Exhibitions 2007

Exhibit 1
Bite Size
Christian Nicolay, Peter John Voormeij, Jane Adams, Ben van Netten, Scott Pattinson, Bruce Woycik, the dark, Dominik Modlinski, Tania Gleave, Jason Froese, Stefany Hemming, Angela Fama, Jesse Savath, Katie Huisman, Josan Pinon

Dec 01, 2007 – Dec 13, 2007

Gallery artists present an original collection of smaller works.
The side annex hosts larger works including Aspell, Barbeau, Heller, Khouri,Tanavoli, Zhang He and others.

"Bite Size" will be the final exhibition for the Elliott Louis Gallery in the Waterfall Building before we relocate to our new Vancouver location, January 2008.

In recognition of our artists, clients and many friends we are hosting an Open House on Saturday, December 1st, from 1:00 - 4:00 pm. We sincere ...

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Peter John Voormeij
Peter John Voormeij

Oct 23, 2007 – Nov 13, 2007

Being a Dutchman and a painter, it is almost impossible not to be inspired by my fellow countrymen. I was born and raised in Amsterdam. At an early age, my father introduced me to some of the greatest paintings in the world. As a child I stood in front of Rembrandt's masterpieces. I learned to love and deeply appreciate his use of colour, and paint texture. At that time, I was even able to secretly run my fingertips gently over some of his works. 

At the age of 14, my father fami ...

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Tania Gleave
Tania Gleave

Oct 02, 2007 – Oct 21, 2007

The accretions of colours and haphazard, ambiguous comments layered on ancient walls are the source of inspiration for "Between the Lines", the latest series of mixed media paintings by Tania Gleave.

Gleave is interested in the visual evidence of history in the form of many years of layered marks, scratches, weathered tones and remnants of old notices and posters, combined on one surface where the past meets the present.

This interest was piqued while visiting India. Ancient w ...

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Mary-Ann Liu and Cyrus Yavneh
Mary-Ann Liu

Sep 14, 2007 – Sep 29, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 14th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Doodles come from the subconscious flow of Cyrus' working process. They happen during his busy day, expressed with no constraint or directed intention. They are a natural outcrop of his essential being. The doodles are a natural flow of expression through hand to paper. They a ...

Greased Wheels
Jean-Francois Provost, Tessa Armstrong, Katie Huisman, Rebecca Daly, Christopher Allen, Carla Dearman

Aug 14, 2007 – Sep 02, 2007

Accelerating on the fast track of the Vancouver art scene are these fresh new faces - emerging artists selectively chosen to exhibit in the third of what has become an annual event at the Elliott Louis Gallery.

Curators Joan Miller and Diana Lee delve into the vastly different work offered by students in the city and environs, as well as work by artists arriving in Vancouver, work that excites the senses with colour, mood, imagery – work with a WOW! factor.Multi-media, painting, ...

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Periphery Flash
Scott Pattinson

Jul 24, 2007 – Aug 12, 2007

The paintings in this body of work are a result of an ongoing study of the "flow and energy of life" 

I believe that it is innate in humans to yearn for authentic experiences. Presently, we are inundated with corporate images formulating consumer wants, insensible built environments, and mass materiality, I believe, however, that the pendulum can not swing any further from the realness that people desire from life… As people, we have not lost understanding in the truth of ...

Touching Reality
Toni Onley, Ben van Netten, Bruce Woycik

Jul 11, 2007 – Jul 22, 2007


With Nature as the common denominator, distinctive styles emerge with artists Ben van Netten, Richard Herman, Bruce Woycik and the late Toni Onley.

Richard Herman's work, influenced by the crisp form and transparent colour of ealrly Flemish and German painters, focuses on landscapes and studies of clouds.

Dealing with the mechanism of perception, Ben van Netten explores how we see, finding gaps in our visual and psychological reality, drawing on technology to achieve his defini ...

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Angela Fama, Jeff Petry, Jesse Savath
Angela Fama, Jesse Savath, Jeff Petry

Jun 19, 2007 – Jul 08, 2007

Photo Mission: Three Stories

"Photo missions, different for every photographer, start in the mind and end in the image. Three photographers, Angela Fama, Jesse Savath and Jeff Petry, expose the ins of our worlds, the ins of our minds, of our images. Three stories.

From out right conceptualization to straight expression, some images are calculated - premediatated and purposeful, others sporadic and nomadic. As individuals, we t ...

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Brooke Anderson & Ernestine Tahedl
Ernestine Tahedl, Brooke Anderson

May 29, 2007 – Jun 16, 2007

An arresting awareness of place is revealed in the work of these two artists - one sensitive and subdued, the other authoritative and bold, both richly resonant with colour and light.

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Kelly Mason
Kelly Mason

May 22, 2007 – May 27, 2007

We know that Mother Earth is in trouble, or is it that human kind is in trouble? The planet has been here much longer then we have. Is it too late to correct the wrongs we have made on our relatively short journey here? We have all been present to the little miracles that occur in our lives. It seems that generally what we wish for comes true sooner or later. I suppose we are still realizing that our thoughts, feelings, words and actions create our reality. If this were really true, wouldn't ...

