Jack Kenna

Jack Kenna

A multifaceted artist, Jack Kenna learned the aesthetics and techniques of stained glass from his mother, an accomplished artist in this realm. Drawing from his repeated experience of moving houses and studios over the years, Kenna has inadvertently collected dozens of plastic milk crates, using them for storage as well as makeshift DIY furniture. And now, these versatile objects serve as the basis for his art objects, accruing even greater value and purpose. The artist removes one side of each milk crate, refitting it with stained glass compositions that combine elements of Minimalism, Op art, and hard-edge abstraction in their design. Some sculptures are stacked into columns, others are randomly placed on the floor, while still others are lit from behind suggesting illuminated church windows or light boxes used in contemporary advertising (and subsequently in photography). By manipulating and combining such paradoxical materials, Kenna’s sculptures embody strength and fragility in surprising, witty, and elegant ways.
For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com 

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Devon Knowles
Gone and Going

Devon Knowles
Gone and Going

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Gone and Going, Devon Knowles’ first solo exhibition with the gallery.
In Devon Knowles’ new body of work the engineering of materials is implicit as both the subject and process of the work. Through a sustained process of observation, Knowles documents urban sites and neighbourhoods in transition, intuitively noting the recurrence of colours and patterns present in her chosen locations. Her walks through neighbourhoods are filtered through multiple technologies, as she fragments and reassembles the changing landscapes into aluminum, fused glass, and stained-glass compositions. In describing her work the artist notes that, “texture, colour, their source and the small variations in their physical dimensions are all important. Texture can blow out the colour as the physical light glares on its surface, making it impenetrable from certain points of view. What becomes evident at that moment, where it is all surface and you cannot see beyond the glare of external light bouncing, is a temporary boundary.” This idea of boundaries permeates Knowles’ work where her thoughtful use of materials drives the careful examination of spaces, edges, and their human presence.
Knowles has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions in Berlin, Toronto, Brooklyn and Vancouver. Group exhibitions include such venues as Vancouver Art Gallery, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, and SFU Gallery, Charles H. Scott Gallery, the Western Front, Or Gallery and Unit Pitt, Vancouver. Knowles has participated in residency programs in Europe and she has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and was awarded the Mayor’s Arts Award as an Emerging Artist in Public Art. She has taught at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria is currently a faculty member at Langara College, snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓. Knowles’ work is included in the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Devon Knowles lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
For a list of available works please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736 – 2405

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Gordon Smith
A Painter’s Legacy

Gordon Smith
A Painter’s Legacy

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present A Painter’s Legacy, an exhibition of works by the late Canadian artist Gordon Smith (b. 1919, d. 2020). A brilliant painter with an international following, Smith’s style evolved over a lifetime as he made increasingly complex and layered, dense paintings. A prominent figure in a generation of notable West Coast painters, architects, poets, musicians and writers, Smith had an openly inquisitive mind and experimented endlessly in his art making. The unique presence of nature on the Pacific coast was a boundless inspiration to the artist. From the rich forest that surrounded his home and studio in West Vancouver to the shorelines he encountered on trips up and down the coast, Smith produced a vast body of work that alternated between representation and abstraction. It was not the grand vistas nor the broad expanses of nature that attracted Smith, he was drawn to the web of trees, the entanglement of undergrowth, the reflection of a swamp, the snowfall on a branch—the intricacies of how nature functions cyclically and seasonally, through spring, fall and winter.
Gordon Smith: A Painter’s Legacy opens on September 10th, 2022 at Equinox Gallery on Commercial Street in Vancouver.

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Angela Teng
New Works

Angela Teng
New Works

Equinox Galley is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Vancouver-based painter Angela Teng. Since graduating from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Teng’s contemporary engagement with the historical medium of painting has led to a unique style centered around challenging the nature of paint and its supporting structures.
Angela Teng considers the histories of craft and textiles to connect the dualities of painting (painting as an object vs. painting as a process). The artist began this new body of work through a thrifting process where second-hand stores were scoured for incomplete or unwanted needlepoint patterns and designs. Historically devalued due to its association with “women’s work,” needlepoint is one of the oldest-known forms of canvas work where coloured yarn or embroidery thread is stitched through a pre-planned design on a stiff, open weave canvas. For Teng, the open texture provides the ideal opening to create her own works based on the existing designs but using the glistening and oozing material of oil paint rather than a continuous length of thread. The creators of the needlepoint patterns remain anonymous, and by re-using them and adding to them, Teng brings contemporary validation to their work and connects herself to the unknown artists of the past. The intimate scale is also to be noted in these works. As these are based on a historically domestic craft, the small scale is a counter-point to the large canvases of the 20thcentury abstract expressionists.  Through a thoughtful approach that challenges ideas around traditionally feminized artistic labour, Teng’s paintings are enlivened by a visual imagination that highlights the process of production while engaging in contested conversations about the distinctions between craft and fine art, textile and painting, labour and leisure.
Angela Teng: New Works opens on September 10th, 2022 at Equinox Gallery on Commercial Street in Vancouver.

