Cori Creed: Tapestry
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Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver 3045 Granville St, Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3J9
Cori Creed, "Woven In," 2018
oil on canvas, unframed, 60" x 60"
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 15 from 6-8PM, ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE
In her latest exhibition, painter Cori Creed draws inspiration from the textural quality and patterning found in textile arts. Tapestry deftly interweaves the West Coast landscape tradition with the artist's ongoing engagement with the materiality of the oil medium, to evoke the complexity and richness of the natural environment.
The atmospheric depth and painterly abstraction of these canvases present a constantly shifting warp and weft — lushly layered brushstrokes, threaded through with the artist's distinctive gestural mark-making, emerge from the paint surface and part to reveal swathes of vibrant colour and pictorial space.
In this series, Creed unravels her ever-evolving practice to repurpose as material, deconstructing source imagery from previous bodies of work as the apparatus for the application of new techniques. Through this process, disparate temporal realities and spatial elements become stitched together and re-fabricated with new understanding of the subject matter to evoke the complexity and richness of the natural environment.