Category Visual Arts

Granirer exhibit, book linked

photo - Pnina Granirer’s current art exhibit, which is at the Zack Gallery until Dec. 12, features work highlighted in her memoir, Light Within the Shadows

Pnina Granirer’s current art exhibit, which is at the Zack Gallery until Dec. 12, features work highlighted in her memoir, Light Within the Shadows. (photo by Olga Livshin) Pnina Granirer has always been an experimenter. She enjoys trying new artistic…

Artists open doors for Crawl

photo - Norbert Mantik and Rebekah McGurran of the Hive Printing

Norbert Mantik and Rebekah McGurran of the Hive Printing. (photo from Rebekah McGurran) The Eastside Culture Crawl is an annual tradition. This year marks the 21st time that artists and craftspeople on Vancouver’s Eastside have opened up their studios to…

Artisan in training

photo - Joel Harrington chats with Ande Axelrod from Tagua, who makes jewelry from nuts grown in the Amazon (treatsdesigns.com), at a gathering of B.C. artisans at the North Shore Jewish Community Centre (Har El Congregation) on Oct. 16

Joel Harrington chats with Ande Axelrod from Tagua, who makes jewelry from nuts grown in the Amazon (treatsdesigns.com), at a gathering of B.C. artisans at the North Shore Jewish Community Centre (Har El Congregation) on Oct. 16. (photo by Shula…

From graceful to outrageous

photo - From the left: Zack Gallery’s Linda Lando and jewelry artists Julie Kemble and Barbara Cohen

From the left: Zack Gallery’s Linda Lando and jewelry artists Julie Kemble and Barbara Cohen. (photo from Zack Gallery) Just as our clothing defines us to some degree, so does the jewelry we wear. Our choices often reflect not only…

About the JI Rosh Hashanah cover art

photo - “Pomegranate Tree” is a fine art print of an original watercolour by Yael Berger

“Pomegranate Tree” is a fine art print of an original watercolour by Yael Berger. It is inspired by traditional folk art paintings. Pomegranate trees are actually big bushes, and their shape has inspired a lot of textile and illustration. Pomegranates…

Celebration of Venice

photo - Artist Iza Radinsky at Zack Gallery

Artist Iza Radinsky at Zack Gallery. (photo by Olga Livshin) Just over 500 years ago, in 1516, the Venetian Republic forcibly moved 700 Venetian Jews to an island, the abandoned site of a 14th-century foundry. In doing so, they created…

Designing with style

photo - Designer Yifat Jovani

Designer Yifat Jovani (photo by Tim Matheson) Israeli designer Yifat Jovani sewed clothes for her Barbie doll as a child, but didn’t launch her own fashion line for women until she moved to Vancouver 11 years ago. Love brought the…

Artists’ work complementary

photo - Artists Michael Abelman and Victoria Scudamore share the walls at Zack Gallery in the exhibit Sea to Sky

Artists Michael Abelman and Victoria Scudamore share the walls at Zack Gallery in the exhibit Sea to Sky. (photo by Olga Livshin) In the exhibit Sea to Sky at Zack Gallery, the artists’ works complement each other. Michael Abelman’s seascapes…