Winter Gift Gallery

Opened: November 29th 2011

November 29th to January 8th, 2012

It's that time of year again ...

We have assembled a wonderful group of artists to help inspire your holiday shopping. Buy from local artists and help support the arts in your community.

From scarves to paintings, jewelry to sculpture, we have your holiday gifts here - along with the perfect card to place on top!

Drive By

Opened: October 18th 2011

October 18th to November 27th, 2011

Artist's Talk Sunday October 30th 2pm in the gallery

Curator's Talk Sunday November 13th 2pm in the gallery

For Drive-by, artist Danny Singer returns to a format that he experimented with ten years ago, a digital panorama of photographs taken while driving through the city of Vancouver. With the camera mounted in the passenger window of his van and pointed perpendicular to the sidewalk, Singer drives slowly, tripping the shutter with a remote control, using speeds slow enough to blur the backgrounds and a strobe that freezes or ghosts the foreground. The resulting images both capture and suggest movement while being frozen in time.

In this new digital photograph created for the exhibition at the Seymour Art Gallery, Singer builds on his earlier image by adding new scenes, editing, scanning and stitching to create a continuously blended print that reads like a film strip. He plays with the order and juxtaposition of images, implying a narrative and relationships that may not have occurred. By mixing scenes shot ten years ago with ones photographed recently, Singer demonstrates that "fragmentary images can trigger memories and emotion" and reminds us that memories have a way of blurring and fading as time passes. The resulting print is more than 70 feet long and 3 feet high and wraps around the gallery walls, so that as viewers walk along the image they re-enact the drive-by experience.

Like Singer's photographs of main streets of towns in the Canadian and American prairies, this single long print raises questions about the nature of reality and perception. The prairie images depict real Main streets but present them in a way that we could never see with the naked eye, just as the Drive-by image shows us scenes that we might have seen but which did not take place in the order in which they appear.

Danny Singer is a photographer living in North Vancouver. Born in Edmonton, he studied acting and film at Simon Fraser University and embarked on a career as a filmmaker when hired to work in the film department at CBC. Singer made the transition to photography in the 1970s, while living in Montreal. His artwork has been exhibited across Canada and is in the public collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, among others. He was included in the 2010 Alberta Biennial and two of his photographs will be exhibited in the Vancouver Art Gallery's upcoming exhibition, Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection. He exhibits his work in Vancouver at Gallery Jones.

Drive-by: Danny Singer is organized by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, guest exhibition curator.

The Way Through

Opened: September 20th 2011

September 20th to October 9th, 2011

The 'Wild Women Collective' of seven artists was formed after the work day ended, over warm sake and sushi dinners, with a rollicking dedication to the artistic process. An eclectic group of artists (Nancy Cramer, Shelley Klammer, Carol Paley, Marianne Phillips, Paddi McGrath, Anna Milton, Jane Monteiro) discovered they were a dynamic working artists' group. Why wouldn't they be? Six of the seven teach art together and "Jane the Jeweller" adds spice to the mix.

The Way Through explores the theme of art-making as a means for enlightenment, while celebrating the diversity of the collective

Through The Looking Glass

Opened: September 6th 2011

September 6th to September 18th, 2011

Through the Looking Glass is a textile exhibition inspired by Lewis Carroll's second book of Alice's thrilling adventure. A collaboration between FibreEssence, the Vancouver Guild of Fibre Arts and the Greater Vancouver Weaver and Spinners Guild brings together a conglomerate of local and international artists who have experience in a wide range of mediums and surface design techniques. Don't miss this multi-faceted showcase of fibre arts including embroidery, weaving, quilting, applique, and beadwork.

The Game - Another take on the Exquisite Corpse

August 30th to September 4th, 2011

BC & Yukon Members of the Surface Design Association (SDA) and Friends

Exquisite Corpse: A game of folded paper which consists in having several people compose a phrase or draw collectively, none of the participants having any idea of the nature of the preceding contribution(s). The now classic example, which gave its name to the game, is the first phrase obtained in this manner: "Le cadaver / exquis / boira / le vin / nouveau" - The exquisite corpse shall drink the young wine. (From the 1938 Dictionnaire abrege du surrealism)

Evolving from an early parlour game called "Consequences" which was focused on the written word, the Cadaver Exquis version of the game was invented by the Surrealists in the early part of the 20th century and became pervasive in cafes, artist studios and gallery exhibitions. Early players of the game included the renowned artists Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Joan Miro, among many others.

The exploration continues with this new manifestation: The Game: another take on the Exquisite Corpse, a gathering of works made by textile and surface design artists who have exhilarated in happenstance and the imaginary.

Surface Design encompasses the colouring, patterning, and structuring of fibre and fabric, and includes processes such as dyeing, painting, printing, stitching, embellishing, quilting, weaving, knitting, felting and papermaking. www.surfacedesignbc.org

Solid Ground - Enda Bardell

August 2nd 2011 to August 28th, 2011

Enda Bardell's paintings explore West Coast landscape, focusing on angled rock formations and open space, and tree patterns created by light and shadow.

Previous Exhibits at the Seymour Art Gallery:

• June to July 2011
• May to June 2011
• April to May 2011
• March to April 2011
• February to March 2011
• January to February 2011
• November 2010 to January 2011
• October to November 2010
• September to October 2010
• August to September 2010
• July to August 2010
• June to July 2010
• May to June 2010
• April to May 2010
• March to April 2010
• February to March 2010
• January to February 2010
• December to January 2010
• November to December 2009
• October to November 2009
• September to October 2009
• August to September 2009
• July to August 2009
• June to July 2009
• May to June 2009
• April to May 2009
• March to April 2009
• February to March 2009

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver through The Arts Office: