Artwork by Greg Swales March 18th to April 30th 2010 Cuba is the lazy swaying of hips through broken solariums and hungry eyes following the sight of fresh meat -they only had Canadian chicken thighs at the state market- Cuba is cockiness dressed in spandex. Cuba is always being moist from the steam rising off the ground after it rains, from pedaling around two fat Russians on a bici taxi, from fighting your way off a crowded bus, from skilled Cuban fingers, and hands, and mouths, and tongues… -Cuba is men who can use [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In this exhibition of new work, celebrated Vancouver painter Katherine Surridge suggests that by slowing down and observing – “Taking Note” of the world in a contemplative and deliberate way – the viewer can be inspired by the simple elements in our surroundings. With a multitude of interpretations and subtleties Surridge’s paintings display reoccurring images such as letters, script and forms that emerge and disappear creating movement and energy which over time reveal themselves to the viewer. Taking Note runs through April 29th and includes workshops and artist talks which will incorporate Surridge’s significant accomplishments [...]
Quiet Presence brings together two artists who take a unique approach to asking many of the same questions. Karl Stittgen’s organic surfaces express a distinctive quality to his stoneware vessels and towers, incorporating the philosophy of Wabi-sabi, a Japanese word translated as the beauty of imperfection. Each piece utilizes cracks, blemishes and rough edges to expose the innate beauty of the raw material. Richard Lehmann creates montages from photographs of historical facades and architectural statues in Paris and New York, transforming them in the darkroom into exciting new compositions. The two bodies of work complement each [...]
