About the Artists
Nancy BoydNancy, born in Hamilton in 1949, studied art at the Ontario College of Art as well as at the University of Waterloo before moving to Vancouver. For years she worked as a designer and architectural renderer, most notably for Expo’86. Nancy taught design, drawing and painting at Capilano University for 23 years before she retired in 2010. Her work retains the influences of her design and rendering background as evident in her fascination with ‘views’ and the conflation of sale of scale between the microscopic and the cosmic. Nancy has shown extensively in the Lower Mainland and western Canada as well as internationally in the US, Japan and Australia. Her work can be seen at the Vancouver Art Gallery Rental program and at the Wallace Galleries in Calgary.
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Barry CogswellBarry Cogswell has been deeply involved in the making of art since the early Nineteen sixties. During the seventies and early eighties he had some success as a sculptor, and in 1983 was invited to exhibit in Stuttgart Germany in an exhibition showcasing contemporary trends in Canadian installation art. For personal reasons he then quit exhibiting and began developing work which, for him, more accurately reflected the realities of the world at the end of the 20th century. He found a way of combining his horror at the insanity of the human destruction of the natural environment with his desire to return to the discipline of painting
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Pierre CoupeyPierre Coupey was a founding co-editor of The Georgia Straight and founding editor of The Capilano Review. His work has received awards/grants/commissions, including grants from the Conseil des Arts du Québec, the Canada Council, and the BC Arts Council. He has published nine books of poetry/chapbooks/catalogues, and exhibited in Canada and abroad. His work is represented in private, corporate, university and public collections, including those of the Burnaby Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. His work was recently exhibited in a five-person show on abstraction, The Point Is: Pierre Coupey/Landon Mackenzie/Martin Pearce/Bernadette Phan/Bryan Ryley, curated by Liz Wylie at the Kelowna Art Gallery (catalogue). The West Vancouver Museum and the Art Gallery at the Evergreen Cultural Centre are co-curating a three-decade survey, with catalogue, for Spring 2013. Gallery Jones represents his work in Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest. Pierre Coupey bases his practice in Vancouver. His work is represented in numerous private, corporate and public collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, and Vancouver Art Gallery. |
Wayne EastcottFor many years now my work has been concerned with the unity of the structured order and relationships that make up the created universe. This includes, not only the obvious, in what is usually designated as "nature" or "natural structures", such as the pull of gravity, or the ripples of a pond disturbed, but also the "man-made" structures, such as bridges and electronic circuits. On a larger and more subtle scale I'm intrigued by the idea of the interplay between chance and order, the cycles of the seasons, musical harmonics, acceleration, colour and mathematical sequences, linear perspective, etc. What is the relationship between the length of a piano string and the volume of air in the pipes of an organ, or with the change of frequency of the colours of the rainbow, or with the changing speed of a falling rock? Does the accidental exist? Is chance unrecognized order? And, more recently, the tremendous possibilities of the ideas of chaos, relativity and randomness (or lack of it) – Einstein/Hawkins. The concept that the physical fact of a given object or event in a given space at a given time may well affect the whole universe is astounding! Wayne Eastcott attended the Vancouver School of Art from 1962-66, studying Painting and Printmaking. In 1968 he was awarded a Canada Council grant for innovative printmaking processes. Eastcott is represented by Bellevue Gallery in West Vancouver and the Gallery Concept 21 in Tokyo, Japan. |
Hiroaki IshikawaHiroshi was born in Hekinan, Aichi, Japan. He received his Masters in Art Education from Aichi University. His first solo exhibition was at the Gallery Space to Space in Nagoya, Japan. Hiroshi wishes to “evoke the essence of the materials he works with” |
Richard HenriquezRichard is a major figure in Canadian Architecture. He is the founding partner of Henriquez Partners Architects, a firm established in Vancouver in 1969 and now recognized internationally for its design excellence. Working from an imaginative tradition as a sculptor and assembler of form, Richard transforms projects into highly symbolic works narrated through public ritual, myth and traces of memory, real or imagined. His profound visions for places and communities are evident in his design of public spaces in projects such as Water Street’s Gaslight Square, the Environmental Sciences Building at Trent University, New Westminster’s Justice Institute of British Columbia, and Sinclair Centre. In 2005, he won Canadian architecture’s highest award for lifetime achievement, the Gold Medal of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada. He has been bestowed with numerous other honours including RAIC/Governor General’s Awards, Lieutenant Governor’s Awards and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Simon Fraser University in 2009. |
