Preview of the Visual Arts | April-May 2010

BURNABY
Burnaby Art Gallery
6344 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-297-4422
www.burnabyartgallery.ca
tues-fri 10am-4:30pm sat-sun 12-5pm.
Admission is free. Thru Apr 18 Laurence
Hyde: The Southern Cross, ‘book without
words’ composed of 118 blocks that
tells the story of a fictional Micronesian
family that fell victim to the American
military, a story based on actual events
that took place on the Bikini Islands in
1946 when the American government
displaced a community of close to 200
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people in order to use the area as a
hydrogen bomb test site; Thru May 23,
FAX invites a multi-generational group
of artists, architects, designers, filmmakers,
and thinkers to conceive of the
fax machine as a drawing tool; Apr 22-
May 23 Arts Alive features artworks by
over 100 secondary students from
across Burnaby School District 41 in a
variety of media.
Burnaby Arts Council
6584 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-298-7322
www.burnabyartscouncil.org
tues-sun 12-4pm. Admission is free.
Apr 2-25 Celebration of Spring, annual
juried show with the theme of “rebirth
and renewal”, part of BC Arts and Culture
Week; Apr 30-May 23 Wendy
Skroce and Jane Appleby, “Journey
and Crossings”, paintings.
Burnaby Village Museum
6501 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-297-4565
www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca
May 1-Sep 6: tues-sun & holiday mon
11am-4:30pm. Admission: $6-$12.
Open for prebooked groups and programs
only. STRIDE STUDIO May 1-Sep 6
Tools of the Trade, building trades and
their impact on the environment, industry
workers and labour organizations
are the focus, other exhibits throughout
the museum give insight to workers’
lives from Burnaby’s past.
Insight Art
8160 Winston St, Rear Entrance
✆604-415-3484 604-421-3987 x308
www.insightart.ca
daily 10am-6pm. Insight Art is a warehouse
outlet gallery in Burnaby, BC with
hundreds of oil paintings on display. All
oil paintings are hand painted by professional
artists in their own studio, most of
the artists are from Xiamen, China. All
genres are represented including landscapes,
florals and abstract paintings. All
pieces are for sale or rental at affordable
prices, 10-day “Buy it and Try it” program.
Japanese Canadian
National Museum
6688 Southoaks Cres ✆604-777-7000
www.jcnm.ca
tue-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Apr 9 Asian
Canadian Artist Showcase and Art
Auction Showcase; Apr 24-Jun 19 Half
& Half: Robert Shiozaki and Mary
Anne Tateishi, two artists explore their
roots and ancestry in the museum’s
collections, a new exhibit of pottery,
mixed media and paintings.
Simon Fraser University
Gallery
AQ 3004, 8888 University Dr
✆778-782-4266 www.sfu.ca/gallery
tues-fri 10am-5pm sat 12-5pm. Thru
May 8 Sorel Etrog, “The Link Paintings”,
eight large paintings, each of
which is a cautionary tale in which the
human body is composed of tool-like
elements that reference instrumentalism
of every type, contrasting it with the
fragility of the human body; May 15-Jun
30 Helen Eady, Marcia Pitch and Elizabeth
Zvonar, (Vancouver), Cindy Loehr