some galleries i saw today.


one point six:

The Anniversy Party, group show from photog grads from SFU, a great C-print of Warhol looking over LA like a bemused god, and a tiny black and white of three hollywood signs, both by susan bozic

A

Equinox:

Berneadette Phan does this lovely pop flowers that over whelm the picture plane, making them imex and goergous -- one of them small enough to fit in the palm of my land, one of them 6 feet tall. Upstairs the usual grab bag: some C-prints and silver gelatins of Lethbridge and surrounding countryside, a few tiny Rushca text peices, and a realistic still life of a particle deregualtor that Bryan loved.

B-

Bu Xi:

Casey McGlyn: wall paintings and a seires of sequentel and semi sequentel canvases, some with text, some verging on abstractions, really powerful. Upstairs a nice, stark kitchen scene still life, an awful Ryman rip off, and some moody potraits

A

Atiller:

Drawing grab bag show: some Dzama (which i should have bought two years ago at 80), some paintings of suburban paradises meant to be stark and evil, a mixed media piece that Ashley could have done if he was banal, and other odds and ends.

C


Tracey Lawerence:

Aside from being the nicest to me, they had a Vicky Chistou show that took me minutes to ID media, abstract and bizzare canvases, ropes of what looks like black and white paint or worms or snakes. Also a large and ironic twist on minimalism called passage: a whole canvas filed covered with tally marks (studio as prison?). Plus a Euan Macdonald work on paper, called Expolsion, that abstracted and asesthiczed the Chuck Jones school of madcap destruction.

A+


Contempary Art Gallery:

Digtial and artifical close-ups made up of Canadiana (torn quilt, cabins) complete with fake ad copy and design by McFarland, abstractions, and behind the studio c print nudes by Jemima Sthil (boring visually-conceptually interesting-brilliant catalog)

B+


I am missing about 10 galleries (including one downtown with lots of shit, but a portfolio of eary frankenthalers that were much more delineated then she usually does) -- forget to take notes or pick up copy for most. I can reconstruct it. Bought books as well, living on dolar pizza, having a grand time.

Other things: the galleriest at Attlier thot I was one of them, took 4 rolls of film, looked thru Gastown, downtown, Marine Building.
Really happy.

I am writing a poem about kumquauts and choco milk. Wait for it.
Off to the coast tomorrow, to see the grand Glenys.