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...band of soldiers in an assault on a huge Mayan temple thought to contain the Tree. As hundreds clash on the temple steps a stony-eyed Mayan priest tears the still-beating heart out of a Franciscan friar. It's an exciting sequence that takes best advantage of artist Kent Williams' ability to combine expressive, natural characterization with fantastically interpretive imagery. In a class with the mixed-media work of Bill Sienkiewicz (Electra: Assassin) and Dave McKean (Cages), Williams combines pen and ink with bursts of rich, painterly color. It's a style that best serves the most outrageous sequences...
...take an artist to notice that a lot of sports equipment can seem more extravagant than a papal tiara. But to move from that recognition to something deeper--that's where an artist comes in handy. Something deeper is what Jungen does well. You can see just how well all through the smart, stimulating and sometimes laugh-out-loud-funny survey of his work that just opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG). There are more than 40 pieces in this show, and even the fanciest snowboard is no match for the least of them...
...artist Andy Warhol famously, and prophetically, opined that "in the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.? For some of the cast members on television?s ever-multiplying number of reality shows, those 15 minutes aren?t always what they?re cracked up to be. These contestants signed onto reality shows for the fun and adventure. Instead, they claim that viewers were left with an impression of them that was anything but real...
...decades ago, the potter began arranging her bowls, beakers and bottles along window ledges - airing them, so to speak, where their pure forms could be worshiped by the eye - and an artist was born. But despite the loftiness of her achievements - Hanssen Pigott is considered one of the world's best ceramic artists - the beauty of this exhibition is in showing the earthiness of her inspiration. Born in the Victorian goldmining town of Ballarat in 1935, this daughter of an engineer and craft teacher naturally, it seems, sought salvation from the ground. As an apprentice to Ivan McMeekin...
...help but read the queue of 23 moist-lipped vessels in Exodus II, 1996, as asylum seekers). Other still-life groups simply delight in their play of form (the rising and falling rhythm of Breath, 2000) and color (the enlightening journey of Fade, 2003). Her groups, which the artist keeps carefully documented in photographs, are growing. In 2004, for instance, Hanssen Pigott placed ten trails of 20-odd vessels in a display that curved along a beach in Cornwall, England, with sand, surf and ceramics commingling. Sadly, Caravan hasn't made it into the present show, but The Beatles have...