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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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