Gallery News
At Petley Jones Gallery, there is always something happening. Stay updated with the latest news from the gallery and our artists here.
Small Artworks Exhibition: Group Show
Feb 17 – March 7, 2023
Our group exhibition of small artwork for small spaces! Here you’ll find dozens of Canadian artists who master the mini!
Harmony & Hues: Contemporary Group Exhibition
Jan 5 – 24, 2023.
Testifying to the impact of a simple splash of colour, “Harmony & Hues” is a striking group exhibition from the gallery’s contemporary artists.
Holiday Wishlist Art Collection
Fill the space under your tree with affordable original artwork in our Holiday Wishlist art collection, where all art is under $2,500
Fahri Aldin: Standing Alone Together
Dec 8 – 23, 2022.
Solo exhibition by Fahri Aldin focuses on gatherings of people in moments of ‘togetherness’, measured against the heroic ‘self’, who stands alone.
Matt Petley-Jones: Estuary
Nov 17 – Dec 6, 2022.
With thick impasto, Petley-Jones’s solo show constructs the essence of the ‘estuary’, a place of confluence and convergence.
Thomas Anfield Interview on the Sock Monkey Series
In our Thomas Anfield interview, we delve into neuroscience inspirations, symbolism, and gestural influences in Anfield’s Sock Monkey series
Whimsy in a Time of Chaos: Marie H. Becker & Contemporary Artists
Nov 3 – 16, 2022.
Featured Contemporary artists uplift us, using naivety, childhood symbols and self-discovery in our exhibition, “Whimsy in a Time of Chaos”
Amelia Alcock-White: Current Sea
Oct 7 – 28, 2022
This new collection highlights the currency of water’s intrinsic value, presenting the concept of water as more than a mere material asset, Alcock-White renders perspective on decisions that trade pristine nature for economic gain.
Brigitta Kocsis: #techboyz
Sept 22 – Oct 6
The work reflects on the identity and displacement of young adults after long periods of isolation. Contemporary Hungarian-born Canadian visual artist, Brigitta Kocsis is best known for her large-scale paintings investigating the shifting concepts of the human body and its environment.
Michael Hermesh and Fahri Aldin: Figures and Forms
Sept 1 – 20th, 2022 This joint exhibition brings together Michael Hermesh and Fahri Aldin, Canadian contemporary artists who utilize the flattened human form within a tableau, shaping snapshots of human foolishness and intimacy. Their investigation of humanity through symbolism and abstraction ignores representationalism in favour of highlighting narrative. The artists place their characters in a flat world, in which the hero is comparable to an actor on a stage. A collector of Hermesh’s work might purpose his subject isn’t
Group Exhibition: Dans le Jardin
Enter paradise beyond the garden wall. In this group exhibition the sensation of a summer’s stroll through idyllic lands takes you over.
Llewellyn Petley-Jones: Canadian Impressionist
July 5 – 26th, 2022. Llewellyn Petley-Jones honed his craft in Europe, bringing his Impressionist landscapes from Parisian streets to the prairies of Alberta.
New Arrival: Marius Hubert-Robert (1885 – 1966)
This Post-Impressionist watercolour scene by the painter and illustrator Marius Hubert-Robert (1885-1966), depicts Alert Bay on Vancouver Island. Towering totems watch over mother and child, as they walk hand in hand. Reacting against the Impressionists’ concern for naturalistic depiction of light and colour, Marius Hubert-Robert spoils us with his illustrative embrace of the colourful. Born in Paris in 1885, Marius is the great-great nephew of the celebrated landscape painter Hubert Robert (1733 – 1808). His artistic lineage also includes his
Contemporary Group Exhibition: “Let the Summer Begin” June 16-29, 2022
The new contemporary group exhibition at the Petley Jones Gallery displays West Coast artists, who can testify to the slow start to the summer season. Wishing the warmth would come, we’ve invited seven contemporary artists to generate our own energy. The contemporary group exhibition features Thomas Anfield, Marie Becker, John Horton, Michael Hermesh, Duncan Regehr, Ann Vandervelde and Blake Ward. Thomas Anfield, in celebration of his monkey retrospective at the Art Gallery of the Grand Praire, is displaying the last
Michael Kluckner – Solo Exhibition
“The Rooming House” by Michael Kluckner launches Thursday, June 2nd, 2022, at the Petley Jones Gallery. Kluckner’s new solo exhibition at the gallery brings in paintings from his recent publication and studio practice. “The West Coast in the Seventies” exhibition includes new paintings by the artist, some of which swirl the boundary between representationalism and surrealism. Kluckner approaches familiar unanswered questions people asked in the Seventies. Questions around impending ecological disaster, urbanism, and a vanishing Vancouver. In the 1960s and
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