[BCMA] For Immediate Release:The Burnaby Art Gallery Presents Community Spotlight:The Artwork of Arnold Shives
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For Immediate Release: May 20, 2011
Contact: Sher Hackwell, Marketing Assistant, Burnaby Art Gallery
Tel. 604.297.4414 Email:sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca
For Immediate Release: The Burnaby Art Gallery Presents Community Spotlight: The Artwork of Arnold Shives
(BURNABY, B.C.) The Burnaby Art Gallery is pleased to present Community Spotlight: The Artwork of Arnold Shives. Arnold Shives has been a practicing artist for nearly five decades. Throughout his career he has explored the mediums of painting, sculpture, assemblage and printmaking with zeal and a sense of purpose. In particular, the mountainous landscape of British Columbia has served as an inspiration to connect the artist with his natural environment. Totemic in nature and symbolic of the Canadian West, mountains have also served as a physical challenge to Shives. Over the course of the artist's 67 years, he has scaled several peaks, from the Cascades to the Garabaldi Range, and numerous ranges in between. From these spectacular vantage points, Shives has sketched and contemplated his place within these unique and awe-inspiring environments. As John Grande has noted, "Arnold Shives' art reflects nature and the media of life in all its diversity. There is a dynamic to his art...that mirrors the vitality of the British Columbia wilderness..."
The work chosen for this Community Spotlight exhibition represents Shives' deep connection with the environments that he has chosen to explore. The show also explores the dynamic inter-relationships that may be observed between Shives's relief prints, book collaborations and assemblage works. The prints on display have been drawn from the vast collection (339 in total) of Shives works found within City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection. The opportunity to mine the collection in association with borrowed works from the artist has allowed the gallery to create a comprehensive and diversely representative exhibition that showcases this unique British Columbia talent.
A book on the life and work of Arnold Shives is currently under development with Burnaby Art Gallery partners the Simon Fraser University Gallery and Tricouni Press. It will be available in the fall of 2011.
The Burnaby Art Gallery's Community Spotlight exhibition is intended to recognize the careers and work of artists within the Metro Vancouver region. Held annually, this exhibition series alters between emerging, mid-career and senior artists. As recognized leaders and innovators within the Canadian art community, their work exemplifies excellence and facilitates discussion about larger social, cultural, and/or historical issues in relation to their own art.
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RELATED PROGRAMMING
Burnaby Art Gallery's Summer Lecture Series
With each exhibition the Burnaby Art Gallery invites local artists, writers, and/or curators to engage with the exhibition. This series of free, informal walk and talk tours offers viewers different entry points into the Burnaby Art Gallery's exhibitions. Free admission.
Director/Curator Darrin Martens on the Artwork of Arnold Shives
June 19 2-4pm
In the B.A.G. - Free Family Sunday Programs
Join us for an interactive experience that combines the current gallery exhibit with a free, hands-on studio activity starting every half hour from 1:00-3:30pm. No registration required, all ages welcome.
Community Spotlight: The Artwork of Arnold Shives
June 12 1-4pm
Lunch BAG Days 16 yrs & up
Tour the current exhibit with the gallery's public programmer then enjoy a lunch of fresh greens, breads, tapas, a tasty cheese selection and something sweet with your tea and coffee. Call 604-297-4422 to reserve your space. Limited seating, book early. $9.00 per single registration.
Community Spotlight: The Artwork of Arnold Shives
June 17 12-1 pm
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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 acknowledges the generous support provided by: the City of Burnaby; the British Columbia Arts Council; the Province of British Columbia, its patrons and visitors.
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Sher Hackwell
Marketing Assistant
Burnaby Art Gallery
T. 604.297.4414
F. 604.205.7339
W. burnabyartgallery.ca<blocked::blocked::http://www.burnabyartgallery.ca/>
E. sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca<blocked::mailto:sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca>
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