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Justice Schanfarber - 2019 - Do you want to hear a story
Do you want to hear a story. 2019.48×60″. Acrylic on paper, panel, and canvas.
Untitled. 2019. 48×48″. Acrylic on paper, panel, and canvas.
Dignity. 2020. 48×53″. Mixed media assemblage.

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24x36”. Canvas, kraft paper, cardboard, house pa 24x36”. Canvas, kraft paper, cardboard, house paint, paper bag. 2020. . . . . . . #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #markmaking #modernart #abstractart #abstractartist #worksonpaper #abstractexpressionism #moderngallery #art #postminimalism #contemporarypainting #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryartist #artgallery #artcollectors #artlovers #acrylicpainting #collage #assemblage #painting #campbellriver #BCartist #interiordecorating #interiordesign #conceptualart
Mixed media assemblage. 14x11” framed. 2020 . . Mixed media assemblage. 14x11” framed. 2020 . . . . . . #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #markmaking #modernart #abstractart #abstractartist #worksonpaper #abstractexpressionism #moderngallery #art #postminimalism #contemporarypainting #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryartist #artgallery #artcollectors #artlovers #acrylicpainting #collage #assemblage #painting #campbellriver #BCartist #interiordecorating #interiordesign
Mixed media assemblage. 14x11” framed. 2020 . . Mixed media assemblage. 14x11” framed. 2020 . . . . . . #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #markmaking #modernart #abstractart #abstractartist #worksonpaper #abstractexpressionism #moderngallery #art #postminimalism #contemporarypainting #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryartist #artgallery #artcollectors #artlovers #acrylicpainting #collage #assemblage #painting #campbellriver #BCartist #interiordecorating #interiordesign
Mixed media assemblage.16x12” framed. 2020 . . . Mixed media assemblage.16x12” framed. 2020 . . . . . . #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #markmaking #modernart #abstractart #abstractartist #worksonpaper #abstractexpressionism #moderngallery #art #postminimalism #contemporarypainting #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryartist #artgallery #artcollectors #artlovers #acrylicpainting #collage #assemblage #painting #campbellriver #BCartist #interiordecorating #interiordesign
What if the dead dreamed the living to life? . In What if the dead dreamed the living to life? . In this piece the dead reside below and dream of the living who cavort above. It is through the dream of the dead that the living are animated. In this case, what is our debt to the dead? What do we owe all who have come, and departed, before us? . The below half of the work is assembled of “dead” or previously living materials, long still. The above half of the work is composed “alive” with gestural paint strokes on paper. There is no value judgement placed upon these differences; they are but two sides of a coin (a silver buffalo nickel perhaps). . The photographic image of the animal skull, found in a discarded book, is by celebrated Canadian photographer and painter Rollof Beny (my first introduction to the artist). By “killing” the image through a single decisive tear, then reviving it with a matching decisiveness, an additional horizon is formed and the animal is split in two, appearing to occupy dual strata beneath the full moon. Above, in painterly motion, a creature charges headlong into life. . Though they occupy different realms, a connection is implied through the moon hovering between them and a shared directionality of motion, a movement to the right, to the east, toward morning wakefulness, toward the rising sun. . Dreaming. 2019. Mixed media on paper. 20×14″. . This work will be showing at the @victoriaartscouncil summer show in Victoria beginning July 10. . . #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #modernart #abstractart #abstractartist #worksonpaper #abstractexpressionism #moderngallery #art #contemporarypainting #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryartist #artgallery #artcollectors #artlovers #acrylicpainting #collage #assemblage #painting #campbellriver #BCartist #Victoria #interiordecorating #interiordesign
Dignity, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, wood . I grew up Dignity, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, wood . I grew up in Victoria in the 80s, at a time of rapid change and development. Although I was young I could feel something of the (rough) character and (precarious) dignity of the town being stripped away, covered with new facade. The Eaton store downtown exemplified this. . At that time (c 1985/86) I was an adolescent punk rocker hanging out precisely where the window gallery is now located, in what was then known as piss alley, adjacent to the Odeon theatre. . When I return to Victoria, now on my way toward elderhood, elderhood with all its lines and crevices and etched histories, I marvel at the changes, and at my own (perhaps necessarily cliched) wonder at the felt experience of aging and the accompanying revelation of character. . I'm honoured and touched to be welcome here, to be included again, and to be able to show my work in this place that meant so much - glorious and terrible - to a former self. . About the work - . The wood at the center is cedar, a discarded piece of dunnage from a tree that defines the place I live, used to protect or facilitate the commerce of something unknown