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“Moodyville”: North Shore Notations

Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver May 2 to Jun 15 2008
Jim Breukelman <i>View from Moodyville Park, North Vancouver</i> 2008 Courtesy the artist and Republic Gallery Vancouver Jim Breukelman View from Moodyville Park, North Vancouver 2008 Courtesy the artist and Republic Gallery Vancouver

Jim Breukelman <i>View from Moodyville Park, North Vancouver</i> 2008 Courtesy the artist and Republic Gallery Vancouver

An outdoor paintball course, redwood stumps, a building seen through a scrim of trees: the forest is omnipresent in images from “Moodyville,” a new show at Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver. Seven artists—Jim Breukelman, Karin Bubas, Babak Golkar, Mike Grill, Kyla Mallett, Jeremy Shaw and Dan Siney—were invited to produce new works in response to locale. Photographs, videos, drawings and a public project frame what the gallery calls “a complex picture of North Vancouver’s socio-cultural landscape,” a landscape still clearly tied to a prosperous 19th-century sawmill community that went by the name of Moodyville, a name that—intentionally or not—remains indelibly shaded by the tone of western rainforest. (333 Chesterfield Ave, Vancouver BC)

Jim Breukelman <i>Paintball Landscape, North Vancouver</i> 2008

Jim Breukelman Paintball Landscape, North Vancouver 2008 Courtesy the artist and Republic Gallery Vancouver
Karin Bubaš <i>Afternoon Croquet (Moodyville)</i> 2008 Production still

Karin Bubaš Afternoon Croquet (Moodyville) 2008 Production still Courtesy the artist and Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver
This article was first published online on May 1, 2008.

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