A trio of local artists will be in conversation with Surrey Art Gallery assistant curator Brian Foreman this month at the gallery.
The artists, including Elizabeth Hollick (White Rock), Helma Sawatzky (Surrey) and Davida Kidd (Langley), will discuss their work in the new exhibition, Seen From Here: Recent Acquisitions, and will consider the meaning and importance of museum art collections to them as practicing artists.
The program – on Thursday, July 17, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. – includes time to meet and speak with the artists over refreshments. Admission is by donation.
Curated by Foreman, Seen From Here features works recently acquired for the gallery’s permanent collection by artists who have called the South of the Fraser region home – including Walter Dexter, Enn Erisalu, Robert Genn, Brian Howell, Don Li-Leger, Robert Michener, Arnold Mikelson, Ann Nelson and Fred Owen.
Organized into groups related to people, places, and abstraction, this exhibition is an eclectic mix of paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.
The exhibition continues to Aug. 30.
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