Estate of Jack Shadbolt

Jack Shadbolt

Lavishly illustrated with the art of Jack Shadbolt, and chronicling Shadbolt’s development, the author has created a portrait that gives an insightful look at the nature of the artistic sensibility, with liberal excerpts from the painter’s own writing

50 Years | 50 Stories

Equinox Gallery marks its 50th anniversary in 2022. To celebrate this institutional milestone and offer a glimpse into aspects of gallery life from the past 5 decades, we present 50 Years | 50 Stories, an eclectic mix of artworks that trigger significant triumphs and challenges, personal anecdotes, and creative strategies. As one of the anchors of the nation’s commercial art sector with over 400 exhibitions to its credit, we have represented many of Canada’s top talents in tandem with international artworld giants. Through a selection of works by artists who have been featured at the gallery, this exhibition is an opportunity to consider the gallery’s focus on developing artists’ careers in the context of larger and ever-shifting art world narratives.

While much has changed at the gallery over the past 50 years, our long-term relationships with artists and collectors (both public and private) remain central to the gallery’s ethos. It is by nurturing such deep-rooted connections that we are able to contribute to the significant role art plays in enriching people’s lives.

Thank you for your support over the past 50 years. We look forward to the next 50.

Andy, Sophie, Hannah, Chantelle, Lulu

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Unfolding

Equinox Gallery is pleased to inaugurate the new year with a group exhibition featuring the work of Bobbie Burgers, Al McWilliams, Eadweard Muybridge, Jack Shadbolt, Angela Teng, Renée Van Halm, and Neil Wedman. Unfolding considers the ways through which the foreign and the familiar are knit together through a process of study and repetition. The exhibition presents paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs that grow from a single perspective into a more elaborate panorama of ideas, as well as serial views where similarities cascade into differences. In these works, reiteration in all its forms holds the remarkable potential for fresh discoveries.

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

Jack Shadbolt
The Long Echo

One of Canada’s most innovative modernists, Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) is known for his paintings and murals that drew from both personal travels and experiences of World War II as well as the social and political context of his time. Shadbolt was born in England in 1909 and at an early age immigrated to British Columbia. In 1930 he met Emily Carr, whose work, together with the Surrealists and early Abstract Expressionist, was very influential in his artistic development. Widely exhibited across Canada and in biennales abroad, Shadbolt’s work is in the permanent collections of all major Canadian museums, and he was recognized with the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.

Shadbolt’s multi-paneled works are his most significant as they demonstrate the artist’s ambitious scale and his iterative process. Much in the way that chapters within a novel deepen the detail and narrative of a written text, the ability to keep adding panels to a work allowed Shadbolt the freedom to realize the full potential of his subject matter. As his imagery progresses from one discrete panel to another, it reveals his deep interest in metamorphosis and the transformative cycles of the natural world that include both and life and destruction.

For more information, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com

Christopher Pratt

Equinox presents a selection of works by artists Christopher Pratt, Sonny Assu, Kim Dorland, Erin McSavaney, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, and Etienne Zack.

For more details or a full list of works, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736 – 2405.

Together Apart

Together Apart is an exploration of connections between artists over time and place. This exhibitions features works by Adad Hannah, Eadweard Muybridge, Al McWilliams, Nicole Ondre, Erin McSavaney, Frank Stella, Fred Herzog, Vivian Maier, Gathie Falk, Gordon Smith, Douglas Coupland, Jack Shadbolt, Geoffrey Farmer, Kim Dorland, Peter Doig, Neil Wedman, Edward Ruscha, Renée Van Halm, Takao Tanabe, Marion Nicoll, Sonny Assu, Claes Oldenburg, Louise Bourgeois, and Shuvinai Ashoona. 

Winter Works on Paper

Some Drawings
A Group Exhibition

Jack Shadbolt
The Ghost Universe

Jack Shadbolt (1909 – 1998) was an influential Vancouver modernist whose experimentations with abstract painting resonated both within Canada and internationally. The body of work presented here was made in the post-war period when Shadbolt was developing his formal vocabulary as a painter. Shadbolt was one of several artists who returned to Canada after the war with a profound sense of uncertainty about the future, and whose practice looked to new imagery to express a sense of social disruption during the post-war years.

In relationship to The Ghost Universe are a selection of works by B.C. Binning, Gordon Smith, Molly Lamb Bobak, Bruno Bobak and Marion Nicoll. While stylistically diverse, these artists shared an awareness of the anxieties and uncertainties during the post-war era as well as an eagerness to explore abstraction as a means of expression.

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Jack Shadbolt, Morning Deck #2, 1980