Past

Winter Works on Paper

Sonny Assu
Tlakwa

T̓łakwa is engaged with copper as its main subject in material, concept, and form. While maintaining a profound connection to past traditions, Assu’s practice emphasizes the intersections and boundaries of traditional Indigenous art within the larger realm of contemporary practices, bringing to light a complex conversation between established practices and unconventional approaches.

Gathie Falk
New Paintings and Sculpture

Over the past sixty years, Gathie Falk has traversed the mediums of performance, sculpture, painting, drawing, ceramics, and installation establishing her practice as one of a true original. This exhibition continues Falk’s devotion and keen observations of everyday objects with the added, and perhaps unintentional, promise of rebirth by revisiting a number of ideas, from the idiosyncratic fruit piles that infuse minimalism with domestic content, to clothing elements that explore ritual, gender, and status.

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.

Kim Dorland
It Goes On

Kim Dorland’s paintings are accumulative, both in the way the paint is added to the surface, sometimes in thick impasto, other times delicately one layer atop another like a stamp placed on a letter, and in the psychological states they reveal and represent. Ultimately, the world created by Dorland in It Goes On is one where the natural world has begun to fight back, transforming forests and sunsets that were once sites of solace and contemplation into psychological states fraught with questions as to how we will find our way out of this mess.

Bobbie Burgers
Fragile State

Bobbie Burgers uses painting as an opportunity to move between the imaginary and the represented. Her expressive and gestural brushstrokes are intrinsic to her practice and highlight the emotional power of her paintings.

Primary Colour

Primary Colour is a view of early colour street photography from 1950 to 1983 with works by Fred Herzog, Vivian Maier, Gordon Parks, Helen Levitt, Harry Callahan, Ernst Haas, Saul Leiter, Joel Meyerowitz, and William Eggleston. Each of the photographers included in this exhibition have adopted and adapted the ethos of the flâneur as a wandering observer of the events of urban life. Compelled by the challenge to use colour film in their desire to observe and capture in the very same moment, the candid and striking nature of these photographs blurs the boundary between artistic expression and documentary record.

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Etienne Zack
Partition

The works in Partition consider the physicality of language and use that to demonstrate how text and written information can be made into architectural or sculptural bodies. By combining various materials and histories, Zack’s paintings raise very pertinent questions about written histories, enlightenment, censorship, erasure, authorship, data storage, control, and collective knowledge.

Some Drawings
A Group Exhibition

Takao Tanabe
A Major Exhibition

Takao Tanabe has been a leading figure in Canadian art for over sixty years. Born in 1926 in Seal Cove, British Columbia, Tanabe was interned by the Canadian Government with his family and many other Japanese-Canadians during World War II. The end of the war took the artist further east, to the Winnipeg School of Art, graduating in 1949. He pursued further artistic studies in New York under Hans Hoffman, London, and Japan, where he learned Japanese ink painting (sumi-e) and calligraphy.