At Blinders Wall, Duncan Regehr
This exhibition, titled “At Blinders Wall”, incorporated Duncan Regehr’s art from different series’ of his works – unexpectedly curated and presented through a rare dramatic reflection.
ELIXIR
ELIXIR
A collection of works by Canadian born sculptor Blake Ward and German born sculptor Boky Hackel-Ward.
Elixir showcases the fusion between the two artists. Blake and Boky share the body as a material extension, a fragment, mortified on the net in the digital age. We are nothing but a sum of destinies without an identity, in an infinitude of places.
Blake takes Michelangelo’s legacy and runs with it, 3D printing in his bronze sculptures a mystic tension that is deliberately anti-heroic, poignant, paradoxically sensual and immaterial. His bronzes shape unfinished bodies, slender and concise figures, goddesses of memory, ambassadors of imperishable metaphors, ready to take flight at any moment, who seem to be sculpted by light, in which 3D is the material of art. His sculptures are intentionally unfinished, from the Phantom collection to the Spirits collection, the sculptor reworks the vocabulary of ancient statuary, invents new configurations of the nudes of the new millennium, acrobats of precariousness, shipwrecked by globalization. These slender nymphs or Maenads dance on the abyss of the net, invite the viewer to reflect on the contemporaneity, they are relics of humanity, of a trivialized femininity, serialized on Instagram.
Boky Hackel-Ward is a restorer, painter, musician, photographer, performance and conceptual artist, who trained in Florence where she breathed, lived and absorbed the “grammar” of the Renaissance. A polyglot, obsessed with language, she conjugates poetry and figuration resulting in an autonomous, recognizable code.
Her male and female bodies through words welded together determine enigmatic identities. In the communicative energy of language and in the universality of poetry, Boky yearns for the rebirth, the materialization and transfiguration of the verbum, evoking tension towards the absolute expressed with gold.
Blake has exhibited in Monaco, England, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, The United States, and Canada. His work is in the private collections of Prince Albert of Monaco, Herb Alpert, Gerry Moss, among others, as well as three public pieces displayed in the gardens of Monaco and one in the Salle Garnier Opera house. Boky has exhibited in Monaco, France, Aspen and Chicago. Their atelier is in Monaco.
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BIOPHILIA
This show is now over. If you have seen something of interest at this show and wish to inquire, please contact the gallery.
50% of each painting sold from this exhibition was donated to Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC)
Marie H. Becker paints with an edgy sense of humour: Acute insight into environmental detriment surprisingly juxtaposed by a bright-coloured splash of belief that everything alive shares a unifying commonality.
“Diverse influences inform my art. From my love of the frescoes of Giotto and early Renaissance art, to folk art, colour field paintings, embroidery, and textiles. These might all find their way into my imagination and paintings: This rich historic archive leaves me free to pull together polar images that yield modern and occasionally wry messages’, Marie shared with us.
A clever show – curated and designed in the most unexpected way!
Visiting Artists
Amelie Ducommun from Barcelona, Spain and Valerie Capewell from Vancouver Island, British Columbia – two artists from two different continents.
MountainScapes, Matt Petley-Jones
Inspired by the majestic coastal mountain range, Petley-Jones has expressed his love and passion for painting
Duncan Regehr, Presence
“PRESENCE” is an exhibition of figurative works selected from two separate series of oil paintings: “Pilgrim” and “Palimpsest”. The exhibition will celebrate the launch of my seventh book of visual and literal works, also entitled “Presence
Blake Ward: The Space Within
Blake Ward’s works from his Spirits Collection expand on the techniques of figurative sculpture developed in antiquity.
music to my eyes ~ the sound you see
This exhibit is focused on music-themed art in all its forms and celebrates music and its harmonious and historic relationship with visual art.
Déjà vu
Petley Jones Gallery returned to its location on Granville Street with an exhibition of significant works by Emily Carr, Jean-Paul Riopelle and the Group of Seven.
Capture Festival 2018
Petley Jones Gallery will be celebrating the Capture Festival by featuring the works of Linda Vermeulen and Ron Smid. Drop by our new location at 2245 Granville Street to see the work of these very talented photographers.
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