Art lovers, mark your calendars for the next opening at Deer Lake Gallery.
The Burnaby Arts Council’s gallery will host Parallel, a mixed media exhibition by Susan Jessop, Frankie Watt-Elphinstone and Kenneth Yuen, from Oct. 27 to Dec. 15. An opening reception is set for Saturday, Oct. 27 at noon.
A gallery press release notes that Jessop’s work weaves her experiences of the landscape, wildlife and culture of Canada with her memories of the U.K., exploring the meaning of “home.” Jessop uses paper collage to explore the intersection of our interior spaces and our natural surroundings.
Watt-Elphinstone’s works explore our drive to expand into new worlds, and the way in which we create “comforting and unspoken narratives in reaction to cultural expectation,” as the release explains, using images that are often seen as surprising and amusing.
“In disrupting the accepted view, Watt-Elphinstone invites the viewer to adjust their assumptions and form a new view of the world,” the release notes.
Yuen, meanwhile, uses sculpture and installation to explore the possible relationships between body, mind and object. His work is often interactive, hoping to explore those relationships on a tactile and material level.
The exhibition is set to run from Saturday, Oct. 27 to Saturday, Dec. 15. Deer Lake Gallery is at 6584 Deer Lake Ave. See www.burnabyartscouncil.org or call 604-298-7322 for information.
