[BCMA] For Immediate Release: The Burnaby Art Gallery to Participate in Culture Blast: An Arts Explosion!

Fri Feb 11 10:38:38 PST 2011

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News Release
For Immediate Release: February 11, 2011
Contact: Sher Hackwell, Marketing Assistant, Burnaby Art Gallery
Tel. 604.297.4414   Email:sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca

The Burnaby Art Gallery to Participate in Culture Blast – an Arts Explosion!
(BURNABY, BC)   The Burnaby Art Gallery is pleased to participate in Culture Blast – an Arts Explosion! a free cultural festival happening at the Cultural Precinct at Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park on Sunday, February 20th.   The Burnaby Art Gallery will present an exciting and engaging line-up of artist performances and events:

Curatorial Walk and Talk with special guest Mary Jo Hughes, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria who will lead an informal discussion about Sybil Andrews and her work.
1 pm – 2 pm     Sybil Andrews – Main Floor Gallery

Artist Sybil Andrews (1898-1992) is considered one of the most significant Canadian printmakers of the 20th Century. Known primarily for her linocut prints, she was influenced stylistically by Cubism, Italian Futurism, and Vorticism and found her primary interest in the rhythm, pattern, and movement of her subjects.
This exhibition includes 22 works from the original Art Gallery of Greater Victoria exhibition combined with seven works from the Burnaby Art Gallery’s collection. The exhibition surveys Andrews’ career in Britain and Canada and includes several linocuts and engravings, a watercolour and a drypoint.

Sybil Andrews is organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

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Get the Picture Art Rental Showcase
2 pm – 4 pm     Showcase of Artists from the BAG Art Rental and Sales Program – Second Floor
                        Watercolour demonstrations by James Mah
                        Linocut demonstrations by Susan Gransby

Burnaby artists James Mah and Susan Gransby will be onsite throughout the afternoon to provide visitors with an intimate look and discussion about watercolour painting and relief printing (linocuts).

Get the Picture, Burnaby Art Gallery's art rental and sales program is located on the second floor of the gallery. Supporting both emerging and established artists, the program offers a diverse selection of works and provides an important connection between participating artists and the community. Rental fees vary and are based on a percentage (2%) of the artwork's value, starting as low as $5.00 per month. Billing can be either monthly or quarterly, with a minimum rental period of one month. There is no maximum rental period, and should you decide to buy an artwork that you have been renting, three months rent can be applied towards the purchase price.

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Performance Art Projects
1 pm – 4 pm     Rebecca Belmore – Burnaby Art Gallery front lawn

Performance artist Rebecca Belmore will create a new site specific work for the Burnaby Art Gallery.

Rebecca Belmore has produced installation and performance works for almost 20 years. Her installation work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions including, Land Spirit Power at the National Gallery of Canada (1992), Site Santa Fe (1995), InSite 1997. In 2003, Belmore produced a major solo exhibition, The Named and the Unnamed for the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC, in Vancouver. Some of her past performances include: Creation or Death, We Will Win, at the Havana Biennale, Cuba (1991), The Indian Factory at Tribe and AKA, Saskatchewan (2001), and Vigil, Talking Stick Festival, Vancouver (2002). Belmore was Canada's official representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale, where she exhibited her video installation, Fountain. Rebecca Belmore, an Anishinabekwe from Northwestern Ontario,now resides in Vancouver.

1 pm                 Heidi Nagtegaal – Shadbolt Centre of the Arts
                        Masks for Disappearing: Photo Studio – families and youth welcome to participate.

Heidi Nagtegaal is an artist, writer and facilitator living in Vancouver, BC.  After recieving her BFA from ECUAD in 2005, Nagtegaal has gone on to found local arts initiatives such as the Hammock Residency and Headbands and Bracelets, parallel to her own practice.  She utilizes an DIY aesthetic using available materials to make "something out of nothing". Challenging the notions of "something" and "nothing," she engages a fluidity of structures, transformation, personal chemistry and connection to create alchemic art. Sculptures, intervention, performance, installation, and activation are key elements in her relational social practice, creating both an object, and the ephemeral.  Most Recently, Nagtegaal has exhibited at the Tate Modern (London, UK) in No Soul For Sale, Äkkigalleria (Jyväskylä, Finland), Vancouver Art Gallery, Burnaby Art Gallery, Richmond Art Gallery, CSA, Signal and Noise, and portable gallery spaces worldwide.

