Rennie Brown

New Adventures in Design, Media & Visual Arts

New Adventures in Design, Media & Visual Arts

The Show at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2017 edition

One of the biggest art events in the city every spring, THE SHOW is the annual opportunity for graduating students (both Bachelor and Master degree programs) at Emily Carr University of Art & Design to showcase their work. This year’s exhibition of THE SHOW includes more than 300 works from graduates across the university’s Design, […]

 Eileen Gubar

by the light of a candle

by the light of a candle

Photos from opening reception of this year's UBC MFA graduates' work

candle at the Belkin UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2017 The 5 artists at this year’s exhibition of UBC MFA graduates are: Matt Browning Steven Cottingham Jessica Evans Brian Lye Carolyn Stockbridge Jessica Evans Jessica Evans is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the body and perception. Brian Lye Brian Lye […]

 Ash Tanasiychuk

Hot Dots

Hot Dots

A photo glimpse at Russell Leng's Too Many Maps at FIELD Contemporary

Ash Tanasiychuk photos On a muggy June night, FIELD Contemporary opened it’s doors for an exhibition of Russell Leng‘s newest work entitled Too Many Maps. From the event’s write up: I’m sitting under a tree in the shade, sorting through piles of maps. Some I’ve found here; some I’ve brought with me. They’re rectangles mostly, […]

 Jen Kennedy

West Coast Transmissions

West Coast Transmissions

Cameron McLellan explores the space between graphite lines and our homeland

Words and photos by Jen Kennedy I hop into Robert Lynds Gallery out of a very dark and wet January night. The room is packed wall to wall with merrymaking people, who have been celebrating for some hours the opening of Cameron McLellan’s latest series West Coast Transmissions. The exhibition invite encourages the viewer to […]

 Ravi Gill

Duality: An Art Experiment

Duality: An Art Experiment

Local photographer Shannyn Higgins pairs Vancouver artists in art show and book launch at East Van Studios

Photography by Ravi Gill Text from Duality’s press release Duality is an art experiment that binds a passage of words into two different narratives. Art, music and literature can have an intrinsic influence on how we see the world. Individuals hear music and see art differently. Based on our emotions, experiences and individuality, the narrative […]

 Kendra Archer

Neon Signs and Educational Toys

Neon Signs and Educational Toys

Contemporary Art Gallery brings international talents Tim Etchells and Fröbel Fröbeled to Vancouver

Photography by Kendra Archer A combined evening of two international artists at the Contemporary Art Gallery. Outside, Who Knows, new neon work by British artist Tim Etchells, as part of PuSH Festival, their artist in residence for 2014. As artistic director of theatre company Forced Entertainment, Etchells has “directed, written, and occasionally performed in, dozens […]

 Roger Black

Capture Launches at MOV

Capture Launches at MOV

Kick off of Vancouver's first annual city wide photography festival

On October 1 2013, Vancouver celebrated at MOV (Museum of Vancouver) as the city’s first annual photography and lens-based art festival – Capture Photo Fest 1.0 – kicked off. Capture Photo Fest 1.0 Launch Party @ MOV from VANDOCUMENT on Vimeo. Featuring 4 current Vancouver-based artists Lincoln Clarkes worldwidegreeneyes.com Brian Howell brianhowellphotography.com Angela Fama angelafama.com […]

 Shalon WH

The Lesson – Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools

The Lesson – Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools

Exhibition at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery continuing a process of healing and education through art

Words by Shalon W-H Images provided by Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery A witness is defined as one who sees or experiences an event or occurrence take place; one who makes testimony, who testifies, who attests the truth of. To be a witness is to state one’s belief in; give evidence, give proof. I […]

 Sheng Ho

Eat It @ Dynamo

Eat It @ Dynamo

Exhibit dives face first into a smörgåsbord of deliciousness including garnish hats and titty pops

EAT IT: Food. Sex. Need we say more? Photographer Sheng Ho was there to give us a taste of what was cookin’… “EAT IT is an exploration into our culture’s cardinal relationship with food and sex: Beyond necessity, the consumption for pleasure. The attention we give these bodily pleasures is nothing short of worship, as […]

 Ash Tanasiychuk

Monomania II @ Trench

Monomania II @ Trench

Packed house for the opening night of the latest bi-annual exhibition of emerging local talent

On July 4th, 2013, Trench Contemporary Art Gallery held its opening reception for Monomania II: Vancouver Emerging. The exhibition featured over 20 professional Vancouver-based artists from a variety of practises and mediums, including a music/performance piece by Mike Bourscheid entitled “Introducing Myself To The Canada Geese” in which he played an odd bagpipe-like contraption. The […]