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Exhibitions - Art in the Community
ART IN THE COMMUNITY Kris Noble: Faceted Florals
August 5 – September 20, 2021
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“Faceted Florals allude to the impermanence of our vision and that sparkling movement of pattern and color that occurs with the blink of an eye, the passing of a cloud, or the breath of a breeze.” Artist Statement
You Are Here 2022 Calendar Exhibition
September 23 - November 1, 2021
ARTISTS Sahar Banisoltan, Enda Bardell, Natalia Coronado, Chris Dalton, Lyza Del Mar Gustin, Tara Devine, Olivia George, Rick Herdman, Ishrat Khan, Dominique Walker, Theresa Wimbles, Yifei Zhang
12 images created by local artists depicting North Shore scenes. The You Are Here calendar tells the story of the North Shore Region through artistically rendered images of locations, places, or scenes that are recognizably in North Vancouver or West Vancouver, on the land of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. The works in this exhibition complement the North Shore Culture Compass to showcase the history, traditions, culture, and diversity of the North Shore.
Nomi Stricker, In the Blue, 2018
Nomi Stricker: ELSEWHERE
November 4, 2021 – January 24, 2022
“My recent oil and mixed media works depict curious, dream-like scenes. They are inspired by sites explored while traveling abroad (prepandemic) and by landscapes discovered around British Columbia. Memories, imaginings, and my own photography are fused, morphing into surreal abstract landscape. These unlikely spaces often revisit familiar landscape tropes – with oceans, mountains, forests, and desert terrain meeting my less literal visual language of paint swaths, arcs, and floating forms.” Artist Statement
February 3 - March 21, 2022
‘Ma Miaeem va Miravim (We Come and Go)’ is an artist book and a series of drawings which translates the artist’s first-grade English book, We Come and Go, from the Dick and Jane series into Persian-English, in which Persian words are written using the Roman alphabet. The phrase ‘Ma Miaeem va Miravim’ in the title is a translation of ‘We Come and Go’ in Persian-English. The coloured illustrations from the children’s book are also reproduced in black and white with some thematic changes and translations. This work poses questions about the preservation of the Persian language amongst generations of Iranian immigrants living in North America.
Ishrat Khan, Lonsdale Skateboarder
Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi, Miaeem va Miravim (We Come and Go), 2016 KrisNoble, Aftermath, 2020
Lynda Fownes, Birch Metropolis, 2020
Enda Bardell, THIRD POSITION (English Bay)
Lynda Fownes: Windfall
March 24 - May 23, 2022
Lynda Fownes’ earlier work focused on soft sculpture and fibre art. In recent years she has returned to the idea of exploring patterns and textures—in both choice of subject and use of acrylic media. For this show, Lynda Fownes took her inspiration from tree bark. She was drawn to the wealth of pattern variation, such as old/ young bark and inside/outside layers, that nature provides. In between other paintings, she returned to this series over the next two years, resulting in the current collection.
Enda Bardell: Freighter Fascination
May 26 - July 25, 2022
ARTIST STATEMENT “I am fascinated by the freighters in the harbor of Vancouver as seen from my balcony in Kitsilano, positioning themselves to be loaded or unloaded. The freighters seem to have a human quality about them, the way they move about, constantly being shifted by the tide, in control, yet not in control of which way the tide turns them.” Artist Statement
