Short fictions attends to the marked and fascinating evolution of gary pearsons painting over the decades he has worked as a professional artist the kelowna based artist works largely in painting and drawing with a strong graphic sensibility and a stark spare linear style. Gary pearson short fictions includes texts on pearsons work by canadian writers aasron peck michael turner and liz wylie the curator of the major solo exhibition this book accompanies there is also a transcription of an interview with the artist by internationally known canadian writer and curator ihor holubizky. A work of short fiction like those that appear regularly in the new yorker is generally more than that the short fictions that run throughout gary pearsons latest exhibition catalogue and in some instances in the exhibitions drawings and paintings are considerably smaller. Gary pearson is an inventive and protean artist who works in a contemporary idiom but in the vein of northern expressionism pearson has a dark sensibility using mainly graphic rather than painterly means in his work which explore the human condition. Short fictions marks the fascinating evolution of gary pearsons painting over the decades the kelowna based artist works largely in painting and drawing with a strong graphic sensibility and a stark spare linear style