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Eastside Culture Crawl 2010

November 26, 27, & 28th

(Friday 5 to 10 pm, Sat & Sun 11 am to 6 pm)

Come and see Bernadine in her studio at

#7, 1310 William Street, Vancouver BC

(William Clark Studios)

and check out some of her new work!

Just so you know the long-term forecast indicates that it will be raining on Friday the 26th so bring an umbrella.  Saturday the 27th it is supposed to be ...  well ... kinda sunny.  And Sunday the 28th it is supposed to either rain or snow depending on how cold it gets.  

All of these days are going to be rather cold so bundle up.  

For up-to-date weather use the link below.

Check the weather today!

Map for Bernadine's Studio

Click here for driving instructions.

Women's Winter Faire

Dec 18 & 19th

Heritage Hall

This is the first year that Bernadine will be participating in the Women's Winter Faire.   She is looking forward to exhibiting her art in this new venue.

Sketchbook Project

Participating in the Sketchbook Project which will tour the USA in 2011 and then catalogued into The Brooklyn Art Library's permanent collection.

Drawing Classes:

Next Class:  January 15th to March 5th, 2011

Drawing: an 8-week course designed to assist the artist in training (or retraining) their brain to see what they are seeing and draw what they see.  These are small classes taught directly out of Bernadine's studio at Williams and Clark Street in Vancouver, BC and intended for the mature student (over 45 years of age).  She holds three to four courses per year and as the classes only hold a maximum of 6 students they fill up quickly.  Call or email info@bernadinefox.ca to get more information and/or to register online. 

Expressive Arts Group for the West Coast Mental Health Network.  Occurs every Monday from 1 -3 pm at Gallery Gachet 88 E. Cordova St. Vancouver, BC.  Participation is free to members of the WCMHN but requires membership (also free) in the WCMHN.  Call the WCMHN office for more information (604) 733-5570.

"Allow Art In" 

(produced for Downsized)

By Bernadine Fox BFA

Downsized is an exhibition produced by http://artistrun.org

Reception Sept. 25th
from 6 - 8pm @ Raw Canvas

Exhibited at Rootdown for month of October 2010

see Exhibition page for artist statement

Not My Love(r)

Oct 29th to November 14th, 2010

Interurban Gallery

1 E. Hastings, Vancouver BC

see Exhibition page for artist statement

(see Portfolio Exhibition Series: Not My Love(r) to read the artist statement for this show)

The Retro Show

W2 Storyeum 

(151 W. Cordova St., Vancouver)

Oct 23 & 24th, 2010

noon to 5 pm

A small group of visual artists will be going through the storage areas where we keep our art and clearing space to create new and exciting pieces.  This is the place to come and find art and make some deals.  Come and find out how you can win one of Bernadine's pieces of art!

Burnaby Arts Guild

October 26th, 2010

Demo on working with black ground and discussion on being female AND an artist.

Art & Social Change

Gallery Gachet & Heart of the City Festival

November 7th

(1-4pm)

Bernadine will moderate two panels and discussion on how art can be used for social change.  There is a great line-up of important speakers well-educated on this issue.  

Call Gachet if you want further information (604) 687-2468.

Hollyburn Country Club

June 22 to August 25, 2010 

My series "Not My Love(r)" was  display at the Hollyburn Country Club in West Vancouver, BC.

Visit "Not My Love(r)" to read the artist statement for this series of paintings.

Drawn, Draw, Drawing

August 2nd to 9th, 2010

Bernadine is the curator for the upcoming Drawn, Draw, Drawing Exhibition at Gallery Gachet in participation with the 2nd Annual Drawn Festival 2010.

See Facebook page 

Join us from August 2nd to August 9th at Gallery Gachet 

(88 E. Cordova St. in Vancouver BC) from noon to 6 pm 

OR 

Join us for the RECEPTION on August 6th from 7pm to 10pm.

And call if you have any questions 604-687-2468.

