Intersecting Orbits: Michael Morris and Joan Balzar
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PeriodContemporaryPostwarModern
StyleAbstractConceptualPrintmakingInstallationPhotographyNew Media
RegionInternationalCanadianLocal (Metro Vancouver)
About the exhibition
Joan Balzar (1928-2016) and Michael Morris (1942-2022) were foundational to the development of abstraction and conceptualism in British Columbia. To be within their orbit was to be part of a movement which shaped and internationalized regional visual art in the 1960s and 70s, and went on to become enduringly echoed and quoted. Intersecting Orbits presents works by both artists and from Morris’s collection and archive. A generation apart in age, Balzar and Morris studied with the same painters (Jack Shadboldt, Joe Plaskett, Peter Aspell, Roy Kiyooka and Don Jarvis) at the Vancouver School of…
Artists
Joan Balzar, Michael Morris
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Griffin Art Projects · 1174 Welch Street, North Vancouver, BC V7P 1B2Open in Maps →
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