Installation Views

Although the safety challenges of the pandemic have necessitated a predominantly online Show, with great effort and cooperation a smaller exhibition of graduating student work was installed in the main level concourse and gallery spaces. All photos by Michael Love.

Square painting of an orange cat with large green eyes and pink ears, painted in large abstract brushstrokes.
Jacob Parsons
Wall-mounted installation of many square tiles arranged in rectangle, with a few more outside of the rectangle. The tiles are painted many shades of blue, teal and light brown with visible brushstrokes. 3D whale figures stick out from the surface on several of the tiles.
Clare Wilkening
Installation of a TV and two speakers mounted on a plinth. On the TV is an image of a stained-glass tile of flowers with a spotlight shining on it.
Mana Saei
Painting of a figure hunched over a gnarled walking stick, wearing a mask with a large iridescent labret inlay and dark eyebrows. Grey hair and a wood-bark braid are visible. They are wearing a teal plaid fringed blanket over the head, a tan fringed skirt, and matching tan pants and shoes with white flowers on a red background.
Levi Nelson
Three wall-mounted prints in light brown frames of portraits with pixelated, blurry faces. The left subject has long hair and a black shirt; the middle subject has brown hair and purple glasses and shirt; and the right subject has short black hair and an emerald green shirt.
Jeff Henschel
Four paintings of art deco-style building facades in neon colours.
Trevor Brett
Six photographs with purple and black tones. Top row: A figure lying in bed wrapped in a white comforter; the same figure facing away from the camera; feet stepping down from a bed onto the floor with a plate on the floor. Bottom row: A figure in the dark sitting up in bed with a string of coloured lights wrapped around their legs; the same figure and setting but from a different angle; a person looking out the window to a city holding a bag with oranges and gold coins.
Rebecca Wang
A group of triangles and polygons mounted onto the wall, wrapped tightly with brightly coloured, patterned fabric in shades of orange, blue, red and yellow.
Jyotika Khosla
Two wall-mounted portraits of exaggerated, fleshy human figures seemingly trapped in a small blue room. The left image shows a full figure, the right shows a pair of legs joined at the knee.
George Weston
Painting of a long-haired, bearded human figure with arms behind their back and a bloody stake in their chest, sitting on a grassy cliff overlooking a dark ocean and sky. They have tattoos of "Only God can Judge me" and a cross on their chest, and Homer Simpson on their right leg.
Jeremy Hamilton
An altar covered in peach-coloured, squiggly textures with black streaks. The altar has a mirror and many short candles and on the floor is a straw broom. Behind are two salmon-coloured fabrics draped so they puff up from the wall they are tacked to.
Tiffany Muñoz
Dowel-mounted print of a leg calf with stubble, being stroked with hands that have long painted fingernails.
Vanessa Figueroa
Zoomed-in photograph of a tree branch with a bunch of brown fibrous material nestled into its crook.
Ryanne Bergler
Wall-mounted posters in shades of bright yellow, blue, and red depicting female figures holding children amid refugee crises in Asia. Top row, left to right: Vietnam, in a boat with the text “the fall of Sai Gon 30/4/1975”; Syria, in a boat wearing life jackets; North Korea, walking along a field with statues in the background; Burma, amid a protest with the text “8888 uprising” and “We want democracy.” Bottom row: eight identical postcards of a boat, with the text “we are refugees”.
Doan Truong
A zine, “The Age of Blue”, sits on a plinth with a cover drawing of of two heads emerging from a tangle with butterflies emerging; on the wall behind hang six prints including the cover image, featuring images of trees, human figures and animals.
Siqi Yang
A pink zine with purple ink titled “New Disclosure” lays open on a plinth; on the wall behind, in one large light brown frame are the pages of the zine laid out.
Odeya Yeoman
Three pop-up cards and two small books arranged on a plinth, depicting illustrations of a house peeking behind bushes, colourful tree-lined landscapes, and human figures.