and since gone. This piece of wood made an immediate impact on me so I took it home and spent some time with it. It came to signify something, something dignified, a particular dignity that can come with age and even decay, with being used by life and showing said use. . Surfaces have been worn and worn away, fibers that were not integral have been digested; what remains is concentrated, an essence of character. It took me several months to recognize this, and then I couldn’t see it otherwise. . As a form, the triptych has special qualities, reminders of all to do (and it’s a lot!) with thirds and threes, especially third paths, third ways, and the third possibilities that jump rail and disrupt the common dualities of the day. The painted white canvasses elevate, like wings (angel wings?), that which is clearly on the path of descent, holding the motion in place, that the assembly might now hover in sight. . In the @ministryofcasualliving Window Gallery until Wed. #Victoria #art #BCartist #Victoriaart
#abstractpainting #contemporaryart #markmaking #mo #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #markmaking #modernart #abstractart #abstractartist #worksonpaper #abstractexpressionism #moderngallery #art #postminimalism #contemporarypainting #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryartist #artgallery #artcollectors #artlovers #acrylicpainting #collage #assemblage #painting #campbellriver #BCartist #interiordecorating #interiordesign
"A kind of succession” 11x14” 2020. Available "A kind of succession” 11x14” 2020. Available for sale, framed or unframed. . . #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #markmaking #modernart #abstractart #abstractartist #worksonpaper #abstractexpressionism #moderngallery #art #postminimalism #contemporarypainting #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryartist #artgallery #artcollectors #artlovers #acrylicpainting #painting #campbellriver #BCartist #interiordecorating #interiordesign
Mixed media 16x20” 2020 . . . . . . . #abstractp Mixed media 16x20” 2020 . . . . . . . #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #markmaking #modernart #abstractart #abstractartist #worksonpaper #abstractexpressionism #art #contemporarypainting #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryartist #artgallery #artcollectors #artlovers #acrylicpainting #painting #collage #campbellriver #BCartist #interiordecorating #interiordesign
Dignity, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, wood . . I grew Dignity, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, wood . . I grew up in Victoria in the 80s, at a time of rapid change and development. Although I was young I could feel something of the (rough) character and (precarious) dignity of the town being stripped away, covered with new facade. The Eaton store downtown exemplified this. . At that time (c 1985/86) I was an adolescent punk rocker hanging out precisely where the window gallery is now located, in what was then known as piss alley, adjacent to the Odeon theatre. . When I return to Victoria, now on my way toward elderhood, elderhood with all its lines and crevices and etched histories, I marvel at the changes, and at my own (perhaps necessarily cliched) wonder at the felt experience of aging and the accompanying revelation of character. . I'm honoured and touched to be welcome here, to be included again, and to be able to show my work in this place that meant so much - glorious and terrible - to a former self. . . About the work - . The wood at the center is cedar, a discarded piece of dunnage from a tree that defines the place I live, used to protect or facilitate the commerce of something unknown and since gone. This piece of wood made an immediate impact on me so I took it home and spent some time with it. It came to signify something, something dignified, a particular dignity that can come with age and even decay, with being used by life and showing said use. . Surfaces have been worn and worn away, fibers that were not integral have been digested; what remains is concentrated, an essence of character. It took me several months to recognize this, and then I couldn’t see it otherwise. . How could I emphasize what I was seeing, bring it out, reveal it? . As a form, the triptych has special qualities, reminders of all to do (and it’s a lot!) with thirds and threes, especially third paths, third ways, and the third possibilities that jump rail and disrupt the common dualities of the day. The painted white canvasses elevate, like wings (angel wings?), that which is clearly on the path of descent, holding the motion in place, that the assembly might now hover in sight. . @ministryofcasualliving #Victoria #BCArtist
“From across the sea” 5x5” 2020 #mixedmedia “From across the sea” 5x5” 2020 #mixedmedia #collage #tinyart . . The crossing of seas is exploration and transgression. Freedom and oppression. Danger and excitement. Crossing the seas broadens horizons and also destroys them, sometimes simultaneously.
14x11” 2020 . . . . . #abstractpainting #contemp 14x11” 2020 . . . . . #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #markmaking #modernart #abstractart #abstractartist #worksonpaper #abstractexpressionism #abstractsonfire #abstractartorg #moderngallery #art #postminimalism #contemporarypainting #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryartist #artgallery #artcollectors #artlovers #acrylicpainting #painting #campbellriver #BCartist #interiordecorating #interiordesign #collage
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