VISUAL ARTS
Bau-Xi Gallery
Andre Petterson explores the contentious symbolism of the suit jacket in his latest body of work, Transition, until Sept. 22 • 3045 Granville St. • 604-733-7011, bau-xi.com
Belkin Art Gallery
Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: The Last Waves. An installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that loosely evoke the familiar yet strange locations for escapist films: a bar, a lab, a hotel. • 1825 Main Mall, UBC • Until Dec. 4 • 604-822-2759, belkin.ubc.ca Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art Bill Reid Creative Journeys: Celebrates the three phases of Bill Reid’s creative journey, until Aug. 31, 2017 | The Seriousness of Play: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, until Oct. 2 • 639 Hornby St. • 604-682-3455, billreidgallery.ca
Burnaby Art Gallery
Betrayal at Babylon: Keith Langergraber’s new body of work explores the subculture of meteorite hunters, following a motley group of prospectors across a surreal landscape. • 6344 Deer Lake Ave. • Until Oct. 23 • burnabyartgallery.ca
Catriona Jeffries Gallery
Raymond Boisjoly’s most recent body of work Discrepants, circulates around textual figures of temporal and spatial displacements. • Opening reception Sept. 15, 7-9 p.m., runs until Oct. 29 • 274 E. 1st Ave. • catrionajeffries.com
Charles H. Scott Gallery
Genocide and Democracy, Secrets of Life and Death: A solo exhibition by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds. • Aug. 30-Nov. 6, opening reception Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m. • 1399 Johnston St., Granville Island • 604-844-3809, chscott.ecuad.ca
Contemporary Art Gallery
The weakened eye of day: A major new body of work by Irish artist Isabel Nolan. • 555 Nelson St. • Until Oct. 2 • 604-681-2700, contemporaryartgallery.ca
Deer Lake Gallery
Diffusion: Group exhibition features the work of Carolyn Kramer, Corey Jennifer Hardeman and Sean O’Flynn. • 6584 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby • Until Oct. 1 • 604-298-7322, burnabyartscouncil.org
Elissa Cristall Gallery
Lesley Finlayson: New Paintings. Oil on canvas paintings created in the plein air landscape tradition concentrate on the interplay of light between water and land, drawing insight from the Gulf Islands on the west coast of B.C. • 2239 Granville St. • Until Oct. 1 • CristallGallery.com
Fort Gallery
Precarious Spaces: Don Portelance’s work is a response to concerns about ocean life in the face of pollution, particularly plastics. Zuzana Vasko explores ideas around how language, communication and wisdom might be viewed as reciprocal practices with the natural world, most notably with local forests. • Sept. 21-Oct. 10, reception Sept. 24, 1-4 p.m. • 9048 Glover Rd., Fort Langley • 604-888-7411, fortgallery.ca
gallery gachet
If Not For Dreams: An exhibition of artwork from the Oppenheimer Park community. • 88 E. Cordova St. • Until Oct. 23 • 604-687-2468, gachet.org
Grunt Gallery
Tomorrow, Tomorrow: Mark Hall-Patch’s series of watercolour drawings explore anarchistic art movements. • 116-350 E. 2nd Ave. • Until Oct. 15 • 604-875-9616, grunt.ca
Inuit Gallery
Jennifer Walden: Yellowknife-based artist’s distinctive style explores Northern life through people, wildlife and topography. Her contemporary expressionistic paintings are rich in texture and vibrant colour. • 206 Cambie St. • Until Sept. 24 • 604-688-7323, inuit.com
Kariton Art Gallery
A Muse on My Shoulder: Works by the Fraser Valley Watermedia Society and floral artist Cat Janzen. • 2387 Ware St., Abbotsford • Until Sept. 27 • 604-852-9358, abbotsfordartscouncil.org
Kimoto Gallery
Absense: New works by David Wilson. Vancouver painter’s new works are his most personal and introspective yet. • 1525 W. 6th Ave. • Until Oct. 8 • kimotogallery.com
Malaspina Printmakers
Aedes Hallucinates in the Jungle. A solo exhibition of new work by Fabiola Carranza, a Costa Rican/ Canadian artist who makes photographs, videos, sculptures, paintings and drawings that examine visual, cultural and personal phenomena. • 1555 Duranleau St., Granville Island • Until Oct. 9 • 604-688-1724, malaspinaprintmakers.com
