Figure, Portraiture & the Body

Vancouver artist whose sculpture, ceramics, performance and painting transform everyday objects and bodily experience through wit and repetition.

Figurative painter and collage artist exploring identity, gender, displacement and the representation of the female body.

Artist known for staged tableaux that use video, photography and installation to slow down looking and reframe art-historical scenes.

Photographer whose staged figures and atmospheric landscapes draw on cinema, fashion and the emotional construction of place.

Photographer observing figures, labour and ordinary environments through carefully composed images grounded in the social world.

Painter working through abstraction, figuration and textile references to explore memory, intimacy and the construction of images.

Artist working across sculpture, drawing, painting and photography to examine artistic process, representation and the studio as a subject.

Artist using drawing, fabric, installation and sculptural line to explore the body, clothing, language and the spaces between abstraction and figuration.

Deborah Bakos works in painting. The practice engages landscape, abstraction, figure and portraiture, and identity and cultural memory.

Jordan Blackstone works across painting and photography. The practice engages landscape, wildlife, and figure and portraiture.

Dianna Burns works in painting. The practice engages landscape, abstraction, and figure and portraiture.

Jenny Catton’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and figure and portraiture.

Richard Cole works in painting. The practice engages landscape, mountain subjects, forest and coast, and figure and portraiture.

Lorn Curry works in painting. The practice engages figure and portraiture and place and memory.

Vancouver artist, illustrator and educator working across painting, drawing, printmaking and design, with landscapes, portraits and objects in her fine-art portfolio.

John Ferrie’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.

Michael Fitzsimmons’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages figure and portraiture.

Drena Hambrook works in painting. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.

Sonya Iwasiuk’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.

Paul Jorgensen’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.

Min Ma works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and drawing. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.

Joel Mara works in painting. The practice engages landscape, mountain subjects, forest and coast, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.

Jennifer Mitton works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolour. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.

Tana Lynn Moldovanos works in acrylic painting. The practice engages figure and portraiture.

Glenn Payan’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.

West Vancouver artist and gallery owner working across landscape and figurative painting, sculpture and printmaking.

David Wilson’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages forest and coast and figure and portraiture.

Carollyne Yardley works in oil painting. The practice engages wildlife and figure and portraiture.

Donna Zhang’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages figure and portraiture.