The Familiar Unfamiliar

Fei Disbrow: The Familiar Unfamiliar

On view at the West Vancouver Art Museum, Jan 14 - Feb 28, 2026

Opening reception: Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 6 - 8pm


A new body of work exploring the vast world of cryptogamic covers using photography as a drawing tool to capture intricate textures. Eschewing the traditional rectilinear frame for one that the subject instead evokes, she has printed her images direct to metal substrates, in some cases folding them, to share her wonder of these organisms.


https://westvancouverartmuseum.ca/exhibitions/fei-disbrow-familiar-unfamiliar


Residency at Konstepidemin

In November 2025, at the invitation of Konstepidemin in Gotenburg, Sweden, I will be an artist in residence for the month. The buildings at Konstepidemin were originally used as Gothenburg’s Epidemical Hospital from 1886 until 1970. Konstepidemin is now used as an artist run art center, a central meeting place as well as a cultural platform, offering an extensive public program of visual and performing art events, exhibitions, seminars, workshops and more.


https://konstepidemin.se/en/guestartist/fei-disbrow-2/

Tjørnuvík Artist Residency

In September 2024, I will be attending an artist residency in the remote village of Tjørnuvík in the Faroe Islands, hosted by Listafólkasamband (LISA), the council of Faroese Artists and Sunda Municipality.



Simultaneous Explorations
After a studio visit in October 2021, Sara Genn wrote about my work the blog, The Painter's Keys. 

https://painterskeys.com/simultaneous-explorations/

Catalogue of Stitches

Galleries West’s Mark Mushet video on my work from my 2020 solo exhibition, "Catalogue of Stitches" at Gallery Jones


https://vimeo.com/460328993



Speculators of the Final Frontier