visual arts
Paige Smith plays with the gaze in “Watching You Watching Me”
November 15, 2022By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article mistakenly wrote that Smith’s video, Tethered Connection, is 35 minutes. This was updated to “35 seconds” on November 24, 2022. Content warning: mentions of voyeurism We’ve all heard the saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” I didn’t comprehend this until I explored “the gaze” in the communication course Technologies of Gender and Sexuality. The male gaze is traced back to 19th century nude oil paintings, in which women were painted to be objects of male voyeuristic pleasure. This demonstrates how powerful apparatus…
Continue reading
A look into the practices of visual art students and the upcoming Audain shows
March 6, 2021Written by: Kaila Bhullar, Peak Associate For visual art students, the year-end art shows at the Audain Gallery are a culmination of their hard work. With the shows for 3rd and 4th year students approaching, The Peak sat down (virtually)…
Continue reading
The Parker Street Studios open their doors for the Eastside Culture Crawl
December 4, 2015The Eastside Culture Crawl presents an excellent opportunity to see firsthand the variety and vibrancy of Vancouver’s arts and crafts culture. The 18th year of the Crawl featured over 400 participating artists. Focusing on the neighbourhoods of Vancouver with the…
Continue reading
TEDxVancouver presents exhibition on identity
November 13, 2015This year saw the arrival of something new as part of TEDxVancouver: ID: The Exhibition. Through an exhibition of visual art, it showcase local artists who explored this year’s theme of identity. Featuring three artist’s series, 14 individual artists, and…
Continue reading
Caught between salvation, damnation, land, and sea at the Museum of Anthropology
May 11, 2015[caption id="attachment_2411" align="alignleft" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Anthony Book.[/caption] Dr. Anthony Shelton wants to change Canada’s sense of Europe. “We talk about things being Eurocentric,” Shelton said, “but it’s deceptive to treat Europe as the same. Each part has its…
Continue reading
MFA student presents mixed media collection about the perception of light
April 11, 2015[caption id="attachment_2296" align="alignleft" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Emiliano Sepulveda.[/caption] Directed out the window following the light, the current exhibition at the School for the Contemporary Arts office, is an installation of mixed media assemblages by Emiliano Sepulveda, a first-year MFA…
Continue reading
Woodward’s Watch: found object frescoes in the SCA office
February 16, 2015Pulling Through, the current exhibition at the School for Contemporary Arts office at the Woodward’s campus, is a series of paintings on plaster by Adrienne Evans who recently completed her BFA with the school. While plaster is generally used as…
Continue reading
The difference between hearing and listening at the Richmond Art Gallery
February 16, 2015Painters today are faced with over 100 years’ worth of modernist experiments in painting on a flat canvas. For that reason, a select few have come to reinvent this millennial artistic practice through a change in process. In other words,…
Continue reading
A place of knowledge: SFU Galleries celebrates the university’s 50th anniversary
January 12, 2015“Art tests things,” Melanie O’Brian, director of SFU Galleries and curator of its upcoming group exhibit, Geometry of Knowing, explained to The Peak. “It pushes on the unanswerable and unstable. It shifts, and it can make people uncomfortable with space.”…
Continue reading
Woodward’s exhibition in the SCA office manipulates ‘then’ and ‘now’
January 12, 2015In the current exhibition at the School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) office at SFU Woodward’s, Pretense on Curation, second year MFA candidate Jaime Williams uses the location as both the setting and the subject. In her video installation, shot…
Continue reading
