Stir Wine Pairing: For International Women’s Day, we’re sipping on Time, dining at Burdock & Co., and admiring local lens-based, light-focused artworks
B.C. winemaker Lynzee Schatz, chef Andrea Carlson, and visual artist Annie Briard capture our senses
Annie Briard, Horizon RGB II + III, 2019, fujitrans inkjet back mounted to acrylic, LEDs, microcontroller, 40.64 x 40.64 cm. Photo via Mónica Reyes Gallery
The menu at Burdock & Co. (above) is ever-changing, but count on chef Andrea Carlson to always use what’s in season. Right: Time Winery’s 2018 White Meritage.
Every week, Stir Wine Pairing suggests BC wine and food to go with a local arts event. This week, it’s two events.
The events
Within the Eclipse at Burrard Arts Foundation Gallery to March 20;
While we Wait | Records of Solitude at Monica Reyes Gallery, opening March 6
The wine
Time Winery’s 2018 White Meritage
The food
Burdock & Co. ToGo
The lowdown
With International Women’s Day on March 8, this edition of Stir Pairing spotlights some of B.C.’s brightest female creatives.
Annie Briard is a Vancouver-based visual and media artist who creates lens-based and light-focused works. By drawing viewers in to look at things more deeply, or for longer, or from different angles, she plays with people’s perceptions and misperceptions.
Having earned a Master’s degree in fine arts from Emily Carr University, Briard has presented at New York’s AC Institute, Vancouver Art Gallery, Montreal’s Art Mur, Beijing’s Three Shadows Photography Centre, the Lincoln Film Center New York, Matadero Madrid, the Switzerland Architecture Museum, and many other places.
Currently, Briard is showing at two local arts venues.
Within the Eclipse is at Burrard Arts Foundation Gallery as part of her residency there (2-258 East 1st Avenue) until March 20.
“Briard’s work can be succinctly defined by two interrelated principles: colour and light,” write Meredyth Cole and Genevieve Michaels for BAF, where Kate Bellringer is director/curator. “Photography, a medium she’s often worked in, is perhaps more governed by light than any other. In her photographic work, the subjectivity of vision often shows up as trippy maximalism; saturated colours, chopped-up landscapes, double- or triple-vision. But the work produced in her Burrard Arts Foundation residency is almost minimal; light-based sculptural installation that immerses the viewer in a first-hand experience, rather than recreating a distorted one in two dimensions.”
Over at Mónica Reyes Gallery, Briard participates in the group show While we Wait: Records of Solitude, opening on March 6. The exhibition features pieces that have been produced over the past year while under lockdown. Briard’s LED colour-shifting light boxes hint at “the ambiguity of reality”.
The exhibition also includes works by Sarah Delaney, Jessica Bushey and Kriss Munsya) (Reyes, the gallery’s founder and director, is a member of the Strathcona Business Improvement Association who has served on the boards of the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver and Latincouver.)
The wine
Time Winery owes its start to the late Harry McWatters, who’s considered the grandfather of B.C.’s modern wine industry. Some 50-plus vintages later, after he passed in 2019, his daughters Christa-Lee and Darrien McWatters took the reins. (They run Time as well as Evolve Cellars and the McWatters Collection.) Time is unique in that it has women in almost all key positions, with Christa-Lee as general manager (she’s also chair of the BC Wine Institute and a director of the Canadian Vintner’s Association); Darrien as production manager (she’s also an on-call firefighter); Lynzee Schatz as winemaker; Kimberly Hundertmark as hospitality manager; and Chelsea Dumayne as events & sales coordinator.
We love Time’s 2018 White Meritage, an equal blend off Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. Barrel-aged with oaky notes, it’s vibrant and smooth.
The food
Andrea Carlson.
Our hats are off to Andrea Carlson, chef-owner of Burdock & Co, Harvest Community Foods (with chef Gabriella Meyer), and Bar Gobo. Having studied organic farming and landscape design before focusing on field-to-fork fare, she has always been at the forefront of the locavore movement. With experience at Sooke Harbour House, Raincity Grill, and Bishop’s, she created a scratch kitchen garden for Tofino Botanical Gardens early in her career, is an advocate for food security (Harvest Community Foods is a pick-up location for Community Supported Agriculture packages, aka share boxes), and is a West Coast leader in natural wines. A cookbook author, she has been recognized as a local champion in the B.C Restaurant Hall of Fame.
While her menu is all about what’s as fresh as can be, respecting the purity of local ingredients, her culinary style is wildly inventive.
While Burdock & Co. is open for dine-in, it’s also offering take-out—something that was unfathomable before COVID-19. We’re taking advantage of it, ordering off the ToGo menu. It changes regularly, but examples of dishes include Arctic char and leek terrine with Périgord truffle; duck rillettes with pickled king-oyster mushroom and radicchio conserva; sunchoke risotto with cultured butter, preserved fennel, and crisps; and barbecued pork jowl in spicy XO sauce with scallop, cabbage, and celeriac. Then there’s that dark chocolate brownie with hazelnut crémeux.
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