Aug 10, 2011

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council is proud to present:

District Foyer Gallery

North Vancouver District Hall, 355 West Queens Road

Aug 31 – Oct 31, 2011
 Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept 1, 6:30 - 8:30pm

 This exhibition explores decay in different mediums. It features the complex in theory yet simplistic form stone sculptures of Oliver Harwood and the rustic, colorful paintings of vintage trucks and tractors by Warren Oneschuk.

Warren Oneschuk
2D – “My work is a dual study of the character of earlier-era vehicles and wooden structures, and nature’s reclamation of these man-made creations. Being from the prairies and having driven similar machines as a kid and having grown up around barns, I'm drawn to the beauty of their shapes and to the colours and textures they have now become – a vast range of rusts, browns and warm/cool grays.”

“The paintings are an exploration of these unique physical shapes and a discovery of techniques to describe what I see. I let the creative process flow – from the initial drawing to the layering of colours and the brushwork, my intuition guides my painting process.”

Oliver Harwood
3D – “I am exploring the form of decay, the story that remains as the parts break down.
The unstructured organic response to the constructed: defined phase.  It seems we are in a global shift where more is breaking down than renewed. How do we as individuals and a collective respond to this?  I have often used the boat as metaphor for society, a constructed functional form, a container, a shell, that exists in a nebulous, often precarious state.”

District Foyer Gallery

North Vancouver District Hall, 355 West Queens Road  
Mon-Fri 8:00am - 4:30pm

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Contact:  Jo Dunlop, Exhibition Coordinator, North Vancouver Community Arts Council, 335 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2G3     604.988.6844  exhibitions@nvartsconcil.ca   www.nvartscouncil.ca