Mara Korkola | Mar Pacifico
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Elissa Cristall Gallery 1820 Unit 200 (second floor) Fir Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3B1
Mara Korkola, "NP #565," 2023
oil on aluminum on panel, 9" x 12". Courtesy of the Artist.
ELISSA CRISTALL GALLERY invites you to Mar Pacifico an exhibition of oil paintings by Toronto artist Mara Korkola. This new collection of paintings reflects on Korkola's travels through the Gulf Islands to the beaches of Tofino on the west coast of British Columbia. She writes "the more that I've travelled, the smaller the world seems, there being only certain ways that land meets water, or a beach feels, or waves roll in."
These new landscapes are direct and tactile, and thick and sticky with paint. Eleven paintings, oil on aluminum and panel and one on canvas.