Eric Louie: Remembered Futures

Vancouver-based artist Eric Louie is admired for luminous paintings that allude to many genres – landscape, still life, portraiture – while still lodging themselves in the realm of abstraction. Louie floats exquisite parcels of colour and form, some of them suggestive of butterfly wings or flower petals, against plain or subtly striated grounds. His recent work possesses a future fiction quality, suggesting imagined worlds fabricated from what he describes as “past experiences, filtered, idealized and hyperbolized to some utopian end.”