Friday afternoon we headed off for a visit to the Vancouver Art Gallery. There are a couple new shows, it had been awhile since we had gone and I particularly wanted to see the Kimsooja show. Its not their feature exhibit right now, but I found it very much worth going to see. Her work focuses on culture and migration. Her 'Mirror Woman' installation was breathtaking. It was a mirrored room filled with clotheslines hung with traditional Korean colourful bedcoverings. I felt like I had stepped into a new world filled with colour and a light breeze, one that went on and on.
'Construction (Interior)' by Jay Senetchko
We also stopped at the Pendulum Gallery to take a look at what they were showing. They currently have a multi-artist show on called 'Shed'. It was interesting to see how each artist approached the theme, there were some very detailed charcoal drawings, a couple caricature type paintings, a couple realistic ones and a couple oil paintings that focused on the construction. These last two paintings really caught my attention. They were displayed, not on the commercial divider wall, but in a corner of a roughly built shed, complete with shingle roof and plywood floor. I think what really caught my attention was how much the shadows dominate the piece forming very distinct patterns. I kept going back to look at it up close, then stepping back to look at it from another angle.
