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Pop Funk Paintings 1965-1969
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The paintings, drawings, and collages I made between 1967 and 1969 were a period of apprenticeship with Vancouver artist, Gary Lee Nova, who as just back from studying  in the UK when I met him and began collaborating together on multi media projects with the Al Neil Trio at the Sound Gallery. Lee Nova had made  a unique synthesis of Pop, west coast funk and a kind of Tantric geometry.
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From 1967-68, I worked alongside Lee Nova in an old bulding on Powell St., later known as the New Era Social Club. There  I experimented with shapes like elongated diamonds, or pyramids, with rainbows, and Op Art polka dots. Under the mentorship of Lee Nova I developed a neo-surrealistic brand of Pop-influenced landscape  painting.

Before meeting Lee Nova,I had worked on a series of geometric paintings  influenced by British and  European artists of the early '60s such as Victor  Vasarely, Richard Moretensen, Victor Pasmore and Arturo Bonfanti.to View
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Neo-Cubism
 oil on canvas, 30" sq.,1966
 



Parting
 acrylic on canvas, 30" sq., 1966




Block House
oil on panel, 30" x 24", 1966




Monolith
acrylic on panel, 30" x 24", 1966
 



Plateau in Deep Space
enamel on canvas, 48" sq.,1967




 Western Collision #2
acrylic on canvas, 48" x 36", 1967




Large Nothing
acrylic on canvas, 46" x 57", 1967



 
Landlocked 
acrylc on canvas, 54' x 48", 1967
Coast Art Trust Collection, University of Victoria




 Starscape
acrylic on panel, 48" x 40", 1967



 
Starscape 2
oil on panel, 48" x 40", 1967
Pyramidology
acrylic on shaped canvas, 60" x 72", 1967
Private collection

Pyramidology - 2
acrylic on canvas, 48" x 36", 1967
 
Transcending Space
acrylic on canvas, 60" x 54", 1967
Sea Tantra 
acrylic on canvas, 66" x 54",1967





Western Collision #1
acrylic on canvas, 60" x 54", 1967
Collection of Intermedia Press, Vancouver




Cold Front
acrylic on canvas, 60" x 54", 1967
Birthday Rain
acrylic on camvas, 54" ea.side, 1968
Private Collection, Ontario

Chocolate Cream Nostalgia
acrylic on canvas, 72" x 54", 1968
Private Collection, Ontario





The Way Back
acrylic on canvas, 54" ea. side, 1968
Private Collection, Vancouver




Coffee Coloured Nose Cone (for Duchamp)
acrylic on canvas, 54" ea. side, 1968

Rainbowling Alley
acrylic on canvas, 54" ea. side, 1968
Rainbow Filter-Kings
acrylic on canvas, 54" ea. side, 1968
Private Collection, Ontario
Electrical Connection
  acrylic on canvas, 54" ea. side, 1968
Hidden Colour
acrylic on canvas, 60" ea. side, 1969
Lost



Tower
acrylic on canvas, 72" x 12", 1968
Lost





Not-so-Watertight Container
acrylic on canvas,36" diameter, 1968
 Lost
Rainbow and Sphere
  mixed media, 1968
Lost




Cloud Pyramid
acrylic on canvas, 60" x 36", 1968
Lost
Untitled
   acrylic on plexiglass, 42" x 60", 1968
Lost




Vista Vision
 acrylic on canvas, 28" ea.side, 1967




Evening Song
acrylic on panel, 14" x 6", 1967


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