Xiaotong Ye
Two paintings of figures wearing glasses and standing with their left arms raised: the left figure is standing in a living room and has red hair and wears blue shorts and t-shirt; the right figure is standing in front of a door, has short dark hair and is wearing a red shirt and blue paints.
Darius Fultz-Zetner
A white arcade game console with the title “VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: DOOMGUY GETS AN HONORARY BFA” with the Emily Carr University logo spray-painted in pink and turquoise on the side. The console’s screen shows an exhibition space with a message saying “Input Not Supported,” and a pink sticky note is tacked on the console reading “Out of Order / Do Not Touch.”
Darius Fultz-Zetner
Two paintings: the top has a yellow background with a thin whorl-like designs and eye-shaped patterns; the bottom is brown with multicoloured, textured shapes with ragged edges.
Stella Castell
Two abstract paintings in shades of periwinkle, lavender, and teal depicting overlapping textures and patterns.
Marcie Rohr Esau
Gray pencil drawing on cream-paper of a nude female figure laying in water with hair draped across the water; a canopy of leaves and glowing white butterflies dangles above.
Yuying He
Abstract painting of 3D zig-zags overlapping across the entire canvas, painted in shades of yellow, hot pink, red, and dark grey.
A large close-up painting of an eye in Northwest Coast formline style, rendered in shades of dark blue and black.
Destanie Clayton
Brown clay sculptures arranged vertically, with two mounted on the wall and one on the ground. They all have a thin, rippled shape like a wrinkled leaf, and shards of textured glass and splatters of crackled white, blue and green paint on them.
Dylan Read
Two tanned hides hang from yellow string suspended from the ceiling. To the right, a wall-mounted TV shows a video of a blue-toned riverbed with mountains in the background.
Sydney Pickering
Cheerios cereal pieces are arranged into asymmetrical outlines of three flowers on a mostly-empty white canvas. Faint graphite sketches of faces are visible in the background.
Jacob Parsons
Brightly coloured, abstract corrupted images are cut out and affixed along the length of on a tall, thin orange plank mounted to a wall.
Kyle Scott
Two paintings of warped, striped buildings on a cobalt blue background. The left is a square canvas and shows an orange trellis and teal and purple colours; the right is a taller canvas and shows a brown trellis and has many shades of yellow and orange stripes.
Natalie Robinson
Black elk hide stretched out on a stick and hung on a wall. On the hide is a silk-screened image of a fox, tall green spruce trees, and a large moon.
Amber Ross
Ceramic vase on a plinth with a narrow base, wide middle and narrow spout with a lip. The surface is dotted with many open mouths in relief, and some open orifices with black paint drip out.
Fiona Thomas
Oil painting of three orca whales suspended in the air; the background is divided into sections of dark green forest and a blue snowy mountain against a a dark sky.
Amber Rai
Acrylic and ink abstract painting with overlapping brushstrokes across the canvas, in shades of orange, green, yellow, blue, and black.
Talia Malkowich
Dark purple and brown mountain landscape painting with an orange sunset. On the left, a naked Justin Trudeau faces to the left with a green pipe emerging from his rear. Slain bodies of an orca, bear, salmon and wolf lay on the ground.
Quinn Monleon
Installation of wall-mounted objects: A long length of dark blue fabric with small green human figures; a small painted tile; a wide, textured teal painting, a circular teal painting with dark blue strokes and brown border; and a small TV showing a bright blue image of a figure similar to the pattern on the fabric.
Yeonoo Park
Open cardboard structure composed of many square frame shapes stacked on top of each other, with a few of the frames containing geometric paintings in bright colours.
Jen Candela
Five portraits mounted above metal railings. Each depicts the tightly cropped heads of two men wrestling, rendered in bright shades of orange and red with blue backgrounds.
Darius Ghassemi Kian
Three sculptures of ceramic vessels. The left is brown and has white plaster antennae; the middle is grey and has gloopy orange foam and nails emerging from it; the right is brown and white, mounted on a wooden box with dripping black forms suspended atop it and an orange plastic tarp below.