March 15 to (originally intended to end May 15th but held over until July 5th)

Not My Love(r)

Rhizome @ East Broadway

(see Portfolio Exhibition Series: Not My Love(r) to read the artist statement for this show)

Sunday, April 18, 6:00pm

Knowing The Muse 

(in Conjunction with Not My Love(r) Exhibition)

Artist- facilitated discussion on the nature of creativity

Creativity can sweep us up into that perfect zone where time slips away and everything we touch turns into works of art.  But it can also abandon us in blank canvases, lumps of clay, and thoroughly white pages that scream for words.  Creativity is not just for "artsy" folks.  It is the process of bringing together new ideas and, therefore, rightly belongs to everyone.  Bernadine Fox BFA, visual artist and writer, will lead this discussion on creativity.  Where does it come from?  How can we nurture it?  What are the different processes for men and women?  And what hurts it?  Come share your questions and ideas, and celebrate Bernadine's painting exhibition, currently on display at Rhizome.  

Coffee, tea and other beverages will be provided.

Free

May 1st, 7: 30 pm

One World: 

Art Show & Fundraiser for Haiti

Science World, Vancouver BC

An exquisite marriage of over 50 renowned international visual artists showcasing their one of a kind works of art for sale, along with a very special team of selected performers, fashion and beauty artists, creating the "world through their eyes" on a human canvas in the most sophisticated Body Art Competition yet!  World renowned judges will be awarding the teams that are simply extraordinary!  This is an unforgettable evening for all the senses.  Let us inspire you.

A fundraiser to assist with the Haiti recovery.

May 4th 2010  - Gallery Gachet

Mindscape

May 19th, 2010

VANCOUVER SUN-- The century-old Metropole in Vancouver’s gritty Downtown Eastside will re-launch this week as a “community pub”, with its new owners promising 25 per cent of annual profits to local charities. The community concept “just makes total sense for the neighbourhood,” said Nate Sabine, marketing director for Donnelly Hospitality Management.  The Met has been operating out of the five-storey brick building at 320 Abbott Street since 1906, and has suffered many ups and downs in fortune over that time.  At one point, according to media reports, the late Bruce Eriksen, a city councillor and social activist, deemed it the “armpit of the Downtown Eastside.”

Indeed, said Sabine, when Donnelly first purchased the pub last year, “it was really just a step up from a heroin-shooting gallery.”  The company — which owns and operates 12 bars and nightclubs across Vancouver — lost little time renovating the space, including replacing the furniture and restoring the floors and walls to their original wood and brick. These days, Sabine said, the business appears more like a “well-run dive” with cheap beer ($4 a pint), vintage pinball machines and a DJ booth attracting a mainly young crowd of “hipsters” and artists.

“We just cleaned the place up a little bit without losing the character,” Sabine said.

On Wednesday, the pub’s official re-launch party will feature an art exhibit and auction to benefit the Gallery Gachet, one of the four local non-profits chosen to receive Met profits. The event runs 7 to 10 p.m., with tickets available at the door for $10. Other charities earmarked for assistance by the Donnelly Fund, the charitable arm of Donnelly Hospitality Management, include United We Can, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Center, and the Vancouver Food Bank.

Brian Dodd, executive director of United We Can, said the promise of targeted money from the Met means more people considered “unemployable” because of mental health, poverty, addiction and physical disabilities will now be able to find work in their community.  On Donnelly’s request, Dodd said, the donated funds will be directed to the charity’s lane-cleaning program in the Gastown area. The program employs local residents to pick up litter, clean sidewalks, lanes, alleys and other public spaces.

“It’s wonderful. It’s a win-win for everyone,” Dodd said of the deal.

It’s not the first time the Met has been tapped as a potential revenue source to aid the poverty-stricken Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. A decade ago, the building — which includes four floors of social housing — was handed over to the Downtown Eastside Residents Association to run as part of a private-public partnership, with the help of a $1-million cash injection from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. In 2003, the controversial project collapsed into receivership, and resulted in the removal of three members of DERA’s executive board over an apparent conflict of interest arising from their involvement as directors in a numbered company set up to operate the pub. In the mid-1980s, the pub gained notoriety when its owners of the day evicted its low-income tenants in the lead-up to Expo 86.

“It was pretty awful. I remember one [resident] had only one leg,” said former city councillor Jim Green. “There were a lot of horror stories around it at the time.”

