PAPIER ART FAIR 2018 April 19 - 22, 2018 Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal 2020 William Street Montreal, QC H3J 1R8
EQUINOX GALLERY BOOTH A02
SELECTED WORKS
Adad Hannah An Arrangement (Stripes Case Study) 8 2018 Archival Pigment Print 36” x 24” Edition of 3 Framed
ADAD HANNAH
For over a decade, Adad Hannah has been working within a photographic tradition that combines elements of very early photographic practices, film and video pioneers such as Andy Warhol and Nam June Paik, and the cinematographic approaches of photographers such as Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman. Taking Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s research on motion studies and ergonomics as his starting points, Adad Hannah performs motion in photography frame by frame, working towards the illusion of movement. Through the combination of elaborate postures and poses, interrupted with colourful geometric forms, these works speak to the ways in which photography can be used as a tool to explore ideas around performance, temporality, and the indexical quality of photography. Adad Hannah lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
BEN REEVES
For Ben Reeves, painting provides a form for experience where viewing a painting is an exercise that allows the imaginary to expand into the viewer’s personal experience. Reeves’ paintings are rooted in contradictions where the sensory, emotional, rational, historical, psychological, and ocular come together in pictorial space as a way to affirm and challenge the intangible space between paint, the mind, the body, and the outside world. Ben Reeves has had solo exhibitions at Museum London; Oakville Galleries, Jessica Bradley Gallery, and Equinox Gallery. His work has also been included in The Painting Project: A Snapshot of Painting in Canada, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal; Take Your Time, Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, Burnaby; Shifting Space, Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongquing, China, and For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Reeves’ works are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Museum London, Vancouver Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, and numerous corporate and private collections. Ben Reeves lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
Ben Reeves Valley 2017 Watercolour on paper 24 3/4” x 32 1/4” Framed
Andy Warhol Flowers #67 1970 Screenprint 36” x 36” Edition 136 of 250 Framed
ANDY WARHOL Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol began work on his Flowers series in the summer of 1964, soon deciding that it would be the focus for his first show with Leo Castelli in the fall of that year. The square format allowed Warhol complete freedom with orientation and for the first time, his works had no fixed upright, allowing the Flowers to be installed in a variety of ways. Another unique aspect to this series is the different techniques and media he explored, including silkscreen, pencil, hand painted acrylics, and fluorescent Day-Glo paint. Unlike Warhol’s work prior to this point – which drew upon images in the mass media as well as commercial brands – Warhol was inspired by a photograph of seven hibiscus flowers taken by executive editor Patricia Caulfield, printed three times in a glossy foldout to show the color variation of different chemical processes. The serial format appealed to Warhol’s sensibility and he created the composition for his paintings by cropping Caulfield’s photograph into a perfect square, manipulating the flowers so that four of the original seven fit into this new square format.
KIM DORLAND Kim Dorland’s energetic and compelling paintings exploit the conventions of the landscape imagery by using the material qualities of paint to question habitual responses to such an established subject. Influenced by Canadian painters such as Tom Thompson, Emily Carr, and David Milne, Dorland transforms the extreme landscapes of the West Coast into his main protagonist. Fragments of contemporary urban life materialize themselves in the form of ghostly figures and graffiti remnants. It is through these dueling representations of the landscape that Kim Dorland has created a body of work endowed with an emotional charge whose potential far exceeds the formal confines of the canvas. Born in 1974 in Wainwright, Alberta Kim Dorland received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and his MFA from York University. Dorland has exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally including exhibitions in New York, Toronto, Milan, Montreal, Chicago, and Los Angeles. His work is featured in the Audain Museum (Whistler); Contemporary Art Foundation (Japan); Sander Collection (Berlin); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, and numerous private collections. Kim Dorland lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
Kim Dorland Untitled Woodcut Paper size: 25” x 21” Edition of 9 2018 Framed
Etienne Zack 1983 (Glasnost) 2017 Mixed media on paper Image size: 22� x 30� Framed
ETIENNE ZACK Etienne Zack is one of today’s artists who are truly pushing the envelope in terms of painting concept; his process is entirely based on reading and taking notes – no visual source material is used. His process of making paintings relates to notions concerning the various ways history itself is manipulated and “worked out”. Zack’s work often focuses on the context in which artworks are produced and exhibited, and the physical and conceptual tools that go into creating them: the studio, art gallery, painter’s materials, and historical and theoretical reference works. Both poetic and playful, Zack’s painting prompts us to re-examine the everyday world around us. Born in Montreal in 1976, Zack studied at Concordia University and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He has been awarded the prestigious RBC Canadian Painting Prize, and in 2008 he received the Prix Pierre-Ayot, awarded by the City of Montreal. In addition to exhibiting widely internationally, a solo mid-career retrospective with monograph was held at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art in 2010. A second monograph was published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Esker Foundation in Calgary. Etienne Zack lives and works between Point Roberts, Washington and Vancouver, Canada.
