Preview – The Gallery Guide | June through August 2011

With Limbs That Have Extention toSpace, executed in paper, the subject isa human image visiting animist sites asit makes the long transition of space;EDUCATION SPACE InStill Life, studentsexplore and participate in real worldissues by learning about the food weeat; Starry, Starry Night, Jul 7 annualfundraiser features over 100 lots rangingfrom fine art to exclusive packages,view the works online or contact thegallery for tickets and advance bids; Jul15-Sep 11 MAIN GALLERY Brent Bukowski,Judy DesBrisay and Destanne Norris,“Ebb and Flow”, examines the subjectof water, its politics and its conservation;PROJECT ROOM Mark Laver:Rural Disasters, paintings emergefrom memories of childhood growingup in rural Vancouver Island; TONI ONLEYGALLERY A Brush With Greatness: ACreative Kids Art Program Fundraiser,60 used paintbrushes used by some ofcontemporary art’s great painters, thebrushes have been framed with a photoof the artist and a letter stating that thepaintbrush was used by them in theirart practice – the brushes will be auctionedoff in September to benefit thegallery’s Creative Kids Art programs.PORT MOODYPort Moody Arts Centre2425 St Johns St ✆604-931-2008www.pomoartscentre.caPort Moody Arts Centre: mon-thurs10am-8pm fri-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-4pm, closed holidays, ScotiabankGallery: 2501 St John St, mon-thurs10am-4pm, fri 10am-5pm. Jun 7-Jul 2MAIN GALLERY, PLUM GALLERY, 3DGALLERY AND SCOTIABANK GALLERY PortMoody Arts Centre Students, workcreated as a result of courses andworkshops at the centre; Jul 14-Sep 3MAIN GALLERY Rose Eysmond, “NatureMorte et Vivante”, oil and acrylic paintingson canvas; 3D GALLERY DebbieTeupah, sculpture that explores tensionand balance; PLUM GALLERY ANDSCOTIABANK GALLERY Olga Polshina,“Enamels: From Ancient Icons to ModernImages”; PLUM DISPLAY CASE TBA.PRINCE GEORGETwo Rivers Gallery725 Civic Plaza ✆250-614-7800www.tworiversgallery.cawed-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pmsun 12-5pm. Thru Jul 3 Clint Neufeld:Grandpa Used to Wash My Hands withGasoline, ceramic transformations ofengines and transmissions, the sculpturestransform a grease monkey’s loveof car parts into something precious;Us: Keith Carlson; Jean Chisholm;Judith DesBrisay; Melanie Desjardines;Edward Epp; Andrea Fredeen;Vanessa Funk; Monique Germaine;Michele Jensen; Trevor Lloyd Jones;Betty Kovacic; Marc Lacaille; HughPerkins; Gerda Volz; Joanna Smythe;Kiano Zamini, explore the theme of‘Us’,, offering a range of perspectivesthrough recent work by artists fromacross the central interior of B.C.; Jul14-Oct 9 “Frozen: Donald Lawrence,Mario Villeneuve, Matthew Wheeler”,perception of photographs is that theyrepresent moments frozen in time;Donald Lawrence, “One Eye Folly”,photographic apparatus that can beentered, revealing itself to be a cameraobscura; Mario Villeneuve, largeimages of gloves, many now petrifiedfound on the ground; Matthew Wheeler,photographs made using ice lenses,some hacked from the landscape itself,portray a world in flux; Peter Dykhuisand Gil McElroy, “Cold War Artefacts,Logroad: The Baldy Hughes Project”,site-specific installation featuring thegeodesic domes used at the site,included are archival photographs andperiod documents pertaining to the historyand role of the station up until itsclosure in 1988.PRINCE RUPERTMuseum of Northern B.C.100 First Ave W ✆250-624-3207www.museumofnorthernbc.comtues-sat 9am-5pm. Admission: adults$6, students $2, children under 12 $1,children under 5 free, members free.Thru Jun Easel Weasel Artists Guild,“Waterworks”, new artwork in a varietyof media by Guild members on thetheme of water; Thru Jul Nigel Fox,“Northern Revisions: A Tale of Two Cultures”,depicts Northern B.C. from atraditional native perspective and fromthe perspective of other cultures featuringlandscapes and Northwest Coaststyle paintings and carvings; OngoingPermanent exhibits of Northwest Coasthistory, art and culture in several galleries,the KWINITSA RAILWAY STATIONMUSEUM and the TSIMSHIAN DANCE LONG-HOUSE, exhibits, art and performance.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 35