Stations: Resources for Research

The following are additional information and writings about Joan Balzar.

• Listen to Scott Watson discuss Joan Balzar’s work in Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape and Joan Balzar
• Learn about Joan Balzar’s work in the 1960s

Suggested Further Reading

Jeffries, Bill. Joan Balzar: Vancouver Orbital. Vancouver: Simon Fraser University Gallery, 2011.

Weder, Adele. “Joan Balzar: Abstract painter stood out in ’60s West Coast art scene,” The Globe and Mail, February 11, 2016.

The following are additional information and writings about Pat Martin Bates.

• Read an article from Focus on Victoria magazine on an exhibition celebrating 50 years of Pat Martin Bates’ work and artistic contributions.
• Watch a video with Pat Martin Bates discussing her career and love for the city of Victoria, BC.

Suggested Further Reading

Bates, Pat Martin. It is I, Patricia: An Artist’s Childhood. North Saanich: Hedgerow Press, 2010.

Bovey, Patricia. Pat Martin Bates: Balancing on a Thread. Calgary: Frontenac House, 2013.

The following are additional information and writings about Ingrid Baxter.

• Listen to an Interview of Ingrid Baxter with Grant Arnold
• Read an Interview with Ingrid Baxter about Corporate Aesthetics
• Read about Deep Cove Kayak Co. weathering the COVID-19 Pandemic

Suggested Further Reading

Gimpel, René. “Art as Commodity, Art as Economic Power” in Third Text, 14:51, (2000), pp 51-55.

N.E. Thing Co. ed. Charity Mewburn. Sixteen Hundred Miles North of Denver. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1999.

The following are additional information and writings about Rebecca Belmore.

• Read an Interview by Wanda Nanibush with Rebecca Belmore
• Read an Article by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about Rebecca Belmore’s work.
• Read about Belmore’s Making Always War in an Article by Glenn Alteen

The following are additional information and writings about Kati Campbell.

• Read an article from the Georgia Straight on Kati Campbell’s memorial for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Missing Women
• Learn about the N.E. Thing Co.
• Read an article on Kati Campbell and Vancouver experimental photography

Suggested Further Reading

Campbell, Kati and Glenbow Museum. The Embodied Viewer. Glenbow: Vera Lemecha, 1991.

Front Gallery, Vancouver and Ann Hurtig. Kati Campbell: Symptom. Vancouver: Front Gallery, 1992.

Madill, Shirley and Winnipeg Art Gallery. Private/public: Art and Social Discourse. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1993.

The following are additional information and writings about Audrey Capel Doray.

• Watch an interview by Scott Watson with Audrey Capel Doray
• Read a conversation between Audrey Capel Doray, Gathie Falk, Donald Gutstein, Karen Jamieson, Glenn Lewis, Jamie Reid and Abraham Rogatnick on UBC in the 1960s

Suggested Further Reading

Gilbert, Gerry, D’Arcy Henderson, Tony Hunt, Reginald Holmes, Richard Hambleton, Kirk Tougas, Paul Goranson, et al. Vancouver, Art and Artists, 1931-1983. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983.

The following are additional information and writings about Bruce Conner.

• Visit Bruce Conner’s website, maintained by the Conner Family Trust
• Watch an Interview with Bruce Conner by Tosh Berman

Suggested Further Reading

Hatch, Kevin. “”THINKING OF YOU” Bruce Conner’s Epistolary Practice,” American Art 33, no. 1 (03/01/2019): 53-73.

Noonan, Jennifer. “Bruce Conner: What’s in a Name?” Print Quarterly 31, no. 1 (2014): 45-61.

The following are additional information and writings about Beau Dick.

• Watch a recent documentary about Beau Dick on CBC
• Read a piece by Candice Hopkins in memory of Beau Dick
• Learn about Dzunukwa masks in an exhibition of Beau Dick’s work at the Audain Art Musuem

Suggested Further Reading

Hopkins, Candice. “To See and Then to Burn,” in Beau Dick: Devoured by Consumerism (Vancouver; Berkeley; London: Figure.1, 2019).

