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Greetings Vancouver is Awesome readers! We here at Artsy-Dartsy are proud to be new contributors to VIA.A brief background on us: We are Linus and Denise. So pleased to meet you! We love art and design, hence we started a website called Artsy-Dartsy.

artsydartsy_via Greetings Vancouver is Awesome readers! We here at Artsy-Dartsy are proud to be new contributors to VIA.A brief background on us: We are Linus and Denise. So pleased to meet you! We love art and design, hence we started a website called Artsy-Dartsy.com to help people like us find out about art and design events in our awesome city of Vancouver!This week there are tons of great events happening. For the full listing please head to Artsy-Dartsy.com.

Greetings! Although it is summer Vancouver galleries are putting on some great shows that we think you should go see. Elliott Louis Gallery presents Charcoal and Thread - Drawn works by Mary Hrbacek and Takashi Iwasaki. The show is curated by Lynn Ruscheinsky.

To Mary Hrbacek a tree is a thing of spiritual sustenance and renewal. Her trees endowed with human-like qualities become the embodiment of mankind's condition: the rising sap is the spirit of life, sexuality and regeneration, the barren winter branches and broken limbs foretell of immanent ecological disaster, disease and death. Hrbacek's trees exert a powerful emotional influence.

The biomorphic forms and imaginative abstractions that Takashi Iwasaki has envisioned demonstrate a light-hearted playful sense of humor and optimism. With an intense use of color, fanciful shapes, and a wide array of media, Iwasaki has created a body of provocative work using pencil, paint, collage and embroidery that is overflowing with imagination, intense beauty, and elegance.

Other notables: Drawn Festival kicks off tonight at the Pendulum Gallery. There are lots of great shows that are participating. Check out Artsy for the new shows this week.