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The Richmond Art Gallery is hosting an art exhibition this month, featuring works tackling issues of cultural conflation and mixed identities. Many of the works by Vancouver-based artists Diyan Achjadi and Shawn Hunt have never been shown before on the West Coast. “While very different in the way they look, their work shares features in…
Photographer Brendan O’Leary’s upcoming exhibition Golden Eagle Bayan Ulgii will be at the Leigh Square Community Arts Village in Port Coquitlam and will feature 20 digital prints on canvas. The exhibition will also showcase other highlights of Bayan-Ulgii such as the celebration of Kazakh traditions. The show runs from Sept. 29–Oct. 31. An excerpt from…
Upon returning to Iran after a decade, Langer was astonished to see the rapid change the country had undergone. What stood out most to him was the change in attitude as well as recently built infrastructure. As part of SFU’s Saturday Forum, Peter Langer will give a free virtual tour of Iran on Oct. 1.…
Italian-Canadian poet Diego Bastianutti and Italian photographer Jon Guido Bertelli have combined their works to shine a spotlight on the stark contrasts of Vancouver. They have focused on illustrating the humanity that revolves around the Downtown Eastside and the stories of its inhabitants. The exhibit opens on Sept. 10 at the Italian Cultural Centre –…
With two exhibitions currently showing in Vancouver, Dutch artist Mirjam Linschooten and Canadian artist Sameer Farooq say it’s a blend of research, asking questions, engaging in dialogue and working together. The exhibition features a mix of installation, photography, design and writing. Farooq says White, Steel, Slice Mask which is on display in the windows of…
The Seriousness of Play, an exhibition of the unique art that is Haida Manga and created by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas will be on display until Oct. 2 at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. Haida Manga is a combination of iconographies and frame lines from the culture of the North Pacific Indigenous peoples along…
In the Richmond Art Gallery’s latest exhibit, The Transformation of Things, local artists collaborate to explore Chinese art heritage in a modern Western landscape. Paint, calligraphy and sculpture illustrate the movement of the human imagination in the natural world. For Victoria-based artist Rick Leong, this show began over a year ago when Richmond Art Gallery…
Métis artist and scholar Dylan Miner will let plants tell their part of the story in an art exhibition that will focus on traditional First Nations medicine. Michif – Michin (the people, the medicine) will open on August 5 at 6 p.m. in Gallery Gachet and occupy the space until August 28. Although the show…
The Powell Street Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary on July 30th and 31st with festivities honoring Japanese-Canadian heritage. In collaboration with design students in Germany, a BCIT undergrad trio draws inspiration from Japanese carp-shaped windsocks for their winning structure, The Koinobori. This year, Bing Thom Architects (BTA) presented students of design and architecture with a…
In 2015 the director of the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) went to a grad show at Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s School for the Contemporary Arts, where he picked an artist to be the recipient of a new annual award. The emerging artist chosen was Anchi Lin, and her first solo exhibition, To the Shore, is…
Across the street from Kingsgate Mall on East Broadway St. in Vancouver, passersby may have noticed a black flag erected on an empty lot, with various foods in quarter bushel baskets, such as potatoes and squashes, surrounding it. It iss Vancouver-based artist Holly Ward’s way of raising attention to the issues of land use and…
“I was a picture bride when I came to Victoria in 1907,” Koto Kawamoto tells us in her 1958 memoir The Way of Endurance. “As I left behind all that I knew in Japan, I had many thoughts of what life had in store for me in a new land.” Kawamoto’s story is one of…
Ray Tse wouldn’t call his work pottery, but prefers the term ceramics. “The word `pottery’ seems like it only covers the functional side of this art form. ‘Ceramics’ is a more general term as it includes both the functional and sculptural side,” explains Tse. The Hong Kong-born artist will be exhibiting his work June 9…
