Tuesday, July 29, 2025

A BRIGHT MARK LEFT new exhibition at THIS______________Vancouver

A Bright Mark Left


A Bright Mark Left is a collaboration between three Vancouver-based visual artists—Shannon Pawliw, Charlene Vickers, and Jean Paul Langlois. While each artist works across various media, their practices centre on large-scale, colour-saturated painting. The title refers to the afterimage effect: the visual echo of a complementary colour that lingers in your perception—a flash, a burn, a bright silhouette that stays with you.

Colour tells stories, conveys emotion, and shapes perception. Each artist’s approach—whether grounded in ancestral connections, pop culture motifs, or quiet forms of protest—demonstrates how colour can embody histories, identities, and complex emotional landscapes. The resulting exhibition becomes a chromatic language that transcends words, inviting viewers to interpret and connect in deeply personal ways.

Through imaginative, surreal uses of bright colours and references to cultural artifacts such as science fiction, cartoons, and mythic landscapes, the works in A Bright Mark Left position colour as a portal to alternative realities, spaces of belonging, and transformation. Each artist explores colour as a means to transcend boundaries—whether cultural, historical, or conceptual.






Saturday, July 26, 2025

Ovoids Soundings- Hand Sewn, Beaded, Embroidery, Painted Ovoids

 

OVOID SOUNDINGS at Libby Leshgold Gallery, June 2024
dimensions 22' x 16'
 
Included in 2024 group exhibition,  Your Old Way Kind of Vision at Libby Leshgold Gallery curated by Daina Warren. In great company with Siku Allooloo, Catherine Blackburn, and Wally Dion. Organized with the ECU Aboriginal Gathering Place with installation help from Indigenous students. Plus many thanks to Steven Tong, and Jen.  Ovoid Soundings was part of group show Ascending Horizons at McMaster Museum of Art in January,8- June 21, 2025 curated by Alex Jacobs-Blum and Kim Anderson.  

Friday, July 11, 2025

FELLOWSHIP BLOUIN DIVISION MONTREAL

 "FELLOWSHIP" in collaboration with Macaulay + Co.

June 26 - August 23, 2025

At the invitation of Blouin Division, Macaulay + Co co-presents the work of five important Vancouver-based artists. The pieces selected are a meaningful communication between those whose works share a keen interest in form, experience, and materials. Artists: #danaclaxton #laurencrazybullart #michellesoundart  #charlenevickers #lawrencepaulyuxweluptun #blouindivision #macaulayandco #montrealcontemporaryart #vancouverindigenousart