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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Special Project
future relics of our time

Special Project
future relics of our time

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present future relics of our time, an exhibition of ceramic works by Serisa Fitz-James, Jack Kenna, and Isabel Wynn, curated by Andrea Valentine-Lewis. During the Middle Ages, objects associated with holy people and sites were deeply celebrated. Due to their association with saints or with heaven itself, relics, such as bits of hair or body parts, were considered divine. Because the term relic derives from the Latin word relinquere, meaning “that which is left behind,” these objects have become temporal markers for future generations. Reflecting on the material and affective dimensions of Medieval relics, one might wonder, what would constitute a future relic representative of our present time.
CLICK HERE to read essay by curator, Andrea Valentine-Lewis.

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Unfolding

Unfolding

Equinox Gallery is pleased to inaugurate the new year with a group exhibition featuring the work of Bobbie Burgers, Al McWilliams, Eadweard Muybridge, Jack Shadbolt, Angela Teng, Renée Van Halm, and Neil WedmanUnfolding considers the ways through which the foreign and the familiar are knit together through a process of study and repetition. The exhibition presents paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs that grow from a single perspective into a more elaborate panorama of ideas, as well as serial views where similarities cascade into differences. In these works, reiteration in all its forms holds the remarkable potential for fresh discoveries.
For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com 

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Jack Shadbolt
The Long Echo

Jack Shadbolt
The Long Echo

One of Canada’s most innovative modernists, Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) is known for his paintings and murals that drew from both personal travels and experiences of World War II as well as the social and political context of his time. Shadbolt was born in England in 1909 and at an early age immigrated to British Columbia. In 1930 he met Emily Carr, whose work, together with the Surrealists and early Abstract Expressionist, was very influential in his artistic development. Widely exhibited across Canada and in biennales abroad, Shadbolt’s work is in the permanent collections of all major Canadian museums, and he was recognized with the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
Shadbolt’s multi-paneled works are his most significant as they demonstrate the artist’s ambitious scale and his iterative process. Much in the way that chapters within a novel deepen the detail and narrative of a written text, the ability to keep adding panels to a work allowed Shadbolt the freedom to realize the full potential of his subject matter. As his imagery progresses from one discrete panel to another, it reveals his deep interest in metamorphosis and the transformative cycles of the natural world that include both and life and destruction.
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Sonny Assu
Omnibus

Sonny Assu
Omnibus

Equinox Gallery is delighted to present Omnibus, an exhibition of new works by Sonny Assu. In this exhibition, Assu is continuing to explore the way that language and myths can straddle multiple cultures and times by bringing together comics from his childhood and Assu’s classic pop culture sensibility with a Kwakwaka’wakw twist. The comics are all chosen for specific reasons — you can often find Indigenous references, for example Batman goes to Alaska and meets a Shaman, or a story focused on Warpath, an Apache Native American character and X-Men member. Assu has painted over the grid of comic books using bright colours and highlighting Indigenous ovoid and formline elements traditional to his culture. Assu’s conceptual influence for this body of work includes the work of Tim Rollins + K.O.S., Andy Warhol, and traditional Kwakwaka’wakw artists.
For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at (604) 736-2405 or info@equinoxgallery.com.

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Ben Reeves
A Boat Made of Ocean

Ben Reeves
A Boat Made of Ocean

Ben Reeves’ painting practice is an intense, personal account of perception. Specifically, it documents painting as a way to explore and understand the world. Using branches, smoke, gates and other visual barriers to blur boundaries between perception and experience, the works in this exhibition grapple with the thresholds of tenuous space. These explorations are heightened not only through composition, but also through Reeves’ lucid and varied use of paint application. A Boat Made of Ocean comprises a set of self-conscious explorations that reveal the artist’s interest in worlds that are both real and imagined – fictional worlds drawn from real memories.
Ben Reeves’ work has been included in such significant exhibitions as The Painting Project: A Snapshot of Painting in Canada, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, 2013; Shifting Space, Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, 2005; and For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2003. Reeves’ works are held in numerous collections including Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Museum London, ON; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Surrey Art Gallery, BC; and Vancouver Art Gallery. Reeves received a BFA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. He resides in Tsawwassen, BC, and is Associate Professor in the Audain Faculty of Art and the Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, where for over 15 years he has engaged with generations of emerging painters.
For more information, please contact the gallery at (604) 736-2405 or info@equinoxgallery.com

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Takao Tanabe

Takao Tanabe

Equinox Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of works by Takao Tanabe that span almost seven decades and have come directly from the artist’s personal collection. Takao Tanabe is an important figure in Canadian painting and printmaking; this exhibition ranges from geometric abstractions of the 1960s through to his iconic prairie and west coast landscape paintings.
Tanabe has been a leading figure in Canadian art for over sixty years, his artistic career has included over 70 solo exhibitions. Tanabe has received honourary doctorates from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the University of Lethbridge, the Order of British Columbia (1993), the Order of Canada (1999), the Governor General’s Visual and Media Arts Award (2003), and the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts (2013). His work is included in many private and public collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Tate Museum (UK), Cleveland Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Art Gallery of Ontario, Glenbow Museum, and the National Gallery of Canada.
For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com 

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