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www.trenchgallery.comDavid Mayrs: After That All Hell Broke LooseTRENCH CONTEMPORARY ART, VANCOUVER BC – Oct 20-Nov 12, 2011 Billed as “the controversialearly paintings of Vancouver artist David Mayrs”,After That All Hell Broke Loose includes the paintingsby Vancouver artist David Mayrs that drewthe attention of Vancouver police and led to acourt case in the mid-1960s.As Michael Turner notes in a brilliant essayaccompanying the exhibition, artwork and filmproducers of the 1960s had begun to question maleprivilege and introduce “a new and emergentfemale subject, one more complex and ultimatelymore powerful than her 1950s predecessor”. In amanner similar to de Kooning’s “Woman” series,or the less painterly but still disturbing femaleimagery of Francis Bacon, David Mayrs’s satiricaland provocative paintings addressed sexuality andsocial discourse as well as a new act of painting: virulent,violent (and even voluptuous) AbstractExpressionism.As with his contemporaries Ed Ruscha in LosAngeles and Andy Warhol in New York, Mayrscame from an advertising background where theDavid Mayrs, Mirror, Mirror (1966), oil on canvas [TrenchContemporary Art, Vancouver BC, Oct 20-Nov 12]role of sex was beginning to be explored. Thelengths to which Mayrs took sexual expression inhis paintings, however, was unprecedented. For themost part it remained in local art unmatched foranother 20 years, when Attila Richard Lukacs showed his homoerotic nudes.Vancouver artists during that period included Ron Stonier, Joan Balzar, Audrey Capel-Doray, PaulWong, Roy Kiyooka and Geoff Rees. The Trench Gallery provides a rare opportunity to witness artworkreflecting the deep social changes of the period. Mia Johnson27 “25! A Silver Milestone”, payingtribute and celebrating a quarter centuryof history, a treasure trove ofdocumentation with original worksfrom the thousands of artists whohave passed through the historicWebster Estate since 1986, includesworks by George Tsutakawa, WilliamMorris, Alfredo Arreguin, Leo Kenney,Charles Stokes, Dennis Evans,Nancy Mee, Mary Randlett, PhilipMcCracken, Jake Seniuk, Ann Morris,Anne Hirondelle and more; Dec2-Jan 8 Art Is A Gift, holiday bazaar ofNorthwest arts and crafts; Ongoing“Art Outside”, 12th season ofenchanting WEBSTER’S WOODS ARTPARK, one of the most distinctive outdoorart experiences in the Northwest,new works join the more than 100already on site, artists include RebeccaCummins, Jyoti Duwadi, SusanHazard, Pam Hom, Robert Horner,Gloria Lamson, Ingrid Lahti, CarolynLaw, Richard Metz, David Nechakand more.SEATTLEBilly King Studio + Showroom✆206-905-9363www.billyking.comby appt. Celebrating 40+ years ofartwork. The new Billy King Mural inPike Place Market now completed atthe top of Hillclimb stairs.★ Burke Museum of NaturalHistory and CultureUniversity of Washington, 17th AveNE @ NE 45th ✆206-543-5590www.burkemuseum.orgdaily 10am-5pm. Thru Jan 8 ¡Carnaval!,the arts and significance ofcarnival celebrations, highlights eightcelebrations from communities inEurope and the Americas featuring afull-scale art installation by localBrazilian artists; Ongoing Life andTimes of Washington State andPacific Voices, highlights art, ceremoniesand stories of 17 differentcultures from around the Pacific.Canlis Glass Gallery329-3131 Western Ave✆206-282-4428www.canlisglass.comwed-fri 12-6pm sat 11am-3pm and byappt. Nestled in the Northwest WorkLofts, this 3,500 sq. ft. independentgallery and studio is dedicated to theglass artwork of Jean-Pierre Canlis.The gallery is currently exhibiting Canlis’spopular Ocean Studies series,76 PREVIEW ■ NOVEMBER/DECEMBER/JANUARY 2011/12 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS