The Burnaby Art Gallery is reaching out into the community with two new exhibitions at Burnaby Public Library branches.

At the McGill library branch (4595 Albert St.), visitors can check out Alan Wood: Selections from the Ranch Series.

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Wood's Ranch Series is a group of serigraphs and etchings held in the City of Burnaby's permanent art collection.

The Lancashire-born Wood, who moved to Canada in 1971 and settled in B.C. in 1974, gained international recognition in 1983 for taking his painting directly into the landscape with his "Ranch" creation.

The 320-acre painted construction built in the foothills of the Alberta Rockies was a "monumental exploration of colour and form," a press release notes.

Since then, he has continued to work with constructions of wood, canvas and painted, and his work has been featured in many group and solo exhibitions in Canada, the U.S., Europe, the U.K. and Australia.

"His interest in the dynamics of light and colour from the ocean, beach, forest and sky has dominated his landscape work throughout his career," the release notes.

His work will be on display at the McGill library until March 23.

At the Bob Prittie Metrotown library branch (6100 Willingdon Ave.), visitors can check out the work of Bernadette Phan in Lili and the Migratory Influences.

Phan exhibits more than 150 individual drawings representing books brought back from Paris that once belonged to her late Aunt Lili - serving as a homage and a portrait to her aunt.

"The ongoing series conveys visual and imaginary correspondences around Lili," the artist says in a press release. "Lili refers to the multivalent meanings she encompasses: diaspora, migration, hybridity, intra-cultural realities, survival, a witness of historical and social changes."

The exhibition is on at the library until March 22.

Check out www.burnabyartgallery.ca for more on the two exhibitions.