It's now almost two weeks since I went over to Burnaby Art Gallery on a Thursday evening for the opening of Joe Fafard's latest show here in the Lower Mainland. I'm always curious to see what this well-known Canadian sculptor from Saskatchewan has been up to. From his humorous and loving clay sculptures of prairie folk, to portraits of famous artists and later to the…
Recently Al and I spent a happy afternoon on South Granville street checking all the galleries. Highlights were: finding BC Binning paintings in the downstairs show at Art Emporium, the amusing, slightly mind-boggling reverse-perspective work by Patrick Hughes at the Winsor Gallery and the Joe Fafard sculptures in the new 'Masters Gallery Ltd.' We walked across 4th Avenue into the now trendy Armoury District to…
Yesterday Al and I drove into Granville Island to let the galleries have the few new jugbirds I have for them. Surprise! There was a new poster - fame at last! Then we checked out some South Granville street galleries. One well-known Alberta/BC Gallery is showing Joe Fafard's new work. I always enjoy his huge bulls in city locations - Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto. In the…