Art of Caring: North Shore Family Services
City Atrium Gallery
February 28 – May 14
Through an afternoon of art, media, and group activities, children were asked to convey what caring for one another means to them through art and words. The three framed artwork collages on display were the result of the combined and individual efforts of all the children at The Art of Caring.
Cheximiya Allison Burns Joseph
City Atrium Gallery
May 16 – September 3
Born in North Vancouver, Cheximiya is from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation and has been an Aboriginal Ambassador for her Nation and the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre since graduating in 2006. Cheximiya began wool weaving in the summer of 2008 and has since continued to express herself through her pieces and to pass on the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation tradition of wool weaving. Self-taught, with guidance from master weavers Chief Janice George and Buddy Joseph, Cheximiya is continually challenging herself, applying new ideas and techniques to her weaving. Presently, Cheximiya uses traditional techniques with a modern flair on her weavings and many of her pieces are found on display at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC). Cheximiya’s general focus is on weaving pieces and donating them to her community. She does all her weaving in her spare time or as a learning tool for all guests to the SLCC.
Debbie Westergaard Tuepah: Salish Sea, J35 Less 1
City Atrium Gallery
September 26 – December 10
Debbie Westergaard Tuepah is a Surrey-based visual artist who uses primarily yarn, paint, found, and readymade objects to consider the conceptual and embodied experience of information in relation to contemporary issues and events. “Salish Sea, J35 less 1, situates us in a time where the eco-system of the Salish Sea is being threatened by a variety of factors, one of which is the highly debated Trans Mountain pipeline project. If executed, this project would create an increase in capacity from 300,000 barrels a day to 890,000, and would result in a seven-fold increase in the number of oil tankers moving through the Salish Sea — home to the 76 remaining endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales. ” – Debbie Westergaard Tuepah
Jasmine Cadenhead
City Atrium Gallery
December 12, 2018 – March 4, 2019
Jasmine Cadenhead’s resin paintings are an examination of memories brought into physical and tactile form.
Karen Massier – Antarctica Explored
District Foyer Gallery
January 17 – March 5, 2018
Antarctica Explored is a series of photographs that Karen Massier took when she visited the continent in winter 2016. Photographs of nature, multiple species of penguins, baby elephant seals, old abandoned Norwegian whaling stations and rusty equipment offered a glimpse of Karen’s experience with the wildness of Antarctica.
Margaret Campbell – Soapstone Sculptures
District Foyer Gallery
January 17 – March 5, 2018
Margaret Campbell started working primarily with Soapstone after meeting world renowned sculptor Evelyne Brader-Frank. She finds inspiration and beauty in the wide variety of colour and uniqueness each of her soapstone pieces represents; each piece is a celebration and expression of the human form.
Kathy Daley – #Umbrellamovement
District Foyer Gallery
March 7 – May 7
Kathy’s series #umbrellamovement captured her new home of North Vancouver, and umbrellas are the central characters in the urban scenes. Choosing to highlight the wild, wet reflections of rain and umbrella-capped people in urban neighborhoods, these oil paintings offered a vibrant depth, warmth and luminosity to the outdoor drizzle.
Guy Hollington – Hand Blown Glass
District Foyer Gallery
March 7 – May 7
Using traditional Italian glass-blowing techniques and tools, Guy creates all of his pieces without the use of molds. He incorporates cane, a pulled glass with a central core of colour, twisted cane and murine, a layered coloured glass, pulled and cut in many of his works.
Jeff Wilson
District Foyer Gallery
May 9 – July 9
Wilson’s vibrant pieces show are immediately recognizable because of his strong use of colour and his ability to capture light within paintings. He is interested in our relationship to the sea and this series of work examines how we use seagoing vessels via transportation, food production and for tourism and industrial purposes.
Ivanno Macci
District Foyer Gallery
May 9 – July 3
Ivanno Macci is an Italian, Columbian and Canadian sculptor. Macci creates unique artworks that are inspired by, and embrace nature and the human imagination. His strong, abstract forms are all sensitively created with the environment in mind, incorporating marble and other used and recycled material. The series represented a singular and inventive approach to modern and contemporary art, embracing nature, mechanical tools and modern technology.
Mimi Ama
District Foyer Gallery
July 11 – September 17
Mimi Ama is a Vancouver-based artist originally from Toyko, Japan. Ama came to Canada to be closer to nature and to immerse herself in the wilderness. Whilst living in Yellowknife, Ama was inspired by the Aurora Borealis that dance across the northern skies. It is this connection with nature that has inspired the work in this exhibition, with compositions depicting towering boreal forests set against a backdrop of one of earth’s most beautiful spectacles – the Northern Lights.
Ronna Ander
District Foyer Gallery
July 11 – September 17
Ronna Ander is ceramicist and painter practicing in North Vancouver. Ander’s pottery is inspired by traditional English ceramics as well as the Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi places emphasis upon the beauty of the ‘imperfect’, allowing us to celebrate an object’s raw aesthetic.
