ART 1-888-447-7977MUSEUM through all parts of the world featuringwww.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca◆ BILLY KING STUDIO◆more than 300 artifacts including aps gallery at placedaily 9am-5pm. Admission to Apr 30: 3,000-year-oldFRYEEgyptian mummy, aART MUSEUM$15 adults, $9.50 seniors, students shield from the Bronze Age and works3-3690 Shelbourne Stand youth age 6-18, children 5 and from Picasso and Rembrandt.✆(250)381-3488under are free, $37.50 family (2 adult,Elliot Baywww.placemodernliving.com2 youth). Admission May 1-Sep 30: Yesler Slide Way Room GalleryTO PRATTtues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Thru Apr 21 $27.50 adults, $18.50 seniors, studentsand youth age 6-18. SQUARE THE FIRST TACOMA www.slideroomgallery.comART MUSEUM,2549 Quadra St ✆250-380-3500PIONEER TO MUSEUM OF GLASS,Glenn Romasanta, “a rare moment”,paintings; Apr 23-Jun 9 Ivan Meade, SEATTLEPEOPLESGALLERY, features (see inset) WILLIAM TRAVER in TacomaHaida mon-fri 9am-5pm sat by appt (pendingworkshops scheduled for VISA).S Jacksonnew work by designer/artist of Meade argillite carving, a traditional BigDesign Group.House, totem poles and masks; S King THE St. Thru Apr 6 COLOUR II, showcasingNATURAL HISTORY ARTXCHANGE GALLERY, ◆ includesTO WESTERN students’ workTO BROADWAY from Xane St Phillip’sBRIDGE GALLERY‘Understanding IN LONGVIEW Colour II’ course thisBlanchard★ Open late First Thursday ofevery month until 8pmHwy 99Pike PlaceMarketDenny WayStewart StVETRI INT’LGLASSAlaskan WayPine StUnionOlive WayPike StSeneca StUniversity5th AveOcean Station where visitors exploreB.C.’s vibrant undersea world via aninteractive exhibition as well as LivingLand, Living Sea with its display onclimate change and the story of KwadayDan Ts’inchi, a hunter trapped inglacial ice in northern B.C. 550 yearsago; THE MODERN HISTORY GALLERY, visitorsexplore Old Town, walk through areplica of the stern section of the HMSDiscovery and peer into a herbalist’sshop in Chinatown. Daily Discover presentationsby museum and archivesstaff, and optional guided gallery toursare included with museum admission;Marion StPlayfield9th AveTerrySeattle FreewayE. Pike St7th Ave SMadisonColumbiaCherryJamesE. 15th Ave.➜semester; Apr 11-27 Ikuyo Ito, “GraduationProject”, graduation projectTO XCHANGES➜TO MORRISGALLERY TO SIDNEY/N. SAANICHM. MORGAN WARREN’S STUDIOAND PENINSULATO SLIDE ROOMTO MALTWOODGALLERYART MUSEUM,MCPHERSONHeraldLIBRARY, UNIV.North Park StOF VICTORIA,GALLERY ATGladstone StAND PS GALLERYTHE MACCOLLECTIVEFisgard StAT PLACE◆DALES◆ ◆ Cormorant St ◆WORKS◆ AVENUEMARTINBATCHELOR PandoraWINCHESTEROak Bay Ave ◆GALLERYIN THEJohnson StOAK BAYVILLAGE◆LEGACYYates St◆DELUGE◆ VIEW View StBastion Sq ◆WEST ENDOPEN SPACE ◆Fort StWINCHESTER◆◆ALCHERINGAART GALLERY OFMERCURIO ◆ Broughton GREATER VICTORIA◆COMMUNITY◆ARTS COUNCIL RocklandWharf StBelleville StSuperiorStore StGovernmentFantan AlleyGordonBurnside RdBroad StDouglas➜WINCHESTER◆◆ ROYAL B.C.MUSEUM➜BlanshardHumboldtQuadra➜Cook StFairfield RdChapman StFernwood RdJoan CrBegbie StFort St➜Foul Bay RdVICTORIAMonterey Ave58 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

F i n e A r t S e r v i c e slocal & national transport • packing & crating • worldwide shipping • installation • framing • storage • insuranceDenbigh Design Fine Art Services169 West Seventh AvenueVancouver • BC • Canada • V5Y 1L8Fax • 604 874 0400Email • denbighdesign@telus.netWebsite • www.denbighdesign.comPhone • 604 876 3303Hours: Monday - Friday8 am to 4:30 pmculminating her Diploma of Fine Artsprogram at the Vancouver IslandSchool of Art; May 1-30 HaroldCoego, “Transformation of the Eye”,40 drawings and collages by Vancouver-basedartist originally from Cuba.★ View Art Gallery104-860 View St ✆(250)213-1162www.viewartgallery.catues-sat 11am-5pm or by appt. ThruApr 11 Jaime Carrera, “OBRA”, 30photographs; Duane Prentice, “BehindThe Tease”, a preview of photographsfrom a new book; Apr 17-May 16 ElizabethBarnes, “Interface”, paintings;May 22-Jun 20 Yuri Arajs, “Untitled(weather)”, paintings.West End Gallery1203 Broad St✆(250)388-0009 1-877-388-0009www.westendgalleryltd.common-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 10am-5pmsun 11am-4pm. Apr 4-16 RobertGenn, one of Canada’s most accomplishedartists has gained wide recognitionfor his distinctive paintings ofthe West Coast; Apr 25-May 7 GretaGuzek, paintings that tell the storiesshe loves best, the poetry of the landscape,the whispers of the water andthe dreams that infuse the air; May16-28 Claudette Castonguay, paintingsof light-hearted whimsy is theprominent theme in rosy cheekedcharacters – young and old, brightbouquets and sunny skies.Winchester Galleries2260 Oak Bay Ave, 2nd location: 1010Broad St, 3rd location: 796 HumboldtSt ✆(250)595-2777 (250)386-2773www.winchestergalleriesltd.com2260 Oak Bay Ave & 1010 Broad St:tues-sat 10am-5:30pm, 796 HumboldtSt: tues-sat 10am-4pm. At 2260 OAKBAY AVE Apr 5-25 Gerry Schallié, “ATerrible Vitality”, photographs; DuncanRegehr, “Helm”, wooden sculpture;Jack Shadbolt, “Selected Work onPaper“, collage, mixed media on paper;May 3-23 Paul Burke, folk art sculpture;Joe Norris, selected paintings; At1010 BROAD ST Apr 4-30 Pat MartinBates, “Early Works “, collage printsand perforated paper works; NoboruSawai, “Selected Works”, colouredwoodcut and copper etchings; May 9-30 David Craven, recent work; RicAlice Rich, Fusion (2008), 30 X 40 acrylicon canvas. [Studio 13 Fine Art, 1315Railspur Alley, Granville Island, VancouverBC, www.alice-rich.com]Evans, recent work; At 796 HUMBOLDTST Apr 9-25 Horst Molleken, glasssculpture, drawings and paintings; May7-23 PICASSO, graphics and ceramics.Xchanges Gallery6E-2333 Government StNEW LOCATION ✆(250)382-0442www.xchangesgallery.orgsat & sun 1-4pm or 12-5pm. Timesmay vary with each exhibition. Apr 3-25 sat & sun 1-5pm Jocelyn Beyak,“Eggery”, an exploration of contemporizingPysanky, the traditional Ukrainianegg-dyeing craft. The series consists ofold family photos, transferred ontoduck eggs, and then broken andscanned on a flatbed scanner; May 1-24 sat & sun 1-5pm Sean McMahon,“Resurgence”, sculptures created completelyfrom materials procured fromdiscarded objects which are cleanedand prepared for welding. Each piecehas a human-like characteristic reflectiveof what was created by humans inthe first place; May 22 6pm onwardsOpen House, tour of the artists’ studiosand co-operative premises.WEST VANCOUVERBellevue Gallery2475 Bellevue Ave ✆604-922-2304www.bellevuegallery.catues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm. After hours by appt. Apr-MayFeaturing group work including twonew artists in rotating exhibitions.Kristian Adam, journeys into theworld of Surrealism in his oil paint-www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 59

