Celebrating the City of Vancouver’s 125th anniversary, Baron Gallery showcases Carter’s paintings of 1950′s Vancouver. Painter and musician Tom Carter is an artist from Vancouver, Canada best known for paintings that explore sombre, gritty, working-class, urban environments with subtle glimpses of hope and warmth. The stage is always urban and the city is usually Vancouver, set in the period around the 1950. Viewing the city streets as they were the viewer can explore and absorb the scenes with a neutrality removed from the emotionally charged present. Vancouver, like all living cities, is a work in [...]
Featuring work by local artists including James K-M, Suzanne Kay, Okanagan artists Kindrie Grove and Liz Marshall, as well as a selection of 2011 Emily Carr University Graduates among others! All proceeds go to support the microcredit program for the Women’s Groups of Olkoroi, Kenya started and maintained by Langara College Professor, Catherine Glass. About Goat Money: “It all started with a birthday party… When my sister came to my birthday party this year, she brought along a jar with a label that said ‘Goat Money’ and had a hand-drawn picture of a goat. Her [...]
Tom Carter’s work studies the urban environment – a fascinating cross section of society where people in very different situations must interact. His work remind us that cities may be where loneliness is felt most acutely. His art explores themes of isolation versus inclusion – how we fit into the world and society. His subjects tend to be set in other eras which, besides satisfying his historical interest, reveal elements that are timeless – truths that do not change. Although there might be cold and turbulence in his work, all the settings have a sanctuary, [...]
As a member of the Automatiste movement that emerged in the 1940s in Montreal, Gauvreau and contemporaries such as Jean Paul Riopelle and movement leader Paul-Emile Broduas pushed the artistic boundaries of Quebecois and Canadian culture.
Automatist, Pierre Gauvreau was part of a circle of young artists from various discipines who gravitated around painter Paul Emile-Borduas in 1940’s Montreal. Together the Automatists revolutionized painting in restrictive Quebec of the Duplessis years. Inspired by the Surrealists, they found freedom of expression in abstraction pursued through automatism: an instinctive, unpremeditated form of creating art. Their manifesto Refus global (1948) is widely recognized as a crucial expression of Quebec modernism and the unrest that would eventually lead to the so-called ‘Quiet Revolution.’ Pierre Gauvreau was very active in the production of the manifesto [...]
Artist Bio While pursuing her own career as a painter and photographer, Janine Carreau combined energies with her husband Pierre Gauvreau from the early 1970s until his death in April of this year. Their recent individual and collaborative works will be shown in the Art = Liberation Exhibition. Janine Carreau’s early works tended to mix media, combining photography and painting. More recently, she has been concentrating more on painterly abstractions, unapologetically bold in colour and gesture, often inspired by an international and multilingual selection of painters, writers, musicians, celebrities. She has been highly inventive in [...]
