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In Everyday Magic, Ben Reeves presents an exhibition of paintings that take on small, everyday experiences as a way to explore how the painted surface can convey layered experiences and narratives. The title of the exhibition draws on American writer and critic Hilton Als’ philosophical and poetic writings to highlight how painting—like fiction—is not just a product or a category, but an imaginative act grounded in the belief that visual language is meaningful and worth engaging with. Als’ asserts that “Fiction is a product. It can be a painting, or an essay, or the book you are holding in your hands at the moment you are reading it: we produce stories because we are all stories.”

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Comic Sans, a solo exhibition of new works by artist Sonny Assu (Ligwilda’xw of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations). Assu’s vigorous, interdisciplinary practice explores what it means to be an Indigenous person in contemporary Canada, channeling sci-fi, comic books, graffiti and 90’s nostalgia to disrupt expectations of Indigenous cultural identity through the artist’s personal experience. In Comic Sans, Assu utilizes the traditional artform known as formline, a complex visual language comprised of ovoids, s-shapes and u-shapes, historically employed on utilitarian and ceremonial objects such as totem poles, house fronts and transformational masks. Through his bold mashups of Kwakwaka’wakw iconography with pop and western aesthetics, Assu has developed a unique visual language with which to reclaim Indigenous identity and explore the powerful crosscurrents shaping his worldview.

For more details on this exhibition, please contact info@equinoxgallery.com

This is an off-site exhibition located at The Pacific Gallery in the Fairmont Pacific Rim.

Location of this exhibition:
Fairmont Pacific Rim
1038 Canada Place
Vancouver BC
fairmontpacificrim.com