New West was made for walking. One stroll down Columbia Street, along the Fraser River waterfront, weaves you in and out of beautiful heritage buildings and stunning modern architecture like the Anvil Centre where inside, the New Westminster museum traces 10,000 years of culture in the region, next to the New Media Gallery that celebrates contemporary art created in a world transformed by technology. Prepare to be moved.
Two distinct bodies of work from two artists who capture the impermanence and fleeting memories of their subject. Both Julia Di Sano and Victoria Klassen, whose inspirations come from different
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Two distinct bodies of work from two artists who capture the impermanence and fleeting memories of their subject. Both Julia Di Sano and Victoria Klassen, whose inspirations come from different sources, explore the mystery of brief moments in time, of fragmented and fleeting memories that are translated to the canvas as an expression of emotion.
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January 30 (Monday) 10:00 am – March 22 (Wednesday) 8:00 pm
Please join us at The Gallery at Queen’s Park, for the exhibition of Crystal Noir’s “Guilty as Skin”.
“The concept for “Guilty As Skin” was born from my own feelings of
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Please join us at The Gallery at Queen’s Park, for the exhibition of Crystal Noir’s “Guilty as Skin”.
“The concept for “Guilty As Skin” was born from my own feelings of fear being a Black woman, as we continue to witness harrowing displays of police violence towards BIPOC communities throughout Turtle Island (North America).” ~ says Noir. “Having one’s identity dismantled, marginalized and regulated to non-human status demands both awareness and action. This series was created as a personal call-to-action to end the unjust policing of minority and disenfranchised bodies, and state-sanctioned acts of violence used as a tool to oppress BIPOC communities.”
The Gallery will also be hosting an artist talk and presentation, with Noir, on Sunday Feb. 19th from 1:00-3:00pm.
Before biosphere, before life, there were only the non-living, abiotic factors and a world of water.
The three installations in aBIOTIC abstract and synthesize the ethereal and mysterious behaviours of water. Technology, sound,
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Before biosphere, before life, there were only the non-living, abiotic factors and a world of water.
The three installations in aBIOTIC abstract and synthesize the ethereal and mysterious behaviours of water. Technology, sound, chemistry and time are used to further reveal or extend fundamental patterns and laws.
In this exhibition phases of water are a physical and structural material to be used as an expressive and conceptual tool: liquid, gas, solid; water, steam, bubbles, ice. We see water mirrored, suspended, projected and directed. Water becomes the surface, the object and the medium, over, through and around which play precise exchanges of light, movement and sound. Manufactured, incidental and composed sound is integrated into the fabric of this water, becoming a defining component of each installation.
The first work one encounters is The Long Now (2015), by Cologne-based Verena Friedrich. The gallery at the centre of the exhibition, contains this technology-based still-life, framed inside a clear perspex box, sitting on a table. A single, perfect bubble floats, persisting long after all other bubbles would have collapsed; the artificial atmosphere holds it aloft for a variable and uncertain length of time. Friedrich’s innovative use of technology & science greatly prolongs the normal life of each fragile sphere. But it eventually succumbs. The technology that produces the bubble and evacuates the atmosphere is triggered again and again; the brief, violent sound of working technology…followed by… the wonder. The work builds on a long art tradition of depicting soap bubbles in still life & portraiture. Known as Vanitas, the bubble serves to remind us that life is transient and our demise is certain.
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February 4 (Saturday) 10:00 am – April 23 (Sunday) 5:00 pm
