Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Something Edge, a new body of work by Ben Reeves. Ben Reeves’ artistic practice is a way of exploring and learning about the world as well as a material and intellectual pursuit that unfurls not only new understandings about perception but an equal amount of uncertainty, which in turn fuels further curiosity.

In most of Reeves’s paintings, a view is projected from high ground (perhaps a North Shore mountaintop), through a tactile forest (perhaps in Lynn Valley), or toward sights of orderly urban vistas in the distance (perhaps Vancouver). The passage from one space to the other is accentuated by a tangle of vines or hanging branches made of cut canvas, which is collaged directly onto the burlap ground of the painting, partially impeding the view forward. These physical “veils” are staunch reminders of that which hovers behind and within, stalling the viewer in the web of the here and now of the foreground, while the coloured glimmer of an unknown future beckons in the distance. This tension between what is known and what is not, between the fleeting images of memory and the starkness of reality, finds its parallel in paint that is directed with great dexterity by an artist whose multifaceted handling of the medium—as it is blotted, dabbed, and dragged—grows increasingly sophisticated at each reveal.

Equinox Gallery (#110 - 525 Great Northern Way) is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Access to the gallery is via Thornton Street, just off Great Northern Way. For more information on our artists or exhibitions, please contact us at 604.736.2405.