B.C. Binning
Devon Knowles
Renée Van Halm
September 9, 2019 - October 12, 2019
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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BC Binning
Untitled
n.d.Oil on paperboard
BC Binning
Electronic Aesthetics
1957Oil on Panel
Walking Spectrum II, i, S17
2018glass, flower petals, iPod glass, paper cup, felt pen, reuseable adhesive putty, lead, tin, steel, paint
Walking Spectrum I, S17
2018glass, plastic bag, plastic packaging, plastic ribbon, rolling paper packaging. CAD currency, lead, tin, asphalt, styrofoam, leaves, copper, steel, paint
Featured Artists
B.C. Binning
B.C. Binning
Bertram Charles (BC) Binning was one of Canada’s foremost modern artists, architectural innovators, and educators. His early work from the 1940s was characterized by elegant, expressive yet controlled line drawings, often with nautical themes, using brilliant colour to express the painting’s flatness as a structural element and emphasizing a strong sense of order and composition. In 1941 Binning designed and built his flat-roofed, post-and-beam home in West Vancouver, which became the key example of West Coast modernist design, shaping the area’s architectural landscape for the next decade. His interest in architecture led to the design of large mosaic murals for public buildings, including the British Columbia Electric Building (1955). This interest also informed his paintings from the 1960s and 1970s which gradually evolved to purely abstract forms and explorations of clear colour and form.
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Devon Knowles
Devon Knowles
Devon Knowles investigates the histories, economies and social meanings of diverse materials – from denim fabric and aluminum to coloured glass and concrete. In moving such substances from their everyday context to a new environment, our appreciation of their properties and capacities becomes heightened. In working and reworking material, using traditional and contemporary fabrication methods, a rich language of the interplay of material and method emerges. As she engages with theories of perception, optical effects and tactility, alongside the direct act of making, Knowles encourages the viewer to access her work from a shared intimacy and sympathetic attentiveness.
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