[BCMA] For Immediate Release: BC Artist Renée Van Halm Showcased in Survey Exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery

Fri Jan 20 13:44:15 PST 2012

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For immediate release

January 20, 2012

BC Artist Showcased in Survey Exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery
Renée Van Halm: Cross-Cutting/Inside Out
February 10 - April 8, 2012

Burnaby, B.C. - An exceptional survey exhibition of artworks by B.C. artist Renée Van Halm opens at the  Burnaby Art Gallery on Friday, February 10th.  Focusing primarily on Van Halm's works on paper, Renée Van Halm: Cross-Cutting/Inside Out explores in detail the artist's interest in the role architecture plays in shaping our physical and social interactions. With this as an underlying theme, Cross-Cutting/Inside Out surveys over thirty years of work by this recognized Canadian painter.

Renée Van Halm's diverse practice includes the medium of collage, installation, printmaking, gouache, oil and acrylic paints. In alignment with the Burnaby Art Gallery's commitment to exhibiting works on paper, Cross-Cutting/Inside Out reviews works on paper by Van Halm, dating from 1979 to the present.  While this is a chronological survey of Van Halm's practice, the works selected for the exhibition, by guest curator Sophie Brodovitch, focus primarily on the artist's interest in the social role of architecture. References to iconic design elements and modernist architectural language are layered and obfuscated through painterly abstraction and figuration, creating works that are enticing and challenging. Three-dimensional installation pieces are also included to give presence to Van Halm's interest in the materiality of architecture, illustrating how the viewer brings his/her own subjectivity to experiencing architecture.

Media are invited to a special reception and exhibition preview of Renée Van Halm:Cross-Cutting/Inside Out on Tuesday, February 7th at 10am. Curator Darrin Martens and the artist will provide a tour and will be available for interview.

Photographs and interviews with the artist are available on request.

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For more information and to arrange photographs or interviews, please contact:

Sher Hackwell
Marketing Assistant
Burnaby Art Gallery
T. 604.297.4414
F. 604.205.7339
W. burnabyartgallery.ca

E.  sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca<mailto:sher.hackwell at burnaby.ca>
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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.

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Berlin Façade/Lambie, 2011, Gouache on paper, 27.5 x 37.5 cm

Collection of the artist, © Renée Van Halm, 2012

Renée Van Halm Bio

Renée Van Halm was born in the Netherlands but grew up in Canada, where she attended the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) and Concordia University. She has travelled extensively, establishing residence in many Canadian cities and, more recently, living in Germany for a number of years. Van Halm has exhibited widely across Canada and around the world. In addition to over 30 solo exhibitions, her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as This is Paradise (2011) in Toronto; Architypes in Sydney (2004) and Tokyo (2005); Enacting Abstraction (2009) and weak thought (1997-98) at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Songs of Experience (1983) at the National Gallery of Canada. Her solo exhibition Dream Home originated at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver and toured Western Canada. She taught in York University's Faculty of Fine Arts from 1979 to 1992, when she joined the faculty of Emily Carr University. Since her retirement in 2010, she has held the position of Emeritus Professor at Emily Carr University.

Sophie Brodovitch Bio

Guest curator Sophie Brodovitch is a curator living and working in Vancouver, B.C. who holds a BA honours in Visual Arts from the University of Western Ontario (2000) and a MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the Department of Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia (2007).  Past projects have been included at the Belkin Satellite; colourschool; Cornershop Projects, and Equinox Gallery. Sophie was the Assistant Curator at the Burnaby Art Gallery from 2008 to 2011.

Exhibition Catalogue

A full-colour exhibition catalogue with essays by Sophie Brodovitch and Rachelle Sawatsky will be published with the exhibition.

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