Opening Reception: Thursday, July 2, 6–8 p.m.
Meet the Artists: Saturday, July 4, 2–3 p.m.
Tour for Farsi Speakers: Saturday, July 18, 3 p.m.

Within/Without brings together three artists whose works explore the porous boundary between interior and exterior worlds — between thought and environment, perception and experience, self and other. Through painting, portraiture, and installation, the exhibition considers how we see, interpret, and emotionally inhabit the world around us.

For Louise Dee, the inward gaze becomes a way of examining the complexity and multiplicity of the self. Her installation Song of Myself draws on Carl Jung’s concept of archetypes and the “internal family” of the psyche, imagining the mind as a shifting constellation of inner characters and emotional states. Through this exploration of mind-body connection, mutability, and interconnectedness, Dee asks viewers to consider their own inner dialogues and the many parts that shape identity and behaviour.

Etanda Elliott’s paintings begin with close observation of the everyday — fragments of lived experience gathered through her archive of photographs. Moving fluidly between representation and abstraction, her work explores modes of seeing and the instability of perception itself. Through paint’s material qualities and a process guided by both conscious and unconscious decision-making, Elliott transforms ordinary encounters into meditations on memory, sensation, and attention.

Ivana Sepa’s imagined environmental portraits examine the intimate relationship between human beings and the landscapes they inhabit. Her figures are not portraits of specific individuals, but archetypal presences that evoke a shared humanity. In these works, the environment acts not as a backdrop but as an active participant — reflecting emotional states, histories, and vulnerabilities. Like the land itself, her figures appear both resilient and fragile, shaped by time and experience.
 

About the Artists:

Louise Dee is an emerging contemporary artist with a background in human health sciences. She currently works with painting and drawing from her studio in Vancouver, Canada. In 2023, she completed an MA in Fine Art at The City and Guilds of London Art School, UK, where her studies and research focused on historical and philosophical ideas of human wellness and the concept of eudaimonia. In 2021, one of her paintings was shortlisted for the Kingston National Portrait Prize in Canada.

Etanda Elliott is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working with paint who was born, lives, and creates on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, colonially referred to as Vancouver. She completed her BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2026. Elliott’s work is a synthesis of her fascination with the mundane phenomena and objects of everyday life and with the formal and material qualities of paint and other media.

Ivana Sepa is an artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada. Sepa studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. After receiving her BFA, she spent more than a decade focusing on a successful career in graphic design. Relocating to Canada’s west coast introduced Sepa to natural beauty on a scale she had never experienced before.