Shuvinai Ashoona

The Vancouver Art Gallery bistro re-opened a couple months ago. Sort of. To enter you have to go into the VAG lobby and up two flights of stairs.

Prior to closing, access to and from the bistro was fluid. Not anymore. The VAG, who have taken on the running of the bistro (it had been out-sourced), have installed a spiked gate at what was once the patio entrance/exit.

I visited the gallery last week to see the Shuvnai Ashoona exhibition, in advance of today's telephone interview with the Inuk artist at the Kinngait Studios. I enjoyed the Nancy Campbell-curated exhibition; it expanded what I knew of the artist and her work, generating more questions.

Below is a drawing from the exhibition, entitled To the Print Shop (2013).