In anticipation of her new solo exhibition Atlas, Toronto-based abstract painter Nicole Katsuras delves deeply into her influence from historical Japanese art aesthetics, her approach to colour and colour harmony, and the meanings behind her unique juxtapositioning of flat colour planes and highly textural extruded forms.
For her new solo exhibition Ebb and Flow, abstract artist Vicky Christou discusses her early influences of textile aesthetics, her exploration of alternative panel shapes, and the inspiration she found in expansive natural systems.
For his new solo exhibition Life in a Northern Town, Casey McGlynn provides his own poignant descriptions of each work, distilling a deeply personal meditation on life, memory, and artistic voice beyond major art centres and drawing from everyday experience in Sault Ste. Marie and the surrounding northern Canadian area.
For his highly anticipated upcoming solo exhibition We Could Have Been a Mountain, Kyle Sheurmann holds his focus on the urgency of attention to old-growth forests, detailing sobering discoveries about BC’s forest fires and articulating the engulfing heartbreak caused by the loss of Sassin and the life the forest once sustained.
For her new solo exhibition in Vancouver, Painting with a Camera, Barbara Cole delves into both the challenges and freedoms that underwater photography presents, and how the gentle, unpredictable shifts of water's movement constitute an ideal metaphor for the effects of time, experience and contemplation on the sense of self.
In this new artist Q & A, Janna Watson reflects on Undercurrent, tracing how her bold, suspended compositions and centred gestures emerge from a deeply autobiographical process and the enigmatic nature of the subconscious.
For his inaugural solo exhibition in Vancouver, Montreal based artist Ian Stone talks to us about the attraction to realism, his use of everyday objects in symbolizing aspects of gender, and history's heavy role in shaping contemporary perceptions and expectations of queer bodies and lives.
In anticipation of Steven Nederveen's new solo exhibition The Invisible Pull, the artist sits down with us and reflects on the inclusion of human presence in his latest imagery, the influence of surfing and meditation as practices of waiting and attunement, and his ongoing practice of combining photography and painting as a means of balancing observation, intuition, and experience.
In anticipation of her new solo exhibition Stratum, Vancouver based artist Cori Creed discusses the balance and interplay of representation and abstraction and what continues to captivate her about BC's coastal lansdcape.
In conjunction with his new solo exhibition We Still Have Time, Vancouver-based artist Eric Louie sat down with us for an incredible new artist Q & A in which he discusses the role of the artist in uncertain times, how his work bridges the physical and digital realms, and the enduring relevance of painting today.
In this new artist Q & A, Mel Gausden discusses her exploration of memory, ecology, and impermanence within her new solo exhibition Future Museums II, and contemplates the role of art in both human connectivity and the recording of existing spaces.
In this new artist Q & A, Sheri Paisley reflects on the enveloping nature of the West Coast ocean, the cellular and emotional memory of the sea within ourselves, and how for her painting becomes less about representation and more about resonance.