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Please join us for a special evening benefitting Canuck Place Children's Hospice. Curated by Becker Galleries, this one-evening only exhibition and sale of artwork by Jolinda Linden and David Robinson will also preview Canuck Place's Gift of Time Gala. Enjoy savoury bites, mingling and cocktails amidst captivating contemporary artwork. Complimentary valet parking. Cash Bar and live DJ until late. For more information contact (604) 646 0518. For art inquires contact Michele Becker (604) 761 2234. Part proceeds from art sales benefit Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. About the Artists
JOLINDA LINDEN Jolinda Linden’s artwork is best described as ‘two-dimensional sculpture.’ Each piece is comprised of hundreds or thousands of small, unique components meticulously created to combine into multi-level compositions. Enhanced by a mostly monochromatic palette, Linden’s ceramic patterns on two-dimensional supports represent the tactile aesthetic of repetition. From her earliest art workshop at age five to her art education at the University of Montana and beyond, Jolinda has been entranced by clay. Her pieces represent a continuing commitment and exploration of the medium. The methodical approach evident in each piece mirrors Jolinda’s disciplined work ethic. With each artwork relating to the next and every tile informed by the one before it Linden’s compositions are a resonance of unique repetition and pattern. - Michele Becker, Becker Galleries, Vancouver, BC, 2009
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DAVID ROBINSON Born in Toronto, David entered the Fine Arts stream in High School specializing in and eventually teaching sculpture. David’s dedication to the figure as conceptual metaphor is the point of connection for most viewers. His visual metaphors take the objective ‘figure’ and conceptually abstract it until the work is entirely conceptual and subjective. The result is a stunning, almost classical presentation of the human form which immediately resonates with the viewer. For some, it is an instant, visceral connection, making the sculpture, or more accurately, the viewing of the sculpture, quite personal. Others approach the work intuitively, with a sense of familiar recognition. Regardless, Robinson introduces us to ourselves at a base level. Ironically, the engagement of three-dimensionality in sculpture is also a vulnerability for Robinson who encounters the unavoidable limitation of the medium as a filter for his ideas and the creative process that brings them to life. The articulation of ideas through form and dimensionality challenge the sculptor to stay true to his inspiration. As Robinson states in relation to his own creative process, “It seems to me that my sculptures, before they are anything else, are manifestations of fitful waking dreams, narratives whole and smashed, images, ideas, all distilled through the passage of time and the particular resistance of matter.” Robinson is respectful of his materials, recognizing their fundamentality, he is in a constant mode of exploring, adapting and mastering. “I read meaning into my vocation by way of having my hand guided, my eye illumined, and my mind changed under the presiding influence of matter.” - Michele Becker, Becker Galleries, Vancouver, BC, 2009
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