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Exhibition

China Birds

April 18, 2000 to May 13, 2000
Exhibition
Dagmar Dahles series of paintings, China Birds, explores European decorative arts traditions during the period of development of sea trade between Europe and Asia (17th and 18th Century). By using ordinary, everyday objects from the 1950s and 1960s readily found in working and middle class households she uses free association to link historical events.

March 14, 2000 to April 7, 2000
Exhibition
This exhibition is the third in the New Sculpture Series guest curated by sculpture and writer Robin Peck. The New Sculpture Series was designed as a showcase for emerging sculptorsw and the three exhibitions will be shown together at the Evergreen Art Centre in Coquitlam in the fall of 2000 with the possibility of touring nationally in 2001.

February 8, 2000 to March 4, 2000
Exhibition
Saul Terry was the first native graduate of ECIAD in 1968 and worked as a sculptor in the late 60s and early 70s. In the mid 1970s he became involved in politics culminating in six terms as the president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. In 1998 he left politics and enrolled in the Art Institute Program at Capilano College producing the series of sculptural work featured in this exhibition. An essay on Terry's work by sculptor/educator George Rammell will acompany the exhibition.

November 2, 1999 to November 27, 1999
Exhibition
Welcome to the Inflated World of Rain & Mufin is a photographic series which documents the utopian relationship of a lesbian couple. The women in this couple are actual blow-up dolls purchased at a Montreal sex shop.

October 5, 1999 to October 23, 1999
Archival, Exhibition
Still: a photograph. A moment in performance. Still: First Nations people survive. Blatant injustices are not addressed. Still: Indians stand up and claim space. In that space the stories are re-told, re-interpreting what was assumed understood. The space becomes part of the moccasin telegraph: a gathering place, a communal council fire. Grievances are aired. Relations are shown. News of the community is examined, the larger community of Indianess considered...(for full curatorial statement see attached exhibition brochure below)

May 11, 1999 to May 29, 1999
Exhibition
With a change in direction, Vancouver artist Carole Itter exhibits The Pink Room at the grunt gallery. Her prior large scale found object assemblages dealt with urban or rural ecological issues on the West Coast. With this installation, another facet is explored--more personal and emotional--dealing with the impact of deep grief and irreconcilable loss.