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5 Artists at The East Side Culture Crawl

by PatioKim November 8, 2024

November 8, 2024

Artists’ studios in East Vancouver are once again opening their doors to the public for the annual Eastside Culture Crawl! Featured image by Megan Majewski…

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The New West Cultural Crawl Returns For its 20th Year

by Alexis Baran September 19, 2023

September 19, 2023

By guest contributor, artist, Regina Kumagae-Kim As the weather cools down for fall in the Lower Mainland, it’s the perfect time to grab your…

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Discover 150 Local Artists at The North Shore Art Crawl

by Alexis Baran October 1, 2022

October 1, 2022

Now in its twelfth year, the annual North Shore Art Crawl returns in-person to galleries, community centers, business and art schools from Lions Bay to Deep…

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RSVP to These Studios With The New West Culture Crawl

by Alexis Baran September 25, 2022

September 25, 2022

While it may be impossible to wander through the innermost thoughts of an artist, for two nights only at the 19th Annual New West…

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Capture Photography Festival Replaces Ads with Art

by PatioKim May 14, 2022

May 14, 2022

By Kristin Lim While Capture Photography Festival, which was my social calendar for the month of April, has officially ended, its public art installations…

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march, 2025

13jun(jun 13)10:00 am30mar(mar 30)5:00 pmTo Be Seen, To Be Heard: First Nations in Public Spaces, 1900–1965(june 13) 10:00 am - (march 30) 5:00 pm PST 6393 N.W. Marine DriveEvent Type:Art EventAdmission Type:Free,Ticketed

23nov(nov 23)11:00 am05may(may 5)6:00 pmCurve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast(november 23) 11:00 am - (may 5) 6:00 pm 4350 Blackcomb WayEvent Type:Art EventAdmission Type:Ticketed

15janAll Day08aprSande Waters: BOXED(All Day) Event Type:ExhibitionAdmission Type:Free

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Art in the Community Presents Sande Waters: BOXED

Sande Waters grew up in North Vancouver. She then lived and explored the BC coast on a sailboat for many years, eventually settling on Cortes Island for a decade. For many years now she has resided adjacent to the ocean by Cates Park. Consequently, the ocean has stimulated her senses and profoundly influenced her as an artist, inspiring her to paint intuitively as a method of expression.

The act of creating art is often described as a dialogue between the artist and the artwork. Paintings often speak to the artist about what is needed next in the conversation, as the pigments themselves have the potential to become an influential voice in the direction of the entire composition. Her colourful and fluid abstract paintings represent a fascination with how chaos can emerge in one’s life, no matter how carefully we plan.

Working with acrylic paint and ink on canvas or paper, Waters creates organic forms, by allowing the paint and ink to “do its own thing” layer upon layer. Her intuitive, bold, and energetic paintings reflect a synergistic process of letting go, spontaneous gestural abstractions that are transformed into images of significance by the artist.

Waters is compelled by the process of bringing the uninhibited, undefined, and indescribable, into physical form. By constructing boxes made from her paintings on paper, she juxtaposes the abstract with the tangible. By acknowledging the “Box”, Waters invokes numerous contemporary narratives. She perceives the boxes as a metaphor for diversity as they are various sizes, and each one has a unique painting on the surface. A “Box” is also an object of desire, a vessel of containment and mysticism, which establishes its power. The “Box’ signifies a contemporary form, which speaks to our global economy and prosperity. All these qualities define the concept of my boxes.

Waters received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver and MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, California. She currently volunteers as the Assistant Art Curator at Lions Gate Hospital for the Healing Power of Art program. She was the Vice President on the Board of Directors at Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC and on the Board of Directors for the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver as Chair of the Artist Prize. Her work has been shown and collected in Canada, USA and Europe. She lives and works in Deep Cove, North Vancouver, BC as a guest on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, Stó꞉lō, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

Feature image:
Sande_Waters, Boxes #1, Acrylic on paper 2019 NFS 16x27x20

Time

January 15 (Wednesday) - April 8 (Tuesday)

Location

District Foyer Gallery

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07febAll Day20aprKim Kennedy Austin: Booster Club(All Day) 6344 Deer Lake AvenueEvent Type:Exhibition

05marAll Day04aprResponse: Remembering Our Futures(All Day) 101 Carrie Cates CourtEvent Type:ExhibitionAdmission Type:By Donation

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Response: Remembering Our Futures is the culmination of the Response Program, an annual filmmaking initiative that inspires artistic responses to historical and contemporary Indigenous ways of being. Participants engaged in a series of workshops led by Indigenous artists and Knowledge Holders during the summer of 2024 to produce an original video work on view in The Polygon Gallery’s Seaspan Pavilion from March 5 to April 4, 2025.

Past generations, stories, and histories influence the way we look toward our futures, inciting care and intention as we imagine beyond current realities. By breaking down the dichotomy of past and present, we invite an all-encompassing understanding of the relationships that we hold. This year, participants were encouraged to consider experiences and connections that transcend time, and the ways in which formative influences remain vital and present throughout one’s life. Through techniques ranging from performance to animation, the artists’ films in Response: Remembering Our Futures embrace themes of healing, intimacy, belonging, and resistance.

Looking forward can feel uneasy during a time where so much seems uncertain, but Remembering Our Futures reminds us that our relationships exist in all directions, and tending to them allows us to see further than ourselves.

Feature image:
Melanie Evelyn, Seafoam Dream, 2024

Time

March 5 (Wednesday) - April 4 (Friday)

Location

The Polygon

101 Carrie Cates Court

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