Our Communities Our Stories: A Community Builder: 100 Years of Freemasonry in Abbotsford
27.09.12 - 06.01.13
The trains brought the families who arrived to settle on land that had been cleared by the Abbotsford Lumber Company. As they arrived, newcomers began to establish the connections that would make the community; among them were Freemasons, members of now distant lodges. During the early months of 1912 the men held casual meetings, finally
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Illuminating Peace consists of woven banners suspended from the ceiling of the gallery which are complimented by a large-scale illuminated, eight-panel lantern made of woven rice paper strips that contain messages of peace.
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Our Communities Our Stories: Heritage Remembered: Buildings and Streetscapes from the Past
11.07.13 - 08.09.13
Don Bladon is a local model artist that captures Abbotsford’s built heritage in highly detailed 1/87 scratch-built scale models. Often working from one or two photographs of long-gone structures to calculate size and scale, Bladon re-captures lost community heritage. Sponsored by Blackwood Building Supplies Inc. Don Bladon, Vosburgh’s Garage (detail), 2010
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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. Brenna Maag, Flos filamentosus(detail), cyanotype.
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Vancouver artist Pat Service reveals an intuitive and very personal approach to the landscape with a focus on vibrant, multi-layered colour and distilled form. Service’s Tree paintings offer seemingly straightforward and, hence, somewhat disarming compositions of coloured grounds and essential forms. We are able to follow what might be called the “devolution” of her work,
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There are countless reasons for bird and animal extinction, the introduction of invasive species, the destruction of habitat, hunting, capture and trade. This series came out of desperation. One of my golden studio rules is Do Not Despair, EVER, it has always referred to technical difficulties in the studio but I had never applied it
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Yet in the hiding there is also revelation: the safety of the hidden place empowers us to explore pieces of ourselves that we’ve been unaware of or afraid to show. The mask gives us courage to reveal that which we would otherwise not share. It is a new and different face – one that has an expression of
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This is a flexible, searching way of making images. It can be a prime means of exploration: it yields a range of information and suggests hypotheses for research. In fact, it has repeatedly launched demanding investigations. It is a fine way of studying landscapes, of sensing their change through time, of appreciating their aesthetics, their
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Kilvert + Kilvert currently reside in the Fraser Valley. “Design calls upon form and function, and is often an intervening factor between product perception and market acceptance. As design is both a noun and also a verb (in that it is process-driven), we envisioned this exhibition as an opportunity to highlight particular design projects from
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These paintings ask the question: What if we saw the events of Star Wars through the eyes of its main antagonist, Darth Vader? Sandstorm takes stylistic inspiration from the 19th century French Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix and is based on scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy. These oil paintings on canvas look, darkly, through
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