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Vancouver Art Gallery presents the work of three notable contemporary artists

VANCOUVER.- The Distance Between You and Me presents the work of three notable contemporary artists from Vancouver, Los Angeles and Guadalajara . Thematically, the exhibition revolves around the ideas of location and dislocation, not only in the geographical sense, but also in terms of psychological location. The artists – Isabelle Pauwels, Kerry Tribe and Gonzalo Lebrija – are loosely united by the geographical configuration of their locations, which form a line extending along the west coast of North America from Vancouver through Los Angeles to Guadalajara in Mexico . “This simple line unites diverse cultures revealing shared points of intersection and interest,” says Bruce Grenville , senior curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery, “but this is only the beginning, for we can also see in the work of each of these artists a shared sense of dislocation, a necessary estrangement that shapes our personal history and