Deer Lake Gallery is featuring a new exhibition starting this week.
Constructed Abstraction, featuring work by Mark Bowen, Jay Lyonns and Monique Motut-Firth, is on at the gallery from Thursday, Feb. 8 to Saturday, March 10.
The exhibition takes inspiration from “the mental space where disparate ideas converge,” as a press release notes.
“Synapses fire as ideas light up and your mind attempts to deconstruct information, compile common properties and contrast dichotomies, to paint an overall encompassing image of a place of understanding,” the release says. “Constructed Abstraction is a collection of works that visualize this process in addressing the thematic meeting point of urban spaces, industrialization, natural elements and social identity – represented through digital prints, woodcut prints, neon and collage.”
Bowen’s work includes cityscape images that are combined with natural elements such as water, trees, glaciers and textures, further abstracted with geometrical shapes “combined with a loose adherence to realism and representational qualities,” as the release says.
Lyonns’ work uses neon and prints to address the themes of urban spaces of Vancouver, combined with the iconic imagery of culture found in it.
Motut-Firth works in paper, paint and textiles, using collage and photomontage in her creations.
Each of the artists will give a talk at the gallery during the run of the show: Motut-Firth on Saturday, Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.; Lyonns on Saturday, March 3 at 2 p.m.; and Bowen on Saturday, March 10 at 2 p.m.
An opening reception is on Thursday, Feb. 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. The gallery is open Tuesdays to Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m., with admission by donation. See www.burnabyartscouncil.org or call 604-298-7322 for information.
