Visual Arts Reviews

Miss Guides' urban walk crosses fact and fiction

Miss Guides' urban walk crosses fact and fiction

By Robin Laurence | March 18, 2010
The Miss Guides don’t really misguide you—they “defamiliarize” you.
Ruth Scheuing: Silkroads

Ruth Scheuing: Silkroads

By Robin Laurence | March 11, 2010
The superimposed textile designs fit snugly over the digital landscapes—cultural traditions moulded onto ancient lands, shifting geographical boundaries, and contemporary technologies.
From bars to brollies, Bright Light shines

From bars to brollies, Bright Light shines

By Robin Laurence | February 25, 2010
Bright Light casts both critique and consolation across the Downtown Eastside.
CODE Live 1 and Trimpin's Sheng High

CODE Live 1 and Trimpin's Sheng High

By Alexander Varty | February 18, 2010
With just a few hours to go until its official opening, the CODE Live 1 site—a warehouselike space at the Centre for Digital Media’s Great Northern Way Campus—is a hive of activity.
First Nations/Second Nature examines everything from frisking poses to tangled flags

First Nations/Second Nature examines everything from frisking poses to tangled flags

By Robin Laurence | February 18, 2010
The Audain Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, First Nations/Second Nature, is certainly appropriate to its highly charged location.
Leonardo da Vinci and Visceral Bodies shows dissect the body, and human fears

Leonardo da Vinci and Visceral Bodies shows dissect the body, and human fears

By Robin Laurence | February 11, 2010
Visceral Bodies is a thoughtful and provocative accompaniment to The Mechanics of Man. I have nothing but praise for the way these two exhibitions were assembled and juxtaposed.
Ed Pien: Tracing Night

Ed Pien: Tracing Night

By Robin Laurence | February 11, 2010
In Ed Pien’s mixed-media installation Tracing Night, shapes shift, walls move, and shadowy forms hover in the air.
Ken Lum's from shangri-la to shangri-la and Michael Lin's A Modest Veil

Ken Lum's from shangri-la to shangri-la and Michael Lin's A Modest Veil

By Robin Laurence | February 4, 2010
A surprising incongruity greets locals and visitors at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite location.
Lawrence Hislop's Vulnerability makes climate horrors heavenly

Lawrence Hislop's Vulnerability makes climate horrors heavenly

By Robin Laurence | December 23, 2009
Lions Bay–based artist Lawrence Hislop has produced a body of seriously gorgeous black-and-white photographs that document the impact of climate change and rising sea levels on four diverse communities.
A long career emerges in Gordon Smith's mesmerizing works

A long career emerges in Gordon Smith's mesmerizing works

By Robin Laurence | December 17, 2009
Gordon Smith is an acclaimed painter of tremendous talent and energy. This survey exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery reveals the senior Vancouver artist to be an equally accomplished and prolific printmaker.
The Malcolmson Collection features photos full of enigma and experimentation

The Malcolmson Collection features photos full of enigma and experimentation

By Robin Laurence | December 10, 2009
The remarkable Malcolmson Collection is as discerning as it is quirky, spanning avant-garde art, street portraits, and numerous nudes.
Carol Sawyer's Proscenium a ghostly ode to a gilded past

Carol Sawyer's Proscenium a ghostly ode to a gilded past

By Robin Laurence | December 3, 2009
Carol Sawyer has a feeling for what she once called the “melancholy traces of the past”.
Folk and high art make wondrously strange mix in Myfanwy MacLeod's Gold

Folk and high art make wondrously strange mix in Myfanwy MacLeod's Gold

By Robin Laurence | November 26, 2009
Whether she’s working in sculpture, drawing, photography, performance video, or sound installation, Myfanwy MacLeod is full of surprises.
Landscape artist Wanda Koop puts out a new face at the Richmond Art Gallery

Landscape artist Wanda Koop puts out a new face at the Richmond Art Gallery

By Robin Laurence | November 19, 2009
As you enter Wanda Koop’s show at the Richmond Art Gallery, you are confronted by a crowd of unsettling faces.
Robert Young: Quotidian View exudes history, philosophy

Robert Young: Quotidian View exudes history, philosophy

By Robin Laurence | November 12, 2009
There’s a small print in Robert Young: Quotidian View that is definitely more than the sum of its subtle parts.
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