Offsite Exhibitions

Offsite exhibitions are organized by the Gallery’s Preparator/Exhibition Coordinator and generally draw from works from the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection. Offsite exhibitions also present opportunities for emerging and local artists to present their work to a wide audience.

Two Burnaby library locations, Bob Prittie Metrotown Library and McGill Library, host these exhibitions.

Image credit: Donna-Fay Digance, Valley Dancers, 1982, etching on paper, 46.0cm x 30.0 cm, from the Malaspina Printshop Archives of the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection, Gift of Milton and Fei Wong.

Moving Through Silence

January 16 – May 14, 2024

McGill Library
4595 Albert Street, Burnaby
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Focusing on artworks from the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection that explore movement and dance, with an emphasis on prints donated by Fei and Milton Wong, this show builds on recent Burnaby Art Gallery programs that have introduced dance and movement into exhibition spaces. The artworks in Moving Through Silence address the challenges of depicting motion through the two-dimensional surface, revealing a range of artistic approaches, and expressing a spectrum of human emotions. Curated by Cameron McLellan, BAG Registrar.

Image credit: Craig Pettman (b. 1987) is an artist working in Vancouver, BC. He attended Emily Carr University and has shown work at Red Gate, Trapp Projects and the Art Folk Gallery, Birmingham, AL.

Craig Pettman: I Have Seen the Future

February 15 – May 5, 2024

Bob Prittie Library
6100 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby
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Pettman deftly excavates images culled from countercultural movements, psychedelia and (un)popular music, transforming visual signifiers from these specific sources into a diverse body of paintings, drawings, prints and collages.  The same seemingly effortless approach to the selection of source material is often evident in the manner in which the works are executed.  Pettman extends this methodology by reminding us that this is how subcultures are often perceived by prevailing social attitudes, but fail to recognize the critical, humorous and poetic qualities found within the discarded and overlooked detritus of contemporary western culture.  In his work, Pettman mines and represents tropes as a way of questioning their original meaning while offering new potential narratives.

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