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Renée Van Halm: Cross-Cutting/Inside Out
February 10 – April 8, 2012
Burnaby Art Gallery

Reception: February 9, 2012    7 pm

The Burnaby Art Gallery is pleased to present the first survey exhibition of Renée Van Halm’s work. Focusing primarily on Van Halm’s works on paper, the exhibition explores in detail the artist’s interest in the role architecture plays in shaping our physical and social interactions. With this as an underlying theme, Cross-Cutting/Inside Out surveys over thirty years of work by a recognized Canadian painter.

Renée Van Halm’s diverse practice includes the medium of collage, installation, printmaking, gouache, oil and acrylic paints. In alignment with the Burnaby Art Gallery’s commitment to exhibiting works on paper, Cross-Cutting/Inside Out reviews works on paper by Van Halm, dating from 1979 to the present. While this is a chronological survey of Van Halm’s practice, the works selected for the exhibition focus primarily on the artist’s interest in the social role of architecture. References to iconic design elements and modernist architectural language are layered and obfuscated through painterly abstraction and figuration, creating works that are enticing and challenging. Three-dimensional installation pieces are also included to give presence to Van Halm’s interest in the materiality of architecture, illustrating how the viewer brings his/her own subjectivity to experiencing architecture. - Burnaby Art Gallery

Image Source: Burnaby Art Gallery
Renée Van Halm
Koenig
2001
Gouache on paper
Collection of the artist
© Renée Van Halm, 2011