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Kelly Mason
Kelly Mason

May 22, 2007 – May 27, 2007

Elliott Louis Gallery 
1540 West 2nd Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6J1H2
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NEWS RELEASE
MAY 10th, 2007 

FOR: IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOCAL ARTIST HELPING TO SAVE OUR PLANET

VANCOUVER, BC - Arthouse Gallery and Elliott Louis Gallery announced today the solo exhibit of photographer, Kelly Mason.
Kelly Mason's newest exhibition "Intervention" opens at the Elliott Louis Gallery on Tuesday, May 22nd. Receptio ...

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Barbara Heller - Tapestries
Barbara Heller

May 08, 2007 – May 20, 2007

For a list of exhibitions at public institutions featuring Barbara Heller's works, click here
To watch a 10 minute video of the artist being interviewed, click here

Looking within, looking out, looking back. We have lost our sense of who we are and how we fit into our world. In my work I try to make manifest the echoes of lives past and times lost, the traces left behind. Recently I have been concerned with how we alter reality to fit private visions; whether it is how we remembe ...

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Jane Adams
Jane Adams

Apr 19, 2007 – May 06, 2007

For this exhibition I have painted images relating to my life and travels and, in a way, it is a continuation of my last exhibition of wildlife "Western Journey".

For many of the works I used photographs taken in the last year. A trip to Ottawa captured the marching soldiers outside the gates at Rideau Hall. Later, I photographed the Mounted Police in practice at a nearby parade ground.

As the year continued, I traveled to Denmark and upon arrival in Copenhagen, saw the most m ...

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Jason Froese
Jason Froese

Mar 22, 2007 – Apr 07, 2007

Painting the portraits of historical prospectors, proudly armed colonialists, or sentimental heroes is a romantic act. Painting the flaws found in the photographs that capture these figures is an act that challenges the romantic, metaphorically suggesting the faults these posing subjects represent historically.

The subjects chosen for Imperfect Pictures come from photographs of western Canadian colonial history. Archival images of Canada's early west are my sources, from which I pain ...

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David Luksha
David Luksha

Mar 01, 2007 – Mar 18, 2007

The pieces contained in this new suite of work are the result of my ongoing interest in how vision is changed from "seeing" to "looking", by the point of view or the position one takes. Alternating areas of intense colour, texture and sheen with areas of clear wax provides the context in which the work is viewed. This resultant modernist format is combined with current and historical paint applications. 


The viscosity of the paint and methods of application now play a more ...

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Stefany Hemming
Stefany Hemming

Feb 08, 2007 – Feb 25, 2007

The nest is a place of safety, a place of vulnerability and responsibility, of primal physical and emotional needing. To glimpse inside a nest is something rare and almost forbidden. It promises to reveal something intimate. 

In these nests, the figurative or imagined personal enclosure is exposed as if to reveal some secret truth. We are faced with the empty core of the nest over and over in each piece while the branch-work tangles and juts in every direction. The nests have the ...

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Journey on an Icebreaker
Dominik Modlinski

Jan 31, 2007 – Jan 31, 2007

In August 2006, Dominik J Modlinski was artist in residence and part of the Quark Expeditions Team aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov which travelled to the Canadian High Arctic and Greenland. Modlinski's experience inspired a number of plein-air sketches that captured the unique light and palette of the Arctic.

On January 31st starting at 7:00 PM, you are invited to attend a special presentaion of photographs and stories which depicts his painting experience in this uni ...

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Dominik Modlinski - Journey on an Icebreaker
Dominik Modlinski

Jan 31, 2007 – Jan 31, 2007

In August 2006, Dominik J Modlinski was artist in residence and part of the Quark Expeditions Team aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov which travelled to the Canadian High Arctic and Greenland. This experience inspired a number of plein-air sketches that captured the unique light and palette of the Arctic.

On January 31st starting at 7:00 PM, you are invited to attend a special present ...

Exhibit 1
the dark
the dark

Jan 09, 2007 – Jan 28, 2007

DYSTOPIA, the upcoming exhibit by self-taught Vancouver mixed media artist, Devitt Brown, aka "the dark", is experimentation with stencils and dramatic photorealistic images of refineries, abandoned or bombed buildings and crashed SUV's.

"DYSTOPIA", from the Greek for 'bad place', was used in 19th century England to describe those who saw the perils and ultimate impact of t ...

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the dark - Dystopia
the dark

Jan 09, 2007 – Jan 28, 2007

From "the dark" comes Light

Devitt Brown, known professionally as "the dark," was anything but last evening at the opening of his unique and curious work presented by the Elliott Louis Gallery in the courtyard of the Arthur Erickson-designed Waterfall building. It was a fitting location for this former graffiti artist who has lived on the street and uses abandoned buildings and other urban detritus as a common subject for his palette.
This elegant ...

Exhibit 1
Transition
Toni Onley, Christian Nicolay, Peter Aspell, Peter John Voormeij, David Luksha, Ben van Netten, Scott Pattinson, Bruce Woycik, Jay Senetchko, the dark, Dominik Modlinski, Tania Gleave, Jason Froese

Dec 19, 2006 – Jan 01, 2007