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Doors Open Richmond: June 6 and 7
Doors Open Richmond is a free annual celebration that raises civic awareness and showcases the diverse, multicultural places and communities of the city. As part of Doors Open Richmond, get an insider’s view to the public art presented on the Canada Line.
Capture Photography Festival artists Keely O’Brien, Michael Love, Sylvan Hamburger, and Richmond Public Art Planner Biliana Velkova will take visitors on a walking tour of their public artworks currently installed at Canada Line stations in Richmond. They will discuss the works on display at Aberdeen, Lansdowne, and Brighouse stations.
NOTE: Participants will need to pay their own 1-zone transit fare, as we will take the Canada Line to each station. Final destination is Aberdeen Station.
All ages welcome to attend. RSVP is encouraged.
Please meet at Brighouse Station (street level) at 1 PM sharp.
Tour schedule*:
*times may adjust slightly to accommodate travel time and discussion
About the Artists:
Sylvan Hamburger is a visual artist working across corresponding acts of public intervention and personal recollection. He often employs printmaking, textiles, architecture and colour to reimagine experiences of place and self within changing contemporary landscapes.
Sylvan has completed residencies, exhibitions and public installations across North America, including projects with Vernon Public Art Gallery (BC), Vermont Studio Centre (VT), Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre (NL), Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (YT), The Rooms Museum (NL), Malaspina Printmakers (BC), Vancouver Maritime Museum (BC), and The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (AB). Alongside these projects, he has facilitated various community-based art initiatives with the Vancouver Parks Board and the City of Vancouver. Sylvan is the recipient of the BMO First Art Award, the BC Arts Council’s Individual Arts Award, and numerous Canada Council Explore and Create grants as well as a public art commission for Vancouver’s forthcoming Mount Pleasant Subway Station. He is an incoming MFA candidate at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Michael Love (B. 1976, Chilliwack, British Columbia) is an artist, photographer, curator and educator living and working in Vancouver, BC, the ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Love was the co-founder and curator of Gallery 295, an exhibition space which amplified emergent photographic practices. His art practice has largely been in dialogue with the histories surrounding the Cold War conflict, with a focus on the remnants of militarized sites. His work has been published in Esse, Next Level, Prefix Photo and BlackFlash magazines. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Roloff Beny Travel Fellowship (2009), BC Arts Council Project grant (2014, 2017, 2020), the Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant (2010, 2020). Love has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally.
Keely O’Brien is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice blends handmade objects with innovative theatre creation. Rooted in a thoroughly DIY approach, her work spans experimental performance, imaginative ephemera, and visual arts processes. She often collaborates with community members who may not consider themselves artists, inviting the public into playful, unconventional acts of meaning-making. Keely is Co-Artistic Director of Popcorn Galaxies, a theatre company focused on site-specific, audience-activated performance. She is the current COLLIDER artist-in-residence with Theatre Replacement, artist-in-residence at Carnegie Community Centre through Vancouver Parks Board Arts & Health, and an annual associate artist at Mountain View Cemetery’s Night for All Souls. She holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Simon Fraser University and is a self- and family-taught visual artist. Keely lives in Richmond, BC, on the unceded territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking peoples.
The presentation of these artworks on the Canada Line is a partnership between Richmond Public Art, Richmond Art Gallery, Capture Photography Festival, and InTransit BC.
