Horizon Felt
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Campbell River Art Gallery 1235 Shopper's Row, Campbell River, British Columbia V9W 2C7
Exhibition Opening and Reception: Horizon Felt, Thursday, July 12th from 7 to 9 pm
Horizon Felt is a group exhibition, curated by CRAG Executive Director and Chief Curator Vicky Chainey Gagnon, to be presented in our Main Gallery, gathering artworks in diverse styles and mediums from artists across Canada that look at contemporary landscape art.
Landscape art is a celebrated genre within the canon of Canadian Art History. This exhibition, inspired in large by the prominent beauty of the west coast, asks questions about how we see and interpret the world around us: how do contemporary artists manipulate and marry images, including those that seem ‘natural’ to the naked eye? How are artists today working within this genre? What is the role of the artist in recording and shaping public perception of an environment? How can the dynamic modes and themes of the works presented in Horizon Felt illuminate and reshape the way we approach salient philosophical questions regarding our relationship with the environment that sustains us?
Artists: Scott Bertram (Comox, BC), Dan Browne (Toronto, ON), Megan Dickie (Victoria, BC), Kym Greeley (St. John’s, NL), Jessica Houston (New York, USA)
Curator: Vicky Chainey Gagnon