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KAREN LOVE: builds Presentation House Gallery into one of Canada’s best exhibit spaces for photographic art.

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Curator’s ‘dedication makes gallery a photographic treasure

more like an art student than an established gallery curator.

Her ascension to head curator came quickly, when, after just three weeks as gallery assistant, Presentation House board

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a short-term commitment. It’s a long-term labor of love — specifically Karen Love, the North Vancouver gallery's head curator.

In the past seven years, Love, 38, has brought Presentation House from the ranks of a little- known community-based exhib- ition hall to a highly-respected gallery now considered to be among this country’s best.

And her sharp eye for talent and keen organizational skills are largely the reason why. When it comes to tracking down top- notch, thought-provoking work, the Ottawa-born curator has pull- ed off a number of ccups.

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tory at university | can’t remember looking at a single photograph. | educated myself mostly by reading.”

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Just over a year ago, for exam- ple, she convinced the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas to lend Presentation House a collection of John Heartfield’s photo montages, and in the spring of 1989 the

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gallery organized a concert jazz series to coincide with a month- long exhibit of renowned jazz photographer William Claxton’s works, bringing in people from al! over the Lower Mainland.

This month the gallery is staging its largest show ever — Aurora Australis: Film and Photographic Works — the result of more than four years of painstaking research by Love.

One would think that, here is a woman who understands the photographic medium both intel- lectually and practically. But Love, an art history major, has had no formal training in photography, and she rolls her eyes when asked if she’s a photographer.

“People always ask me if I'ma photographer. I'm probably the world’s worst,”’ she says, leaning back in a black swivel chair.

Aslight, fair-skinned woman with straight blond hair bluntly cut, Love has developed most of her expertise from working both as an assistant researcher at the Na- tional Gallery in Ottawa and as an art consultant for the Canada Council Art Bank.

“| came across a lot of good photography at the Art Bank,’’ she recalls, ‘‘] saw it, but that’s it.

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