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.
Natasha Katedralis: Eyebat, The Cutting Floor
March 18, 2025-June 17, 2025
Bob Prittie Library
6100 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby
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Eyebat, The Cutting Floor gathers 12 silver gelatin prints that incorporate photograms, light drawing, contact printing, enlarged “digital negatives” and hand-colouring techniques with oil pigments. Natasha Katedralis uses photographic tools, as one move in a sequence of gestures, to emphasize, dramatize and recompose the visual into a space of abstraction, flattening and association. These photo-come-collage-come-drawings push the illusory qualities of the photographic medium into a play of highly constructed and graphic surfaces.
Having recently learned photo-developing techniques under mentorship of artist and darkroom technician Felix Rapp, the prints exist as an experimental extension of the artist’s engagement with photography and images. Using the analogue process, Katedralis combines digital photography with the physical ephemera that constellate her wider practice such as drawings, collage materials and collected items of significance. Fragments of computer desktop images, torn out magazine pages, ink drawings, family heirlooms and renderings of the artist’s house keys, indiscriminately converge in the material space of light-sensitive paper and the liquid chemicals that develop them.
This exhibition is curated by Asia Jong, Burnaby Art Gallery's Curatorial Aide, and is in participation with Capture Photography Festival's 2025 selected exhibitions program.
Guerrilla Girls: Talking Back
March 19, 2025 – June 18, 2025
McGill Library
4595 Albert Street, Burnaby
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This exhibition presents a body of work by American feminists artists collective, Guerrilla Girls, who formed in 1985, New York City in response to gender and racial inequities in the arts community. Drawn from the collective’s late 1980’s portfolio of 30 posters, Guerrilla Girls Talk Back, these works employ pointed critique, humour and guerrilla tactics such as posters, handbills and protest actions used to counter hegemonic cultural systems. Despite progress made, and nearly 40 years since its creation, Guerrilla Girls’ work continues to resonate amid an uncertain social and political context.
This exhibition is curated by Cameron McLellan, Burnaby Art Gallery's Registrar. Works on display are from the City of Burnaby's Permanent Art Collection.