Chosen by: Herman Kao, Member of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Young Associates
Aside from being a stunningly beautiful painting, I am intrigued by how it is at once abstract and photographic, static and dynamic, visually complex and yet so simple and straight-forward in subject matter.Â
Gordon Smith, Creekside Grasses, 2009, acrylic on canvas. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Gordon and Marion Smith. Photo: Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery.