Upcoming Exhibition
INTERWOVEN STILLNESS
Wei Cheng
Christer Myrberg
Kai Liu
November 21 to 30, 2025
Noon 5 pm daily ( including Sunday & Monday )
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 22nd
2 to 4 pm.
In this exhibition of dynamic artist trio, clay and medium of painting unfold as parallel languages of touch and time. Through the hands of ceramic artist Christer Myrberg, Wei Cheng, and painter Kai Liu, stillness emerges. A simultaneous inception of gesture and condition, fleeting and enduring. Flame scars, glaze drifts, brushstrokes: each an indication of attention, a slowing of motion, an aperture for reflection.
Wei Cheng
Wei Cheng is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice centers on ceramics and the integration of found objects. She studied at Langara College and Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she developed a refined technical foundation and a deep appreciation for the expressive potential of clay.
At the heart of Cheng’s work is her thoughtful observation of the nuance within fleeting moments of everyday life. Her works exemplify her pondering through deliberate unions of fired clay and found materials. Through such purposeful synthesis, she creates distinctive works that invite curiosity, reflection, and a dialogue between space and time. She approaches material as both archive and language, exploring how form and surface can retain memory and meaning.
Expanding beyond the vessel and object, Cheng’s recent projects explore performance and spatial installation, extending the language of ceramics into immersive and temporal forms. Her practice considers how material processes can embody time, presence, and the vestiges of lived experience, situating craft within the broader discourse of contemporary art.
Christer Myrberg
Born in Sweden, came to Canada as schoolboy and at 19 decided to circle the globe in the opposite direction starting in Japan. He did eventually circumnavigate but got stuck in Japan and Korea for the next decade. Japan as a destination arising from a chance encounter with ‘Rashomon’ on the CBC.
Fell into ceramics haphazardly in Mashiko a pottery town north of Tokyo. Originally worked at a large pottery in Mashiko (Tsukamoto) where I learned to throw, while working with a group of 'apprentices'.
At some point moved on and became an itinerant working potter in various potteries. Most lengthy periods were at Satsuma-yaki (Kyushu) and Tsuboya-yaki (Okinawa). Also spent time in Korea during these sojourns as well as a chance return to Scandinavia where he worked in some potteries but eventually returning to Japan. At intervals spent time in Tokyo in the Japanese jazz and blues scene.
Leaving Asia he moved to Vancouver, Canada and became interested in software design which he studied and worked as a systems architect for a global software organization. All the while still practicing ceramics and music. Currently full-time work in ceramics and recording improvised music.
Kai Liu
Kai Liu is a Chinese-Canadian artist whose practice is rooted in painting and extends into printmaking and mixed media. Through a semi-abstract approach grounded in observation, his work explores the relationships between landscape, nature, and the experience of migration. Guided by an interest in how perception, place, and cultural transition shape visual language, Liu draws from Eastern aesthetics to create works that reveal a balance between stillness and movement, structure and openness, clarity and ambiguity.
Born and raised in China, Liu received comprehensive training in drawing and painting before immigrating to Canada. After working as a graphic designer in Ontario, he moved to British Columbia to pursue the visual arts, studying printmaking at Langara College and later earning both a BFA and MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. His work has been exhibited across Canada and featured in various publications. Alongside his studio practice, Liu teaches visual arts in academic and workshop settings.