Gallery News
At Petley Jones Gallery, there is always something happening. Stay updated with the latest news from the gallery and our artists here.
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
Paul Fournier: “An Exotic Modernist”
Paul Fournier (b. 1939, Simcoe, ON) first emerged in Toronto during the 1960s within a movement of third-generation non-figurative painters.
Historic Canadian Art: Timeless Canadian Painting
Timeless landscapes from the Group of Seven, Beaver Hall artists, and notable West Coast icons in this exhibit of Historic Canadian Painting.
Amelia Alcock-White’s Residency in Newfoundland
Amelia Alcock-White’s residency in The Pouch Cove Artist Residency in St. John’s, Newfoundland culminates in a solo exhibition, “Current Sea”.
Indigenous and Inuit Works on Paper: Group Exhibition
Sought-after Indigenous and Inuit works on paper by artist leaders; Kenojuak Ashevak, Bill Reid, Alex Janvier, Gwaai Edenshaw, Pudlo Pudlat
Available Work: Donald Jarvis, Abstract Artist
Donald Jarvis, Canadian Abstract Painter, studied under Lawren Harris and Hans Holfmann, becoming a disciplined and visionary Canadian artist.
Contemporary Art Exhibition in Vancouver: Triumph of Colour
Exhibiting contemporary art about emotional renewal, saturation mirrored in spring’s blossoms and our emergence from winter’s restrictions.
Opens Today: Duncan Regehr’s Solo Exhibition, “The Journey”
In this solo exhibition, Regehr presents us with his multidisciplinary experience where painting, drawing, and verse come together. The mastery of media invites the viewer deeper into the myths and legends of his journeying subjects.
Beaver Hall Group
In an era when women artists were often excluded from professional art, the Beaver Hall Group was the first Canadian artist association comprised primarily, though not exclusively, of professional female artists.
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