Preview – The Gallery Guide – April-May 2007

Burnaby’s early women entrepreneurs.
Visit the recently restored
interurban tram, which includes a
temporary photography display about
the pioneering women who worked
on the B.C. Electric Railway during the
Second World War.
Simon Fraser University
Gallery and the Teck
Gallery
Simon Fraser University
AQ 3004, Burnaby Campus, 8888
University Dr, Burnaby
Teck Gallery: 515 W Hastings St,
Vancouver ✆604-291-4266
www.sfu.ca/gallery
SFU gallery hours: tues-fri 10am-5pm
sat 12-5pm Teck gallery hours: mon-fri
8am-9pm sat 8am-6pm SIMON FRASER
UNIVERSITY GALLERY Thru Apr 21 Permeable
Borders, Cartographical Illusions
– The Art of the Map in 2007,
work by SFU staff, faculty and students;
Apr 28-Jun 23 Denise Hawrysio,
“Situational Prints”, formed by collaborations
between the artist and her
surroudings – etchings from plates
marked by cars, wheels of a rolling
bed, chefs and forensic technicians;
TECK GALLERY Thru May 3 Bruce Stewart,
six paintings from the “Salad Days
in British Columbia” exhibition. Idiosyncratic,
quasi-historical paintings
populated with family, friends and
famous British Columbians.
Burnaby Arts Council
6584 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-298-7322
www.burnabyartscouncil.org
tues-fri 11am-4pm sat-sun 1-4pm
Admission is free Thru Apr 29 Celebration
of Spring, featuring paintings,
photographs and sculpture by local
visual artists; May 5-27 Burnaby
Artist Guild, presents watercolour, oil,
acrylic and mixed media.
Burnaby Village Museum
6501 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-293-6501
www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca
April 1-May 4: open for pre-booked
groups only, call the museum to make
16 PREVIEW
arrangements May 5-Sep 3: open daily
11am-4:30pm Admission: $5-10.
Women at Work, the 1920s was a
period of fun-loving flappers and fabulous
fashions. It was also a time of
great social change for women as
they exercised their newly won right
to vote, entered politics and new professions
and used their spending
power in a consumer society. Exhibits
throughout the museum tell the stories
of Burnaby women in the 1920s.
Highlights include a fashion exhibition
at the STRIDE STUDIO by guest
curator Ivan Sayers, and photographs
and artefacts belonging to some of
CAMPBELL RIVER
Campbell River Art Gallery
1235 Shoppers Row ✆(250)287-2261
www.crartgal.ca
Summer: mon-sat 10am-5pm Winter:
tues-sat 12-5pm Apr 13-May 18
MAIN GALLERY Jude Norris, (Nehiyow
First Nations artist), “Roots, Scars,
Nests & Tines: New Positions, Timeless
Paradigms”, mixed media sculptures
and sculptural installations
where objects that have come to signify
‘traditional’ First Nations culture
are embellished with text in Cree,
English or computer code; Thru May
18 DISCOVERY GALLERY Krista Mullally,
“Going Outside: The Diary of an
Obsessive Compulsive”, photo-diary
account of a self-diagnosed obsessive
compulsive; May 25-Jun 29 MAIN
GALLERY 25th Annual Members’
Show, regional artists showcase the
diversity and quality of art making
practices in the community.