Self Determination, 2006
Michael Abraham
gouache on paper
15.5" x 19.5"
courtesy of Gallery Jones
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Michael Abraham, was born in Montreal in 1965, and is a graduate of the Ontario college of Art. He completed a fifth year of fine art studies in Florence Italy in 1991. Abraham loves creating paintings that are narrative, storied peopled scapes of inner and outer realities.

Abraham's stylized realism draws on his appreciation of art history, but his artwork conveys a psychological playfulness and a layered insight that is his own. Michael Scott of the Vancouver Sun has written, "Enigma and imagination are what is most rewarding in Abraham's work", and "Abraham's gift for composition percolates throughout this entire exhibition". His artwork was selected to showcase "Canada's artistic genius" at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Canadian Collection at APEC'97). His art has graced numerous magazine covers and has received numerous art reviews.

Abraham's original oil paintings are in private collections from London to Singapore, as well as in the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Hollywood stars. His work is currently represented by Gallery Jones in Vancouver, and Gallery Art Mayence in Germany.

Shape Shifter, 2006- sold
Lisa Birke
oil on canvas
70" x 44"
courtesy of Bau-xi Gallery
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Lisa Birke attended Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design where she was awarded full tuition scholarships for three consecutive years graduating with a B.A. in 1998 and a B.F.A. in 1999.

Birke paints traditional landscape and still life as a backdrop for line drawn characterizations of ordinary people stuck in tragic situations. Witty, humorous, and disturbing, she calls her work "eye candy with a hint of acid." Michael Scott, critic for the Vancouver Sun, writes "Birke, paint(s) with all the trilling unself-conscious gusto of nightingales singing." Gary Michael Dault, critic for the Globe and Mail has written that her paintings "possess a crackling visual inventiveness supported by an almost disconcerting virtuosity with the brush."

Birke's most recent exhibition was at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto and Vancouver, February 2006.

Norah Borden
acrylic on canvas
30" x 53"
courtesy of Winsor Gallery
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Norah Borden is a Canadian artist currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1995, she graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Borden has travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe and has drawn upon these experiences as the inspiration to pursue landscape painting. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, as well as in Italy and France.

Her compositions are dominated by immense atmospheric skies, which are articulated by layers of undulating colours. By layering mineralized paints, she creates a luminescent effect that makes the painting seem alive, continually changing with the movement of light.

Borden's art is found in numerous private and corporate collections.

Crystal Clark
watercolour and acrylic on paper
22" x 30"
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Crystal Lee Clark is currently an elementary teacher and youth Art and Media Mentor at the Coast Tsimshian Academy in Lax Kw'Alaams British Columbia She holds an Education Degree, Fine Arts Degree, New Media Diploma, and Native Creative Writing Diploma. Some samples of her writing can be found in the En'owkin Journal of Writing. She is a former member of a dissolved art collective "collective echoes" which created a variety of public art works in Vancouver from 1999 to 2003. Besides teaching, she spends free time creating art works that usually hold some sort of social commentary and chooses mediums depending on the concept.

Crystal is currently working on a multi-media instillation titled "Red Drum…Red Drum" which reflects 7 generations of First Nations juxtaposed with mainstream media related sound and imagescapes.

Crystal Clark
watercolour and acrylic on paper
22" x 30"
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Crystal Lee Clark is currently an elementary teacher and youth Art and Media Mentor at the Coast Tsimshian Academy in Lax Kw'Alaams British Columbia She holds an Education Degree, Fine Arts Degree, New Media Diploma, and Native Creative Writing Diploma. Some samples of her writing can be found in the En'owkin Journal of Writing. She is a former member of a dissolved art collective "collective echoes" which created a variety of public art works in Vancouver from 1999 to 2003. Besides teaching, she spends free time creating art works that usually hold some sort of social commentary and chooses mediums depending on the concept.

Crystal is currently working on a multi-media instillation titled "Red Drum…Red Drum" which reflects 7 generations of First Nations juxtaposed with mainstream media related sound and imagescapes.

Untitled, 2006
Charles Forsberg
oil on canvas
36" x 48"
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Energetic, moody and free from artistic conventions, Charles' paintings are ultimately abstract expressionism in its purest form. Charles has virtually eliminated the brush, working the paint directly on to the canvas to create strong evocative patterns. His paintings evoke a spiritual tranquility and ethereal luminosity. Saturated rich colours and form, blend fluidly on canvas into gorgeous lyrical compositions.

Influences range from local painters Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt to Mark Rothko, Anselm Kiefer and Cy Twombly. His work can be found in numerous private and public collections in North America.

Wood & Water, 2006
Gretchen Gammell
24" x 30"
courtesy of Winsor Gallery
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Gretchen's lastest work is acrylic on canvas. While her paintings remain female oriented they have an added depth, calm, and quiet peacefulness. She concentrates her attention on the quality of lines using graphite and ink while invoking emotion with the use of color. Her main theme remains the exploration of the female mind as it relates to the body.

