Exhibition: November 24\, 2016 – January 14\, 2017 (holiday closure December 10 – January 2)
< strong>Opening reception: Wednesday\, November 23\, 5 – 8 PM
Artist’s talk with Peter von Tiesenhausen: Thursday\, Nov ember 24\, 3 PM
Curator’s talk with Wil Aballe: Satu rday\, December 3\, 2 PM
In Canada\, art making concerned with landsc ape is unavoidably tied to the narratives of place – local and nationalist\ , Indigenous and non-Indigenous. The thematic of the Canadian landscape in Canadian art\, say\, through the viewpoint of artists such as Lawren Harris and A.Y. Jackson\, is an expansive and problematic subject matter that cam e to communicate the character of a wildly romanticized northern environmen t.
Such desperately romantic ideas about what can summarily be called “the environment” (the “it” in the title) turn on a Faustian paradox: huma n survival requires the extraction of resources\, the consequences of which threaten planetary existence. In the face of a seemingly unstoppable and i ncreasingly injurious transformation of the world\, there are related binar ies between humans and nature – the tamed and the wild\, the known and the unknown\, and the mechanized and the untainted. These are contemplated by t he contemporary works of Ruth Beer\, Douglas Coupland\, Beau Dick\, Christo s Dikeakos\, Keith Doyle\, Michael Drebert\, Germaine Koh\, Ebony Rose\, Ki ka Thorne\, and Samonie Toonoo\, which reveal the narratives of human endea vour contained within landscapes\, amid concerns about tipping points\, oce an gyres\, chlorofluorocarbons\, and melting ice caps.
– Michael Prok opow\, OCAD University\, on the exhibition\, November 2016
Ar tists: Anonymous nineteenth-century Haida artist\, Ruth Beer\, Douglas Coup land\, Beau Dick\, Christos Dikeakos\, Keith Doyle\, Michael Drebert\, Lawr en Harris\, A.Y. Jackson\, Germaine Koh\, Ebony Rose\, Kika Thorne\, Peter von Tiesenhausen\, Samonie Toonoo
Curated by Wil Aballe
< p>Hours:AHVA Gallery
rm. 1001
Audain Art
Centre
6398 University Boulevard
gallery.ahva.ubc.ca
Image : Kika Thorne\, The Wildening (detail of installation)\, 2016
< p>This project is made possible with support from the Audain Foundation \, the Alma Mater Society\, and the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.
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