Experience It! Community Art Exhibitions
Come visit The Outlet and The Gathering Place at Leigh Square for new exhibitions this season. The Exhibition Program at the Leigh Square facilitates community cultural development through the coordination of multi-disciplinary, temporary exhibits created by artists in Port Coquitlam and across Metro Vancouver. Exhibitions promote inclusive community access and interaction with exhibitions that cultivate the imagination.
APRIL 1- MAY 2 CLAIRE SARFELD Claire Sarfeld is an artist living and working in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Sarfeld grew up in small town southern Ontario, and moved out to B.C. after completing her degree in Fine Arts; Drawing and Painting from OCAD University in Toronto. The primary source of inspiration for Sarfeld’s work has been an exploration of her travels between Canada and the States and the affective experience of camping and exploring nature. This, combined with her time spent living in Toronto has developed her characteristic style that merges influences of the city and nature. Borrowing aspects of both her traditional training and the more intuitive expressions of abstract style Sarfeld manipulates colours and textures inspired by her travels in nature, and the geometric lines of the city – her focus has been creating a balance of order and chaos.
MAY 4- 30 MINDFULNESS IN MAY – YOUTH ART EXHIBIT
JUNE 1- JULY 31 P. THOMAS WOOD Psychology and visual art share several areas of interest, one of which is visual perception. Within this field, the investigation of abstraction explores the concept of Gestalt. Art is a visual language, an ideal vehicle for encompassing these reference points, while exhibiting similar concepts in pattern, colour, repetition, abstraction and mathematics. P. Thomas Wood is fascinated by colour and the architecture of paint. Wood’s investigation of the “Opstraction” series (optical abstraction) encompasses pattern, colour, repetition and mathematics. The grid system employed to exhibit these ideas is the back drop for rotating patterns and exploring colour combinations within the mathematical confines of the grid. His “Cubestraction” series uses a Dada starting point of torn pieces of paper randomly dropped onto a gesso wet canvas as a compositional starting point, then it is claimed as a colour theory expression with patterns employed for visual continuity.
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ARTS & CULTURE
The Friends of Leigh Square Society announce their 3rd annual juried exhibition of fine and literary arts, created by students. See how the youth of the district transform Leigh Square with their creativity and share their ideas and insights on the subject of gender roles.