Janet Strayer – Flow: Envisioning Nature
District Foyer Gallery
September 19 – November 5
Flow was a collection of abstract paintings expressing the constantly changing energies of geo-organic life. In this exhibition, Strayer sought to capture the dynamic energies of land, sea, and sky, evoking landscapes, seascapes, clouds, and space. Painted on Saturna Island, this body of work was a reminder of the shifting currents and the delicate balance of geo-organic life. Strayer’s paintings are composed of brilliant and subtle colours, cellular-like structures and lace-like detail which are created by her process of pouring paint in layers.
Yoshiko Godo – Love Pots
District Foyer Gallery
October 4 – November 5
Love Pots is an ongoing exploration of hand built, semi-functional vessels. The unglazed, slumped, and warped surfaces of the pots are likened to imperfect organic forms found in our naturally occurring world. Fleshy, something you might see nestled in a tide pool, or growing beneath a decaying stump. Vaguely alien, the pieces embrace a wabi-sabi aesthetic, and exalt in the integrity and beauty of natural objects and processes.
Veronica Roth
District Foyer Gallery
November 7 – January 14
Veronica Roth is best known for her watercolour, ink, and chalk mixed media paintings on vintage and antique papers. Veronica loves finding beautiful papers, some more than 100 yrs old, some common everyday pieces, such as maps and song sheets, which have served the most utilitarian purposes and are now being discarded, so she can give them new life and new worth through her artwork. Each piece of ephemera takes paint in a different way, hence a mixed media approach. Then each painting is thoroughly treated using manuscript conservation techniques so the vibrancy and complexity of the painting and the fragility of the paper which it is painted on will last for many more years.
Caitlin Prince
District Foyer Gallery
November 7 – January 28
The tension between the fragility and durability of ceramic objects has always been of particular interest in Caitlin’s work. The material itself draws a connection between the natural and industrialized worlds, while proving to be one of the most resilient mediums used historically for providing societies with both functional and decorative objects.
Anastasia Art Classes
Lynn Valley Library
January 4 – February 12
Celebration: Youth Art was an exhibition showcasing artwork created by talented young artists between 3 – 12 years of age. The artwork was created in Anastasia’s Art Classes. Themes of still life, composition, portraits, replicas of masterpieces, landscapes, and fictional scenery will be on display. The colourful, bright and tentatively realistic pieces were inspired by the inner world of each kid’s imagination.
Canada West Illustrators
Lynn Valley Library
February 14 – April 9
Members of The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) represent a diverse group of emerging and published artists. A range of styles and media from 8 artists explores the fun, whimsical themes that can found in children’s literature, from classics like Wizard of Oz to imaginative works from the artists. Artists: Jennifer Barr, Emily Bourke, Scot Ritchie, Ken Rolston, Monica Silvie, Sara Theurkaue, Derek Toye, Holman Wang
Joyce Ozier – Little Picasso Series
Lynn Valley Library
October 3 – December 3
Members of The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) represent a diverse group of emerging and published artists. A range of styles and media from 8 artists explores the fun, whimsical themes that can found in children’s literature, from classics like Wizard of Oz to imaginative works from the artists. Artists: Jennifer Barr, Emily Bourke, Scot Ritchie, Ken Rolston, Monica Silvie, Sara Theurkaue, Derek Toye, Holman Wang
Linda Robertson
Lynn Valley Library
December 5, 2018 – February 11, 2019
It is through the medium of printmaking, mixing traditional and non-traditional methods that I find I can express my artistic ideas. My dance background has often inspired my work and I enjoy taking the physical vocabulary of dancing – the classical storytelling of dance – and translating it to contemporary themes and times.
Maxine Wolodko
Lynn Valley Library
August 1 – October 1
“I seek to capture the simple, beautiful moments I witness in everyday life. A walk through my neighbourhood, a drive in the country, or more distant travel provides me with plenty of inspiration for painting. Painting is my way of fully appreciating these ordinary moments before they can slip away and be forgotten.” – Maxine Wolodko
A Look Back: 28 Years of BC Summer Reading Club
Lynn Valley Library
June 26 – July 30
1990 is known (at least around these parts) as the first year the BC Summer Reading Club! To celebrate, North Vancouver District Public Library collected all the BC Summer Reading Club posters dating all the way back to 1990.
Suzanna Orlova: Spells
Lynn Valley Library
April 11 – June 4
“Spells are the outcomes of hypnotic trance states with an indefinite period or duration – the way I feel the painting process itself and the artworks being born as a result. Every Spell is inspired by untold stories of people, animals and sometimes non-living entities. After the Spell is painted, the story behind it is not untold anymore. I consider myself a story teller narrating in a wordless manner, using a paintbrush instead” – Suzanna Orlova
You Are Here 2019 Calendar Exhibition
Lynn Valley Library
April 11 – June 4
12 North Shore scenes visualized by local artists and featured in the North Shore Culture Compass fundraising calendar.
Exhibiting artists: Margot Brassil, Elyse Dodge, Wanda Doyle, Geoggrey Feng, Julie Johnston, Lorena Krause, Shelley McDonald, Tatjana Mirkov-Popovocki, Vern Montgomery, Laura Pickard, Frank Townsley, Robin Wall