Little Worlds

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Kim Adams, Stephen Brower, Bill Burns, Dawna Rose, Laurie Simmons, Edward Poitras, David Hoffos, Lyla Rye, Gregory Crewdson, Doug Buis and Alison Norlen

Other associated events: Reception and bus tour: Saturday, September 19 at 2 pm. Call 777-6040 for info and to reserve seats on the bus. Artists' talks by Kim Adams and Alison Norlen: Monday, September 21 at 7 pm in the Regina Public Library Film Theatre. Miniature diorama workshop: Saturday, October 3 at Sherwood Village Branch Meeting Room. To register call 777-6040.

A thirty-foot long truck-and-trailer apparatus conceals vast panoramas created from models and toys by Toronto artist Kim Adams. These miniature worlds unfold-in striking contrast to the enormity of the assemblage that houses them-as viewers spy through peep holes in the sculpture's sides. As contemporary art has a significant relationship with the products of mass and popular culture, Little Worlds is a survey of how contemporary artist use small-scale dioramas and models to pursue a variety of interests and deliver culturally loaded messages about home, gender, the environment and more. Another sprawling miniature world by Winnipeg artist Alison Norlen acts as a notation of the artist's thoughts of apocalypse, history and fantasy - a moon landing, Niagara Falls, Coney Island and a tornado. This three-dimensional ''journal'' features dozens of other scenes including a reconstruction of the living room where she grew up in.

Bill Burns, Lion (panthera leo) endangered/en voie d'extinction, Africa/Afrique, favored drug/produit pharmaceutique prétéré: Nytol