GALLERY REPORT

Thanks to Gallery Artists who continue to
support us through this difficult financial
year, We are not out of financial difficulty
yet, We have asked you to accept a 50-50%
Split in commissions and realize that this is
hoteasy. However, without your cooperation
itis obvious that it would be diffecule for ws
lo remain in business.

An important part of our mandate is to
provide the public, including other gallery
and shop owners, in Vancouver as well as
across the country, with the opportunity to
view the best B.C. has to offer in ceramics.
By showing them what we consider to be the
best, we help to create new markets for
Gallery artists, By providing the venue to
display evolving work, we also enhance the
public's awareness of what any one artist is
presently doing, We also acknowledge that
the Gallery shows only a small percentage
of what is being produced bere in British
Columbia. We will continue to work hardin
increase sales as well as public awareness of
the quality product that is available to them,

Just a reminder about the Christmas feature,
subtitled “Coffee Cups and Java Jugs”. 11
is open to Guild members who wish to
participate and Lencourage people who are
not selling in the Gallery to contact me, The
basic theme is “Coffee” and the usual images
come to mind; however, I think it would be
fun to play with the concept of “Coffee”, It
is wide open, Work should be here no juter
than November 12th, with show set up on
Nov. (Sth,

“Progressions” by Graeme Allemeersch
is the feature for the month of October and
runs until the 25th. In this show, Graeme has
created vies reminiscent of Rousseau
paintings. with floral vases peering out over
the top of lush jungle toliage; carved
pedestals on top of which vases perch, and
carved platters and lidded serving bowls,
There is lots to delight the eye in this show.

Coralie
669-3645, 10:30 to $:30, Monday to Friday

SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS

Connie Glover and Brent Gloeckler have
a sale and exhibition of their recent work at
the White Rock Community Arts
Council's Gallery, 15125 Russell Ave., to
October | 9th.

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Four ceramic artists, Gail Carney, Nathan
Rafla, Takako Suzuki and Kathryn
Youngs, all involved with Burnaby Art
Centre over the years, present “Ceramics
as Art” at the Burnaby Art Gallery from
October Ist to 29th.

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The recent work of Kinichi Shigeno will be
featured at Cirele Craft on Granville Island
in November, with the opening on Nowember
4th, first Thursday,

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Kathryn Youngs opens an exhibition at

John Ramsay, 1065 Cambie St., Thursday,
October 7th, from 5 to 3 prn,

If you're heading across the border, don't
miss the Bellevue Art Muscum’s “The
Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation”,
until the end of October. The Archie Bray
ceramic centre in Helena, Montana, has
been functioning since the “SOs, and an
amazing range and number of workers in
clay have spent periods of time there. This
retraspective presents the work of 32
individuals, among them Peter Voulkos,
Betty Woodman, Akio Takamorj, Clary
Illian, Warren MacKenzie, David Shaner,
Ken Ferguson, Rudy Autio, and Robert
Sperry. Inconjunction with 1993 celebration
of the Year of American Craft, there have
been other impressive shows of ceramic
work in the Seatie area; from Pottery
Northwest, to the William Traver Gallery.
The Bellevue show is the main one to carry
on to the end of October, and alone, sll
worth the trip!

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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the
Canadian Society for Asian Arts, in
partnership with the Vancouver Museum,
1s mounting an exhibition entitled “Clay
and Cloth; Celebrations of Life and Death
in Borneo”, at the Museum on Chestnut $1,
Vancouver, from October Sth to January
ard. Jean Fahrni, curator for the show,
writes, “Ceramics and textiles were central
to all ceremonies connected to the
celebrations of life in Borneo: fertility rites,
birth, head-taking, harvest, a form of bride-
price, fines for adultery, and in payment of
debits. Ceremonial ceramics in Bomeo since
1000 A_D_ have been increasingly of a type
know as ‘foreign’. They are the dragon
storage jars carried on sailing vessels as
food and water containers, as wellas Chinese,
Vietnamese and Thai stoneware and
porcelain ‘trade wares” .”

In the exhibit, which includes a full-scale,
Bornco-ty pe longhouse, some fine large jars
and good examples of Chinese celadons,
whitewares. blue and white porcelains as
well as hand-woven textiles produced by
indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Sabah and
Kalimantan will be on display. Special
group tours can be arranged by phoning
Jean Fahrni at 224-6200.

October, 1993

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