They Made Me Whisper 1, 2006
Jim Gislason
oil on mesh silkscreen
48" x 39"
courtesy of Arthouse Gallery
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Jim Gislason was born in Vancouver and studied both painting and printmaking at the Emily Carr college of Art and Design where he graduated in 1988. Since then he has divided his studio time equally between Vancouver and Montreal. Jim's artworks are found in private and public collections throughout North America.

Gislason's work is an original creation, fluidly blending painting and screen-printing. The textural quality of the work is the result of what is at bottom a screen-printing technique adapted to painting. Any element that is in relief began as an image burnt into the silkscreen mesh by a photosensitive process common to commercial printing. However, rather than ink printing the image onto a surface, oil paint is extruded through the screen, allowing for a risen, more three dimensional effect. Gislason is truly an innovator with this energetic and stunning technique. Gislason displays thematic diversity in his paintings, each work bearing individual characteristics, yet all are connected by a cohesive harmony of style and content.

They Made Me Whisper 2, 2006
Jim Gislason
oil on mesh silkscreen
33" x 47"
courtesy of Arthouse Gallery
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Jim Gislason was born in Vancouver and studied both painting and printmaking at the Emily Carr college of Art and Design where he graduated in 1988. Since then he has divided his studio time equally between Vancouver and Montreal. Jim's artworks are found in private and public collections throughout North America.

Gislason's work is an original creation, fluidly blending painting and screen-printing. The textural quality of the work is the result of what is at bottom a screen-printing technique adapted to painting. Any element that is in relief began as an image burnt into the silkscreen mesh by a photosensitive process common to commercial printing. However, rather than ink printing the image onto a surface, oil paint is extruded through the screen, allowing for a risen, more three dimensional effect. Gislason is truly an innovator with this energetic and stunning technique. Gislason displays thematic diversity in his paintings, each work bearing individual characteristics, yet all are connected by a cohesive harmony of style and content.

I Will Mend This Vessel, 2006
Graeme
mixed media on silkscreen
16" x 20"
courtesy of Douglas Udell Gallery
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Graeme is a Vancouver based painter. He is a regular contributing illustrator for the Georgia Straight. He is currently writing his first novel titled, “Dredged your Bath.” He is the lead vocalist for the band Revenue Kanada. He is one of the founding members of Fracture Industries, an art collective who have drawn acclaim for their ongoing art show series, Cheaper Than a One Night Stand. He is the assistant designer and lead painter on HGTV’s interior design program, Love it or Lose it. Graeme’s paintings are represented in western Canada by the Douglas Udell Gallery.

In the room of an abandoned house, 2006
Jude Griebel
oil on panel
28" x 18"
courtesy of Bau-xi Gallery
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In Jude Griebel's paintings and prints, elements of storybook narrative and adult experience are combined to create scenes that have a foothold in both the real and imaginary. Regarding his work, Griebel states: "I am interested in how youths are able to project their imaginations onto domestic and everyday spaces, transforming and doubting the familiar. It is this state of questioning, anxiety and nostalgic wonder that I attempt to translate through my painting." The costume has become a repetitive theme in his work as a tool of transformation, disappearance and disconnection from reality.

Horizon, 2006
Gabryel Harrison
oil and mixed media on panel with gold leaf
31" x 50"
courtesy of Arthouse Gallery and Jacana Contemporary Art
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Gabryel is an artist inspired by the common roots of painting and poetry, the rhythmic gesture from heart to line, the inspiration of image, metaphor and symbol. She seeks to honour not to unravel the connection between the outer surface of the world and the inner realm of spirit. Gabryel looks to nature and botanical forms as well as to the historical tradition of vanitas paintings for her motifs and compositions. Her expressions are less about representation than illuminations of inner states of consciousness.

Island of Roses, 2006
Gabryel Harrison
oil and mixed media on panel
31" x 50"
courtesy of Arthouse Gallery and Jacana Contemporary Art
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Gabryel is an artist inspired by the common roots of painting and poetry, the rhythmic gesture from heart to line, the inspiration of image, metaphor and symbol. She seeks to honour not to unravel the connection between the outer surface of the world and the inner realm of spirit. Gabryel looks to nature and botanical forms as well as to the historical tradition of vanitas paintings for her motifs and compositions. Her expressions are less about representation than illuminations of inner states of consciousness.

Untitled, 2006
Chris Jordan
Epson Ultrachrome K3 print
edition of 3
12.5" x 27"
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Chris Jordan is a Seattle-based photographic artist whose images explore the detritus of American consumer society. Chris' work has received international recognition, being featured in more than forty exhibitions in the US and Europe.

This summer Chris released a book of his new Katrina series in collaboration with acclaimed writers Bill McKibben and Susan Zakin, published by Princeton Architectural Press in New York. All of Chris' proceeds from this book, along with all proceeds from his Katrina print sales this year, will be donated to Gulf Coast hurricane relief charities.

