Arthur Renwick: Mask
Discipline:
Visual Arts
Principal Artist(s):
Arthur Renwick
Presented With:
Richmond Art Gallery
When:
1/29/2010 - 4/04/2010
1/28/2010 Opening reception,
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Gallery Hours
Monday to Friday: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
February 12 to February 28 Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 10:00 am to 9:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where:
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond
Map
Ticket Type:
Free (No reservations required) / Admission by donation
Information:
richmondartgallery.org
Arthur Renwick. Michael, 2006. 46 x 44 inches. Colour photography.
Arthur Renwick is an artist, musician and scholar. He grew up moving between two places that face each other across British Columbia’s Douglas Channel: Kitamaat Village, ancestral home of the Haisla First Nation, and Kitimat, a company town built in the 1950s to house workers at an aluminum smelter.
Renwick’s background informs his work, including the photographic series Mask, recently acquired by the National Gallery of Canada. Renwick discussed the complex history of Aboriginal photographs with fellow First Nations artists, who responded by “pulling faces” as the shutter snapped. They look out at the viewer, their faces distorted, in the must-see, larger-than-life portraits collected here.
The Richmond Art Gallery exhibition, which includes educational programs, will display four of the original Mask photographs and 12 new works.
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