www.winsorgallery.comChris Jordan: Running the Numbers IIWINSOR GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – May 7-31, 2009 Chris Jordan’s photographs are shocking tothe point where they are almost incomprehensible. The Seattle-based artist creates enormous photoillustrations (up to six by twelve feet) that depict, in excruciating detail, such statistics as the numberof plastic beverage bottles used in only five minutes in the United States (two million) or thenumber of cell phones retired daily in the States (426,000). Seeing these figures spelled out in actualphotographs of two million bottles or 426,000 cell phones, make the sheer magnitude of the consumergoods disposed of every year almost unimaginable. To say that his work is effective andthought-provoking is an understatement.Once a corporate lawyer, Jordan is now a consumeradvocate of an unprecedented kind. In 2009,his massive mandala E. Pluribus Unum depicted thenames of one million organizations around the worldthat are devoted to peace, environmental stewardship,social justice, and the preservation of diverse andindigenous cultures. Running the Numbers II: Portraitsof global mass culture (2009) depicts mass phenomenathat occur on a global scale.In the past year, his work has been shown at theWashington State University Art Museum; the SanAntonio Public Library and Southwest School of Artand Craft, Texas; Allen Memorial Art Museum, OberlinCollege; Ithaca College, New York; Field Museum,Chicago; Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York; AustinMuseum of Art; and the Mesa Arts Center, Arizona, toname just a few US locations. Internationally, hisChris Jordan, Shark Teeth (2009), photo illustration, detailview of 270,000 fossilized shark teeth used to depict theestimated number of sharks of all species killed around theworld every day for their fins [Winsor Gallery, VancouverBC, May 7-31]work has been shown in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Monaco, England, Ireland, and Norway. Jordan is theauthor of IN KATRINA'S WAKE, Portraits of Loss from An Unnatural Disaster (Princeton ArchitecturalPress, 2006), and Chris Jordan, Intolerable Beauty (self-published, February 2005). Mia Johnsonings and Michael Rathjen, “OnTrees”, photographic images.Buckland Southerst Gallery2460 Marine Dr ✆604-922-1915www.bucklandsoutherst.common-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 12-5pm.Contemporary impressionism bestdescribes the work hanging in thisintimate gallery in Dundarave – a seasidevillage in West Vancouver. Openlandscapes by Ieva Baklane; still lifeand landscapes by Alessandra Bitelli;intimate interiors by Larry Bracegirdle;street scenes and cityscapesby Morgan Dunnet; French and Italianlandscapes, bistros and interiorsby David Lloyd Glover, a new artistto the gallery; Tibetan scenes by FuGu; still life and streets by Brian Harvey;wildlife and landscapes by SunLin; Tuscan landscapes by RitaMonaco; interiors by Beiming Shi;European and local scenes by HenryHuai Xu and glimpses of life by LorenaZiraldo.Ferry Building Gallery, WestVancouver Cultural Services1414 Argyle Ave, Ambleside Landing✆604-925-7266 604-926-2520www.westvancouver.nettues-sun 11am-5pm. Thru Apr 5 AliShahidi, “11,000 years of PersianArt, Culture & Civilization”, paintings,ceramics, sculpture, inlay and coins;Apr 7-19 Bill Hoopes, “Landescapes”,oil paintings; Apr 21-May 3Reflections Vancouver, CapilanoUniversity originals of 2010 calendarimages and calendar launch; May 5-17 Grad Show, juried exhibition ofmixed media work by West VancouverGrade 12 students; May 19-Jun 7“From the Same Earth: Pottery andPaintings”, Niebergall family, potteryand Lil Chrzan and Jane Armstrong,paintings.Silk Purse Arts Centreat West Vancouver Community ArtsCouncil, 1570 Argyle Ave✆604-925-7292 www.silkpurse.catues-sun 12-5pm. Thru Apr 12 ParvisDjamtorki, “Portraits of Power”; Apr14-26 “Stepping Into Abstraction”,mixed media by the 5 member groupSenses; Apr 27-May 3 Ann Mitchelland Julie McDowell, ”A Riot ofColour”, acrylics; May 5-17 ElizabethCox, Marney-Rose Edge, LucilleLoose and Christina Oh, “Nature’sWay”, watercolours; May 19-31Michelle Lan, “Flower Fusion”, oils.Sun Spirit Gallery2444 Marine Dr ✆(778)279-5052www.sunspirit.catues-thurs 10am-5pm fri & sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-5pm. Sun SpiritGallery offers a superior collection ofWestcoast Native and Inuit art fromrenowned and emerging artists alike.60 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

West Vancouver Museum680 17th St ✆604-925-7295www.westvancouvermuseum.catues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru May 30North Star: The Art of Lyle Wilson,retrospective exhibition that showcasesthe artwork of Haisla artist Wilson.North Star is a new artworkabout the tale of Raven discoveringthe light, releasing the sun, moon andstars.WHITE ROCKJenkins Showler Gallery1539 Johnston Rd ✆604-535-7445www.jenkinsshowlergallery.comtues-sat 10am-5:30pm. Gallery artistsJane Armstrong, Arnt Arntzen, KathiBond, Merv Brandel, Rod Charlesworth,Toller Cranston, George Culley,Robert Davidson, Chantal De Serres,Colette Falardeau, JenniferGarant, Robert Genn, Sara Genn, RonHedrick, Steve Hoar, Amanda Jones,Paul Jorgensen, Ken Kirkby, H.E.Kuckein, David Ladmore, Louise Lauzon,Daniele Lemieux, Andrew Mc-Dermott, Dennis Magnusson, ChristyMitchell, Pieter Molenaar, ToniOnley, Lynn Onley, Karen Rieger, ZoeSava, Mike Savage, Peter Shostak,Carmelo Sortino, Slava Tch, JocelyneTremblay, Chrissandra Unger, AndreeVezina and Henry Xu.White Rock Gallery1247 Johnston Rd ✆604-538-4452www.whiterockgallery.comtues-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 12-5pm,closed holiday long weekends.Gallery artists Mickie Acierno, PietroAdamo, Constance Bachmann, BeverleyBinfet, Nicholas Bott, LarryBracegirdle, Phil Buytendorp, GillesCharest, Michael den Hertog, CarolEvans, Susan Flaig, Mark Fletcher,Terry Gilecki, Laura Harris, MayumiHatano, Heather Haynes, VladanIgnatovic, Elena Ilku, Andrew Kiss,Dongmin Lai, David Langevin, RaynaldLeclerc, Don Li-Leger, Ed Loenen,Min Ma, Ingrid Mann-Willis,Danny McBride, Angela Morgan,Renato Muccillo, Jim Nedelak,Sheila Norgate, Michael O’Toole,Emilija Pasagic, Jean Pederson,Niels Petersen, Kit Shing, Issa Shojaei,Michael Stockdale, Mike Svob,Linda Thompson, Dan Varnals, RayWard, Christopher Walker, AlanWylie, Peter Wyse and DonnaZhang, paintings; Marilyn Armitage,Michael Hermesh, Corky Hewson,Nicola Prinsen and Vance Theoret,sculpture; Bill Boyd, Angela Montantiand Geoff Searle, pottery.WILLIAMS LAKE★ Station House Gallery1 N MacKenzie Ave ✆(250)392-6113www.stationhousegallery.common-sat 10am-5pm. Apr 3-May 2MAIN GALLERY Devereux Hodgson,“Down in the Valley”, exciting mix ofsmall and large spontaneous studiolandscape paintings from the Fraser,Chilcotin and San Jose Valleys; UPPERGALLERY Geoff Moore, “Through theLens”, interesting and eclectic arrayof images using a combination of traditionaland digital photography, creatinga visual montage highlighting anarray of subjects; May 8-30 MAINGALLERY Marie Fletcher, her Daughtersand Granddaughters, “All OurHands”, a tribute to women, to families,and especially to our Mother andGrandmother, Cariboo Pioneer, MarieFletcher; UPPER GALLERY Al-Lisa TresierraMcKay, “The Under EarthStream”, a diverse collection ofmixed-media storytelling in a collageof clay, fabric, acrylic and canvasinfused with black light accents.OREGONCANNON BEACH★ Northwest By NorthwestGallery232 N Spruce (downtown acrossfrom city park and info centre)✆(503)436-0741 1-800-494-0741www.nwbynwgallery.comdaily 11am-6pm and by appt. Thru AprSteven Jensen, paintings and sculptureusing reclaimed and recycledwood; Ram Papish, paintings, featuredfor Earth Day Celebrations, 10%of proceeds donated to Friends ofHaystack Rock; May 3 Annual SculptureWithout Walls Festival and SpringUnveiling Art Festival; May 2 & 3 Visitingartists informal talks: NelsonDavis, mixed media sculptor OPBartist; Wayne Chabre, winner 2007Sculpture Without Walls competition,www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 61

PHOTO: NESS PACEEric Stotik: PaintingsLAURA RUSSO GALLERY, PORTLAND OR – Apr 2-May 2, 2009Eric Stotik's small and intricate paintings depict figures caught inin frozen moments within surreal worlds. Stotik's realities seemto exist in the outer reaches of the psyche. His sensitive renderingsare dark and beautiful, in a crisp palette and petite scale thatinvites investigation. The portrayals are meticulous and technicallyimmaculate.Untitled, the paintings leave plenty of room for the viewer'simagination. Yet the eccentric dreamscapes are fragmented andhaunting leaving a nightmarish impression that makes us feeluncertain. For example, in one enigmatic scenario characteristicof Stotik's work, he has painted on mechanic's rag the fiery backdropof a pseudo-apocalyptic setting that rises into a dark sky.The sky turns into rippling water, seen upside-down with a floatingrowboat and a baby lying inside. The synthesis of precisionand tension is what makes these works so provocative, mirroredby Stotik's delicate attentive style and his cryptic, ambiguousrepresentations.www.laurarusso.comEric Stotik, Untitled 2280 (2008), acrylic onwood [Laura Russo Gallery, Portland WA, Apr2-May 2]The enigmatic scenario is characteristic of Stotik's work, which has been shown extensively in theNorthwest since his graduation from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1985. His paintings are in collectionsat the New York Public Library and the Yale University Gallery as well as the Henry ArtGallery in Seattle, the Portland Art Museum, and the Hallie Ford Museum in Salem. Allyn Cantorinformal talk on bronze casting;Christopher Burkett, colour, landscapephotography OPB artist; LillianPitt (Warm Springs/Wasco and Yakimatribes of the Columbia River),unveils design for large outdoor sculptureof salmon to celebrate the cultureand history of Oregon; Apr 30 thru JunDon Bailey (Hupa Tribal Member andwith Oregon Public Television’s OregonArt Beat), paintings, continues thetheme of exploration of his 2007 HallieFord Museum exhibition: The Spiderand The Bureau, the Blanket Series,and abstract landscapes.White Bird Gallery251 N Hemlock St ✆(503)436-2681www.whitebirdgallery.comthurs-mon 11am-5pm. Apr 4-27SOUTH GALLERY Shirley Gittelsohn,new paintings; Vicky York, sea kelpsculpture/installation; Thru Apr 27EAST GALLERY Small Works by GalleryArtists; Cindy Searles, ceramics;Pamela Kroll, “Tree of Life” series,mixed media paintings; Dick Libby,★ Open late First Thursday ofevery month until 8pmwall assemblages; Mike Mason,botanical collages; May 2-Jun 29SOUTH GALLERY “Spring UnveilingExhibit”, Robert Schlegel, new paintings;Bill Schlegel, new prints; RandolphSill, ceramic sculpture; DaveRobertson, silver jewellery; May 23-Jun 29 EAST GALLERY Anne John, newpaintings; Jacquline Hurlbert, claysculpture; CENTER GALLERY KarenCroner, paper mache sculpture;Pamela Kroll, mixed media paintings.MARYLHURSTThe Art Gym at MarylhurstUniversity17600 Pacific Hwy ✆(503)699-6243800-634-9982 www.marylhurst.edutues-sun 12-4pm. Admission is free.Apr 5-May 14 Mike Bray, Dan Gilsdorf,Mack McFarland and StephenSlappe, “SRO Video: Guys DoingGuy Things”, film and video installationsfeaturing video that combinesprojected images, installation andsculpture. Closed Apr 10-12, extendedhours May 1-10; May 28-Jun 212009 Bachelor of Fine Arts ThesisExhibition.PORTLAND★ Attic Gallery206 SW First Ave ✆(503)228-7830www.atticgallery.common-sat 10am-5:30pm First ThursOpening Receptions: 6-9pm. Apr 2-May 2 David Carmack Lewis, oil paintingson canvas; Nathaniel C. Praska,plein air oil paintings of city scenes;May 7-30 Gretchen Gammell, acrylicpaintings of females; Diane Lewis, oilstill life and pastel landscape paintings.★ beppu wiarda gallery319 NW 9th Ave ✆(503)241-6460www.beppugallery.comtues-sat 11am-5pm or by appt. Apr 1-May 2 Kim McKenna, “Modern Problems”,oil on canvas; May 5-Jun 1Jim Hibbard, monotypes; AndrewLarkin, mixed media; Stephen Leflar,drawings.★ Blackfish Gallery420 NW 9th Ave ✆(503)224-2634www.blackfish.comtues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru May 2Paintings, prints and sculptures byartist members in commemoration of62 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

