Cori Creed: Envision
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Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver 3045 Granville St, Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3J9
Cori Creed, "Resting Light," 2021
oil on canvas, 54" x 90"
Cori Creed: Envision
Informed by her personal history and lived experience with the West Coast landscape, Creed crafts illusory depth within her canvases then layers richly textured brushstrokes and abstract mark-making to render dynamic surfaces that both recede into the distance and approach to meet the eye.
Part unconscious experimentation and part deliberate gesture, Creed’s application of medium, which incorporates spray, staining, and washing techniques, serves to enrich the painted “text” and break the fourth wall, disrupting the three-dimensional picture space of Creed’s compositions.
With a self-reflexive consideration of her own practice and a keen awareness of the viewer and their unique ways of seeing, Creed questions the assumption of that which is “plainly there in front of us”, rendering these boundaries between the objective and subjective truths indistinct.
Cori Creed was born in Vancouver in 1973. She studied Fine Art at Simon Fraser University and Design at Capilano College. Creed's work has been placed in various private collections across Canada including Bentall Centre, Nordstrom, Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, British Pacific Properties, among numerous private and corporate collections. Cori Creed has been represented by Bau-Xi Gallery since 2011. She continues to live and paint out of her home and studio in West Vancouver, British Columbia.