Opening reception for "Beginning with the 70s: Collective Acts", September 6, 2018.
Exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, September 4–December 2, 2018.

Photos by Michael R. Barrick, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

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The selfie is a much maligned phenomenon in photography, particularly tourist selfies. Boomers and my fellow Gen-Xers are the to most vocal critics of the form, calling them ill-mannered and narcissistic.

But here is the thing, my fellow grumpy, aging…

Opening reception for "Two Exhibitions from The Collection: Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape & Joan Balzar" and the official launch of Glenn Lewis' "Classical Toy Boat" - June 23, 2016.

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In case you don't already know, the title of this post is a reference to the 1936 article by Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Call this an unfinished thought, a rant, a ramble, what have you. It's on my mind…

I shot an event at work yesterday and just now was feeling kind of guilty about the number of pictures that I was happy with–"only" thirty. So right now I am reminding myself of the days when shooting was done in batches of 24 or 36 and I felt lucky…

Installation photos from Melancholy Bay: Images of English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Howe Sound from the Collection

Photos by Michael R. Barrick, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

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Opening night of "Tom Burrows", January 8, 2015.

Photos by +Michael R. Barrick, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

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Originally I started taking pictures at the clubs in order to have source images for drawings and paintings. I let myself drift away from that and the photography became a thing of its own. Nothing wrong with that, really, but there remains something…

I've been fretting over this for months, really since I got deathly ill this time last year. I think it may be time to move on from doing the photo booth at Sin City. It was only ever tangentially relevant to Gothic BC, and becoming less and less so…