Thom, Ian M. “Beau Dick,” in Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009), 33-36.

The following are additional information and writings about Hannah Dubois.

• Visit Hannah Dubois’ Website
• Read about Hannah Dubois’ photographs in Canadian Art
• Read about an Exhibition including Hannah Dubois’ work

Suggested Further Reading

The following are additional information and writings about Robert Duncan.

• Watch a documentary about Robert Duncan filmed by Richard O. Moore
• Read about an exhibition featuring Robert Duncan, Jess, and their circle
• Read a recounting of Robert Duncan’s biography by Ange Mlinko

Suggested Further Reading

Martin, Catherine. “The Gift of the Poem: Mallarmé and Robert Duncan’s ‘Ground Work: Before the War’.” in The Modern Language Review 103, no. 2 (April 2008): 364-82. Accessed January 23, 2021. doi:10.2307/20467778.

The following are additional information and writings about Sam Durant.

• Read about Upside Down Pastoral Scene
• Read about Scaffold at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis

Suggested Further Reading

Durant, Sam and Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds. Sam Durant: Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres, and Monuments. Boston: Massachusetts College of Art, 2007.

Durant, Sam, ed, Danny Glover, Sonia Sanchez and Bobby Seale. Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas. New York: Rizzoli, 2007.

Joselit, David. “Sam Durant: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,” Artforum International vol 41, issue 5 (2003): 131+.

The following are additional information and writings about Tom Field.

• Read an article published in Los Angeles Times about Tom Field’s retrospective at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.

Suggested Further Reading

Katz, Vincent. Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
https://webcat.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=5036986.

Wagstaff, Christopher. Tom Field: on painting at Black Mountain and in San Francisco. Berkeley: Rose Books, 2006.

The following are additional information and writings about Helen Goodwin.

• Read about Plus TheCo, Minus Helen Goodwin, a performance project inspired by Helen Goodwin and commissioned by the Belkin
• Read an essay by Marina Roy, first published in Canadian Art magazine, Summer 2001, on Helen Goodwin, Feminism, Performance and Vancouver in the 1960s – 1970s
• Read about an installation by artist Michael de Courcy, which reframes a performance by Helen Goodwin in the 1960s

Suggested Further Reading

Nichols, Miriam. “Vancouver in the Sixties: Context as Explanation,” in A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser, 133-163 (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019).

Pepper, Kaija. “Helen Goodwin & Intermedia: Toward Live Art in Vancouver,” Dance Collection Danse, Issue 69 (Spring 2010): 20-23.

The following are additional information and writings about Fran Herndon.

• Read a feature interview with Fran Herndon by Elizabeth Roberson.
• Read an article from the Poetry Foundation on Fran Herndon’s influence on Robert Duncan.

Suggested Further Reading

Herndon, Fran. “The Heads of the Town Up to the Aether Jack Spicer.” Boundary 2 6, no. 1 (1977): 135-144.

Herndon, Fran, Killian, Kevin, Plested, Lee, and Altman Siegel. Fran Herndon. San Francisco, CA: Altman Siegel, 2011.

The following are additional information and writings about David Horvitz.

• Visit David Horvitz’s website
• Read about Horvitz’s Only What We Could Carry in context with For Kiyoko
• View For Kiyoko, For Amache as it was installed in New York through the Public Art Fund
• Read a reflection on Horvitz’s For Kiyoko by Scott Watson

Suggested Further Reading

• Listen to an artist talk by David Horvitz
• Visit the Amache Preservation Society’s Website

The following are additional information and writings about Dorothy Iannone.

• Read an interview with Dorothy Iannone in Flash Art magazine
• Read a conversation between Dorothy Iannone and Trinie Dalton
• Read Dorothy Iannone’s An Icelandic Saga

Suggested Further Reading

Jacobsen, Carol. “Redefining Censorship: A Feminist View,” Art Journal (New York. 1960) 50, no. 4 (1991): 42-55.

