Gary Pearson’s solo show at Gallery Jones in Vancouver demonstrates his strong graphic sensibility and his stark, spare, linear style.
Pearson paints characters and scenes that reflect his interest in the transitional nature of life.
Urban spaces such as cafes, bars, hotel lobbies and city parks are presented as generic and unremarkable, apt backdrops for the mundane moments unfolding for the characters on his canvases. Executed in a purposefully crude and repetitive style, his subjects are deliberately unspectacular, and reminiscent of a casual snapshot – gallery notes.
Pearson is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna. He received his M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan and his B.F.A. from the University of Victoria. He has been exhibiting internationally since 1983, and has been collected by such institutions as the Canada Council Art Bank, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery, and Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC, Vancouver.
His works at Gallery Jones, here.
His Instagram, here.
Discover more from Canadian Art Junkie
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
