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Thursday, February 24, 2005

Visual Arts: Identity’s Points of Origin

Vancouver exhibitions illuminate our sense of place and deep ties to faraway countries

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A strong element of our Pacific Rim identity informs this visual-arts season. Established and emerging artists, either based in or with cultural ties to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, appear in a number of solo and group exhibitions. Rising young artists of European descent are also commanding critical and curatorial attention. And, filling out the spring picture: our enduring attachment to forms and ideas of landscape.

Read more of Robin Laurence's article here

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