Art Start

For athletes, losing a race by a tenth of a second isnt pretty. But for
art collectors, a split-second finish is pretty in paint.

Drawing inspiration from Olympic competition, Toronto artist Anda Kubis
has turned the canvas into a kind of TV screen that captures the swift
blur of bodies striving to beat the clock. Like a Monet for the digital
age, she uses bright streaks of oil paint to freeze frame an abstract
moment in time. So its apropos that she should show her work here in
Vancouver during the Games.

If only the agony of defeat looked this beautiful.

On now until March 13, 2010 at Elissa Cristall Gallery, 2245 Granville
St., Vancouver, 604-730-9611, www.cristallgallery.com