Museum of Anthropology
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories. until Oct. 16 | In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man: Contemporary Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, until Jan. 31, 2017 • 6393 NW Marine Dr., UBC • 604-822-5087, moa.ubc.ca
Museum of Vancouver
All Together Now: Vancouver Enthusiasts and Their Collections. Explores motivations for collecting through wall-to-wall, interactive displays of rare, unconventional, and awe-inspiring objects, until Jan. 8, 2017 • 1100 Chestnut St. • museumofvancouver.ca
Or Gallery
5 Tableaux (It Bounces Back): This performance and installation work by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau expands their voracious experimentations with the lifespan of materials, how these become animated and form narrative threads and relationships, and the inevitable scuffs and decay incurred through the materials’ exposure to external factors. • 555 Hamilton St. • Until Oct. 29 • 604-683-7395, orgallery.org
Richmond Art Gallery
Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong. Victoria-based artist Rick Leong explores the synthesis of traditional imagery and symbols influenced by classical Chinese painting and the Canadian landscape. • 7700 Minoru Gate • Until Oct. 2 • 604-247-8300, richmondartgallery.org
Surrey Art Gallery
Still life takes over the gallery with five still life-inspired exhibitions and projects • Mimetic Workshop: Studio Still Lifes of Fiona Ackerman and Kelly Lycan, Sept. 17-Dec. 4 | Small Stages: Still Life from the Permanent Collection, Sept. 17-Dec. 4 | Jay Bundy Johnson: Being still (life) shows us who we are, until Jan. 10, 2017 | April Hickox: Variations Primaries, until Feb. 26, 2017 • 13750 88th Ave. • 604-501-5566, surrey.ca/artgallery
UNIT/PITT Projects
Joseph Staples: Garden of Paradise. This exhibit is comprised of six video loops, each consisting of two GIFs juxtaposed onto each other to form an intersection of movement. For this body of work, two material sources were chosen: the Japanese anime, Kotonoha no Niwa, and the singer, Lana Del Rey. • 236 E. Pender St. • Until Oct. 22 • 604-681-6740, helenpittgallery.org
Vancouver Art Gallery
Picasso: The Artist and His Muses examines the influence of six women in the life and work of Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, arguably the greatest artist of the 20th century, until Oct. 2 | I Had An Interesting French Artist To See Me This Summer: Emily Carr and Wolfgang Paalen in British Columbia explores a historic meeting between modern artists Emily Carr and Wolfgang Paalen, until Nov. 3 | Bharti Kher: Matter is the first major North American retrospective of works by internationally acclaimed artist Bharti Kher, until Oct. 10 • 750 Hornby St. • vanartgallery.bc.ca
Vancouver Maritime Museum
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage, until November | The Franklin Exploration: Micro-exhibit highlights the story of the expedition as well as the discovery of HMS Erebus • 1905 Ogden Ave. • 604-257-8300, vancouvermaritimemuseum.com
Western Front
American artist Cory Arcangel and Russian-born Olia Lialina influence and respond to one another’s work and their digital environment through many means and formats. Collaborating for the first time, the work in their exhibit Asymmetrical Response takes as its subject how hardware and software correlate to power. • 303 E. 8th Ave. • Until Oct. 22 • 604-876-9343, front.bc.ca
Winsor Gallery
Views of Hughes: Selected Multiples. Patrick Hughes’s works are visually engaging and surprisingly familiar playful ruminations on the history of art, perspective and Surrealism. Most of the paintings feature key elements in Hughes’ craft such as rectilinear forms: gallery walls, buildings, books, doorways and works of art that serve as anchors to the reverse perspective effect. • 258 E. 1st Ave. • 604-681-4870, winsorgallery.com