Maureen JohnMaureen John was commissioned by the Vancouver School of Art in 1975 (now the Emily Carr University of Art and Design) to produce her winning design which had been selected from a juried student competition. Taken out of context this subtle and powerful form was initially carved from Styrofoam. Under the supervision of instructor Jack Harman the sculpture was sand cast in thirty six sections, assembled, welded and reinforced with steel bracing. For several years the sculpture hung on the Dunsmuir entrance of the Vancouver School of Art where it was viewed peripherally by pedestrians as they entered and exited the building. River Bed gently disrupts a given space with it’s understated elegant form. A graduate of the Graphic Design & illustration Program at Capilano College in 1990, M.John also enrolled in studio courses in sculpture and foundry at the College. She currently lives in London, England. “As a child I played outdoors and lived on the bank of Capilano Canyon. At the head of the canyon a dam with cascading water provided an ever-present sound. All forays into the densely forested backyard could be made using the waterfall as a beacon and locating reference. Water was everywhere, it rained a lot and the boughs of cedar would be greener and heavier. The water amplified both colour and sound. Clouds and mists gave a mystical feeling to what others might consider a sodden landscape. I understand why the indigenous peoples of the northwest coast were able to develop the fecund imagery that they did. This landscape with its varying moods made a deep impression on me and resulted in my producing the sculptures that I did. Having moved to London, England in the ‘90’s I find the landscape here to be overwhelmingly peopled. Perhaps this is why I have recently modeled portraits. I still yearn for wilderness and space which have suggested forms to me that are rooted in memory and sensation. |
Ivan LackovicIvan Lacković Croata (January 1, 1932 - August 29, 2004) was a Croatian naive painter. Lacković was born to a peasant family in the village of Batinske near Kalinovac. After completing his primary education, he worked as a laborer in fields and forests. This self-taught painter made his first watercolors, depicting village life, in 1944. He drew his first drawings in 1952. Lacković moved to Kloštar Podravski in 1954. He spent three years there, painting his first oils. Then he moved to Zagreb, where he worked as a mailman and post office worker. In 1962 he met Krsto Hegedušić and occasionally worked in his master workshop. His first one-man exhibition in the HAZU Cabinet of Graphics in 1964 established his reputation as a masterful draftsman. He left the post office job in 1968 and became a professional painter. He painted poetic scenes from his native region of Podravina in tempera and oil on glass (a traditional technique of the naive artists from north Croatia), while turning increasingly to the medium of drawing. Detailed winter scenes prevail in his early works. In the 1970s, he turned towards allegory, symbolism and the fantastic. The atmosphere of his paintings is lyrical and surreal. He most frequently drew landscapes, figurative compositions, flowers and still lives. Portraits are very rare. He illustrated many books of prose and poetry. Lacković had more than a hundred one-man exhibitions at home and abroad (Cologne, Zurich, Paris, Bremen, Laval, Münster, Turin, Rome, Caracas, Milan, Hague, São Paulo, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Madrid, St. Petersburg). His works are exhibited in museums around the world: the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb, the Museum der 20. Jahrhunderts in Vienna, the Museu de Arte Contemporânea in São Paulo, the Metropolitan Museum in Manila, the Musee Henri Rousseau in Laval, the Setagaya Museum in Tokyo, the Museum of Art at the Carnegie Institute, the Museo Civico di Belle Arti in Lugano, and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in the Vatican. He created theater sets for the HNK in Zagreb and the Stadtopernhaus in Graz. He was among the founders of the Croatian Democratic Union. He was elected twice as a member of the County Chamber of the Croatian Parliament. In the 1990s, he drew a series of drawings about the human suffering in the Croatian War of Independence. He died in Zagreb. |
Chris LewisChris Lewis was a practicing medical doctor having studied at Oxford from 1943 to 48. In his youth he studied metal forging, life drawing, pencil and charcoal portraiture, and oil, acrylic and watercolour landscapes. He began sculpting in the late ‘70’s working with wood, stone and metal. He attended the Art Institute at Capilano College (CU) between 1991 to ’94, where he carver Meditation in a large boulder of andesite from the Mamquam River near Squamish. |
Dwane NeubergerDwane Neuberger was born in Port Alberni in 1938. He attended Simon Fraser University and graduated with honours in Sculpture from the Vancouver School of Art (ECUAD) in 1977. In 1979 he and three colleagues associated with Capilano College attended a one-month residency at the University of Mexico where they created a body of bronze castings that were exhibited in a one-month group show at the Galleria Mer Kup. Dwane exhibited his sculpture in a three-person show at Presentation House and in a British Columbia Sculptor’s Society group show at Klee Wick in North Vancouver. |
Anne SyroishkoAnne Syroishko began working at Capilano College’s Childcare Centre in 1975 and retired in ’96. Her painting Oh So Good was completed in 1990. Anne’s imagery is generated by her story-telling for children. She writes of her influence by Emily Carr’s paintings. Anne illustrates her stories in bold expressive strokes. She paints for a sense of well being, healing and an extended visual narrative to accompany her oral and written narratives. |
