eriISHII

Collective Effort
Dec 3 - 23, 2011

Opening Reception:
Saturday, Dec 3rd from 2 to 4pm
Artist in attendance

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Eri Ishii moved to Canada to complete a graduate degree in Psychology and to pursue her painting career.  She has exhibited her work in both Canada and internationally.

Ishii’s canvases are covered in layers of delicate, lightly applied oil paint by which means the subject is given a dreamy and atmospheric quality, filled with visual depth and a strange sense of ennui and nostalgia.  Ishii believes that visual art has a unique ability to tap into the subconscious and connect people which no other thing can.  She has explored several different subjects over her career to date; from the figure in movement, to the series of disquietingly still bodies which conjured an anxious vulnerability in the work, to her most recent paintings of soft landscapes and buildings. 

In her new series, "Collective Effort", Ishii explores the process of transition.  The series consists of 21 oil paintings, drawings, and mixed media works on paper.  Eri Ishii strives for work that captivates while stimulating the imagination leading the viewer into a psychological response to each painting.


You & I  2011  Oil on canvas  48" x 54"  SOLD


Web of Memories  2011  Oil on canvas  48" x 54"  AVAILABLE


Transformation  2010  Oil on canvas  48" x 54"  SOLD


Hana in candy-coloured corridor  2011  Oil on canvas  48" x 54"  SOLD


Deer's Monologue  2011  Oil on canvas  32" x 30"  AVAILABLE


Roka  2011  Oil on canvas  24" x 24"  AVAILABLE


Dream  2011  Oil on canvas  24" x 60"  AVAILABLE


East 14th  2011  Oil on canvas  44" x 40"  AVAILABLE


City at Night  2011  Oil on canvas  36" x 48"  AVAILABLE


Why does everything disappear?  2011  Oil on panel  30" x 32"  SOLD


Landscape  2011  Oil on panel  10" x 10"  SOLD


Landscape II  2011  Oil on panel  10" x 10"  SOLD


Gemma  2010  Gouache and pen on paper  9.5" x 7.5"  AVAILABLE


I love my hair  2011  Gouache & pen on paper  7.5" x 6.75"  AVAILABLE


I'm going to be okay  2011  Gouache and pen on paper  8" x 6.375"   AVAILABLE


Allison  2011  Gouache & pen on paper  6" x 7.75"  AVAILABLE


Museum of Anthropology  2011  Pen on paper  9.5" x 10.375"  SOLD


Study for Tokyo  2010  Pen on paper  7.25" x 12.125"  SOLD


Study for San Francisco  2010  Pen on paper  7.25" x 11.5"  SOLD

prior works:


If I were a Boy  2010  Oil on canvas  24" x 18"  SOLD


Terminal  2010  Oil on panel  20" x 24"  SOLD


Night  2010  Oil on canvas  36" x 60"  SOLD


Watch me if you want  2009  Oil on canvas  48" x 48"  SOLD

artist's cv

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