Preview of the Visual Arts | April-May 2010

www.westerngallery.wwu.edu/
Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest
Artists on the Environment
WESTERN GALLERY, WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA – Apr 12-May 29, 2010
Critical Messages is a group exhibit featuring 26 artists whose work responds to environmental impacts
on the Northwest. The natural environment is a large part of the region's aesthetic beauty as well as its
resources. The dichotomy between awe-inspiring landscapes and the industrialization and population
of the region raises awareness for many artists. The
exhibit highlights work by artists from British Columbia,
Washington, Oregon, California and Idaho.
The range of approaches, media, points of view and
results is quite varied and provides many perspectives
from which to reflect. Curator Sarah Clark-Langager
categorizes the major themes and underlying issues:
mass production and consumption, waste management,
preservation and sustainability, climate change,
how sources of energy are changing the ecosystem,
growth management and the dual-sided urban/rural
conflict. Jana Demartini depicts an iconic bulldozer set
against organic patterns, evoking the feeling of harsh
machinery employed to break ground on new suburban
developments that reduce open space and farm-
land. Both Margaretha Bootsma and Steve Davis utilize
imagery of colossal industrial plants to address pollution
and decay. Chris Jordan’s photographs showing
statistical quantities of discarded water bottles raise
consciousness about American cultural habits.
painting, sculpture, drawing, design,
ceramics, printmaking and new media.
Lattimer Gallery
1590 W 2nd Ave ✆604-732-4556
www.lattimergallery.com
mon-sat 10am-6pm sun 11am-5pm
holidays 12-5pm. Specializing in Northwest
Coast Native art, including gold
and sterling silver jewellery, masks,
panels, bentwood boxes, totem poles,
argillite, sculptures, paintings and limited
edition prints.
Leighdon Studio Gallery
190 W 3rd Ave ✆604-875-0029
www.leighdon.ca
tues-sat 10am-2pm sun & mon by
appt. Apr 6-30 Frank Zeidler, Janice
Toulouse, Roxane Tiernan and Larry
Lahoski, “April Exhibition”; May 4-29
Enda Bardell, William Steinberg,
Gayle Arnold and Patricia Carroll,
“May Exhibition”.
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Liberté Gallery
504-2050 Scotia St ✆604-873-5583
www.libertegallery.com
tues 4-7pm or by appt. Apr 1-May 30
Passia Pandora, “Eclectic Vancouver”,
photographs and abstract paintings of
Vancouver’s eclectic urban landscapes.
The Lido Art Gallery
518 E Broadway
✆778-829-0580 604-505-1647
www.limeimages.com
sat 11am-3pm and by appt. Apr-May
Leslie Emile, original paintings by Vancouver
artist featuring paintings of Orca
whales.
★ Marilyn S. Mylrea Gallery
2341 Granville St ✆604-736-2450
www.marilynmylrea.com
wed-sun 12-5pm or by appt. Apr 1-May
31 Contemporary group exhibition with
art by gallery artists including serene
landscape abstracts by Marilyn S. Myl-
Philip Govedare, Flood (2009), oil on canvas [Western
Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA,
Apr 12-May 29]
The regional exhibition will travel to the Hallie Ford Museum in Salem, Oregon and the Boise Art
Museum in Idaho. A detailed exhibition catalogue provides curatorial insight on the participating artists
(see catalogue review on page 67). Allyn Cantor
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND FRANCINE SEDERS GALLERY, SEATTLE, WA.
rea; Impressionistic landscapes by
Robert Jess Marshall with rich textures;
Realism paintings by Jane Bronsch
and colourful, large abstracts by
Jonathan Lorne.
Marion Scott Gallery
308 Water St, Gastown
✆604-685-1934
www.marionscottgallery.com
tues-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 11am-5pm.
Apr 18-May 23 Shuvinai Ashoona, Itee
Pootoogook, Nick Sikkuark and Jutai
Toonoo, “Portrait: Contemporary Inuit
Drawings”, portraits, caricatures and
self-portraits from some of northern
Canada's top contemporary artists,
Monny’s Art Gallery
2675 W 4th Ave ✆604-733-2082
monny@shaw.ca
mon-sat 11am-6pm. Andrea Gower,
Kerensa Haynes, Ted Hesketh, Sonia
Kobrahel and Stanimir Stoylov, this