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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.

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Isabel Wynn

Equinox Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of sculptor Isabel Wynn. Born in São Paulo, Brazil and raised in Steveston, British Columbia, Isabel Wynn studied ceramics at Langara College and Emily Carr University where the foundations for the methodologies shaping her current sculptural practice were laid. Through the medium of clay, her practice is an exploration of lived experiences, the obscurity of emotions, and the balance between control and uncertainty.

Primarily crafted on the potter’s wheel, Isabel Wynn’s works involve a process of throwing, attaching, and warping to create dynamic and expressive forms. The artist explains: “I was initially drawn to large traditional forms in wheel throwing however my interest in achieving perfection gradually shifted over time as modes of experimentation revealed unexpected and intriguing outcomes.” The expanded scale of her work reflects an especially physical practice, where bodily movement and interaction with the material is highly significant. The resulting sculptures echo parts of the body, complete with folds of skin, slumped flesh, arched spines, and wounds—all reflections of the artist’s bodily experiences.In her works, movement and time appear suspended, capturing moments between the artist’s body and the material.

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

Philippe Raphanel
New Paintings

Philippe Raphanel draws on a variety of influences to create atmospheric compositions that resist a single interpretation. Since immigrating to Canada from France in 1981, Raphanel has been profoundly affected by the dense wilderness of British Columbia as well as the work of historical Canadian painters such as Emily Carr. While landscape and the natural world are at the core of his practice, Raphanel’s paintings present a visual experience that suggests a set of open questions about how natures and its energy reveal themselves. His visual vocabulary includes elements familiar to the forest – branches, nests, leaves – while maintaining a looseness in their application that allows for new forms and associations to emerge.

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

Angela Grossmann
The Silver Suite

Gwenessa Lam
Before Present

Gwenessa Lam is a visual artist and educator. Her current work draws from historical objects and domestic spaces as contested sites of collective memory. Lam is interested in understanding the psychological and social implications when artifacts are lost to disaster, censorship, or misidentification.

Lam received her BFA from the University of British Columbia and MFA from New York University. She has taught at New York University, the University of British Columbia, and the Alberta University of the Arts. Lam has attended residencies at Skowhegan, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Banff Centre. Her work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art and the Queens Museum of Art in New York. Lam lives and works in Vancouver, BC and is currently Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

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

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.

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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.