[BCMA] For Immediate Release: The Burnaby Art Gallery Presents One Vision/Multiple Hands in Conjunction with Chance Operations²

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:  September 16, 2011

Contact: Sher Hackwell, Marketing Assistant
Tel: 604.297.4414
Tel: 604.297.4422
E-mail: sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca<mailto:sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca>


The Burnaby Art Gallery Presents One Vision/Multiple Hands in Conjunction with Chance Operations²

BURNABY, BC - The Burnaby Art Gallery presents One Vision/Multiple Hands in conjunction with the exhibition: Chance Operations²
Rhonda Neufeld and Rodney Konopaki.  The City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection has several examples of collaborative art works by a diverse group of Canadian artists in its holdings. The art presented in One Vision/Multiple Hands represents a small selection of work that explores this expansive genre of artistic production. Webster's defines collaboration as a means in which "to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavour." This classification illustrates a framework in which a common goal is sought by two or more individuals. The opportunity to research and develop a companion exhibition with Chance Operations² reflects the commitment of the institution to utilize the collection in innovative ways. Through the presentation and re-contextualizing of artwork from our collections the gallery strives to create an environment where ideas can be explored, alternative perspectives may be investigated and different
experiences can be had.

As a form of artistic production, collaboration has the ability to manifest itself in many different ways and expand its resonance into different fields of study including science and the humanities. Some artists choose to work together and/or involve other non-artists to create art.   Vancouver based N.E. Thing Co. (1967 - 1978) is one local example. The primary collaborators were husband and wife Iain and Ingrid Baxter. Their collaborations often expanded to include artists from across Canada. Their interdisciplinary practice was centered on questioning the production and consumption of art by society. Their artist practice included exploration into site specific installation, performance and photography.For Winnipeg based artist Aganetha Dyck, collaboration represents a partnership between herself and the honey bee. Together they create drawings, sculptures and installations.  The Guerilla Girls - an anonymous woman's based collective that started in New York City as a political movement, created posters and developed performances in art museums and galleries that questioned the lack and in some instances absence of art created by women within major museum collections.
These examples represent a small sampling of the ways in which artists have worked together to create work that addresses the social, political and/or cultural issues of the day. Often it is the process by which ideas about individual "authorship" is abandoned in favour of collective contributions. What has endured over time for these artists and the type of art that they create is the commitment to the practice - the methods and means in which concepts are worked through and developed to question ourselves, our community, our interactions with one another, and what art can be.

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Bill Cuff and Donna Ellison
Summer '78 #4
1978
23.0 x 15.5 cm
Intaglio etching on paper
Courtesy of Malaspina Printshop Archives of the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection
BAG 1988.38.160

One Vision/Multiple Hands
September 6 - November 13, 2011

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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 of British Columbia 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.

For more information about the gallery's exhibitions, programs, tours 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-4:30 pm and Saturday and Sunday, 12-5 pm.

Admission is by donation; parking 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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