Mickey Vescera
Black-framed photograph of a residential block at night. A person stands in front of the open trunk of an ambulance van, and feet are sticking out from the trunk. To the left is a person sitting on a lit stoop of an apartment building, looking at their phone.
Madison Lemke
Diptych of two grainy, black and white double-explosure photographs showing multiple scenes of Vancouver streets overlaid on top of each other.
Jordan Shum
A square, all-mauve canvas covered in a thin layer of powder in clumps.
Mia Givon
Two paintings: the left shows a tree branch covered in pink flowers painted in large brushstrokes against a pink and periwinkle background. The right shows a series of demonic green figures setting naked human figures on fire. The ground and fiery sky are painted in wide strokes.
Jacob Parsons
Wall-mounted installation of many pieces of fibrous paper and pictures tacked up against white fabric. The papers have type-written notes and ink drawings on them. On the ground sits an upturned wooden soapbox, and a placard that reads “Little box of protests.”
Shelley Saltzman
Five black ceramic vessels on plinths, with etchings that reveal tan-coloured clay below the paint. Each etching depicts different human figure on a couch. The three centre vessels share a large plinth and have two handles, the others have one handle and sit on smaller plinths.
Kaitlyn Herlehy
Close-up of three black ceramic vessels with handles near the spout, with etchings that reveal tan-coloured clay below the paint. Each etching depicts different human figure on a couch.
Kaitlyn Herlehy
Installation in the corner of a room of a pile of many large, cracked red eggshells.
Camilla Giordano Cerna
Floor installation of two small head figures made of socks, with squirts of oil paint used to create facial features. One is white and the other is an iridescent blue-grey with yellow nose and green mouth. They rest on top a reflective blue-black surface shaped like a puddle.
Pierre Kaufman
Semi-transparent orange butterflies are suspended from the ceiling in front of a window overlooking ECU campus.
Ysabel Owen
Three abstract paintings; one is large and has vertical brushstrokes of cobalt blue, yellow, and dark green. The others are smaller, square and show tree ring-like formations; the top one has yellow and blue paint on a black background and the bottom one has brown and orange paint on a teal background.
Lynda Davies
A colourful oil painting on unstretched canvas against a black backdrop, depicting several young girls with dark hair along along a blue stairwell, surrounded by rice plants, butterflies and a hand holding a camcorder. The composition has a yellow, pointed frame surrounding the figures, and a pink background.
Katrina Abad
Oil painting depicting a glass coffee table with pill bottles, jars, and TV remotes on it. The ground is covered in colourful pink, purple, yellow and peach brushstrokes.
Kristy Carse
Floor installation of irregularly shaped, flat ceramic pieces covered in paint-strokes of green, blue and brown, arranged in a somewhat overlapping pile with a matching pot beside them. Surrounding the pile is a large ring of orange-brown powder.
Ofra Av-Shalom
Colourful, stylized oil painting of a pink and green hummingbird with blue body beside matching leaves, against a background of periwinkle and dark blue flowers.
Irma Schiele
TV mounted on a plinth showing a closeup view of strands of melted marshmallows on a polka-dotted blue plate.
Dingyin Yao
Three shelves each containing a row of plates on display. The top row has five brown speckled plates with painted flowers and herbs; the middle row has five shiny cream plates with faint engravings; the bottom row has six speckled brown plates with painted weeds.
Anais Casselman-Green
A series of prints and small zines printed on gray and cream paper arranged in a wooden, glass-topped display box.
Shelley Saltzman
Two groupings of small zines printed on brown, pink and white paper arranged in a wooden, glass-topped display box.
Roving Designers, Connor Budd
A series of zines, each using a different bright colour of ink on white paper, arranged in a grid on a wooden, glass-topped display box.
Arina Sin
Several groups of small posters and booklets arranged in a grid on a wooden, glass-topped display box. In the background is an installation on the floor of many flat, textured ceramic pieces encircled by a ring of brown-orange powder.
Yuhyun Hwang
Wood-framed photograph of a person trimming a bonsai tree in a small, darkly-lit room with wooden furnishings, lit from a window behind.
