Category: Exhibitions & Art Shows

Bloom: Ink Art Fundraiser at Nikkei Museum

Boris and I attended the Nikkei Museum fundraiser on Saturday evening, along with friends M.A. Tateishi, Arleigh Wood, and Christina Norberg. We four artists (not including Boris) had each donated a piece of art to their annual silent auction. I made a three dimensional arrangement of gel pen drawings in a shadowbox as my contribution (as pictured above).

Here is the piece hanging beside M.A.Tateishi’s spectacular painting in the auction show at the museum. Both of our pieces went home with lucky bidders.

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I decided to bid on a piece myself, and came home with this fun screen print on wood panel by Yuriko Iga. I love the crazy colours, and all the patterns in the owl.

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View the full gallery on Flickr of artwork donated to the fundraiser. 

Start With Art at Seymour Art Gallery

I’m thrilled to be part of this kid-focused art exhibit. I’ve contributed six pieces to the show, including collage and altered books I hope the kids will enjoy.

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Join us for our 12th annual Start with Art exhibition at the Seymour Art Gallery. This truly unique exhibition focuses on engaging, inspiring, and encouraging children to appreciate, collect, and curate their own art collection. With an added emphasis on motivating children to create art, participating artists offer advice for budding artists, share childhood memories about art-making, and frequently spark the idea in kids that one day their work could be shown in a gallery too.

We’ve assembled a fantastic group of established artists who work in a diverse variety of media. The artwork is hung at “kids-eye-view” and is priced in a kid-friendly range, making Start with Art truly kid-centric.

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Participating artists: Kristian Adam, Rachael Ashe, Michael Binkley, Yvonne Hachkowski, Andrea Hooge, Shima Itabashi, Julia Keutz, Meghan Parker, Anne Love, Ron Love, Monique McEwen, Kim O’Brien, Robin Reid, Sarah Ronald, Mary Anne Tateishi, Liane McLaren Varnam,

Start With Art
Seymour Art Gallery
Opening reception: Sunday April 10, 2pm to 4 pm
Dates: April 6 – May 7, 2016
Location: 4360 Gallant Avenue, Deep Cove

Hot Art Card Trades From CARDED! at Hot Art Wet City

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I love how The White Rabbit reproduced as a tiny artist trading card. I love it. This is a paper cut piece I created a few years ago for an Alice in Wonderland themed show, and I entered a cropped photo of it in CARDED!

The White Rabbit as an artist trading card

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The bottom photo are my favourite cards I manage to get in trade. Boris and I hung out at the opening for an hour and a half, chatting with people, and trading until we got the art cards we wanted. We’ve attended this show many times, but this was the first time I participated as one of the artists. It was so fun to trade away my own card, especially when people liked it enthusiastically.

CARDED! at Hot Art Wet City

I’m super excited to have a piece in this show, presented by Hot Art Wet City on Saturday April 2nd, 7pm to 11pm.

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The creators of Hot One Inch Action present CARDED! a one-night only show of art reproduced on trading cards. The work of fifty artists is presented on trading cards and made available for art lovers to collect and trade. These 2.5″ x 3.5″ cards are displayed on the gallery wall and the audience is offered the opportunity to buy random cards in mixed packs of five for $5. If you purchase a pack that doesn’t have your desired card, get into some fast paced trading action with the people around you. How bad do you want that card!?

Artists in this show: Andrea Hooge, Andrew Ferneyhough, Aynsley King, Bryce Aspinall, Candy Hsu, Carelle Dunn, Chiara Ferrari, Chris Carr, Darren Dinh, Doug Savage, Erika Medina, Flavia, Gabriel Koenig, Gabrielle Ng, Gordana Ristic, Hailey Sato, Haley Smith, Hazel Cheng, Heather Gilbraith, Hryanskim, Ilya Viryachev, Jason Fielding, Jenn Brisson, Jennifer Chernecki, John Shigeta, Joy, Julia Iredale, Karyn Wong, Kathryn Mussallem, Kathy Moyou, Ken Rolston, Kim Nipp, Kimberly Parker, Kristian Adam, Kristina Kolosova, Mandy Lau, Marina Leclair, Megan Majewski, Michael King, Nada Hayek, Oliver Hine, Phresha, Quinn Lincoln, Rachael Ashe, Sean Moxley, Serena Inman, Shary Contrary , Vincent Truitner, William Weird and Yvette Tang.

