painting exhibition Archives • Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery

small PICTURES SHOW | December 1 – January 12, 2019

Bigger is not always better—or so you can see in an exhibition of over 30 intimately scaled paintings, sculptures and photographs. In planning this exhibition we asked - Why artists choose to work at a small-scale, the relationship between size and subject matter, and how the size of a work affects a viewer's reception. All these considerations underlie the small Pictures Show, which features work by a diverse group of contemporary artists. [...]

Elissa Cristall2019-01-16T17:50:17-08:00

SUMMER EXHIBITION 2018

Join us for an exhibition of pure painting by gallery and guest artists. We are pleased to introduce the work of Kyle Scheurmann who graduated this year with an MFA from Emily Carr University and Wei Li, a BFA graduate from the University of Alberta and a finalist in the RBC Painting Competition in 2017. New paintings by Lesley Finlayson include 30″ square landscapes and 20″ tondos (round canvases) which play off [...]

Elissa Cristall2018-11-19T15:34:44-08:00

PICTURES at an EXHIBITION | January 11- February 24, 2018

ELISSA CRISTALL GALLERY is pleased to present “Pictures at an Exhibition”, a group show featuring Megan Hepburn, Mara Korkola, Suzanne Nacha, Brennan Stalford. Mara Korkola’s practice over the last two decades as a self-professed landscape painter has encompassed cities, forests and airports. The complexity and density of these places is captured in her paintings that compress a world of information into small panels. These are often presented in diptychs or triptychs, showing [...]

Elissa Cristall2018-11-27T14:53:34-08:00

small PICTURES SHOW | December 1 – January 12, 2019

SUMMER EXHIBITION 2018

PICTURES at an EXHIBITION | January 11- February 24, 2018

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