Preview: The Gallery Guide | JuneâAugust 2010
Preview: The Gallery Guide | JuneâAugust 2010
Preview: The Gallery Guide | JuneâAugust 2010
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www.jacanagallery.com<br />
Verne Harrison: Circa 1978<br />
JACANA CONTEMPORARY ART, VANCOUVER BC – Jun 16-Jul 11, <strong>2010</strong> In Circa 1978, Verne Harrison<br />
presents a series of giclée prints enlarged from Polaroids he took while working in the Alberta oil<br />
fields. Interspersed with a few glorious shots of landscape and skies, his pictures of small-town Canada<br />
are populated with small-town people wearing late-70s clothes and hairdos. <strong>The</strong> original snapshots were<br />
each digitally printed 18 x 22 inches for the show. While the<br />
pictures create a portrayal of workers during the oil boom,<br />
they also capture in a nostalgic way – to a great extent due to<br />
the post-apocalyptic lighting and colours of the Polaroid<br />
medium – the sensibilities of the 70s in all its funkiness.<br />
Verne Harrison was born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1955. He<br />
completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University<br />
of Western Ontario in 1985 after studying Fine Art at Fanshawe<br />
College in London, Ontario. He continues to live and<br />
work in Guelph, Ontario.<br />
Harrison, who uses a wide variety of media, has been<br />
exhibiting since 1982 in a variety of galleries. From self-portraits<br />
to public sculpture, he has an ironic style with a strong<br />
cultural bias and sense of humour. His work is in several<br />
public and private collections in Canada and the United<br />
States. In recent years he has exhibited in Shakespeare Made<br />
in Canada: Finding the Bard in Contemporary Portraiture Verne Harrison, #7 Dan, giclée on Oce photo paper,<br />
(2007), at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (2006), and in edition of 1 (1978) [Jacana Contemporary Art,<br />
Transactions: 11 Artists from Canada at the Chongqing Art Vancouver BC, Jun 16-Jul 11]<br />
Museum, China (2008). Currently he is the gallery co-ordinator<br />
at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre where he has been employed since 1992. Mia Johnson<br />
Brook <strong>Gallery</strong> represents painters and<br />
sculptors from BC and other regions.<br />
Also serves as a special event reception<br />
venue with in-house cocktail and<br />
dinner catering, and a Saturday and<br />
Sunday public brunch service.<br />
★ Baron <strong>Gallery</strong> and Studio<br />
293 Columbia Street, Gastown<br />
✆604-682-1114 www.barongallery.ca<br />
tues-sat 11am-6pm. Thru Jul 24<br />
“Group Exhibition by Contemporary<br />
Artists”, various media; Vincent<br />
Dumoulin, 2-D wall art created by<br />
using sacred mathematical principles<br />
from the Kabbalah; James K-M, primal,<br />
hard edged, optically charged<br />
paintings; Peeta, Italian artist based<br />
in Vancouver, new canvases using his<br />
impressive 3-D technique; Greg<br />
Swales, painting and photography<br />
creating an instant connection on a<br />
multitude of social and cultural levels.<br />
Bau-Xi <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
3045 Granville St<br />
✆604-733-7011 www.bau-xi.com<br />
mon-sat 10am-5:30pm sun 12-4pm.<br />
Jun 5-26 MAIN FLOOR David Alexander,<br />
new series of abstract waterscapes;<br />
UPPER GALLERY Jude Griebel; Jul 8-24<br />
Bobbie Burgers, lusciously painted<br />
florals; Jul 10-24 Lisa Birke, Drew<br />
Burnham and Julie Morstad, “Drawn<br />
Festival”; Aug 7-21 Sheri Bakes, emotionally<br />
charged landscapes.<br />
Becker Galleries<br />
210-1333 Johnston St, Granville Island<br />
✆604-681-7677<br />
www.beckergalleries.com<br />
wed-fri 10am-5pm or by appt. Showcasing<br />
the works of internationally<br />
acclaimed artists featuring Harold<br />
Feist, Michael Morris, Paul Day, Hanna<br />
Nitsch and Vincent Magni, photography<br />
by Dave Robertson, Caralea<br />
Cole, Larry Fink and Lois Conner.<br />
Bill Reid <strong>Gallery</strong> of<br />
Northwest Art<br />
639 Hornby St ✆604-682-3455<br />
www.billreidgallery.ca<br />
wed-sun 11am-5pm. Admission:<br />
adults $10, seniors & students $7,<br />
children 5-17 $5, children 5 and under<br />
free, family (2 adults + children) $25.<br />
Group rates and guided tours available<br />
when booked in advance. Thru<br />
Jul 11 John Brent Bennett and Bill<br />
Reid, “A Tale of Two Artists”, prints;<br />
Opens Jul 16 Time Warp: Contemporary<br />
Textiles of the Northwest Coast;<br />
Ongoing Highlights include over 40<br />
pieces of Bill Reid’s gold and silver<br />
jewellery (several of Reid’s works that<br />
appear on the Canadian $20 bill) and a<br />
full-scale totem pole carved by James<br />
Hart of Haida Gwaii.<br />
Britannia Art <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
1661 Napier St, Britannia Library<br />
✆604-718-5800<br />
www.britanniacentre.org<br />
mon, thurs, fri 8:30am-5pm tues, wed<br />
8:30am-9pm sat 9:30am-5pm sun 1-<br />
5pm. Jun 2-25 Art by Students of<br />
Grandview/¿uuqinak’uuh Elementary<br />
School, “West Coast Aboriginal Expression”;<br />
Jun 30-Jul 30 Pamela Cambiazo,<br />
Lena Tan and Kate MacDonald,<br />
“Fleeting”; Aug 4-Sep 3 Olivia Blander,<br />
“Saturated”, photography; Oliver Harwood,<br />
“Symbiosis”, sculpture.<br />
46 PREVIEW ■ JUNE/JULY/AUGUST <strong>2010</strong> ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS
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