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The Visual Music of Cynthia Minden’s “Anima-L”

Cynthia Minden’s first discipline was music, and her earlier studies in this field continue to shape the tone of her work. Lyrical movements, rhythms, harmonies, musical phrasing, and cadences resonate throughout her visual art. She describes the creation of her current show at Denman Island Summer…
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The Temporal Mysteries of Manuel Martinez Polo’s Photographic Memoirs

(Texte) Yvonne Owens
In her book, On Photography (1977), Susan Sontag famously stated: “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s…
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Small Works, Big Artists

(Texte) Yvonne Owens
The pieces in this group exhibition of small works show a definite coherence; their shared vision – though resisting a formal definition – is in the unity and flow of this diminutively epic show of small works. Common elements lie in the treatment of light and approaches to classic form shared…
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Dylan Thomas
Sacred Geometry

(Texte) Yvonne Owens
Dylan Thomas is a Contemporary Coast Salish artist from the Lyackson First Nation, originally from Valdes Island. A past protégée of the renowned Susan Point, he has recently shifted his focus even more in the direction of the spiritual and aesthetic functions of sacred geometry in art. The prints…
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Rebecca Jewell
Feathered Life in Beautiful, Tragic Flight

(Texte) Yvonne Owens
Rebecca Jewell is currently Artist in Residence in the Oceania Department of the British Museum. Like her namesake, Jewell’s art, finely rendered on actual bird feathers and other delicately modelled surfaces, has the lustre and polish of cut gems. Brilliant hues alternate with dove grey and subtle…
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Profiling the artist as shaman
Rick Rivet's Spirit Journey

(Texte) Yvonne Owens
Shifting perceptions of art have determined the ways, and the degrees to which, art has been valued over the course of history. The idea that the shaman figure gave rise to the prototypical artist and that shamanism formulated the prototype of all the arts has gained traction through 21st century…
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Alcheringa's Gathering of Spirits

(Texte) Yvonne Owens
In 1999, for Vie des Arts, I wrote about Alcheringa’s exhibition, “Vision Keepers — four women carvers — Dale Campbell, Valerie Morgan, Susan Point and Isabel Rorick.” The show was just one of the many groundbreaking exhibitions produced by Alcheringa’s director, Elaine Monds, during the past three…
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“All that I am…” The Educational Models of Three First Nations Artists: Susan A. Point, Marika Swan and Rick Rivet

(Texte) Yvonne Owens
First Nations artists face unique experiences with regard to arts education, professional acceptance, and credentialing — both from within their Native cultures, and from without. To illustrate my point, I offer the examples of three well-known First Nations artists, all of whom have professional…
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Heather Keenan. In Passing

(Texte) Yvonne Owens
Heather Keenan has, for many years, painted strongly narrative scenes, the exact meanings of which remain forever mysterious or even paradoxical. People, privately and in their numbers, intent upon the process of becoming something else, are Keenan’s subjects. Crowds of outward- yearning people, of…
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Kristin Sweetland. Adventures In Sweetland

Kristin Sweetland’s debuting photography exhibition focuses on a series of manipulated, digitized self-portraits. Set in various, extreme Canadian landscapes, both industrial and rural, Adventures in Sweetland features her self-portrait as a kind of interactive element, engaging and sometimes…
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