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Peoples
Gallery 1024
Mainland
604-685-9298.
Contemporary and traditional works
by master carvers Enook Manomie,
Mary Okheena, Reg Davidson, Henry
Green, Dale Campbell, Susan A. Point
URSULA BENTZ AND TANIA DUBICK
and more.
Unspoken Noise
Contemporary Art Gallery 555 Nelson
604-681-2700. » Ceal Floyer (Berlin),
Jem gallery, 225 E. Broadway, to Oct. 30
Daniel Olson (Montreal) and Micah
Jem gallery is one of the new spaces popping up faster than
Lexier (New York) share an interest
in representing the literal or amplifycoffeehouses in Mount Pleasant Often it's hard to tell if they're
ing what is often overlooked; to Oct.
galleries or stores and this installation by Ursula Bentz and
30.
Tania Dubick doesn't make it any easier. Bentz and Dubick
» Desk Job: Artist talk by Daniel
have peopled the space with white dresses that could be
Olson, Oct. 20, 7 pm » Office Hours:
sculptures or papery sculptures that could be dresses. Viewed
Performance by Daniel Olson, Oct. 21,
2 pm.
on a recent rainy Vancouver night, the space resembled a
ghost's dressing room: appropriate for these pre-Halloween
Crafthouse Gallery 1386 Cartwright
604-687-6511. » SHE BREAKS DOWN:
days.
Experiments in embroidery, by
Eleanor Hannan, to Oct. 30.
Diane Farris Gallery 1590 W. 7th 604• PIOTR NATHAN
737-2629. » Justin Ogilvie, coloured
pencil, pastel and oil on canvas,
HOW FAR DO YOU DARE TO GO
opens Oct. 26,6 pm.
David C a r t e r ' s
Dundarave Print Workshop 1640
Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC
photographic and
Johnston 604-689-1650. » COLOURS
Show runs until Dec. 4
sculptural installaOF NATURE: Recent works by Lone
Tratt, to Oct. 23; plus hundreds of
tion combines illuPiotr Nathan is a European artist who works in a variety of
unframed original prints (etchings,
sion with gothic
media, transposing 19th-century mass-market images onto
linocuts, woodcuts, monoprints and
m i n i m a l i s m at
21st-century installations and paintings. In Nathan's work the
more by 30 resident artists.
Tracey Lawrence
subtext of the past is present but filtered through a sensibility
Eileen Fong Gallery Tinseltown, 88 W.
Pender 604-432-1341. »TRADITION
Gallery.
that refuses to let one message predominate the canvas. Text
AND BEYOND: Jane Appleby, Loreena
seems to be everywhere as plants grow into paintings and,
Lee, Allyson MacBean, Roy Geronimo
finally, the walls talk.
and more, to Oct. 31
Elissa Cristall Gallery 2239 Granville
604-730-9611. » I'M GOING BACK TO
GREENVILLE: After a five month road
• JUDY RADUL AND GEOFFREY FARMER
trip through Texas, Louisiana, and
parts of Florida, Gary Pearson
ROOM 302
reworks a line from Lucinda
Artspeak Gallery, 233 Carrell St.
Williams's Car Wheels on a Gravel
Road, to Oct. 29.
Opens Friday, Oct 21 at 8 p.m. and runs to Nov. 26
Elliott Louis Gallery 1540 West 2nd,
Judy Radul and Geoffrey Farmer are producing new work for
604-736-3282. » EMPEROR'S NEW
this collaboration, and at the time of The Surfs deadline they
CLOTHES: Polish born textile designer Joanna Staniszkis's contemporary
were editing video footage shot in the former courtroom 302 of
interpretations of Chinese and
what is now the Vancouver Art Gallery. Actors work off the
Japanese robes, to Oct. 30.
transcript of an audio work in a video installation. This event is
Equinox Gallery 2321 Granville 604part of the LIVE biennale of performance art (www.livevancou736-2405. » HEAVENLY BODIES:
Gathie Falk, space images, to Nov. 19
ver.ca) and the doors open at 8 p.m.
