Gregory Hardy: La Ronge Drawings

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Gregory Hardy, "La Ronge Drawings," 2021

installation view

Gregory Hardy: La Ronge Drawings

curated by Grant McConnell

Reception: Friday, November 26, Doors 6:30PM including a catalogue launch and artist/curator talk.

Gregory Hardy is much admired across the country and beyond for his vigorous and direct landscapes of the prairies and boreal lakes and forests of northern Saskatchewan. This exhibition features work produced around his island cabin on Lac La Ronge. He draws quickly and aggressively, en plein air from his kayak, with subsequent refinements completed in the studio. A remarkable feature of his landscapes is the weighty prominence given to the sky and its clouds.

Curator Grant McConnell writes: “The clouds in a Hardy painting are as physical, as tangible as a mountain in a work by the Group of Seven painter Lawren Harris.”

Hardy has exhibited extensively since 1975 and his work can be found in collections around the world.