Eve Leader
Painter
Louis Kahn, the American architect, said: ”good architecture makes the intangible tangible so as to evoke the intangible.” I long to do just that.
I paint about the human condition, about the mystery of life. About the tantalizing fact that we have only intimations, and will never know, the nature of reality. About the illusion that life is secure whereas in fact anything could happen at any time to totally change its course. About loss, fragility, old age, and mortality. And also about compassion and about love offering redemption from our plight.
Figures in my work are often androgynous and not of a particular person. Rather they are about what confronts us because we are human.
I try to capture that moment of bewilderment when structure and order in our existence breaks down, everything looks unfamiliar, and we are sure of nothing.
I use drafting film because I feel that it creates the ephemeral quality that I want in my work. The figures are in abstract settings as I do not want to place them in any one human context. I use oil paint as I love the materiality of the medium. In these works, I am not interested in painting the body in a realistic manner, but rather in finding a way to represent it so that it resonates more deeply with the viewer.
~ Eve Leader
Education
1993 Fine Art Diploma
Emily Carr College of Art and Design
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2019 Dal Schindel gallery University of BC Vancouver Bc
2017 Soma Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2012 Granville Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
2007 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2005 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2003 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2001 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1999 Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1998 Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Group Show
2021 PARKER art salon May
2021 Gallery George January
2020. Lake Country art gallery July 4 women artists
2018 Robinson Gallery Parker Projects Four Person Show, Vancouver, BC
2016 Soma Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2011 Becker Gallery, Vancouver, BC (three person show)
2010 Becker Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009 Triangle Gallery, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2008 View Gallery, Victoria, BC
2005 Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2005 Emily Carr University of Art and Design Alumni Show, Vancouver, BC
2002 Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
2001 Artropolis, Vancouver, BC (Juried show)
2000 Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2000 Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC (show with Irene Whittome)
1999 Vancouver Art Gallery Sales and Rentals (selected)
1998 Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1997 Artcore Gallery, Toronto, ON (three person show)
1997 Emily Carr University of Art and Design Invitational Faculty and Alumni Show, Vancouver, BC
1997 Emily Carr University of Art and Design Alumni Show, Vancouver, BC
1997 Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC (three person show)
1997 Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, BC (Invited guest Artist)
1997 Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC (two person show)
1996 Gertrude Zack Gallery, Vancouver, BC (juried show)
1996 Community Arts Council, Vancouver, BC (juried show)
1996 Community Arts Council, Vancouver, BC (three person show)
1995 Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC (three person show)
1993 Artropolis, Vancouver, BC (juried show)