2:15 pm            Kristina Lee Podesva – Burnaby Village Museum Meadow
Tug-O-War  Performance –youth and adults welcome to participate at specific times.

Kristina Lee Podesva is a Vancouver-based artist, curator, writer, and editor of Fillip. Her art work, projects, and texts have appeared in exhibitions, screenings, and publications in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She was the founder of *colourschool (2006-2008), a pedagogical project dedicated to the speculative research of five colours; black, white, red, yellow, and brown, and was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Langara Centre for Art in Public Spaces. She was co-founder of Cornershop Projects and co-creator of online works such as the Google Emotional Index, youareherebetweenus, This is a Vehicle, and Free for All. Most recently Podesva’s Brown Globe was presented by Or Gallery at the Tate Modern (London,UK) during No Soul For Sale.

3 pm                 Peter Morin – Fireside Room
A performance to celebrate 100 years + 125 days of Tahltan knowledge independence.

On Oct 18th, 1910, Tahltan Nation leaders signed a declaration of independence. On Oct 18th, 2010, the Tahltan Nation celebrated this act of independence with a centennial celebration. The hundred year old document presents the independence of Tahltan Knowledge, History, and Culture to the Canadian Nation-state. This independence of thought is a practice of identity. There is no duality. There is only Tahltan. I wasn't able to attend the centennial event. I want to participate in celebrating the independence of Tahltan knowledge by performance 125 days after the centennial. The performance speaks to the history of, practice, and prevalence of marking centennials in to the collective memory that determines Canada. Do remembers the centennial after it is past?
Or do we wait for the next centennial to remember theses significant moments? Or do we perform Tahltan knowledge daily? (like we have for the last 100 years + 125 days)

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Spirit Square Demonstrations

1 pm – 4 pm     Thomas Cannell – Spirit Square
                       Traditional Coast Salish carving demonstrations

Thomas Cannell and select members of his family will be onsite to work on a traditional Coast Salish carving. Their project is in sight of two other artworks created by Cannell for the City of Burnaby, Vitality (basalt sculptures) and State of Nature (cable trays throughout the festival lawn site).  Coast Salish artist Thomas Cannell was born on Musqueam traditional territory in 1980. He has been immersed in the long-established art and cultural traditions of his Musqueam ancestors and pushes the boundaries of tradition within Coast Salish art.

“After the initial visit to Deer Lake Park with my own family, I was thrilled by all of the families there at dance classes and playing on the rolling hills. This has been directly incorporated into my design, through the rolling landscape and the energy flowing through the artwork.  The design also incorporates a lot of circles, which can be seen as a family playing with sports balls, and also relates to traditional Salish artistry. Much of our art was incorporated into circular spindle whorls, which are Salish tools used for spinning wool. They also represent the circle of life. The design had to be adaptable to fit any shape rock Mother Nature gave me so I included free flowing lines to create a sense of movement, and allow the design to be modified to fit the unique basalt surfaces.”
Thomas Cannell, 2010

In conjunction with Vitality is the companion work State of Nature - five iron cable trays grates spanning several of the pathways within Deer Lake Park.  The design of the grates includes motifs of butterflies, deer, fish, birds and flora of the region.

Vitality and State of Nature are part of Metro Vancouver’s Necklace Project – an inter-municipal collaboration for public art.

In partnership with:

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February 20, 2011
Deer Lake Park
cultureblast.org<http://www.cultureblast.org/>

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The Burnaby Art Gallery is dedicated to collecting, preserving and presenting a contemporary and historical visual art program by local, national and internationally recognized artists. As the stewards of the third largest public art museum collection within the province, the Burnaby Art Gallery cares for and manages over 4000 works of art. The Burnaby Art Gallery is a nationally recognized leader in print culture dedicated to showcasing original hand pulled prints and ephemera related to printmaking in Canada. The Gallery also provides a diverse and challenging range of educational programs for the general public and Metro Vancouver schools.

For more information about the Gallery’s exhibits, programs, tours or registration call 604.297.4422 or visit.burnabyartgallery.ca. Located in the beautiful surroundings of Deer Lake Park, the Burnaby Art Gallery is open Tuesday to Friday, 10am-4:30pm and Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm. Admission is free.

The Burnaby Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the funding support provided by:

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