visual art
SFU Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery team up for Alex Morrison exhibition
October 13, 2015In his 1968 essay, “A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects,” Robert Smithson writes about a “climate” of sight. He talks about the “mental weather” of an individual, and how a psyche makes one view art; a “wet” mind, for instance, appreciates the fluidity of organic, or painterly, images and forms, and looks upon surfaces that can seem gaseous or foggy. This “dank brain” is considered by some to be the ideal mental climate to navigate the fluidity of an artist’s thesis. This climate of visual perception is also the ideal one with which to approach the sister exhibitions of…
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Cézanne, The Poetics of Space, and Unscrolled impress at the Vancouver Art Gallery
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1973" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Photo courtesy of The Georgia Straight.[/caption] Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of visiting the Vancouver Art Gallery and seeing its three stunning exhibitions: Cézanne and the Modern, The Poetics of Space, and Unscrolled. On the…
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SFU Masters in Fine Arts grad Casey Wei makes things happen at Kingsgate Mall
March 2, 2015In June 2014, Casey Wei, a graduate of SFU’s Masters in Fine Arts program, bravely engaged Kingsgate Mall to explore the intersection between art, music, community, and the public space of commerce. As an artist-in-residence at the Western Front, she…
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The surprising story of SFU’s blue pyramid
March 2, 2015When a person turns 100, they become a centenarian. But what is it called when they reach the halfway point? This question led me to discover the word ‘quinquagenarian.’ This year, Simon Fraser University and its art collection will become…
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