About the artist

West Coast artist Margaretha Bootsma explores her subject of the landscape and human intervention in an intuitive manner by manipulating materials such as ink, wax, acrylic paint and earth pigments. This spontaneous treatment of materials engages the quality of accident or chance that evokes organic matter and earth phenomena. This approach also makes reference to abstract expressionism, paint splattering of Jackson Pollack and photo collage of Robert Rauschenberg. The physicality of the work is balanced by the architectural arrangements of the pictorial elements that evoke a notion of human civility. This civility is emphasized through the addition of photographic elements that make associations with the real world that are simultaneously assumed and challenged.

Bootsma is based in Vancouver and has exhibited in private and public galleries in Canada, United States and Europe. She will be exhibiting in November 2007 at the Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver, BC. In June 2007, she exhibited with Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle and in the Fall 2006 she participated in a group show at the Kemi Museum, Finland. Bootsma was reviewed in Canadian Art Magazine in Spring 2007. She is also in the Visual Art Department at Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC. Article in Canadian Art

More details available in Margaretha Bootsma’s CV.

Upcoming exhibitions

• November 20 - December 4, 2007, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
• June 7 - 21, 2008, Bau-Xi Gallery,Toronto, Ontario

Selected solo exhibitions

Full list of solo exhibitions in Margaretha Bootsma’s CV.

• 2007 ‘Limited Vision’, Linda Hodges Gallery,
  Seattle, WA
• 2006 ‘City Limits’, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
• 2005 ‘Marking time’, Linda Hodges Gallery,
  Seattle, WA
  ‘Counter-Point’, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
• 2004 ‘Axis Mundi’, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
• 2002 ‘Out of Place’, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
  ‘Point in Time’, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
• 2001 ‘Power Lines’, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  ‘Convergence’, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George,
  BC
• 2000 ‘Fragile Ground’ Linda Hodges Gallery,
  Seattle, Washington
• 1999 ‘Travel of Rivers’ Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  ‘After Before’ Newzones Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  ‘The Land Speaks’ Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon
• 1998 ‘Pilgrim’, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 1997 ‘Standing Still’, Linda Hodges Gallery,
  Seattle, WA
  ‘Across The Near’, Newzones Gallery,
  Calgary, Alberta
• 1996 ‘River Reveries’, (installation), Richmond Art
  Gallery, Richmond, BC
  ‘New Works’, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, BC.

Selected group exhibitions

Full list of group exhibitions in Margaretha Bootsma’s CV.

• 2007 ‘Toronto International Art Fair’, (respresented by Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver),Toronto, Ontario
• 2006 ‘SilverettAtelier ′04’, Kemi Art Museum, Kemi, Finland
• 2005 ‘SilverettAtelier ′04’, Palais Liechenstein, Felldkirch, Austria
  Kunst Verein Baden Galerie, Baden, Austria
• 2004 ‘Selected Works from the Permanent Collection’, Two Rivers Gallery Prince George, BC
• 2000 ‘35th Anniversary, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, August
• 1999 ‘Springs Eternal’ curated by Barbara Brady, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 1998 ‘Our Salmon, Our Children, One Earth’, The Roundhouse, Vancouver, BC
• 1997 ‘Ars Mundi, 4th International Conference of the Visual Arts’, Vancouver, BC
  ‘Surfaces’, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC
• 1996 ‘Alterations’, (installation with Jill Sabre), Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  ‘San Francisco Art Fair’, (respresented by Sarah Dobbs Gallery, Vancouver), San Francisco, CA
• 1993 ‘Artropolis 1993’, Vancouver, BC