Deer Lake Gallery is getting set to host a solo painting exhibition by Vancouver artist Joy Munt.
World in Transit opens Saturday, April 11 with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m., and it will be on at the Burnaby Arts Council's gallery until May 2.
World in Transit features Munt's "industrial-inspired surfaces," a press release notes.
Munt recreates surfaces that echo the worn surfaces of industrial painted objects, the signs of highway travel and found text.
"Like the painted hull of the ship that has been worn away through years of global travel and saltwater erosion, Munt's paintings bear the wear of painting itself," the release notes. "Munt sands down, grates against and carves out of her works her love for process, texture, abstraction, colour and formal composition."
Munt's emphasis is on artistic process, using layering, sanding and scraping back to create her work and leaving the effects of her tools and gestures engrained into the surfaces of her paintings.
"Mirroring the processes of abstraction itself, Munt abstracts throught he material subtraction of pigment through sanding," the release notes. "The paintings aren't only illusionary images but also objects that are cut into and pushed to their limits."
Deer Lake Gallery is at 6584 Deer Lake Ave. and is open Tuesdays to Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, see www.burnabyartscouncil.org, email [email protected] or call 604-298-7322.
