Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition is a painterly yet political expression using folklore, fantasy and science fiction
The American painter Firelei Baez ’s first Canadian solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery contains multitudes. It’s an Afrofuturist vision that re-forms the canon even as it pays homage; a painterly yet political expression that reinvents colonial maps and architecture – infusing them with powerful colour and vivacity; and an historical study of the Atlantic basin reimagined through the lens of folklore, fantasy and science fiction.
To drink in Baez’s large tableaux in the flesh at the Vancouver Art Gallery – and to gaze at the fine detail, lush colours, studied brush strokes and “Rorschach” style unconscious images fusing animal, vegetable and human – is a nourishing feast for the senses. James Cohan, The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo by Phoebe d’Heurle/Suppliedis one of the exhibition’s highlights and effectively functions as the fourth sibling of three “portal” paintings spaced throughout the show.
Indeed, entering into Baez’s work, it’s hard to tell where the portals end and the art begins. Everything is an invitation to access a shape-shifting
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