Storr, Robert, Goridis and Parker. “Lovesickness : The Correspondence between Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone = Liebeskummer : Der Briefwechsel Zwischen Dieter Roth Und Dorothy Iannone,” Parkett no. 65 (2002): 136. doi:10.5169/seals-680491.

The following are additional information and writings about Carole Itter.

• Listen to a conversation with Carole Itter and Allison Hrabluik
• Read a review of a book about Vancouver’s East End by Carole Itter and Daphne Marlatt
• Watch and follow along an Art at Home program at the Vancouver Art Gallery about Carole Itter

Suggested Further Reading

Lederman, Marsha. “Vancouver Artists Fight to Protect a Colourful Piece of the City’s Art History,” The Globe and Mail, January 20, 2015.

Marlatt, Daphne, Carole Itter and Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia. Opening Doors in Vancouver’s East End: Strathcona (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2011).

The following are additional information and writings about Jess.

• Read an article from KQED discussing an exhibition at SFMOMA featuring Jess
• Watch a video from the de Young Museum featuring closeups and discussion of a series of paintings by Jess
• Read an article on Jess and painterly tradition
• Read an article on Jess, Robert Duncan and their San Francisco arts circle

Suggested Further Reading

Dowell, Tara. The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019).

Higgins, Scarlett. “A Private Public Sphere: Robert Duncan and Jess’s Cold War Household,” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 70, no. 4 (2014): 109-142. doi:10.1353/arq.2014.0030.

Lyn Brockway, Harry Jacobus and Jess: The Romantic Paintings (Palo Alto: Palo Alto Cultural Center, 1990).

McDowell, Tara Cooke. “House Work: Domesticity, Belonging, and Salvage in the Art of Jess, 1955–1991.” University of California, Berkeley, 2013

The following are additional information and writings about Laiwan.

• Read about Laiwan’s She Who Had Scanned the Flower of the World
• Listen to a poetry reading by Laiwan from Tender

Suggested Further Reading

Laiwan. Tender (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2020).

The following are additional information and writings about Rita Letendre.

• Watch an interview with Rita Letendre from the CBC Archive, filmed in 1969.
• Watch an interview in French with Letendre and the TFO.

Suggested Further Reading

Lambton, Gunda. “Rita Letendre: Vibrations Colorées.” In Stealing the Show: Seven Women Artists in Canadian Public Art, 50-64. Montreal: Queen’s University Press, 1994.

Lauder, Adam. “The World Must Have Poetry.” Canadian Art 32, no. 4 (Winter 2016): 114-19.

Nanibush, Wanda, and Georgiana Uhlyarik. Rita Letendre: Fire & Light. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2017

The following are additional information and writings about Liz Magor.

• Watch a video where Liz Magor talks about being in her studio
• Watch an Artist Talk with Liz Magor at the Carpenter Center
• Read an interview with Liz Magor
• Read an article about Liz Magor’s work by Murray Whyte
• View Liz Magor’s CV

Suggested Further Reading

Klein, Benjamin. “Liz Magor,” Border Crossings 35, no. 4 (2016): 102-103.

Monk, Philip. Playing Dead: Liz Magor (Toronto and Vancouver: The Power Plant and Vancouver Art Gallery, 2002). URL.

The following are additional information and writings about Sam Perry.

• Read a short biography and find related archive material for Sam Perry from the Vancouver Art in the Sixties website.
• Read a short essay by Roy Arden with references to Al Neil and his relationship with Sam Perry.

Suggested Further Reading

Goodman, John. “Dreamers EXPOSED: Al Neil Trio: New CD Retrospective Captures Jazz Innovators in their Prime,” North Shore News, June 7, 2002.

Tippett, Maria. “Vancouver Anthology,” BC Studies no. 183 (Autumn 2014): 170-171.