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☆ Issue #35 - Summer 2025

Helen Siwak – Issue #35 Publisher’s Message

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverAugust 2, 2025

Welcome to Issue No. 35 of Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine, where we continue our commitment to share stories that reflect the vibrancy, creativity, and ambition shaping Vancouver and beyond. Whether...

☆ Issue #34 - May 2025 FoF ☆ Personalities

Crossing Cultures, Shaping Landscapes: The Art of Mira Song

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverMay 31, 2025May 31, 2025

Artist Statement: "My practice deals with exploring specific natural and architectural spaces, and reframing these spaces through the embodiment of a different set of senses, memories, and imagination. Anchored in...

☆ Issue #33 - April 2025

Helen Siwak: EIC & Publisher’s Message: Issue #33 – April 2025

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverMay 4, 2025April 16, 2025

As the season turns and longer days stretch toward golden evenings, there is a distinct sense of renewal in the air. On the Canadian West Coast, where ocean breezes carry...

☆ Issue #33 - April 2025 FoF ☆ Community Folio.YVR Friends

Visual Truths: Kriss Munsya’s Journey from Kinshasa to Vancouver

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverApril 30, 2025April 16, 2025

Kriss Munsya is a Congolese-born visual artist whose work reflects a deeply personal exploration of identity, memory, and social transformation. Currently based in Vancouver, BC, Kriss brings a global perspective...

☆ Issue #25 - May 2024

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

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverJune 5, 2024June 16, 2024

"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....

☆ Issue #23 - February 2024

Photographer Brian Howell’s ‘Chainsaw Rorschach Test’ Exhibition at Gallery Jones

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverFebruary 27, 2024March 1, 2024

A Vancouver-based photographer best known for creating documentary photographs rooted in activism, Brian Howell is exhibiting his latest works at Gallery Jones in the Armoury District. As a photographer who...

☆ Issue #23 - February 2024

Issue #23 – Helen Siwak, Publisher’s Message

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverFebruary 27, 2024

Greetings and a warm welcome! It is with great pleasure that we present Issue #23, the first edition of 2024 of the Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine. As we enter our...

☆ Issue #18 - Spring 2023

Lyle XOX: I. THEY. MINE. YOURS… Gallery Jones Exhibition

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle ObserverMay 12, 2023July 1, 2023

Consumerist culture is filled with superfluous objects, many of which are passed the point of use. For Lyle Reimer, aka Lyle XOX, these discarded objects are more than their materials—they...