E. Andrea Klann is a Canadian Painter working in oils, living and working on Bowen Island, BC, Canada

Klann’s work fuses realism with the imagined; invented figures, symbolic narration and unexpected fragments comprise her interiors, landscapes and figurative paintings in oils. Her compositions have a theatrical and storytelling context as she explores concepts of identity, memory, and the temporal, often embodying notions of transformation and innocence. Her love of the cinematic is a formative pictorial influence and informs her paintings with a transporting sensation. The figures and situations drawn from her imagination coexist in a world of overlapping and entwined stories.

Frequent visual metaphors include illumination and doorways; reflective surfaces (refracted crystal prisms of the chandelier) dreamlike interior spaces, and doorways leading to unknown spaces inferring unexplored territory. Invented figures may represent ‘the other’, juxtaposed into realistic compositions blurring the boundaries between reality and illusion. Liberated animals roam freely in human territory drawing attention to the unbridged gap between nature and culture.

Klann has also written works and published essays and is represented by Kurbatoff Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Rare Aves & Other Marvellous Creatures Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver BC

2022 The Unexpected Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver

2021 Carousel of Dreams Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver

2018 Such Stuff as Dreams Ferry Building Gallery, District of West Vancouver

2018 Beyond Dreams The Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island Municipal Gallery, BC

2017 Recent work Tartooful Gallery, N. Vancouver, BC

2016 Recent work Tartooful Gallery, N. Vancouver, BC

2016 Recent Work BlueShore Financial, N. Vancouver, BC

2015 Oddlings Tartooful Gallery, N. Vancouver, BC

2014 Recent work Tartooful Gallery, N. Vancouver, BC

2014 Of Marionettes Tartooful Gallery N. Vancouver, BC

2013 Recent work Tartooful Gallery, N. Vancouver, BC

2012 Carnival of the Western World Hycroft Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2012 The Art of the Fool Tartooful Gallery, BC

2010 Unlocking Parallel Worlds The Gallery, Bowen Island, BC

2010 Of Ruff & Feathers Bowen Island Public Library Gallery, BC

2009 Pierrot and the Gilt Dove Waterfront Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2008 In The Spirit of Allusion The Gallery, Bowen Island, BC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces & Portraits of Resilience, Art Gallery of Ontario

2020 ‘Surfacing’ The Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island, BC

2019 Represented Artist, Group Show, (3 Annually) Kurbatoff Gallery

2018 Represented Artist, Group Show, (3 Annually) Kurbatoff Gallery

2014 ‘Otherworldly: A World Not Our Own’ The Gallery, Bowen Island Gallery

2012 ‘Sense of Place’ Artstarts Gallery, Vancouver

2012 Recent Work, West Bay Gallery, W. Vancouver

2012 ‘Take a Seat’ The Gallery, Bowen Island

2112 ‘Local Landscapes’ The Gallery, Bowen Island

2011 Recent Work, Bowen Island Municipal Hall Gallery

2011 ‘Local Landscapes’ The Gallery, Bowen Island

2010 BIAC Gifted Exhibition, The Gallery, Bowen Island

2009 ‘Just Art’ Invitational Art Exhibition, SMC/SWC, Seattle, WA

2009 BIAC Gallery Exhibition, The Gallery, Bowen Island

2008 ‘Class Act’ The Gallery, Bowen Island

2008 BIAC Gifted Exhibition, The Gallery, Bowen Island

EDUCATION & TEACHING

A graduate of the University of BC, Klann completed further art studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and in London, England, yet considers herself a self-taught painter. Influenced by the female Mexico-based Surrealists, she is a keen advocate of ‘opening the door to imagination.’ Klann completed a three-year postgraduate program via Artstarts in Education, has led youth and adults in artful self-expression since 2009, an instructor in drawing and painting at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and leads workshops in Cultivating Creativity through drawing and painting exploration.

GRANTS AND AWARDS 

2014 BC Arts Council Project Assistance

2013 BC Arts Council Project Assistance

2012 BC Arts Council Project Assistance

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces & Portraits of Resilience, Art Gallery of Ontario, co-published by the AGO and DelMonico Books/D.A.P 2022

COLLECTIONS

Artworks held in private collections in Canada, United States, England and Australia.