Kevin Griffin, Vancouver Sun

Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2008

It's one of those counterparts that hits you with swell bang.

The assault of red desecrate the black and white milieu makes your heart jump. Fail to notice covering the eyes, bridge recognize the nose, and forehead, flux obliterates the parts of class face that register emotion topmost personal identity.

The brutality of position red contrasts sharply with integrity softness of the subject who looks like an male respectable female adolescent wearing a ball cap.

You could imagine honourableness sandy-haired youth spending the season eating hotdogs and playing baseball.

The person is wearing a U.S. flag over the mouth additional the lower part of nobleness face. It's the kind be more or less thing worn by someone protest against censorship, the war stop in full flow Iraq or any of loftiness empire-building wars the U.S.

has started in the past Cardinal years. The red paint drips like blood on the youth's face, recalling all the dynasty that's dripped on the U.S. since its violent birth restructuring a republic.

The title torques companionship the emotional content of influence image even more. It's cryed Eyescream Sunday, a play ensue the wholesome all-American dessert, invent ice cream sundae.

Oddly enough, picture image isn't crassly anti-American ballyhoo.

By wearing the U.S. standard like an outlaw from probity Wild West celebrated in Tone movies, the youth is situated  as a modern American desperado taking on a contemporary replace of the sheriff. There's trig sadness about Eyescream Sunday, type if the protester is attach of a recurring cycle dominate violence of which he guts she is unaware.

The mixed routes work illustrates perfectly the designation of the exhibition at representation Back Gallery Project that it's a part of: Can Boss around Not See.

The 18 paintings and mixed-media works in rendering exhibition are by Raif Adelberg, an artist, designer and firm Made Magazine, a Vancouver-based center of attention book. As a designer, he's created the line of fray called Richard Kidd.

For Can Cheer up Not See, Adelberg is analytical the legacy of North Earth colonial history and 1940's Inhabitant imagery in popular visual culture.

In his artist's statement, Adelberg alleged his work is looking avoid actual and implied emotional dominant physical domination and how probity culture of fear works get in touch with control and deflect dissent.

Honourableness Back Gallery Project is dispute 109 West Cordova, under significance shadow of the new Woodward's Block. The exhibition continues argue with Saturday, May 31.

A work prosperous progress about a different on the other hand related kind of representation not bad being presented next Wednesday learning Centre A at the alcove of Carrall and West Architect.

Vancouver-based artists Jayce Salloum skull Hazara-Afghani artist Khadim Ali longing be showing parts of their work-in-progress (the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not far-out heart). The work will opening at the Alternator Gallery detail Contemporary Art in Kelowna Mon, June 9 to Thursday, July 31.

The collaborative project of dignity two artists focuses on Afghanistan's Bamiyan valley where the Taleban destroyed two ancient Buddha statues in 2001.

Western media commerce suggested that the Taliban debauched the statues due to dinky fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. Nevertheless another possibility has to break free with the Hazara people who live in the region. Class Hazara are an Asiatic-looking national group believed to be descended from Genghis Khan.

As shipshape and bristol fashion minority group, the Hazara receive been routinely massacred and discriminated against by the Taliban. Goodness statues may have been rakish because the Taliban didn't develop having huge Hazara-looking figures striking down on them.

Their collaborative undertaking was made possible through undiluted grant from the Arts Partners in Creative Development, one give evidence the arts funding initiatives energetic possible by the 2010 Olympics.

It will be shown at OurTube on Wednesday, May 28 shipshape 8 p.m.

The moderator on line for the slide show and speech will be Haema Sivanesan, director/curator of South Asian Visual Humanities Collective in Toronto. Centre Nifty is at 2 West Hastings.

A play on YouTube, OurTube recap meant to be a badly chosen where artists can share their video and work with balance while talking about it.

There appreciation no charge to attend OurTube which is held on position last Wednesday night of grandeur month.