Leah Rainey Artist Update
INTERVIEW In conversation with Leah Rainey on her new exhibition "Raking Light". JANUARY 2025 ELISSA CRISTALL /PROJECTS LEAH RAINEY: RAKING LIGHT @leah.rainey ©2020-2025 ARTOFFICE.CA [...]
Leah Rainey RAKING LIGHT Exhibition
LEAH RAINEY RAKING LIGHT LEAH RAINEY RAKING LIGHT February - April, 2025 Elissa Cristall /projects is delighted to present Raking Light by Leah Rainey, the artist's first exhibition in Vancouver. Rainey’s handling of the brush is delicate and precise, allowing the [...]
Sara Graham | Fata Morgana
SARA GRAHAM The Spaces That Were Missed Have Been Rearranged OCTOBER 7 - NOVEMBER 1, 2024 "The Spaces That Were Missed Have been Rearranged" brings together 10 years of my studio practice and my observations of the city", writes Sara Graham. [...]
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | LEAH RAINEY
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | LEAH RAINEY Leah Rainey works within a combined tradition of process painting and direct painting using a broad range of techniques that interconnect through coincidence and the accidental. These paintings explore the elusive ground between the physical [...]
CHRIS KEATLEY
An interview with CHRIS KEATLEY, Curator Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada. We are thrilled to present an in-depth interview with Chris Keatley, Curator of the Pendulum Gallery in Vancouver. Appointed curator in 2007, Keatley talks about the evolution of the [...]
GILLIAN RICHARDS NEW PAINTINGS
GILLIAN RICHARDS LANDSCAPE ABSTRACTIONS JANUARY 14 - FEBRUARY 4, 2023 Gillian Richards was the first artist we featured in our Artist Spotlight Series which began in 2020. We catch up with Gillian in her studio to talk about new developments in her urban landscape paintings. In these new small [...]
Artist Spotlight | Randall Steeves
Encaustic, or molten beeswax mixed with pigment, is Steeves’ medium of choice. The physicality of the encaustic medium is reinforced in the form of large renderings of fingerprints layered over the canvas surface. The prints are often Steeves’ own — he had himself ‘processed’ by the Vancouver Police [...]
LESLEY FINLAYSON | REFLECT
LESLEY FINLAYSON "REFLECT" SEPTEMBER 15 - OCTOBER 8, 2022 These drawings and paintings were developed during the spring of 2022. They began with a trip to Yellow Point on Vancouver Island in February. Drawing conditions were not ideal for sustained periods, [...]
Rubeena Ratcliffe New Abstract Paintings
RUBEENA RATCLIFFE New Abstract Paintings JUNE 4 - 25, 2022 Reception: Thursday June 9th, 5 - 7 pm. Rubeena Ratcliffe's new abstract paintings follow a similar approach: a refined use of colour and spiritual aspects, both philosophical and pictorial. The titles [...]
RUBEENA RATCLIFFE ABSTRACT PAINTINGS
Why does someone become an artist? It's a big question that can yield seemingly inconsequential answers. Sometimes, it all comes down to a childhood chance encounter — stumbling across a comic strip, attending an art exhibition for the first time or an emergency trip to the hospital. I asked Rubeena Ratcliffe [...]
CARRIE WALKER
Carrie Walker's art practice explores the fraught relationship between humans and non-human animals by looking at how humans write about, photograph and paint non-human animals. She uses original drawing, photography and video, as well as found and appropriated materials such as text, paintings and photographs. Humour and [...]