Meadow Variations

Lee Hutzulak

November 7 to 28, 2025

Meadow Variations traces the evolution of Hutzulak’s visual art practice to explore the venerable Canadian tradition of landscape painting. A body of work spanning a half decade, from the onset of covid through the present, these paintings represent the fluid concerns of a polymath open to pursuing manifold interests with a beginner’s mind. Hutzulak attributes this new work to his forays into moving image made in the natural environs of Vancouver’s Stanley Park: “filming details at a distance through a blurry screen of up-close leaves and flowers, capturing lens flares and specks of light blooming in the bokeh effect.” Describing his earlier work as “cartoony characters in minimal, fractured spaces,” the artist’s lens-based investigations into landscape and replicating them with paint and ink have compelled him to consume the negative space traditionally surrounding his figures. The allure of untouched paper is reconstituted—abstracted and vast—as a backdrop for our imaginations and his complex, delicate narratives.

Lee Hutzulak is a Vancouver-based artist and musician who works across media—specifically drawing, painting and more recently, moving image. Hutzulak, perhaps best known for his musical project Dixie’s Death Pool, has maintained these idiosyncratic parallel and sometimes intersecting practices for three decades: playing, recording and releasing music alone and with collaborators as well as producing the trademark surreal imagery that is often linked to his songs and serves as the visual identity for his albums. Hutzulak holds a degree from Alberta College of Art and has exhibited throughout Canada, in Mexico and Japan.

This is Huzulak’s second exhibition at Deluge after How Clouds Dream with Mike Swaney in 2008.