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50 Years | 50 Stories

50 Years | 50 Stories

Equinox Gallery marks its 50th anniversary in 2022. To celebrate this institutional milestone and offer a glimpse into aspects of gallery life from the past 5 decades, we present 50 Years | 50 Stories, an eclectic mix of artworks that trigger significant triumphs and challenges, personal anecdotes, and creative strategies. As one of the anchors of the nation’s commercial art sector with over 400 exhibitions to its credit, we have represented many of Canada’s top talents in tandem with international artworld giants. Through a selection of works by artists who have been featured at the gallery, this exhibition is an opportunity to consider the gallery’s focus on developing artists’ careers in the context of larger and ever-shifting art world narratives.
While much has changed at the gallery over the past 50 years, our long-term relationships with artists and collectors (both public and private) remain central to the gallery’s ethos. It is by nurturing such deep-rooted connections that we are able to contribute to the significant role art plays in enriching people’s lives.
Thank you for your support over the past 50 years. We look forward to the next 50.
Andy, Sophie, Hannah, Chantelle, Lulu
CLICK HERE to read the stories

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June Group Exhibition

June Group Exhibition

For the month of June, we are 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, Kim Dorland, Marten Elder, Gathie Falk, Jack Kenna, Gwenessa Lam, Erin McSavaney, Ben Reeves, Takao Tanabe, Angela Teng, Renée Van Halm, Neil Wedman, and Etienne Zack.
For a list of available works please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736 – 2405.

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Bobbie Burgers
Forest for the Trees

Bobbie Burgers
Forest for the Trees

Bobbie Burgers’ new body of work chronicles the nuances of a wide ranging studio painting practice. Forest for the Trees reflects the artist’s interest in the way that small details hold the potential for enormous impact and an understanding that the final image takes time to develop and emerge. Through a fluid and sequential approach to painting, Burgers’ new works build and expand on each other as she continues to merge abstraction with representation in increasing degrees.
For more information or a list of available works please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

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Fred Herzog
East Vancouver

Fred Herzog
East Vancouver

Fred Herzog: East Vancouver is focused on Herzog’s photographs of the east side of Vancouver. After emigrating to Canada in the early 1950s, Herzog began photographing Vancouver’s streets on regular walking excursions. While he lived and worked in the West End and the west side of the city, Herzog was particularly attuned to Chinatown, Strathcona, and what is now known as the Downtown Eastside, three neighbourhoods that sustained his interest for over 50 years. His use of colour was unusual in the 1950s and 60s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white, and it is through this use of colour film that Herzog developed a sensitive and thoughtful visual compendium of parts of the city.
This exhibition is presented as part of Capture Photography Festival.
For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

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Dempsey Bob

Dempsey Bob

Equinox Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition: Dempsey Bob. Dempsey Bob is a distinguished Tahltan and Tlingit artist of the Wolf Clan. Born in 1948, he began carving in 1969 under the tutelage of Freda Diesing who was his earliest mentor and teacher. At once a traditionalist and vanguard, Dempsey Bob’s sculptures blend traditional narratives and iconography with contemporary influences. His dynamic sculptures re-imagine convention with highly animated sculptures that acknowledge the lineage to which they are indebted while incorporating an expansive view and understanding of sculpture.
For a list of available works, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com 

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Shawn Hunt
The First Moonrise

Shawn Hunt
The First Moonrise

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Shawn Hunt: The First Moonrise. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and the first entirely devoted to painting and works on paper. 
The First Moonrise is a continuation of Shawn Hunt’s exploration of Heiltsuk cosmologies through the development of imagined narratives and characters. Hunt’s creatures are constantly in a state of flux, serving as shapeshifters–supernatural figures that move and travel between human and spirit realms. By the glow of a hidden moon, the scenes in Shawn Hunt’s new paintings emerge and come to life. 
For more information or to preview the works, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com

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