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Fiona Ackerman’s ‘Paper Trail’ at Gallery Jones Showcases Empathetic Abstraction

“During the development phase of this show, I read an essay by German art historian Wilhelm Worringer entitled Abstraction and Empathy (1908), translated into English and published in the 1950s. He divided the painting into two aesthetic schools: abstraction on one side – attempting to connect with the spiritual, existential and intangible, and on the...

ann golberg, perennial canadians, pendulum gallery, hsbc tower, victoria, vancouver, oil paintings

Ann Goldberg: Perennial Canadians Exhibition Captures Emotions

For her 8th solo exhibition, Vancouver artist Ann Goldberg presented a series of paintings exhibited at the Pendulum Gallery in downtown Vancouver displayed over the holiday season. The subjects primarily consist of Canadian perennial flowers. The works include original oil paintings on canvas with photographs on Dibond (aluminum) and white framed inkjet premium paper. The...

Folio.YVR 2019 / Top 10 Read: #5 Miriam Aroeste Celebrates the Ethereal HUMO

Bold, bright, and full of meaning. The works of Miriam Aroeste invoke powerful emotions with unidentifiable shapes and bursts of colour. In her latest collection, Humo, the colours seem to move on the canvas, like drops of ink in water. Each bloom of colour could be a physical representation of human emotions, usually impossible to...

Folio.YVR Issue #8/9: Natalia Vetrova: Classically Trained and Capturing Passion

To sit in observance of Natalia Vetrova painting is to sit in wonder of a creator so singularly devoted to precision that it makes everything on the periphery fade away. In her studio on Granville Island, Natalia is dressed casually in a black turtleneck and high-waisted jeans. Longtime associates Natalia and I share a fondness...