- Clint Burnham
Francophone Cultural Centre 1551 W.
7th, 604-736-9806. » URBANITIES:
R13/32Jeanne Lizotte, paintings of
buildings inspired by 9/11 attacks, to
Nov. 14
Gallery Gachet 88 E. Cordova 604-6872468. » TAROT: TRUTH BEYOND
UNDERSTANDING: Artwork by Bruce
Ray and Diane Wood » OUT OF THE
of larger than life figures; to Nov. 5.
M
GALLERIES
Blanket Gallery 4 - 2414 Main.»I CAN- BOX: Curated by mental health group
AND MUSEUMS
NOT LIVE WITHOUT YOU: Derek Mind's Eye, to Oct. 30
VANCOUVER
Harrison Galleries 2932 Granville 604Dunlop, to Nov. 11.
Art Beatus Gallery 888 Nelson, 604- Buschlen Mowatt Gallery 1445 W. 732-5217, 604-926-2615. » YVR to JFK:
688-2633. » Yue Min Jun, solo presen- Georgia 604-682-1234. » LYNN New Works by Andrew McDermott
tation of silkscreen prints, to Nov. 8.
CHADWICK: RETROSPECTIVE: 15 to Oct. 31.
Art Works 225Smlthe 604-688-3301.» sculptures spanning four decades Helen Pitt Gallery 148 Alexander 604FAITH AND REASON: Richard (1958-1990); opens Oct. 20, ongoing. 681-6740. » Anthony Schrag, perforWlodarczak, paintings, to Oct. 22
Catriona Jeffries Gallery 3149 mance: Our Body Is in the World/It
Artspeak Gallery 233 Carrall 604-688- Granville 604-736-1554. » AND TOHas All Gone Terribly Wrong, Oct. 20,
0051. » THE DAY THAT I WALKED STOP YOU INTERFERING, I SHALL 9 pm.
AWAY FROM THE SOCIETY THAT I HAVE TO DEMATERIAUZE YOU Hill's Native Art Gallery 165 Water
HAD KNOWN: Judy Radul and AGAIN: Alex Morrison, Isabelle 604-685-4249. » NORTHWEST COAST
Geoffrey Farmer examine the "cultur- Pauwels, Frances Stark, Johannes AND INUIT ART: Paintings, prints and
al performance" that takes place Wohnseifer, language, sculpture, and carvings.
within the court of law, in video and video installation toy with positions Jacana 2435 Granville 604-879-9306.»
I f Opens Oct 25 at the Vogue Theatre
installation, opens Oct. 21, 8 pm; to of artist, object and viewer within the UNDER THE SURFACE: Heather Craig
gallery, to Nov. 19
Nov. 26.
Special 2 fori Previews Oct 20 to 23
and Karen Bagayawa, to Nov. 9
Atelier Gallery 2421 Granville 604- Centre A 23 W. Pender, 604-683-8326.
Jem Gallery 225 E. Broadway »
732-3021.» BORDERLANDS: Paintings » TRACT: Jenny Ham, installation and UNSPOKEN NOISE: Ursula Bentz and
by Laura Madera » PROPHET OF HIGH performance, questions familiar Tania Dubick, paper sculptures of
FLOODS: Mixed-media paintings by Utopian notions of landscape, opens dresses, to Oct. 30.
Christopher Smith; both shows to Oct. 28,7 pm; Dec. 3,
Jennifer Kostuik Gallery 2928
Oct. 29.
Circle Craft Gallery 1-1666 Johnston, Granville 604-737-3969. » SIDE
Bjornson Kajiwara 1727 W. 3rd 604-Granville Island 604-669-8021. » SHOW: Stephen Hutchings, paintings
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738-3500. » NINE QUIET SITTING CHRISTMAS MARKET SHOW PRE- of trees, to Oct. 30
FIGURES: Quebec-based Stephanie VIEW: Gunter Reimnitz, Shannon
Joe
Blow
Glassworks
1191
Parker
»
Beliveau's monochromatic paintings Wardroper, Marlene Xenis, to Nov. 1.
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