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Grace Gordon-Collins,
Fanny
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Grace Gordon-Collins: UNFILTERED
June 25 - July 11, 2009
Artist Reception: June 25, 6-8 pm
In UNFILTERED, Vancouver artist Grace Gordon-Collins presents portraits of women in pairs. One image shows the “public” face of each woman, and the other an intimate “unfiltered” portrayal of each woman dressed as her private fantasy self.
Grace Gordon-Collins has been a practicing designer in British Columbia for over twenty-five years. Her work experiences include architecture, interior design and photography. In 1975 she earned a Master of Architecture (Photography Major) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004, she graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design. This is her third solo exhibition with the Diane Farris Gallery.
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Ongoing: Chihuly Courtyard Window
The Gallery’s main display window on the Courtyard is dedicated to
the magnificent glass sculptures of renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly. |
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Drawn
July 16 – August 8, 2009
Saturday July 18, 2 – 4 pm
Diane Farris Gallery is participating in the city-wide event, Drawn. The event showcases artwork created with drawing media in numerous Vancouver-area galleries and museums. The first celebration of its kind in Canada, it includes a program of free lectures, gallery tours, exhibition openings, artist talks and a symposium. Diane Farris Gallery features a group exhibit of gallery artists, guests artists and works from our collection.
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Sarah Genn, My Dreams Need
Me, Luccas Italy
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Group Exhibit
August 13 – September 5, 2009
Diane Farris Gallery presents a group exhibition featuring gallery artists including Angela Grossmann, Nick Lepard and Sara Genn. |
Shannon Belkin
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Shannon Belkin: Horse Sense
curated by Lynn Ruscheinsky
September 10 – October 3, 2009
Artist Reception: September 10, 6 – 8 pm
Long before the invention of writing and the wheel, horses began to shape the way humans lived. While societies are conventionally understood as populated by humans-in-themselves and animal-nature is understood as composed of the things-in-themselves, Shannon Belkin’s recent horse paintings continue to explore the concept of companion species. As such, humans’ and horses’ fates are intertwined in ways that the old distinction between domesticator and domesticated cannot adequately address. For Belkin, the notion that the human being ends at the skin and that the animal exists as tools to be lorded over and be utilized to whatever end the human intends is arbitrary and false. She insists the story of people and horses involves much more than exploitation; we live and have evolved jointly as companion species bonded in what Donna Haraway calls “significant otherness.” The intimate and evocative horse sense that Shannon Belkin’s portraits achieve force us to acknowledge the deep emotional connection we experience through such face-to-face inter-species friendship and love.
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Roberta Bondar, April:
EASTERN REDBUD (Cercis canadensis)
June:
BLACK LOCUST (Robinia pseudoacacia)
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Roberta Bondar:
Canadian Canopies
October 8 – 31, 2009
Artist Reception: October 8, 6 – 8 pm
Roberta Bondar's new exhibit Canadian Canopies presents original photographs from her 2009 Toronto Tree Portraits Calendar. The photographs capture the natural beauty of Canadian trees over four seasons. The images encourage viewers to look upward and become visually immersed in the canopies.
An pre-eminent scientist and photographer, Bondar is best known as one of the astronauts on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1992. Noted for her ability to record and communicate, she was chosen to perform experiments in life and material sciences on behalf of 14 countries. Canadian Canopies is her third solo exhibit with Diane Farris Gallery since 2004.
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Nick Lepard, The Event |
Nick Lepard
November 5 – 26, 2009
Artist Reception: November 5, 6 – 8 pm
An exhibition of new paintings by Vancouver artist Nick Lepard is eagerly anticipated. Working from photographs of his subjects, Lepard creates vigorous "visual sensations". The resulting portraits are raw and dramatic.
Nick Lepard graduated with a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2008. Through Diane Farris Gallery, he immediately gained recognition for his large-scale self-portraits and expressionist portraits of friends. This is his second solo exhibit at Diane Farris Gallery. |
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Exhibitions
