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Christos Dikeakos, The Collectors – Karen Henry, Picturing West Coast Collections

Ciel variable 131 – COLLECTING | Portfolios
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Christos Dikeakos

Presented as a collectors’ collection, Christos Dikeakos’s portrait series reflects the richness and diversity of people who are engaged in and fervent about amassing works for the pleasure of living with them. The images, varied and sumptuous, immerse us in worlds manifestly shaped by passion. In her essay, Karen Henry shows how Dikeakos draws on an ecosystem that serves art, its preservation and its sharing.

Capture – Karen Henry

Biennials & Co.
Authors: Karen Henry

An annual celebration of image culture, the Capture festival features a range of exhibitions in and around Vancouver. In this article, our contributor Karen Henry discusses a selection of projects from the 2024 edition.

Cloud Album — At the Intersection of Science and Art — Karen Henry

Ciel variable 121 – WANDERINGS | Essays
Authors: Karen Henry

[Fall 2022] By Karen Henry [Excerpt] We humans project a great deal onto clouds, as they oat loftily above or gather and settle in around us. They represent the grandeur and mutability of nature but are also intimate to our everyday experience and the subject of idle contemplation – to have one’s “head in the […]

Capture Photography Festival 2021 — Karen Henry

Ciel variable 118 - EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Karen Henry

Given the multifaceted nature of the Capture festival, Karen Henry decided to focus on the part that took place in the public space. It must be said that the 2021 edition was not without controversy after the sudden removal of Steven Shearer’s series devoted to sleep. “The sleeping subjects are inherently vulnerable,” Henry notes, “and they made a number of people uneasy.” Henry had a number of questions concerning this “debacle.” Had the organizers taken account of the fentanyl crisis raging in Vancouver? Had an advertising company decided what could be seen? Henry also reviews other projects, including those by Anique Jordan and Jordan Bennett, which, by talking about Black or Indigenous communities, “evoke the ongoing experience of loss, but also hold the promise (and challenge) of so much more to be said.”

Helga Pakasaar, On the new Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Interviews
Authors: Helga Pakasaar, Karen Henry

March 30, 2021 [originally published in CV108 in Winter 2018] — Curator Helga Pakasaar contemplates changes in Vancouver institutions and art practices at a significant moment of change for Presentation House Gallery, where she has been curator since 2003, as it is transformed into the new Polygon Gallery…

Kelly Lycan, Underglow – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Kelly Lycan

February 27, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — The title of Kelly Lycan’s show, Underglow, incorporates her interest in consumer culture, photography, high art, and cultures of display. Lycan uses the connotations of luminous detailing in car culture, cosmetic techniques that add shimmering radiance, and, in general, the use of light to emphasize form to animate the role of light in photography…

Antoni Muntadas, Entre/Between – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Antoni Muntadas

October 10, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — Warning: Perception Requires Involvement, in bold white text on a red background, covers the wall of the Canada Line transit station in downtown Vancouver. It is both a statement about the commitment needed to understand something and a public warning about the tendency these days to limit the onslaught of information to what can be gleaned in a ten-second media clip or an advertising image…

C.1983. The Role of Photography in Memory, Mass Culture and illusion – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Essays
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Henri Robideau

November 6, 2017 [originally published in CV93 in Winter 2013] — Who would have thought that the 1980s were such a stimulating time. There is so much emphasis in cultural memory on the 1960s and 1970s that it seemed like it was all over by the 1980s – but not so, as revealed in the two-part exhibition on photography in Vancouver c. 1983…

Stan Douglas, Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971 – Karen Henry

Ciel variable 85 - CONFLICT | Essays, Portfolios
Authors: Karen Henry | Artists: Stan Douglas

May 16, 2016 [originally published in Summer 2010] — The impressive piece of public art addresses the very nature of public space. It is named after the two streets that cross at the north corner of the Woodward’s building, on which the artwork is installed. The image inhabits space like a sculpture, grandly overlooking the public and private courtyards of the new complex in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

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