Delaney Soumang
Two series of nine black-and-white photographs, each arranged in a grid. The first series is of different park benches in forests photographed from the same angle. The second series is of rocky creek beds lined with trees.
Flora So
Wall projection of an illustrated sailing ship on fire, in cobalt-blue water amid a stormy sky.
G.R. Roger
Framed collage of a a mask-like shape covered in symmetrical patterns of scales, water, and plants. A set of eyes set in the middle of succulent plants are connected by green grass-like strands.
Christina Norberg
Framed photograph of two people facing away from the camera, standing close to each other with hair blowing in the wind. The person on the left is holding their brown hair which is clipped back, and is wearing dangly earrings and a lavender knit shirt with tattoos on their raised upper arm visible. The person on the right has shot brown hair and a long-sleeve green shirt.
Teigan Kelly
Two framed photographs of glass windowed buildings. The top image is a close-up with a blue sky and caution tape refracted several times in the glass. The bottom image looks into the entire room through open wood doors. The windows are in a circular column wrapped in caution tape with empty leather couches surrounding them, and a forest with bright sky is visible through the windows.
Carolina de la Cajiga
Detailed framed etching of a decaying corpse in fetal position on grass. Bones, flowers, and a bird’s nest with eggs inside surround the figure.
Hannah Dow-Kenny
Drawing of a pixelated green figure with a black and red checkered background. Text in the foreground reads “SMARTPHONES KILLED THE BALANCED LIFE OF THE 2000’S. NOW THERE IS ONLY A LIFE OF CHOICE.”
Jacob Parsons
Exhibition installation inside the Emily Carr University building. In the foreground is a mosaic of many square tiles in shades of blue, teal, and brown, and on the adjacent wall to the left is a painting of a figure hunched over wearing a mask and a plaid blanket over their head. On the far wall in a separate area is a series of six purple-toned photographs.
Installation view of DE 21 Part 1
Exhibition installation; in the foreground is a mosaic of many square tiles in shades of blue, teal, and brown, and 3-dimensional whale figures stick out from the surface of several tiles. On the adjacent wall to the left is a painting of a figure hunched over a walking stick, wearing a mask with an iridescent labret inlay and a plaid blanket over their head.
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Outside of a room labelled “Rennie Hall,” a TV is mounted on a plinth. On the screen is a teal-coloured floor with the corner of a woven rug poking out. To the left on a wall is a painting of an orange cat with large green eyes and pink ears, painted in large abstract brushstrokes.
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On the left of a wall is a wood-framed photograph of a person in a dimly lit room trimming a bonsai tree. To the right is a group of triangles and polygons mounted on the wall, wrapped with patterned orange, blue, red, yellow and green fabric.
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In a corner of two walls hangs a print of a leg calf with hair, being stroked with hands that have long painted fingernails. On the left wall is a close-up photograph of a tree branch with a bunch of brown fibrous material nestled into its crook. On the right wall is two series of nine black-and-white photographs, each arranged in a grid; one series shows park benches in a forest; the other shows a creek bed amid trees.
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Interior view of Emily Carr University; in the foreground are several display tables topped with glass; in the background an installation of ceramic pieces lays on the floor encircled by light brown powder; in the background on the far wall hang colourful paintings out of focus.
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Inside view of Emily Carr University; in the foreground, an installation of flat textured brown ceramic pieces and one matching pot lays on the floor encircled by light brown powder. In the background are two colourful paintings; the one on the left is mounted on a larger black backdrop and shows girls amid plants; the one on the right is smaller and has many abstract shades of purple.
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Three installations of works on paper. On the left, a pink zine lays open on a plinth with pages pages displayed in a wood frame on the wall behind. In the middle, a pale pink zine sits on a plinth with 6 black-and-white prints displayed on the wall behind. On the right are 4 bright yellow, blue and red prints, below is a series of eight blue and yellow postcards.
