From Landscape to Abstract: An Artist's Journey

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Join exhibiting artist Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki for a talk on how, after many years of landscape painting, she expanded her art practice into abstraction. There are numerous approaches to abstraction one can take, especially nowadays when the information is readily and overwhelmingly available online. Tatjana will explore the why (the concept) and where to start (the method). She will discuss her motivation and the processes that resulted in her collection of paintings on display at the Ferry Building Gallery. Tatjana will share how she developed an abstract visual language by mining through her memories of growing up in Serbia and juxtaposing them with her experiences in Canada. The creative process evolved organically through research, repurposing her landscape paintings, writing stories, and experimenting with materials. Tatjana hopes that her approach will be helpful to other artists who feel the need to transition their present practice toward abstraction.

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Ferry Building Gallery

The Ferry Building Gallery is a public community art gallery operated by the District of West Vancouver and is located in the heart of Ambleside at Ambleside Landing. Situated in one of West Vancouver’s original buildings, the gallery serves as a hub for arts and culture. The gallery presents up to 11 exhibitions annually at the Ferry Building, four Art in the Hall exhibitions annually at Municipal Hall, and promotes art education and appreciation through a wide range of events and programs, including participating in the annual Harmony Arts Festival.

The Ferry Building Gallery enlivens, enriches, engages, informs, and educates our community by presenting enriching, artist-led experiences for the community, including a mix of juried and invitational exhibitions, lectures, tours, and programs which reflect the cultural diversity of the North Shore.

The gallery is open and accessible to all and is a place for the community to experience and celebrate the arts. It supports the development of emerging and established artists from the North Shore, the Sea-to-Sky Corridor, and the Sunshine Coast.

We acknowledge that our arts programming and operations take place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.

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