Michael Kluckner: The West Coast in the Seventies

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Michael Kluckner, "Freeway Turn Off to Woodstock," n.d.

mixed media on paper, 8" x 10"

Please join us for the book launch and solo exhibition, featuring paintings from Kluckner's newest illustrated book, "The Rooming House," at the Petley Jones Gallery on Thursday, June 2nd between 5 - 8 PM. Listen to a soundtrack of rock classics at the opening, meet the artist, and mingle with fellow appreciators of Vancouver’s history.

In the 1960s and early '70s, thousands of youths were on the road, hitchhiking across Canada, living in rooming houses in cities like Vancouver and in communes in the country.

Michael Kluckner follows several of these young men and women sharing an old home in Vancouver's Kitsilano district, tracking their loves, losses and wanderings through the diary entries of two of them. It is both a coming-of-age novel and an exploration of the events of those years.

Kluckner's solo exhibition invites viewers deeper into the illustrations, watercolours and oil paintings that capture Vancouver's past and present.

In the words of one of Kluckner's characters, this story is one of 60's and 70's youth, “just drifting, looking for something to believe in.”