Erin McSavaney Seeing Studies: 81 2017 Acrylic and inkjet on paper Image size: 7” x 4 ¾” Framed
ERIN MCSAVANEY Erin McSavaney’s practice is undergirded by a desire to bring together domains usually considered distinct: figuration and abstraction, photography and painting, reality and fiction. McSavaney starts by photographing sites around the city – concrete walls, garage doors, backways to nondescript businesses – creating compositions devoid of figures and contextualizing details. Typically, they juxtapose buildings with some type of plant life; these become his source material. McSavaney then carefully renders his subject matter in acrylic paint on canvas – while adorning the once drab structures with bold patterns. Born in Vancouver in 1973, Erin McSavaney studied art and design at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and Capilano College. Since that time, he has exhibited across Canada, including solo exhibitions at Parts Gallery (ON), Evergreen Cultural Centre (BC), Michael Gibson Gallery (ON), Herringer Kiss Gallery (AB). McSavaney’s work is included in the Senvest Collection, Colart Collection, and TD Art Collection. Erin McSavaney lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
BOBBIE BURGERS
Bobbie Burgers is interested in the process of decay, transformation, and metamorphosis. Her paintings are filled with a quality of sensation where atmospheres and phenomena of the natural world come to life through a multitude of painterly gesture and composition. While she adheres to formal categories such as colour, form, and composition, her practice is not one of concrete representations, but rather associative, painterly approximations that merge abstraction with representation in increasing degrees. Burgers' subjects are flowers - a traditional subject that nevertheless still finds ways to be provocative and fresh. Using a painting process that is intuitive and playful, Burgers revels in the physical process of painting, gathering information as a writer does, using observation and impressions to investigate the potential of big, aggressive brushstrokes and vivid colour to convey emotion. Remarkable for their energy and impulse, Bobbie Burgers’ works give the impression of a painter descending into chaos as a way to find order in contrasting concepts and forms: light and dark, warm and cool, space and density, growth and decay, gravity and lightness. Bobbie Burgers was born in 1973 in Vancouver. She received a B.A. in Art History in 1996 from the University of Victoria and has studied in Aix-en-Provence, France where she returns often to recapture the life, light and spirit of Provence that she imbues into her painting. Burgers has exhibited widely across the United States and Canada. Bobbie Burgers lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
Bobbie Burgers Sweetness (Study #2) 2018 Mixed media collage on paper Framed size: 33 ½” x 25 ¼”
Sonny Assu Giant Sized Spectacular #8 2017 Acrylic ink, Marvel comic book pages on Stonehenge paper Framed size: 25 3/8� x 16�
SONNY ASSU
Sonny Assu’s practice has become known for its playful mash-up of Indigenous iconography with popular culture, in a critique of the often one-dimensional representation of First Nations cultures in mainstream society. Assu’s work resonates with a generation of artists who juxtapose mainstream pop culture with different markers of identity. Assu’s work has been featured in several solo and group exhibits over the past years, notably Don’t Stop Me Now! and Comic Relief at the National Gallery of Canada, Beat Nation and How Soon is Now? at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Changing Hands: Art With Reservation Part 2 at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Anthropology at UBC and in various other public and private collections across Canada and the United States. Sonny Assu is Ligwilda’xw of the We Wai Kai First Nation (Cape Mudge). He graduated from the Emily Carr University in 2002, and is completed his MFA at Concordia University. He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations Art in 2011 and was longlisted for the 10th annual Sobey Art Award in 2012, 2013, and 2015. Sonny Assu lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
PAPIER ART FAIR 2018 April 19 - 22, 2018
EQUINOX GALLERY BOOTH A02 Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal 2020 William Street Montreal, QC H3J 1R8
For more information on available works, please contact the gallery at 604.736.2405 or info@equinoxgallery.com