Visual Arts

Lisa Brawn's woodcuts turn pop art rustic at the JEM Gallery

Robotic Chair comes to life at Contemporary Art Gallery

Belkin Gallery presents a blast from our hippie past

George Littlechild and Richard Tetrault revisit their tortured pasts

Carol Sawyerâ��s images sing in libraryâ��s lyrical voice

Rebecca Belmore grapples with time and history

Lisa Brawn's woodcuts turn pop art rustic at the JEM Gallery

By Robin Laurence

The Calgary artist uses cherry, black-walnut, and Douglas-fir materials for her portraits of country-and-western legends and movie, television, and musical cowboys.

Floater's monument to levity at the Vancouver Art Gallery

By Robin Laurence

Jeff Ladouceur’s architectural intervention—a huge inflatable sculpture that's part slacker, part sausage, and part twisted noodle—is mounted high up, across the columns of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Georgia Street façade.

Zhang Huan suffers costs of his art

By Robin Laurence

The subversive, penitential performances of Altered States are written on the body of one of China’s most acclaimed artists in this compelling introduction to his work.

Robotic Chair comes to life at Contemporary Art Gallery

By Robin Laurence

Max Dean’s school chair puts on a mesmerizing show as it crashes to the floor and then methodically reassembles and re-attaches its missing parts.

Belkin Gallery presents a blast from our hippie past

By Robin Laurence

The art here—past and present, hopeful and cynical, experimental and understated—reminds us that war, injustice, tyranny, overconsumption, and environmental destruction still prevail on our planet.

Hold On gives you time to contemplate the working world

By Robin Laurence

Aaron Carpenter, Steve Hubert, Kathy Slade: Hold On

George Littlechild and Richard Tetrault revisit their tortured pasts

By Robin Laurence

George Littlechild: Transfer Richard Tetrault: Smoke, Steel, Sky

Susan Point's huge Coast Salish portals pay rich tribute

By Robin Laurence

Susan Point: People Amongst the People

Carol Sawyer’s images sing in library’s lyrical voice

By Robin Laurence

Carol Sawyer: Trace Ingredients

Rebecca Belmore grapples with time and history

By Robin Laurence

In a startling retrospective, the Vancouver-based artist's performances and installations confront us with images of loss, struggle, and silence that depict struggles against erasures of culture and memory.