[BCMA] Media Release The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford April Exhibition Openings

Tue Apr 9 08:31:02 PDT 2013

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MEDIA RELEASE

April 9, 2013

The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford
Spring Exhibition Openings
April 18 - June 30, 2013

How I Became a Ramblin' Man - Rodney Graham
Observations of Wonder - Brenna Maag
A Way of Seeing - Alfred Siemens
People of the Valley - Mennonite and Japanese

Public Reception
Thursday, April 18 @ 7pm, Free

Artist Talk and Workshop
Thursday, April 20 @ 12:30pm, Free
Brenna Maag

Author Reading
Thursday, April 25 @ 7pm, Free
Ian Weir

Abbotsford, BC - The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford presents four stimulating exhibitions for the Spring of 2013. How I became a Ramblin' Man by Abbotsford born artist, Rodney Graham; Observation of Wonder by regional artist, Brenna Maag; A Way of Seeing by Vancouver artist Alfred Siemens and a historical exhibition People of the Valley- Mennonite and Japanese.

How I became a Ramblin Man' - Rodney Graham
Rodney Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia and is one of Canada's leading visual artists, internationally recognized for his rigorously intellectual art practice ranging from photography, film, video and music to sculpture, painting and books. In 1994, Graham began a series of films and videos in which he himself appears as the principal character. One of these, How I Became a Ramblin' Man, is the second in a film trilogy of short costume dramas that he produced between 1997 and 2000. How I Became a Ramblin' Man provides an amused vision of the American movie epic from the point of view of the western tradition featuring a lone hero. This film presentation is part of the Momentum series, a touring project from the Collection of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. The Momentum series is organized and circulated by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, with the support of the Museums Assistance Program at Canadian Heritage.

Observation of Wonder  - Brenna Maag
Observation of Wonder is a two-part installation made with a collection of recovered handmade doilies which are displayed in Conservatory and documented as scientific specimens in Taxonomy.  Brenna Maag investigates scientific theories, naming and classification to view the formal aspects of daily existence and the poetics of nature's diversity. Maag constructs a large dome or "conservatory" of fabric doilies along with a collection of cyanotype prints documenting different doilies as "specimens" akin to snowflake crystals.  The installation represents a new appreciation of the beauty, symmetry and mathematical complexity of the doilies and invites viewers to see nature's phenomenal diversity reflected in human creativity.

A Way of Seeing - Alfred Siemens
Alfred Siemens' photography was taken out of the open door of a small plane as a way to search for and create visual forms of research. These photographs yield a range of information and suggest that visual images can be a creative form of research as a means of studying landscapes, of sensing the change through time, of appreciating their aesthetics, their moods and even their rhythms.

People of the Valley - Mennonite and Japanese
Building on its opening exhibition theme, People of the Valley, Our Communities Our Stories will explore the settlement of Abbotsford's Mennonite and Japanese communities. Conflict and the erosion of the rights promised them in Russia brought Mennonites to Canada and Abbotsford, where they established to become community leaders. Conflict robbed Abbotsford of its Japanese community when they, as enemy aliens, were relocated from the designated "protected area" 100 miles from the BC coast in 1942. With their property and assets seized and sold, most families never returned.

For more information, please contact Scott Marsden at 604 864-8087 x 122.

The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford

32388 Veterans Way

Abbotsford, BC

V2T 0B3

604 864-8087

www.thereach.ca

Admission to exhibitions is always free.

The Reach
Gallery Museum Abbotsford
32388 Veterans Way
Abbotsford, BC V2T 0B3
thereach.ca<http://www.thereach.ca/>

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