Soft Architectures
2025-07-25 08:00 - 2025-10-08 17:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vernon Public Art Gallery, 3228 31st Ave, Vernon, V1T2H3, Canada
Sylvan Hamburger

Caroline Galbraith GalleryJuly 25 – October 8, 2025

Opening Reception: July 24 from 6 – 8 PM

In Soft Architectures, Vancouver-based artist Sylvan Hamburger transforms everyday materials—bedsheets, plywood, floral fabrics—into large-scale installations that reflect on the changing face of our cities. Using printmaking, sculpture, and found objects, Hamburger captures the textures of demolished homes and disappearing buildings, turning them into poetic imprints of memory, loss, and resilience.

His prints don’t just depict buildings—they are made from them. By pressing fabrics against salvaged wood and walls, Hamburger gathers physical traces of the spaces we live in, and the ones we’ve lost. These haunting, delicate works explore how the surfaces around us—like the grain of old floorboards or the floral pattern of a bedsheet—can hold personal and collective histories.

Soft Architectures brings together work from the past five years, documenting not only physical spaces, but the emotional and cultural imprints they leave behind. At a time of intense change in our communities, Hamburger’s work offers a thoughtful reminder to look closely at the surfaces around us, noticing the textures and traces that are often erased in the rush of redevelopment.

Exhibition Publication

Image Description: Sylvan Hamburger, Open House Press (detail), 2020, relief print on bedsheet, wooden dowels, shiplap boards.

Leaving Home
2025-07-25 10:00 - 2025-09-24 17:00
Rhonda Neufeld

Topham Brown Memorial GalleryJuly 25 to September 24, 2025

Opening Reception: July 24 from 6-8 PMArtist Demo: September 5 from 1-3 PM (part of First Friday’s Art Trail)Artist Talk: September 11 from 6-7 PM

In Leaving Home, artist Rhonda Neufeld shares a deeply personal body of work that reflects on her connection to the landscape she called home for over 40 years. Through walking, touching, and closely observing the natural world around her, Neufeld captures the details of place—tree bark, stone surfaces, shifting light—and translates them into prints that hold both memory and presence.

Using traditional printmaking techniques, Neufeld makes rubbings directly from trees and rocks, transferring those impressions onto copper plates, wood blocks, and lithographic stones. The result is a series of works that feel both grounded and poetic, inviting viewers to slow down and experience the land in a more intimate way.

This exhibition is a quiet celebration of place, a reflection on the joy of being close to nature, and a way of saying goodbye to a landscape that shaped a lifetime of artmaking.

Exhibition Publication

Photography: Digital Perfections

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