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Vancouver Cityscapes
A Vancouver cityscape may be an observed oil painting, a constructed photograph or an inquiry into the changing city. Graham Watts's documented False Creek, Granville Street and Hudson's Bay works identify specific sites; Jeff Wall and Stan Douglas offer very different photo-based relationships to urban life. Artwork records distinguish an identified location from an inferred one.
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Canadian oil painter connecting rain-lit Vancouver streets, Coast Mountain landscapes and western Canadian wildlife through vibrant colour and palette-knife texture.
Artist examining architecture, pattern, visual convention and the politics of private and public space.
Internationally influential Vancouver artist whose constructed photographs connect pictorial traditions, cinema and the everyday spaces of the city.
Vancouver artist using photography, film, video, installation and theatre to examine history, technology and collective memory.
Artist and educator combining photography and monochrome painting while treating Vancouver as both social space and art-historical context.
Vancouver artist whose photography and archival work examine urban transformation, economic landscapes and the construction of history.
Painter using observation, colour and spatial compression to turn everyday interiors, streets and objects into shifting pictorial structures.
Painter examining how ordinary scenes, memory and photographic reference become unstable through paint, surface and perception.
Artist producing meticulously observed paintings of architecture and urban space that question the apparent neutrality of photographic vision.
Photographer whose sustained studies of cities, architecture and changing neighbourhoods connect personal history with wider urban transformation.
Visual and media artist exploring the spatial politics of history, language, community, migration, food and cultural translation.
Sorour Abdollahi works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.
Wim Blom works in photography. The practice engages city and architecture, conceptual and language-based practice, and place and memory.
Painter whose listed work MY CITY-3 explores abstract architectural imagery; a North Vancouver artist profile provides a regional connection.
Christian Dahlberg works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture.
Penny Eisenberg works in oil painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and abstraction.
Deanna Fogstrom works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture, forest and coast, and identity and cultural memory.
Roy Geronimo works across oil painting and acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and wildlife.
Jan Kasparec works in oil painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.
Michael O'Toole works in acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and place and memory.
Ross Penhall works in painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and abstraction.
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A collected Vancouver cityscape using reflected light, rain and movement to describe Granville Street at night.
A collected panoramic Vancouver oil painting connecting architecture, water, reflected light and the city’s mountain horizon.
A collected Vancouver cityscape combining historic architecture, rain, memory and changing urban identity.
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VancouverDowntown VancouverNorth ShoreWhistlerSea-to-SkyBritish Columbia CoastCollector intent