Gallery and visual arts

  • Lone Tratt

    As an artist, her goal is to reveal the hidden beauty in everyday life. She finds herself in the auspicious position of communicating with the world through an optical language -- a language with no boundaries. Her inspiration comes from nature - the richness that exists within nature is reflected in her work as she endeavors to emanate the abundance of life. It is her hope that through her work she helps reveal the deep interconnection with nature and ourselves by cutting through the barriers of language.

  • Low Tide

    Kirsten Chursinoff shares her vision of seashore life in Low Tide, an exhibition from June 17 to July 25 at the Craft Council of British Columbia Gallery. Pieces for the show include quilted pictures of sea stars, giant pacific octopuses, black oyster catchers, jellyfish, sea anemones, tide pools, rocky shores, and landscapes. For more information visit www.craftcouncilbc.ca or call 604-687-6511.

  • Natural Diversity

    This group show including the works of Barb Snyder, Jenny Hards, Paula Grasdal, and Rosalind Rorke celebrates the vast array of species on earth and coincides with the recent International Biodiversity day and upcoming opening of the UBC Biodiversity Museum. There is a strong need to preserve plant and animal diversity to maintain the complex connections between species. For more information visit www.dundaraveprintworkshop.ca or call 604-689-1650.

  • Northern Symphony

    Northern Symphony by Paul Walde is a multi-component visual art installation that translates the gnawed markings on a tree felled by beavers into cultural forms. These forms include: relief printed wallpaper, a cast architectural frieze, hand-finished gnawed beaver sticks, two dimensional artworks and a digital music score remixed and reconstructed by DJs and experimental musicians. A vintage 1920s outhouse refurbished into a miniature art gallery with a mini-retrospective completes the installation by blurring the lines between inside and outside, the cultural and the natural; the poetic and the literal. For more information visit www.malaspinaprintmakers.com or call 604-688-1724.

  • Ocelot Itajime dyed clothing - Bold and Timeless

    The Silk Weaving Studio and Maiwa are proud to be collaborating to kick off the month-long Itajime event with a fashion show and lunch at the Sandbar on Wednesday June 2 from 11:30am – 1pm. The Ocelot line of clothing will be featured in an exhibit at the Silk Weaving Studio opening Thurs June 3 from 6-8 and continuing until June 30. Sharing the spotlight with Ocelot will be BC jeweller Jan Smith. For more information visit www.silkweavingstudio.com.

  • Rachel Gourley

    Exhibit features tall, hollow, organic forms created out of polymer clay. The artist plays with form, surface colour, texture and pattern and combines these aspects with the challenge of architectural construction. For more information visit www.craftcouncilbc.ca.

  • Susan Cain

    This exhibit features 3D animal and human forms built from a variety of media, including wood, wire, plaster and fabric. The animated pieces invoke wonder and delight in the viewer. For more information visit www.craftcouncilbc.ca. On display at Crafthouse.

  • The Usual Madness

    This exhibition will feature a collection of off-the-wall carved and painted wood sculpture.
    Peter Kiss was a marine biologist for two years and an architect for six before becoming a full time artist in 1990. In July 2001, Peter opened his own gallery on Granville Island. Kiss says, “The carved and painted wood sculptures I create are ideas inspired by anything and everything. The ideas take roost in my brain where they make odd cooing noises until I finally make them.” For more information visit www.peterkiss.com.

  • Three Views: Ceramics in the Asian Aesthetic

    Since the early 20th century, Asian aesthetics and potters’ traditions have been part of the ceramic arts in North America. Reverence for nature, practicing the art of tea, and Zen philosophy are three obvious influences. Cathi Jefferson, Kinichi Shigeno, and Junichi Tanaka are three British Columbia ceramic artists whose work has an affinity to Asian ceramics while strongly maintaining a uniqueness and individuality, which speaks of the maker. Circle Craft is proud to present the work of these three ceramic artists, also members of the Co-operative in honour of the 2010 Canadian Clay Symposium "Aesthetics 2010." For more information visit www.circlecraft.net.

  • Warped, Wrapped, Textured

    Jessica de Haas and Jenefer Pleadwell present an exhibition of felted and hand-woven luxury kimonos and kimono-inspired garments. The artists focus on texture, colour and surface design using the clean, traditional lines of the kimono and present exciting variations of this style of garment in a modern, wearable form. For more information visit www.craftcouncilbc.ca.

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