Past

Philippe Raphanel
New Paintings

Philippe Raphanel draws on a variety of influences to create atmospheric compositions that resist a single interpretation. Since immigrating to Canada from France in 1981, Raphanel has been profoundly affected by the dense wilderness of British Columbia as well as the work of historical Canadian painters such as Emily Carr. While landscape and the natural world are at the core of his practice, Raphanel’s paintings present a visual experience that suggests a set of open questions about how natures and its energy reveal themselves. His visual vocabulary includes elements familiar to the forest – branches, nests, leaves – while maintaining a looseness in their application that allows for new forms and associations to emerge.

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Angela Grossmann
The Silver Suite

Gwenessa Lam
Before Present

Gwenessa Lam is a visual artist and educator. Her current work draws from historical objects and domestic spaces as contested sites of collective memory. Lam is interested in understanding the psychological and social implications when artifacts are lost to disaster, censorship, or misidentification.

Lam received her BFA from the University of British Columbia and MFA from New York University. She has taught at New York University, the University of British Columbia, and the Alberta University of the Arts. Lam has attended residencies at Skowhegan, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Banff Centre. Her work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art and the Queens Museum of Art in New York. Lam lives and works in Vancouver, BC and is currently Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

For a list of available works from this exhibition, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com

Erin McSavaney
Interactions

Erin McSavaney’s practice is concerned with spaces of everyday life and how, under close examination, our perception of these spaces can be altered through making and viewing paintings. This exhibition brings together pairs of paintings whose architectural subjects are complimentary in nature. Through the conception and installation of this body of work, McSavaney offers several points of entry to show how three-dimensional spaces and objects can be disrupted and rebuilt in paint.

McSavaney’s geometric interventions take many forms. Sometimes, these squares, triangles, and other angular shapes index the mid-century era of the building, and at other times, they might reinforce the angle of light and shadow. Still other applications echo, extend, or counter the existing architectural form. Through a long and labour-intensive process, reality and fiction are negotiated across the canvas, juxtaposing the detailed illusion of depth against the flatness of abstracted forms. The typical call-and-response process of abstract painting is utilized here to create pictorial harmony of a very realistic kind. The result is a new space that illuminates the relationship between representational and abstract painting, and the parallels of how they are constructed, where each action demands a reaction.

For a list of available works from this exhibition, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com

Sonny Assu
Legacy Format

Sonny Assu recalls the transformative experience of visiting the Ottawa institution now known as the Canadian Museum of History with a letter in hand, written by his grandmother Mitzi Assu. In it she requests that her grandson be granted access to the Chilkat robe, dance apron, and frontlet that were the belongings of his great-great-grandfather, Hereditary Chief Billy Assu, which she and her husband Herbie Assu had sold to the museum decades before with the intention of their long-term protection and preservation. In the sterile space of the museum’s vast collections, curators placed the robe on Sonny’s shoulders. He describes feeling an energy transmitted through his body, the weight and materiality of the woolen garment, a spark conducting a direct connection to his Kwakwaka’wakw ancestors, and the knowledge, ceremony, and resilience woven into the regalia.

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CLICK HERE to read Legacy Format, an essay by Kate Hennessy

Ben Reeves
Morning Cloak

The critical potential of Ben Reeves’ work emerges from two things: his profound observations of the world around him combined with deliberate choices he makes to optimize the potentials of paint. In this exhibition, Reeves presents a focused body of work that represents his active and deep investigation into a seemingly simple subject: the ocean. Utilizing a range of invented and inherited notations for waves and water, the infinite dimensions of the ocean (visual, metaphoric, spiritual, cultural) reveal themselves as aspects to contemplate through the act of painting.

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

Zoë Kreye
Well, beloved, it is that which we want to call the secret growing

Moved by a sense of purpose that includes connection, spirit, and care, Zoë Kreye uses embodied rituals in her studio practice to create objects and installations that capture sensations of the body. By utilizing the body as a tool for sensing resonances within visual aesthetics, the works engage a multitude of senses in the act of viewing that bring new awareness to the self and to others.

Expressive in their scale and composition, the works in this exhibition are created on linen, on paper, and large-scale, immersive works are on sheer fabrics. The act of moving through the exhibition causes subtle movements in the works themselves, shifts that might extend our perception beyond the visual and into the psychological.

For a list of available artworks, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

Summer Group Show

Equinox is happy to share with you a curated selection of contemporary works brought together to generate conversations around colour, shadow, texture and form. This exhibition highlights works by artists with new connections to Equinox Gallery as well as those with long-standing relationships with the gallery.

This exhibition includes the works of Sonny Assu, Bobbie Burgers, Gathie Falk, Erin McSavaney, Philippe Raphanel, Gordon Smith, Takao Tanabe, Neil Wedman, Etienne Zack, and more.

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405.

Hamed Rashtian
Reveries

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Reveries, a special project with Vancouver-based artist Hamed Rashtian. Rashtian’s thought-provoking exploration of Iran’s rich cultural heritage offers a view into the ever-evolving interplay between history, collective identity, and the built environment. Through a series of intricate and detailed bronze sculptures, the artist seeks to uncover the roots of the collective identity of the region’s past through multi-layered architectural structures that blend pottery elements with fragments inspired by Iranian architecture. Rashtian’s quest into these ideas was initially ignited by a series of books edited and written by his mentor in sculpture, Parviz Tanavoli, a prominent figure in Iranian Modern Art, whose expertise and guidance influenced his artistic vision.

Hamed Rashtian completed his MFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver and holds a Swiss Federal Diploma in Higher Education from the F+F School of Art and Design in Zurich. Active as a visual artist since 2006, Rashtian has had solo exhibitions in Iran, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates as well as participated in many international group exhibitions. He is a PhD student in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405.

Kim Dorland
The moment before the moment after

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present The moment before the moment after, an exhibition of new paintings by Kim Dorland.

Dorland’s interest in pushing the limits of paint has developed into a dramatic visual language, enticing the viewer into an enigmatic world that transforms visceral experience into a language of paint. Over a career spanning two decades, he has gradually refined a personal palette and vocabulary of images derived primarily from observations of the natural world and the tensions that manifest themselves when nature comes into confrontation with the human experience.

If you would like to see a list of works, or schedule an appointment to view in person, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405