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Canadian artist + content creator Paul de Guzman has a Youtube channel on contemporary + historical art, exhibitions, collections, etc. Click the link and SUBSCRIBE for Free: https://www.youtube.com/@PaulpresentsART

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to "Paul presents #ART: The Archive" !!

This video revisits a 2023 exhibition at BAF Burrard Arts Founday by Karice Mitchell. Her photo-based installation considers issues surrounding intimacy and the representation of the Black femme body.

click here for the video -> youtu.be/jr1Bgo7IsLw

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 8d

Welcome to another episode of "Paul presents #ART"!!

This video looks closely at the paintings by Sojourner Truth Parsons at Contemporary Art Gallery. The exhibition brings together her canvases’ elemental approach to sensation, texture and tone.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 14d

Those boots ain't made for walkin !! lol

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 14d

Interesting. Doesn't look like a print, must be a painting.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 15d

Just a matter of finding the right person who appreciates it.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 17d

Welcome to another edition of "Paul presents #ART"!!

This video features Patrick Cruz's contribution to “Edge Effects”, the inaugural group show at the Gibson Art Musuem. His painting environment weaves narratives involving #magic and #spiruality.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 23d

Welcome to "Paul presents #ART: The Archive" !!

This video revisits a 2023 exhibition of abstract paintings by Lyse Lemieux at WAAP Wil Aballe Art Projects inspired by the “comptine” or nursery rhyme.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 25d

Edo had a few hundred years to achieve all that, and it's slow due to its political situation with the Shogunate at the time, which to me stagnated under their rule. Meiji had a few decades to achieve change and in today's world, change is everything and stagnation is death.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 25d

Artwise, Edo did produced Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Hiroshige considered the "golden" era, but Meiji produced Yoshitoshi, Kunichika, Chikanobu, Sosaku Hanga and Shin Hanga which is the "decadent" era. Both periods have their triumphs.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · 25d

When comparing time spans, political changes and influences, I personally think Meiji (1898-1912) is far more interesting than Edo (1615-1898). I think of Edo as traditional and Meiji as progressive.

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 30

Welcome to another edition of "Paul presents #ART"!!

This video looks at some #textile #assemblage “drawings” by Christian Newby at CSA Space Gallery. The textiles foreground process as a visible condition, caught between formation and disassembly.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 25

Love Sergio Suarez work. He had a show here in Vancouver at Pale Fire Projects.

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 22

Welcome to another edition of "Paul presents #ART" !!

This video looks at an exhibition of newly discovered #expressionist #paintings by interdisciplinary #nonagenarian #artist Gathie Falk at Equinox Gallery.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 22

People now realize that money talks, especially when the US is concerned. So fight fascism through the power of your wallet. It does make a difference.

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 21

I enjoy artwork on the periphery.

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 14

Welcome to another edition of "Paul presents #ART" !!

This video revisits the life-size #bronze #sculptures in “Peaceable Kingdom” by Tom Dean, part of the City of #Vancouver Public Art Program, that comments on the idea of paradise as a paradox.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 13

Thinking of Robert Raushenberg's erased de Kooning drawing. It's difficult but not impossible, and ironically leaves a much lasting impression me thinks !!

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 11

if it is indeed 1922, it's groundbreaking !! :-) ... but Wiki says 1992 so I can deal with that.

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 11

Just saw a solo show of Gathie Falk's paintings from the early 1960s and immediately saw the reference to CoBrA artist Karel Appel. Me thinks a video will be in the works.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 9

Welcome to "Paul presents #ART: The Archive" !!

This video revisits a 2023 exhibition by Richard Tetrault at The Cultch Gallery that explored the everchanging landscape of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside through a socially aware visual commentary.

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 8

I find this quote really funny coming from a heterosexual male artist discovering "the hole". I think that's what most pubescent teens discover too (male, female of otherwise) ... lol. OK, I'm in a jocular mood today !!

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Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 8

I keep thinking of the role authorship plays in attributing power to a singular artist, where a purely community-based art has no author therefore power is dispersed. Most non-European historical art is "powerless" because of that (i.e. african art comes to mind). Just a thought.

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 6

Such an underrated artist in my opinion, especially when ceramic works are currently in the canon of contemporary artistic discourse.

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ironically, it's LIFE that ultimately kills ... lol.

Paul presents ART @paulpresentsart.bsky.social · Sep 5

This has got to be one of the "happier" Borduas I've seen so far.

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