Sept–October 2007 - Preview

Paintings by Karel Appel, A. Calder,E. Cortez, Montague Dawson, Jeanand Raoul Dufy, A. Hambourg, J.Hervé, R.L. Pangella, Picasso, Utrillo,A. Volti, Andrew Wyeth, andCanadians Max Bates, DonaldFlather, H.G. Glyde, E.J. Hughes, F.Lansdowne, John Little, Henri Masson,Hugh Monahan, G. Otto,Riopelle, Goodridge Roberts, JackShadbolt, and Andrew Wong.Art Rental & Sales at theVancouver Art Gallery750 Hornby St ✆604-662-4716www.artrentalandsales.common-fri 10am-4pm The most dynamiccollection of contemporary Canadianart Vancouver has to offer, representing200 artists, all styles, subjectsand mediums available for purchaseor rental. Visit our gallery located onthe main floor of the Vancouver ArtGallery.Art Works Gallery225 Smithe St ✆604-688-3301www.artworksbc.common-fri 9am-6pm sat 10am-6pmThru Sep 21 Kaleidoscope, featuringgallery artists at their most colourful;Sep 22-Oct 27 Pietro Adamo, DebraVan Tuinen and Sharon Quirke, “TrioII”, featuring new work by three of ourmost prolific and contrasting artists.Arts Off Main216 E 28th Ave ✆604-876-2785604-255-9924www.artsoffmain.cawed-sat 11am-6pm sun-11am-5pmArts Off Main is an artist-run gallery,featuring accessible and affordablepaintings, prints, sculpture, photographs,jewellery and pottery byB.C. artists. We present outdoor artshows every sunny summer weekend,noon to 3pm.Artspeak233 Carrall St ✆604-688-0051www.artspeak.catues-sat 12-5pm Sep 8–Oct 13Melvin Moti, “No Show”. Dutch artistMelvin Moti’s 2004 “No Show” is a 24-minute film based on a tour of theempty Hermitage Museum given duringWorld War II, in which a guideshows a group of soldiers through thevacant rooms, describing from memorythe missing paintings of the Hermitage’scollection; Oct 20-Nov 24Don Coltman (Steffens-Colmer Ltd.),Kristan Horton, Jack Lindsay, TarasPolataiko, “On the Beach”,. inspiredby the 1957 best-selling novel of thesame name by Nevil Shute, this groupof contemporary artists use archivalmaterial (including photographic documentsof WWII invasion drills onVancouver’s Kitsilano Beach) to considerthe current global climate in relationto diversion and catastrophe.Atelier Gallery2421 Granville St ✆604-732-3021www.ateliergallery.caPhoenix, 2007, oil on linen, 45 x 52 inchesS Y L V I A T A I TO C T 1 3 - 2 7, 2 0 0 7B A U - X I G A L L E R Y3045 GRANVILLE STREET, AT 14TH AVENUEVANCOUVER, BC, V6H 3J9 TEL: (604) 733 - 7011EXHIBITIONS ONLINE AT WWW.BAU-XI.COMmon-sat 11am-5pm sun 12-5pm Sep8-29 “Figures and Fables”, SonjaAhlers, Julie Morstad, selected work;Michael Swaney, the Royal ArtLodge; Oct 4-27 David Wilson, “MoreThan Blue: New Paintings”, acrylic oncanvas.Aurum-ArgentumGoldsmiths1351 Railspur Alley ✆604-692-2522pernilla@telus.netOpening Oct 11 Afuwa Granger,recent large-scale drawings andpainting exploring skin, transcienceand beauty.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 39