Paintings
July 18 – 29, 1989
Exhibition
About the Program
Among some of the figures to be found in Jocelyn Edington's paintings are sailors, angels, man-beasts, and all allegorical embodiments of death. Symbolizing the search for Paradise, whether on tropical islands or in cities among the more immediate pleasures, the sailor often quite finds nothing of it. Stylistically, the artist has been inspired by medieval and early Renaissance painting in colour and spatial concerns. Some of the themes have been derived from Egyptian and Classical art. Mannerism has instructed the movement, Matisse provided ideas of colour and space, and Chagall informed the possibilities in painting from dreams and imagination. Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism influence ways of pursuing purely painterly qualities.Artist
Jocelyn EdingtonIdentifier
1989.0718 PAICollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (first location)209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
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