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Facing Extinction Facing Extinction
 “Facing Extinction: Architecture, Power, and Vulnerability”.
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Facing Extinction Facing Extinction
 Facing Extinction “Driftwood and the Berlin Olympic Stadium in Facing Extinction: Connecting Images and Ideas”.
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Facing Extinction Facing Extinction
 Facing Extinction Hybrids: Neither Painting, Sculpture, nor Architecture.
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Anticipating the Eventual Emergence of Form, Part 1 and 2 Anticipating the Eventual Emergence of Form, Part 1 and 2.
 Anticipating the Eventual Emergence of Form: “An Absent Space that the Viewer Projects Onto”.
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Anticipating the Eventual Emergence of Form, Part 1 and 2 Anticipating the Eventual Emergence of Form, Part 1 and 2.
 Anticipating the Eventual Emergence of Form “Porticos, Porches and Stages”.
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Verification Verification
 Verification “The Signature and the Authentic Work of Art”.
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Verification Verification
 “Verification: Codification/Commodification of Colour”.
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“Lived Experience and Finding Images”.
 “Lived Experience and Finding Images”.
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“Scale of My Work”.
 “Scale of My Work”.
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“Intersections: Language of Culture and My Work”.
 “Intersections: Language of Culture and My Work”.
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Renée Van Halm     
Renée Van Halm was born in Amsterdam in 1949 and came to Canada in 1954. After graduating from the Vancouver School of Art in 1975, she moved to Montreal where she completed her MA in Fine Arts at Concordia University. Her work combines elements of painting, sculpture and architecture and incorporates formalist practices and ideas about cultural construction. She lives in Vancouver and teaches at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design.