Past

Erin McSavaney
Interactions

Erin McSavaney’s practice is concerned with spaces of everyday life and how, under close examination, our perception of these spaces can be altered through making and viewing paintings. This exhibition brings together pairs of paintings whose architectural subjects are complimentary in nature. Through the conception and installation of this body of work, McSavaney offers several points of entry to show how three-dimensional spaces and objects can be disrupted and rebuilt in paint.

McSavaney’s geometric interventions take many forms. Sometimes, these squares, triangles, and other angular shapes index the mid-century era of the building, and at other times, they might reinforce the angle of light and shadow. Still other applications echo, extend, or counter the existing architectural form. Through a long and labour-intensive process, reality and fiction are negotiated across the canvas, juxtaposing the detailed illusion of depth against the flatness of abstracted forms. The typical call-and-response process of abstract painting is utilized here to create pictorial harmony of a very realistic kind. The result is a new space that illuminates the relationship between representational and abstract painting, and the parallels of how they are constructed, where each action demands a reaction.

For a list of available works from this exhibition, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com

Sonny Assu
Legacy Format

Sonny Assu recalls the transformative experience of visiting the Ottawa institution now known as the Canadian Museum of History with a letter in hand, written by his grandmother Mitzi Assu. In it she requests that her grandson be granted access to the Chilkat robe, dance apron, and frontlet that were the belongings of his great-great-grandfather, Hereditary Chief Billy Assu, which she and her husband Herbie Assu had sold to the museum decades before with the intention of their long-term protection and preservation. In the sterile space of the museum’s vast collections, curators placed the robe on Sonny’s shoulders. He describes feeling an energy transmitted through his body, the weight and materiality of the woolen garment, a spark conducting a direct connection to his Kwakwaka’wakw ancestors, and the knowledge, ceremony, and resilience woven into the regalia.

For more details or a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com

CLICK HERE to read Legacy Format, an essay by Kate Hennessy

Ben Reeves
Morning Cloak

The critical potential of Ben Reeves’ work emerges from two things: his profound observations of the world around him combined with deliberate choices he makes to optimize the potentials of paint. In this exhibition, Reeves presents a focused body of work that represents his active and deep investigation into a seemingly simple subject: the ocean. Utilizing a range of invented and inherited notations for waves and water, the infinite dimensions of the ocean (visual, metaphoric, spiritual, cultural) reveal themselves as aspects to contemplate through the act of painting.

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

Zoë Kreye
Well, beloved, it is that which we want to call the secret growing

Moved by a sense of purpose that includes connection, spirit, and care, Zoë Kreye uses embodied rituals in her studio practice to create objects and installations that capture sensations of the body. By utilizing the body as a tool for sensing resonances within visual aesthetics, the works engage a multitude of senses in the act of viewing that bring new awareness to the self and to others.

Expressive in their scale and composition, the works in this exhibition are created on linen, on paper, and large-scale, immersive works are on sheer fabrics. The act of moving through the exhibition causes subtle movements in the works themselves, shifts that might extend our perception beyond the visual and into the psychological.

For a list of available artworks, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

Summer Group Show

Equinox is happy to share with you a curated selection of contemporary works brought together to generate conversations around colour, shadow, texture and form. This exhibition highlights works by artists with new connections to Equinox Gallery as well as those with long-standing relationships with the gallery.

This exhibition includes the works of Sonny Assu, Bobbie Burgers, Gathie Falk, Erin McSavaney, Philippe Raphanel, Gordon Smith, Takao Tanabe, Neil Wedman, Etienne Zack, and more.

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405.

Hamed Rashtian
Reveries

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Reveries, a special project with Vancouver-based artist Hamed Rashtian. Rashtian’s thought-provoking exploration of Iran’s rich cultural heritage offers a view into the ever-evolving interplay between history, collective identity, and the built environment. Through a series of intricate and detailed bronze sculptures, the artist seeks to uncover the roots of the collective identity of the region’s past through multi-layered architectural structures that blend pottery elements with fragments inspired by Iranian architecture. Rashtian’s quest into these ideas was initially ignited by a series of books edited and written by his mentor in sculpture, Parviz Tanavoli, a prominent figure in Iranian Modern Art, whose expertise and guidance influenced his artistic vision.

Hamed Rashtian completed his MFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver and holds a Swiss Federal Diploma in Higher Education from the F+F School of Art and Design in Zurich. Active as a visual artist since 2006, Rashtian has had solo exhibitions in Iran, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates as well as participated in many international group exhibitions. He is a PhD student in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405.

Kim Dorland
The moment before the moment after

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present The moment before the moment after, an exhibition of new paintings by Kim Dorland.

Dorland’s interest in pushing the limits of paint has developed into a dramatic visual language, enticing the viewer into an enigmatic world that transforms visceral experience into a language of paint. Over a career spanning two decades, he has gradually refined a personal palette and vocabulary of images derived primarily from observations of the natural world and the tensions that manifest themselves when nature comes into confrontation with the human experience.

If you would like to see a list of works, or schedule an appointment to view in person, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405

Shawn Hunt
Recent Works

Shawn Hunt is a Heiltsuk artist born in Waglisla (Bella Bella), British Columbia. His practice is informed by his Indigenous heritage and the accompanying visual culture and traditions. Hunt develops characters and narratives, bringing them to life through sculpture and painting using traditional Northwest Coast design principles known as formline. Using symbolic representation as a way to access alternative worlds, Hunt’s imagery is ever-changing and shapeshifting, offering a contemporary interpretation of Heiltsuk cosmologies.

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com

Angela Grossmann
To a Woman Passing By
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

In collaboration with Westbank’s Pacific Gallery at the Fairmont Pacific Rim, Equinox Gallery presents To a Woman Passing By, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Vancouver artist Angela Grossmann.

From monumental to more intimately-scaled works, Grossmann’s figures relish in the intensity of pigment and gesture. Her work may be thought of as traditional portraiture, but more significantly they bring insight into historical representations of the female. A distinctive colourist, she chooses neon pink, ultramarine blue, flame red, glimmering gold and silver, allowing the unique emotive qualities of each hue to dominate a singular work. Grossmann depicts the body because she is empowered by it and familiar with it — through observation, memory, and lived experience — and has now been addressing it in her studio practice for over four decades.

For more information, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

Bobbie Burgers
Partly Truth, Partly Fiction

Bobbie Burgers’ painting practice is in continual flux, activated by an expressive mark-making process that shifts impatiently between elements of abstraction and representation. With reference to the history of still-life and vanitas painting, she commands an aesthetic that wrestles a conventional subject free from predictable outcomes. Using a wide spectrum of mediums and processes, the works in this exhibition reflect continual states of transformation, both in their subject matter and in the way they were created. The artist explains: “Painting this new series was like playing in an alternate reality. Washes were more experimental, pushing me to relinquish control as new combinations of different paints with different fluidities took on lives of their own. Several pieces in this series are heavily comprised of collage work, and I look forward to viewers seeking out the hidden seams and ripped edges. I use collage as a way to consider what the “truth” was before, and to create a new story from the prior one. It’s like a metaphor for the complexities of human nature where the past is not erased but one adds to the story.” With an interest in the way that painting can offer conflicting views of a single subject, the works in the exhibition ask for renewed viewings from different states of mind and different times of day.

If you would like to see a list of works, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405