Ross Penhall | Losing Control of the Landscape
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West Vancouver Art Museum 680 17 Street, West Vancouver, British Columbia V7V 3T2
Ross Penhall, “ Anchorage,” 2023
oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches (courtesy of the artist, photo by Ward Bastian)
Opening Reception: October 3, 6 to 8 p.m.
Landscape painting as a genre can transport viewers to both familiar and new places. Ross Penhall, who has lived in West Vancouver since birth, uses the genre of landscape painting to consider the effects of his natural surroundings on his corporal perceptions. Working from his own photography and plein-air studies, Penhall manipulates a view and focuses in on the natural elements that interest him most. Like the Romantic painters who preceded him, his final composition is a heavily adapted, although still recognizable, simulacrum of the original view.
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