COMPENDIUM

Three mid-career artists have taken over an old commercial gallery space on 11th Ave. S.W. (the former Herringer Kiss space). Compendium will feature three installations centred on the idea of collecting.

Tim Westbury, programming director at The New Gallery, will expand on a past exhibition, displaying found glass vessels, some with items locked inside, some empty. Cyndy Ward , one of the original administrators of the Second Story Art Society (which runs Truck), collects words and arranges them in a poetic fashion. Cat Schick, who currently sits on the board of Elephant Artists Relief, has been busy photographing the space around the makeshift gallery and collected them into one installation.

Compendium runs until April 28 at 1111 11th Ave. S.W.

NATURAL LINES

Leszek Wyczolkowski’s intaglio etchings representing landscapes are sparse and dark, emulating veins in the barren tree limbs, or cells in his geometric prints. He is a perfect match with his fellow exhibitor Stefany Hemming, whose oil paintings appear at first to be loose balls of yarn or a bird’s nest. Looking closer, they appear to be roots, or a tangle of limbs and veins, spinning around a central axis with a black background,.

Natural Lines runs until May 9 at Summit Fine Art.