Cori Creed | Stratum

Cori Creed | Stratum
December 6 - 22, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 6, 2-4pm
Artist In Attendance

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Stratum, the new solo exhibition by established BC landscape painter Cori Creed. Built through layered gestures in oil and acrylic, these new works offer a compelling interplay between abstraction and representation while revealing traces of their own making. Creed continues to champion British Columbia’s wild coast, capturing the essence of its atmospheric forest and ocean vistas with bold mark-making, unexpected colour and graphic lines. 

ARTIST STATEMENT
  
In Stratum, I have been very aware of the negotiations that take place within each painting - the push and pull between what is revealed and what is concealed. Working in both oil and acrylic on canvas, each piece is constructed through successive layers, allowing the surface to carry the history of decisions made and unmade. Every brushstroke becomes part of a shifting geology: some marks are buried, others rise to the surface, forming a visual record of searching, editing, and discovery.

As with my previous work, these landscapes are less literal depictions and more of a capturing of the essence of a place. Being drawn to both representation and abstraction, my challenge is to layer information so that it creates a sense of physical space and also satisfies my desire to record the feeling of the landscape, all while keeping the piece open enough for the marks and pigment to tell their own story. 

The tension between covering and preserving mirrors the way memory itself works, layering moments until clarity emerges. In the final piece, the visible strata hold the remnants of earlier ideas, and an invitation for viewers to move between the scene and the surface. 

- Cori Creed 2025

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