Inside the Outside

Yaho-hanan Fiwchuk, Philias Herie, Montana King, Martin van de Kerkhof.

Closing reception Saturday January 24, 6- 9 pm

Yaho-hanan Fiwchuk: After a self-described ‘hiatus’ from an active painting career, due in part to a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, Yaho-Hanan Fiwchuk’s practice has been reinvigorated by esoteric and biblical readings that have brought him inner and outer peace.  Ideas from Beesley’s Creative Ether, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Levi’s The Aquarian Gospel, spurred Fiwchuk to create visuals of what his imagination deemed to be an ‘ether’. Fiwchuk believes the active energy of these ‘creative ethers’ are infinite and can be accessed by all.

Philias Herie re-discovered his joy of drawing in 1998 as part of his process of recovery from a severe brain injury. His delicate pencil drawings describe raw emotion and experience, revealed in layers of meaning that invite the viewer to look more closely. Herie?s work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada in the Mindscapes exhibit (2004) organized by the Canadian Mental Health Association, as well as Richmond?s Pathways Clubhouse Art Show last March.

Montana King will be presenting “The Thin Veneer of The Lost Limbic”: “does the male have a PSYCHE?!”, part of the series entitled ‘CHAINS’. This body of art pertains to human existence and exemplifies the ‘CHAIN LINKS’ of suffering.

An artist, poet, and children’s entertainer, King has an active exhibition history and was a participant in Out of the Rain, 2007.

Martin van de Kerkhof: An outsider Dutch/Canadian artist, he has lived in the wooded suburbs and rural areas around Vancouver for decades. Martin delves heavily into religious motifs and landscapes using abstract styles for dark rainforest scenes reminiscent of Emily Carr.  When not painting, he takes on woodcarving and stone sculpture, but is now facing the peril of his schizophrenia, institutions, and maintaining his own art practice.