Lisa Klapstock, 3** Crawford Street, 2001. Image: dianefarrisgallery.com

1. Lisa Klapstock: Depiction

October 18 – November 3, 2007

At the Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver

Lisa Klapstock uses photography to investigate the complexity of visual perception. By varing the depth of field, Klapstock explores the camera’s role in the enhancement or alteration of how we view and experience our surroundings.

The resulting images are stunning panoramas that mimic the ways in which our minds perceive objects in space and time –experiences that photography has been attempting to replicate, mediate or control since its invention.

In November, Klapstock will be showing her video works, Ambiguous Landscapes and Field Studies: Exposure and Focus, in a two-person show with Paulette Phillips at the Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris.

Lisa Klapstock, 2 Montrose Avenue (Threshold Series) 2001-02. Image: jesssicabradleyartprojects.com

For more information on Lisa Klapstock, please check out the artist’s website HERE.

2. Shared Propulsion Car: Michel de Broin & overgrown: Janet Morton

October 24th - December 8th, 2007

Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto

Michel de Broin accepting the Sobey Art Award

Artist talk by Michel de Broin: October 24th @ 7:00pm

The just-announced winner of the 2007 Sobey Art Award, Michel de Broin presents Shared Propulsion Car, an ‘86 Buick Regal stripped of its engine, suspension, transmission and electrical system and outfitted with 4 independent pedal and gear mechanisms.

The vehicle retains the illusion of the mass-produced luxury automobile, but is reduced to a shell that now has a top speed of 15km per hour.

Michel de Broin, Car body, pedals and gears, 2005. Image: micheldebroin.org

Presented in the gallery as a sculptural work, the car is accompanied by a video of the work in action. Periodically it will leave the gallery space and passersby will be invited to help pedal the car through traffic.

Janet Morton creates a dense ivory mass of plush tangled vines a foot deep, clinging to the back gallery wall. With monochromatic materials varying in tone and texture, the artist creates a seductive wall garden.

Janet Morton, Untitled (Domestic Interior) (2000). Photo: Sarah Quinton

Visit Michel de Broin’s website HERE, and his gallery HERE

More on Janet Morton HERE.

Janet Morton, Untitled (Domestic Interior) (2000). Photo: Sarah Quinton

3. A behind-the-scenes tour of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Sunday, October 21, 2007

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Image: montreal.com

The Museum is inviting Montrealers to a free behind-the-scenes tour on Sunday, October 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The self-guided tour can include the Museum’s reserves, or storage areas, and conservation labs, as well as the Museum’s three pavilions and the Erskine and American Church, which will be incorporated into the Museum’s new Pavilion of Canadian Art.

This tour will enable visitors to discover the wide variety of jobs involved in the preparation of a museum exhibition and the importance of this behind-the-scenes work, which is essential to the development of the collection and the presentation of exhibitions.

For more information, please check the Museum’s website HERE.