Cris Alvarez Maglianowww.allmarquetry.comStudio/salon in Nanaimoby appt. (250) 729 7415Blackfish Gallery’s 30th year anniversary;May 5-30 Kirk Botero and EricRue, “Convergence”, abstract paintingsshowcasing a unique creativedevelopment born largely out offriendship and trust.★ Chambers@916916 NW Flanders ✆(503)227-9398www.chambersgallery.comtues-sat 11am-5:30pm. Apr 2-May 31Jim Pustorino, “Cosmic Strips”,rotating large scale works in acrylicand pencil on denril.★ Elizabeth Leach Gallery417 NW 9th Ave(at Flanders) ✆(503)224-0521www.elizabethleach.comtues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Apr 2-May 2 Christopher Rauschenberg,“Wanderings II”, new photographsfrom his recent travels to Spain, Portugal,Morocco and the southwesternUnited States; May 7-Jun 27 Dinh Q.Lê, “Signs and Signals from thePeriphery”, new installation by internationallyacclaime multimedia artist.★ Laura Russo Gallery805 NW 21st Ave ✆(503)226-2754www.laurarusso.comtues-fri 11am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm. Apr 2-May 2 Jack Backstrand,“Recent Paintings”, enigmatic paintingswith a contemporary commentary;Eric Stotik, “Recent Paintings”,intimate dream-like narratives; May7-30 Anne Siems, “Creatures”,recent paintings; Jan Reaves, recentpaintings and works on paper.★ Murdoch Collections2219 NW Raleigh St✆(503)284-1960www.murdochcollections.common-sat 10am-5pm. Apr 2-May 2GUESTROOM GALLERY AT MURDOCH COL-LECTIONS “Figures in the Landscape”,an exhibition of photography focusingon the work of luminaries for whomthe Northwest is significant to theirlives and/or careers with imagesspanning the 20th century and touchon the theme of the figure (or figures)in the natural or urban environment,featuring artists born in Oregon orWashington including Imogen Cunningham(Portland, OR), Al Monner(Portland, OR), Lee Friedlander(Aberdeen, WA) and Terry Toedtemeier(Portland, OR). Also featuringphotographers who have lived andworked in the Northwest, Edward S.Curtis, Ray Atkeson, Minor White,Robert Adams and Stu Levy. Exhibitionavailable online at www.guestroomgallery.com.★ Museum ofContemporary Craft724 NW Davis St ✆(503) 223-2654www.museumofcontemporarycraft.orgtues-sat 11am-6pm. First thurs11am-8pm. Thru May 31 MandyGreer, “Dare alla Luce”, translatedfrom Italian, “dare alla luce” is anidiomatic expression for giving birth:“to give to the light” – drawing uponRenaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto’spainting The Origin of the MilkyWay for inspiration, Greer recountsher own version of the Roman myth inCall for ArtistsSculpture Without Walls 2009-10Cannon Beach, OregonPublic choice award-winner will receive$15,000 and permanent placement oftheir sculpture. Public choice voting takesplace on May 2, 2009. Four nominees,chosen by a professional museumjury, will have their works on public displayfrom May 2009 to April 2010.• Submission deadline for 2010-11awards is Dec. 31, 2009• Open to residents of Washington,Oregon, Idaho and British ColumbiaFor more information:www.ci.cannonbeach.or.uscommunitypublicart.htmlwhich the milk of Juno’s breast roseto the sky to create the galaxy by executingher work through crochet,braiding, sewing and beadingprocesses that use yarn, beads,shells, feathers and more; DarrelMorris: The Large Works 1999-2008,using figures clipped from the printmedia, the large pieces are line drawingswith thread, sharply graphic andmonochromatic measuring six feet ormore; Thru Jul 12 Toshiko Takaezu:Recent Gifts, features 17 ceramicvessels which combine technicalmastery with spontaneous painterlyglazes that have influenced decadesof ceramists worldwide, also on vieware over a dozen other pieces from thecollection.★ Portland Art Museum1219 SW Park Ave ✆(503)226-2811503-276-4207www.portlandartmuseum.orgtues, wed, sat 10am-5pm thurs, fri10am-8pm sun 12-5pm. MuseumAdmission: members free, adults $10,seniors (55+) and students (18+ withID) $9 children (17 and younger) freeadult groups (12 or more) $8. *Lavolupté du goût Admission: membersfree adults $15 seniors (55+) and students(18+ with ID) $13 children (17and younger) free adult groups (12 ormore) $11. Thru May 17 La volupté dugoût: French Painting in the Age ofMadame De Pompadour, celebratesthe patronage of Madame de Pompadour,one of the great figures in thecourt of Louis XV with some of themost sumptuous and sensual paintwww.preview-art.comPREVIEW 63

Burrard StNW 7thCypress StChestnut StPine St◆APPLETONGALLERIESFir StGranvilleSOUTH GRANVILLEGALLERY ROWBridgeBeach AveGranvilleIslandings in history, created during this agethat witnessed the birth of public discoursein aesthetics and art criticism;Thru Jul 12 APEX: Chris Jordan,“Through RunningVanierthe Numbers:Burrard BridgeAntoAmerican Self-Portrait”, Park Downtown Vancouvera large-formatseries of Cornwall photographic prints comprisedYork of repeatedly patterned objectsby W Seattle 1st Aveartist, Jordan visualizes statisticsW 2nd Ave that are easy to overlook and◆GALLERYbrings W 3rd Ave otherwise incomprehensibleJONES◆ LATTIMERnumbers W 4th Aveinto focus; Thru Apr 26 Mixografia:Innovation and Collaboration,selections W 6th Ave from the archive featuresnearly 45 objects printed with theMixografia process by 24 American,European, Latin American, and Asianartists who have collaborated withprinters Luis and Lea Remba; May 2-Aug 16 HELEN COPELAND GALLERY AND THEADAMS FOUNDATION FOYER SensitiveVision: The Prints of Beth Van Hoesen,presents 70 prints by noted SanFrancisco artist (born 1926). Van Hoesen’sintimate portrayals bring out theGranville StPacific StBURRARD James Posturino, All Things conceivedSLOPESshall realize liberation (2009), work onpaper [Chambers@916, Portland OR, Apr2-May 30, 2009]Waterfall Bldg.beauty and eccentricities of her subject– people, animals, foodstuffs, flowers,still lifes, interiors and landscapes;Thru May 3 Rachel Whiteread, featuresrecent sculpture ensembles andworks on paper by London-based artistWhiteread, one of Britain’s most cele-◆HEFFELW 7th Avebrated DIANE FARRIS women ◆sculptors EQUINOXworking ◆ onthe international stage.DOUGLAS REYNOLDSMONTE CLARKQuality Pictures◆MARILYN S. MYLREA◆916 NW Hoyt ✆(503)227-5060 W 8th AveATELIERwww.qpca.comKURBATOFF ◆JACANA ◆tues-sat 11am-6pm. Contact galleryBroadway (9for exhibition information.SALEMPETLEY-JONES ◆Granville StW 13th AveW 14th AveHallie Ford MuseumWINSORof ◆BAU-XIArt700 State St ✆(503)370-6855www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art/W 15th Avetues-sat 10am-5pm sun 1-5pm. Apr SOU11-May 17 Senior Art Majors, fea-GRAtureswork in a variety to airport of media bysenior art majors at Willamette University;James B. Thompson, “TheVanishing Landscape”, an importantnew body of work that explores theGranville StELISSA CRISTALL◆ART EMPOR➜◆ LAURA RUSSONW 21stNW MarshallNW LovejoyTO NORTHWEST BY NORTHWEST,WHITE BIRD in Cannon BeachNW 19thNW 16thNW JohnsonPearl DistrictQUALITY PICTURES◆BLACKFISH ◆CHAMBERS@916◆ELIZABETH LEACHBEPPU WIARDA◆NW 13thNW 12thNW 11thNW 10thNW 9thNW 8thNW BroadwayNW 5thNW HoytNW GlisanNW FlandersNW EverettNW DavisNW CouchW BurnsideNW 3rdMURDOCH COLLECTIONS◆NW 2ndBroadway BridgeNW FrontNW 1stSteel BridgeBurnside BridgeN VancouverSW 12thSW 11thSW 10thDowntownSW 5thSW PineSW OakSW Ash◆ ATTIC GALLERYSW 9thSW ParkSW MorrisonSW YamhillSW TaylorPORTLAND ART MUSEUM ◆SW BroadwaySW SalmonSW MainSW MadisonSW JeffersonSW ClayMarketSW 3rdSW 2ndSW 1stHawthorne BridgeSW FrontMorrison BridgePORTLANDI-5 InterstateMontgomeryTO MUSEUM OFCONTEMPORARY CRAFT64 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

