Past

Summer Group Show

Equinox is happy to share with you a curated selection of contemporary works brought together to generate conversations around colour, texture and form. This exhibition highlights a selection of works from our Fall exhibition schedule.

Included are works by Dempsey Bob, Fred Herzog, Shawn Hunt, Gordon Smith, Etienne Zack, and more.

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

Adad Hannah
Guernica

Adad Hannah’s exhibition brings together three variations of the artist’s ongoing exploration of Picasso’s Guernica. Through sculpture, video, and photography, Hannah’s evolving explorations of Guernica give contemporary contexts to one of the most famous protest paintings, offering the opportunity to shift our understanding of past narratives and think about where we currently stand, both historically and as viewers in front of artworks. Adad Hannah is known for a multivalent practice that reconsiders historical painting through the lens of photography and digital video in order to refresh the relationship between the subject of the artwork and the viewer.

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

Fred Herzog
Black and White

Shawn Hunt
Ḱáɫḷá / To Dream
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

Presented by Equinox Gallery in collaboration with Westbank and the Fairmont Pacific Rim, Ḱáɫḷá is a solo exhibition of new works by Heiltsuk artist Shawn Hunt. Translated as ‘to dream’ in the Heiltsuk language, Ḱáɫḷá features a series of surreal scenes in which moments of the artist’s own life are re-imagined as present-day daydreams infused with Indigenous traditions. Illuminated by the moonlight, Hunt’s figures are suspended between the past, present and future, resisting a singular interpretation.

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

Bobbie Burgers
A Window or A Mirror

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present A Window or A Mirror, an exhibition of new works by Bobbie Burgers. Burgers’ new works expand her exploration of the natural world where mystery comes into close contact with observation and emotion. Bobbie Burgers’ interest in this subject is in step with international developments, where a renewed and urgent focus on the natural world can be seen around the world in contemporary practices.

For Burgers, the studio has recently become a hall of mirrors, giving her an opportunity to think about the ways in which meaning is created. At times art reflects back to us, acting as a vessel for our thoughts and feelings where meaning is imparted onto it. As a window, there is an invitation into a world outside our own where new understandings emerge and materialize.

Please contact the gallery for a list of available works: info@equinoxgallery.com

Maggee Day
Criss-Crossing

Maggee Day’s works are notable for a sense of freedom, cultivated by the space outside of the canvas as much as what is in and on the paintings’ surfaces. Compelled by the architecture, streetscape, and views observed from her studio and home, the ingresses to Day’s spaces—windows and doorways—are the foundation of her recent bodies of work. Her choice of the familiar as the fundamental site of her study allows for a more experimental yet detailed exploration of materials and processes, and while her paintings appear as abstractions, they are in fact drawn from her surroundings. She explains: “Placing parameters on my work has been the opposite of restricting, it has encouraged new ways of thinking or creating.” Her paintings serve as a type of visual archive, responding to changes in the city, its seasons, and environments, with each painting beginning anew in response to ever-changing external stimulus.

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

Neil Wedman
Ice Caves

Neil Wedman’s ice caves are created through a process of mixing and then significantly diluting acrylic paint, until it is as close as possible to the consistency of water. Holding the canvas vertically, the paint is carefully poured from a bottle down the surface. Each canvas is then expertly tilted or rotated to direct the flow of paint. This is where the medium and subject begin to echo one another—as the layers of liquid solidify, they resemble flowstone and other forms that might occur in an ice cave. The resulting paintings present a unique visual vocabulary which unveils itself slowly, where the subject is camouflaged by the same material method used to reveal it.

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

Renée Van Halm
IRL

Over a long and dedicated career, Renée Van Halm has pursued her interest in expressions of creativity by others, especially those working in the fields of craft and design. Her own practice draws on a wide range of references, from era-specific domestic paint colours, to woven patterns produced by female members of the Bauhaus design group, and in this current body of work, patterned lengths of cloth from the late 1880s made as essential fashion accessories for women to express their individuality, commonly known as French ribbons.

The title of the exhibition, IRL, is an abbreviation for “in real life,” a term developed in the early days of the internet as a way to distinguish events and interactions occurring offline, outside the internet and its projected subjectivities and fantasies. The title acknowledges Van Halm’s interest in the very real, tangible impacts of pattern, colour, and design on social and cultural life. In viewing her works in person, physical characteristics of the thin brushstrokes and the materiality of the canvas are observed and felt, and one’s focus is activated by lively compositions, in real life.

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

Gordon Smith

A prominent figure in a generation of notable West Coast painters, architects, poets, musicians and writers, Gordon Smith had an openly inquisitive mind and experimented endlessly in his art making. The unique presence of nature on the Pacific coast was a boundless inspiration to the artist. It was not the grand vistas nor the broad expanses of nature that attracted Smith, he was drawn to the web of trees, the entanglement of undergrowth, the reflection of a swamp, the snowfall on a branch—the intricacies of how nature functions cyclically and seasonally, through spring, fall and winter.

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

The After Party

Welcome to The After Party, where artworks have been brought together to feature both the anticipation and the release of emotions—especially as we process the enormity of what has just passed. In particular, while we emerge from a global pandemic, there is a collective awkwardness in maneuvering through a new social condition. Inspired by the work of Maxwell Bates as its starting point, The After Party serves to convey the tensions at play in human relationships as people adapt to an intense period of disruption. May the exhibited artworks, made in the post WW2 period until now, be springboards for a myriad of ways to consider our current, complicated, and often isolated states of being.

With works by Maxwell Bates, Kim Dorland, Gathie Falk, Rodney Graham, Angela Grossmann, Fred Herzog, Jack Kenna, Neil Wedman, among others.

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