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On the left mounted on a plinth are several colourful small pop-up cards and books. In the centre is a painting of a person with glasses and red hair wearing blue shorts and t-shirt, standing in a living room with their left arm raised. On the right is a painting of a person with glasses and dark hair wearing a red shirt and blue paints in front of a doorway with their left arm raised.
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In the foreground is a green and brown print with a white frame, and three irregular ceramic pieces that are arranged vertically so two are hung on the wall and one is on the floor. In the background is a tall plank painted orange; on the far adjacent wall are two abstract blue and brown paintings.
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On the left wall, a large dark blue and black painting of an eye in Northwest Coast formline style; on the adjacent wall is a green and brown print with a white frame. Beside it are three irregular ceramic pieces that are arranged vertically so two are hung on the wall and one is on the floor.
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On the left exhibition wall is a mostly-blank white canvas with outlines of brown flowers; beside it is a tall orange plank with colourful designs printed onto it. On the adjacent wall are two paintings with warped brown and yellow buildings on a cobalt background; beside is a black piece of hide hanging on the wall with an orange fox, white moon and green tree design.
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Six works on paper hang on an exhibition wall. The first is a busy abstract pink, black and yellow painting; the second is a charcoal drawing; the third and fourth are teal, periwinkle and lavender abstract paintings; the fifth is a yellow painting with green eye-like designs and the sixth is a brown painting with red, brown and blue patches.
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In an exhibition space, a cream-coloured ceramic vase with narrow neck and base sits on a plinth. Relief designs of mouths dot the vase’s surface. On the back wall is a TV screen showing a blue outdoor scene, a white canvas with brown outlines of flowers, and a tall orange plank printed with colourful designs. On the right wall are two paintings with abstract brown forms and cobalt blue backgrounds, and a black piece of hide hanging from a string with a moon, tree, and fox print.
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Facing a corner, on the left exhibition wall is a wood-framed photograph of two people facing away from the camera, a dark blue and black painting of orca whales, and a colourful abstract painting with wide brushstrokes. On the adjacent right wall is a series of two framed photographs of a windowed room, and a brown painting of a brown-and-orange landscape with a standing human figure and animal carcasses on the ground.
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In an open exhibition space stands a square structure constructed from frames made of cardboard, with some of the frames filled with coloured inserts. On the wall behind is a bright blue tall painting; a wide teal painting, a circular teal painting, and a TV screen showing a cobalt blue image.
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On a ledge beside an indoor ramp sits three industrial-looking ceramic sculptures with textured attachments. The rightmost sculpture sits on a wood stand containing an overflowing orange plastic tarp. On the far wall are a series of five close-up portraits of men wrestling painted in shades of orange and red, with dark blue backgrounds.
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Facing a window, two small knobbly head sculptures sit on a reflective puddle-shaped surface on the ground. On the right wall are five black water jugs with brown etched patterns displayed on plinths, with the middle three jugs sharing one plinth.
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Five black water jugs with brown etched patterns are displayed on plinths, with the middle three jugs sharing one plinth. On the far wall is an installation of many pieces of brown and cream paper and some photographs. On the ground below is an upturned soap box with a placard atop it.
Installation view of DE 21 Part 1
On the left, five black water jugs with brown etched patterns are displayed on plinths, with the middle three jugs sharing one plinth. On the far wall is an installation of many pieces of brown and cream paper and some photographs. On the ground is an upturned soap box with a placard atop it. To the right are two head-shaped sculptures sitting in a reflective puddle-shaped surface on the ground.
Installation view of DE 21 Part 1
In an open exhibition space sits a square structure constructed from frames made of cardboard, with some of the frames filled with coloured inserts. On the far wall is a wood-framed photograph of two figures looking away from the camera, and a dark blue and black painting of orca whales. On the adjacent walls are two photographs blocked from view by the structure, and a brown and orange landscape painting with a standing human figure and slain animal carcasses on the ground.
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Four brightly coloured paintings of art deco building facades hang on a far wall. On the left wall are six photographs in purple tones. On the right wall are three wood-framed images of pixelated faces against white backgrounds.
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