Two distinctly different takes on the world around us are coming to life on the walls of Deer Lake Gallery.
The gallery is hosting a new exhibition, Urban Rambles, from Oct. 24 to Nov. 21. An opening reception is set for Saturday, Oct. 24 from 2 to 4 p.m.
The two-person exhibition includes work by Luciana Alvarez and Joy Hanser, with acrylic paintings that explore the perceptual experience of urban environments.
“Urban environments across the globe, as a result of rapid technological innovation, hyper development, climate change and globalization, are changing quickly, and the subject of the city is caught in that alienating transition,” a press release notes. “This reality is the essential backdrop for understand this work.”
Alvarez’s work features warm, colourful scenes of city streets, done in a “dream-like wave.”
“Alvarez chooses to paint moving, wobbly cities, without a traditional three-point perspective,” the release notes. “Is this decision purely stylistic, or can we consider it in relation to… larger social contexts?”
Hanser, meanwhile, portrays life in a more dark and alienated fashion, working mostly in a dark, cool palette.
“Hanser’s outside world is always mediated by a pane of glass,” says the relkease. “These images paint the familiar scene of looking out a bus window on a humid fall day, looking into a camera lens, or out a car window.”
Urban Rambles is on from Oct. 24 to Nov. 21. Deer Lake Gallery is at 6584 Deer Lake Ave. and is open Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
See www.burnabyartscouncil.org for details.
