Preview of the Visual Arts | April-May 2010

TSAWWASSEN
Tsawwassen Longhouse
Gallery
1710 56th St ✆604-943-3313
www.southdeltaartistsguild.com
thurs-sun 11am-4pm. Apr 1-25 Bold
Strokes; Apr 29-May 23, The Artist’s
Eye.
Tsawwassen Mall
1299 56th St, Delta ✆604-943-3313
www.southdeltaartistsguild.com
mon-thurs & sat 9:30am-6pm fri 9:30am-
7pm sun 12-5pm. May 8-14 Mall Show,
organized by the Tsawwassen Longhouse
Gallery.
VANCOUVER
Access Gallery
New address: 437 W Hastings St
✆604-689-2907 www.vaarc.ca
tues-sat 12-5pm. Apr 17-May 29 Ray-
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mond Boisjoly, “The Ever-Changing
Light”, first solo exhibition by this Vancouver-based
artist of Haida and Quebecois
background. Boisjoly is interested
in the way cross-cultural contact
shifts and transforms the conceptual
and material understanding of communication.
New media work involving
projection of television snow and text
concerning visualization and physical
presence of language.
Appleton Galleries
1451 Hornby St ✆604-685-1715
www.appletongalleries.com
mon-fri 8am-1pm. Call for hours or
appt. Specialists in Inuit and First
Nations art for over 40 years. We specialize
in Canadian Inuit stone sculpture
and Northwest Coast First
Nations wood carvings (Haida, Kwakiutl,
Coast Salish, masks, paddles,
talking sticks, plaques and more).
Over 2,500 original carvings featuring
works by Abraham Anghik Ruben and
Clifford Pettman.
www.grace-gallery.com
Angela Fama: Mirrorface
GRACE-GALLERY AND ON MAIN GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – May 1-29, 2010 In Mirrorface,
Vancouver artist Angela Fama examines that moment of self-absorption and candidness when we
check our appearance in a mirror. The exhibit consists of 12 double portraits of men and women
between the ages of 25 and 35. After shooting a straight-on passport-style photo of each subject
in her studio, Fama left each person alone in the room with a mirror and a way to signal when
they felt they were showing their private face to the lens. The second photo was taken remotely,
without Fama present, by the camera mounted on a tripod. The diptychs invite us to study each
face in both the guarded and unguarded moments.
Angela Fama studied art in high school in Ontario and earned a Photo Imaging Diploma from
Langara College, Vancouver in 2004. She currently works as an artist and a commercial photographer
from her studio in Cartelera
Talent House, a local collective of 12
painters, writers and photographers.
She created Mirrorface in the summer
of 2008 and has shown in several
group shows, including Photo
Mission: Three Stories at the Elliott
Louis Gallery (2007) and 440hz
Electromagnetic Explorations (2007),
a Canada Council-funded project.
Angela Fama, Mirrorface 01: Christa (2008-2010), C-Print [concurrently at
grace-gallery and ON MAIN Gallery, Vancouver BC, May 1-29]
Fama was a winner of Flash Forward
– Emerging Photographers
2009 (Magenta Foundation) and
has received honourable mentions for her work from the International Photography Awards
(2009) and Photographer’s Forum (2003). She has shot commercially for many magazines and
other publications, and for numerous designers and musicians. Mia Johnson
Art Beatus (Vancouver)
Consultancy Ltd.
108-808 Nelson St ✆604-688-2633
www.artbeatus.com
mon-fri 10am-6pm. Thru Apr 9 Tomoka
Ike, “Conversations on the Street”, doll
artist’s life-like representations of real
people and real situations inspired by
conversations with strangers encountered
on the streets of Vancouver, BC;
Apr 30-Jul 2 Ramón Singley, “Streetheads”,
New York photographic artist
captures fleeting moments of life focusing
on the heads and faces of people of
all backgrounds, in pensive moments
amid the streets.
Art Emporium
2928 Granville St ✆604-738-3510
www.theartemporium.ca
mon-sat 10am-6pm. Exceptional inventory
of paintings by major Canadian,
American and French masters of the 20th
C. featuring all members of the Group of
Seven, and several of their contemporaries,
Emily Carr, C. Krieghoff, David