A solo artist-in-residency stint with the city of Port Coquitlam last year has resulted in a group show for Denise Maxwell.
Maxwell spent three months last spring snapping about 100 photos of mainly PoCo residents.
The idea for a portraiture series came while she was unemployed and noticing the municipality was densifying. “There were a lot of new people coming into town,” she said, “and I found it really hard to connect with them.”
She asked fellow artists Michael King, Teesa Christie, Tori Lockwood and Zeny Nielsen to be part of PoCo’s Portrait Project: Our Time, Our Town, an exhibit that opens Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Leigh Square Community Arts Village.
The show runs until Dec. 7.