Little Box, Big Sky, 2006
Davida Kidd
38" x 36"
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Davida Kidd is an Alberta born artist who works primarily in photography, print and painting. She received her BFA and MFA from the University of Alberta. Davida recently had a solo exhibition of Photography at the International Cultural Centre in Krakow, Poland. Her work is widely exhibited nationally as well as internationally.

The content of Davida’s work often addresses themes of domination: the psyche by the
dream, the conscience by guilt, the personality
by obsession. Her work is represented by Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery in Vancouver, Lehmann Leskiw Fine Arts in Toronto and Marion Harris in New York.

Girl School on Fire, 2006
Duncan MacCallum
mixed media and mdf on wood panel
44" x 24" x 6"
courtesy of Arthouse Gallery
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Duncan MacCallum's 3-D artworks are an original and imaginative marriage of painting and sculpture. Vibrant saturated colours combine with delicate form and figure to create a very powerful metaphorical image. Duncan has mastered both his technique and aesthetic in his most recent offerings.

Born in Sweden and raised in Canada , Duncan MacCallum is a self-taught artist, interior designer and furniture builder whose work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions across greater Vancouver since 1983. Originally concentrating on sculpture, he gradually developed an attraction to the worlds of painting and photography. As his art continued to grow and evolve he found himself returning to his love of the three dimensional world, creating a hybrid that combines both painting and sculpture.

The Tide Is Turning, 2006
Val Nelson
oil and acrylic on canvas, diptych
36" x 72"
courtesy of Bau-Xi Gallery
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Val Nelson is an honours graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Formerly a dancer and videographer, in the past eight years she has reinvented herself as a painter. Art critic Christopher Brayshaw has singled out her talent, praising her "loose, intelligent brushwork." She has received a number of awards, including a Visual Arts Development Award from the Vancouver Foundation, and was a semi-finalist in 2003 for Western Canada in the New Canadian Painting Competition, sponsored by the Canadian Art Foundation and RBC Investments.

Val Nelson's artwork was featured in the April 2006 issue of Canadian House and Home magazine.

Talking Trees, 2006
Christian Nicolay
mixed media on panel
36" x 60"
courtesy of Elliott Louis Gallery
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Christian Nicolay's interdisciplinary art practice combines performance, mixed media drawing, sound recording, installation and video, exploring the relationships between order and chaos, and the unity of opposites. He summarizes his art and life by "paying attention to systematic confusion."

Onward, 2006
Jennifer Seymour
mixed media on panel
36" x 12"
courtesy of Arthouse Gallery
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Jennifer Seymour is a Canadian artist currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia, drawing upon this experience to create compelling urban landscapes. A combination of digital transfer and traditional painting techniques, Jennifer's work is inspired by granite and glass, reflected light and pattern and the immersive experience of city living. Jennifer is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.

Beyond Main Street, 2006
ReBecca M. Shilkin
Mixed media on canvas
20" x 20"
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Currently living in Vancouver, ReBecca M. Shilkin is a Canadian artist who combines the exotic flair of her travels with the landscape of urban realism. ReBecca studied Fine Art and Design at Concordia University in Montreal after which she traveled to Vietnam where she lived for three years. While immersed in this culture, ReBecca explored its nuances through the lens of her camera. This ongoing discovery prompted extensive travel throughout South East Asia and continues to propel ReBecca into new projects. Recent trips to China, the outback of Australia and a return to Vietnam have contributed to the visual landscape of ReBecca's ongoing work.

Sy'et Goodlm Go'ot (Of one Heart), 2006
George Vergette
resin enamel, graphite and acrylic on photograph mounted on paper
39" x 49" framed
courtesy of Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery
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George Vergette is a young artist living and working in Vancouver. Having shown his work in various solo and group exhibitions across Canada, Vergette uses both medium and content to insert the viewer into each piece, giving a personal dimension to these deceptively minimal works.

Vergette's paintings first seduce with a layer of resin, a glossy finish that is satiny smooth. Further beneath this perfect exterior hide imperfections: drips of paint, marks, lines, and scrawled text.

Coastal Grey, 2006
Lisa Visagie
oil on canvas
16" x 22"
courtesy of Winsor Gallery
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Lisa Visagie is a landscape painter based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her intensely worked studio paintings and plein-air oil sketches explore scenic vistas from the Pastoral to Urban. Nature's shapes, tones and colour palette act as her language of expression.

Visagie's works are found in numerous corporate and private collections throughout Canada.

Absence, 2006
Richard Edward Wlodarczak
oil and tar on canvas
30" x 40"
courtesy of Art Works Gallery
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Richard Edward Wlodarczak, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honours from The University of Manitoba in 1994. He then went on to receive his Master of Fine Arts Degree from the renowned School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Travel in Europe followed, helping Richard experience both his heritage and the master works of art history first hand.

Now living in Vancouver, Richard continues to work through and beyond his German Expressionist and American Abstract Expressionist influences with his new body of work. His paintings display formal and metaphorical relationships where an awareness of composition, colour and space provide a balance for chaos and disorder. Modern in sensibility, the mystery of the primitive remains.

Richard's work can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, The U.S., and Europe.

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