The building, including both the hotel and Met pub, was assessed in 2010 at 3.2 million. Records show the property was last sold in 2005 for $3.9 million. As of March 30, 2010, the company director was listed as Philip Kim. The Met continues to operate as a single-room occupancy hotel.

dahansen@vancouversun.com

Several of my newest pieces will be part of the group exhibition at Gallery Gachet (88 E. Crodova St. Vancouver, BC)  entitled

A Collective Response

Exhibition runs: 5th – 28th February, 2010
Exhibition is part of Art Walk 2010, www.artwalkvancouver.ca

Image:  "8%"

Opening Reception: Fri Feb 5th, 7 – 10pm

Dance Party Celebrating the Arts: Sat Feb 13th, 8 - late 

(With support from Art Walk 2010 and the Alliance for Arts and Culture)

Gallery Gachet presents the exhibition A Collective Response, featuring The Gallery Gachet Collective’s response to the current cultural landscape in Vancouver. The exhibition showcases each artist’s reaction to the arts funding cuts through their own art-making practice, celebrating and reinforcing the importance of art as a critical means for achieving a healthy and flourishing society.

A Collective Response aims to focus on the critical role of art in society, in particular as a way of responding to contemporary issues. Vancouver is currently undergoing a massive upheaval, and these changes affect all its citizens profoundly. Gallery Gachet’s Collective Membership feels strongly about the importance of community engagement and asserting a response to these changes, and they believe that art provides a powerful and significant channel for dialogue.

Based on the idea of Documenta (an international contemporary art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany every five years), The Collective will transform Gallery Gachet into a ‘free speech zone’ offering both commentary and critique of issues relevant to art and life in Vancouver at this specific historical juncture. Thematically, the work addresses the massive funding cuts that most arts organizations have received in BC, as well as political priorities and how these precedents impact our cultural climate. The Gachet Collective believes in the expression of art and culture as a human right, and as a means for achieving social, cultural and economic justice.

The link between A Collective Response and Documenta is one of intention and spirit. Documenta is known as an exhibition that explores the intersection between contemporary art and the current critical issues of the time, inviting people from all over the world to convene, assess the situation, and enact a dialogic process. Documenta began in the early 1950’s, and was developed as a response to the “degenerate art” politics of the Third Reich. In contrast to other international exhibitions that emerged from the “World Fair” models, the tradition behind Documenta is one of theoretical grounding, and a sense of urgency in regards to the role and meaning of art in society. Inclusivity and dissolution of elitism are founding values of the festival; these beliefs are also woven into the core of The Collective’s ideology and integral values that are unanimously held by The Collective.

A Collective Response will feature multidisciplinary works from Gachet’s twenty-one collective members, and represents not only the distinct response of each individual member but also the unique energy and drive behind The Gachet Collective as a whole.

Artists featured: Benitto, Sharon Burns, Sharon Smith, Kara Lee, Stephen Long, Jay Peachy, Karen Ward, Bernadine Fox, Bruce Ray, Dylan Wolney, Quin Martins, W.N. (Bill) Pope, Laurie Marshall, Robert Gardiner, Leef Evans, Diane Thorn, Cherise Clarke, Lisa Walker, Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty, Geoff Greene and Youngsin Lee.

Feb 12th to 28th, 2010

"2010 Winter Market"

CanaMade Gallery

151 W. Cordova St., Vancouver, BC

Many of my paintings and art objects will be included in this Winter Market.

March 11-21^st 2010

2010 Vancouver International Dance Festival

Roundhouse Community Centre

181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC

Several of my breastplates will be exhibited at this upcoming dance festival.  

More information on this work can be found at Portfolio: Breastplate.

Spoilage: Speaking Up for Children of Drug Addicts

Oct. 9^th to Nov 1^st, 2009

Transgressions

Britannia Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Oct. 7^th to Oct 30th, 2010

15th Anniversary Show

 Gallery Gachet, Vancouver BC

The Salon at Chapel Arts, Eastside Culture Crawl

Vancouver BC 2009

Out of Space

 Vancouver, BC 2009