Opening Saturday, May 17th
Sima Fabricant
As Above, So Below
Sima Fabricant, Spring Red, 2025, Oil on canvas, 47.5" x 59.25" inches
Mónica Reyes Gallery is thrilled to introduce Sima Fabricant. As Above, So Below marks Sima's first presentation with a commercial gallery. And we are excited to share her dynamic and bold works with you.
Sima Fabricant is a painter based in Vancouver, BC. She is originally from Oakland, California, and has a BFA in visual arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Through abstraction, her paintings explore ideas of perception, embodiment, and play. She draws inspiration from somatics, dance, meditation, and everyday mundane experiences in both domestic and urban life. Her process leans heavily on improvisation; each layer of paint becomes an intuitive reaction to the last. There is a heavy musical influence in the work that she channels through the formal qualities of painting, including colour relationships, use of pattern, texture, and form. While experimenting with dichotomies of flatness and depth, movement and stillness, gesture and shape, she builds up layers of paint to create complex and dynamic compositions.
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Sima Fabricant is a painter based in Vancouver, BC. She is originally from Oakland, California, and has a BFA in visual arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Through abstraction, her paintings explore ideas of perception, embodiment, and play. She draws inspiration from somatics, dance, meditation, and everyday mundane experiences in both domestic and urban life. Her process leans heavily on improvisation; each layer of paint becomes an intuitive reaction to the last. There is a heavy musical influence in the work that she channels through the formal qualities of painting, including colour relationships, use of pattern, texture, and form. While experimenting with dichotomies of flatness and depth, movement and stillness, gesture and shape, she builds up layers of paint to create complex and dynamic compositions.
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Mónica Reyes Gallery (MRG) has been supporting the growth and development of emerging, mid-career and established visual artists since 2013. While these artists are primarily based in western Canada, MRG’s reach extends to South America. Since its early days, MRG has been committed to exhibiting artists from the diaspora. The gallery showcases experimental approaches in various mediums such as painting, sculpture and textiles as well as media installations and billboards in public spaces. MRG often works with visual artists who employ abstraction to reflect on place in an unstable world.
MRG also initiated COMBINE Art Fair, an annual event since 2021 that is ongoing, and is the first art fair on the westcoast. Mónica Reyes Gallery is a driving force in the local art scene, recognized for its dynamic programming and social contributions. MRG takes pride in presenting a bold programme that is relevant and often challenging within a commercial context.
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MRG also initiated COMBINE Art Fair, an annual event since 2021 that is ongoing, and is the first art fair on the westcoast. Mónica Reyes Gallery is a driving force in the local art scene, recognized for its dynamic programming and social contributions. MRG takes pride in presenting a bold programme that is relevant and often challenging within a commercial context.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
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