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Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
Toy shop/art gallery Magic Pony has a real knack for putting together shows that attractive, enjoyable and filled with great art.
There was the packed Kozyndan show, where the veteran illustration duo charmed the crowd by letting us colour in a massive drawing. The shop has also done wonders for the local illustration scene regularly showing and selling the works of locals and other Canadian illustrators.
Touch My Bunny, their “Easter” show continues their hot streak. There’s plenty of great work here. Vancouver artist Sonja Ahlers, who participated in MP’s succesful Plushtastrophe, is back with her adorable ‘peanut’ bunny pins and brooches. Kozyndan’s print of bunnies inspired by the pink blooms of Japanese cherry blossoms anchors one of the exhibition’s walls while Andrew Brandou’s Audabon wildlife painting meets hipster rabbits graces another.
My personal favourite is Trudie Cheng’s melancholy scene of a unicorn chained while a number of confused rabbits look on. Cheung’s knitted scenes remind me of the Royal Art Lodge and despite their spareness, or perhaps because of this quality, twinges at the heart a little more.
