Emily Carr University Blogs

I finally got a chance to visit Ron Terada’s exhibition at Catriona Jeffries Gallery yesterday. It is an overwhelmingly painful, beautiful, depressing exhibition, painted with Terada’s impeccable attention to detail and finish. For those of you not familiar with Jack Goldstein and the backstory, these paintings are based on chapters from Richard…[Read more]

Today I was reading Mira Schor’s August 18th reflections on  Giovanni Bellini ‘s 1480 painting St. Francis in the Desert, on special display at the Frick, and her larger reflection on the stability of paintings as objects of contemplation, within a largely stable culture. As she wrote about her appreciation at being able to look at a painting…[Read more]

William “Wink” Donovan’s tensegrity structures circa 1980

It was great to visit Dia Beacon earlier this month. We were able to see the latest installation of the Blinky Palermo Retrospective 1964- 1977 , as well as the Imi Knoebel cycle of 21 shaped monochrome paintings: 24 Colors – for Blinky, 1977 . We had fun with the Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action where we got to perform one [...]

Workstead, Industrial Chandelier 3

There is something compelling about pictures. We are surrounded by pictures in our daily lives. We have learned how to read pictures and we understand what they mean. I chose this picture of a pond on Galiano Island as a key part of an artwork that I installed in the  Faculty Show 10 back in September. It [...]

Emily Carr University painting faculty Ben Reeves and Elizabeth McIntosh both have paintings exhibitions opening this week. Ben’s Everyday Hallucinatory exhibtion opens tonight at the Equinox Gallery and Elizabeth’s Violet’s Hair exhibition opened last night at the Contemporary Art Gallery . Both exhibitions are up until the end of the year. …[Read more]

Lani Maestro will speak about her artwork Wednesday, October 20 at 7pm in the Lecture Theatre, SB301 at Emily Carr University.

Early one morning last winter, as I rode by bicycle west down Kingsway on my way to Emily Carr University, I was surprised to see a poster of a beautifully agitated gesture drawing, enlarged to fit the display unit on the east side of the bus shelter just west of Fraser Street. I stopped to [...]

You are invited to participate in a Glenn Lewis Performance, 400 Yards of Burned Paper in a Square, 1969, on Wednesday, October 6th, 12:00 to 12:30 at Spanish Bank Beach West of NW Marine Drive, furthest concession west.

I spent most of this summer on Galiano Island. It was great to have the time to read, relax, reflect and make art. Spending time outdoors I found myself gathering and collecting walking sticks. I began to look for straight branches and thin trees in various places as I went on walks and I brought [...]