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Chris Anderson: TimepiecesBELLEVUE GALLERY, WEST VANCOUVER BC – Dec 6, 2006-Jan 7, 2007 Timepieces by Americanartist Chris Anderson consists of a series of mixed-media paintings on paper. The metaphor for eachimage is a clock, with a small square signifying the “hand”rotating around the perimeter. Anderson actually sets the timewhen she begins each piece, then engrosses herself in the processof experimentation with materials, patterns, textures and colourrelationships.The artist writes, “These paintings appear as abstractions atfirst glance, but they are for me a very real visual diary… Eachpiece recalls the place in which I made the work, the worldoutside my studio, the time of day, the light, the sounds, and myown state of mind and heart – both spiritually and emotionally.”At 29.5" × 41.5" each, the paintings would allow extensivecompositional detail, but Anderson manages to keep each onesimple and streamlined.Anderson currently teaches at the Pratt Institute of Art inNew York, where she once studied. She also holds a Bachelor ofArts from Scripps College in Claremont, California and an MFAfrom Claremont Graduate University. From 1996 to 1998,Anderson worked as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Berlin. She hasbeen the recipient of grants from The National Endowment forthe Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Space,previewwww.bellevuegallery.caChris Anderson, Small Clocks (2006), mixedmedia [Bellevue Gallery, West Vancouver BC,Dec 6-Jan 7, 2007]Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts (CAPS Grant), and The Councilfor International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright), among many others. Her work is in thecollections of several prestigious American and European museums and galleries. The TimepieceSeries is also being shown at the Elaine Baker Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida and the Wexler Galleryin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mia JohnsonHerringer Kiss Gallery101-1111 11 Ave SW✆(403)228-4889www.herringerkissgallery.comtues-fri 11am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pmDec 24-Jan 2: closed Nov 18-Dec 23Marjan Eggermont, “give away a little,in order not to lose it all”, steel andcopper etchings with rich, texturalsurfaces in earth tones; Jan 9-27Gallery artists Bill Laing, MarjanEggermont, Jeremy Herndl, HarryKiyooka and Reinhard Skoracki.Loch Gallery1516 4th St SW ✆(403)209-8542www.lochgallery.comtues-sat 10am-6pm Nov-Jan Establishedin 1972, the gallery specializesin building collections of qualityCanadian, American, British andEuropean paintings and sculpture.We represent a talented group of professionalcontemporary artists inaddition to 19th and 20th century artworkof historic interest.10 PREVIEWThe New Gallery516-D 9th Ave SW ✆(403)233-2399www.thenewgallery.orgtues-sat 11am-5pm Nov 18-Dec 16Chantal Rousseau, "What We Have isThis", two projects composed of handdrawnline animations. "Historiettes(little stories)" is a series of cyclical andunresolved narratives displayed onmonitors. They feature an interspeciesstruggle between women and birds;"Tree", video projection from a numberof animated templates.NEWZONES Gallery ofContemporary Art730 11th Ave SW ✆(403)266-1972www.newzones.comtues-sat 10:30am-5:30pm Thru Nov25 Marie Lannoo, paintings movebetween abstraction and representation,between modernist gravity andpop-decorative animation; Nov 30-Dec 23 Kevin Sonmor, paintings pushthe boundaries between the historicalconventions of landscape painting andthe contemporary aesthetic of theabstracted landscape; Jan Landscapex 12, annual exhibition features traditionallandscape paintings to silvergelatinphotographs.Paul Kuhn Gallery724 11th Ave SW ✆(403)263-1162www.paulkuhngallery.comtues-sat 10am-5:30pm Closed longweekend saturdays Thru Nov 4 BarbaraMilne, recent work; Prints fromVan Deb Editions; Nov 10-Dec 2 StuOxley, recent work.TrepanierBaer105-999 8th St SW ✆(403)244-2066www.trepanierbaer.comtues-sat 11am-5pm and by appt Dec24-Jan 2: closed Thru Nov 25 VikkyAlexander, Chris Cran, ChristianEckart, Will Mentor, Ron Moppett,John Will, “Found in Pop: 6 Artists”,share a common interest in vernacularsources reflecting contemporaryexperiences and popular culture; Thru