Tony TasconaTony Tascona began life on a path clearly not destined for art. He lost a finger while playing a game of chicken with his brothers and an axe, he failed Grade 9 art class, and he was a talented hockey and baseball player. In fact, he had a promising career playing semi-professional baseball when he chose to give it all up and pursue his passion for art. Tascona became one of Canada’s most innovative artists. Throughout his 60-year career, he constantly questioned the traditional concept of canvas and process. He loved to experiment with the materials he encountered in the aeronautic industry, creating stunning pieces that are coveted and collected across the country. His work can be found in the permanent collections of several national galleries and his commissioned pieces hang in the foyers of some of Manitoba’s highest profile businesses. His laurels include membership in the Order of Canada and an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Winnipeg. But much more than an artist, Tony is a creator whose generous spirit touched the lives of countless people. Filmmakers Michael Linton (Producer, Director & DOP) and E. Anne Dawson (Associate Producer, Writer) were in the final stages of filming Transitions when this incredible man passed away on May 28th, 2006. As a result, the film underwent a complete rewrite. Expanding beyond the original concept as a documentary that showcased Tascona’s innovative techniques and the depth of his work, it is now also a tribute to an incredible man with an generous spirit who changed the face of art in Manitoba and Canada. Featuring interviews with Robert Enright (Senior Contributing Editor, Border Crossings Magazine), Pierre Théberge (Director of the National Gallery of Canada), collectors and family, Transitions - The Art and Soul of Tony Tascona is a biography, an intriguing story of artistic process and a touching tribute. |
Hiroshi TomitaHiroshi was born in Okayama in 1937. He received his B.A. from the University of Tokyo. He has exhibited his paintings and prints throughout Japan in group and solo shows beginning with the Saegusa Gallery in Tokyo in 1978.
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Britt Van DykBorn September 28th, 1965, Haarlem, the Netherlands. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honors, York University, Toronto, 1988. Britt has exhibited through public galleries and artist run centers in Toronto, including the Power Plant and the Lake Galleries. She has also shown in Vancouver, Japan, and at the Artistas Internacionales” at the Galeria d’Art Marabello, Barcelona, Spain. Her four solo shows include Unity 94; Vancouver/New York. Britt van Dyk returns repeatedly to one subject; small intense, ecclesiastical interiors rendered in heavy oil impasto. On whatever theoretical horizon we examine van Dyk’s work, the essential metaphor of her art is the space of a bourgeois chamber. It appears to have become the topography of our intimate being. |
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Rob G. WilsonRobert G. Wilson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and received his MBA from the University of Western Ontario. In the late ‘80’s he began taking art courses at the Emily Carr School of Art (ECUAD) and Capilano College (CU) to study printmaking and sculpture. He participated in glass casting workshops at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle Wa. And he attended the Instituto Allende in San Miguel d’Allende, Mexico. He has had solo exhibitions at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, the Shadbolt Centre, the Burnaby Art Gallery and the Third Avenue Gallery. He is currently working towards his MFA at the University of the Arts, London, Wimbleton College, England. |
Robert YoungRobert Young is one of the most respected artists working in Canada today. Known for his intricate drawing, painting and printmaking, his work has a strong intellectual appeal and an impeccable sense of craft. For more than 45 years he has pursued a bold personal image synthesizing the environment with his strong philosophical and spiritual beliefs. He also shared his love of art and art history with students at U.B.C. for 16 years as Associate Professor in the faculty of Fine Arts. Robert John Young was born in Vancouver, BC, August 8, 1938. He grew up in Burnaby and has fond recollections as a child reading Will James’ books on Cowboy life. The rich prose and careful illustrations led to a fascination for horses - focussing an early love of drawing. His high school years at MacPherson Park and Burnaby South nurtured his budding artistic skills, but it was the cultural influence of listening to bebop jazz during that time which had the strongest influence on his imagery. Following graduation in 1956, he enrolled in Science at U.B.C. with hopes of a degree in Forestry. After the first year however, he took a brief hiatus, travelled to Europe and upon his return, enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts and never looked back. Young has a long and illustrious exhibition history with more than 25 solo exhibitions throughout his career. His work is included in numerous private and public collections across Canada and in England, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and of course, the Artists For Kids Gallery in North Vancouver. Many of his works have also been collected by Elton John. |