transformation of the rural westernUS; Thru May 17 From Hestia’sSacred Fire to Christ’s Eternal Light,features 84 ancient and medieval oillamps from the Bogue collection atPortland State University.WASHINGTONBELLEVUEBellevue Arts Museum510 Bellevue Way NE✆(425)519-0770 (425)519-0749www.bellevuearts.orgmon-thurs 11am-5pm fri 11am-8pmsat-sun 12-5pm. Admission: adults $9,seniors (62+) and students $7, children6 and under free. First Fri of each monthis free 11am-8pm. Apr 9-Sep 20Michael Peterson: Evolution|Revolution;Thru May 3 Etsuko Ichikawa:Traces of the Molten State; Thru May31 American Quilt Classics, 1800-1980: The Bresler Collection; Thru Jun14 The Book Borrowers: ContemporaryArtists Transforming the Book.BELLINGHAMAllied Arts of Whatcom County1418 Cornwall Ave ✆(360)676-8548www.alliedarts.orgtues-sat 12-5pm. Apr 3-25 ReArt,works in both 2 and 3-D form as wellas functional items by several localartists that fall into the category ofindustrial design, comprised of noless than 75% materials that wouldhave otherwise been disposed intothe waste streams; May 15-29 KurosZahedi, “Urban Alchemy”, ongoingseries by Zahedi who has collectedtrash, often with the help of the localcommunity, and transforms it into art.Western GalleryFine Arts Complex, WesternWashington University✆(360)650-3963www.westerngallery.wwu.edu/mon-fri 10am-4pm wed 10am-8pmsat 12-4pm. Apr 13-May 30 MichaelVanderbyl Design (San Francisco);★ Identifies galleries and museumsopen until 8pm on the First Thursdayof every month. Many galleries hostopening receptions on First Thursdayevenings.Call to ArtistsSPAC Art Gallery at Seattle Pacific Universityis putting out a call to artists forOctober 1-31, 2009, entitled Self-Absorbed. The show theme is self-portraiture.Work can be in any medium.For more information, send a selfaddressedenvelope to:Cheri Wilke, Art Department,Seattle Pacific University,3307 Avenue West,Seattle WA 98199or email cheri@spu.eduDeadline for submission:May 15, 2009Ongoing Visit the Outdoor SculptureCollection.Whatcom Museum121 Prospect St✆(360)778-8930 (360)778-8937www.whatcommuseum.orgtues-sun 12-5pm. Admission is free,donations are appreciated. Apr 11-Oct4 ARTIFACTual: The Object in View,encourages us to learn from our pastthrough 3-D objects from the Museum’shistory collection that wereimportant to our ancestors that tell usabout our region, our sense of place,our shared experiences and ourselves;Thru Jun 7 On a Grand Scale: Paintingsfrom the Permanent Collection,striking and dramatic large-scale worksby well-known Northwest artists; ThruJun 27 World of the Shipwright: FromWood to Fiberglass, explores the goldenyears of boat and shipbuilding in thelate 1800s through 1965. Archival photographs,film footage, memorabilia,tools, models and a number of full scaleboats built in Bellingham.FRIDAY HARBORwaterworks gallery315 Spring St ✆(360)378-3060www.waterworksgallery.comthurs-sat 10am-6pm sun 10am-3pm.Apr 1-30 New works by galleryartists; May 2-24 Paint the Town,selected works from the competitionwhere artists were invited to painttheir interpretations of the town of FridayHarbor in celebration of FridayHarbor’s 100th anniversary.LA CONNERMuseum of Northwest Art121 S First St ✆(360)466-4446www.museumofnwart.orgGalleries and museum store: sun-mon12-5pm tues-sat 10am-5pm. Admission:$5 adults, $4 seniors, $2 students,members and youth under 12free. Thru Jun 14 “Finds Refined”,group show featuring artists who usefound materials in their work as intrinsicelements, whether for aestheticqualities or to incorporate the historyor past life of the material. Participatingartists – Michelle Allard, RossPalmer Beecher, Gretchen Bennett,Francesca Berrini, James Castle,Diem Chau, Marc Dombrosky, ScottFife, Kathryn Glowen, Patrick LoCicero,Allen Moe, Jason Mouer, JaneRichlovsky, Whiting Tennis andRobert Yoder; Phillip Levine Survey:Sculpture, Drawings, Paintings, featuressmall-scale sculpture in groupsthat explore the human form in termsof balance, mythology, movement andabstraction; BENAROYA GLASS GALLERYSelections from the Glass Collection,20 works in blown, kiln-formed, lampworkedand woven glass fromMoNA’s Permanent Collection.LONGVIEW★ Broadway Gallery1418 Commerce St ✆(360)577-0544www.the-broadway-gallery.common-sat 10am-5:30pm. first thurswith featured artists 5:30-7:30pm. Weare a co-operative gallery featuringoriginal artwork and crafts producedby SW Washington artists. A widerange of media is represented includingoils, watercolours, acrylics, mixedmedia, photographs, decorative andfunctional pottery, fused glass, intaglioprints, wearable art and jewellery. Afeatured artist display from the membershipis presented monthly.PORT ANGELESPort Angeles Fine Arts Center1203 E Lauridsen Blvd✆(360)457-3532 www.pafac.orgwed-sun 11am-5pm WEBSTER’S WOODS:www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 65

www.blackfish.comBlackfish Gallery 30th Anniversary ShowBLACKFISH GALLERY, PORTLAND OR – Mar 31-May 2, 2009 BlackfishGallery was founded in April 1979 as an artist-run co-operativegallery, and has been owned and operated by working memberssince its inception. Of the original 15 co-founders, Barbara Black,Paul Missal and Stephan Soihl are still with the gallery today.Now celebrating its 30th year, Blackfish is one of the longeststandingsuccessful co-op galleries in the United States. The galleryexhibits contemporary paintings and prints, sculpture, assemblage,and mixed media work by the gallery's 28 members. Blackfish alsohosts selected invitational and theme shows. It has, over the years,been a launching point for the careers of many of Portland's mostaccomplished artists.The 30th Anniversary group exhibition provides a cross-sectionof work shown by the Blackfish Gallery. It features work by all currentmembers, including several emerging artists and such wellknowntalents as Robert Dozono and Michael Knutson. Some ofthe more provocative works are Stephan Soihl's recent sculpturalpieces. Using sets of plastic tubing filled with oil and supportedwithin various metal structures, these quasi-scientific sculpturesStephan Soihl, Array with BrassComposing Element (2006), aluminum,oil, plastic, pump, timer [BlackfishGallery, Portland OR, Mar 31-May 2]are complete with a pump and timer. However offbeat these pieces seem, they are balanced bySoihl's execution of a clean and modern aesthetic that is undeniably elegant. Allyn Cantoropen all daylight hours. Admission isfree. Thru May 10 Strait Art 2009,annual showcase of artists living andworking along the Strait of Juan deFuca featuring 35 artists; Thru May 1fri evenings Enter Stage Left, performanceseries which will complement thevisual fare; May 8-10 Art in Bloom2009, 10 Peninsula floral designersfashion cut flower responses to specificworks in the Strait Art exhibition;May 17-Jun 28 Portfolio 2009, 27 ofClallam County’s most promising highschool student artists display a suite ofworks developed through the Center’sArtPaths education program; WEB-STER’S WOODS Ongoing “Art Outside”,the 9th season of new works by 19Northwest artists joining more than100 sculptures and site works in Webster’sWoods. Artists include BusterSimpson, Carolyn Law, Ingrid Lahti,Gregory Glynn, Alan Lande, DavidNechak and Shirley Wiebe.SEATTLE★ ArtXchange Gallery512 First Ave S ✆206-839-0377www.artxchange.orgtues-sat 11am-5:30pm, first Thursuntil 8pm. Thru Apr 30 CoraEdmonds, “Namaste Reunited”, photographyillustrating the history ofthe Namaste Children’s Fund and apersonal account of the search byEdmonds to locate the young subjectof her most famous photograph. NCFis a Seattle-based non-profit thatsupports education for children andwomen in underserved regions ofNepal; Opening May 7 Group exhibitionof Pacific Northwest artistswhose work embodies the meaningof Asian Pacific American HeritageMonth and explores themes of AsianAmerican identity in contemporaryculture.Port Angeles Fine Arts Centreand Webster’s Woods Art ParkCall for ArtistsThe 10th season of Art Outside will openJune 21, adding works by twenty Northwestartists to the more than 100 now onsite.Seeking proposals through April 16.http://pafac.orgBilly King + Studio1208 1st Ave, 2nd FlrUSE ALLEY ENTRANCE✆(206)441-2498 (206)382-1001www.billyking.comstudio open by appt only. Billy Kingwill be teaching art and working oncommissions in Puerto Vallarta andChapala, Mexico through Apr 2009.Email billyking50@yahoo.com or goto www.barraartbounce.blogspot.com.★ Burke Museum of NaturalHistory and CultureUniversity of Washington,17th Ave NE and NE 45th✆(206)543-5590 (206) 543-9762www.burkemuseum.orgdaily 10am-5pm. Thru Jun 7 Coffee:The World in Your Cup, the story ofone of the world’s most widely tradedcommodities and how it has impactedcultures, economies and environmentsacross the globe through photos,maps, text, selected artifacts,audio visual presentations and handsondemonstrations.★ Foster/White Gallery100-220 3rd Ave S, Pioneer Square✆(206)622-2833www.fosterwhite.com66 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

Exhibition Catalogues of InterestTHE 9TH NORTHWEST BIENNIAL catalogue was published in conjunction with theexhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum through May 25. Multiple full-colour examplesof recent work by all 24 featured artists highlight some of the region's most compellingartwork, including exemplary works of painting, sculpture, installation, glass,photography and jewellery. Essays by co-curators Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art Museum'sCurator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, and Alison de Lima Greene, Curatorof Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houstonreveal perspectives about strengths, trends, stylistic impulses and conceptual foundationsof Northwest art.Softcover, 108 pages, $19.95 USD, Available at Tacoma Art Museum Store,tel: 253.272.4258, ext.7 or online: www.museumestore.orgACTION-CAMERA: BEIJING PERFORMANCE PHOTOGRAPHY, published forthe Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery exhibit (January-April 2009), includes an essayby curator Keith Wallace and articles by Dr. Thomas J. Berghuis and Maya Kóvskaya,as well as biographies of the 15 artists. The hardcover volume presents black-andwhiteand colour photographs of Chinese performance art, which has evolved overthe past 20 years from an underground activity centred in Beijing's "East Village" toan internationally recognized art form in 2009.Hardcover, 112 pages, $30 CAD. Available from the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery,Vancouver, BC, email: belkin@interchange.ubc.ca, tel: 604.822.2759ANNE COLLIER was published by Presentation House Gallery in conjunction withthe exhibition of Collier's work (January-March, 2008) curated by Reid Shier. Collieris a New York-based photographer who re-photographs images from publications,posters, LP covers and art magazines, with a particular interest in picturesfrom the 1970s. Through her art she addresses questions of biography and selfportraiture.The catalogue includes texts by New York-based curator Bob Nickasand German critic Jan Verwoert.Softcover, 96 pages, $30 CAD. Available from Presentation House Gallery,NorthVancouver BC. email: info@presentationhousegall.com, tel: 604.986.1351ZEBRATO: MICHAEL LEVIN was printed in Verona, Italy by Dewi Lewis Publishing(UK) in 2008. The immaculate black-and-white landscape photographs of Vancouverartist Michael Levin are showcased in this large, hardcover book. Levin hasbecome known for his long exposures of land and sea, particularly scenes of water,docks and remnants of piers, and dramatic perspectives of engineered structures.Hardcover, 96 pages, $60 CAD. Available from Jacana Gallery, Vancouver BC,jacana@jacanagallery.com, tel: 604.879.9306 or The Weiss Gallery, Calgary, AB, email:info@theweissgallery.com, tel: 403.262.1880SAWDUST MOUNTAIN, PHOTOGRAPHS BY EIRIK JOHNSON is the culminationof four years work by the Seattle native. Poetic representations of fishing andlogging practices, people, rural culture and the pristine landscapes that are effectedby processing regional resources are reproduced in 70 luminous colour images. Anexhibition of this work at G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle (April 23-May 30) will coincidewith the May book release and the work will also be exhibited at the Henry ArtGallery later this year. The artist will be present for a signing on May 9th at ElliottBay Bookstore.Hardcover, 144 pages, $50 USD. Available May 2009 at G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle WA,tel: 206.587.4033Please note: Prices may be subject to additional charges for postage, handling and taxes.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 67

