Rebecca Brewer (b. 1983, Tokyo; lives and works: Vancouver) makes use of painterly abstraction to explore the overlooked and under considered in the human and natural worlds. Working primarily in oil paint on wood, the artist has also produced large-scale felted tapestries and pigmented resin compositions. Using the specificities of material and the mechanisms of perception, the artist creates an expressionistic, dynamic tension between representation and abstraction that tests our assumptions of the work’s process and its subjects. Through a dissonant palette and distinct mark making, the practice expands upon the possibilities of chance elements, semiotics, and the dream space of surrealism, thereby further inquiring about our inner states and their relation to the exterior world.