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Sylvia Kavanaugh: DancerEASTWOOD ONLEY GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Oct 23-30, 2010Sylvia Kavanaugh is a visual artist living in North Vancouver BCwho previously worked as a garment designer. Kavanaugh trained atthe Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design in Vancouver, BC andspent several years designing, manufacturing and illustrating herown clothing before turning to painting full-time. She currentlycreates figurative imagery layered with fabric, thread, wire and painton canvas.Dancer is a series of canvasses and papers whose boundaries havebeen treated like enclosures for figure drawing. Using the surfaceplanes of the artworks as her grounds and extending the imagery tothe edges of the “illusionary walls”, she illustrates what she describesas metaphoric figures, enclosed and contained by the artworksthemselves. Several of the works are reminiscent of beds or foldedcurtains with their rumpled, semi-transparent, floating fabric partiallyenclosing the nude women’s bodies.Kavanaugh was born in Saskatchewan. Her training has includedfull-time art and design studies at the University of Alberta in theFine Arts Program. She has worked as a graphic artist, illustrator,assistant to a television set designer and a design room sample cutterfor a garment manufacturer in addition to her work as an artist. Mia Johnsonwww.eastwoodonleygallery.comSylvia Kavanaugh, Moving ThroughTransience (2007), oil, acrylic, paper, fabric,thread and wire on canvas [Eastwood OnleyGallery, Vancouver BC, Oct 23-30]26 contemporary artists respond to ahost of environmental issues confrontingthe Pacific Northwest.WASHINGTONBELLEVUEBellevue Arts Museum510 Bellevue Way NE ✆425-519-0770www.bellevuearts.orgmon-thurs 11am-5pm fri 11am-8pmsat-sun 12-5pm. Admission: adult$10, senior/student $7, members andchildren 6 and under free. First Fri ofeach month is free 11am-8pm. ThruSep 19 The Art of Discovery: TheNorthwest Art Collection of the JuniorLeague of Seattle; Oct 5-Feb 6Ginny Ruffner, “Aesthetic Engineering:The Imagination Cycle”; Thru Oct11 Arline Fisch: Creatures from theDeep; Thru Jan 16 BAM Biennial2010: Clay Throwdown.BELLINGHAMWestern GalleryFine Arts Complex, WesternWashngton University ✆360-650-3963www.westerngallery.wwu.edu/mon-fri 10am-4pm wed 10am-8pmsat 12-4pm. Oct 4-Nov 6 Spellbound:Selections from the LehmannAfrican Art Collection; Ongoing Visitthe Outdoor Sculpture Collection.Whatcom Artist Studio TourPO Box 5921 ✆360- 393-7577www.studiotour.net10am-5pm. Oct 2-3 and Oct 9-10 15thAnnual Whatcom Artist Studio Tour, anon-profit juried fine art and craft artistrunannual fall event during which participatingartists’ studios are open to thepublic. Some studios offer demonstrationsand many are wheelchair accessible.The tour is free and self-guided. Formaps and information visit our website.Whatcom Museum121 Prospect St ✆360-778-8930www.whatcommuseum.orgtues-sun 12-5pm. Admission: general$10, students (with ID) and seniors(62+) $8, children 5 and under $4.50,members free. LIGHTCATCHER BUILDING,250 Flora St Sep 18-Jan 9 1934: A NewDeal for Artists, 55 paintings in celebrationof the 75th anniversary of the PublicWorks of Art Project (PWAP) which lastedfrom mid-Dec 1933 to Jun 1934, thefirst federal program to support unemployedAmerican artists who producedartwork that could be used to embellishpublic buildings; Thru Nov 13 Dobbs &Fleming, Asahel Curtis, J. W. Sandisonand Jack Carver, “Outside theHome: Photographs of Women in theWorkplace” focuses on women in andaround Bellingham from 1891 to 1969.FRIDAY HARBORwaterworks gallery315 Argyle St ✆360-378-3060www.waterworksgallery.common-fri 11am-6pm sat 11am-5pmsun 11am-4pm. Thru Sep 5 MichaelDickter, mixed media paintings;James Minson, lampworked glass;Sep 6-16 Caroline James, recentworks, mixed media paintings; Sep18-Oct 10 Stephen McMillian, “TheArt of the Aquatint Etching”.LA CONNERMuseum of Northwest Art121 S First St ✆360-466-4446, ext. 112www.museumofnwart.orgGalleries and museum store: sun-mon74 PREVIEW ■ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010