www.lisaharrisgallery.comKent Lovelace: Luberon PaintingsLISA HARRIS GALLERY, SEATTLE WA – May 7-30, 2009 Kent Lovelace travels to such places as Ireland,Italy, France and the West Coast of the United States to capture visual impressions for hisatypical landscapes. In his new works, the Washington-based artist paints scenes from the Luberonregion in Provence, France. In this seriesLovelace emphasizes subtle movements thatoccur in nature: wind-blown trees and shiftinglight.Using transparent oil glazes on copperplates or copper leaf, Lovelace's luminouspaintings build on techniques of the 15th centuryEuropean Renaissance. The moody valleyterrain as Lovelace represents it has the atmosphericgrace of a lush and fertile countryside. Aheightened awareness as to the constancy ofchange in nature results in a soft visible motion.Lovelace evokes the quietude of changinglight that is indicative of early morning anddeep dusk. Soft lavender skies set against thewarm earthy fields of a cultivated rural environmentfill these compositions. His imageryoften portrays lone trees that suggest solitude,Kent Lovelace, Normandy Apple (2009), oil on copper [Lisa HarrisGallery, Seattle WA, May 7-30]serenity and contemplation. His brilliant and reflective copper undertones elegantly remind us ofthe tranquil beauty residing in nature. Allyn CantorPHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTISTtues-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm. Apr2-25 Bobbie Burgers, “Revolution inthe Garden”; May 7-23 Clare Belfrage,“New Work”; David Schwarz,“Searching for Balance”.★ Frye Art Museum704 Terry Ave✆(206)622-9250 ext 217www.fryeart.orgtues-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-8pmsun 12-5pm. Admission is free. ThruApr 12 GRAPHICS, ALCOVE, GREATHOUSE,VIEWPOINTS AND FRYE GALLERIES TheMunich Secession and America,paintings illustrating the diversity ofavant-garde techniques and philosophiesthat encompassed the MunichSecession which, along with theBerlin and Vienna Secessions, radicallyaltered how artworks were presentedand laid the foundations forthe emergence of several modernistmovements from abstraction tosocially motivated realism; Thru Apr26 GREATHOUSE GALLERY Transatlantic:★ Open late First Thursday ofevery month until 8pmAmerican Artists in Germany, exploresthe profound impact of Germanyon American artists travelling tothe country in the 19th and 20th centuries;BLACK BOX GALLERY NathalieDjurberg, four recent animations bythe Berlin-based video artist; OpeningMay 2 VIEWPOINTS Bringing MunichHome: Selections from the FryeFounding Collection, paintings bytwo generations of Munich-basedartists involved in distinct exhibitingorganizations, the Künstlergenossenshaftand the Munich Secession;VIEWPOINTS C Over Julia’s Dead Body:Gabriel von Max’s Mystics and Martyrs,a showcase of Max’s paintingsfrom the Frye Collection with Northwestwriter Leslie Hazleton’s contemporaryresponse to Max’s paintingChristian Martyr (1867); OpeningMay 15 in the GRAPHICS, BLACK BOX,GREATHOUSE AND FRYE GALLERIES ThePuppet Show, sculpture, video andphotography by 29 contemporaryartists exploring puppets as psychologicalsurrogates and social andpolitical commentators, and themessuch as manipulation, miniaturizationand control.★ G. Gibson Gallery300 S Washington St✆(206)587-4033www.ggibsongallery.comtues-fri 11am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm. Thru Apr 18 Nealy Blau, LarryCalkins, Marc Dennis, JustinGibbens and JoAnn Verburg, “Flight”;Apr 23-May 30 Eirik Johnson, “SawdustMountain”.★ Gallery 110110 S Washington St✆(206)624-9336www.gallery110.comwed-sat 12-5pm. Apr 2-May 1 MAINGALLERY Jenny Kemp, Gordon Nealyand Rosemary Powelson, “Under theSkin”, examines our physiologicaland psychological inner-workings inorder to find a poetic and etherealtopography that may be closer to thetruth than science; LOFT David A.Haughton, “Kindertotentanz” (Children’sDeath-dance), a series of over100 works that explore the darknessof disease and dying in children bythis artist and pediatric doctor; May7-30 Gallery 110 Artists, “UnbridledNarcissism”, the act of creating a self-68 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS

portrait can be a cathartic release ofemotions, a revelation of insightabout one’s self or it could be justunbridled narcissism.★ Greg Kucera Gallery212 3rd Ave S ✆(206)624-0770www.gregkucera.comtues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Apr 2-May 16 Victoria Haven, “Higher...Higher”, drawings on paper andmaterial explorations ranging fromink and collage on delicate Gampipaper to cut metal structures platedor powder-coated, also introducingthe photographic print. The title referencesthe visual appearance of levitationand defiance of gravity in thework; Susan Skilling, paintingswhich are spare and elegant meditatonson varied subjects such asTibetan mandalas, plant forms andslices of rocks, geodes and crystal.Painting with mineral-based gouchepaint, some of it handmade by theartist, creates a dense layering of subtlynuanced colour over a rich handmadepaper surface; May 21-Jun 27Anne Appleby, “Recent Prints”; NolaAvienne, Louise Bourgeois, TimHawkinson, Glenn Ligon, DeborahOropallo, Marc Quinn, Roger Shimomura,Tom of Finland, KoheiYoshiyuki and others, “ID”.★ Henry Art GalleryUniversity of Washington, Faye G.Allen Center for the Visual Arts, 15thAve NE and NE 41st St✆(206)543-2281 www.henryart.orgtues-sun 11am-5pm thurs 11am-8pm. Admission: adults $10, seniors(62 and older) $6, members, childrenunder 14, UW students, faculty, staff,high school and college students withID free, thurs 11am-8pm free. EASTGALLERY Thru Apr 19 Jacob Dahlgren,installation consists of a wall of yellow-and-blackdartboards. Dahlgrenfinds abstraction in everyday materialswhich he employs to createdynamic interactive installations andperformances; NORTH GALLERIES ThruMay 3 South African artist WilliamKentridge, three films, drawings,prints, sculpture and a performancework; Yann Novak and Jamie Drouin,“+ROOM-ROOM”, a pair of soundinstallations for two adjacent galleries,each exploring how the perceptionof these familiar places is transformedby sounds; Thru May 3 “OuttaMy Light! Picturing the Processes ofPhotography”, works by Hiroshi Sugimoto,Anna Atkins, Imogen Cunninghamand Rondal Partrige amongothers, show a variety of photographicprocesses; Thru Jun 7 MEZZANINERichard C. Elliott and Doris TottenChase in Memoriam, drawings;Ongoing Light Reign: James TurrellSkyspace, permanent installation.★ Lisa Harris Gallery1922 Pike Pl ✆(206)443-3315www.lisaharrisgallery.comdaily 11am-5pm closed tues. Apr 2-25 Thomas Wood, “Cypress Island toHart’s Pass: Northwest Places”; May7-30 Kent Lovelace, “The LuberonPaintings”.★ Pratt Gallery at TashiroKaplan Studios102-306 S Washington St✆(206)328-2200 ext 228www.pratt.org1st thurs 6-8pm, fri and sat 12-5pmand by appt. Apr 2-May 1 RebeccaChernow, Carrie Mood, CarlsonPotts, Morgan Sims and CaynThompson, “POP!”, glass and metalsculpture and 2-D work by five Prattinstructors and renters whose work isinfluenced by the Pop Art Movement;www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 69

Alaskan WaySecond Ave South➜➜Seattle Art Museum presents SEATTLE ART EVENTmembers $4adults $8students/seniors $6FREE to membersof the Council ofAmerican ArtPivotal Perspectives: Conversations on Art and Culture – May 3, 2-3 pmLife Studies: The Indian Paintings of George de Forest Brush, presented by NancyAnderson, explores the work of George de Forest Brush, whose paintings of nativelife in Wyoming and Montana created during the early 1880s are much sought afterby collectors.Tickets available at the Ticketing Desk of all SAM sites or over the phone with acredit card by calling the Box Office at 206-654-3121.First Ave SouthJamesWestern Ave.Yesler Way◆GALLERY 110OccidentalG.GIBSON ◆ Main3rd Ave SWashington◆PIONEERSQUARESHIFT STUDIOGREG KUCERAFOSTER/WHITE➜TO HENRY ART GALLERY ANDand BURKE MUSEUM atUniversity of Washington,PRATT FINE ARTS CENTERGALLERY4th Ave SKingJacksonSecond AveSeattle FreewaySEATTLE ASIANART MUSEUM ◆E Prospect St.E AlohaOLYMPICSCULPTUREPARKBroad StWestern AveElliot6th Ave5th Ave4th AveWall StBellBlanchardHwy 991st Ave2nd Ave◆ LISA HARRISPike PlaceMarket9th AveDenny Way11th AveStewart StVETRI INT’LGLASSPine StUnionOlive Way◆WILLIAMTRAVERSEATTLE◆ ART MUSEUM◆ BILLY KING STUDIOPike StSeneca StUniversity5th AveMarion StPlayfield9th AveE. Pike StTerry◆E. BroadwayMadisonColumbiaCherryJamesFRYEART MUSEUME. 15th Ave.Alaskan WaySeattle FreewayElliot BaySEATTLEPIONEERSQUARE(see inset)Yesler WayTO PRATTTO MUSEUM OF GLASS,TACOMA ART MUSEUM,WILLIAM TRAVER in TacomaS Jackson➜7th Ave SS King St.◆ TO WESTERNARTXCHANGE BRIDGETO BROADWAYGALLERYIN LONGVIEW70 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYSTO MORRIS

