Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery
EXHIBITIONS
Amy J. Dyck: Portals to Elsewhere
August 25 – October 1
Amy J. Dyck’s body of work, Portals to Elsewhere, reflects the artist’s lived experience with disability and difficulty. She creates small mixed media collages using photographs, papers, magazines, paints, and other media until a complex and embodied presence emerges. These small works are usually finished pieces, and are often used for inspiration of larger works – whether paintings, drawings, or sculptures. Using symbols of human, animal and insect bodies, monsters and ghosts, mechanical and abstracted forms, the artist suggests a complex psychological landscape in each figure. These visual metaphors evoke ideas such as primal instinct, imagination, haunting memories, self-protection, dignity, and resistance. In these creations, Dyck explores an allegory of what resilience might look like in the face of difficult, sometimes life-altering, circumstances.
Illustration: Amy Dyck: Wing Head, mixed media
POETRY BY CANDLE LIGHT
Tuesday October 8, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Generously supported by Yosef Wosk as a part of the Art and Poetry in the Gallery Series
In these difficult times it is hard to know where to find comfort. We invite you to come to the gallery to be in community with our words and hearts. Bring a poem that expresses how you feel whether it is something which you have written or someone else has. We will each share these words in the hopes that they bring some comfort. Whether it is a poem about grief, loss, hope or love this is one way we are offering you to find some solace. We will have candles. All are welcome to come and read or just listen.
Bonnie Nish is Executive Director of Word Vancouver and Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society. Bonnie has a Masters in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University and a PhD in Language and Literacy Education from UBC. Bonnie’s first book of poetry ‘Love and Bones’ was released by Karma Press.
Pandora’s Collective and The Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery present
POETIC PAIRINGS
Join us for delightful pairings of poetic voices. Voices become differently engaged when set against another writer’s work. Listen as couplets bounce words off one another, relate their stories and rejoice in the collaboration of expression. Question period to follow.
Tuesday, October 15
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Poetic Pairs: Rosemary Nowicki, Teresa Klein
Cynthia Sharp, Bonnie Quan Symons
Chelsea Comeau, Lara Varesi
Timothy Shay and Shoshanna Wiley
Host: David Shewell
Women, Words and Wisdom: Therese Joseph
October 12 – November 18
Artist Reception
Wednesday October 30, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
All welcome
Throughout history women have struggled to be heard, seen and respected. This body of art portrays faces and figures of women in Joseph’s imagination – they are not portraits of real women. Created using mixed media, letters, words and texts are seen throughout. Accompanying each artwork, the artist has selected a corresponding quote about women, written by an influential woman.
Illustration: Therese Joseph, Waiting for the Rainbow, mixed media
Affordable Art Show
November 21 – January 3, 2025
Please join us for an exhibition and sale of affordable art. There will be a wide range of artists creating in a range of medium for $350 or less!
Artists to be announced.
CALL FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
The Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, at the JCC of Greater Vancouver, invites artists of all ages, religions, cultures, career stages, and backgrounds, to submit proposals for exhibitions in 2025.
Proposals for art in any medium (mixed media, performance, 2D and 3D visual arts, video/film) will be accepted. Individual and group shows will be considered.
Submissions will be accepted until SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Proposal Form
THE GALLERY IS LOOKING FOR DOCENTS
The Docent Program will be a group of trained volunteers who function as part-time gallery docents. Those interested in being docents will be trained by the Gallery Director in late summer or early fall, and, once trained, will receive a briefing on all exhibits. Docents will average one four-hour shift a week. A docent calendar will be managed by the Gallery Director. Email gallery@jccgv.bc.ca for more information, and to sign up to participate.
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COPYRIGHT
Each artist owns the copyright in his/her respective images. These images may not be copied, modified, duplicated or used in any way without the express prior written consent of the artist.