In my last glaze firing there was a small vase painted by Eric Metcalfe. He is having fun applying his boldly coloured designs to a 3D form. When I dropped it off at his home in Mount Pleasant's Western Front he showed me a series of gouache paintings which he says have all evolved from his experience painting on my oval plates. The result of…
In the Eastern gallery at Equinox there is another fine sculpture show. Vancouver-based artist Marie Khouri has created some amazing sculptural forms which can be used for sitting and gathering. At first glance seemingly totally abstract, it wasn't until we found a mounted maquette of the whole installation that we realized that the forms are all part of a phrase in Arabic, "Let's Sit and Talk".…
Two shows opened at Equinox Gallery last Saturday. Alan was particularly interested in seeing the latest work by Tlingit/Tahltan artist Dempsey Bob. He reminded me that we'd seen a two-person show of Dempsey Bob and Joe Fafard at Douglas Udell Gallery some time ago, where we learnt that Bob had spent time at Fafard's foundry in Pense, Saskatchewan. In this show there were some bronze pieces including masks…
The other show, in the West Gallery of Equinox, featured Al McWilliams: Stone Drawings. At the entrance we saw exactly that, a stone drawing. A large flat piece of marble has been cut with curving drawing lines into interlocking sections. Once inside the gallery space we found a long row of what looks like squished clay lumps, displayed at waist height. Ron Vallis explained to…
On Saturday Al and I went in to Vancouver to attend Renée Van Halm's opening at Equinox Gallery http://www.equinoxgallery.com/exhibitions/. This was our first visit to the gallery's new enormous space in a converted warehouse off Great Northern Way. The area has been divided into two large, very high-ceilinged exhibition spaces. On this afternoon there were two openings, Renée Van Halm: French Curves in the East…