​Sherry Tompalski, Kirsten Brand and Shelby Assenheimer’s Intangible States Show at Gage Gallery, Oak Bay.

Intangible States poster was designed by Graham Thompson

Sherry Tompalski, Kirsten Brand and Shelby Assenheimer exhibited their paintings in the Intangible States Art Show, which opened February 1 at the Gage Gallery of Oak Bay British Columbia, Canada.

Sherry Tompalski in front of 2 of her 4 paintings at the Intangible States Show

Three artists capture on canvas memories and glimpses of the present and future.

Oak Bay artist Ineke van Hasselt in front of Tompalski’s painting.

Tompalski believes the nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral and consequently, unknowable.

Surrealist painter James Dodd in front of Shelby Annesheimer’s paintings

This manifests as a magical and meditative quality in her work. Brand imagines the mystery of a soul’s journey and uses memorabilia to stimulate emotion, bringing to mind a life gone by.

Artists in Gage Gallery

Assenheimer contemplates humankind’s challenge to identify the illusive balance between the natural and the artificial.

James Dodd and Sherry Tompalski

Intangible State runs from January 30 to February 10th, 2018.

Dwayne Annsenheimer, Liz Wells and Agnes Aananichuk at Intangible States Show

The Intangible States show was inspired by Quantum physics which tells us that objects exist in a suspended physical state until observed. Once observed, the object’s state is altered. All photos by Graham Thompson.