New Work and a Christmas Party at Katami Designs

If you’re in Vancouver, join me this Thursday December 17th, 5pm to 9pm, for the 2nd Annual Christmas Party at Katami Designs Studio and Gallery. Come finish off your Christmas shopping by supporting a local small business filled with beautiful handmade jewelry and art.

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Katami carries my work and I re-stocked them a few weeks ago with a variety of recent work, including small pieces combining drawing and cut paper (pictured below).

Microcosm series

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Wear red to the party and enjoy a 10% discount off your entire purchase that evening. Tempting, isn’t it?

2nd Annual Christmas Party
Where: Katami Designs Studio & Gallery
Location: 138 East Broadway (near Main Street)
Date: Thursday December 17, 2015
Time: 5pm to 9pm

Ten Artists One Paper

In September I shared the finished piece I created for an exhibition to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Paper Place in Toronto. They invited ten artists to participate and provided everyone with the same Chiyogami patterned paper to incorporate however they chose into their work.

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They started debuting the ten pieces on The Paper Place instagram account this week. The first one they shared by Judith Pudden is dramatically different from mine. I am very interested to see more of these pieces, because it will be a broad range of beautiful work.

Window Dressing at AMP Studio in Strathcona

For the month of October I have work on display in the window of AMP Studio at Keefer and Hawks in Strathcona. My friend Val Arntzen hosts a different artist in her studio window each month, and has been doing this since the beginning of the year. Val calls the series of exhibitions, Window Dressing.

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I brought a mix of framed pieces for the walls and a few small sculptures I haven’t shown in awhile.

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I framed the concentric circle piece combining paper cut with drawing specifically to show in the window. I made it months ago and forgot about it, so I thought it was time it had other eyes on it.

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My work will be up until the end of October but I’d suggest dropping by this weekend because Val is participating in First Saturday and will have her studio open to the public.

Divine Lights Multi-Media Collaboration

My collaboration with Ben Z Cooper and Hfour made its debut at IDS West over the weekend. These are photos of the piece provided to me by Ben.

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This is how the piece looks with the screen turned off.

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The work is made up of two intricate hand cut pieces of paper sandwiched between two layers of glass which overlay a digital screen playing an animation on a three minute loop. I wish I had a video to share of the piece to give a clearer idea of the interaction of the video and paper cut. It cycles through colour changes and has glittery play of light similar to reflections on water. It’s lovely and mesmerizing to watch.

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I think the work was well received at IDS West and may be exhibited next at the Eastside Culture Crawl in November.

Exhibition Photos of Exquisite Lines at Katami Gallery

Exquisite Lines opened at Katami Gallery last Thursday evening, and there were about fifty people who dropped by (WOW!) I took these photos at the end of the night so I could share them with people who can’t be there in person. The show is a selection of recent drawings, hand cut paper work, and laser cut bamboo pieces based on my paper cut work.

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A wall of five drawings. (The one on the top right has sold).

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Three of my one of a kind paper cut designs in 16″ x 20″ frames.

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Cloud, laser cut. (Sold)

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Flowerburst, laser cut

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The show continues until mid-June, and some of the work will be part of the one year anniversary show at Katami Gallery.

Katami Gallery’s owner, Negar, wrote a lovely blog post about my work which you can read here »

Exquisite Lines at Katami Design and Gallery

Katami Designs is a gallery and working jewelry studio on Broadway west of Main. For the next few weeks they have a small collection of my work on exhibit in their space.

Exquisite Lines at Katami Designs

The show includes a selection of my large laser cut wood pieces, paper cut designs, as well as recent drawings.

Join us for a reception on Thursday May 7th, 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

The work will be up for several weeks if you’d like to drop by and check out my work at Katami Designs, located at 138 East Broadway.

Exquisite Lines at Katami Designs
Reception: May 7th, 2015
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 138 East Broadway