Category Visual Arts

Each creation unique

photo - The faces that Larry Cohen creates communicate a range of emotions

The faces that Larry Cohen creates communicate a range of emotions. (photo by Olga Livshin) Larry Cohen has been working with pottery, on and off, for about 30 years. “A long time ago, I tried to make money from it,…

Glass exhibit at Zack Gallery

photo - From left to right are artists Larissa Blokhuis, Kirsten Rankel, Maria Keating, Sonya Labrie, Joanne Andrighetti, Hope Forstenzer, Mona Ungar and Scott McDougall

From left to right are artists Larissa Blokhuis, Kirsten Rankel, Maria Keating, Sonya Labrie, Joanne Andrighetti, Hope Forstenzer, Mona Ungar and Scott McDougall. (photo by Denise Relke) From antiquity, glass has been used for utilitarian and ornamental purposes. The current…

Challenging viewers’ beliefs

photo - “Ganesha,” from Dina Goldstein’s Gods of Suburbia series. (photo © Dina Goldstein)

“Ganesha,” from Dina Goldstein’s Gods of Suburbia series. (photo © Dina Goldstein) You have to speak more than one language if you want to read all of the articles on Vancouver photographer and Pop Surrealist Dina Goldstein’s art. English, of…

Refugees painted village blue

image - “Running Again” by Joyce Ozier, part of her current exhibit at Fazakas Gallery

“Running Again” by Joyce Ozier, part of her current exhibit at Fazakas Gallery. (image from fazakasgallery.com) Chefchauen is a village in Morocco. Founded in 1471, it was home to many Jewish refugees escaping the Spanish Reconquista during medieval times. No…

Creating artistic storm

photo - Shevy Levy’s Storm Brewing is at Zack Gallery until Dec. 6

Shevy Levy’s Storm Brewing is at Zack Gallery until Dec. 6. (photo by Olga Livshin) This month, Zack Gallery is dedicated to abstract art. The exhibition Storm Brewing introduces gallery patrons to an unusual artist, Shevy Levy. Nobody looking at…

Mosaics depict Judith story

photo - Lilian Broca with the diptych “Judith Meeting Holofernes,” part of the Heroine of a Thousand Pieces: The Judith Mosaics of Lilian Broca exhibit that opens at Il Museo on Nov. 12

Lilian Broca with the diptych “Judith Meeting Holofernes,” part of the Heroine of a Thousand Pieces: The Judith Mosaics of Lilian Broca exhibit that opens at Il Museo on Nov. 12. (photo from Lilian Broca) Artist Lilian Broca calls her most…

Forest can transform

photo - Beyond the Edge by Lori Goldberg , part of the exhibit Urban Forest, which opens at the Zack Gallery on Oct. 15

Beyond the Edge by Lori Goldberg , part of the exhibit Urban Forest, which opens at the Zack Gallery on Oct. 15. (photo from Lori Goldberg) “Urban Forest is a body of work exploring the relationship between urban dwellers and the natural…

Memorials to millions

photo - Ian Penn’s exhibit at the Zack Gallery, Pole, “isn’t happy but it’s genuine.”

Ian Penn’s exhibit at the Zack Gallery, Pole, “isn’t happy but it’s genuine.” (photo by Olga Livshin) The poignant tale behind Pole, Ian Penn’s new multimedia exhibit at the Zack Gallery, is a bleak travelogue detailing his recent journey to…

Tackling conflict through comics

cartoon - From The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, by Eric Orner.

From The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, by Eric Orner. It was never on Eric Orner’s agenda to go to Israel. He resisted his mother’s entreaties to join a young people’s synagogue trip to the Jewish state. A relatively…

Reva Stone at ISEA2015

photo - Winnipeg artist Reva Stone is interested in “examining ideas about the mediation between our bodies and the technologies that are altering how we interact with the world.”

Winnipeg artist Reva Stone is interested in “examining ideas about the mediation between our bodies and the technologies that are altering how we interact with the world.” (photo by Harold Stone) The International Symposium on Electronic Art comes to Vancouver…