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Memory and a child’s perspective are the focus of the Things on the Shoreline exhibit (Feb. 13–Apr. 16) presented by artist Cindy Mochizuki, the Access Gallery, the students of Lord Strathcona Elementary School and the Vancouver Japanese Language School. Mochizuki is a local Vancouver visual artist, and a large contributor to the collaborative project. “I’m…
As part of Chinese New Year celebrations, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden launches the exhibition Gathering: Chinese New Year Folk Art by Chinese artist Gao Jing. Her art, which is considered innovative compared to classical Chinese New Year paintings, depicts traditions before and during Chinese New Year. This is the first time that…
Chanel Blouin, museum assistant at the Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia, is launching the online exhibit, New Ways of Living: Jewish Architects in Vancouver, 1955–1975. The exhibit features Vancouver residential landmarks designed and built by Jewish architects in the postwar years in order to recognize their work and pay tribute to those architects…
Vancouver-based artist Dana Claxton explores the life of Indigenous people in her artwork. Her new exhibition Made To Be Ready, which can be seen at SFU’s Audain Gallery, focuses on four selected video and photograph works depicting Indigenous women and cultural belongings. The exhibition consists of two lightboxes, or fireboxes, as the artist calls them,…
From Jan. 16 to Apr. 17, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery will present Lalakenis/All Directions: A Journey of Truth and Unity, an exhibition paying tribute to Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw chief Beau Dick’s journey. Along with friends and family, he made the journey to Parliament Hill to perform a copper shield breaking ceremony, marking a ruptured…
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC is celebrating Taiwanese culture with (In)visible: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art. Since its doors opened on Nov. 20, the exhibit has showcased the works of seven contemporary Taiwanese artists and will run until April 3 of next year. New to the role of curator for the…
The mural of an elderly Asian woman standing beside a car, with crows behind her, on the corner of Hastings and Jackson in Vancouver, is one of Vanessa Lowe’s well-known works. In her latest project A Tree Grows in Chinatown, Lowe uses text and old family photographs to tell a story of her mother’s earlier…
The spit was the key. That part of the puzzle was what two University of British Columbia graduate students needed to solve their project: recreating and documenting pre-European painting techniques used by First Nations to make traditional wood finishing. Doctoral candidate, Jun Lee, and master’s student, Vinicius Lube, used saliva chewed with fresh salmon roe…
Creating art as a vehicle for communication to help transcend boundaries is the focus of the contemporary art exhibition presented by local Ismaili Muslim artists in Yaletown’s Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre (Nov. 23–Dec. 1). The show, Odyssey: Past Meets Present, features 15 artists who explore, in their art works, how their past influences…
An established photographer who focuses on the concept of Zen, David Young is a contributing artist in the current District Foyer Gallery exhibition, alongside artist Frances Solar. Young’s love of nature was enforced by a childhood spent in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where he was influenced by his surroundings. Since obtaining his first camera at…
Pangaea Arts (Canada) and ArtStage SAN (예술무대산) (Korea) present 상자Sangja (Boxes), showing Nov. 19 to 21, 2015 at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby: a performance art project combining puppetry, music and physical theatre, delving into themes of identity, diversity, culture, race, families and the boxes in which we put ourselves and others. Symbolizing…
Kaija Rautiainen, a long-time weaver and native of Finland, is one of the artists who will be returning to the Eastside Culture Crawl to showcase her work. She will also be taking part in this year’s juried exhibition Hanging by a Thread, at The Cultch theatre, which explores the infinite possibilities of thread as a…
Engaged art raises awareness, brings a hidden reality to light, and then snatches it from oblivion to make it part of the collective memory: this is the vision of artist Sayeh Sarfaraz. Her drawings will be presented in her latest exhibition, Génération Sacrifiée (sacrificed generation), at grunt Gallery in Vancouver. Sarfaraz was born in Shiraz,…
