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Tribal Dynamics

Geometric Expressionism

Rainforests of the Mind

Fertility Rites

Fantastic Visions

Head, Hunter, Simpson

FANTASTIC VISIONS

Oct. 31- Nov. 30, 1991

Francis Thenard, Patricia Van Oyen, Ladislav Guderna, Gordon Payne, Marilyn Mylrea, Al Neil, Gregg Simpson, Martin Guderna, Ed Varney, Ted Kingan.

Works by Marilyn Mylrea - lt.; Gregg Simpson - rt.

The Halloween opening was deliberately chosen for this exhibition which featured a number of artists drawing from
their inner sense of mystery put to flight the notion that an art which evolved from the magical is no longer valid.

Al Neil: Portrait of Antonin Artaud

Installation by Gordon Payne

The worlds of mythology, Symbolism, the Fantastic, and Surrealism mixed together at this most significant time
of the pagan calendar. Patricia Van Oyen and Marilyn Mylrea produced works which invlolved dream-like
mythological imagery with overtones of ceremonial magic and the erotic.

Works by Patricia Van Oyen
French-born artist, Francis Thenard exhibited his red landscapes which mingle a dadaist sensibility
with an intimate knowledge of the occult and the Fantastic. His work was complemented by that of
English-born miniaturist, Ted Kingan, and that of Ladislav and Martin Guderna, originally from Czechoslovakia,
all who have been central to the neo-surrealist groups in Vancouver in the 1970's and 80's, and continued to
publish their magazine Scarabeus until the late 1990's..

Works by Francis Thenard

West Coast veterans, Al Neil, Gordon Payne, Ed Varney and Gregg Simpson exhibited their
idiosyncratic works which freely mix metaphors from Pop and Dada, Surrealism and neo-Surrealism.