ERIC LOUIE

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elissa cristall gallery2239 Granville StreetVancouver, BC V6H 3G1 Canada

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front: Bare Bones oil on canvas 24” x 24” (60 x 60 cm)

ERIC LOUIE

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SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 11, 2014

elissa cristall gallerywww.cristallgallery.com

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My paintings have always had a sensibility towards the natural order of things. I’m interested in creating events that both acknowledge and deny spatial illusion simultaneously. I feel as though there never is an end to these works in their self-fulfillment, which is exciting and challenging to me. My process in the beginning is to make a painting in response to one of its predecessors. None of the works is planned and continually change course until they come to some resolve where I can let them go. The forms are invented during the process, some of which survive until the end, others lost in the many layers of thin glazes of paint.

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The paintings have a pictorial emphasis for the most part… They tend to be mind paintings but also allude to landscape, still life and portraiture. Having explored many of these genres in the past, they still surface in my abstractions to some degree. The objects within the paintings tend to be unique shying away from pattern or repetition. Many, especially in this recent body of work, meld organic and geometric elements. I have found that this development takes the work in two directions. On one level to point towards the idea but not define the works as autonomous art objects. On another, to perhaps talk about this type of interaction of forms, their tension and broader meaning.

Eric Louie

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Two Way Streetoil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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The Fountainoil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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Kickstartoil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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Something Out of Nothingoil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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Kiss and Flipoil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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Skylightoil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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Out of the Sunoil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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Smoke and Mirrorsoil on canvas 30 x 40 inches (76 x 101 cm)$3000

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Isolaoil on canvas 48 x 72 inches (122 x 182 cm)$5200

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This, That and the Otheroil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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Visoroil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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Tsunamioil on canvas 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cm)$1900

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The Great Digoil on canvas 32 x 43 inches (81 x 109 cm)$3200

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Bio

Vancouver based Eric Louie was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He moved to Canada and at the age of nine began taking art classes at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Louie received his B.F.A. from the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, Alberta in 2002. He was the recipient of the Jason Laing scholarship while a student and has been exhibiting since graduation including at the Art Gallery of Calgary. Eric Louie’s work is in private and corporate collections including Encana Energy, the City of Calgary and Encorp Management.

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elissa cristall gallery www.cristallgallery.com

ERIC LOUIE

SINGLED OUT

SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 11, 2014