50 Years | 50 Stories

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

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 WedmanUnfolding 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 

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Together Apart

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. 

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Renée Van Halm
Holding Pattern

Renée Van Halm
Holding Pattern

Renée Van Halm’s extensive knowledge of architectural forms stemming from years of study and travel have led to the development of a unique language relating to the social dimension of architecture, design, and colour. Traditional views of space are dematerialized and reimagined in synthesis with weavings, shreds of origami paper, and diminutive modernist forms. The works on canvas in this exhibition are based on the works of female artists from the 1920s, including painters such as Sonia Delaunay and Varvara Stepanova, textile artists Anni Albers and Marion Dorn, and Bauhaus artists and educators Otti Berger and Gunta Stölzl. Using experimental motifs and colour relationships developed by these artists, Van Halm reintegrates these unconventional patterns within a two- dimensional painting language that envelops the viewer, bringing out obvious and subtle associations between colour and forms.

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BC Binning, Devon Knowles and Renée Van Halm
Leave the Window Open

BC Binning, Devon Knowles and Renée Van Halm
Leave the Window Open

Equinox Gallery is very pleased to present Leave the Window Open, an exhibition that considers the space of architecture and its relationships to materials, memory and abstraction in light of the after-effects of modernism. Three British Columbia-based artists from three distinct generations are included in the exhibition: B.C. Binning, Devon Knowles, and Renée Van Halm. The fields of practice of the artists each examine built environments, taking those observations and insights and transforming them into paintings, sculptures, and installations.

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Renée Van Halm, Upright, 2020

Renée Van Halm, Blue Bulge, 2020

Renée Van Halm, Blue Bulge, 2020

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Renée Van Halm, Planted, 2021

Renée Van Halm, Plant, 2021

Renée Van Halm, Swatch (OB-STA), 2020

Renée Van Halm, Swatch (OB-STA), 2020

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