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International Vancouver's North Shore Visual Art
See North Shore Beauty Through the Lens of Chinese Ink Painting

by Alexis Baran March 16, 2023

March 16, 2023

By Song Xianjun In North America, lemon chicken is one of the most popular dishes in Chinese restaurants, and in a certain sense, it…

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Artist Interviews Local Artists Visual Art Whistler
Video: Meet Holly Mitchell, Whistler-Based Abstract Painter

by Alexis Baran March 16, 2023

March 16, 2023

Holly Mitchell is a British-Canadian abstract painter working in Whistler. Throughout her work, Holly takes inspiration from nature and how the changing seasons alter…

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Exhibitions Galleries & Museums Local Artists Vancouver Visual Art
Step into an Interactive Graphic Novel with “For: Ze”

by Alexis Baran March 15, 2023

March 15, 2023

By Paula Burrows Preventing textile waste and promoting sustainability have become priorities for many in the fashion industry, prompting the question: how else can…

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Galleries & Museums Local Artists Surrey Visual Art
Panjabi Garden Celebrates a Love of Language

by Alexis Baran February 14, 2023

February 14, 2023

On view now at the Surrey Art Gallery, Keerat Kaur’s Panjabi Garden invites you to enter the lush growth of a cultivated language.This striking exhibition examines…

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Exhibitions Galleries & Museums Local Artists New Westminster Visual Art
“Guilty as Skin” Creates An Important Dialogue With Viewers

by Alexis Baran February 9, 2023

February 9, 2023

The current exhibition at The Gallery at Queen’s Park, “Guilty As Skin,” is a brave call to action against the systemic racism of our…

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Galleries & Museums Indigenous Art Local Artists Vancouver's North Shore Visual Art
A Walk Through The Inuit Gallery’s Storied Collection

by Alexis Baran January 25, 2023

January 25, 2023

By Harriet Goodwin After 21 years in its first Gastown location and a further 21 years across the road in its second, it seems fitting…

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Burnaby Exhibitions Guides Local Artists Visual Art
STRIDE Burnaby Arts Festival Celebrates Community Connections

by Alexis Baran January 25, 2023

January 25, 2023

By Marisa Chandler Community and creativity go hand-in-hand this year at the annual STRIDE Burnaby Arts Festival. Made “by neighbours, for neighbours,” this year’s…

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Burnaby Exhibitions Galleries & Museums Indigenous Art Local Artists Visual Art
Dream Marrow at the Burnaby Art Gallery

by Alexis Baran December 12, 2022

December 12, 2022

By Natasha PondaDream Marrow at the Burnaby Art Gallery is a visual and varied communication about the human fascination with the subconscious mind. In…

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Exhibitions Galleries & Museums Indigenous Art Local Artists Vancouver Visual Art
‘A Line That Bends But Does Not Break’, On Now at The VAG

by Alexis Baran December 6, 2022

December 6, 2022

By Kevin Leung For Guud san glans Robert Davidson, a leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture, the word ancestors raises an important…

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Burnaby Exhibitions Galleries & Museums International Local Artists Visual Art
Washi, the Beauty Within at Nikkei National Museum

by Alexis Baran December 4, 2022

December 4, 2022

By Song Xianjun How can a piece of paper hold the weight of centuries of culture? The current exhibition at Burnaby’s Nikkei National Museum and…

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april, 2025

14julAll Day27aprCheryl Pagurek: Winter Garden(All Day) 13750 88 AveEvent Type:ExhibitionAdmission Type:Free

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

Event Details

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)