VPL Aperture Project Work by Karin Bubas

Vancouver Public Library has announced the installation of a new Aperture Project Work - Red, Blue and Yellow by Karin Bubas in the Library Square Promenade on March 1st, 2007. Inspired by the playful and romantic work of Rococo artist Jean Fragonnard (1732-1806), Karin Bubas's newest installation romanticizes everyday activities like reading. Each work is installed at the library for a period of nine months.

"Like Rococo paintings, I used the composition and tranquil setting to creative a narrative. The images on their own work as studies in landscape and reading, but from a distance can be viewed as an examination of primary colour," said Bubas.

Taken in local Vancouver settings, like Queen Elizabeth Park and Van Dusen Gardens, the lush images are set in rich, florid scenes of nature.

Born in North Vancouver in 1976, Karin Bubas is a successful Canadian photographer whose work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, most notably in Montreal, Washington, D.C., and Brussels. Most recently, her work has been exhibited in Portrait of a Citizen at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Studies in Landscape and Wardrobe at the Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver and Toronto.