May 7-29 Rent Pratt, a juried exhibitionmade by Pratt’s Studio Renterswith work in sculpture, jewellery,glass, painting, printmaking andmixed media.★ Seattle Art Museum1300 First Ave ✆(206)654-3100www.seattleartmuseum.orgOLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK (2901 WesternAve) hours: open daily, opens 30min prior to sunrise, closes 30 minafter sunset. Free to the public. SAMhours: tues-sun 10am-5pm, thurs &fri 10am-9pm. Suggested admission:adults $15, seniors (62 and over) andmilitary (with ID) $12, students $9,children 12 & under free, SAM membersfree. Thru May 4 Tack and Jibe,approximately 20 works of art, photographs,drawings, paintings andvideo, that examine the use of sailingimagery over the centuries, coveringa wide range of approaches from thevery representational to the abstract;Thru May 25 “Life, Liberty and thePursuit of Happiness: American Artfrom the Yale University Art Gallery”,works by Paul Revere, John Trumbull,Thomas Eakins, WinslowHomer and more reveal the diverseand evolving ways America defineditself from the colonial era to the GildedAge; George de Forest Brush: TheIndian Paintings, paintings of NativeAmericans by this important but littleknown19th century American painterpoignantly illustrate the commonbonds among all humankind and ourlove of the natural world, while documentinga vanishing way of life; ThruSep 6 Titus Kaphar: History in theMaking, oil on canvas copies of Europeanand American portrait paintingsfrom the 18th and 19th centuriesreconfigured in strategic ways to createa dialogue about race, art and representation.His work is at once beautifuland halting as he dances betweenfictional narrative and history; ThruAug 23 SAM Next: Corin Hewitt,“Weavings: Performance #2 (Portland,Oregon)”, installation of a photographicarchive of vivid and complexstill lifes created during a 3-weekperformance in Sep 07, incorporatinga variety of organic and inorganicmaterials, Hewitt’s work exploresmemory, decay, preservation andtransformation in relation to personaland cultural history, as they relate tophotography, sculpture and performance;Thru Aug A Bead Quiz, installationabout beads traversing the worldin unpredictable ways pulling differentparts of the world together likeminiature magnets; Ongoing WalterOltmann and Nick Cave, “A Quartet ofSuits”, installation of four suits redefinedand staged in an encounter thatdefies convention; OLYMPIC SCULPTUREPARK Thru Aug 2 Geoff McFetridge,commissioned installation at thePACCAR Pavilion, an oversized bulletinboard complete with out-of-scalethumbtacks holding up larger-thanlifeposters. LA-based McFetridge’swork often deals with the environment,art, perception and history;OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK Ongoing Features22 sculptures on 9-acres ofpark, including special commissions,featuring Louise Bourgeois, AlexanderCalder, Mark Dion, Mark DiSuvero, Ellsworth Kelly, RoyMcMakin, Richard Serra, AnthonyCaro and Tony Smith among others.★ Seattle Asian Art Museum1400 E Prospect StVolunteer Park ✆(206)654-3100www.seattleartmuseum.orgwed-sun 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pm.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 71

COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST. PHOTO: JEAN PETERSONMichael Peterson, Coastal Stack VI (2008),Madrone burl, carved, sandblasted, bleached,pigmented [Bellevue Arts Museum, BellevueWA, Apr 9-Sep 20]www.bellevuearts.orgMichael Peterson: Evolution | RevolutionBELLEVUE ARTS MUSEUM, BELLEVUE WA – Apr 9-Sep 20, 2009 Michael Peterson is a Texas-bornsculptor who currently resides on Washington's Lopezisland. Evolution | Revolution shows work from twentyyears of his artistic development. It traces the evolutionfrom the artist's early lathe-turned bowls to his most recentrevolutionary sculptures.Peterson's innovative forms extend the possibilities ofunusual formations that occur naturally in wood. Utilizingthe burl from madrone, maple, elm and locust, he carvesand hollows out green wood with a chainsaw. The wetwood shrinks and warps while it's drying to reveal heightenedgrain patterns. The intrinsic qualities of the wood takeon their own shapes. In his most recent work, Peterson hasstacked multiple smoothed and sandblasted pieces that areeither bleached or stained with subtle pigments generatingadditional surface texture. The reductive method that heemploys yields a simple purity that honours materials. Thetall layered arrangements recall piles of driftwood, mountainoustopography and the presence of towering trees – ageographic locale typical of the Pacific Northwest.Michael Peterson's work is in numerous museum collectionsthroughout the United States, including the RenwickGallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington,DC, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.Allyn Cantor72 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009Suggested admission: adults $7, seniors(62 and over), students and military$5, children 12 & under free, SAMmembers free. First thurs free admission.First fri seniors free. First sat familiesfree. Thru Apr 26 Garden andCosmos: The Royal Paintings of JodhpurBetween the 17th and 19th centuries,a succession of princely rulersin Marwar-Jodhpur in present dayRajasthan shifted the course of Indianart history by commissioning breathtaking,monumental manuscript paintingsthat documented their exploitswithin the palace walls and visuallylegitimized their rule. Featuring 55paintings from idyllic garden scenes, toawe-inspiring visions of the cosmos,these elaborate compositions reveal anera of conceptual sophistication andvisual élan in Indian art; Ongoing ChineseArt: A Seattle Perspective, Featuring167 artworks from the Neolithicperiod to the present, the exhibition isnot only a survey of Chinese art, butalso a chronicle of Seattle’s shiftinginterests within Chinese art. The collectioncontains jades, ceramics, sculptures,painting, calligraphy, bronzesand contemporary Chinese art.★ Shift Studio#105-306 S Washington StTashiro Kaplan Bldg✆206-545-0562 206-948-7037www.shiftstudio.orgfri & sat 12-5pm or by appt. Apr 2-May 2 Alvaro Campo (Sweden),“Rationality Killed the Cat”, a seriesof drawings on paper, motivated bythe necessity of emphasizing theprocess rather than the result, theforms are repetitive, organic andinseparable from the action (drawing);May 7-30 David Hoang, “@”,drawings based on replies from theInternet micro-blogging phenomenon,‘Twitter’, by artist/VJ Hoang;Jessie Lyle, “Making Lemonade”,continuing to work her way throughsymbolic attainment of the 64 skillslisted in the ancient Hindu text theKama Shastra, Lyle takes on the artof making lemonade.★ Traver Gallery200-110 Union St ✆(206)587-6501www.travergallery.comtues-fri 10am-6pm sat 10am-5pmsun 12-5pm Open 1st Thurs Artwalks5-8pm. Located just across the streetfrom the Seattle Art Museum, theTraver Gallery is one of the country’spremier exhibition spaces for contemporarystudio glass, painting,sculpture and installation art. ThruApr 29 Gregory Grenon, “Calm Interior/RagingStorm”, oil painting onglass/wood; Apr 3-May 3 JeremyLepisto, Mel George and DeborahHorrell, “Portland Presence”, glass;May 8-31 Alan Fulle, various paintsin epoxy resin on wood.★ Vetri International Glass1404 1st Ave ✆(206)667-9608www.vetriglass.common-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm. Ourregion is universally acknowledged asthe wellspring of the studio glassmovement and we are proud to showcaseemerging talent in art glass as

