THE B1
GALLERY
Showcasing new work by established and emerging artists from Vancouver and beyond.
A HOME FOR ART
Found at the heart of The Beaumont Studios, the B1 Gallery showcases new work by established and emerging artists from Vancouver and beyond. Our exhibitions and events are an active part of a thriving grassroots culture space, where local creatives meet and work every day.
We program up to 10 exhibitions per year, spanning solo, collective and group shows. Our programme celebrates the diversity of our creative community, bringing thousands of people from across the city, country, and world together to discover one another's work.
The gallery is curated by the B1 Gallery Committee, a group of volunteers from the local arts community who are passionate about platforming new work.
Second Nature
Second Nature is informed by Cassidy Waring's experience of learning to feel safe in her body through time spent in the forest and a return to a primal, instinctual form of creating.
Painted primarily by hand with acrylic and water on raw canvas, the works gather organic textures into patchworks and mosaics. Moving between cellular systems and shifting terrain, the collection reflects how experience settles into the body and how separate fragments can become coherent over time.
Opening Reception: September 18, 7-10 PMCASSIDY WARING
Cassidy Waring is a Vancouver-based abstract artist and multidisciplinary creator. She has spent much of her creative career as a musician and mental health advocate, using songwriting and performance to process difficult emotions and connect with others.
This work led her to become the subject and co-producer of the documentary Hearse Chasing, which follows her as she writes her latest album and returns to her hometown of Calgary to have honest conversations with people from her past. In the film, she reflects on her experiences with Complex PTSD and the impact of her mother's death, with the goal of reducing stigma around mental health and raising awareness about CPTSD.
Following this period, Cassidy reconnected with her inner child through painting. What began as a playful practice after emotionally heavy projects quickly evolved into a new avenue for exploring emotion, memory, and loosening her grip on creative control. She aims to create work that brings warmth, presence, and a sense of grounding to the spaces around us.
FROM OUR WALLS
Mind Matter
Mind Matter brought together multimedia paintings that used colour, scale, and abstraction to defuse cycles of anxiety and overthinking.
A sister exhibition to "no one's holding a gun to your head", the exhibition focused on the ways thoughts, dreams, and everyday experiences linger in the mind and return in unexpected ways. Manahan used expressive gestures, abstract drawing, layering, and scale to explore the feeling of becoming caught in cycles of thought.
Ryan Manahan is a multimedia abstract painter based in Vancouver. His work explores the visualization of internal thought and dreamscapes as they relate to everyday experiences.
Liang Wang
Liang Wang is a Taiwanese-Canadian artist based in Vancouver whose work explores themes of cultural identity, urban space, and symbolism. Raised between cultures, Wang draws on his personal background and lived experiences to examine how belief systems, traditions, and visual languages are adapted across geographies.
Wang holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University in Toronto. He has exhibited widely across Canada and Taiwan, with selected exhibitions including Art With Heart Auction at Casey House, Toronto; Fragments of Passage at the Centre of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver; and Akin x MOCA: An Index at MOCA Toronto.
ENIGMA
Vancouver painter Doreen Finnegan presents ENIGMA, a collection of works born from an unconscious exploration of our fractured, volatile reality. Working in oils and mixed media through an intuitive process of applying, layering, and stripping back, vibrant colour and floating forms emerge and dissolve. Nothing stays static.
Endure Everything
An immersive exploration of resilience through art and music. The exhibition captured the emotional turmoil of life's breakdowns, those moments when everything falls apart, and you feel lost and searching. Through her paintings, Beau delved into the painful journey of enduring hardship, while ultimately finding hope on the other side.
Ciele's paintings are informed by a neurological condition called Synesthesia, where the brain misfires sensory information and stimulation of one sense triggers an automatic response in another. When she hears music, she sees colour and shape. Each painting was a visual representation of the colors she perceived when listening to the accompanying songs.
Between The Lines
Finding Connections through Reimagination. Multidisciplinary artist Tehya MacKenzie used vintage photographs and tactile mediums like textile collage and freeform hand stitching to explore the raw, joyful, and often overwhelming realities of motherhood. Her pieces invited viewers into deeply personal moments that reflected universal truths about caregiving and resilience.
Nishant Jain, aka The Sneaky Artist, offered a contrasting yet harmonious perspective, focusing on the quiet poetry of people within their environments. His mostly monochrome sketches captured fleeting, unguarded moments, where individuals became part of a broader tapestry of place and time.
A Love Letter to East Van
Like the beauty of finding flowers in a ditch, East Van is unexpected, resilient and full of character. These flowers defy their surroundings, bringing a splash of colour and life to an often overlooked space. "Ditch Flowers" was a love letter to East Van and its dingy, delightfully vibrant nature.
The exhibition explored this dynamic juxtaposition through selected portraiture, chaotic abstracts and rough illustrations, reflecting the diverse community and showcasing individual stories and identities that contribute to the glory that is East Van.
13 Feet Forward
A collective reunion art exhibition by 13 Feet Off The Ground at the B1 Gallery. The collective of established women artists based in Vancouver came together in 2017 to travel to Sicily for a residency programme in the ancient village of Graniti, creating eleven individual murals, one installation, and one collaborative mural among the mountains and stone walls.
This rewarding and fulfilling experience created a lifelong bond between the artists. While some members moved on from the collective, the core group joined forces for this reunion exhibition, spanning diverse artistic subjects from figurative to realist to abstract.
Meet Me at the Playground
An exploration of the bitter setting where the innocence of "then" confronts the stark reality of "now." The exhibition redefined the understanding of time, mortality, and the essence of adulthood, delving into the impact of transformative events such as war, violence, or abuse, which radically shift the perception of growing up.
These experiences sever the continuity of time, making the carefree days of the past unattainable. The act of meeting on the playground means standing face to face with a version of yourself that no longer exists.
Face Off
A summer art exhibition showcasing a collection of 10 cutting-edge portrait artists: Matthew Bowen, Madison Higginbotham, Alex Beadle, Jay Cabalu, Laura Selevos, Aaron White, Mike di Pietro, Emily Wong, Krista Thomas, and Reggie Kim.
The opening featured live Post-It portrait drawing by Reggie Kim, alongside shopping at the boutique and cocktails at the bar.
EXHIBIT WITH US
We invite artists working across all media to submit portfolios and exhibition proposals. This is a chance to be considered for a rare and fully funded exhibition opportunity in the heart of Vancouver.
Exhibition space and set-up costs are covered by the B1 Gallery. All submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis and juried by the B1 Gallery Committee.
Submit Your WorkFind Us
2109 Alberta Street, Vancouver, BC.
Use the side entrance to The Beaumont Studios. Look for signs for Honest to Pete Coffee Roasters.
Gallery Hours
9:00am to 4:00pm daily.
The gallery is open when Honest to Pete Coffee Roasters is open. Grab an amazing cup of coffee and enjoy the art.
Buy Art
Interested in supporting local artists by purchasing a work? Ask for a member of our team when you arrive, or contact us.