Ben Reeves: Something Edge
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Equinox Gallery 3642 Commercial Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V5N 4G2
Reception for the artist: Saturday, November 24, 2-4pm
Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Something Edge, a new body of work by Ben Reeves. Ben Reeves’ artistic practice is a way of exploring and learning about the world as well as a material and intellectual pursuit that unfurls not only new understandings about perception but an equal amount of uncertainty, which in turn fuels further curiosity.
Reflecting on his current series of works, Reeves explains: “These paintings are views from one space, looking into another. I equate this with how experiences are always made up of multiple realities, multiple spaces. For example, the present is always haunted by the past. When I think back to my childhood, growing up here on the West Coast, I realize that it was both the place I thought it was and it wasn’t. I didn’t know that the place I grew up in both was and wasn’t itself.” How, then, does an artist begin to address the layered histories embedded in the land?
Ben Reeves lives and paints in Tsawwassen, BC. He has exhibited extensively in galleries across Canada as well as in the United States, United Kingdom, and China. His paintings have been collected by major museums such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and Vancouver Art Gallery, among other public and private collections. Reeves received his BA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and MA from the Chelsea College of Arts and Design, London, and is currently Associate Professor in the Audain Faculty of Art and the Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, where he continues to influence generations of emerging painters through his teaching.