A nice time at the VAG yesterday. I was excited to be seeing Alanis Obomsawin's retrospective, looking forward to the abstract painting show (up top, Douglas Morton's Fractured Black, 1963) and, if I am honest, dreading the Shary Boyle exhibition, which, as it turned out, was elegantly designed, allowing its works to be seen in the best possible light.
The painting show and the Obomsawin shows were even better than expected, with the former filled with works by local artists whose names are mostly familiar to us from the 1960s and early 70s abstraction scene, but whose chosen works aren't. Which is to say curator Richard Hill didn't show us the usual go-to Gordon Smith's and Joan Balzar's, but their lesser seen works.
Below is a lesser-seen, Michael Morris-influenced Smith (Boxed Rainbow, 1970):
And here is a lesser-seen Balzar (Untitled, c. 1960s):
And since we're talking boxes (Smith), here is an exploded view of a lesson-in-a-box from the Obomsawin exhibition:
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