Open

Lisa Hebden

Opening Reception: Friday, October 1st, 7:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 5 pm

Exhibition runs through to Sunday, October 24th, 2010.

Biography:
Victoria figurative painter Lisa Hebden is a 2003 recipient of a “Painting on the Edge Award” from the Federation of Canadian Artists. Lisa holds 2 degrees, in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her work has been featured in International Artist Magazine, Applied Arts Magazine, Art Avenue, Ceramics Art and Perception, The Vancouver Sun, The Halifax Herald and the Claremont Review. Her paintings can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, Germany and Australia.

Artist’s Statement:
Lisa Hebden’s paintings are about transitions, dreaming, nostalgia. She combines imagery derived from drawings, photographs, magazine clippings and imagination to develop scenes that could exist in the real world, but which have an otherworldliness to them. The irregularities that occur in the resulting figures further evoke a sense of transition. The luminosity of each moment is made more potent by the knowledge that it is fleeting. An apparently light scene can have an indefinable, darker side to it.

Open (invitation).


The Balcony Gallery, a creative space for art

NEXT:
Second Story
by Skai Fowler,
October 14th, 2010, at 7 p.m.
on the BALCONY at Xchanges

Skai Fowler is a Vancouver-based visual artist and has been exhibiting her work since 1987. She works both in photography and painting. Her photographic subject has been the female nude with a recent foray into abstract architectural imagery. Her acrylic paintings are abstract expressionist with an obsession with transformation.

Skai graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1985 and exhibits nationally and internationally. After working for many years as an arts administrator she now works as a scenic artist in the local theatre community, teaches digital photography and is an Adjunct Professor, teaching scenic painting at UBC Theatre and Film Dept.

Fowler.

On the Xchanges exterior balcony: open air art

Our NEXT Exhibition (November 5th through 28th)

Crossgrain Photographic Society’s
“black is the new black”

Opening: Friday November 5th, 7:00 PM
Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 5 pm

Members of Crossgrain Photographic Society, a darkrrom group based in Victoria, call attention to the beauty of traditional hand-developed work, and play on the theme of black and darkness. Their featured images emerge from the black of the wet darkroom.

Migration.