Angela Grossmann
To a Woman Passing By
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

Angela Grossmann
To a Woman Passing By
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

In collaboration with Westbank’s Pacific Gallery at the Fairmont Pacific Rim, Equinox Gallery presents To a Woman Passing By, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Vancouver artist Angela Grossmann.
From monumental to more intimately-scaled works, Grossmann’s figures relish in the intensity of pigment and gesture. Her work may be thought of as traditional portraiture, but more significantly they bring insight into historical representations of the female. A distinctive colourist, she chooses neon pink, ultramarine blue, flame red, glimmering gold and silver, allowing the unique emotive qualities of each hue to dominate a singular work. Grossmann depicts the body because she is empowered by it and familiar with it — through observation, memory, and lived experience — and has now been addressing it in her studio practice for over four decades.
For more information, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

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Bobbie Burgers
Partly Truth, Partly Fiction

Bobbie Burgers
Partly Truth, Partly Fiction

Bobbie Burgers’ painting practice is in continual flux, activated by an expressive mark-making process that shifts impatiently between elements of abstraction and representation. With reference to the history of still-life and vanitas painting, she commands an aesthetic that wrestles a conventional subject free from predictable outcomes. Using a wide spectrum of mediums and processes, the works in this exhibition reflect continual states of transformation, both in their subject matter and in the way they were created. The artist explains: “Painting this new series was like playing in an alternate reality. Washes were more experimental, pushing me to relinquish control as new combinations of different paints with different fluidities took on lives of their own. Several pieces in this series are heavily comprised of collage work, and I look forward to viewers seeking out the hidden seams and ripped edges. I use collage as a way to consider what the “truth” was before, and to create a new story from the prior one. It’s like a metaphor for the complexities of human nature where the past is not erased but one adds to the story.” With an interest in the way that painting can offer conflicting views of a single subject, the works in the exhibition ask for renewed viewings from different states of mind and different times of day.
If you would like to see a list of works, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405

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Fred Herzog
of Time and Place

Fred Herzog
of Time and Place

No other artist has chronicled Vancouver’s urban life as comprehensively and with such sustained insight as Herzog. He purchased his first camera in Germany at the age of 21, a Kodak Retina 1, which he knew about from his father who worked at Kodak during the war. Some of Herzog’s earliest photographs in Vancouver were taken on the Retina 1, but this model had a slow lens speed and did not contain a rangefinder and consequently, he favoured using the Lecia C for street photography as it was small and pocketable. He used different lenses while working in low light and crowded locations, all the while producing images that achieve a rare balance of composition and spontaneity. Bringing together early black and white images from the artist’s archive and his pioneering colour street photography, of Time and Place celebrates Fred Herzog’s understanding of the medium combined with the ability of photography to show “how you see and how you think”.
For more information, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com

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Marten Elder
New Colour Photographs

Marten Elder
New Colour Photographs

Marten Elder’s photographs offer a reconsideration of the way that images are captured in light of digital and technological developments. Through careful interpretation of the raw data, Elder produces photographs that disrupt spatial hierarchy and that are intensely vibrant in their tonal range. The colours may seem synthetic at first, but they all exist in the world in the same relative relationship to one another, and it is this representation of the world that is of great interest to Elder.
For more information, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com 

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Paying Attention
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

Paying Attention
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

With works by
Berenice Abbott
William Eggleston
Walker Evans
Fred Herzog
Geoffrey James
Vivian Maier
George Tice
In collaboration with Westbank’s Pacific Gallery at the Fairmont Pacific Rim, Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Paying Attention, a group exhibition featuring the work of Berenice Abbott, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Fred Herzog, Geoffrey James, Vivian Maier and George Tice. This exhibition looks at photographers whose work articulates fleeting, often overlooked moments in the evolution of their urban environments during periods of rapid growth and transition. Spanning several cities over the past 100 years, these photographers are united in the understanding that what is most familiar in modern life is often what is most impermanent, and its significance may only be felt once it has disappeared.
As wanderers through the city, the photographers in this exhibition utilize varying aesthetic strategies to present an alchemy of past, present, and future within a single image. From Berenice Abbott’s striking architectural images of New York City in the 1930s to Fred Herzog’s early colour scenes of a growing Vancouver on the precipice of modernity in the 1950s, the photographers in Paying Attention each explore the large and small ways our environments are shaped and reshaped over time.
Presented by Equinox Gallery for the Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver.

