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Celebration of Spring 2010: ‘ Rebirth & Renewal’
image: “Renewal” Rachel Baum
There will be a People’s Choice vote at the Exhibition for favourite work, and the artist who’s piece garners the highest number of votes will be awarded a solo show in 2011! |
The Burnaby Arts Council is calling for submissions to it’s annual Spring juried exhibit.
Applicants can submit up to 3 works for jurying. All submissions must be original work. Please send colour copies of your work, labeled with your name, medium, size & price of the work, along with your cheque payable to the Burnaby Arts Council to: 6584 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby BC. Entry Fee: $15 Deadline: March 15th
Show runs Apr. 3-25 2010 at the Deer Lake Gallery.
call 604- 298-7322 or email info@burnabyartscouncil.org for an entry form. |
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“The Seen of the Unseen” paintings by NICU LIUTAOn exhibit February 5-28th 2010
NICU LIUTA uses both spiritual and painterly strokes to capture the luminescence of our life cycles in his breathtaking expressionistic and figurative paintings. He blends color and form in a gripping collection of signs which point out the soul’s pilgrimage in and between the conflicting realms of the spirit. His paintings relate a profound search for “the seen of the unseen”, the visible of the invisible. With emphatic splashes of color and scratches of his brush, he translates mystical experiences of spiritual encounters in works reminiscent of Marc Chagall and Ad Reinhardt. Nicu believes that color has the capacity to heal our soul by inspiring contemplation, thus leading the viewer to reach beyond the limitations of his perceptive mechanisms to get closer to the natural world. Born in and raised in Romania today Nicu Liuta resides in Burnaby, British Columbia. He has studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, and has participated in Group and Solo Exhibitions in Romania and Canada. His paintings are housed in private collection across Europe, Canada, and United States. You won’t want to the miss the ‘BAC-Talk’ event on Feb13th,at 1pm! There will be an artists reception followed by a talk in which Nicu will be speaking about his technique and the impetus behind his translation of the ‘unseen’ of spirit, and how he captures it as ‘the seen’ on canvas. Artworks will be available for sale and refreshments will be served.
Catch the Spirit of the Flame!Join us for a Burnaby Community Celebration
Date:Thursday Feb 11 2010 Time: 2:30-6:30pm Venue: Metropolis at Metrotown (Grand Court)
Presented by the Spirit of BC Committee, Showcasing “The Best of Burnaby”Performances at 3:30, 4:45 and 5:45pm Complimentary snacks, refreshments and souvenirs Autographs with Speical Guests Kids Activity Centre Burnaby Ecosculpture on display
Performers include:Bhangara Dance Burnaby North Marching Band Burnaby School District Children’s Choir Chen Ling Dancers Darcelle’s Dancers-Olympic Medley Heather Jolley Highland Dancers Ismali Dance Troupe SFU World Champion Pipe Band Vnidansi Aboriginal Dancers W.C.M.A.A-Lion Dance Shadbolt Centre for the Arts will be alive with performing and visual artists at the Burnaby Arts SHOWCASE 2010, Saturday February 6th!10am – 5pm.The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts Studio Theatre and Rm 103 will present continuous performances while artists demonstrate their skill in a variety of media. The main focus is interaction with the public and enjoyment of the arts. Come and spend the day with many talented artists from Burnaby and beyond!. Admission free! Information 604 298-7322 Thanks to our ‘cultural compadre” Tamaka Fisher, Abbotsford’s Arts and Heritage Coorinator, for today’s inspiration: Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.  "Escape Into the Light" by Burnaby's Jack Shadbolt
…but today its blindingly clear and bright …snow capped mountains, brilliant against flawless deep blue skies…the ghost of last night’s full moon still lingering. The bushes and grasses around Deer Lake are sparkling with the first frost and the water is like a mystical mirror reflecting it back, through tendrils of mist that are rising up to disappear into the brilliant sun… Time to pick up a sketchbook and go for a walk….
When I first visited the studio of Burnaby artist Tamera Olsen, and stood surrounded by her bold, intense images, I immediately connected with their energy and the story they portrayed.
In early 2004, her partner’s work moved Olsen and their young family from their native Pacific north west coastal environs, to what she terms “the radical, unforgiving landscape” and water starved environment of the Arizona high dessert.
The artist found herself afflicted with a deep homesickness, a kind of soul sickness, known in 18th century medicine as ‘nostalgia’, from the Greek ‘nostos’ (return to one’s native land) and ‘algos’ (pain or distress) signifying the pain a person feels because she is no longer in her native land.
Olsen’s impassioned narrative and visual documentation of the inner journey which unfolded thereafter, is compelling:
“Temperatures were often triple digits Fahrenheit, causing me to live on the fringe of days” says Olsen. But I came to realize that the desert was far from desolate, rather teeming with life. Up close and personal with it, I found myself as I walked the mesas. “
Tamera Olsen’s story is the story of countless others over the centuries, who, whether by force or voluntarily, have immigrated to a new and unfamiliar land. This circumstance, if faced with curiosity and courage, becomes a catalyst for deepening the spirit and opening the heart.
“Reflections on the Inner Landscape” is the rich and colourful telling of Tamera Olsen’s very personal process of deepening and opening, and the path back to finding peace, balance and congruency between her inner and outer worlds.
The show which runs until December 27th at the Burnaby Arts Council’s Deer Lake Gallery is well worth a look, for Burnaby native and transplanted immigrant alike. Gallery hours are noon to 4pm daily. |
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…After 22 days straight of heavy rain and low lying cloud and fog, sometimes artistic inspiration in nature is hard to come by no matter how talented or disciplined.
