The Burnaby Art Gallery is paying tribute to the longstanding careers of two local artists with its new off-site shows at local libraries.
At the Bob Prittie (Metrotown) branch of Burnaby Public Library, visitors can check out Remembering Ingeborg Raymer: Work from the Malaspina Printshop Archive.
The exhibition includes 14 etchings created by the well-known Burnaby artist, working at the Malaspina Printshop in the late 1970s. Many of the prints were made when the Printshop was still located at Mathers House in Deer Lake Park. Later works were made at Malaspina’s Pender Street location.
Raymer was well-known in the city as both an artist and a teacher. She taught in Burnaby schools and at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, and she also gave private lessons at her home studio on Government Road. She was a founding member of the Burnaby Artists’ Guild and showed her work across the continent and overseas.
The library is at 6100 Willingdon Ave.
In North Burnaby, at the McGill library branch, visitors can explore Robert R. Reid: ‘Allied Arts’ Affirmative.
The exhibition is design to complement an exhibition of printed materials by Reid that are being shown on the third and seventh floors of Simon Fraser University’s W.A.C. Bennett Library until the end of March. That showing includes works generated by Reid between 1949 and 2017.
The McGill branch exhibition includes the catalogue Reid designed for Burnaby’s 1961 National Print Show – the first catalogue produced by what would later become the Burnaby Art Gallery – as well as examples of his current work as a digital experimental typographer.
The library is at 4595 Albert St.
See www.burnabyartgallery.ca for details.
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TALKS OFFERED
The Burnaby Art Gallery is offering two Saturday afternoon presentations at McGill library in connection with the Robert R. Reid exhibition. The series of talks is called Persistent Presence: The ‘Allied Arts’ Movement in British Columbia, 1949 to 2017.
Feb. 18:
2 p.m. -Terry Russell of the Asian Studies Centre at the University of Manitoba
3 p.m. - Vancouver research archivist Adrian Archambault
March 11:
2 p.m. – Grant Arnold, Audain curator of B.C. Art, Vancouver Art Gallery
3 p.m. – heritage consultant Don Luxton
