Art lovers have plenty of opportunities to check out a fascinating variety of work around the city.
The Burnaby Art Gallery is offering three off-site exhibitions at Burnaby public library branches: Jen Weih: How Deep Is Your Disaster; As Seen on TV: Works from the Collection; and Pierre Leichner: Topographies.. Jen Weih: How Deep Is Your Disaster: Weih's work can be seen until Sept. 8 at the Bob Prittie (Metrotown) library branch at 6100 Willingdon Ave. Weih is a Vancouverbased artist whose practice includes video, print, sculpture, installation and sound performance. Her two series of works present diverging aspects of her work - one based on fragments, sketches, research and notes, showing elements of inspiration and preliminary thoughts; the other a set of silkscreen images.
As Seen on TV: This exhibition is on at the McGill library branch, 4595 Albert St., until Sept. 9. It brings together prints created by Vancouver-based artists that use televisions or the shape of televisions as part of the work's composition. Among them are David Mayrs' Late Shows 1 and 4, which take their content directly from late-night TV movies in the late 1960s; Kate Craig's Flying Leopard (1977), which combines performance and video; David Ostrem's portraits of contemporary life; and Randall Anderson's screenprints Earth, Air, Fire and Water.. Pierre Leichner: Topographies: Leichner spent more than 30 years as an academic psychiatrist before turning to art as a full-time practice. In this work, he alters copies of Encyclopedia Britannica and the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties to create landscapes sculpted either by time or by the human hand. His work can be viewed at the Tommy Douglas branch, 7311 Kingsway, until Sept. 9. For more, visit www.burnabyartgallery.ca.
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