This exhibition brings together the work of Chrissy Nickerson and Michael Cameron, two artists whose practices emerge from distinctly different approaches to image-making, yet converge through a shared sensitivity to place, perception, and the act of painting itself.
Nickerson’s work is rooted in direct experience of the landscape. Painting from lived encounters across Canada, her practice transforms observation into something more immediate and embodied. Using vivid colour, gestural mark-making, and layered impasto, her paintings resist static representation in favour of movement and atmosphere. Rather than describing a fixed view, they hold the sensation of being in a place through the shifting light, the physicality of terrain, and the emotional imprint of memory. Her approach balances a deep respect for traditional landscape painting with a willingness to push toward abstraction, allowing each work to exist somewhere between depiction and interpretation.
Cameron’s work, by contrast, unfolds as a more introspective and associative process. At first glance, his paintings present richly layered surfaces where fields of paint are built up, dissolved with turpentine, and reworked through spray and gesture. Within these surfaces, multiple depths emerge: figures, architectural fragments, shadows, and veils of marks that obscure as much as they reveal. The imagery often feels partially hidden, as though glimpsed through a shifting screen.
Working frequently at night, Cameron embraces a quieter, more contemplative space where disparate influences converge. Fragments of overheard conversations, passages from books, fleeting observations, and personal memories coalesce on the canvas. These elements do not resolve into a single narrative; instead, they function as a kind of visual diary which is layered, nonlinear, and open-ended. Beneath their seductive surfaces lies a sustained engagement with complex human concerns, where questions of social and emotional weight are held in tension with moments of beauty and stillness.
Together, Nickerson and Cameron create a dialogue between outward experience and inward reflection. Nickerson’s paintings immerse the viewer in the physical and sensory world, while Cameron’s works draw attention to the internal processes through which that world is interpreted, remembered, and reassembled.
This exhibition invites viewers to move between these two approaches and to consider how meaning shifts between what is seen, what is felt, and what is carried beneath the surface.
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