Art lovers have a few more days to enjoy the current exhibition at Deer Lake Gallery.
Containing Space is on at the Burnaby Arts Council's gallery until Aug. 17.
The show, which is described as "a study in harnessing spatial depth," includes work by Vancouver-based artists Kirk Loveland and Su Jin Lim.
"Urban structures, in Lim's prints, demonstrate timeless architectural schemes that are at once still and yet full of movement from varying perspective," a press release explains. "Likewise, the fluidity of Loveland's steel work rests in a solid state, holding captive single moments of conceptualization."
Deer Lake Gallery is at 6584 Deer Lake Ave. It's open Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For information, call 604-298-7322 or see www.burnab yartscouncil.org.
Art at the square If you haven't yet checked out the KIOSK art installation at Burnaby's Civic Square, you still have a chance to do so.
The kiosk in the square is featuring a variety of different art installations throughout the summer.
A feature on one of the artists, Rebecca Bayer, ran in the NOW on Aug. 2. Up next is Vanessa Kwan, whose Everything Between Open and Closed runs from Aug. 15 to 28.
Kwan will use the kiosk as a small personal sign shop, serving as the on-site "eccentric signmaker," as a press release describes her.
"Over the course of two weeks, the signs will accumulate as sandwich
boards, hanging signs, banners, and so on," the release explains. "The aim is to introduce an unusual sculptural and emotional quality to the site."
Kwan herself will be on site from 9 a.m to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Pop by civic square - outside the Metrotown library branch at 6100 Willingdon Ave. - to check it out.
A piper and a painter Robert Mathieson is a man of many talents.
He happens to be a top world piper, whose acquisition by the SFU Pipe Band was described by Pipe Sergeant Jack Lee as the equivalent of the Vancouver Canucks signing Sidney Crosby. He's also, as it turns out, a gifted painter,
whose works will highlight an art show that kicked off a week-long Piping Live event in Glasgow, Scotland this week.
The event culminates at the much-anticipated world pipe band championships Aug. 17 and 18. The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band headed to Scotland on Aug. 10 - vying for its seventh world championship title. (See related story above.) On the 11th, the art work of Mathieson and Scottish historian-piper Duncan Brown was unveiled.
Among Mathieson's many works are portraits of SFU Pipe Major Terry Lee and lead drummer Reid Maxwell.
Mathieson says he took up painting after retiring from the world champion Scottish band The House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead.
"Joining SFU has been great in terms of fulfilling my piping habit, and painting has kept the creative juices flowing during the non-piping winter nights," he says in a press release. "Bringing the two hobbies together for this exhibition has been very satisfying for me personally."
Mathieson has an art degree in design, specializing in silversmithing.
To keep an eye on the world pipe band championships, check out www.theworlds.co.uk.
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Contributed, Burnaby Now / Spatial depth: Prints by Su Jin Lim and steel work by Kirk Loveland are part of the Containing Space exhibition, on now at the Burnaby Arts Council's Deer Lake Gallery.;
