Material Elements
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Elissa Cristall Gallery 1820 Unit 200 (second floor) Fir Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3B1

Gillian Richards, "New Brighton Pool," 2019
acrylic on canvas, 30" x 36"
Elissa Cristall Gallery is pleased to present “Material Elements” an exhibition of four artists working under various approaches to painting.
We’re saturated with images, running on hyper-communication and over consumption. It is easy to become dependent on immediacy. Painting has the ability to store information that cannot be discovered immediately and it becomes a vital tool for slowing our gaze and surprising our expectations. Examining the material elements that comprise these works reveals how the interplay between the surface and the viewer expands our initial perceptions.