Articles of Section 'Visual Arts'.

Books | Visual Arts

Chris Tyrell gives artists a bit of business-savvy in new book

By Robin Laurence

In his new book, Artist Survival Skills, the writer addresses the lack of knowledge in visual artists concerning the pricing, promotion, marketing, and sale of their works.

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TaiwanFest art exhibit highlights country's diversity

By Robin Laurence

The paintings, posters, and photographs in Taiwan Uncensored honour Dutch, Canadian, and Japanese influences on the island nation, as well as the traditions and ceremonial customs of its first peoples.

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Lisa Brawn's woodcuts turn pop art rustic at the JEM Gallery

By Robin Laurence

The Calgary artist uses cherry, black-walnut, and Douglas-fir materials for her portraits of country-and-western legends and movie, television, and musical cowboys.

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Floater's monument to levity at the Vancouver Art Gallery

By Robin Laurence

Jeff Ladouceur’s architectural intervention—a huge inflatable sculpture that's part slacker, part sausage, and part twisted noodle—is mounted high up, across the columns of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Georgia Street façade.

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Zhang Huan suffers costs of his art

By Robin Laurence

The subversive, penitential performances of Altered States are written on the body of one of China’s most acclaimed artists in this compelling introduction to his work.

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Robotic Chair comes to life at Contemporary Art Gallery

By Robin Laurence

Max Dean’s school chair puts on a mesmerizing show as it crashes to the floor and then methodically reassembles and re-attaches its missing parts.

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Belkin Gallery presents a blast from our hippie past

By Robin Laurence

The art here—past and present, hopeful and cynical, experimental and understated—reminds us that war, injustice, tyranny, overconsumption, and environmental destruction still prevail on our planet.

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Hold On gives you time to contemplate the working world

By Robin Laurence

Aaron Carpenter, Steve Hubert, Kathy Slade: Hold On

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George Littlechild and Richard Tetrault revisit their tortured pasts

By Robin Laurence

George Littlechild: Transfer Richard Tetrault: Smoke, Steel, Sky

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Susan Point's huge Coast Salish portals pay rich tribute

By Robin Laurence

Susan Point: People Amongst the People

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Carol Sawyer’s images sing in library’s lyrical voice

By Robin Laurence

Carol Sawyer: Trace Ingredients

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Rebecca Belmore grapples with time and history

By Robin Laurence

In a startling retrospective, the Vancouver-based artist's performances and installations confront us with images of loss, struggle, and silence that depict struggles against erasures of culture and memory.

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Illusions of freedom fill Bellocq's portraits of prostitutes

By Robin Laurence

E. J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits

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Moodyville taps into collective urban memory

By Robin Laurence

Moodyville

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History takes on new shapes in Blaine Campbell's eyes

By Robin Laurence

Blaine Campbell: A Repurposed Architecture

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Barry Todd Goodman: Black Fire/White Fire

By Robin Laurence

At the Jewish Community Centre’s Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery until June 11

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Stephen Waddell makes viewers into voyeurs

By Robin Laurence

Stephen Waddell

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Vancouver Museum revived by Movers and Shapers

By Janet Smith

Movers and Shapers

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Germaine Koh paints layers of identity

By Robin Laurence

Koh’s Self-portrait takes a traditional form, oil painting on board, but it is process-based and concept-driven. Since starting it in 1994, she has overpainted it completely every year. “It’s not so much a portrait of an individual,” Koh says. “It’s more about the process of painting and about general processes of aging, changing.” Then she adds: “Where I appear in my own work, it’s most easily as a kind of generic everyperson.…It’s really not the romantic idea of the individual.”

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Missing traces violence against the vulnerable in Mexico

By Robin Laurence

An installation about the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez testifies to the powers of community and craft.

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Aaron Carpenter's work opposes idea of originality

By Robin Laurence

Aaron Carpenter: The Art of Richard Tuttle

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Barbara Milne: Overland and Erin McSavaney: Seven Paintings of South Vancouver

By Robin Laurence

Painting smacks up against photography, and culture confronts the broad face of nature—again. In the two-person show at the Atelier Gallery, Vancouverite Erin McSavaney and Calgarian Barbara Milne exercise their considerable and distinct facility with the medium of paint. McSavaney focuses on otherwise overlooked aspects of the built environment, while Milne claims the place where memory and landscape come together.

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Arboreal alchemy at the VAG

By Robin Laurence

The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social

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Lisette Model's gritty images blend sympathy and voyeurism

By Robin Laurence

Lisette Model and Her Successors

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Dan Starling takes Malcolm X and Salinger into the present

By Robin Laurence

Dan Starling: Malcolm X/J. D. Salinger

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