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50 Years | 50 Stories

Equinox Gallery marks its 50th anniversary in 2022. To celebrate this institutional milestone and offer a glimpse into aspects of gallery life from the past 5 decades, we present 50 Years | 50 Stories, an eclectic mix of artworks that trigger significant triumphs and challenges, personal anecdotes, and creative strategies. As one of the anchors of the nation’s commercial art sector with over 400 exhibitions to its credit, we have represented many of Canada’s top talents in tandem with international artworld giants. Through a selection of works by artists who have been featured at the gallery, this exhibition is an opportunity to consider the gallery’s focus on developing artists’ careers in the context of larger and ever-shifting art world narratives.

While much has changed at the gallery over the past 50 years, our long-term relationships with artists and collectors (both public and private) remain central to the gallery’s ethos. It is by nurturing such deep-rooted connections that we are able to contribute to the significant role art plays in enriching people’s lives.

Thank you for your support over the past 50 years. We look forward to the next 50.

Andy, Sophie, Hannah, Chantelle, Lulu

CLICK HERE to read the stories

June Group Exhibition

For the month of June, we are 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, Kim Dorland, Marten Elder, Gathie Falk, Jack Kenna, Gwenessa Lam, Erin McSavaney, Ben Reeves, Takao Tanabe, Angela Teng, Renée Van Halm, Neil Wedman, and Etienne Zack.

For a list of available works please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736 – 2405.

Bobbie Burgers
Forest for the Trees

Bobbie Burgers’ new body of work chronicles the nuances of a wide ranging studio painting practice. Forest for the Trees reflects the artist’s interest in the way that small details hold the potential for enormous impact and an understanding that the final image takes time to develop and emerge. Through a fluid and sequential approach to painting, Burgers’ new works build and expand on each other as she continues to merge abstraction with representation in increasing degrees.

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

Fred Herzog
East Vancouver

Fred Herzog: East Vancouver is focused on Herzog’s photographs of the east side of Vancouver. After emigrating to Canada in the early 1950s, Herzog began photographing Vancouver’s streets on regular walking excursions. While he lived and worked in the West End and the west side of the city, Herzog was particularly attuned to Chinatown, Strathcona, and what is now known as the Downtown Eastside, three neighbourhoods that sustained his interest for over 50 years. His use of colour was unusual in the 1950s and 60s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white, and it is through this use of colour film that Herzog developed a sensitive and thoughtful visual compendium of parts of the city.

This exhibition is presented as part of Capture Photography Festival.

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

Dempsey Bob

Equinox Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition: Dempsey Bob. Dempsey Bob is a distinguished Tahltan and Tlingit artist of the Wolf Clan. Born in 1948, he began carving in 1969 under the tutelage of Freda Diesing who was his earliest mentor and teacher. At once a traditionalist and vanguard, Dempsey Bob’s sculptures blend traditional narratives and iconography with contemporary influences. His dynamic sculptures re-imagine convention with highly animated sculptures that acknowledge the lineage to which they are indebted while incorporating an expansive view and understanding of sculpture.

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

Shawn Hunt
The First Moonrise

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Shawn Hunt: The First Moonrise. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and the first entirely devoted to painting and works on paper. 

The First Moonrise is a continuation of Shawn Hunt’s exploration of Heiltsuk cosmologies through the development of imagined narratives and characters. Hunt’s creatures are constantly in a state of flux, serving as shapeshifters–supernatural figures that move and travel between human and spirit realms. By the glow of a hidden moon, the scenes in Shawn Hunt’s new paintings emerge and come to life. 

For more information or to preview the works, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com

Special Project
future relics of our time

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present future relics of our time, an exhibition of ceramic works by Serisa Fitz-James, Jack Kenna, and Isabel Wynn, curated by Andrea Valentine-Lewis. During the Middle Ages, objects associated with holy people and sites were deeply celebrated. Due to their association with saints or with heaven itself, relics, such as bits of hair or body parts, were considered divine. Because the term relic derives from the Latin word relinquere, meaning “that which is left behind,” these objects have become temporal markers for future generations. Reflecting on the material and affective dimensions of Medieval relics, one might wonder, what would constitute a future relic representative of our present time.

CLICK HERE to read essay by curator, Andrea Valentine-Lewis.

Unfolding

Equinox Gallery is pleased to inaugurate the new year with a group exhibition featuring the work of Bobbie Burgers, Al McWilliams, Eadweard Muybridge, Jack Shadbolt, Angela Teng, Renée Van Halm, and Neil Wedman. Unfolding considers the ways through which the foreign and the familiar are knit together through a process of study and repetition. The exhibition presents paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs that grow from a single perspective into a more elaborate panorama of ideas, as well as serial views where similarities cascade into differences. In these works, reiteration in all its forms holds the remarkable potential for fresh discoveries.

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

Jack Shadbolt
The Long Echo

One of Canada’s most innovative modernists, Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) is known for his paintings and murals that drew from both personal travels and experiences of World War II as well as the social and political context of his time. Shadbolt was born in England in 1909 and at an early age immigrated to British Columbia. In 1930 he met Emily Carr, whose work, together with the Surrealists and early Abstract Expressionist, was very influential in his artistic development. Widely exhibited across Canada and in biennales abroad, Shadbolt’s work is in the permanent collections of all major Canadian museums, and he was recognized with the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.

Shadbolt’s multi-paneled works are his most significant as they demonstrate the artist’s ambitious scale and his iterative process. Much in the way that chapters within a novel deepen the detail and narrative of a written text, the ability to keep adding panels to a work allowed Shadbolt the freedom to realize the full potential of his subject matter. As his imagery progresses from one discrete panel to another, it reveals his deep interest in metamorphosis and the transformative cycles of the natural world that include both and life and destruction.

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

Sonny Assu
Omnibus

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at (604) 736-2405 or info@equinoxgallery.com.