Printmaking and photography are in focus in two new exhibitions at Burnaby's public libraries.
The Burnaby Art Gallery is offering two new off-site exhibitions at Burnaby Public Library branches.
At the McGill library branch (4595 Albert St.), visitors can check out Laura Widmer's Face to Face.
Widmer is an award-winning Canadian printmaker based in Kelowna, who has earned recognition from the Open Studio National Printmaking Awards.
Her first prize-winning work from the 2010 competition, One of the Daves I Know, is part of the exhibition at the library - as is Pearls, which earned honourable mention in the same competition last year.
"My work is a quiet act of defiance in a digital age," Widmer says in a statement. "I wish to draw attention to the tactile, sensual subtleties of our world at a time when the word 'touch' frequently references a finger-swipe across a flat, rectangular screen. I use a deliberately physical process and emphasize the handmade mark in creating works that explore the subtleties of expression; I hope that the lines, textures and accumulation of marks in my work suggest a process, a history and a sense of presence that will invite the viewer to pause, if even momentarily."
Face to Face is on until June 8.
At the Bob Prittie (Metrotown) library branch at 6100 Willingdon Ave., visitors can take in People With Cameras, an exhibition of photographs from the City of Burnaby Archives - historic photographs that show the rise of photography as a leisure pursuit, especially after 1900 when the Kodak Brownie Box roll-film camera was introduced.
It's on until June 7.
Check out www.burnabyartgallery.ca for more about the exhibitions.
