The Sunshine Coast Arts Council presents two new exhibits at the Arts Centre Gallery.
Personal Projects is a selection of works from various long-term photography projects by Coast photographer Alan Sirulnikoff. Displayed concurrently is Vancouver artist Kiku Hawkes' body of work entitled Hand/held, a series of her hand-tinted photographs. These exhibitions run from Aug. 23 to Sept. 25.
Sirulnikoff exhibits selected works from On the Line, Dead Ahead, Hidden Voices and his Belly series. His explorations have spanned many years and locations. His approach to photography is as an observer of a moment or scene. There is no direction or manipulation of the subject, but rather, he captures the juxtaposition of events as they appear. He feels that his most successful images are created when his intuition is most active: in a fraction of a second he simultaneously recognizes both the significance of an event and the precise organization of its forms.
This display of Hawkes' early work documents gardens. The characteristics of Italian Renaissance gardens such as how structures are sighted/sited in the landscape, the way buildings open onto lawns bordered by tall hedges, creating rooms and framing vistas, is the motif of her photographs. In her series, the garden acts as a transitional space, records the space between public and private, interior and exterior, as well as renewal and decay. The images in Hand/held document an instant of time, place and light, implying the invisible hand that plants the seed, the eye that delights in growth, the body that harvests.
Meet both artists at the opening reception Wed-nes-day, Aug. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. The Sunshine Coast Arts Centre is on the corner of Trail and Medusa in Sechelt.
