Cori Creed | Time Collected
Cori Creed | Time Collected
April 3 - 28, 2025
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Opening reception: Saturday, April 5th, 2 - 4 pm | Artist in attendance
Cori Creed redefines our understanding of storytelling in her newest solo exhibition, Time Collected. Through Creed’s personal gathering of imagery and memory, combined with artificial intelligence, the artist explores the universal desire to preserve a moment in time.
Artist Statement:
“Storytelling and curated documentation have always been tightly woven into what it means to be human. Whether oral or visual, we show and tell using our personal style and unique perspectives. I have been exploring the nature of storytelling for years, striving to blend the documentation of a spatial moment in time, primarily through landscape, with mark making that redirects viewers to the act of storytelling by disrupting the creation of space.
In Time Collected I wanted to continue this pursuit while tapping into a larger collection of human resources via artificial intelligence (AI). The resulting reference material for this exhibition is a combination of my own gathering, imagery stored in my memory, and at times, AI.
I often work from photographic reference taken during my excursions. These images serve as inspiration for the resulting painting yet take a life of their own through the push and pull of paint on the canvas. With AI, I can describe a scene with words – specifying a location, a time of day, a direction of light, and a mood. The algorithms pull information from the vast collection of human input – images and moments that people felt compelled to post – dipping into a deep pool of dreams and memories.
While the resulting image becomes the inspiration, the translation onto the canvas is uniquely my own.
This part of the creative process is shaped by the idea of creating “accidents” and repurposing them into my work -which has been integral to my practice. Traditionally, this happens in the underpainting, as the mediums break apart, causing colours to drip and blend. At this stage there are things I can instigate but not control. I watch with curiosity, keeping certain elements which I fall in love with, while editing others out with the subsequent layers of paint that follow.
In the re-telling of my experience or the collective human experience of our world, I am always conscious of movement and shift. Especially in pieces that depict water ways or wind, there is so little that remains the same. I fall on the high end of the scale for people who experience nostalgia.
I find that the need to document and preserve a feeling of a moment, a particular layering of textures, or elements and light that will never return drives me to create and to share.” – Cori Creed
Cori Creed is an established West Coast Canadian painter who captures the coastal landscape with joy and vitality. The wealth of texture and colour in the Canadian landscape provides Creed with the perfect reference for an exploration in painterly process and expression. Reflections of tangled branches observed while canoeing on a tranquil eastern lake; the graphic contrast found in a grove of birches; shadows cast over jumbles of rocks and driftwood on west coast beaches; fields of wild grasses and blooms--all lend inspiration to Creed’s work.
Creed was born in Vancouver in 1973. She studied Fine Art at Simon Fraser University and Design at Capilano College. Creed's work has been placed in various private collections across Canada including Bentall Centre, Nordstrom, Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, and British Pacific Properties, among numerous private and corporate collections. Cori Creed has been represented by Bau-Xi Gallery since 2011. She continues to live and paint out of her home and studio in West Vancouver, British Columbia.