Ways and Means

This year’s Emily Carr Institue of Art and Design’s annual faculty exhibition highlights the work of five instructors who have retired from teaching at the Institute. Each of these artists represents a different approach to art production and subject matter. Since leaving the Institute each continued to pursue their art practices with a renewed vigor and engagement.

The exhibition presents a small selection of paintings by Ron Stonier, an instructor at the Vancouver School of Art from 1962 to 1979. Stonier passed away in 2001. He is recognized for his formalist abstract paintings and is remembered as an excellent teacher. Also included in the exhibition is Jim Breukelman who taught photographic practices. He will be showing images from a recent series called Mesocosm, which were made at the Biosphere 2 Center in Oracle, Arizona in 2003. Sally Michener will present recent ceramic sculptures, which continue her long-standing investigation into the representation of the body as an organic vessel composed of many complexities. David Rimmer, who’s films were screened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris this past summer, will present three new film works. Rick Ross, known for his drawing and sculptures and for his interest in Hot Rods will also show new works. The exhibition provides an opportunity to become re-acquainted with the work of these former faculty members who for many years contributed to the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.