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Ai Weiwei’s work is here in Vancouver. The world-renowned artist is among 10 prominent Chinese artists whose recent works have been brought together in an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibition, Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, aims to draw attention away from the activist aspects of the art and more towards…
True to its mandate to display work that examines the relationship between contemporary art theory and practice, Artspeak, a non-profit artist run centre in Vancouver, is currently featuring Seurat and Friends, an exhibit which comments on the complex dynamic between art and labour. Georges-Pierre Seurat was a seminal French post-impressionist painter whose signature pointilist method…
Japanese artist Shimabuku is remarkably curious. And through his highly imaginative artistic practice, he makes the familiar and mundane seem fascinating, humorous and strange. For Shimabuku, it is most important that his audience receives something positive from his work and experiences it freely. “My art is not about understanding. I’m not asking people to understand…
Interweavings, an exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, explores the importance of mentoring and tradition in contemporary First Nations art. The exhibit presents approximately 30 works by seven emerging artists who have received the YVR Art Foundation Youth Scholarship, alongside works by their mentors, internationally acclaimed First Nations artists. It highlights the significance of mentoring…
Although Vancouver-based artists Kelly Gough and Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo have contrasting histories and artistic practices, they share common ground. Gallery Gachet’s current exhibition, Coalescence: A Body of Memories, brings together the unique, yet connected, narratives of these two artists as they explore issues surrounding war, violence and the effects of trauma. Kristin Lantz, Gallery Gachet’s…
While some artists approach art merely conceptually, literally or spontaneously, Tomoyo Ihaya, an internationally renowned artist, blends many approaches. Her primary source of inspiration comes from direct experience, and that is precisely why she has been a resident artist in several different countries. Experience brings her the kind of passion she needs in order to…
A glimpse of a city that was forbidden to the public for 500 years can now be seen in Vancouver for the first time. On Oct. 18, 1000 visitors flocked to the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) for the opening of The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors, an exhibition that will run until…
No story is black and white, especially not for Plains Cree artist George Littlechild. Known for his colourful paintings and distinct pop art style of portraiture, Littlechild’s newest work is on display at Kimoto Gallery until November 8. The current exhibition titled Those That Listen presents three unique themes: man and woman in rural and…
Holding up a protest sign which reads “Save Chinatown,” a group of Chinese people stand in the middle of a Vancouver street. This is one of a hundred black-and-white images from the current exhibition Jim Wong-Chu Photographs 1973-1981: People, Place, Politics, held until Oct. 18 at Centre A Gallery. The exhibition reveals the history of…
Picture a world where the world is luscious and green, a place where our ecosystem thrived and our wildlife existed harmoniously and wandered freely. Using art as a tool, this is the world that the organization Artists for Conservation strives to achieve. The annual Artists for Conservation Festival is to be held Sept. 27–Oct. 5…
Words and abstract art work together to show a movement of thought and imagination translated into image at the Contemporary Art Gallery’s latest exhibit, Jürgen Partenheimer: The Archive – The Raven Diaries, running until Nov. 9. The exhibit features around 20 of the 30 drawings, paintings, and written textual diaries created by Jürgen Partenheimer, Emily…
Failure of communication is the theme of the Access Gallery’s newest exhibit, Far Away So Close Part One. Six emerging Canadian artists will be featured in the exhibit including Erdem Taşdelen, whose piece The Conduit explores the subjective nature of meaning in handwriting analysis. The exhibit aims to explore the way that meaning is interpreted…
Karen Santos’ newest mixed media abstract art exhibit, Silence Lifted, emerged from a harrowing experience. As an opera singer, with starring roles such as Pamina in The Magic Flute and Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief among her accomplishments, Santos explains that a vocal injury provoked this exhibit. “As language was stripped from…