well as production work by internationallyrenowned artists such asDale Chihuly, Martin Blank andDavide Salvadore. Vetri representsthe work of over 100 artists.Western Bridge3412 4th Ave S ✆(206) 838-7444www.westernbridge.orgthurs-sat 12-6pm. Admission is free.Apr 2-May 9 “According to SpeculativeLogic”; May 22-Aug 1 “Underwater”,changing exhibitions with worksby Richard Billingham, Jordan Kantor,Wolfgang Staehle, Hiroshi Sugito,Hiroshi Sugimoto, and MarkWyse join a massive salon hang ofthematic works in photography,painting and video from the collectionof Bill and Ruth True.SPOKANENorthwest Museum ofArts & Culture2316 W First Ave ✆24-hr hotline:(509)363-5315 (509)456-3931www.northwestmuseum.orgtues-sun 11am-5pm. Admission:adults $7, seniors and students $5,children under 5 and Museum membersfree, Family MACFest Days $15,1st fridays by donation 5-8pm. ThruApr 23 Jed Conklin, “In Iraq: SpokaneSoldiers”, photographs; Stories fromWithin: Selections from the PermanentCollection; Apr 25-Oct 26 MarieWatt: Forget-Me-Not; Thru May 17Quiltscapes, over 40 exquisite quiltsfrom the MAC’s permanent collections;Thru Jul 18, 2010 Living Legacy:The American Indian Collection,explore the MAC’s American IndianCollections with a focus on theColumbia River Plateau tribes; OngoingSpokane Timeline: PersonalVoices, a century of Spokane historynow featuring Big Timber.TACOMA★ Museum of Glass1801 Dock St ✆(253)284-4750www.museumofglass.orgwed-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm 3rdthurs 10am-8pm (free admission 5-8pm). Museum Store open tue, 10am-★ Open late First Thursday ofevery month until 8pm5pm. Admission: free for members,$10 general, $8 seniors, military andstudents (13+ with ID), $8 groups of10+, $4 children (6-12 yrs), childrenunder 6 free, admission is free every3rd thurs from 5-8pm. Opening Apr 18MAIN PLAZA REFLECTING POOL MartinBlank: Fluent Steps, captures theessence of water, comprising individualislands of glass sculpture created in theMuseum’s Hot Shop, this monumentalsculpture will span the entire length ofthe 210 ft-long reflecting pool and risefrom water level to 15 ft in height; ThruApr 19 Dale Chihuly: The LagunaMurano Chandelier, a magnificent NeoBaroque chandelier of individuallyblown and sculpted glass elements createdin collaboration with Italian glassmaster Pino Signoretto; Thru Jun 14White Light: Glass Compositions byDaniel Clayman, comprises sevenlarge-scale, dense, opaque sculpturescreated using the cire perdu (lost waxcasting) technique; Thru Oct 11 Contrasts:a Glass Primer, introduction tothe medium of glass, includes international,historically important and visuallystunning works of art that aregrouped to illustrate opposing ideas,techniques and styles; Ongoing CappyThompson, “Gathering the Light”,installation of painted stories on glass,depicting an elaborate landscape ofcolourful vignettes from a mythicalworld of glassmakers, reverse-paintedin the grisaille technique of gray-tonalpainting used for stained glass sincethe Middle Ages; Thru Dec MEZZANINEPLAZA REFLECTING POOL Joseph Rossano,“Mirrored Murrelets”, the installationcomprises 250 mirrored glass birdsthat skim just above the surface of theMuseum’s mid-level reflecting pool.★ Tacoma Art Museum1701 Pacific Ave ✆(253)272-4258www.TacomaArtMuseum.orgtues-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm, 3rdThurs 10am-8pm. Admission: membersfree, adults $7.50, students/military/seniors(65+) $6.50, family $25 (2adults + up to 4 children under 18),children 5 and under free, 3rd Thursfree. Thru May 10 “The SurrealistImpulse: New Acquisitions from theTacoma Art Museum Collection”,recent additions to the collectionexploring surrealism including work bySalvador Dali and Northwest artistsMorris Graves, Claudia Fitch and AnyaKivarkis; Thru May 25 “The 9th NorthwestBiennial”, including work by LindaHutchins, Robert C. Jones, Zhi Lin,Debora Moore and Susan Seubert,Northwest artists adapt and shed ideas,media and imagery to define themselvesas artists while reinventing orrestating the core notion of a Northwestartist; Thru Jun 14 David Macaulay:The Way He Works Award-winningillustrator Macaulay has mastered theart of showing his readers how thingswork – from buildings to everydaygadgets and the human body. Comesee inside the mind of this imaginativevisual storyteller whose works appealto children and adults alike; Opens May23 2009 Neddy Artist Fellowship, forthe 5th consecutive year the TacomaArt Museum partners with the BehnkeFoundation to host an exhibition ofwork by the Neddy Artist Fellowshipnominees and winners. The Fellowshipis awarded to a Northwest artist whodemonstrates artistic excellence, innovation,unique vision and a passionatecommitment to his or her art and community;Ongoing “Speaking Parts: Conversationsbetween Works in the Collection”,explores the concept of howmuseums decide what artworks tochoose for the collection, through aselection of works from the museum’scollection organized around a mixedmedia construction by Northwest artistDennis Evans; PERMANENT INSTALLATIONDale Chihuly Collection, glass artworkcollection dates from 1977 to the present.Visitors can access the Ear for Art:Chihuly Glass CellPhone Tour any timefrom anywhere by calling 888-411-4220. A map of audio stops throughoutdowntown Tacoma is available online.★ Traver Gallery100-1821 E Dock St✆(253)383-3685www.travergallery.comtues-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm Open3rd Thurs Artwalk 5-8pm. Thru Apr 5Looking Forward, group exhibition; Apr11-May 10 Inspired By, new work by 16young glass artists displayed alongsideone or two artists whose work inspiredtheir own; May 16-Jun 7 Nancy Blair,“Of Myth and Memory”, by combiningeveryday objects, iconic collectibles,precious and not so precious memorabiliain a new and vital way, creating acurious, evocative and powerful menagerieof metaphorical figures andalchemies – objects of curiosity that aretorn and fragmented then reconstructedfor a deeper meaning.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 73

Alpha listing of galleries in this issueAccess Artist Run Centre 31Agnes Bugera Gallery 11Alberta Craft Council Gallery 12Alcheringa Gallery 55Alliance française to Vancouver 31Allied Arts of Whatcom County 65AllMarquetry Studio Gallery 24Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College 25Appleton Galleries 31Arnold Mikelson Mind & Matter Gallery 30Art Beatus 31Art Emporium 31Art Gallery of Alberta 12Art Gallery of Calgary 8Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 55The Art Garden 34The Art Gym at Marylhurst University 62Art Rental & Sales at the Vancouver ArtGallery 34Art Works Gallery 34Artfirm Gallery 8Artists For Kids Gallery 25Arts Council Gallery of New Westminster 25Arts Off Main 34Artspeak 34ArtXchange Gallery 66Ashpa Naira Gallery 53Atelier Gallery 34Attic Gallery 62Aurora Gallery and Artists’ Co-op 35Aurum-Argentum Goldsmiths 35Autumn Brook Gallery 35The Avenue Gallery 55Barbara Boldt Original Art Studio 21Basic Inquiry Gallery & Studio 35Bau-Xi Gallery 35Bellevue Arts Museum 65Bellevue Gallery 59beppu wiarda gallery 62Bill Reid Gallery 35Billy King Studio 66bilton contemporary art 14Blackfish Gallery 62Brian Scott Studio and Gallery 20Britannia Art Gallery 37The Broadway Gallery 65Buckland Southerst Gallery 60Burke Museum 6674 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009Burnaby Art Gallery 17Burnaby Arts Council 14Burnaby Village Museum 16Buschlen Mowatt Gallery 37Campbell River Art Gallery 18Catriona Jeffries Gallery 37Centre A, Vancouver International Centrefor Contemporary Asian Art 37Chali-Rosso Art Gallery 37Chambers@916 63Charles H. Scott Gallery 37Chilliwack Visual Artists Association 19Circle Craft Gallery 37CityScape Community Art Space, NorthVancouver Community Arts Council 26Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery 38Collective Works Gallery 55Collector’s Gallery 8Community Arts Council of GreaterVictoria 55Comox Valley Art Gallery 20Contemporary Art Gallery 38Craft Council of BC 38Cultural Centre Gallery 14Cunliffe House Gallery 23Dales Gallery 56Delta Arts Council 20Deluge Contemporary Art 56Diana Paul Galleries 8Diane Farris Gallery 38Doctor Vigari Gallery 38Dorian Rae Collection 39Douglas Reynolds Gallery 39Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton 12Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver 39DRAW Gallery 28Dundarave Print Workshop and Gallery 39Eagle Spirit Gallery 39Eastwood Onley Gallery 39Elaine Brewer-White 21Elissa Cristall Gallery 39Elizabeth Leach Gallery 63Elliott Louis Gallery 39Emily Carr University Alumni Societyat QE Theatre 40English Bay Gallery 40Equinox Gallery 40Esplanade Art Gallery 14Evergreen Cultural Centre Art Gallery 19Exposure Gallery 40Federation Gallery 40Ferry Building Gallery 60The Fort Gallery 21Foster/White Gallery 66The Foyer Gallery, Squamish PublicLibrary 30Framagraphic Framing Gallery 40Frye Art Museum 68G. Gibson Gallery 68Gabriola Artworks 21Gallery 110 68Gallery at Hycroft, University Women's Clubof Vancouver 41Gallery at the Mac 56Gallery Gachet 41Gallery in the Oak Bay Village 56Gallery Jones 41Gallery of B.C. Ceramics 41Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens andGallery 23Gibsons Landing Gallery Artist's Co-op 30Glenbow Museum 8grace-gallery 41The Graffiti Co. Art Studio/Gallery 26Grand Forks Art Gallery 23Greenery Florist & Gallery 42Greg Kucera Gallery 69grunt gallery 42Hallie Ford Museum of Art 64Havana Gallery 42Heffel Fine Art Auction House 42Helen Pitt Gallery 42Henry Art Gallery 69Herringer Kiss Gallery 10Hodnett Fine Art Studiio Gallery 42Howe Street Gallery of Fine Art & The Soulof Africa Collection 42Ian Tan Gallery 42Imagine That! Artisans’ Designs 21Inuit Gallery of Vancouver 43JACANA Contemporary Art 43Japanese Canadian National Museum 16Jenkins Showler Gallery 61Jennifer Kostuik Gallery 43Jewish Museum and Archives 43Jeunesse Gallery of Fine Arts 43

Alpha listing of galleries in this issueJoyce Williams Antique Prints & Maps 43Kamloops Art Gallery 23Kelowna Art Gallery 24Kootenay Gallery 18Kurbatoff Art Gallery 43Kwantlen Art Gallery 31Langara College Fine Arts Department 46Langham Cultural Centre Gallery 23Lattimer Gallery 46Laura Russo Gallery 63Lawrence Eng 46The Legacy Gallery & Cafe 57Leighdon Studio Gallery 46LI-ZHI Gallery 46LindaLando Fine Art 46Lions Bay Art Gallery 24Lisa Harris Gallery 69Lloyd Gallery 27Loch Gallery 10M. Morgan Warren’s Studio 29Malaspina Printmakers 46Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery 57Maple Ridge Art Gallery 24Marilyn S. Mylrea Gallery 46Marion Scott Gallery 46Martin Batchelor Gallery 57Mat & Mitre Gallery 27Maryanne’s Eden 8McPherson Library Gallery 57Mercurio Gallery 57Monny's Art Gallery 48Monte Clark Gallery 48Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 48Morris Gallery 57Muir Gallery, Comox Valley Community ArtsCouncil 20Murdoch Collections 63Museum of Anthropology, University ofBritish Columbia 49Museum of Contemporary Craft 63Museum of Glass 73Museum of Northern B.C. 28Museum of Northwest Art 65Nanaimo Art Gallery 25The New Gallery (TNG) 10NEWZONES Gallery 10Northwest By Northwest Gallery 60Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 61Numen Gallery 49Nyree Hazelton Arts Inc. 49The Old School House Arts Centre 28Omega Gallery 49On the Rise Artists Collective 49Open Space 57Or Gallery 50Osoyoos Art Gallery 27Oxygen Art Centre 25Paul Kuhn Gallery 10Paw Prints Studio & Gallery 27Pendulum Gallery in the Atrium 50Peninsula Gallery 29Penticton Art Gallery 27Peter Kiss Studio and Gallery 50Petley Jones Gallery 50Place des Arts 19Port Angeles Fine Arts Center 65Port Moody Arts Centre 28Portland Art Museum 63Pratt Gallery at Tashiro Kaplan Studios 69Presentation House Gallery 26ps gallery at place 58Quails’ Nest Studio.com 8Quality Pictures 64Rendezvous Art Gallery 50Republic Gallery 50Richmond Art Gallery 28The Robinson Studio Gallery 50Royal BC Museum 58SAGA Public Art Gallery 29Salt Spring Woodworks 28Seattle Art Museum 71Seattle Asian Art Museum 71Seymour Art Gallery 26Shift Studio 72Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery 50Silk Purse Arts Centre 60Simon Fraser University Gallery and theTeck Gallery 16, 50Slide Room Gallery 58Sopa Fine Arts 24South Shore Gallery 29Southern Alberta Art Gallery 14Spirit Wrestler Gallery 50Station House Gallery 61Stofer Gallery 21The Stride Art Gallery Association 11Studio 13 Fine Art 50Studio Dieter Schlatter 50Summerland Art Gallery 30Sun Spirit Gallery 60Sunshine Coast Arts Council + Arts Centre 30Surrey Art Gallery 31Tacoma Art Museum 73Tanya Slingsby Gallery Atelier 50The Teck Gallery and Simon FraserUniversity Gallery 16, 50Toni Onley Archive 51Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Artand History 25Traver Gallery, Seattle 72Traver Gallery, Tacoma 73TrépanierBaer 11Tsawwassen Longhouse Gallery 31Tutt Art Galleries 24Two Rivers Gallery 28Udell Contemporary, Calgary 11Unitarian Church of Vancouver 51Uno Langmann Limited 51Vancouver Art Gallery 51Vancouver Maritime Museum 52Vancouver Museum 52View Art Gallery 59Vernon Public Art Gallery 55Vetri International Glass 72waterworks gallery 65The Weiss Gallery 11West End Gallery, Edmonton 12West End Gallery, Victoria 59West Vancouver Museum 61Western Bridge 73Western Front Gallery 53Western Gallery, Western WashingtonUniversity 65Whatcom Museum of History and Art 65White Bird Gallery 62White Rock Gallery 61Winchester Galleries 59Winsor Gallery 53The Wood Co-op 53Xchanges Gallery 59Yaletown Gallery 53www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 75

