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www.jacanagallery.comKai McCall, Mo Tan and Kwan YuJACANA GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Nov 15-Dec 12, 2011 Jacana Gallery introduces the work ofthree artists new to the gallery: Kai McCall, Mo Tan andKwan Yu. The exhibit will be the first time Kai McCalland Mo Tan have shown in Vancouver. While McCall andYu focus on figures, Tan captures the anonymity of largecities.Kai McCall lives and works in Montreal when he hasshown at Galerie d’Avignon and Galerie McCLure. Hisunusual surrealist paintings pair pin-up girls in epic poseswith mythical creatures. Fanciful and slightly ambiguous,McCall’s colourful narratives are dense with referencesfrom art history, literature, illustration and films. Kwan Yusimilarly combines images and text from art magazineswith objects in his studio to create contemporary but enigmaticjuxtapositions. Yu’s style, however, is completely different.Sombre, almost spooky figures and faces emergefrom dark backgrounds and layers of wash. Yu has lived inVancouver since 1992, where he graduated with a BA fromEmily Carr Institute of Art & Design in 2001.Mo Tan is a Singapore artist based in Paris who hastravelled to more than 70 countries. Working from photosof urban scenes, he creates realistic renderings and partialglimpses of city streets, office windows, subway stations,railway yards, piers and bridges in Yokohama, New York,Kai McCall, Always (2011), oil on canvas [JacanaGallery, Vancouver BC, Nov 15-Dec 18]Paris, Rotterdam, Shanghai and dozens of other cities wordwide. He violates the precision of theacrylic paintings by fragmenting the composition or splashing them with dripping paint and otherpictorial treatments. Mia Johnsonloosely painted florals; UPPERGALLERY Ian Martin, black and whitephotographs, figurative studies;MAIN GALLERY Dec 3-17 GalleryArtists; Jan 4-29 New Work byGallery Artists.Bill Reid Gallery ofNorthwest Art639 Hornby St ✆604-682-3455www.billreidgallery.cawed-sun 11am-5pm. Admission:adults $10, seniors/students $7,youth/child 5-17 $5, kids 4 andunder free, family (2 adults + 2 children)$25. Group rates and guidedtours available when booked inadvance. Admission subject to tax.Showcasing the permanent collectionof Bill Reid alongside changingexhibitions of contemporary NorthwestCoast art. Thru Jan 8 “Bill Reidand the Haida Canoe”, conveys thepivotal role of the canoe in NorthwestCoast art, cultures and communities,through vivid works ofrenowned photographers PhilHersee and Robert Semeniuk, weexperience the revival of canoebuilding and paddling along thecoast and beyond.Blanket Contemporary Art560 Seymour St, 2nd Flr✆604-709-6100www.blanketgallery.comwed-sat 12-6pm and by appt. ThruNov 20 Paul P., “Byzantine Feet”,new body of romantic and elusiveportraits of young men, sourcedfrom 1970s and 80s porn magazinesfrom the Toronto Lesbian and GayArchive.Britannia Art Gallery1661 Napier St, Britannia Library✆604-718-5800www.britanniacentre.orgmon, thurs, fri 8:30am-5pm tues, wed8:30am-9pm sat 9:30am-5pm sun 1-5pm. Thru Dec 2 Nadia Baker, “PrintCulture in Vancouver – AdvertisingLandscapes”, combined printmakingmediums; Janis Corrado, “Placesand Traces”, assemblage; Dec 7-Jan 13 Ellen Bang, “DangerouslySoft”, sculpted felt and mixed media;Frank Aubichon, “The Way I Roll”, inkand pencil crayon drawings.Catalog Gallery56 Powell St ✆604-721-4266www.cataloggallery.orgwed-sun 1-8pm. Thru Nov 13 AndreaWan, “Dream On, Little Ghosts”,illustrations and paintings, curated byVaughn Robert Squire; contact thegallery for exhibition information.Catriona Jeffries Gallery274 E 1st Ave ✆604-736-1554www.catrionajeffries.comtues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Dec 3 Ullavon Brandenberg, Guy de Cointet,Geoffrey Farmer, Janice Kerbel,Daria Martin and Judy Radul, “PeopleThings Enter Exit”; Jan 12-Feb 18Ian Wallace: Masculin/Feminin.44 PREVIEW ■ NOVEMBER/DECEMBER/JANUARY 2011/12 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS