The Burnaby Art Council’s Deer Lake Gallery features a wide variety of art from various individuals and organizations from across the Greater Vancouver area. The Gallery is situated in the home office of the BAC, in beautiful Burnaby, British Columbia and borders on the scenic Deer Lake Park.
The Deer Lake Gallery is open from noon to 4:00pm 7 days a week.
Come and view some of the outstanding work that is always on display
WHAT’S ON NOW?
Now Showing at the Deer Lake Gallery….
“Tales from the Currents” July 23- August 15th
KATHERINE FREUND-HAINSWORTH and SHEILA PAGE
Opening Reception July 25th 1-4pm.
In this exhibit the two featured artists look through different lenses at the personal and local histories of life lived on and near the water where they live.
Artist Katherine Freund-Hainsworth tells tales of fish through mixed media visual arts, uniquely surrounding and integrated into images from everyday personal and historical objects and moments in and around her New Westminster community on the Fraser River.
Sheila Page explores ways to communicate the emotional reality and the social climate behind the static poses found in the photographs in her family album from childhood holidays on Keats Island.
Both artists images are intended to provoke questions about the lives of the people and places depicted, and engage the viewer in a personal response.
Gallery hours 12-4pm daily.
image left: “The Big Catch”, Sheila Page
image above: “Look Once from the River to The Celadon Sea”, Katherine Freund-Hainsworth
Celebration of Spring Apr2-25th
Burnaby Arts Council’s Deer Lake Gallery hosts an annual juried ‘Celebration of Spring’ exhibition, featuring works of local emerging and established member artists, presenting 2D and 3D works for public viewing.
This year’s show, which runs from April 2-25th, offers the work of 25 artists in a variety of media, including bronze and recycled objects sculptures, textile art, photography and of course, paintings in watercolour, acrylic and oil; all interpreting the theme ‘rebirth and renewal’.
As in previous years, a “Peoples’ Choice” award of a solo show on next year’s Deer Lake Gallery exhibition roster will be provided to the artist who’s piece garners the most votes from gallery visitors. Come out to meet the artists and cast your vote at the Opening reception, April 10th at 2-4pm.
The Celebration of Spring exhibition will provide a beautiful backdrop for April’s ‘BAC-Talk’ lecture at the Deer Lake Gallery, when we are delighted to present Stream of Dreams Society co-founder Louise Towell, as our guest speaker on April 17th at 1pm. Stream of Dreams is a non-profit that educates communities about the life and function of their watersheds.
Louise will present a fascinating ‘story scroll’ and talk about her passion for eco-education through community art. The original Stream of Dreams project was inspired by a need to heal our neighbourhood waterway Byrne Creek.
Collectively Speaking’/Gone Hooking March 5-28th
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“The Seen of the Unseen” paintings by NICU LIUTA
On 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.
Donation.