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GALLERY OPENINGS + EVENTSApril 2 Thursday7-9pm Opening reception: Spirits of the Forest, mastercarvers from the rain forests of Palembei and Yamok inPapua New Guinea. ALCHERINGA GALLERY, 665 Fort St,Victoria BC.6-9pm Opening reception: Jim Pustorino, Cosmic Strips,rotating large scale works in acrylic and pencil on denril.CHAMBERS@916, 916 NW Flanders, Portland OR.6-9pm Opening reception: Otto Rogers, Recent Works,abstract paintings. GALLERY JONES, 1725 W 3rd Ave,Vancouver BC.April 3 Friday6-9pm Opening reception: Emmanuelle Renard,EROSIONS, mixed media paintings. ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DEVANCOUVER, 6161 Cambie St, Vancouver BC.6-9pm Opening reception: Mariko Ando Spencer, RabbitGravity, collection of etchings. EASTWOOD ONLEY GALLERY,2075 Alberta St, Vancouver BC.8pm Opening reception: Dmitry Strakovsky, ...as if aforest, performance and video: artist will create an auralexperience of a forest. GRUNT GALLERY, 116-350 E 2ndAve, Vancouver BC.6-9pm Opening reception: spring, group exhibitionfeaturing work by Noel Hodnett, Thomasin Dewhurst,Richard Bond, Anton Chapman, Margie Britz, CarlBecker, Jonathan Cook and Laszlo George. HODNETT FINEART STUDIO GALLERY, 320-1000 Parker St, Vancouver BC.April 4 Saturday2-4pm Opening reception: Veronica Plewman, Cycle,paintings. JACANA GALLERY, 2435 Granville St,Vancouver BC.April 5 Sunday2-3:30pm Opening reception: Vern Montgomery,narrative paintings of westcoast scenes; Donna Polos,Painted Threads, watercolour-painted cotton embellishedwith machine and hand stitching; Karen Paul,chainmaille design jewellery in sterling silver and copper.GALLERY AT HYCROFT, UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S CLUB OFVANCOUVER, 1489 McRae Ave, Vancouver BC.April 9 Thursday6:30-8:30pm Opening reception: Andrew Tong, So ItGoes, children facing hostility, deception anddesensitization on a journey where the destination in anadult world is increasingly uncertain. ELLIOTT LOUISGALLERY, 258 E 1st Ave, Vancouver BC.April 10 Friday7pm Opening reception: Jennifer Waelti-Walters and JanJohnson, Telling Stories, painting and sculpture. COLLECTIVEWORKS GALLERY, 1311 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC.April 16 Thursday7-9pm Opening reception: Barrie Chadwick, AlfonsoTejada, Jennifer Tunner and Barry Walker, Memories:Home and Abroad, landscapes in oils, acrylics andwatercolours. CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE, NORTHVANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL, 335 Lonsdale Ave,North Vancouver BC.April 23 Thursday6-8pm Book Reading: Monika Ullman will read from TheLife and Art of David Marshall. BELLEVUE GALLERY, 2475Bellevue Ave, West Vancouver BC.6-8pm Opening reception: Wil Murray, New Works,acrylic and foam on board, abstract multimediaassemblages. DIANE FARRIS GALLERY, 1590 W 7th Ave,Vancouver BC.April 24 Friday5-9pm Opening reception: Maryanne Jespersen,Retrospective, paintings. MARYANNE’S EDEN, 109 CentreAve E, Black Diamond AB.April 25 Saturday7pm Opening reception: Jason Grondin, SubconsciousDownload, new paintings. COLLECTIVE WORKS GALLERY,1311 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC.7-9pm Opening reception: Ivan Meade, new work bydesigner/artist of Meade Design Group. PS GALLERY ATPLACE, 3-3690 Shelbourne St, Victoria BC.April 30 Thursday5-8pm Opening reception: Stev’nn Hall, Transformation,photo-based work. JACANA GALLERY, 2435 Granville St,Vancouver BC.May 2 Saturday4-7pm Opening reception: Debra Van Tuinen SoloExhibit, artist’s talk and demonstration. ART WORKSGALLERY, 225 Smithe St, Vancouver BC.78 PREVIEW ■ APR/MAY 2009

GALLERY OPENINGS + EVENTS cont’d7-10pm Art Auction Fundraiser: Asian Canadian ArtistShowcase. JAPANESE CANADIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM, 6688Southoaks Cres, Burnaby BC.May 3 Sunday2-3:30pm Opening reception: Ellen Scobie,photomontages; Richard Scheib, wearable art glasspendants and hand-fired beads set in sterling silver.GALLERY AT HYCROFT, UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S CLUB OFVANCOUVER, 1489 McRae Ave, Vancouver BC.May 7 Thursday6-9pm Opening reception: Kirk Botero and Eric Rue,Convergence, abstract paintings. BLACKFISH GALLERY, 420NW 9th Ave, Portland OR.6-9pm Opening reception: Jim Pustorino, Cosmic Strips,rotating large scale works in acrylic and pencil on denril.CHAMBERS@916, 916 NW Flanders, Portland OR.6:30-8:30pm Opening reception: Barbara Heller, FutureReliquaries, eminent tapestry artist interprets sacred relics.ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY, 258 E 1st Ave, Vancouver BC.6-9pm Opening reception: George Vergette, New Works.GALLERY JONES, 1725 W 3rd Ave, Vancouver BC.May 8 Friday7pm Opening reception: Dan Sali and Linda Jane Schmid,Essential Spaces - Paintings and Poetry. COLLECTIVE WORKSGALLERY, 1311 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC.6-10pm Opening reception: Andrew Mark Firestone,Vancouver: City of Neon & Glass, digital fine artphotography. EASTWOOD ONLEY GALLERY, 2075 Alberta St,Vancouver BC.May 9 Saturday6-10pm Pre-Auction Party and Sale: Join in the buzz ofthe auction season and buy original artworks by EmilyCarr, A.Y Jackson, Laura Muntz, Jack Shadbolt andothers. NYREE HAZELTON ARTS INC., 2652 Arbutus St,Vancouver BC.May 14 Thursday7-9pm Opening reception: Water Studies, featuring AlanMaples and others TBA, photographic artists explorewater in its fascinating and transformational form.CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE, NORTH VANCOUVERCOMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL, 335 Lonsdale Ave, NorthVancouver BC.6-8pm Opening reception: Fiona Ackerman, A HarlequinEscapade, oil on canvas and acrylic and pencil on paper.DIANE FARRIS GALLERY, 1590 W 7th Ave, Vancouver BC.May 21 Thursday6-8pm Opening reception: Open Print Show, a vastcollection of original prints ranging from etchings,intaglio, relief and serigraphs to hand-pulled lithographs.FEDERATION GALLERY, 1241 Cartwright St, Vancouver BC.May 22 Friday7pm Opening reception: Cindy Shin Min Wang, SalmonRun, new work. COLLECTIVE WORKS GALLERY, 1311Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC.5-9pm Opening reception: Maryanne Jespersen andJacki Boss, Gone Wild, new works. MARYANNE’S EDEN,109 Centre Ave E, Black Diamond AB.May 23 Saturday4-7pm Opening reception: Contemporary CoastalReflections II, graduation exhibition featuring works by 19students of the NEC Northwest Coast Jewellery ArtsProgram. LATTIMER GALLERY, 1590 W 2nd Ave, Vancouver BC.May 24 Sunday4-5:30pm Opening reception: Jessie Couzelis and TrenaCoulter, Naître: To be born, works by former DouglasCollege students. AMELIA DOUGLAS GALLERY, DOUGLASCOLLEGE, 700 Royal Ave, New Westminster BC.4-5:30pm Opening reception: Anna Banana, Big Dada,Circle T, The Clown, Countess Renee Snork-Snoutberger, Nancy Normal, The Scientist, M.W.Snertling and Robinson Crusoe, Alternative Identities,artists who use fabricated identities to express theircreative ideas. EVERGREEN CULTURAL CENTRE ART GALLERY,1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam BC.May 28 Thursday5-8pm Opening reception: Cybele Ironside, Gateway,paintings. JACANA GALLERY, 2435 Granville St, VancouverBC.May 29 Friday7-10pm Opening reception: Betty Fahlman,Imprisonment for Removal, series of paintings. OXYGENART CENTRE, 3-320 Vernon St, Nelson BC.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 79