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Gratitude

July 4, 2008 to August 2, 2008
Exhibition
Enpaauk Andrew Dexel is a young emerging artist from the Nlakapmux Nation. His painting style mixes graffiti style with North West Coast design creating figurative and abstract images that speak to resistance and renewal. His beginnings as a graffiti artist is central to his style and since his switch from walls to canvas three years ago he has brought this energy from the street into his paintings. His work was featured in the Kamloops Art Gallery's exhibition Shazam earlier this year. His work is also featured at the Native Winds Gallery in Honolulu and has been published in Blood Lines Magazine. Gratitude will feature his original paintings on canvas "My work relates my spiritual path; my journey. I express the inspiration lovingly given to me through teachings and stories from my elders and mentors. My work embodies the powerful visions that I have been given through these teachings. I am grateful.My work is a modern expression embodying the symbolic abstract inspired by my home: Coast Salish Territory."

June 5, 2008 to June 14, 2008
Performance
nine performances by nine local artists over nine days. -June 5 2008 - Paul Wong - Mainstreet -June 6 2008 - Skeena Reece - Nurse Shaman -June 7 2008 - Bobbi Kozinuk - Fitting in -June 8 2008 - Archer Pechawis - Shoot the Indian June 10 2008 - Marlene Madison - Close to Me June 11 2008 - Margaret Dragu - LADY JUSTICE GOES BUZZ-BUZZ June 12 2008- Cheryl LHirondelle - ekaya -pahkaci (don't freeze up) June 13 2008 - Norma - Warm up Act June 14 2008 - Rebecca Belmore - Victorious

May 23, 2008 to June 28, 2008
Exhibition
"For the The Hive-Dress , as in the first project (Les pensees-matiere) , we undertook the collection of spontaneous thoughts, written on thin stripes of paper.... AS in our previous work, these thoughts were sewn one after the other on a n indefinite ribbon, made from dyed scrap fabric coming from these same industries , pursuing our ritual of transforming thought into vibrant material." Audy and Faubert

April 4, 2008 to May 10, 2009
Exhibition
"The photographs of Greg Staatsare concerned with what motivates thee act of viewing as it moves into the time and space of the real, in search of an encounter. The image becomes the 'freezing' of this gesture: a small moment in a continuum, a brief ending barely captured in the image." -Francois Dion

February 22, 2008 to March 29, 2008
Exhibition
"Materiality and Otherness" looks at materiality from a phenomological perspective that draws on psyche projections and cultural sensibilities. From a culturally innate viewpoint, the materials and the process reflect the Anishnawbek traditional teachings, crafts, and cosmologies as well as notions of otherness of the uncanny."- Rolande Souliere

January 11, 2008 to February 16, 2008
Exhibition
The works in this exhibition reflect Harold Coego's rediscovery of himself as a visual artist after a long engagement in the worlds of stage and screen. This series of drawings and collage-derived monetary currency bridges the artist's two home countries-Cuba, where historical and cultural heroes (perfect human beings trapped in their own historical circumstances) surrounded him, and Canada where new characters and new human interactions shape a different life. Most of the currency "characters" came to the artist in a "pure" way, as a child growing up in Cuba. Now, thirty years later, Coego gives those characters the chance to break through their own historical frame and wander free in an abstract world of ink and irony where they have become a commodity. The resulting images are representations of the artist's imagination through an abstract cinematographic kaleidoscope-a twisted photocopy of reality, or perhaps more like a dream where something is always out of place

November 27, 2007
Performance
La Dragu has reinvented herself as Lady Justice channeling the Roman goddess Justita, the greek goddess Themis and the Egyptian goddess Ma'at to bring justice and jurisprudence to all!!!! While she has the scales she has lost the sword. This event is a benefit to get it back. It's a big problem as Ironing Man beloved leader of VisualEyes put it "Lady Justice is brave and true and looking fabulous but the strain is beginning to show. She is worried sick over the loss of her beloved Sword of Justice." Lady Justice will allow herself to be photographed with her fans for inclusion on her blog site for a small fee guaranteeing the participant immediate transformation into a mass media star. A small price to pay for Justice.

October 12, 2007 to December 1, 2007
Exhibition
This show will be a suite of mono prints which deal with Heap of Birds' vision of the Mayan Tree of Life as witnessed in Chiapas last year. The prints investigate a personal and tribal stance involving political and ceremonial values in Mexico and how this relates to his Cheyenne world view. The Mayan Tree of Life relates to the Standing House Poles at MOA-UBC, his 50 foot outdoor sculpture of 10 standing trees at the Denver Art Museum and the earth renewal ceremony of the North American Plains. All of these issues are examined with a personal poetics of text in his prints.