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Jack Kenna
How Slowly Time Passes, How Quickly Things Change

Jack Kenna
How Slowly Time Passes, How Quickly Things Change

Jack Kenna’s practice is defined by an energetic visual style where he reflects the dynamic nature of our media saturated world. His index of imagery is expansive, derived not only from published sources but also from personal experience, giving him the freedom to merge historical still life painting with his own vast archive of cell phone photography and imagery. This breadth of reference allows him to create works that convert the paradoxes inherent in the contemporary experience.
The title of the exhibition, How Slowly Time Passes, How Quickly Things Change, offers a reflection on the slipperiness and contradictory nature of time as represented through objects that demarcate its passage: calendars, candles, flowers, clocks, even a hot cup of coffee cooling down. The title also relates to how time can be tracked through the relentless “advancements” of technology, represented by obsolete iPhones, dated electronics, and the knobs and dials of 1970s modular synthesizers. The works also reveal themes and symbols that speak to a particular mode of post-pandemic experience, largely dictated by digital interactions with the world. On their own, power strips, cords, and cables are seemingly common objects used to maintain function in work and life. Here, exaggerated and oversized, tapped with a maximum of electrical plugs with tangled cables extending in all directions, they activate the canvas and suggest a state of being over-worked, over-stimulated, and out of time.
For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com 

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Introducing Rob Nicholls

Introducing Rob Nicholls

Equinox Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of painter Rob Nicholls. Nicholls’ landscapes embody the transcendental effect of the natural world on the human psyche. Through textured brushstrokes, illuminated colours, and loose washes, his paintings are a synthesis of flora, fauna and geological forms that are charged with atmospheric conditions. These images emerge from his imagination and memories of a childhood surrounded by the lush vegetation of Vancouver Island.
His ethereal landscapes evoke visions of worlds that are beyond the physical and enter the realm of the subjective imagination. Expansive and kaleidoscopic, Nicholls’ works do not present a single spatial or temporal perspective; rather each of his environments offers multiple qualities of light, from the vibrant colours of dawn to the muted tones of dusk.
Technically, the paintings are created through a meticulous process of developing a specific palette that is renewed for each painting, maintaining an exceedingly smooth surface on his canvas that allows paint to flow freely, and building up spatial depth with the feathery strokes of colour from a wide-ranging and nuanced palette. While inspired by historical artists who have presented the natural world as a place of mystery and intrigue—from Jean-Honoré Fragonard to Charles Burchfield—Nicholls approaches painting through his own distinct and fluid language that explores the tensions between reality and imagination.
Rob Nicholls received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and his MFA from the University of Waterloo. He has participated in several exhibitions across Canada, including “Storm Island” as part of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. Nicholls currently lives and works in Toronto.
For more details, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com

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Angela Grossmann
With Themselves

Angela Grossmann
With Themselves

Expressive, fluid, and frequently elusive, Angela Grossmann’s works may be thought of as traditional portraiture, but in fact she takes the genre in new directions. While Grossmann’s depictions have a remarkable human likeness, more significantly she brings psychological insights into the representation of the female as visualized in western society. Grossmann depicts the body because she is empowered by it and familiar with it—through observations, memories, and lived experience—and has now been addressing it in her studio practice for over four decades. As a woman, she is able to externalize the complexities of the desiring gaze, bringing to the fore representations of people, that not only celebrate beauty, joy, and the maternal, but also embody melancholy, introspection, as well as a subject’s own desires—in other words, unveiling the many dimensions of femininity.
Angela Grossmann: With Themselves continues at Equinox Gallery until Saturday, February 18th.

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Adad Hannah
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

Adad Hannah
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

Adad Hannah is known for his photographs and videos that explore the cinematic potential of tableaux vivants: a genre of performance featuring costumed models remaining as still as possible. Referencing famous art historical paintings and restaging them using contemporary technologies, Hannah’s work refreshes the relationship between the subject of the artwork and the viewer, encouraging us to consider our own bodies in relation to those in each image.
In addition to Hannah’s interest in re-considering historical painting today through the lens of photography, works in this exhibition also focus on his collaborative, community-based approach to art making. Presented on the main floor are three works from Hannah’s project Blackwater Ophelia, inspired by the 1852 painting Ophelia, a famous work with great attention paid to the natural world by the British realist painter John Everett Millais. On the second floor is a large-scale installation based on Picasso’s Guernica, one of the most iconic anti-war paintings of all times, as well as selected works from Hannah’s series The Decameron Retold. In each elaborately staged body of work, the presence of props, stage supports, and hand-painted elements highlight each work’s construction, emphasizing the process of creating each image.
Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, spent his childhood in Israel and England, and moved to Vancouver in the early 1980s. His work is represented in public and private collections around the world, and has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, West Africa, China, South Korea, Australia, Russia, Argentina, and Brazil. Hannah holds a PhD and an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal, and a BFA from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver.

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Khan Lee
Lost and Found

Khan Lee
Lost and Found

Equinox Gallery is pleased to feature Lost and Found, Khan Lee’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Khan Lee’s conceptual practice involves experimentation with forms and processes in order to explore the inherent relationships between material and immaterial content. 
For this exhibition, Lee presents a body of works in disparate media, encouraging viewers to contemplate how materials and devices can be experienced in profoundly diverse ways. In the exhibition, a Super8 film measures both time and distance; a dizzying display of finely painted realist watercolours of Zoom backgrounds comments on how individuals choose to represent themselves through their belongings; and common objects, such as men’s shirts and paper cups, offer a poetic musing on how everyday phenomena can easily be overlooked. In recontextualizing quotidian objects and moments, Lost and Found rekindles the surprising and often intangible dynamics of everyday life.
For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405.

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