Category Visual Arts

Our relationship to objects

photo - In DANCE:CRAFT, dancers Heather Dotto and Joey Matt interact with and reinterpret five elements – glass, metal, wood, fibre and ceramics – created by B.C. crafts artists

In DANCE:CRAFT, dancers Heather Dotto and Joey Matt interact with and reinterpret five elements – glass, metal, wood, fibre and ceramics – created by B.C. crafts artists. (photo by Michael Slobodian) After years of development, DANCE:CRAFT will see its world…

Art Vancouver fair returns

photo - “I Cast to Earth a Seed,” by Lisa Wolfin

“I Cast to Earth a Seed,” by Lisa Wolfin. Art Vancouver returns after a two-year COVID-imposed hiatus. Artists and galleries from across Canada and the United States – as well as from countries including Argentina, Cuba, Iran, Kenya, Mexico, Taiwan…

Sculpting emotion with glass

photo - Some of Tara Pawson’s Human Beams

Some of Tara Pawson’s Human Beams. (photo from Tara Pawson) Tara Pawson’s fascination with glass began when she was in high school. “My dad was a welder,” she said. “He would bring home some metal pieces, and I would fabricate…

Gallery’s new guides

photo - New docent program at the Zack gets underway

New docent program at the Zack gets underway. (photo from Zack Gallery) Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery director Hope Forstenzer recently instituted a new docent program, to train guides for the art gallery. “I came up with the idea of…

Artwork of belonging

photo - Mike Levin’s “Waiting for the Train"

Mike Levin’s “Waiting for the Train.” Community Longing and Belonging is a community art show in celebration of Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month. It opened at the Zack Gallery on Feb. 14. Curated by Leamore Cohen, inclusion services coordinator…

A chance to journal, create

Kathy Bilinsky’s two-page collage makes us wonder what story – or two or three or more – we could find behind the mysterious ornate blue door. (photo by Byron Dauncey) The Sketchbook Show officially opened at the Zack Gallery on…

Art show with a holiday feel

photo - Ande Axelrod has developed a partnership with artisans in the village of Sosote, Ecuador, as her source for tagua beads

Ande Axelrod has developed a partnership with artisans in the village of Sosote, Ecuador, as her source for tagua beads. (photo from Zack Gallery) The current show at the Zack Gallery, Affordable, opened on Nov. 17. It delivers on its…

Photographing the rebellious

photo - Photographer Dina Goldstein and Myles Peterson, one of her model-collaborators, at Goldstein’s OG Punk exhibit, which is at the Polygon Gallery until Jan. 2

Photographer Dina Goldstein and Myles Peterson, one of her model-collaborators, at Goldstein’s OG Punk exhibit, which is at the Polygon Gallery until Jan. 2. (photo by Dina Goldstein) Walking past the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, it is hard not…

Space beyond time

Sky Lilah’s new exhibition, Quantum Sky, is at Art @Bentall this month. Quantum Sky is an exploration of consciousness and what that means to the artist. This self-study is done using various mindfulness techniques, then interpreted through visual art. One…

Lively driftwood sculptures

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Victoria artist Tanya Bub’s current exhibit at the Art @ Bentall Gallery features life-size works of animals that occupy land, sea and air. (photo from Tanya Bub) “Working with driftwood has given me a great appreciation of the power and…