The Estate of Gordon Smith
September 6, 2024 - October 12, 2024
This exhibition is a rare opportunity to consider Gordon Smith’s artistic path as it developed from representational images of landscapes that were new and highly revelatory for him, to the fluidity of abstraction where the manipulation of paint and the balances of colour and light were the driving forces in creating compelling compositions.
This significant collection of works is the first exhibition in over twenty years to focus on the dynamic nature of his early career. During the optimism of the postwar period, Vancouver was a hotbed of exciting developments in West Coast Modernism and Smith was a central figure receiving national and international attention for canvases that were a bold and expressive response to western abstraction.
A preview of the exhibition is available in person at Equinox Gallery on Commercial Street, or via the catalogue linked Here.

Installation View

Gordon Smith: Early Works
September 6th - October 11th, 2024

Installation View

Gordon Smith: Early Works
September 6th - October 11th, 2024

Installation View

Gordon Smith: Early Works
September 6th - October 11th, 2024

Installation View

Gordon Smith: Early Works
September 6th - October 11th, 2024

Installation View

Gordon Smith: Early Works
September 6th - October 11th, 2024

Installation View

Gordon Smith: Early Works
September 6th - October 11th, 2024

Installation View

Gordon Smith: Early Works
September 6th - October 11th, 2024

Installation View

Gordon Smith: Early Works
September 6th - October 11th, 2024

Gordon Smith

Nocturne

ca. 1961

Oil on canvas

  • 34 1/2" x 43 1/2"
Gordon Smith

Blue & Black Painting

ca. 1958

Oil on canvas

  • 34" x 48"
Gordon Smith

Untitled

ca. 1955-1960

Oil on board

  • Board Size: 23" x 40"
    Frame Size: 28" x 45"
Gordon Smith

Easter Sunday

ca. 1955-1959

Oil on canvas

  • Canvas Size: 35" x 28"
    Frame Size: 36 1/2" x 29 1/2"
Gordon Smith

Painting with Green & Grey

ca. 1960

Oil on Masonite

  • Board Size: 11" x 14"
    Frame Size: 15" x 18"
Gordon Smith

Winterscape

ca. 1960

Oil on Board

  • Board Size: 14" x 18"
    Frame Size: 20" x 24"
Gordon Smith

Untitled (Barn)

1958

Oil on Board

  • Board Size: 12" x 16"
    Frame Size: 13" x 17"
Gordon Smith

Untitled (Driftwood)

ca.1948

Oil on Canvas

  • Canvas Size: 20" x 24"
    Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 25 1/4"

Featured Artists

The Estate of Gordon Smith

The Estate of Gordon Smith

Gordon Smith (1919-2020) was a key figure in contemporary Canadian art. Since the 1950s, he worked continuously to expand the dialogue between abstraction and representation. In his tangled paintings, there is the insinuation of entire fields of colour below the surface. Over the course of his 75-year long career he has made paintings employing that procedure of looping and overlapping, the movement of line to line, texture into texture and colour into colour. His work has been an evolving search for balance between abstraction and his love of the land, which has given us insight into both the act of painting and the essence of the West Coast.

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Hamed Rashtian
Word Sculptures

October 17, 2024 - November 16, 2024
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Shawn Hunt
Ḱáɫḷá / To Dream
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

June 19, 2024 - September 27, 2024
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Bobbie Burgers
A Window or A Mirror

May 30, 2024 - July 6, 2024
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Philippe Raphanel
New Paintings

January 13, 2024 - February 10, 2024
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Angela Grossmann
The Silver Suite

January 13, 2024 - February 10, 2024
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Gwenessa Lam
Before Present

November 18, 2023 - December 16, 2023
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Erin McSavaney
Interactions

November 18, 2023 - December 16, 2023
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Zoë Kreye
Well, beloved, it is that which we want to call the secret growing

September 9, 2023 - October 14, 2023
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Kim Dorland
The moment before the moment after

June 17, 2023 - July 15, 2023
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Angela Grossmann
To a Woman Passing By
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

June 8, 2023 - October 5, 2023
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Bobbie Burgers
Partly Truth, Partly Fiction

May 13, 2023 - June 10, 2023
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Marten Elder
New Colour Photographs

April 1, 2023 - April 29, 2023
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Paying Attention
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

March 13, 2023 - May 27, 2023
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Jack Kenna
How Slowly Time Passes, How Quickly Things Change

February 25, 2023 - March 22, 2023
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Angela Grossmann
With Themselves

January 21, 2023 - February 18, 2023
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Adad Hannah
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

October 5, 2022 - January 9, 2023
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Devon Knowles
Gone and Going

October 22, 2022 - November 19, 2022
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Gordon Smith
A Painter’s Legacy

September 10, 2022 - October 15, 2022
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Shawn Hunt
The First Moonrise

February 19, 2022 - March 19, 2022
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Special Project
future relics of our time

February 19, 2022 - March 19, 2022
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Jack Shadbolt
The Long Echo

November 27, 2021 - January 8, 2022
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Ben Reeves
A Boat Made of Ocean

October 16, 2021 - November 20, 2021
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Etienne Zack
Reflections on a Quiet City

May 15, 2021 - June 12, 2021
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Bobbie Burgers
Natural Disorder

November 19, 2020 - December 19, 2020
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Shawn Hunt
The Beginning of Something

October 10, 2020 - November 14, 2020
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Summer Exhibition
Gallery Artists

July 28, 2020 - August 29, 2020
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Renée Van Halm
Holding Pattern

January 18, 2020 - February 15, 2020
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Gathie Falk
New Paintings and Sculpture

September 7, 2019 - October 12, 2019
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BC Binning, Devon Knowles and Renée Van Halm
Leave the Window Open

September 9, 2019 - October 12, 2019
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Some Drawings
A Group Exhibition

March 9, 2019 - March 30, 2019
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Takao Tanabe
A Major Exhibition

January 17, 2019 - March 2, 2019
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Ben Reeves
Something Edge

November 24, 2018 - December 22, 2018
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Angela Teng
A Coloured Image of the Sun

November 24, 2018 - December 22, 2018
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Gordon Smith
Through the Trees

September 8, 2018 - October 13, 2018
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Jack Shadbolt
The Ghost Universe

January 20, 2018 - February 22, 2018
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Al McWilliams
Floor Thoughts

December 2, 2017 - January 13, 2018
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Gathie Falk
The Things in My Head

November 7, 2015 - December 12, 2015
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