November 21, 2015 – February 20, 2016
Silva Part II: Booming Grounds
Artist Multiple artists
The Nanaimo Art Gallery
Installation view of works by George Sawchuck
Marian Penner Bancroft, Al Bersch and Leslie Grant, Jason de Haan and Miruna Dragan, Wilmer Gold, Robert Guest, Liz Magor, George Sawchuk, Carol Sawyer, Kathy Slade, Kate Stefiuk, and Elias Wakan
cut, and sometimes even before they have been planted. Forestry has always been a mobile industry: logging camps move with the trees, prices rise and fall, mills open and close, and communities boom and bust. The exhibition Booming Grounds offers visitors a place to pause and consider this cycle through a wide range of artworks that respond to contemporary and historical forestry practices.
In addition to the works of photography, painting, film, video, and sculpture featured in the gallery, there will be a number of public artworks and other presentations as part of the exhibition:
- Carol Sawyer’s video Wood Work (2011) will play throughout the exhibition on large monitors in the lobby and on the second floor of the Harbourfront Branch of Vancouver Island Regional Library.
- We will initiate Notes From The Collection: a showcase of selected work from the Nanaimo Art Gallery Permanent Collection that will change with each gallery exhibition. In dialogue with Booming Grounds we will present the painting Night Hills, Vancouver Island (1975) by Max Maynard, which was collected by Nanaimo Art Gallery in 1985.