Past

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.

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 Wedman. Unfolding 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 

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

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

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

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 

Erin McSavaney
Fixed Reality

For more details on this upcoming exhibition, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405.

Etienne Zack
Reflections on a Quiet City

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Etienne Zack. This series brings together photography and painting, creating compositions based on Zack’s memories walking through urban spaces, making visual notes and taking photographs.

“Very much like taking a walk in the city, I paint the composition as if I was ‘there’ depicting the city as I remember it, painting it as if I’m walking forward looking around.”
– Etienne Zack, 2020

For more details, please contact the gallery at (604) 736-2405 or email us at info@equinoxgallery.com

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Adad Hannah
Studio Portraits

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Studio Portraits, an exhibition of new work by Adad Hannah. The photographs and video works in this exhibition bring together staging techniques of early portrait photography and the use of mirroring to explore complex relationships between viewer and subject.

For more details or a full list of available works, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

Gesture

Movements of a body can signal a mood, express meaning, or even reveal things that are impossible to put into words. Gestures – anything from the simple nod to an emphatic stance – are significant narrative devices that artists skillfully utilize, whether to configure social interactions in a painting, immortalize them for posterity in a photograph, or transmit their emotional resonance in a sculpture. Gestures are significant clues in our endless pursuit to unravel and make meaning of the complexities and contradictions of a world that is always unfolding.

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Gesture, an exhibition of work by Diane Arbus, Shuvinai Ashoona, Maxwell Bates, Kim Dorland, Rodney Graham, Adad Hannah, Fred Herzog, David Hockney, Al McWilliams, Eadweard Muybridge, Cindy Sherman, Michael Snow and Neil Wedman.

For more details or a full list of works, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736 – 2405.