Art doesn't have to be a solitary pastime.
The Burnaby Art Gallery is opening a new exhibition showcasing examples of collaborative art.
One Vision/Multiple Hands is running in conjunction with Chance Operations 2 : Rhonda Neufeld and Rodney Konopaki, a new exhibition at the gallery.
One Vision showcases several examples of collaborative artworks that the City of Burnaby has in its permanent art collection.
"As a form of artistic production, collaboration has the ability to manifest itself in many different ways and expand its resonance into different fields of study, including science and the humanities," a press release notes. "Some artists choose to work together and/or involve other nonartists to create art."
One local example is the Vancouverbased N.E. Thing Co., whose primary collaborators were the husband-and-wife team of Iain and Ingrid Baxter. Their interdisciplinary work was centred on questioning the production and consumption of art by society.
Another artist is the Winnipeg-based Aganetha Dyck, who works in partnership with the honey bee.
Also included is work by the Guerrilla Girls - an anonymous woman's-based collective that started in New York City as a political movement questioning the lack of art created by women within major museum collections.
"These examples represent a small sampling of the ways in which artists have worked together to create work that addresses the social, political and cultural issues of the day," the press release says. "Often it is the process by which ideas
Collaborative art: Summer '78, by Bill Cuff and Donna Ellison, is one of the works in the new One Vision/Multiple Hands exhibition.
about individual 'authorship' is abandoned in favour of collective contributions."
One Vision/Multiple Hands is on until Nov. 13.
The Burnaby Art Gallery is at 6344 Deer Lake Ave. It's open Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4: 30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is by donation. For more, see www.burnaby artgallery.ca or call 604-297-4422.
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