Upcoming Exhibition
Into The Inhabited Silence
Carlee Thompson
Liang Wang
June 25 to July 11, 2026
Noon to 5 pm Tuesday to Saturday
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27th. 2 to 4 pm
The exhibition features the atmospheric paintings of Liang Wang and the architectural stoneware of Carlee Thompson.
Carlee Thompson
Carlee Thompson (b. 1999 Victoria, BC) is an emerging artist working as a guest on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Their artistic practice spans across multiple mediums, including ceramics, photography, and painting. As a production potter, Thompson uses both wheel throwing and slip casting methods to create functional wares, emphasizing repetition and uniformity. In contrast to utilitarian design their practice explores the interaction between shape and space, investigating the physicality of objects through texture, colour and fragmentation. Connective forms, vibrant color palettes, and sharp-edged shapes, create decisive action within a visual language. These recurring motifs of materiality intersect with digital documentation to question and exaggerate contemporary experiences.
Thompson received their BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2022 and has been the recipient of Renée Van Helm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts (2022), the Jessie Allan Forsyth Memorial Scholarship (2019) and, the Clay Foundation Visual Arts Award (2018).
Liang Wang
Bio
Liang Wang (b. 1992) is a Taiwanese-Canadian painter based in Vancouver, BC, who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University. His practice investigates the psychological landscape of modern isolation, cultural memory, and the quiet frictions of daily co-existence. Having navigated a deeply nomadic youth across multiple continents and cultures, Wang’s work is underpinned by an enduring inquiry into what it means to belong, translating the vulnerabilities of displacement into evocative visual narratives.
Wang has exhibited widely across Canada and Taiwan, with selected exhibitions including Art With Heart Auction at Casey House, Toronto; Fragments of Passage at the Centre of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver; and Akin x MOCA: An Index at MOCA Toronto. His recent solo exhibitions include Never Left (Taiwan) and Unspoken Realm (B1 Gallery, Vancouver), leading into his upcoming body of work, Into the Inhabited Silence.
Artist Statement
Into the Inhabited Silence explores the psychological space where human habitations meet the infinite expanse of the wild. Rather than painting traditional landscapes, this body of work examines the small structures we build to anchor ourselves within nature. A rural gas station, a lone pickup truck, or a glowing storefront at dusk become vital sanctuaries of human warmth.
Having spent much of my life in dense, humming urban environments, encountering the quiet vastness of the Canadian West Coast brought a profound shift in perspective. It introduced an unfamiliar, heavy solitude that forced a deeper way of looking. In these paintings, that isolation is translated through a high-key, cinematic palette. The vibrant, internal light of these structures acts as a visual heartbeat, pushing back against the dark weight of the surrounding forest.
Ultimately, these works function as portraits of co-existence. They capture the quiet friction of daily life in places where wildlife and human infrastructure share the same space. By framing everyday utility against an overwhelming natural backdrop, the series measures our fundamental smallness in the world, while honouring the quiet ways we carve out